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Crack in the Box

Green Day's new album sucks

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Note by the author: This is not meant to oppose any diverse opinions the reader of this post may have whatsoever.

As if it weren't enough that the American 21st century way of life dawns and this once proud and honorable country turns into a corrupted nightmare about advertisements, forcing christianity down other people's throats, propaganda, discrimination, bigotry, commercialism, money, power, Wal-Mart, McDonalds etc. and CNN constantly heaves the usual jibber-jabber of negative events if not ramblings of yet another potshot American icon that so much of the majority seeks fit to yield and be sheep to while new profits such as Michael Moore try and try again in vain to fight the Bible Belt, yet another piece of shit has hit the fan, and it is here to stay. Introducing Green Day's new album, American Idiot. This load of rotten back-bacon not only prompted a large fraction of the whole "BOO!" thrown out towards the carcass fat-load of disgrace that many genres and concepts of rock has evolved (or should we say "devolved") into, but also started some real tension as the dastardly conservatives kick and scream, the traffic victims went nuts being forced to listen to their rather bland (and often slightly redundant) insults to rock culture when Eminem failed and retarded and stereotypical tiny-boppers get hyped and dance till they fall asleep from all the suicide drinks if not begging their ambiguously 'clean and wholesome' parents for the album along with an iPod.
For those of you who are not familiar with Green Day, they are a rock band (perhaps punk) that once proved worthy in representing emotion, poetry in both lyric and music for those interested in their genre, tranquility meeting aggressive way of musical expression, interesting and sometimes even humorous topics mixing in with auditory art pieces, and so on. Now Green Day has proven itself a way of depression, a stunt and abandoning to creativity and independence in how they play from all the other rock bands, a benchmark for song redudance/repetitive form and a wannabe 'grunt' in common and bland concepts and forms of rock, consistent of whining and the usual "fuck the government up the ass" quips, in which category of expression they have dramatically let themselves go down the drain.
The old Green Day albums were very unique, skillful and addicting to those who enjoyed them. Though sadly misunderstood and often claimed that they were just consistent of adolescent shop talk with background music, Green Day's old songs dealt with issues about feelings, opinions and sometimes even humor along with many other concepts included in their songs combined with very well-done use of instruments combined to make a thought provoking, spirit lifting, addicting form of music rather than being an auditory equivalence of a brat thinking up a list of what sucks, plus the terrible song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", which was lacking and repetitive in both instrumental use and lyrics, trying to sound controversial but ending up only as a rough equivalent of a depressing poem said by a grief-stricken little girl.
Yet sadly, the MSNBC gave the band great encouragement in their shitty campaign to bathe people across the world listening to radio stations with their anguish and unoriginal insults that have all been heard before and are as fruitless (if not more) as what our resources are doing now to fight off the bigoted money-grubber's idea of a new American dream. In fact, the MSNBC slammed down their previous albums as pieces of moronic adolescence spewing out crappy bathroom humor, painting Green Day in their previous times as just some ragtag "slurpee chugging chuckleheads" as they pat American Idiot on the back for their unoriginal complaints, and they state that in this album Green Day has finally "grown up". That's right. American Idiot gets called an era where Green Day finally "grow up" and take the time to create a wonderful masterpiece about the all-been-heard-before hatred for today's American suburban life while Dookie, Nimrod, Warning etc. keep getting misunderstood and laughed at as a spit wad on the sidewalk of rock genre as something only adolescent cock-suckers would ever heave in our direction.
An album done by Green Day conforming to becoming yet another predictable rock stereotype? What next, Vanilla Ice getting his ass plastered, stripping to nothing but his boxers and singing the Squarebob Spongeshorts theme at the top of his lungs while playing the banjo?
A scary question to fans of Green Day's old albums are this: Is this the end of the true Green Day and a beginning of yet another old chestnut like the rest of the bands that you would hear on the radio? The end of the uniqueness? The end of the actual Green Day revolution, ended with a lousy finale of this all new mind dump of an album?

