21st Century Breakdown

I am an 80’s Kid who used to listen to a few selected Greenday tracks.I decided to pick up all Greenday Studio Albums only so I could generate a LOSSLESS Tracks to have a sub-par experience on my FiiO X3 2nd Gen Hi-Res player driving Venture E Monk Plus and support the Artists NOW which I could not back then.Coming to the album:-I tried listening it a couple of times and I am sorry to say its been a slight disappointment. Only 21 Guns, Know your enemy, Viva-La Gloria, Murder City are worth looking into.Here is my perspective, take it with a grain of salt.Dookie is a MASTERPIECE in my opinion and most of the fans in the international market. Each and every track is unique in its own way ohhh and sure to keep you hooked for months.Yes All tracks are great.Insomniac, the most underrated album in my opinion and others out there. If you try to relate the lyrics, maybe you’ll see how Dark can Greenday get with a solid punch of attitude! Highly Recommended.Yes All tracks are GreatNimrodThis isn’t dark as Insomniac, but packs enough energy, fun with a rollercoaster of romance and hatred.Yes all tracks are GREAT!Revolution RadioAnother salty power hungry album with darkness, attitude and a pinch of love.Its the last released album till date, yes I do feel they’ve grown up and so is the maturity on the lyrics after the albums from 1992 and 1994.. But still keeps the Greenday ‘ride’ open. Billy effort to maintain the vocal pitch - hats off to you Man..! :)Yes 80% tracks are good.If you’ve not heard Dookie, Nimrod or Insomniac full, I request you to get the original disc or a Vinyl to listen. No need to thank me. Instead support them.I am yet to hear the Uno, Dos, Tre.. will post on the respective albums.Stay tuned :)

Songs like ¡viva la gloria! and 21 guns stole my heart! Other songs are perfect too! Left speechless! <3 Billie's voice is GOD. <3

billie joe, i seelsy like your voice! 21 guns is one my fav tracks now! great album too! Thanx amazon for such great service!

Just class... Mind Blowing

Ever since American Idiot, Green Day have often tried to replicate the success of their hugely popular rock opera. Their latest release was in the form of the back-to-back album trilogy, Uno, Dos and Tre which boasted some great songs on each album but was let down by some toned down middle of the road songs that lacked the punky edge the band had on many of their early albums. 21st Century Breakdown was released five years after American Idiot and the band were still riding on the success of that album and wanted to capitalised on its success. This album is pretty much 'American Idiot II' in its pompous delivery and bloated length (18 tracks in total). It's by no means a bad album and I still go back to it many times as it has some fantastic songs ('East Jesus Nowhere' and '21 Guns' are some of the best the band have put out lately). Billie Joe Armstrong's vocals and guitar melodies still remain impressive and Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool offer great support as well. However, many tracks just come off as forgettable and you overlook them after listening to them. It's an ambitious album that should be given a listen if you're a Green Day fan (especially if you love American Idiot) but don't go in expecting this to be on par with it or any of their early albums like Dookie or Warning. Still better than Uno, Dos and Tre though.

As a big Green day for many a year, I have watched the band grow and indeed develop both their music and maturity within their music. From the early punk days where music was heavy, thrashing and down right great, the music slowly changed, with many saying Warning being the turning point. Since then we have seen the album American Idiot and today 21st Century Breakdown.Firstly, is this like American Idiot...answer yes, but there are changes. The emphasis from the early days has shifted from the music to the lyrics itself. From listening to this album you can tell BJ Armstrong has spent many hours at these lyrics and it does show. Deep meaningful lyrics are played in more meaningful music, with bursts of the old Green Day still there.So what is the album itself like? The overall impression I had before this album, is how does it take 5 years to write an album, but from listening to this it is very clear. The lyrics are carefully chosen and the music has been layered perfectly on top, with some good old Green Day passion and bursts from the past. Other people have mentioned the drumming from Tre and I do totally agree that more emphasis has been placed on the drums in this album than previous albums.So why not the five stars? Don't get me wrong this is a fantastic album, but I feel the album does lack proper ballads. The songs are great but the chords of American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia and Boulevard of Broken Dreams have been lost in some aspects of the album, leading to calmer songs with bursts of chords that we all know and love from GD.This as many other people have already said, is a hard album to review, as I do now class Green Day as a Rock Band and not a Punk Group, but the maturity that the music has developed and materalised over the 5 years is amazing. I don't feel however this will be their last album, but I wouldn't be surprised if we only saw one or two at the most more from them.This is a fantastic album, no mistakes about it, the lyrics are what make this album, with the heavy guitar and drumming in places which will keep the older Green Day fans happy.A brilliant album from a World Class Band!

For me this is the album that has moved Billie Joe to William Joseph musically and the good news for me he appears to have grown up at the same speed as me, although I am not into wearing eye-liner.The album is what an old vinyl LP was, - a journey, a well crafted musical journey through the story that BJA is telling (about a guy called Christian I think) - and telling it well. At times there are few hooks in there that seem to suggest somebody has been listening to The Waterboys along the way, and then that old punk twang gets thrown in so as not to let you drift away for too long.For me the stand out song is "Before the Lobotomy"; a carefully crafted intro, - a lovely hook "I was only dreaming etc" a bit of good old Green Day wham bham, a hint on a Irish jig and then bag into that hook, - superb! Next best is East Jesus Nowhere but I am sure you will find your own favorite.To me this is better than American Idiot (which was not half bad), - and does what Dookie did all those years ago; makes me smile and I want to play the songs over again, the extra bonus this time around is that my 10 year old son also really likes this. Thanks guys your best album so far.

If you thought Green Day couldn't possibly follow the success of American Idiot, think again! This is an outstanding album. The songs immediately seem familiar as it's that classic and unmistakable Green Day sound. Like American Idiot, it follows a story - a young couple 'Christian and Gloria' through the mess and promise of politics, war and the establishment.The songs are catchy and once inside your head , will be reluctant to leave. I'd recommend this to anyone. It may take 2 or 3 plays to get the gist of the lyrics as they are not as clear and defined as on American Idiot, but the music will be a hit from the first play.This special edition is very clever - it comes as a 'book' with fill colour pages of artwork and all the lyrics (apparently in Billie-Joe's handwriting) and the CD is cleverly inserted inside the back cover.

If I had just bought the MP3/CD on its own, I would have given it 5 stars; I can't fault the music and it is one of my favourite albums of all time (definitely Green Day's best). But while playing the record itself it feels as if very little thought went into it. It's a huge opera and the fact that there are two disks is very pleasing to me but the music doesn't flow very well. The album itself is split into three acts, with each one having its own distinct motifs and inspirations, but these don't translate to the record; I would have preferred to switch sides in between acts, and not halfway through. But the most disappointing part of all was between the tracks 'Last of the American Girls' and 'Murder City'. If you listen to the album on an iPod for example, you probably won't notice that they are two different tracks as they flow into each other extremely well. On the album however, this is where side two ends and side three begins (i.e. a new record) and having to switch the records just took away from the feel of the album (listen to these tracks to get a better understanding as to what I mean).Overall the album is fantastic and I love having the physical copy of the vinyl, but unless you're a fanatic like me, stick to the MP3 or CD version.