A word in defense of Rivers Cuomo

[GNFfhqwhgads]

21st Century Breakdown is not a best album of ANYTHING(artist, year, genre) by ANY means, but it does earn massive points for the near flawless Act III. I'm gonna have to agree with Warning being an amazing album, though. It's probably the Green Day album I listen to mostly in one sitting.

[Lameboy19]

21CB might not be Green Day's best album,but it certainly is better than the recent Weezer output,and two songs from it ( Peacemaker and Viva La gloria (Little Girl)) find their way into my top ten Green Day songs. I will argue up and down that Warning is Green Day's most complete record,and an absolutely brilliant power-pop record to boot.

Lyrically, I feel that American Idiot and Warning are the high points of Green Day's Career.

I'll give you American Idiot being good lyrically, as much as I hate everything that they do, I can't ignore St. Jimmy or Jesus of Suburbia as being great political pop songs.

and really it's not fair comparing anything to Weezer's newer stuff, Lady Gaga writes better than the stuff off of Raditude but saying the stuff from the first two albums is dumb, well that's just heresy my dear boy, and I'll have to put you in the dungeon for that one

[Cubecubed]

Well not all of lyrics are dumb,there are just a few lines of the first two that make me cringe. Like the "My name is Wepeel!" line in "My name is Jonas". What the hell does that even mean? Also, "Dreamin" from the Red album is lyrically,one of the worst songs I have ever heard.

[DackAttac]

I think it means the motherf***er's name is Wepeel.

[killer_roach]

21st Century Breakdown is not a best album of ANYTHING(artist, year, genre) by ANY means, but it does earn massive points for the near flawless Act III. I'm gonna have to agree with Warning being an amazing album, though. It's probably the Green Day album I listen to mostly in one sitting.

Act III was the only thing that saved 21CB from being an absolute disaster.

That being said, yes, Warning is incredibly strong.

Back to Weezer, they're a band that's still trying to chase their glory years, and not succeeding by most any metric. Being mostly a prog fan I see this all the time lately with bands trying to chase their 1970s and early 80s peak, only to have it not only elude them, but basically mock the pale imitations that have followed. It's not that albums like Hurley or The Red Album are really that bad (they aren't), it's just that you can tell that they are attempts at trying to hit a target that exists somewhere in the mid 1990s.