Album of the day (#2857): 21st Century Breakdown - Music

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21st Century Breakdown by Green Day (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2009.
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Overall rank: 1,794
Average rating: 61/100 (from 385 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Song Of The Century
2. 21st Century Breakdown
3. Know Your Enemy
4. ¡Viva La Gloria!
5. Before The Lobotomy
6. Christian's Inferno
7. Last Night On Earth
8. East Jesus Nowhere
9. Peacemaker
10. Last Of The American Girls
11. Murder City
12. ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
13. Restless Heart Syndrome
14. Horseshoes And Handgrenades
15. The Static Age
16. 21 Guns
17. American Eulogy: A. Mass Hysteria / B. Modern World
18. See The Light

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LordMark

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Age: 37

Location: Ontario

It sounds similar to American Idiot but lacks that album's ambition. It's also about 15-20 minutes too long, and has a forgettable concept.

… and yet, despite it's flaws, I still enjoy 21st Century Breakdown overall. It's not as good as Green Day's 1994-2004 releases, but it's still better than the 4 albums that came after.

CA Dreamin

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Location: LA

LordMark wrote:

It sounds similar to American Idiot but lacks that album's ambition. It's also about 15-20 minutes too long, and has a forgettable concept.

… and yet, despite it's flaws, I still enjoy 21st Century Breakdown overall. It's not as good as Green Day's 1994-2004 releases, but it's still better than the 4 albums that came after.

Well put.

Tracks 8 and 10 are my faves.

LordMark

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Age: 37

Location: Ontario

StreetSpirit wrote:

LordMark wrote:

It sounds similar to American Idiot but lacks that album's ambition. It's also about 15-20 minutes too long, and has a forgettable concept.

… and yet, despite it's flaws, I still enjoy 21st Century Breakdown overall. It's not as good as Green Day's 1994-2004 releases, but it's still better than the 4 albums that came after.

Well put.

Tracks 8 and 10 are my faves.

"East Jesus Nowhere" is one my favourite Green Day songs.

WhySoManyCats

By themselves, the songs aren't individually bad (except Static Age) but 1hr and 8mins of the exact same sound with no change or development, weak ass lyricism that I would usually excuse if the album was much shorter, but it all just piles up on top of each other until it's unbearable. It's length completely ruins the otherwise okayish and decent (but very bland) songs which makes this Green Day's 2nd worst album.

3/10

AAL2014

It's not like Green Day's discography was flawless before this but this was really the beginning of the end of them being anything worth listening to in my opinion.
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jeffrey-hodgson

21 Guns is a good bordering on great song but it is a rewrite of Boulevard of Broken Dream, which is better. There is some good stuff on here but it is inferior to American. Idiot. Still a decent album, better than Uno Dos Tre.