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21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 16, 2009, 4:41 pm
by Spang
Get this album:
Seriously.
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 17, 2009, 10:21 am
by Fairweather Pure
Is it as good as American Idiot?
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 17, 2009, 2:18 pm
by Spang
Fairweather Pure wrote:Is it as good as American Idiot?
Better.
<DRAMATIC PAUSE>
Much better.
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 18, 2009, 2:46 am
by Canelek
do they continue to sing about meth and make videos for teens?
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 18, 2009, 3:34 am
by Spang
...the album chronicles the life of a young couple named Christian and Gloria as they deal with the mess our 43rd president left behind...
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 18, 2009, 9:35 am
by Funkmasterr
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".
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 18, 2009, 2:20 pm
by Spang
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.
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 24, 2009, 11:24 pm
by Winnow
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.
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: May 31, 2009, 11:38 pm
by Zamtuk
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.
Re: 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Posted: June 3, 2009, 12:00 am
by Nick
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.