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21st Century Breakdown de Green Day

Álbum de Green Day

  • Fecha de lanzamiento: 15 de Mayo de 2009
  • Sello Discográfico: Reprise Records
  • Compositores: Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day
  • Productores: Butch Vig, Green Day

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21st Century Breakdown es un álbum de Green Day, publicado en 2009 por Reprise Records. El disco incluye 18 canciones, entre ellas «Song of the Century», «21st Century Breakdown», «Know Your Enemy» y «¡Viva la Gloria!».

Introducción: la crónica de una nueva generación

"21st Century Breakdown", el octavo álbum de Green Day, es la continuación de la fórmula de ópera rock de "American Idiot", pero con una escala aún más grande y ambiciosa. Lanzado en 2009, el álbum está dividido en tres actos y narra la historia de Christian y Gloria, una joven pareja que navega por el caos y la desilusión de la América posterior a Bush.

Musicalmente, es un trabajo de rock alternativo y pop-punk con una producción grandilocuente, a cargo del legendario Butch Vig (productor de "Nevermind" de Nirvana). Ganó el Grammy al Mejor Álbum de Rock, el segundo consecutivo para la banda.

Un vistazo a las canciones

"21 Guns": Una poderosa balada de rock que se convirtió en un éxito mundial y fue nominada a dos premios Grammy.

"Know Your Enemy": Un himno de punk rock directo y enérgico.

Cómo le fue y qué se dijo

El álbum fue un éxito masivo, debutando en el número 1 en Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido y España, entre muchos otros países. La crítica lo aclamó por su ambición, aunque algunos lo consideraron menos cohesivo que "American Idiot".

Listado de Canciones

  1. Song of the Century

    Letra

    Sing us a song of the century That's louder than bombs And eternity The era of static and contraband That's leading us into the promised land Tell us a story that's by candlelight Waging a war and losing the fight They're playing the song of the century Of panic and promise and prosperity Tell me a story into that goodnight Sing us a song for me
  2. 21st Century Breakdown
    vídeo del tema 21st Century Breakdown
    Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled The last one born and the first one to run, My town was blind from refinery sun My generation is zero I never made it as a working class hero 21st century breakdown I once was lost but never was found I think I'm losing what's left of my mind To the 20th century deadline I was made of poison and blood Condemnation is what I understood Video games of the Tower's fall Homeland security could kill us all My generation is zero I never made it as a working class hero 21st century breakdown I once was lost but never was found I think I'm losing what's left of my mind To the 20th century deadline We are the class of the class of thirteen Born in the era of humility We are the desperate in the decline Raised by the bastards of 1969 My name is no one, your long lost son Born on the fourth of July Raised in the era of heroes and cons That left me for dead or alive I am a nation, a worker of pride My debt to the status quo The scars on my hands there a means to an end Is all that I have to show I swallowed my pride and choked on my faith I've given my heart and my soul I've broken my fingers and I've lied through my teeth The pillar of damage control I've been to the edge And I've thrown the bouquet of flowers left over the grave I sat in the waiting room, wasting my time And waiting for Judgment Day I praise liberty The freedom to obey Is the song that strangles me Well don't cross the line Oh, dream, America, dream I can't even sleep From the light's early dawn Oh, scream, America, scream Believe what you see From heroes and cons
  3. Know Your Enemy
    vídeo del tema Know Your Enemy
    Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy Violence is an energy Against the enemy Violence is an energy Bringing on the fury The choir infantry Revolt against the honor to obey Overthrow the effigy The vast majority While burning down the foreman of control Silence is an enemy Against your urgency So rally up the demons of your soul Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy The insurgency will rise When the blood's been sacrificed Don't be blinded by the lies In your eyes Violence is an energy From here to eternity Violence is an energy Silence is an enemy So gimme gimme revolution Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy Overthrow the effigy The vast majority We're burning down the foreman of control Silence is an enemy Against your urgency So rally up the demons of your soul
  4. ¡Viva la Gloria!
  5. Before the Lobotomy

    Letra

    Dreaming I was only dreaming Of another place and time Where my family's from. Singing I can hear them singing. When the rain had washed away All these scattered dreams Dying Everyone's reminding Hearts are washed in misery Drenched in gasoline Laughter There is no more laughter Songs of yesterday Now live in the underground Life before the lobotomy Christian sang the eulogy Sign my love a lost memory From the end of the century Well, it's enough to make you sick To cast a stone and throw a brick When the sky is falling down It burned your dreams into the ground Christian's lesson is what he's been sold We are normal and self-controlled Remember to learn to forget Whiskey shots and cheap cigarettes Well I'm not stoned I'm just fucked up I got so high I can't stand up I'm not cursed 'cause I've been blessed I'm not in love 'cause I'm a mess Like refugees We're lost like refugees Like refugees We're lost like refugees The brutality of reality Is the freedom that keeps me from Dreaming I was only dreaming Of another place and time Where my family's from. Singing I can hear them singing. When the rain had washed away All these scattered dreams Dying Everyone's reminding Hearts are washed in misery Drenched in gasoline Laughter There is no more laughter Songs of yesterday Now live in the underground
  6. Christian´s Inferno
  7. Last Night on Earth