Anyway, sorry if this is considered spam. I just felt like writing this.

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Ralphis said:

Paragraphs please, sir.


I copied this off of a text document I wrote before, and I decided to post it here. By the time it was copied onto here the indentations and spaces between the paragraphs weren't there. Guess I should've done the indentations, but oh well.

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Ralphis said:

Paragraphs please, sir.


Thirded. Use smaller paragraphs! X_x

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Columbine said:

Does anyone have anything to say that's related to this thread?

Yeah, greenday has always sucked...why you even bothered to bleat about this particular album...i just don't know. And to be honest, I didn't read of word of it.

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I'm an OLD fan of Greenday. I like Kerplunk and Dookie, Insonmiac and all that. Yeah, American Idiot isn't their best work and is pretty bad, but bands have to change. They can't have all their music sound the same all the time because people will get bored of them and listen to other music.

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That is a point. Just wished they hadn't changed to become so much like the rest. Green Day today seems far too much like listening to Incubus, Trapt, etc. just sort of adopts the repetivity and predictability of the other bands. Of course, I think I might have still thought that it sucked if it changed at all. Not to say I'm inflexible, but...

Can't deny how right you are, but I just can't deny this either: Once Green Day starts as Green Day, changing means never being Green Day again.

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If you listen to letterbomb on the album, that shows that there still is an old part of Greenday left. Maybe another album by them will be better but who cares.

[spam]Blink182 and Good Charlotte sucks.[/spam]

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the opening bit makes me want to embrace you and welcome you to our forums. i had thought there was a promising musical elitist in you, but then you got all wisty for the old days of green day- and green day has always been tripe.

but thank you for posting. music threads excite me greatly.

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Well, if you want good modern political music try Skinny Puppy's "The Greater Wrong of the Right", ohGr's "SunnyPsyOp", KMFDM's "WWIII" (or "Attak"), or Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief" (if you like to decode indecipherable lyrics). If you want good Gren Day, stick to Dookie (eeew), and if you want good punk listen to the Sex Pistols.

That's all I have to say. That was a rather good article though, despite the lack of paragraphs.

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Danarchy said:

Well, if you want good modern political music, wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one gets filled the fastest. If you want good Green Day, try keeping the dream alive, and if you want good punk, you probably won't like it.

Fixed it for you.

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Danarchy said:

Well, if you want good modern political music try Skinny Puppy's "The Greater Wrong of the Right", ohGr's "SunnyPsyOp", KMFDM's "WWIII" (or "Attak"), or Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief" (if you like to decode indecipherable lyrics).


or don't, since three of those albums are poor-ass victims of the wartime leftist music bandwagon and one only merely dabbles in political subject matter.

instead of actively searching for shit artists that preach a narrow-minded viewpoint that you want to hear and rubbing your speakers against your crotch while pretending you will move to the promised land of canada someday, try exploring the contemporaries of these artists that have yet to do something as nuts as write an album called 'the greater wrong of the right'. if you are a good listener you may notice that these artists have felt the inevitable influence of politics in modern times and in times past, but have not sold themselves to a handful of mallrats in 'not my president' t-shirts and instead continued to make music that is ideological but not preachy.

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Use3D said:

I have two Snog cds (including that one) and love them!


They have some damn nice songs, although they become a bit less impressive when you stumble across whatever song they absolutely raped sampled. I wonder how serious those guys are with the message however, the lyrics are fairly over-the-top sometimes...

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Danarchy said:

if you want good punk listen to the Sex Pistols.

Sex Pistols? The definite good punk band is Black Flag, hands down.

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deathz0r said:

Sex Pistols? The definite good punk band is Black Flag, hands down.


Clutch is THE punk band.

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deathz0r said:

Sex Pistols? The definite good punk band is Black Flag, hands down.

Black Flag's awesome, I got my picture taken with Dez when I saw the Misfits, cause he's their current guitarist. You already knew that anyway. =-)

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