[流行音乐] Green Day

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (2009) [Provisional release without scans]




专辑名称：世纪大崩解(21st Century Breakdown)
歌手姓名：年轻岁月合唱团(Green Day)
唱片公司：华纳
发行日期：2009年05月29日
专辑语言：CD西洋流行
音乐格式:mp3
音乐品质:320k
音乐风格:流行/摇滚



简介
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

震撼，超级震撼。震撼到你整个身体发软。从开篇曲“Song Of The Century”的舒缓开篇后，迎来“21st Century Breakdown”就像世界战争爆发那样，用Green Day那震撼无比的PUNK摇滚旋律展开新篇章。时隔5年的时间，世界最红的复兴PUNK乐队Green Day，终于爆发了。这Green Day很实在，绝对对得起歌迷的等待。带来了的新专辑《21st Century Breakdown 》一共收录18首新歌。相当于带来了一张半专辑。当“21st Century Breakdown”说完美国人的梦想后，接着便是同样震撼的先行单曲“Know Your Enemy”。到了“¿Viva la Gloria!”时，开篇的抒情钢琴旋律以为到了一个抒情章节，谁知到过一会就又需要摇动你的身体了。“Before The Lobotomy”也是同样的效果。“Christian's Inferno”更是大肆的复兴PUNK摇滚无限释放的时候。一直到了第7首“Last Night On Earth”才稍微让人舒缓下来，来了一首抒情摇滚慢歌。对于专辑的抒情类歌曲在后面还有一首“Restless Heart Syndrome”，算是悲情慢节奏类。整张专辑都是由主唱Billie Joe Armstrong 一个创作完成，所以Billie Joe Armstrong也给专辑做出来一个结构。就是整张专辑被他分为四个部分，用开篇曲“Song of the Century" 做开篇，为第一个部分。第二个部分为，I: Heroes and Cons 这个部分是第2首到第7首，第8首到第13首是第三部分，II: Charlatans and Saints。第四的部分III: Horseshoes and Handgrenades 是第14首到18首“See The Light”结束。所以如果你一口气听完整专辑后，你的身体不软都难，震撼会围绕你1个小零9分钟的时间。
2009 release, the Punk trio's long-awaited eighth studio album. The album is the best-selling trio's first studio album since 2004's two-time Grammy Award-winning Punk Rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. 21st Century Breakdown is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons", "Charlatans and Saints", and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades", and follows a young couple, Christian and Gloria, through the mess and promise of the century so far. Songs include "Know Your Enemy", "21 Guns", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Before the Lobotomy", and "Restless Heart Syndrome".

“ Since Green Day were the Nineties punk brats nobody expected to grow up, everything they do comes as a surprise. What's more bizarre: the fact that they sound so ambitious and audacious on their eighth album, or the fact that they even made an eighth album? Either way, the losercore mutts who crashed the radio in 1994 chanting "I got no motivation", with Billie Joe Armstrong wasted on his mom's couch — they've ended up the last band standing, the ones living up to their era's loftiest ideals and still writing their toughest songs long after they should have landed on Sober House. And they did it with a goddamned rock opera.

American Idiot seemed like their career kamikaze — a concept album about American hopes and dreams, with characters named St. Jimmy and Jesus of Suburbia? Nice try! But it not only rescued Green Day from midlife limbo, it charged their musical batteries. With nearly 6 million copies sold and counting, Idiot became the sort of multiplatinum rock blockbuster that isn't supposed to exist anymore, because Green Day blew up into the sort of band that isn't supposed to exist anymore — raging with heart-on-sleeve passion, willing to risk falling on their faces with a grand statement. Even the songs that didn't work or the plot threads that didn't make sense just increased the fun, because Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool were refusing to go down slow. 21st Century Breakdown is even better, so masterful and confident it makes Idiot seem like a warm-up. They're back in rock-opera mode, dividing the album into three parts, "Heroes and Cons", "Charlatans and Saints" and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades". But there are no nine-minute excursions this time — only two of the 18 songs crack the five-minute mark — and Green Day focused their ideas into their sharpest, toughest tunes. Armstrong brings a compassionate edge to his snarl, even when he's spitting out self-lacerating lines like, "My generation is zero/I never made it as a working-class hero".

