Written by James Wall

Those with a nostalgic sweet tooth for Dookie-era Green Day will
greet The Tim Tully Show with unrestrained affection. What people are
just now starting to realize, with Green Day mostly smoothing over the
rough edges of their songs and blatantly exposing their yen for the Beatles
boyish melodicism, is that they were a pop band at heart. That's in the
60s sense of the word, not the cookie-cutter manufacturing and artificial thump
of todays Top-40 chart hits. With Tim Tully, though, you understand
this right away; while his vocal delivery and the jagged guitars of his
group may scream punk, the hooks are pure pop.

The Way You Look crackles with spine-tingling drums but it the
sugar-sweetened 70s harmonies and punk riffola which take center stage.
Happy is probably the most Green Day-esque of the bunch, and it quite fun as
it picks up steam. Every track on The Tim Tully Show is crying to be
liked and most of the time I found myself utterly entertained and wanting to
spin it again.

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