Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown Album Art
Our announcement yesterday that Green Day's eighth album is forthcoming this spring was met by derision ("green day is a bunch of twats"), responses to said derision ("you AMERICAN IDOTS are just jealous of their awesome talent!"), analysis (too long to quote), nostalgia (ditto), and plain old excitement over the news ("American Idiot is most likely better than any of these people's favorite albums of the past 5 years. Can't wait for the new one"). Today we offer you 21st Century Breakdown's somewhat clunky Sixten-inspired you-and-me-against-the-world cover image.
21st Century Breakdown is out in May via Reprise.
Posted at 9:31 AM by brandon in Album Art
Tags: Green Day
lol they are so fucking desperate
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Boy you're pretty dim,man...don't you get what they're referring to?Given the title of the album?Think a little deeper if you can......;O))
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Looks Amazing. It's gonna kick Sooooooo much ass. Like morbidly obese women's ass. Love Green Day. Passionately.
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anyone that doesnt like green day is gay and none of your threats will make me take it back
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Banksy? Please.
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A nodd to bansky, back to the cartooon like covers of kerplunk and dookie
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What a lame cover
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I'm sure their tracklist will be better. They are going for a rock opera.
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awesome
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Graffiti is edgy.
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Kinda of reminds me of Blur's Think Tank cover.
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Which, being a horrible album, doesn't bode well for Green Day...
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horrible? no way!
think tank is pretty great
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You must be confusing Think Tank with another album because it's great.
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Whether or not Think Tank was any good, it used Banksy's art well and wasn't 5 years late.
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Banksy indeed.
This is bullshit.
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the wall and the graffiti are so 90's
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Green Day are so 90s
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Banksy indeed. This is bullshit.
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I feel it's more of a Watchmen ripoff.
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i feel you there. rock on, mattias.
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green day<banging my head repeatedly with a hammer
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green day<banging my head repeatedly with a hammer
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I mean...it's cute. I agree that it has a whole you-and-me-against-the-world statement. I've seen worse album art, but all that really matters is what it sounds like!
http://bonafidewithheadphones.blogspot.com/
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I guess the you-and-me-against-the-world thing could be cute... if they were like twenty years younger.
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green day < banging my head repeatedly with a hammer
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repeating yourself 3 times on a stereogum message board < green day < banging my head repeatedly with a hammer
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Reminds me of nuked lovers whose charred image was blasted on a wall in "Watchmen"
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yeah the watchmen scene came to my mind too
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Cause Banksy did the cover for Think Tank
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the kids will buy it. That's all it matters.
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i believe my chemical romance already did this cover...except with an unnecessary amount of blood
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It's because no one *understands* them
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Yeah, Green Day may be the first ones to really understand My Chemical Romance...oh wait excuse me, "The Black Parade".
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I don't know what's worse, the fact that Green Day is coming out with a new album, or the fact that you actually knew what a My Chemical Romance album cover looked like.
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Please. Don't even try compare animal collective and green day. Regardless of your feelings about either one, they're not doing anything similar. (this and i happen to think animal collective is advancing music in a tangible way as opposed to what every other band but radiohead are doing i.e. Rehashing older genres with new twists)
Secondly, American Idiot was epic fail. It's a great record, and i like it, but when compared with the thermals' the body the blood the machine, it can't even begin to approach not only the kind of insight about what it means to be an american, but also it's just not as fun. If you're going to try punk, make the music mean something don't just hang it around your ideas like a (ramones?) poster covering the hole in your door your psycho girlfriend made after you told her you impregnated her sister. Actually that's the point i'm going for; green day is the pregnant sister and the thermals are the psycho girlfriend kicking a hole in your head trying to exorcise the pop punk demon babies left behind.
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Wow...talk about falling for the oldest one in the Stereogum book.
Jesus
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oh god who gives a shit.
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can't like gd, they're too popular
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YUCK
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But the real question is: What is Blink 182's album cover?
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the real question is: who gives a shit about either
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these types of posts are obvious attempts to fuel ridiculous comments. how about some subtlety, Stereogum. or at least some dignity.
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Posting about Green Day on Stereogum is about as useful as sucking on a cough drop to treat your herpes.
What do you suppose the kids over at Metalsucks think of the new Great Lake Swimmers?
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They think it fucking rocks
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at least a new album means a new tour. even if you hate their records and think that you're cooler than green day and their fans (isn't that why you're here?), you could at least enjoy their shows. they give a great concert.
