Today, in celebration of the fact that I went and got a new hair-do that makes me look like a little anarchist, being the fearless BAMF I am (hahaha.), I should talk about one of the greatest albums the human kind has known up to till now, Green Day's American Idiot. I don't care what the general opinion on Green Day is, I've loved them ever since I was a 7th grader who's first heard the term "nonconformist" and thought she'd found the very meaning of life. Haha, good days. I'm not even that much of a punk listener, but for releasing American Idiot, I'm going to love Green Day forever.
Anyway, these guys put riot and youth into lyrics, then into guitar riffs, then into several proper LPs over the years. As much of a punk-rock group who's poster is up on every teenager's wall who dreams of running away from home and start their life over they might be, the social and political issues covered on American Idiot, they had quite some guts to record that. Green Day have this amazing ability to turn every track of theirs into an anthem. All of the 13 tracks on American Idiot put together follow the same storyline, the life of a character simply portrayed as the "Jesus of Suburbia", the anti-hero, as they called him, a punk who loathes the society he lives in, so he struggles between following his own path and terribilist self-destruction with "a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin". Jesus of Suburbia, (the 10 mins song and the video) tells the story pretty well. It will forever be one of my favourite songs, I know the lyrics by heart, I know every single musical note in there, knowing I've lost countless hours of my life listening to this again and again and again over the years.
Basically, long personal emotional view on this album short, I wish the life I'm gonna live will be worth for Green Day to write an album just as great as this one based on it.
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