Guest Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 This caught my eye in this weeks kerrang because the AI cover is in the article and the article's header of course, but my scanner's buggered:Kerrang! magazine are planning a very special 21st Century Countdown, charting the greatest albums of the last nine years and we need you lot out there to tell us who's rocked your world and why.Send us an email at feedback@kerrang.com with '21st Century Countdown' as the subject header, nominating your three favourite albums. Don't forget to include your name, age and where your from and why they're so awesome!The winner will be revealed in an upcoming issue of K!I say Tubbies haha
Katarina. Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 Thanks for posting this EDIT: Lol, at first I thought it said a special 21st Century Breakdown But we should all mail the same three albums, so they have a bigger change to win.I'd say the Foxies as well! :']
Hermione Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 Nice! I'm up for saying Foxies for one of them. Hmm not sure for the others, I love all Green Day albums so I might go for ones that'll be more likely to get votes.
rage-love-life Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 The Foxies would be great, along with American Idiot. Don't know about the other one.
Guest Shangri-La Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 The Foxies would be great, along with American Idiot. Don't know about the other one.how about 21st century breakdown?
rage-love-life Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 how about 21st century breakdown?Eh, probably not, since I think that American Idiot was slightly better than 21st Century Breakdown. That's just me.
Peel Slowly And See Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 3. The Marshall Mathers LP - EminemEminem, love him or hate him, has the best flow and the cleverest rhymes of any rapper to ever pick up a microphone. In response to the mothers who slammed him after his unexpected hit The Slim Shady LP, Eminem makes a powerful statement on the impact of words. Those who believe the First Amendment can be abused don't understand the First Amendment in the first place. He threatens the listener, makes pop culture references that are actually funny, and spends maybe two stanzas talking about how you put up your middle finger. He even gets emotional on two tracks: Stan is a masterpiece about obsession, and The Way I Am is one of the most sincere songs I've ever heard.2. Warning: - Green DayThe Who Sell Out is my favorite album by The Who and Rubber Soul is my favorite album by The Beatles. This is because these are the bands musical peaks before any amount of pretension came in (Rael and In My Life are serious, but they earn it marvelously). Minority is a punk anthem that the world hasn't seen since Hüsker Dü's Turn On The News, and the riffy lightness of its songs and the broad subjects of its lyrics drive Warning: to be Green Day's best album. This is the precious moment that a band experiences that leads them to realize that lo and behold: They're on top of the world. I hear that Paul Westerberg did this with Let It Be with similar results.1. Dear Science - TV On The RadioStriking me as spacey indie trash at first, I didn't realize just how good this was until I realized that it could be heard as a poppy funk album. The producer should be proud of making not only the first wall of sound that I've ever been able to really tolerate, but the first wall of sound that somehow makes the music better. From the flowing vocals on Halfway Home to some of the tightest rapping I've ever heard on Dancing Choose to the marvelous chorus of Shout Me Out to the dark penultimate song DLZ, every song is packed with some of the best beats I've ever heard, great lyrics, and, as I've said, fantastic production. "I'm scared to death that I'm living a life not worth dying for" is one of the best lyrics ever written, no question. I've long dreaded indie music taking over, as its pretentiousness can be hard to bear. If Dear Science is the final victory that indie music needed to take the throne, then I welcome indie music with open arms. Your typical top forty listener will from now on be unaware that the best band in the world, whoever that is at the time, even exists. DLZ sums this victory up. "This is beginning to feel like the dawn of a loser forever."My email.
Kryssi. Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 oooo. I might vote... i'm not too into voting right now ... especially in anything to do with Kerrang! Bunch of bastards.
emmaILGD! Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 I approve of '21st Century Countdown'.And I think AI would be more likely to win imo.
Hermione Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 My email.I really like the Marshall Mathers LP one, that album had such a huge impact on me and my musical tastes when it came out, it was a phenomenon.Hmm I was about to do Illmatic by Nas but nah I'm doing all Green Day
Boston Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 American Idiot has been the most influential album, for me and many others, over the past nine years. Not only did it revive Green Day's career and introduce many people to their music, it changed the way rock music was perceived. As lead singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong said in his Grammy speech for best Rock Album, "Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time,". American Idiot, with its catchy chords paired with boundary-pushing concepts, certainly proves that statement to be true. I sent that in.
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