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looks to me like they are putting out a record. i think the targeted markets, the kids who purchase music in mass quantities legally (10-14 year olds), will eat this shit up. Green Day and their label know what they are doing. i think commenting on the artistic integrity of a Green Day album cover is arbitrary at this point. Aren't these guys grandfathered-in by now?
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looks to me like they are putting out a record. i think the targeted markets, the kids who purchase music in mass quantities legally (10-14 year olds), will eat this shit up. Green Day and their label know what they are doing. i think commenting on the artistic integrity of a Green Day album cover is arbitrary at this point. Aren't these guys grandfathered-in by now?
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I will agree that the cover art is boring and that Green Day fans keep passing the band on to their younger siblings when they are "over" them. But I will not agree that Animal Collective is advancing music in any tangible way.
If bands like Green Day are rehashing old genres, Animal Collective is rehashing the same album over and over until they can figure out what combination of loop pedal and drum machine beat is catchy enough to make people who live outside of the blogs care. (eg: "My Girls")
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looks to me like they are putting out a record. i think the targeted markets, the kids who purchase music in mass quantities legally (10-14 year olds), will eat this shit up. Green Day and their label know what they are doing. i think commenting on the artistic integrity of a Green Day album cover is arbitrary at this point. Aren't these guys grandfathered-in by now?
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well I guess it fits their music...
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That girl looks pretty sexy.
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Why the fuck are you blogging about Green Day? Seriously.
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Might be because they used to make some pretty decent music, if I do recall.
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If EVERYTHING in the future sounds like Merriweather Post Pavillion, I'm just going to kill myself now.
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kill your self regardless.
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I hope they get arthritis
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merriweather post pavilion > the movie my blueberry nights
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why does everyone on here need to make every post some sort of '6 degrees to Animal Collective'. there could be nothing more irrelevant to this post.
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my great grandfather has turrets, and she knows how its done.
Chipmunks
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my great grandmother has flying buttresses
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very edgy. very urban. very "we are still in touch with our audience despite the fact that we live in multi-million dollar homes and have our servants wash our bungholes for us". very "our artwork does not match the sterile chipmunk punk music actually contained within". congrats.
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What's the income limit that once an artist hits, he/she/it isn't allowed to make music anymore?
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I would say it would be in the 30 million dollar range (or else they can just stop claiming to be a "punk" band and call themselves what they really are....bubblegum pop).....thanks for asking. BTW - they should also stop wearing Cosby sweaters and one or more of the members should consider becoming a heroin addict.
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That cover looks so...emo. To be honest, I used to be a Green Day fan when I was 13/14 years old, but now, as someone who is about to enter university I could honestly care less about their music.
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Haha!
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Wow, thats urban
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screams mall punk (paramore anyone?)
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You're right Mark, every fucking post has something related to animal collective! haha. wtf? "U2's new album sucks, nothing like animal collective's new album".
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This album art is awesome, so is Green Day. You know who is a great band? Braintree! If U2 and Radiohead had a baby, Braintree would be that baby (brainchild). and Green Day would be the creepy uncle who does coin tricks. I'm totally not in the band, and I love them anyways.
seriously, check them out.
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Spam Fail
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oh god what an ugly, ugly cover.
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What is this Green Day all the kids are talking about?
P.S. - Animal Collective
I think we've reached our quota now.
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green day arent lame, or desperate or whatever.. if u were a true Greenday fan you wouldnt care what the album cover looks like, all you should care about is the sound thats what to come.. green day is apart of my life an will be forever.. be thankful there releasing a new album!
ps: they should tour with Blink182!
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banksy - politics + teen angst = this album cover
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Haha. As if Banksy could get any more teen angst into his artwork.
Mona Lisa with a rocket launcher? SHOCKING!
2 policemen kissing? MY GOD HE'S RIGHT WHAT'S WRONG WITH SOCIETY?!?!
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This looks way too much like the cover art to My Chemical Romance's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge".
Kurt Cobain died, and minutes later Green Day is the most popular band on the planet. The beginning of the end for popular music as we know it.
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i thought bat for lashes would be the obvious choice for worse album cover this year so far...oh how i was so, so very wrong..
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This album cover looks like a flyer for a high school drama play. Lame.
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American Idiot WAS a high school drama play.
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Green Day had better sell a lot of this album, because I think this is there last chance. Eyeshadow on a 45 year old is not overly becoming.
