[afterthefact]

Actually, they played some "new" song on Conan last night, and they only had two chords in it. Now, I'm not saying that music has to have more chords than that, or that the more chords in a song, the better it is. But, for the type of music they do, in order to stand out from all of the other poppy punk bands in the world, they should try to do something different and original. If they didn't have that "Green Day" name on their stuff, nobody would care about their music. People just know they are supposed to like Green Day, so they do.

I gotta figure out how to get that whole brainwashing of the masses thing working to my advantage.