Sometimes, a song doesn’t need a chorus because the face-melting, hammer-of-the-gods guitar riff is the hook. Green Day’s “Brain Stew” aims straight for the skull and might be why Billie Joe Armstrong can’t get no satisfaction. The East Bay trio released their fourth album Insomniac in 1995 and defined Generation X youth malaise and ’90s […]
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