Homecoming and Jesus both rip, but Letterbomb is the best song here.

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i wanna read a thinkpiece linking this album to the trump era

Album Rating: 3.0

oh god I hate this band now

Album Rating: 4.0

this album works best in the bush era. it is very difficult for me to separate it from that time.

Album Rating: 4.0

although i did call it 'timeless' in this review. i guess what i mean is that it seems clear now that music is not going to spur social change anymore.

Album Rating: 3.5

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Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah I always think of the Bush era/Iraq war too but for me it's timeless in the sense that it will always be one of my classic protest albums. I'll look back at it in the same way my parents probably look back at their Vietnam protest songs; it may not still be applicable but it will always hold a fond space in my/their heart.

Album Rating: 4.0

it's also inextricably linked with the american idiot tour, where billie joe would do things like introducing himself as george w. bush as the crowd booed and hissed.



"THIS SONG IS NOT ANTI-AMERICAN, IT'S ANTI....WAAAAARRRRRR" as they started holiday. that stuff just wouldn't have the same impact now because we are numb to the political degradations of our time.

if we get an american idiot for the current era it’s almost certainly going to be hip-hop

Album Rating: 5.0

Right. I never saw GD live for that tour but I remember sitting at my computer watching youtube videos of them playing Holiday and it made me want to join a rebellion. Like you said, different times.

Album Rating: 4.0

the american idiot of our time (which is weird to say since this album isn't that old) would be about social issues, poverty, inequality, etc., not about trump or something like that. because everything is about trump in some way, it seems. so it just doesn't have the same effect.



really, i think it would have to be a larger body of work by several artists, rather than one huge album. i mean, we don't even have huge albums anymore, at least not in the same way that this album was huge.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's crazy though because it is kinda old. 15 years ago, I mean that's half my life. I remember being more than a little surprised when election season came and went in 2016 without a band trying to recapture this kind of magic. I guess that kind of speaks to the point you just made Chan. The whole industry has changed.

Agreed chan (although this does feel old), unless we get a release on the same scale of TPAB this era will be remembered with a constellation of works.

Off the top of my head I'd put Anohni's Hopelessness, FJM's Pure Comedy and Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer in that grouping although only the last one was appreciated by pop culture. We might not get a release that has lasting impact, which is a little disappointing.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah i mean maybe it is worth exploring why that is. i have thought about doing it before, like writing a blog post that revisits stuff like the "rock against bush" series and evaluating their impact or lack thereof

This album was funded by Soros

Album Rating: 2.5

comparing iraq to vietnam

the american idiot of our time (which is weird to say since this album isn't that old) would be about social issues, poverty, inequality, etc., not about trump or something like that. because everything is about trump in some way, it seems. so it just doesn't have the same effect.

Let me get this straight: Trump won because he got the majority of votes in FLORIDA? I'm not American, but Florida is the last state I would think of in terms of national relevance during a presidential election.

Plus, I think that at least 60% of the population there are Latins so I wouldn't trust their criteria during a election. I think I saw Mexicans supporting Trump, which I found pretty hilarious.

Btw, I saw Michael Moore documentary about Trump and the incestuous relationship with Ivanka is one of the most fucked up things about a president. Like what do you mean "if I wasn't his father I would probably have sex with her"