I will always love Green Day. American Idiot was a pretty prominent soundtrack to my highschool days. I still haven’t completely digged into 21st Century Breakdown, but I am working on it. I am spinning American Idiot as we speak, and it is bringing back some cool forgotten memories.
One song that has made a pretty significant impression on me is “21 Guns”. Green Day have a really big potential hit on their hands (if it isn’t already, I don’t follow the charts/popular radio anymore). Something about that delicate guitar effect, the unusual pattern of the guitar riffs, and Bille Joe’s falsetto add up to something nice. This song stuck out to me immediately. The song makes you reflect a bit.
Love them, or hate them Green Day is going to be remembered for a long time. Let’s face it, who is going to truly be remembered in 20 years? Look who dominates the charts these days…Lady GaGa, Flo Rida, Nickelback, Soulja Boy, Tim McGraw.
Green Day is looking mighty good right now eh?
[mp3] : Green Day – 21 Guns
SteveA — 14 Jul 09
I grew up on the Green Day albums of Kerplunk and Happy Hours and of course the ground breaking “Dookie” which put the fun back into hard rock/punk – it was a sign of our generation at the time, a bit lost from the 80′s but also looking forward with Bill C as President.
American Idiot was an amazing album, but despite this – I still love Dookie the best.
Henry — 16 Jul 09
massively dissapointed my 21st century, but at the same time i was expecting it – a series of over produced, over commercialized rubbish songs in which the lyrics and tune are both meaningless and dont match in the slightest…sorry. i loved dookie enjoyed most green day american idiot was not much good but this is really rubbish! sorry! feel free to tell me i’m worng!
Jim Worley — 27 Jul 09
Oh dear. Green Day have gone commercial and have left punk behind. Now they are just a middle of the road schmalz-band that has lost it’s raw appeal. Billie Jo, how does it feel to release such a crap record?
Chris — 30 Sep 09
Has the world gone mad! This song is just every common phrase you can think of strung together. It’s completely meaningless drivel!
Yet it still gets radio time and people eat it up…
The talent standards in the music industry have certainly gone downhill of late, but obviously it’s only so they can follow the IQ level of listeners.