OMFG! Just heard Green Day's American Idiot!

[LeftCoast]

How come I never heard this before?!? I know people must've been raving about it here!

Hey! If you haven't heard it...go listen to it!

[Dudley_DUright]

1. They played it live on Letterman

on the same night as Kerry's appearance.

[LeftCoast]

3. Holy crap!

Did the audience go nuts?

[AIJ Alom]

5. yeah they did.

Green day brought raised the roof and down the house. An anthem to wake up all America.

[JohnKleeb]

2. Its great isnt it

Its on my three regular music CDs on my must buy, The Rock Against Bush ones are on there too. It is a kick ass song, I agree. Can use it with anything, probably a great skateboarding tune, etc.

[LeftCoast]

4. Is the whole album this good?

I haven't instantly LOVED a song like this in a long time.

[JohnKleeb]

6. Its on my must buy list

I am buying it tommorow after school, I need money man, heh, I got three CD's I want, at least one book, and many video games, and documentaries I want too.

[name not needed]

11. You should get some Dropkick Murphys cds

I'd suggest Blackout and Do or Die.

[JohnKleeb]

12. Thanks

I'll give those a look. I don't listen to as much CDs as I do MP3's but I like CD's. I have to say though I am enjoying this kind of rock more than I did.

[bloodyjack]

32. What CDs have you got your eye on

High school...punk music...well there's a fine combination.

You should get the first Misfits album (Static Age)

Aaand if you can find it, Hüsker Dü "New Day Rising"

And I suppose you can throw in the new Green Day LP for good measure

[LeftCoast]

14. Noted and bookmarked!

Thanks!

[jonnyblitz]

17. yup, I agree!

[JohnKleeb]

19. I really have never been a big fan of punk, Ive always liked

altern rock stuff, but I've heard some good stuff lately. I heard Joe Strummer's version of the Redemption Song the other day, different from Marley's redemption song but just as beautiful.

[tigereye]

28. that is a very nice version

it is very beautiful

[jonnyblitz]

29. well, you know me kleeb

big ole' country fan here.

[Elidor]

21. Dropkick Murphys are great

Just got Do or Die myself.

[JohnKleeb]

24. Ive heard that

I really have never been too much in this genre in general though, I listen to mostly altern rock, classical sounding stuff, and classic rock.

[Ekova]

26. The rest of the album is very good as well.

E.

[tigereye]

27. the album is very good

interesting juxtaposition of songs and styles of music.

[name not needed]

8. I bought it yesterday

I can't stop listening to Jesus of Suburbia.

[Fuzzy LaRue]

7. Funny Thing,

I first heard this song on my Madden 2005 football game for PS2. It plays (along with a couple of other songs) when screens or saved games are loading.

[LeftCoast]

25. Cool - That's a target (voter) market!

Welcome to DU!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

9. If you liked this, other recommendations

Megalomaniac by Incubus

Mass Destruction by Faithless


and, for searing social commentary, with an acerbic humor chaser

Underwear Goes Inside the Pants by Lazyboy (currently on Launch's top 100)

Enjoy! MKJ

[LeftCoast]

10. Lyrics:

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For thats enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For thats enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information Age of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For thats enough to argue.

[JohnKleeb]

13. It's such a nice beat too

If I could actually skateboard, I'd so make it my anthem.

[Dudley_DUright]

16. It was interesting that they did not bleep the

"mind-fuck" lyrics in the conventional way on Letterman, they just turned the volume way down and then right back up again.

[tjdee]

15. They are straight up punk on this album, which is SO great.

I too instantly loved this song--and they seem to have matured into a honest to goodness punk band. So impressed.
Great song, great lyrics...also, very danceable.
Also, they were on Letterman RIGHT AFTER John Kerry. How cool is that?

Y'all can hear it/catch the video on Launch.com....I'll get the direct link....
http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/videos.asp?artistID=1010...

Click on American Idiot. Have to sit through a commercial....

[LeftCoast]

18. Am purchasing it now - via iTunes

My first iTunes album purchase.

[Elidor]

20. Also check out citizentruth's "Dubya"

At www.citizentruth.com

Liberal media? Don't make me laugh
Objective journalism's gettin' the shaft
Since when did gettin' a blow job compare to the snow job
Of lies and more lies that you're tellin' in your job
Like you're G.I. Joe, but at the end of the day
Our troops are dyin' while you're cuttin' their pay
And where were you in 1972
AWOL by all accounts from your crew
And now you say that you're cuttin' our taxes
Fact is, you're separatin' the classes...

Great song. You can hear it at their site.

[LeftCoast]

22. Whoa! Hard hitting intelligent lyrics

I'll give them a listen...

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

23. Awesome...thanks for the link!!! n/t

MKJ

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

30. Those words are the truth !

[mrbassman03]

33. Awesome!

I wish the web-site had it at higher quality though...

[LibertyorDeath]

31. Love it !

http://www.greenday.net / ( Click American Idiot Video Top left side)

[Minstrel Boy]

34. And let's not forget NOFX's "Idiots Are Taking Over"

Not new, but it kicks ass. A snip:

There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated.
Political scientist gets the same vote as some Arkansas inbred.
Majority rule, don’t work in mental institutions.
Sometimes the smallest, softest voice carries the grand, biggest
solutions.

What are we left with?
A nation of God-fearing pregnant nationalists,
Who feel it’s their duty to populate the homeland;
Pass on traditions;
How-to-get-ahead religions;
And prosperity via simpleton culture.

The idiots are taking over.