Green Day Are An American Band
ARTIST: Green Day TITLE: “Know Your Enemy” WEB DEBUT: April 16, 2008
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The first song from 21st Century Breakdown isn’t as immediate a listen as the initial single from its predecessor American Idiot; it’s a straighter-than-straight three-chord rock song with a simple shout-along verse, and a buildup to a breakdown. And that’s… um… it? I guess it’ll get fists pumping and car stereos a-blazing, but Billie Joe Armstrong’s constant hectoring of whether or not I know the enemy makes me wonder if said bogeyman we’re supposed to be wary of is the super-high expectations that follow a huge, career-defining achievement.
WHERE TO GRAB IT: It’s free with a pre-order of 21st Century Breakdown, but if you know how to work Google Blog Search, you can probably go into wait-and-see mode. Here’s a tagged version:
Green Day [MySpace]
