21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)

Spang · Post by **Spang** » May 16, 2009, 4:41 pm

Get this album:

Seriously.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 17, 2009, 10:21 am

Is it as good as American Idiot?

Spang · Post by **Spang** » May 17, 2009, 2:18 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:Is it as good as American Idiot?

Better.

<DRAMATIC PAUSE>

Much better.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » May 18, 2009, 2:46 am

do they continue to sing about meth and make videos for teens?

Spang · Post by **Spang** » May 18, 2009, 3:34 am

...the album chronicles the life of a young couple named Christian and Gloria as they deal with the mess our 43rd president left behind...

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » May 18, 2009, 9:35 am

Canelek wrote:do they continue to sing about meth and make videos for teens?

Not to mention dress up like a bunch of skater kids from high school because they are SO alternative.

I swear, every time a song of theirs comes on when I've got my iPod on shuffle (I dl'd their stuff for my girlfriend) I think to myself "huh, this sounds exactly like the last song of theirs I heard".

Spang · Post by **Spang** » May 18, 2009, 2:20 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:Not to mention dress up like a bunch of skater kids from high school because they are SO alternative.

When listening to this album, there are no visuals, it's all audio. Just listen to the music and enjoy.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 24, 2009, 11:24 pm

What a bunch of whiny bitches. First four songs are horrible...constant whining repeating of the same lines, zero creativity in the music.

The fifth song, "Before the Labotomy" is a little better but doesn't approach their classics, like "longview"

That's as far as I've gotten. The third song, "Know Your Enemy" steals the beat from a Van Halen song, "Pretty Woman" who in turn stole it from Roy Orbison.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » May 31, 2009, 11:38 pm

Just heard this cd, and it is complete shit. I didn't really like their last one, as political music outside of Rage Against the Machine isn't my thing, but I guess it was cool and edgy at the time to make digs on Bush. Now, throwing potshots at the guy four months after he left office seems a bit tired and unoriginal. I guess I was hoping for more masturbation anthems or whatever it was they sung on Dookie.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » June 3, 2009, 12:00 am

I like the odd Green Day song (Time of your life is class) but I don't buy into the hype of this album. It's great pop I guess, which means it's fairly predictable and energetic and such. I don't think the whole "we are the voice of a generation" crap is in any way believable. They're getting too old to be wearing the makeup they use and their music and lyrics are really sledgehammers of pop-punk-anti establishment, rather than any meaningful critique (which is presumably what they claim to be going for?)

I don't dislike Green Day, but in this case I guess the phrase "Don't believe the hype" is fairly valid.

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