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Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (CD)

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Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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The follow-up to a record that sold over 15 million copies worldwide carried real weight, and Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool didn't blink. Structured as a three-act rock opera with characters Christian and Gloria at its center, 21st Century Breakdown arrived during Obama's first months in office, a moment when American optimism and anxiety were running in equal measure, giving the album's tension between hope and disillusionment an almost documentary quality.

Green Day's dazzlingly ambitious 2004 rock opera American Idiot, with it's striking caricature of "the President gas man", didn't just chime with the anti- Bush post-Iraq invasion zeitgeist; it increasingly came to define it. Five years on, 21st Century Breakdown picks up broadly where it's predecessor left off, it's 17 songs attempting to make sense of what it means to be angry and alive amid the figurative and literal wreckage left behind by Dubya's presidency. The bad guy may have been run out of town, but this is less a victory parade than a trenchant to-do list, an album that's as complex as the era that shaped it.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Song Of The Century (0:58)

Act I - Heroes And Cons

1. 21st Century Breakdown (5:09)
2. Know Your Enemy (3:10)
3. ¡Viva La Gloria! (3:31)
4. Before The Lobotomy (4:37)
5. Christian's Inferno (3:07)
6. Last Night On Earth (3:57)

Act II - Charlatans And Saints

1. East Jesus Nowhere (4:35)
2. Peacemaker (3:24)
3. Last Of The American Girls (3:51)
4. Murder City (2:54)
5. ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) (3:48)
6. Restless Heart Syndrome (4:21)

Act III - Horseshoes And Handgrenades

1. Horseshoes And Handgrenades (3:14)
2. The Static Age (4:17)
3. 21 Guns (5:21)
4. See The Light (4:36)

UPC: 093624980216
Label: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 5.15.09
Format: CD