I'm personally of the mind that the bloat and excess is kind of the point of 21st Century Breakdown. Cutting it down to 10 songs would make it a fleeter listen, for sure, but I think you'd lose something essential about that album. Also, the title track is fucking great and cutting it is unconscionable!
Listened to Nimrod yesterday. Stone cold classic. They really crushed it on 5 straight albums 94 to 04. One of the great runs in music history.
I never gave the full album a shake until this year and it's about 75% due to how much I hate that song lmao
My friend and I just launched our podcast, Green Dudes. We're going through Green Day's discography song-by-song. For everyone here who wants to hear even more of my opinions. 100 percent uncut podcasting. No Swedish producers or whatever. Should be on most major podcast platforms. We talk about the new song in the introduction episode, and then jump right into At The Library after. Hoping we get some hate-listeners lol. Green Dudes - a Green Day podcast
Between American Idiot and 21CB is where the band mentally shifts for me from a band who never misses to a band that rarely hits
ngl I just woke up, more perplexed than ever, about the suggestion to remove the title track from 21CB.
Yeah I guess it's kinda cool to hate because it's a somewhat cheesy slow single that got overplayed, but I love the song. The bridge is great. The only thing is, ever since I read someone point out that the solo in the bridge sounds like Full House opening credits song, I can't unhear it lol I liked a lot of 21CB when it first came out, but I stopped going back to it a long time ago and now don't even have the songs in my itunes library. I should change that.
It's kind of like how it became cool to hate "Good Riddance" for awhile, and then "Wake Me Up When September Ends." All those songs got overplayed, but I'm over that issue all these years after the fact. I don't go back to 21CB all that often, but I really enjoy it when I do.