Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
considering i was born 1992, no i'm not
I assure you, it is dramatically different from anything that passes for emo these days. Let me explain.
Emo was born because certain bands in the D.C. area believed hardcore punk was devolving into nothing but a lot of immature political infighting. So they took the aesthetics of hardcore and turned the songwriting to introspection about the extremes of the human emotional spectrum. They got a lot of flack for it, but produced some great music.
It can get prett intense, especially when you delve into bands like Indian Summer.This Message Edited On 04.19.06
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Album Rating: 1.0
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I must admit my vision of Emo had been quite slurred by the image of today's emo kids sitting at home with their older sister's on cutting themselves (I actually know people who do that)
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Album Rating: 2.0
I've always been curious about what turned emo ( nods to steerpike) into the clan 13 year old knuckle draggers we see today?
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
The funny thing is, one of the biggest "emo" bands today, My Chemical Romance, have publicly stated that they have no connection to real emo whatsoever and have no idea as to why their fans insist on labelling them as such.
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Album Rating: 1.0
Sorry, this is somewhat off topic. Steerpike, did you end up checking out that purevolume site, just asking because I wanna know if theirs any tunes left on it
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Album Rating: 1.5
Is this album still on the top 50?
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Album Rating: 1.0
I actively despise this album. Every single song I have heard is the equivalent of listening to Boston... or worse, Kansas. This is such unbelievably overblown and unaffecting music that I can't possibly process people succumbing to it, and yet the majority of people always do fall for this sort of thing everytime it's given to them. To me, this album is the blandest of the bland; there is absolutely nothing remarkable, interesting or provocative about it. It is bad.
I would write my own scathing review of this monstrosity, but that would leave a good chance of me quitting reviewing here for good.This Message Edited On 04.19.06
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Album Rating: 1.0
I can at least still claim that Kansas is worse than this crap. But the comparison stands.
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MAN, Greenday is getting a beating on this page.
But I will have to dissagree with the strong majority of you, and say that I think this CD show's some of Green Day's best work (though that does not in any way take any credit from their older classics ie: Dookie, Kerplunk, etc).
I think Billy Joe's writing is excellent, and has progressed to interesting and, sigh, mature lyrics. If you are bummed they are addressing politics instead of "fun" s&m sex any more, or about a kid having fantasies of some chick he doesn't even know, then too bad for you. It was indeed funny. Still is.
BUT THEY GREW UP.
So expect mature lyrics. And just because songs are sad, does not mean they are Emo. Lots of songs address feelings of pain, not just Emo, and Billy's been doing it for years. Basket Case is about his personal problems with Paranoia.
I think if you all think they're sell-outs, you're missing out by just judging them by their success. The logic that even main-stream audiences like it, so it must be bad, is just ignoring an album that has alot to say to our generation.
Plus, Greenday did not just jump on the political dissent band wagon. That wagon didn't start till at least a year ago, and the album came out 2004.
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Hey everyone, is having a purge of the comments every few days working for you guys? Because I'm more than willing to keep on doing it, but it's probably simpler (and will prevent people getting banned), if y'all don't just regurtitate the same arguments and points that have been made and refuted in the previous 36 pages of the topic. Please, just stop it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I really like this album alot. Sure it's no Dookie or Nimrod but that does'nt make it a bad album. And a_flower_blooms_as_i_decay, i think you just said two completely different things. Such as bands should go political. Then that pop punk should stay like it always has and sing about chicks and masturbation. I think that they should be able to do what they want. They had stuff in their heads that they wanted to get out and the best way is through their music.
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Album Rating: 5.0
This album is good,but Dookie is the best
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Album Rating: 5.0
This album has more of a Pop music sound
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Album Rating: 1.0
Aha once again my ass is handed to me by steerpike. I agree, actually. I was just in a bad mood last night.....and well a little tipsy.
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umm... I have posted before that green day is blegh. I can't seem to get into them other then one surprising American idiot. That song was good, yes overplayed, but I still think it's good. I thought this was going to be the album of green day that would change my opinion... nope. Boulevard of Broken dreams came out and I thought "what is this crap!!!" Then Holiday... no more crap... then wake me up (pretty decent... but not enough to say "wow") and finally the jimmy song... more crap. green day sucks and i am commenting knowing that there are a ton of Green Day fans, and I am not dissing the band, just stating I don't like them, and to date they have not made anything to say "DAMN!!! THAT WAS AMAZING"
I was just gonna ask what it is that people find good enough to make them the most popular band so far (and if you go to www.googlefight.com and put green day up against most anything, green day ends up having more fan sites then anything out there). my question is why???
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
I was just gonna ask what it is that people find good enough to make them the most popular band so far (and if you go to www.googlefight.com and put green day up against most anything, green day ends up having more fan sites then anything out there). my question is why???
The Cool Thing Factor. The label spent more money on hyping up American Idiot than they probably did on promoting and producing the band's last two albums put together.
If you can pump enough glamour into something, you can convince people that if they don't have it, they may die.
Green Day already had a sizeable fanbase to begin with. But from the massive media exposure, the band became a hot topic. By promoting the album as a political rock opera (which it isn't) and saying Green Day were the punk kids who had grown up (they just decided to try something new because the old style was getting stale) and then dressing them up to look dark, angsty, and serious, they were able to convince people that your worth as a human being was determined by whether or not you were a "fan" of Green Day.This Message Edited On 04.30.06
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i love greenday .... i like this album... its my fav
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i LOVE billie joe armstrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ok thank u soo much
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worst album ever! other than jesus of suburbia
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