    Letra

    I text a postcard, sent to you Did it go through? Sending all my love to you You are the moonlight of my life every night Giving all my love to you My beating heart belongs to you I walked for miles 'til I found you I'm here to honor you If I lose everything in the fire I'm sending all my love to you With every breath that I am worth Here on Earth I'm sending all my love to you So if you dare to second guess You can rest assure That all my love's for you My beating heart belongs to you I walked for miles 'til l found you I'm here to honor you If I lose everything in the fire I'm sending all my love to you My beating heart belongs to you I walked for miles 'til I found you I'm here to honor you If I lose everything in the fire Did I ever make it through
  8. East Jesus Nowhere

    Letra

    Raise your hands now to testify Your confession will be crucified You're a sacrificial suicide Like a dog that's been sodomized Stand up! All the white boys Sit down! And the black girls You're the soldiers of the new world Put your faith in a miracle And it's non-denominational Join the choir we will be singing In the church of wishful thinking A fire burns today Of blasphemy and genocide The sirens of decay Will infiltrate the faith fanatics Oh bless me Lord for I have sinned It's been a lifetime since I last confessed I threw my crutches in "the river of a shadow of doubt" And I'll be dressed up in my Sunday best Say a prayer for the family Drop a coin for humanity Ain't this uniform so flattering? I never asked you a god damned thing A fire burns today Of blasphemy and genocide The sirens of decay Will infiltrate the faith fanatics Don't test me Second guess me Protest me You will disappear I want to know who's allowed to breed All the dogs who never learned to read Missionary politicians And the cops of a new religion A fire burns today Of blasphemy and genocide The sirens of decay Will infiltrate the inside Yeah
  9. Peacemaker

    Letra

    Well, I've got a fever A non-believer I'm in a state of grace For I am the seizer I'm gonna seize the day Well, call of the banshee, hey hey Hey hey hey hey hey As God as my witness The infidels are gonna pay Well, call the assassin The orgasm A spasm of love and hate For what will divide us? The righteous and the meek Well, call of the wild, hey hey Hey hey hey hey hey Death to the girl at the end of the serenade Vendetta, sweet vendetta This Beretta of the night This fire and the desire Shots ringing out on a holy parasite I am a killjoy from Detroit I drink from a well of rage I feed off the weakness with all my love Call up at the captain, hey hey Hey hey hey hey hey Death to the lover that you were dreaming of This is a stand-off A Molotov cocktail On the house You thought I was a write-off You better think again Call the peacemaker, hey hey Hey hey hey hey hey I'm gonna send you back to the place where it all began Vendetta, sweet vendetta This Beretta of the night This fire and the desire Shots ringing out on a holy parasite Well now the caretaker's the undertaker Now I'm gonna go out and get the peacemaker This is the Neo St. Valentine's massacre Well call up the Gaza, hey hey Hey hey hey hey hey Death to the ones at the end of the serenade Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade
  10. Last of the American Girls
    vídeo del tema Last of the American Girls
    She puts her makeup on Like graffiti on the walls of the heartland She's got her little book of conspiracies Right in her hand She is paranoid like Endangered species headed into extinction She is one of a kind She's the last of the American girls She wears her overcoat For the coming of the nuclear winter She is riding her bike Like a fugitive of critical mass She's on a hunger strike For the ones who won't make it for dinner She makes enough to survive For a holiday of working class She's a runaway of the establishment incorporated. She won't cooperate She's the last of the American girls She plays her vinyl records Singing songs on the eve of destruction She's a sucker for All the criminals breaking the laws She will come in first For the end of western civilization She's an endless war She's a hero for a lost cause Like a hurricane In the heart of the devastation She's a natural disaster She's the last of the American girls She puts her makeup on Like graffiti on the walls of the heartland She's got her little book of conspiracies Right in her hand She will come in first For the end of western civilization She's a natural disaster She's the last of the American girls
  11. Murder City

    Letra

    Desperate But not hopeless I feel so useless In the murder city Desperate But not helpless The clock strikes midnight In the murder city I'm wide awake After the riot This demonstration Of our anguish This empty laughter Has no reason Like a bottle Of your favorite poison We are the last call And it's too pathetic Desperate But not hopeless I feel so useless In the murder city Desperate But not helpless The clock strikes midnight In the murder city Christian's crying In the bathroom And I just want to Bum a cigarette We've come so far, We've been so wasted It's written All over our faces We are the last call And it's too pathetic Desperate But not hopeless I feel so useless In the murder city Desperate But not helpless The clock strikes midnight In the murder city Desperate But not hopeless I feel so useless In the murder city Desperate But not helpless The clock strikes midnight In the.
  12. ¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)
  13. Restless Heart Syndrome

