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well, i just really like the spirit of 21CB. The music is also so... memorable. idk, that album is like an adventure.

I can't help but get the feeling that this album will have a massive sound to it but will have simple songs. Nothing grand-e-oso (or however that's spelled) like some tracks on 21st Century Breakdown. I'm hoping for a mix of Dookie, Nimrod, American Idiot, and Foxboro Hot Tubs. That would be fan-fucking-tastic.

@laly: Oh my god! What is this? :rofl:

Billie Joe at the Kennedy Center!

On the point about Green Day being a "heritage band", or whatever other term is used for a band that mainly plays older songs and does an album as an excuse to tour... I'm a fairly big Poison fan (yes, I fully expect to be laughed at for that, but screw it... I like 'em), but I'm not into their newer stuff at all. In fact, if they didn't write a single song after Flesh & Blood (the album with "Unskinny Bop" on it... so you know it's been a long time) I would be just fine. But at the same time I find 21st Century Breakdown to be incredible. And after watching Awesome as Fuck again last night, the songs from 21CB are better live than most of their pre-American Idiot songs. And with each new album this band seems to get new fans. It's not like all of their shows are full of 30-something people, who were in high school when Dookie came out. So my worry doesn't lie in GD becoming a "heritage band", but rather the opposite... that as some fans get older they will not be as interested. As a 33 year old I honestly feel like I'm well above the median age of fans at the show.

I gotta say. I love the new tattoo.

I will say this about Danger Days. Regardless of how you feel about My Chemical Romance, the degree of which they have reinvented themselves is remarkable. No matter what you thought about them being "phony emo bastards," you can't call them that anymore. Not only did they stop being dark and mournful. They became bright and colourful, in a near seamless way. They don't seem like poseurs. In fact, they invented their own type of music with Danger Days. Many of you have been critical of Danger Days. Say what you will. But every teenage outcast and their Mom has that album. Green Day actually decreased their fan base with 21st Century Breakdown. So, while I love Green Day more than MCR, I contend that MCR's last work was more ambitious than 21st Century Breakdown. I have nothing against Breakdown. In fact, I love almost all the songs on that album. But from the perspective of a fan, I give major Kudos to MCR for being innovative.