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Glad they have something new. Anything to get the radio from playing Boulevard of Broken Dreams for the 20th time. Hope they don't try too hard to mimic American Idiot. Artwork does remind me of MCR cover.
http://diggingfordays.blogspot.com
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The album cover perfectly sums up Green Day these days: it's trying to be edgy, but it's just way to sterile. I've been a long time Green Day fan, and I wasn't so much put off by the music of American Idiot, it was their entire wardrobe change. Warning was brilliant but it didn't do so well commercially (relatively speaking). The new costumes were an obvious grab at the fans of the then-new commercial emo era. I love them to death but it's really hard to take anyone seriously who has to play dress up while at the same time singing about how they don't care.
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And the worst album artwork of the year goes to...
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The amount of elitism in here is easily over 9000!
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9000 what? Points? Pounds? Units? T-Shirts?
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I like Green Day (well kinda) but that is some shitty emo album art, give me a bit of dookie or nimrod please,
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Come on you guys Green Day fucking sucks. You can't deny that. Sure their old stuff was OK when we were all in seventh grade but grow the fuck up and listen to real music.
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Thank you for being one of the few people to speak the truth. Today's Green Day=Epic Fail
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Banksy doing a Green Day cover? What next.... Shepard Fairey doing a Smashing Pumpkins cover? Oh wait......
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they gave me hope with foxboro hot tubs, but it looks like its gonna crash back down again, damn
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idiots, green day is a great band, just because they made a bunch of money don't mean there bad. sell outs are the people who hate on bands just because ther rich.
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Hahah! How lame.
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"suck my back bitch"
-lil wayne
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I don't know how they do it but their album artwork just gets worse each time. Quite lame sauce.
I'll probably listen to this album anyways.................
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CHRIST PEOPLE
I like the album cover, it's simple and cool. Maybe Green Day is a popular band becuase they are GOOD. If your one of those people who only like underground bands then ditch them as soon as they make it YOU'RE THE POSER. Who cares if its only one person listening to a band or 2000000. It's still Green Day. Yeah it's the follow up to AI. Yeah AI wasn't there best but it was still awsome. I hope it has tracks similar to St. Jimmy on it...
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really? people still use the word 'poser'? really?
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I was thinking more along the lines of ditching them when they start making shitty music, but ok. Like Green Day, saying 'poser' is so 90s.
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LOL HEY GUYS I HATE GREEN DAY THO I USED TO LOVE THEM! AM I COOL YET?
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i'm sure this thing is gonna kick more ass than american idiot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
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Would anyone be making Watchmen comparisons if the movie wasn't coming out next month?
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A standard american band that are way more popular in england. God, american indie fans have such better taste that the brits.
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I liked it when they sung about masturbation and not dissing americans.
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funny, noone has mentioned Sixten, the direct inspiration (maybe artist) for this cover. Maybe cause Banksy is the only stencil graffiti artist we're aware of?
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like chemical romance's album and blur think tank..
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green days music is awsome. THERE ARE TOO MANY CRITICS OUT THERE their older music was great, their new music is great, and their new album will be great. one of the best bands ever!!!!!!
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green day is quite amazing. their music is actually different from the rest of the mainstream crap.
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GD really hit the shit by putting on such strange cover. A simple 21st century breakdown blank would have been better. Kissing pair is simply not punk, its daft AND a cleverly disguised way to make the album sell more.
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they're freakin AWESOME
people just deny it to look cult, cause they're popular
21st century breakdown is COOOOOOOOOOOOMIIIING.
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I am surprised that this site is mentioning Green Day in 2009. I like them, I always have, but I can agree with almost every attack here, minus the glibness you get from those whose whole fucking persona is built around an apparent qualification to state for everyone on earth exactly what sucks and what should be worshipped (even though they heard from someone else). Green Day do look like a bunch of little bitches, though, and it's hard to watch or defend. Nothing is truer than that they are a band of the 1990s who profited in 2004 from a sterile kind of protest against the Bush Administration. But I like the music. I grew up with it and that's enough for me. By the way, what's wrong with the nineties? I happen to like a ton of music from the sixties and seventies. So ... maybe the problem this decade has been that standards just never stop ascending, all is ephemeral, and it's all too easy to hate. Dylan: definitely agree about The Thermals (who also have a new album coming in May ... but they could blow it, too)
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This looks extremely similar to the cover art for "3 Cheers For Sweet Revenge". . . .
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hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Awful band. Awful album title. Awful cover art from an 'artist' seriously lacking in originality. Banksy should sue.
And take the school ties off you embarrassing numpties.
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