Okay, dating myself by admitting that Green Day first hit it big back when I was a senior in high school. But I loved them then and I still love them now. In the same vein as American Idiot, their new album 21st Century Breakdown is a complete album. You HAVE to listen to it from start to finish. No skipping around. The story told in 3 acts is phenomenal. While it may lack the biting social commentary that had me captivated by American Idiot, their new album is still an amazing punk rock opera for our times. Only the truly great artists are still capable of telling a story over the length of an album, eschewing the "by song" consumption that iTunes has brought into our consumer consciousness.
Breaking with what I said above, one of my favourite songs off the new album comes at the end of the first act. Here they are live, singing Last Night on Earth -
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