American Idiot ---> Green Day (2004)

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Written by Billy Joe on Feb 23rd, 2004:

"Don't want to be an American Idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The submliminal mind f**k America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be OK
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Maybe I am the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda!
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Don't want to be an American Idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to Idiot America!"

Another new CD that is hard not to like most of the songs on the disc.

A disc in the genre of Tommy and Quadrophenia.... it tells a story. And if you really "get" the story that Billy Joe is telling, you'll enjoy the music even more!

RMT
 
I saw the video... the line 'I'm not a part of a redneck agenda' sounds like a knock at Bush and the red states to me. It's on mtv... I don't see how this relates to tt though. I prefer dookie.

--- Razimus
 
Yer right on. It is also a parallel to American Idol. The song is freaking brilliant in its double entendre. Make no mistake, even though I am conservative, I don't think Bush is God, and he has his definite American Idiot moments!

Actually, as much as the lyrics to the title track make me smile, the music and lyrics to several other songs on the disc are MUCH better than the title track. If you even like the title track, you will surely like other songs.

There's nothing wrong with a little Bush-bash in the areas he is a bit short of a full load!


RMT
 
The UK media calls them Bush-isms. Unfortunately our tabliods would cut your hand off with a rusty knife if you died holding a wallet - such is their mentality. Anything goes. So he tends to get shot down over his Bush-isms every time he makes them.

I find them quite funny to be honest. Infact i'd put it to you that it works in his favour. People mess up in speeches all the time. Bush does it in front of the world. I think in an ironic way, people relate to it rather than view it as a negative thing.

The fact is the president is pretty much the 'face' of the presidentual advisors. When he talks this shows more then it does with most presidents. Its quite obvious that Bush is very heavily 'advised' like all presidents. Only its more evident through his behaviour.

Kind regards,
OllyB
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

The "Velvet Revolution" (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 - December 29 1989) refers to a comparatively bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there.

It started on November 16, 1989 with a peaceful student demonstration in Bratislava. One day later, on November 17, 1989, another peaceful student demonstration in Prague was severely beaten back by the communist riot police. That event sparked a set of popular demonstrations from November 19 to late December, and a general two-hour strike of the population on November 27. By November 20 the number of peaceful protestors assembled in Prague swelled from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. With other communist regimes falling all around it, and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 they would give up their monopoly on political power. Barbed wire was removed from the border with West Germany and Austria on December 5. On December 10, the Communist President Gustáv Husák appointed the first largely non-communist government in Czechoslovakia since 1948, and resigned. Alexander Dubček was elected speaker of the federal parliament on December 28 and Václav Havel the President of Czechoslovakia on December 29 1989.

As one of the results of the Velvet revolution, the first democratic elections since 1948, held in June 1990, brought the first completely non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in over forty years.

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In Georgia
Georgia's revolution in late 2003, was described by many as a velvet revolution. In the revolution, veteran president Eduard Shevardnadze resigned. Close friend Mikhail Gorbachev said "He would have stepped down for the safety of Georgia. I know he is not a coward". Nino Burjanadze became interim president. When the "Velvet Revolution", a poll was held on January, 4 2004, when opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili won the elections.
 
Ahem...yes, well I had almost forgotten about this post I'd made. I think it appropros to resurrect it and point out that Green Day got the Grammy Best Rock Album for this CD. And I really liked several of the other nominees, like the Killers' "Hot Fuss" and Velvet Revolver's "Contraband".

Nice job, Billy Jo. You earned it!
RMT
 
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