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GREEN DAY - American Idiot
| UGO |
| The impact of Green Day's super-hit breakthrough album, Dookie, is reestablished every time another cookie-cutter pop-punk band lands another song in another hour-long WB teen drama. Whether or not the band, themselves, are responsible for this is open to debate - I, personally, don't think they can be blamed, but I know people who do - but the fact is that Billie Joe Armstrong and company haven't said much of anything about it, one way or the other. ...full text |
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| BBC Music |
| Listening to Green Day's rendition of Queen's "We Are The Champions" at Reading Festival this year, it seemed unimaginable that the same trio of hyperactive upstarts responsible for 1994's Dookie couldtake onstadium rock and get away with it. But, after listening to American Idiot, it makes perfect sense for the Californian punks to adopt Freddie Mercury's rally call for their own cause; if ever there were a time for the suburbs of America to unite against ennui and apathy, it seems, that time is now. Power to the people......full text |
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| Bullz-eye |
| Green Day’s biggest conceit was that they were what they seemed, a group of snot nosed punks who would rather beat off in front of the TV than take a stand on anything of importance. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. No band writes tunes as sharp as “Longview,” “Geek Stink Breath” and “Hitchin’ a Ride” without some synapses firing....full text |
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| StylusMagazine |
| The idea that there is any correlation between truth and history is as patently absurd as aligning that abstraction with any other field of study, but if the history of the “third wave” of “punk rock” (by then firmly set into the sonic cul-de-sac it still languishes in) is written with any compassion, Green Day have one hell of a re-appreciation due....full text |
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