Green Day; 21st Century Breakdown!!

[EverlostPoet]

anyone here love green day? i cant w8 for there new album as far as i know its 3 discs 18 songs in all, and on May 15!!

Discuss

[Triceratops]

Two words; SELL OUTS.

Green Day are on the cover of the latest Kerrang magazine I bought, but I haven't actually taken the time to read it yet. Regardless of whether their new stuff sounds quite good or not, it will be totally commercial and overappreciated. That's just my opinion.

[EverlostPoet]

but, its my second fav band(first Slipknot) and Know your enemy from the album was good so yeah...^_^

[Sugaree]

How long has it been since their last album? 4? 5 years? I've been hoping that they would release a new album, but I wasn't so sure that it would be this long of a wait.

[EverlostPoet]

Wootness!, i already have the whole album...its AWESOME

[Sugaree]

I wish I could get it now. I'll probably buy it on iTunes when I get a card. I've heard some samples and it sounds pretty fair :)

[ackmedsgirl666]

lets see
greenday is one of the best fucking bands ever!!
love em
billir joe armstrong was my very firrst crush
i almost thought that they were done as it has almost been 6 yrs since american idiot came out
look forward to their new album

[EverlostPoet]

lol release day, i already have it but now ya can go buy/download tha album worldwide xD

[Sugaree]

Green Day lashes out at Wal-Mart policy

AP, May 21, 2009 12:00 pm PDT
Green Day has the most popular CD in the country, but you won't be able to find it at your local Wal-Mart. The band says the giant superstore chain refused to stock its latest CD, "21st Century Breakdown," because Wal-Mart wanted the album edited for language and content, and they refused.


"Wal-Mart's become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won't carry our record because they wanted us to censor it," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a recent interview.


While Wal-Mart sells CDs from acts known for raunchy content, including Eminem's latest, they offer customers the "clean" version of those CDs, which are edited for content that may be objectionable. But in Armstrong's view, "There's nothing dirty about our record."


"They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there," he said. "We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something." "21st Century Breakdown" contains curses and some references considered adult.
Wal-Mart said that it's the company's long-standing policy not to stock any CD with a parental advisory sticker.


"As with all music, it is up to the artist or label to decide if they want to market different variations of an album to sell, including a version that would remove a PA rating," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien said. "The label and artist in this case have decided not to do so, so we unfortunately can not offer the CD."


But bassist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."
Not being sold at Wal-Mart didn't stop the band — which kicks off a U.S. tour summer tour in Seattle on July 3 — from landing at the top of the album charts this week. "21st Century Breakdown" sold about 215,000 copies since it's debut on Friday.


The album is the follow-up to their multiplatinum, Grammy-winning CD "American Idiot," and like that album, deals with weighty topics. While "American Idiot" spoke to the frustration over the presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War, this CD speaks to the loss of innocence and confusion in today's society.

While Armstrong, Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool are still top-sellers without Wal-Mart, Armstrong said the store's policy is disappointing, considering it has become the dominant seller of CDs with the decline of traditional music stores.

"If you think about bands that are struggling or smaller than Green Day ... to think that to get your record out in places like that, but they won't carry it because of the content and you have to censor yourself," he said. "I mean, what does that say to a young kid who's trying to speak his mind making a record for the first time? It's like a game that you have to play. You have to refuse to play it."

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There goes my chances of buying the album. But, then again, they did the right thing. They didn't want their music censored, so good for them.

[EverlostPoet]

Green Day lashes out at Wal-Mart policy

AP, May 21, 2009 12:00 pm PDT
Green Day has the most popular CD in the country, but you won't be able to find it at your local Wal-Mart. The band says the giant superstore chain refused to stock its latest CD, "21st Century Breakdown," because Wal-Mart wanted the album edited for language and content, and they refused.


"Wal-Mart's become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won't carry our record because they wanted us to censor it," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a recent interview.


While Wal-Mart sells CDs from acts known for raunchy content, including Eminem's latest, they offer customers the "clean" version of those CDs, which are edited for content that may be objectionable. But in Armstrong's view, "There's nothing dirty about our record."


"They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there," he said. "We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something." "21st Century Breakdown" contains curses and some references considered adult.
Wal-Mart said that it's the company's long-standing policy not to stock any CD with a parental advisory sticker.


"As with all music, it is up to the artist or label to decide if they want to market different variations of an album to sell, including a version that would remove a PA rating," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien said. "The label and artist in this case have decided not to do so, so we unfortunately can not offer the CD."


But bassist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."
Not being sold at Wal-Mart didn't stop the band — which kicks off a U.S. tour summer tour in Seattle on July 3 — from landing at the top of the album charts this week. "21st Century Breakdown" sold about 215,000 copies since it's debut on Friday.


The album is the follow-up to their multiplatinum, Grammy-winning CD "American Idiot," and like that album, deals with weighty topics. While "American Idiot" spoke to the frustration over the presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War, this CD speaks to the loss of innocence and confusion in today's society.

While Armstrong, Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool are still top-sellers without Wal-Mart, Armstrong said the store's policy is disappointing, considering it has become the dominant seller of CDs with the decline of traditional music stores.

"If you think about bands that are struggling or smaller than Green Day ... to think that to get your record out in places like that, but they won't carry it because of the content and you have to censor yourself," he said. "I mean, what does that say to a young kid who's trying to speak his mind making a record for the first time? It's like a game that you have to play. You have to refuse to play it."

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There goes my chances of buying the album. But, then again, they did the right thing. They didn't want their music censored, so good for them.

if you want the album i can give it to you. ^_^ but yea, thats sad...but they did theright thing in my opinion

[Sugaree]

^^ Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll get an iTunes gift card and get it that way and then burn it to CD. I personally don't like their decision, but I don't like Wal-Mart's either. It's refusing to help market an artist's work to their fans, and if you refuse to sell it, you'll get less sales as people will go to other stores to buy it.

[The Boy Genius]

Marshki [email protected] you say there sell outs, yet they refuse to change there lyrics so the can sell. It seams they are the not. I could be wrong.
Any ways
Sing us the song of the century

[alex122]

Know your enemy is a killa song :P

[Toothpick]

You people don't even know the names of the songs! And believe me, they have more albums than "21st Century Breakdown" and "American Idiot". Try other albums by them:
"1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours", "Kerplunk!", "Dookie", "Insomniac", "Nimrod" (stylized as "nimrod."), "Warning:", "International Superhits!" and "Shenanigans". Yep, LOTS more that American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. I personally Do like all of their music that I've heard, the only album I haven't listened to is "1,039/ Smoothed Out Slappy Hours".
PS: They don't have a song called "I Walk Alone", the song is "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".

[BOBBY HILL]

You people don't even know the names of the songs! And believe me, they have more albums than "21st Century Breakdown" and "American Idiot". Try other albums by them:
"1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours", "Kerplunk!", "Dookie", "Insomniac", "Nimrod" (stylized as "nimrod."), "Warning:", "International Superhits!" and "Shenanigans". Yep, LOTS more that American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. I personally Do like all of their music that I've heard, the only album I haven't listened to is "1,039/ Smoothed Out Slappy Hours".
PS: They don't have a song called "I Walk Alone", the song is "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".

- havn't listed to 1,039/SOSH

what the hell. thats like, one of their best albums