21st Century Breakdown

Album Sucks I would Rather hear Bring me the horizon :D or Conducting from the Grave :D

Well, as a massive Green Day fan myself, My review may be slightly biased, but bear with me. Ok, so following up the grand-slam known as American Idiot, Green Day gives us another album with a similar message. The basic idea is that society is not as perfect as some think, and that we all need to wake up and smell the burnt rubber, or somwthing ruffer then a flower. In the end, the album has you thinking, but in a more positive way. As I have dail up, and bought the album from Rhapsody, I got to experiance each song individually, one song per day. This helped me et the message of the album better. For the language, it is used in good taste, and you almost always find yourself thinking of these words as well placed adjectives. In fact, the song Horseshoes and Handgrenades is the only song I think you may want to keep from younger ears. The song 21 guns is not violent, and actualy a buetiful song, so good I got a 64 year old woman to ask me to play it. (wow, right?) In the end, this is a great album, it makes you think, and I must say, from a band who started out singing about mansterbation and smoking drugs, this is a masterpeice. Unless your child is living under a rock, there is nothing I can think anyone would find greatly offensive. (Well, I guess if you can't stop and laugh at the dogma of organized religion, East Jesus Nowhere may not be your new ringtone.) So, I may have said this before, but everything checks out, and if your kid asks anything, just answer them honestly. After all, Honesty is a virtue.

I just got it for my 14th birthday and I love it. There are some songs that have bad language though. Other songs have drug references. Here's the details to each song. 1-Song of the Century- A short song; pretty clean but makes one reference to a bomb. The introduction to the Album 2-21st Century Brekdown- Says Bast---d once 3-Know our Enemy- Nothing innapropiate 4-Viva La Gloria-Nothing Innapropiate 5-Before the Lobatomy- Many Drug References and one use of the f-word. 6-Christian's Inferno- One references an atom bomb and poisons 7-Last Night On earth-a slow love song; completely clean 8-East Jesus Nowhere-One use of Godd--n 9-Peacemaker-One reference to an orgasm;Says something about St. valentine's Massacre 10-Last of the American Girls- A great allegory; nothing innapropiate 11-Murder City- As he says "Murder city" There is screaming in the backround. One reference to poison. Also talks about bumming a cigarette and being wasted 12-Little Girl- Completely clean 13-Restless Heart Syndrome- One reference to Suicide 14-Horshoes and Handgrenades- The main reason I wouldn't give this to anyone 10 or younger. Says the F word At least 4 times. Talks about Destruction. 15-The Static Age- If it weren't for the one use of the F word, this would be completely clean. 16-21 Guns-One reference to a hangover 17-American Eulogy-A summary to the Album; one use of the N word, S word, and F word 18-See the light-The conclusion for the Album. completely clean.

I have been listening to Green Day since I was about 6, when Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) had begun another extended tour on the radio. I was too young to listen to American Idiot when it was released, but now, I can safely say I adore every track on the album. I was able to rediscover my love for Green Day (I also enjoyed Basket Case when I was about 9) when 21st Century Breakdown was released last year. As with any artist, the repetitive, catchy singles are overplayed to the point of being painful on the radio, and therefore it was easy for some to dismiss the Berkeley punks latest masterpiece as noise pollution. I am here to tell you are wrong! :) Sure, the rock opera portion of the album is a little overlooked (or just too easy to overlook) in the context of the entire album, but even without the contiuous plot reminder that was clearly displayed in American Idiot, Christian and Gloria are still present on the album, with tracks such as !Viva la Gloria!; Christian's Inferno, and Gloria's name becoming a taunting, snarling refrain towards the end of the highly explicit Horseshoes and Handgrenades. But the messages are still there. American Idiot was so successful in its anti-Bush-policy/save us from ourselves crusade mainly because before Green Day released American Idiot in 2004, most had thought the little band-that-could was done for. Not so. :) As this is the dawn of a new administration (whether you like America's leader at this time or not, remember, that isn't relevant now!), there isn't too much of a buck-the-system feel. Rather, Green Day took the streets, bringing back the cries for an end to all wars, head-banging ballads about back-wood corrupt Christian churches, and a potential Best Rock Song of the Year (Grammy Awards; 21 Guns, one of the best songs on the album, and one of the worst offenders are far as overplaying goes). All in all, there are still three-chord power songs, explicit content (one reference to an orgasm, used in a literate way, and the now-standard Green Day f***, god-****, s***; and the occasional hell, though the last one is a reference to lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's birth place-Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell. A welfare child where the teamsters dwell. Last one born, and the first one to run. My town was blind from refinery sun... All in all, the lyrics are consistently fantastic, with lots of sly references and analogies thrown in for good measure. Mix it all together, and what do you get? Quite possibly the Best Rock Album of the Year. What can I say? They have my vote. :)