Comments on: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown, Album Review & Giveaway

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:05:00 +0000

This is their best album yet!!!

By: cam

cam — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:14:17 +0000

got the album on day of release
its brilliant

By: Will

Will — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:13:09 +0000

Well done! I definitely think that one Green Day is one of this generation’s defining bands. I’ve always loved whatever they’ve done.

BTW, is anyone looking forward to the new Used record? They just released the first single, and I really like it. Check it out, if you haven’t already.

By: Adam Offitzer

Adam Offitzer — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:36:43 +0000

After listening a few times, Drewbie Doobie Doobie, I’ve decided that American Idiot is still superior to Breakdown. I think that Breakdown shows not an expansion of Idiot’s sound, rather a continuation. I’ve also come to realize that Breakdown is a little bogged down at 17 tracks- with 13, this probably could have been just as good as idiot.

Also, just caught your comment forever ago on Modest Mouse…thanks for getting my back broski.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:55:35 +0000

I prefer them more pop punk but need to listen more.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:40:27 +0000

I think the album overall is pretty good. It will easily be the summer blockbuster their label is hoping for. I’m not sure that the singles will do as well as American Idiot’s singles did, but 21st Century as a whole I think is superior to American Idiot.

Keep up the great work!

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:25:14 +0000

Great review. I can’t stop listening to this album.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:24:30 +0000

Green Day is continuing to show their talent with this new release. I had the opportunity to listen to the entire CD (multiple times) when it was being streamed online prior to release and enjoyed every minute of it!

By: Wanbli

Wanbli — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:18:57 +0000

In a day and age where downloads and singles rule

Green Day continues to stay committed to the art form known as “The Album”

Regardless if it is on vinyl, cassette, MP3, or CD – this concept piece is a breath of fresh air from near middle-age punkers

By: drew

drew — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:14:14 +0000

I was just thinking about some of your comparisons / references to ‘American Idiot’ and was wondering how similar / different in quality and sounds you feel ‘Breakdown’ to be to ‘Idiot’. Nice review as always!

By: steven

steven — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:17:19 +0000

Cool you like them too.
However, this is about Green Day and about how the fuckin rock!! This album is just awesome, i can´t stop listening it over and over.. Some of my favorite songs are East Jesus Nowhere, Viva La Gloria!, Know Your Enemy and of course, See The Light is amazing…

Hope i get the album..jeje..

By: Benoit

Benoit — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:35:31 +0000

Great review! I was pretty impressed with this one, considering the amount of pressure placed on them coming off the album to end all anti-establishment albums. Green Day will probably be remember for their simple yet astounding works of pure brilliance and I’m really happy that they produced something that isn’t (all that) redundant and fairly new — for them at least. My favorites so far have to be 21st Century Breakdown, 21 Guns, Before the Lobotomy and Last Night on Earth.

By: Adam Offitzer

Adam Offitzer — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:53:51 +0000

That’s okay…I like FOB too, actually…not sure why I used them as my example.

By: steven

steven — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:18:12 +0000

I really, really like album. I wanted to listen to it entirely and i put it into my ipod and listened to every song and read the lyrics one by one.. It was awsome. 1 entireo hour of pure music..

BTW, I love Fall Out Boy…

By: TSCHEAKOBI

TSCHEAKOBI — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:36:38 +0000

althaught i don’t really like them, these published songs on hypem make me not only tip my feet to the beet… i would like to hear more of this, and i’m shure i will.

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:04:29 +0000

I wrote my own little review:

Green Day’s ’94 breakthrough Dookie was a thirty-nine minute ode to masturbation and sheer boredom dressed up in a pop punk sheen. Although a vital soundtrack to my college experience, nothing within Dookie indicated that some fifteen years later Green Day would morph into astute social critics crafting bitter agitprop, three-chords at a time. Friday the band releases 21st Century Breakdown, their 8th studio album, continuing where ‘04’s exceptional rock opera American Idiot left off, trading Bush-era frustration and anger with Obama-era resignation at the morass that remains after Bush’s departure from office. Despite Obama’s “Yes We Can” rhetoric Green Day are clearly not a happy bunch of boys.

Divided into three acts (“Heroes and Cons,” “Charlatans and Saints,” and “Horseshoes and Handgrenades”) 21st Century Breakdown is a narrative concept much like American Idiot was that follows a couple named Christian and Gloria as they navigate the minefield of issues that remain in Bush’s wake. Those issues are numerous and grand. Be it religious hypocrisy (“East Jesus Nowhere”) or government’s apparent apathy for its people (“21 Guns”) no target is sacred. And the title track may be the strongest Green Day song to date, a multipart piece lamenting the failed promise of our previous generations (“We are the desperate in the decline/Raised by the bastards of 1969”).

Granted, preaching of this magnitude may be a difficult pill to swallow from celebrated multimillionaires that were once so indifferent to life in general they couldn’t be pried off their mother’s couch. But by the same token not many bands are urging people to think, be active, wake up to what is going on around them and fight for a better world.

By: Keso

Keso — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:10:34 +0000

Great review! I would put the score around 75.. but in the Swedish version of Metro (the newspaper), it got 5/5 :O

By: Nicho (aka Who? Me?)

Nicho (aka Who? Me?) — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:45:37 +0000

Haha I didn’t even read the part about the album up for grabs, so i guess i better leave my name . ^^^Me just in case. I guess i’ll hold off on buying Breakdown for a couple of days and cross my fingers.

By: Who? Me?

Who? Me? — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:49:30 +0000

I was waiting for PMA to get to this leaked album (cause I’d never download it of course). I’ve gotta agree with a rating around the 80s…maybe Luis needs another listen or two . However, I disagree about Green Day not making radio-ready tracks. I definitely think that in each of their albums there is a song or two that is included (and released as a main single), not to make money, but to widen their net of appeal and catch more of the music audience. These songs usually include great hooks, catchy tunes and some good old power chords, as well as some meaningful lyrics, but I can’t always help but feel as though these songs were released just to gain more fans (and as insightful as the lyrics are, these songs usually can’t hold a candle to the rest of the album).

Now that I’ve finished with my mini-rant, does anyone else hear “Deadbeat Holiday” coming through in the “Mass Hysteria” part of “American Eulogy” (which I heard through completely legal means RIAA ). Well I’m off to buy it tomorrow!

PS
I almost forgot how great it was to listen to music with lyrics that deliver meaningful, charged lyrics. I’m a content man

By: Adam Offitzer

Adam Offitzer — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:48:20 +0000

Actually, believe it or not, my initial rating was an 82, just like yours! But Luis’ input goes into these ratings, too…it is his site, after all! Glad you liked the review.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:07:18 +0000

Fair review. It focuses on the good, not enough on the bad, but that’s ok. 74 is a fair score, I think. I was thinking of low 70s too.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:23:50 +0000

Out of curiosity, what didn’t you like about it that knocked it as far down as 74? Not trying to argue it’s a perfect album, since it’s not, but your words seem to paint a much different picture than the number gives it. Great review nonetheless.

==TJ==