There's something about Bullet in a Bible though. With fourteen songs recorded in front of 60,000 or so fans in merry old England and with random excerpts of interviews and tour footage, Bullet in a Bible is every other generic rock band DVD since the rock band DVD was invented a few short months after the DVD itself. Love them or hate them, you just can't get away from them right now, and suddenly, it seems, Reprise have noticed that their dying cash cow isn't so dying anymore and the milking machines are once again pumping away. Returning like revenants, Green Day has found themselves the darlings of every commercial TV and radio station from Anaheim to The Middle East. Bush found his way back to the White House and American Idiot was born. Somehow, when all had turned their back, and when some mental aberration caused the Democrats to choose John Kerry as their candidate, George W. Then, in 2004, a decade after Green Day resurrected a scene, kept alive only by Epitaph and the annual release of a Bad Religion album, something happened. A "best of" collection and then the certain doom of the "rarities" compilation followed in quick succession and it seemed that a dying cash cow was being milked for its last, acrid drops. You could almost imagine the epitaph on Green Day's headstone from the moment Reprise got into the whole contract-fulfilling kiss-of-death releases that beset Green Day just this side of the turn of the millennium. Green Day – Bullet in a Bible - Reprise, 2005
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