The progression isn't what actually kills me... it's the formula.

IML, Bounce (sligtly different progression/exact same formula), HAND, IWTBL, Complicated, WFTWM, TILTIL all have the same formula. And songs like Undivided and No Apologies are very, very similar.

You can write thousands and thousands of songs with that progression (there have been), but using the same formula, generic 8th note guitar riffs, similar tempos, and key in several cases is what drives me crazy. The fact that Mystery Train and Make a Memory have the same progression doesn't bother me, because they sound so different... and BOF is the same but it is 6/8 if I remember correctly. Again it sounds different.

Say what you want about Save the World, but the key changes and arrangements and soaring melodies (and some crappy ones... hence the hatred) was the last time they did anything so interesting, musically.