Green Day New Album. It's A ROCK OPERA!

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American Idiot : Released on September 21, the band's eighth album is a self-confessed rock opera which ‘details the alienation and disillusionment of the American citizen under Bush’s post-War On Terror administration’.

― Horatio Bloo, Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

billy joe needs to stop trying to look like he's in atreyu

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

But the Atreyu dudes say they grew up on him! He's returning the favor!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

atreyu?

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Two five-part 'operettas'!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

haha atreyu = green day X antioch arrow, innit?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 August 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

They fucking wish

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Misplaced Childhood for Offspring fans. Jesus.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

YAY!

This will be better than Cyberpunk by Billy Idol!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You hurt my in my head.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard the 1st single/title track. My initial impression is that it's a vague anti-republican rant with a weak chorus. Oddly I find myself thinking a lot about the weird line where Billie Joe expresses hatred toward the "redneck agenda."
It seems more typical for anti-right wing message entertainment to be condescendingly elitist and blame the people in power, so that the people who support Bush are either not acknowledged or regarded as retarded children to be pitied. I can't think of too many examples, outside of Bill Hicks, of people taking shots at the willfully ignorant political mindset of the Nascar-set.
Although I know it's more wrong than right, I find the crude classism of it kind of bracing.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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