Green Day released their fifth album, Nimrod, which took aim at Maximum Rocknroll founder Tim Yohannan. The raging “Platypus (I Hate You)” was a two-and-a-half-minute score-settler with Yohannan, a smoker who was ill with lymphatic cancer. “Shit out of luck, and now your time is up / It brings me pleasure just to know you’re going to die,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong snarled. Six months later, Yohannan was dead and Armstrong expressed no remorse.
