Nobody Likes You

October 15, 2006
After years of failing to duplicate its album " Dookie"" American Idiot," hit the top of the charts in 2004 and stayed there, catapulting Green Day back into public attention. Spitz, a senior writer for " Spin," sympathetically limns the arc of the lads' career from East Bay, California, in informative if unchallenging style. Probably headed for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of their commercial success playing punk, a subgenre that has rarely exerted mass commercial appeal, Green Day deserves representation in rockin' library collections.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)