Know Your Enemy

5 Apr 2009 2 Comment

Green Day is the band that started making me think. Before that I was just like any other teenager. I listened to Eminem, I had my hair shorter than Verne Troyer, and unknowingly I was *gasp* mainstream.

I was thirteen, hormones, testosterone and all that. Picked up American Idiot in Tesco for €14.99 (a lot of money for me, even now) and played it on my CD player when I got home. It expressed me well, showing political anger with people of the US for electing the lovechild of King Kong and Sandra Bullock, and helped me vent my boredom in the Limerick suburbs.

Now I’m a bit older, I don’t listen to them much. Its not that I don’t like them anymore, it’s just that I like different things. I’ve evolved and varied into different styles of music, some of which were songs I actually couldn’t listen to when I was 14. I don’t mind good Electronic music anymore. But I’m going off the point now :P

Green Day’s latest record “21st Century Breakdown”, an album that kicks off in May 2009 should be interesting for me at least. This being my first favourite band’s newest album, I want to see if a group can successfully grow up along with the audience it played for back in 2004.

“Know your Enemy” should be their first opportunity. I want things to be different, yet recognisable, fun yet mature.  Green Day were a big thing for me when I was 14, I just hope they can wow me again, more so than their side projects.

Know Your Enemy is released in Mid-April.

  • http://twitter.com/fromfirsttolast Alan Foran

    I’m pretty much the same, got into Green Day when I was 13 or 14.
    Bought all of their albums and whatever else I could and was fairly obsessed. I really hope this album lives up to what they’ve done so far. They’re an extremely talented and hardworking band and I am determined to see them live this time round :)

  • http://bytesmedia.net/ James Robert Bell