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Vydáno: 15.05.2009

Green Day - "21st Century Breakdown"

Celých dlouhých 5 let po vydání jednoho z nejzásadnějších alb nového tisíciletí – AMERICAN IDIOT – plánují na 15. května Green Day opět razantním způsobem vtrhnout do světa rocku.

Americké trio přichází s novým opusem pod názvem 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN. A stejně tak jako punkrocková opera AMERICAN IDIOT, je chystaná novinka Green Day konceptuálním dílem, obalem počínaje a hudebním obsahem konče. Album je rozděleno do 3 částí: Heroes And Cons, Charlatans And Saints a Horseshoes And Handgrenades a celkem bude obsahovat 18 skladeb. Příběh desky je zaměřený na dvě hlavní postavy, Glorii a Christiana, kteří provázejí celým dějem alba.

Zpěvák a kytarista Billie Joe Armstrong, basista Mike Dirnt a bubeník Tre Cool pracovali na konceptu alba a na prvních nahrávkách již od začátku roku 2006 a záverečnou etapu nahrávání a mixu již absolvovali již s věhlasným producentem Butch Vigem, který mimo jiné produkoval alba skupin jako Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage a mnohých dalších.

Albu předchází pilotní singl “Know Your Enemy”, který měl světovou premiéru v rádiích 16. dubna a ihned se tato skladba vyhoupla do čela všech hitparád.

Seznam Skladeb

1.  Song Of The Century (Album Version) audio
2.  21st Century Breakdown (Album Version) audio
3.  Know Your Enemy (Album Version) audio
4.  ¡Viva La Gloria! (Album Version) audio
5.  Before The Lobotomy (Album Version) audio
6.  Christian's Inferno (Album Version) audio
7.  Last Night On Earth (Album Version) audio
8.  East Jesus Nowhere (Album Version) audio
9.  Peacemaker (Album Version) audio
10.  Last Of The American Girls (Album Version) audio
11.  Murder City (Album Version) audio
12.  ¿Viva La Gloria? [Little Girl] (Album Version) audio
13.  Restless Heart Syndrome (Album Version) audio
14.  Horseshoes And Handgrenades (Album Version) audio
15.  The Static Age (Album Version) audio
16.  21 Guns (Album Version) audio
17.  American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria/Modern World (Album Version) audio
18.  See The Light (Album Version) audio

Biografie

As I lay here dying in my hospital bed from terminal cancer, I am flooded by memories I had back in the year 2004. It was the time I was asked to document Green Day in the studio for a proposed documentary on the making of their album American Idiot. Of course the record is now regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, an artistic leap, musically ambitious, always neck and neck with Sgt. Pepper as the greatest album of all time, etc. But no one realizes the risk it was to overtake this project. Things were different back then and today when I am on talk shows, all they ask me are the same general questions. "What was it like to be there?"  "Did everyone get along?"  "What did you eat?"  And "Would you please stop trying to fondle me?" And I respond with the same answers. "It was an amazing experience being with three genius'," "Yes, everyone got along and there was a lot of laughter and farting,"  "Lunch and dinner consisted of the now controversial Zone/Atkins diet" and "Sorry, I thought that was my pocket."  

The memories gush out of me as does my bedpan, so I am going to write this quick before the nurse comes by and scolds me for eating corn (I am on a strict no starch diet). Times were different then. A cruel and harsh King ruled us and the artistic community was scared to voice any opinion that would oppose the mighty King. Green Day, as I recall, loved the challenge and set out to make the greatest record of their career without the slightest bit of hesitation or compromise. The King of course, would be upset but we would send him a promo copy regardless. American Idiot, as you now know, is more than a concept record, more than a rock opera and it’s more than 60 minutes long. The band that made the perfect 3-minute song was now writing the perfect 9-minute song. I am, of course, talking about the song “Jesus Of Suburbia,” the first opera on the album and the most perfectly structured song ever recorded. As they carry my dead body out of the church, this is the song I requested to be played (that is, if I have enough money to pay Warner’s Bros. for performance rights). But I am getting ahead of myself here; my body will just have to wait until it can curl up in a coffin. This story has to be told!

The recording of the album started on President’s Day and as soon as the band started to record the first song a fire broke out. Was God himself so jealous of these mere mortals making the greatest music ever recorded that he had to smite them? Or was it just a short in the amp? We will never know! But one thing we do know, the boys continued their artistic journey and composed an album that will live throughout the ages.

Diskografie

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