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The album follows the life of Jesus of Suburbia, a character with anti-hero image created by Billie Joe Armstrong. Jesus of Suburbia hates his town and those close to him, so he leaves for the city.[19] As the album progresses the characters St. Jimmy and Whatsername are introduced. St. Jimmy is a punk rock freedom fighter. Whatsername, inspired by the Bikini Kill song "Rebel Girl", is a "Mother Revolution" figure that Armstrong described as "kind of St. Jimmy's nemesis in a lot of ways". Both characters illustrate the "rage vs. love" theme of the album, in that "you can go with the blind rebellion of self-destruction, where Saint Jimmy is. But there's a more love-driven side to that, which is following your beliefs and ethics. And that's where Jesus of Suburbia really wants to go", according to Armstrong. Near the end of the story, St. Jimmy commits metaphorical suicide. While the singer did not want to give away the details of the story's resolution, he said the intention is for the listener to ultimately realize that Jesus of Suburbia is really St. Jimmy, and Jimmy is "part of the main character that pretty much dies". In the album's final song, "Whatsername", Jesus of Suburbia loses his connection with Whatsername as well, even to the point in which he can't even remember her name, hence the title.[13]

what a load of shit

 

[HappyBivouac]

Horrible album.

 

[blame space]

Homecoming [..] is a pretty great run

 

[Rentahamster]

Holiday is a good song. I sing it at karaoke all the time.

 

[Kade]

First album to make me stop and really think about what's going on in the world and what I can do to change it but I didn't do anything at all

 

[HappyBivouac]

First album to make me stop and really think about what's going on in the world and what I can do to change it but I didn't do anything at all.

Yeah I know it's just so deep and meaningful abot hwo ameriac and advertis control us we are relly idiots... sometimes lol maybe idk? -_-

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Really liked it when it first came out. Haven't listened to a single song from it in years, though. Crazy that it has already been a decade.

Yeah I know it's just so deep and meaningful abot hwo ameriac and advertis control us we are relly idiots... sometimes lol maybe idk? -_-

Did this album run over your puppy or touch you inappropriately or something?

 

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it has a lot of hooks

 

[gnarlyxcharlie]

Green Day's first foray into shitty pop punk, rather than their early albums, which were still poppy, but weren't terrible

 

[SteveWinwood]

First album to make me stop and really think about what's going on in the world and what I can do to change it but I didn't do anything at all

this was?

 

[Aggrotek]

And now I feel old.

 

[Lucian Cat]

Really liked it when it first came out. Haven't listened to a single song from it in years, though. Crazy that it has already been a decade.

Same. I feel old now...

 

[vas_a_morir]

The Huffington Post Poly-Sci 101 political punk movement was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for west-coast punk rock.

Fuck, even the Get Up Kids were cashing in on the Rock Against Bush bandwagon. You're a midwest emo band, what are you doin'!?

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Welp. Now i going have to listen to it

 

[Buckethead]

I'm going to be depressed now.

 

[BuggyDClown]

Well fuck, that;s far more recent than I thought haha. I feel like 10 years is too short.

 

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the last song is so bad. whatshername

 

[Shaanyboi]

Crazy...

 

[HappyBivouac]

To be fair at the time one of my favorite bands was GY!BE so uh

 

[ivysaur12]

Looking back, that was such an odd time in history. Then we reelected Bush.

Remember Rock Against Bush?

 

[Kwixotik]

It's good to know I was only 12 when I was obsessed with it. Any older and it would have been embarrassing.

 

[Acorn]

Another I'm old moment. Fuck this shit..

 

[Quick]

Green Day is the first mainstream group in years to actually have something to say.

 

[Jarate]

Green Day's first foray into shitty pop punk, rather than their early albums, which were still poppy, but weren't terrible

Not to be weird, but Green Day has always been Pop Punk.

American Idiot is a shitty album though.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Looking back, that was such an odd time in history. Then we reelected Bush.

Remember Rock Against Bush?

I stopped listening to some bands who did that for a while.

younger conservative me was weird.

 

[amnesiac]

It's a pop punk album with every song being pretty catchy.

But it still is a pop punk album though...

 

[Red_Man]

Actually loved this when it first came out, I still listen to Jesus Of Suburbia every now and then.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4YtTxV7UAo

 

[Arc]

Horrible album.

Came in here expecting this.


Great album. Its a popular one to hate.

 

[Livingskeletons]

Didn't like it then.

Still don't like it now.

 

[Arc]

It's a pop punk album with every song being pretty catchy.

But it still is a pop punk album though...

Why does Pop punk automatically mean its bad?

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

And now I feel old.

.

 

[Santiako]

Loved it back then, still love it now.

 

[Jarnet87]

I really like Jesus of Suburbia and St. Jimmy.

 

[Salsa]

its a good album

all downhill from there tho

 

[JoeyJungle]

It's a pop punk album with every song being pretty catchy.

Hence the pop part of pop punk.

 

[Kwixotik]

Came in here expecting this.


Great album. Its a popular one to hate.

Why does Pop punk automatically mean its bad?

Because pop punk is the commercialization of a genre founded on anti-consumerism. It doesn't make sense.

 

[Kade]

this was?

No. I didn't like this album and I don't like Green Day.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4YtTxV7UAo

What a shitty cover.

 

[RiccochetJ]

it has a lot of hooks

It's Green Day. They're pretty good at that.

I'm also feeling very old at the fact that it's 10 years old. I had to look other places because I thought you were lying. You weren't.

 

[Goro Majima]

Dookie is like 20 years old.

Now that really makes me feel old.

 

[Rentahamster]

Why should a song be penalized for being catchy? Isnt that one of the points of making a song?

 

[HappyBivouac]

Great album. Its a popular one to hate.

Sometimes there's reasons. Being carefully manufactured to cash in on that "I hate bush and my parents don't understand me" money is only one of them.

 

[Daria]

I liked it when it came out for a little but now it's just a bad album. no need to celebrate this.

 

[amnesiac]

letterbomb was a favorite of young amnesiac

haha, i remember trying to track down the edited version but there wasn't one

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

It feels so much older.

 

[overcast]

Shitty album. Actually thought so when I was a kid too.

 

[Zeppeli]

Thought it was older, to be honest. Like 2002ish.

 

[blame space]

every time a song starts i want to roll my eyes but they usually win me back. i like it.

 

[Tobe]

fuck it i still listen to it when i drive.