American Idiot...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

HAve you heard this new song by Green Day? I hate Green Day, but this is a really good song. You should flip the tv over to VH1 tomorrow morning or flip on the radio. I'm sure non Clear Channel stations will be playing the crap out of it.
Duckie

[tigereye]

1. that is a great song!

why do you hate Green Day, Duckie? I guess some people see them as poser punk, but they kind of remind me of the old days (old school punk here) well, except for all their millions. Too bad it wasn't Bad Religion who became filthy rich.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. Their other stuff I just can't stomach.

They seem to know only three cords and I just can't look at the lead singer. I got really tired of them back in the 90s.
Duckie

[StClone]

2. Lyrics -- these have been posted before

But too good to pass by!!!
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Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation that under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

[Mrs_Beastman]

3. The lyrics are great..

but Green Day is trite. Aren't they on some 'Rock the Vote' tour with No Doubt right now? I hope that song and the tour actually get Gen Y to vote.

[LynzM]

5. Heard it, love it!

It's a good song, along with NoFX's new Franco UnAmerican :)

Artist: NOFX
Song: Franco Un-American

Lyrics:

I never thought about the universe, it made me feel small
Never thought about the problems of this planet at all
Global warming, radio-active sites
Imperialistic wrongs and animal rights! No!

Why think of all the bad things when life is so good?
Why help with an 'am' when there's always a 'could'?
Let the whales worry about the poisons in the sea
Outside of California, it's foreign policy

I don't want changes, I have no reactions
Your dilemmas are my distractions

That's no way to go, Franco Un-American
No way to go, Franco Un-American
No way to go, Franco Un-American
No way to go, Franco, Franco Un-American

I never looked around, never second-guessed
Then I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed
And now I can't sleep from years of apathy
All because I read a little Noam Chomsky

I'm eating vegetation, 'cause of fast food nation
I'm wearing a couple of shoes 'cause of globalization
I'm watching Michael Moore expose the awful truth
I'm listening to Public Enemy and Reagan Youth

I see no world peace 'cause of zealous armed forces
I eat no breath-mints 'cause their from de-hoofed horses
Now I can't believe; what an absolute failure
The president's laughing 'cause we voted for Nader

That's no way to go, Franco Un-American
No way to go, Franco Un-American
No way to go, Franco Un-American
Where can we go, Franco Un-American

I want to move north and be a Canadian
Or hang down low with the nice Australians
I don't want to be another 'I-don't-care-ican'
What are we gonna do Franco, Franco Un-American