    Letra

    I've got a really bad disease It's got me begging On my hands and knees So take me to the emergency Cause something seems to be missing Somebody take the pain away It's like an ulcer bleeding in my brain Send me to the pharmacy So I can lose my memory I'm elated Medicated Lord knows I tried to find a way to run away I think they found another cure For broken hearts and feeling insecure You'd be surprised what I endure What make you feel self-assure? I need to find a place to hide You never know what could be Waiting outside The accidents you could find It's like some kind of suicide So what ails you is what impales you I feel like I've been crucified to be satisfied I'm a victim of my symptom I am my own worst enemy You're a victim of your symptom You are your own worst enemy Know your enemy I'm elated Medicated I am my own worst enemy So what ails you is what impales you You are your own worst enemy You're a victim of the system You are your own worst enemy You're a victim of the system You are your own worst enemy
  14. Horseshoes and Handgrenades

    Letra

    I'm not fucking around I think I'm coming out All the deceivers and cheaters I think we've got a bleeder right now Want you to slap me around Want you to knock me out Well, you missed me, kissed me Now you better kick me down Maybe you're the runner-up But the first one to lose the race Almost only really counts in Horseshoes and hand grenades I'm gonna burn it all down I'm gonna rip it out Well, everything you employ Was meant for me to destroy To the ground now So don't you fuck me around Because I'll shoot you down I'm gonna drink, fight, and fuck And pushing my luck All the time now Maybe you're the runner-up But the first one to lose the race Almost only really counts in Horseshoes and hand grenades Demolition, self-destruction What to annihilate The age-old contradiction Demolition, self-destruction What to annihilate The old age I'm not fucking around I think I'm coming out All the deceivers and cheaters I think we've got a bleeder right now I'm not fucking around G-L-O-R-I-A
  15. The Static Age
  16. 21 Guns
    vídeo del tema 21 Guns
    Do you know what's worth fighting for, When it's not worth dying for? Does it take your breath away And you feel yourself suffocating? Does the pain weigh out the pride? And you look for a place to hide? Did someone break your heart inside? You're in ruins One, twenty one guns Lay down your arms Give up the fight One, twenty one guns Throw up your arms into the sky, You and I When you're at the end of the road And you lost all sense of control And your thoughts have taken their toll When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul Your faith walks on broken glass And the hangover doesn't pass Nothing's ever built to last You're in ruins One, twenty one guns Lay down your arms Give up the fight One, twenty one guns Throw up your arms into the sky, You and I Did you try to live on your own When you burned down the house and home? Did you stand too close to the fire? Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone When it's time to live and let die And you can't get another try Something inside this heart has died You're in ruins One, twenty one guns Lay down your arms Give up the fight One, twenty one guns Throw up your arms into the sky, One, twenty one guns Lay down your arms Give up the fight One, twenty one guns Throw up your arms into the sky, You and I
  17. American Eulogy

    Letra

    American Eulogy : Mass Hysteria Sing us a song of the century That sings like American eulogy The dawn of my love and conspiracy Of forgotten hope and the class of 13 Tell me a story into that goodnight Sing us a song for Me Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Red alert is the color of panic Elevated to the point of static Beating into the heart of the fanatics And the neighborhood's a loaded gun Idle thought leads to full-throttle screaming And the welfare is asphyxiating Mass confusion is all the new rage And it's creating a feeding ground For the bottom feeders of hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria True sounds of maniacal laughter And the deaf-muste is misleading the choir The punch line is a natural disaster And it's sung by the unemployed Fight fire with a riot The class war is hanging ona wire because the martyr is a compulsive liar When he said "It's just a bunch of niggers throwing gas into the hysteria" Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria Mass Hysteria There's a disturbance on the oceanside They tapped into the reserve The static response is so unclear now Mayday this is not a test! As the neighborhood burns, American is falling Vigilantes warning you Calling Christian and Gloria ==== American Eulogy : Modern World ==== I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I'm the class of 13 in the era of dissent A hostage of the soul On a strike to pay the rent The last of the rebels Without a common ground I'm gonna light a fire Into the underground I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I am a nation Without bureaucratic ties Deny the allegation as it's written I want to take a ride to the great divide Beyond the "Up to date" And then neo-gentrified The high definition for the low resident Where the valve of your mind Is not held in contempt I can hear the sound of A beating heart That beelds beyond a system That's falling apart Without money to burn On a minimum wage 'Cause i don't give a shit About the modern age I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world I don't want to live in the modern world Mass Hysteria I don't want to live in the modern world Mass Hysteria I don't want to live in the modern world Mass Hysteria I don't want to live in the modern world Mass Hysteria
  18. See the Light