What in the World happened to you?

The name of this Blog is two fold.
It lets me explain that I had written a Green Day blog on Monday, but I didn't realize their was an error, so hear comes the belated mystery band blog.
Green Day was the answer. Good job Kenton.
The other reason is that even though it is an Offspring song, I wonder what in the world happened to Green Day. This band used to be great. The album I'm reviewing, Kerpluk, is proof of that. The tunes on this album have something that has been missing since Dookie. Lets call it over production. Kerplunk has good tunes that are a little poppy, but they still have enough edge, and lack of production that it has the sound of an old 80's punk record. Something like the Descendents, who I believe could have made it huge if they allowed their tunes to be over produced.
The best songs on the album in my opinion are "Who wrote Holden Caulifield","Sweet Children", and "Words I Might Have Ate." All of these songs have great speed changes, and they are emphasized by Tre Cool's perfection on drums. The lyrics are what I think seperates these three from the rest of the album. The rest of the songs are well written, but these ones have a reflective quality that I think complements the instruments well. They don't stink of a writer that isn't as clever as he thinks is like "Time of your life", what a piece of junk from a long time fan perspective. Maybe Green Day is just trying too hard to be profound.
I read them quoted as saying that they did the American Idiot album as a rock opera because it was so unpunk it was punk- sorry guys it is a cop-out, sell-out, waste of a forty minutes other than St. Jimmy.
And what is with the make-up? I don't think the establishment cares what these guys do now that they are anthem for everything that is wrong with music.
So to sum up I love Kerplunk, and I cannot believe that Green Day is now the opposite of Kerplunk.