While I sit here writing a test plan for work, I’m listening to the Green Day “American Idiot” album. The more I listen to it, the more I love it. Like Queensryche’s “Operation Mindcrime”, or Van Halen’s “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”, “American Idiot” is the album where the band’s musical maturity and gut instincts are at the perfect levels to make an incredible album The anthem, “Jesus Of Suburbia \/ City Of The Damned \/ I Don’t Care \/ Dearly Beloved \/ Tales Of Another Broken Home” has got to be Green Day’s best musical achievement. If you haven’t listened to this album in its entirety, I recommend you do. Good ALBUMS are hard to come by these days with singles seeming to be the only focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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