Like American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown is a Seventies-style epic, telling the story of two young punk lovers on the run in the wreckage of post-Bush America. The heroes are Christian and Gloria, two kids sold out by the church ("East Jesus Nowhere"), the state ("21 Guns") and every adult they've ever believed in ("We are the desperate in the decline/Raised by the bastards of 1969"). Christian's the impulsive, self-destructive one ("Christian's Inferno"), while Gloria's more idealistic and political ("Last of the American Girls"), but they're forced to take care of each other — because nobody else will.

All over the album, Green Day combine punk thrash with their newfound love of classic-rock grandiosity — one moment they're quoting Bikini Kill, the next they're wailing away like it's the final minute of "Jungleland". The title tune is a multipart opus that pays cheeky tribute to a host of 1970s-heartland radio anthems — Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", Sweet's "Fox on the Run", Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes". Armstrong takes a tour around the country, from his hard-luck childhood ("Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell/A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled") to the modern age ("Video games to the towers' fall/Homeland Security could kill us all"). He ends with nothing to show for it except his anger — and the heart to turn that anger into actual songs.

The ballads are their glossiest ever; "Last Night on Earth" could be Air Supply, and don't think for a minute they don't love the idea of pissing people off with that. But the highlights are the rage-fueled punk anthems. They barrel through Latin-flavored guitar raves ("Peacemaker"), Clash-size bootboy chants ("Know Your Enemy") and four-chord garage slop ("Horseshoes and Handgrenades"). "Last of the American Girls" comes on as a fabulous left-wing love song to a rebel girl — when Armstrong sings, "She won't cooperate", he's giving her the highest compliment he can imagine.

Green Day set their sights on religion this time, with "East Jesus Nowhere" as their anthemic attack on Christian hypocrisy. But mostly they're singing about America waking up from an eight-year nightmare. In the lofty ballad "21 Guns", they even seem to have a kind word or two for disillusioned Bush supporters ("Your faith walks on broken glass/And the hangover doesn't pass").

Part of the thrill on 21st Century Breakdown is that the Green Day guys don't need to be pushing themselves this hard. It's not like there's anyone left for them to compete with. (What, Sponge are gonna do a three-disc adaptation of Moby Dick? Probz not!) Yet the extra strain is audible in the music, and every song adds to the overall vibe of grown men trying way too hard to communicate, challenging themselves along with their audience. They revitalize the whole idea of big-deal rock stars with something to say about the real world. They're keeping promises they never even made, promises left behind by all the high-minded Nineties bands that fell apart along the way. If it's a continual surprise that Green Day are the ones to pick up the torch and run with it, that's part of what makes 21st Century Breakdown so fresh and vital — Green Day sound like they're as shocked as anyone else.

★ 继2004横扫全球的美国大白痴之后，年轻岁月合唱团（Green Day）即将发行，万众注目的全新专辑《21st Century Breakdown》
★ 《21st Century Breakdown》暂定2009年5月15日，全球零时差全面同步点燃引线
★ 专辑首发单曲 "Know Your Enemy"，将在4月大举入侵媒体并展开数位首卖

华纳音乐即将在2009年5月15日，全球零时差同步发行，年轻岁月合唱团（Green Day）万众注目、久候多时的第八张专辑《21st Century Breakdown》。这也是全球最卖座三人乐团纪录保持人、两座葛莱美大奖肯定的年轻岁月合唱团(Green Day)，继2004空降告示牌专辑榜冠军、缔造出五首畅销单曲、全球累积销售大破1200万张、横扫乐坛的《美国大白痴（American Idiot）》之后的唯一全新作品。

