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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
I've been listening to it all day... kinda like American Idiot Part II, but that's not a bad thing at all. Very good album front to back.
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I had turned my back on this band, but then a co-worker and Tiger Woods competitor on XBox loaded American Idiot on his system which meant I was exposed to it incesantly. Easily the best rock album of the otts. Just great. I guess any record you're exposed to in that sort of hypnotic way (playing video golf, the songs re-cueing on each hole) you'll get to like it, but there was something basic and raw there.
I was even willing to forgive the lyric "The Jesus Of Suburbia is a Lie". Well of course he is. Suburbia is bullshit so you can't look for authenticity in the mega-church youth group. The Kurt Cobain of Suburbia is a lie as well. Insert any celebrity's name. Suburban Jesus is not the point. Real Jesus is. Tell me something about real Jesus that I don't know.