First of all, part of Green Day 's appeal is how they have personalized the sounds of the past, making time-honored guitar rock traditions seem fresh, even vital.
With their first albums, they styled themselves after first-generation punk they were too young to hear firsthand, and as their career progressed, the group not only synthesized these influences into something distinctive, but chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong turned into a muscular, versatile songwriter in his own right.
Warning illustrated their growing musical acumen quite impressively, but here, the music isn't only tougher, it's fluid and, better still, it fuels the anger, disillusionment, heartbreak, frustration, and scathing wit at the core of American Idiot.
There's a lot to absorb here, and cynics might dismiss it after one listen as a bit of a mess when it's really a rich, multi-faceted work, one that is bracing upon the first spin and grows in stature and becomes more addictive with each repeated play. Like all great concept albums, American Idiot works on several different levels. It can be taken as a collection of great songs -- songs that are as visceral or as poignant as Green Day at their best, songs that resonate outside of the larger canvas of the story, as the fiery anti-Dubya title anthem proves -- but these songs have a different, more lasting impact when taken as a whole.
While its breakneck, freewheeling musicality has many inspirations, there really aren't many records like American Idiot bizarrely enough, the Fiery Furnaces ' Blueberry Boat is one of the closest, at least on a sonic level, largely because both groups draw deeply from the kaleidoscopic "A Quick One".
In its musical muscle and sweeping, politically charged narrative, it's something of a masterpiece, and one of the few -- if not the only -- records of to convey what it feels like to live in the strange, bewildering America of the early s.
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The movie received mixed reviews. A movie was once being planned. However, by , the film was scrapped for unknown reasons. Also provided the basis for the mash-up album American Edit by "Dean Gray", which remixes tracks from the album with an extremely diverse range of other songs, ranging from Bryan Adams and The Offspring to The Beatles , the Bangles, Queen and the Doctor Who theme.
It's surprisingly good and expands on the plot of the album. The band's label objected to the mash-up, but Billie Joe Armstrong supposedly heard it and approved. The title track by Green Day shows the band's protest and criticism towards U. President George W. Bush and mass hysteria perpetrated by mass media. Example of: Protest Song. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Nobody likes you Everyone left you They're all out without you Having fun.
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