这次的专辑《21st Century Breakdown》将整张作品分为 "Heroes and Cons"、 "Charlatans and Saints"、 "Horseshoes and Handgrenades" 三大部分，并藉由一对爱侣克利斯坦（Christian）和可洛莉亚（Gloria）作为故事的主角，透过他们来传递出专辑想要探讨，对于这个世纪人们所面对的混乱、不安、现象…等多元现象。专辑预计收录"Know Your Enemy"、"21 Guns"、 "East Jesus Nowhere"、 "Before the Lobotomy"、"Restless Heart Syndrome"…等多首歌曲。美国权威音乐杂志Rolling Stone编辑们拔得头香，抢鲜聆听新专辑《21st Century Breakdown》，这张今年乐坛最重量发行，听过部分专辑的编辑表示：“年轻岁月合唱团（Green Day）的新作，展现出比《美国大白痴（American Idiot）》还要更强大的野心，以庞克乐音为出发，展现出经典摇滚的最佳能量。”

经历不可思议的美国大白痴风潮之后，主唱兼吉他手比利乔Billie Joe、贝斯手麦克Mike Drint、鼓手崔酷儿Tre Cool，自2006年初就开始着手为新作《21st Century Breakdown》进行创作、编曲、录制…等工作，而在近日伙同专辑制作人Butch Vig完成最后的工作。专辑制作人Butch Vig可说是摇滚界的头号教父，他不仅是垃圾合唱团的鼓手，同时也是打造许多知名作品，例如：非凡人物合唱团（The Smashing Pumpkins）、超脱合唱团（Nirvana）、音速青春合唱团（Sonic Youth）的重量级制作人。

新专辑《21st Century Breakdown》当中的首发单曲"Know Your Enemy"，将在4月大举入侵各大媒体并展开数位首卖。
自2004年推出了那张全球大卖1500万张的针砭时弊的专辑《American Idiot》之后，相隔了5年，朋克乐队Green Day终于要在今年的5月15日带着他们的全新热血专辑《21st Century Breakdown》强势回归。

据悉，《21st Century Breakdown》将是Green Day第一次与著名制作人，同时也是朋克乐队Garbage成员之一的Butch Vig的首次全面合作。而据Green Day主音Billie Joe Armstrong的介绍，因为这张专辑是紧接着他们上一张叫好又叫座的《American Idiot》而推出的新专辑，所以乐队在专辑制作时的压力是可想而知的。"我们可以选择偏门或者干脆重操故技，但是我们最终还是选择了向前走。这张专辑是关于我们对于过去三年所发生的事情的一些反思，通过旋律 去做一些大胆的宣言。而这张专辑更多的主题是关于宗教的。"而乐队成员还表示，他们这张专辑的风格主要受Queen、 Bruce Springsteen、The Who、 The Beach Boys、 The Beatles、 以及The Clash等音乐人的影响比较多。

Green Day于2006年开始构思21st Century Breakdown。整张专辑的歌曲会被分为三部分"Heroes & Cons"、"Charlatans & Saints"以及"Horseshoes & Hand grenades。"

~ Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone ”


专辑曲目


Tracklist:

1. SONG OF THE CENTURY 世纪之歌
ACT I - HEROES AND CONS 无名英雄与罪犯
2. 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN 世纪大崩解
3. KNOW YOUR ENEMY 头号天敌
4. !VIVA LA GLORIA! !葛洛莉亚万岁!(惊呼版)
5. BEFORE THE LOBOTOMY 丧失记忆之前
6. CHRISTIAN`S INFERNO 克利斯坦的炼狱
7. LAST NIGHT ON EARTH 地球末日

ACT II - CHARLATANS AND SAINTS 狡猾骗徒与圣人
8. EAST JESUS NOWHERE 不知名的东方耶稣
9. PEACEMAKER 和平使者
10. LAST OF THE AMERICAN GIRLS 仅存的美国女孩
11. MURDER CITY 屠杀城市
12. ¿VIVA LA GLORIA? (LITTLE GIRL) ¿葛洛莉亚万岁?(小女孩疑问版)
13. RESTLESS HEART SYNDROME 心律不整症候群

ACT III - HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES 差之毫厘失之千里
14. HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES 马蹄铁和手榴弹（差之毫厘失之千里）
15. THE STATIC AGE 杂讯干扰
16. 21 GUNS 二十一把枪
17. AMERICAN EULOGY 美国悼文
A. MASS HYSTERIA 歇斯底里大崩溃
B. MODERN WORLD 现代世界
18. SEE THE LIGHT 看见光明



Act I: Heroes and Cons
Act II: Charlatans and Saints
Act III: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

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