21 guns peaks again!

[matteo263]

After 3 months in the charts 21 guns is still on the way up!!

what do you think?

http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/hot-100?...;order=position

[norcalgreendayfan]

After 3 months in the charts 21 guns is still on the way up!!

what do you think?

http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/hot-100?...;order=position

I think the VMA wins helped it, at least thats my opinion

[Kryssi.]

It can keep peaking...

in my pants.

[mechanicalman]

I think - .

[Deniz.]

i would say inbeforetheclose ?...

[Spizz]

yay

[iLozza!]

It can keep peaking...

in my pants.

Yes, this.

[Maddy.]

Lozza, I love your sig.

21 Guns is unknown in Holland.

[Nikki_Nimrod]

yay

I think the VMA wins helped it, at least thats my opinion

I agree completely.

[TheBullwinkle]

They play it on Live105 nonstop, so I'm not really surprised.

[Kryssi.]

I don't think it's all that high in our charts... :/

[amy_runs]

Thank god it's above Boom Boom Pow.

[rage-love-life]

That's great.

[misslyssx]

I listen to the radio all day at work and I used to never hear it but now it's on at least 3 times a day.

Everyone says "Hey your song is on!" haha

[Sarahnade.]

yay

[Greenday_Aussie]

It can keep peaking...

in my pants.

..

..........

...... :lol: :lol:

[Peace and Rainbows]

Yay! WOOT! Yay!

Anne needs to shut up now

[alaniluau]

Excellent for 21 Guns! This song really deserves some love on the charts.

[HoneyDo666]

Hellz to the yes! I love 21 GUUUNs!

And 21st Century Breakdown is up 5 spots to #54! It has an asterisk for big sales gains this week!

[Bastard of 1967]

I think the VMA wins helped it, at least thats my opinion

VMAs helped it, yes....but I also think that 21CB as a whole is going to be a longer, slower, and possibly down the road a more intense burn....as opposed to AI which was basically an explosion. Two big reasons come to mind....

First, Billie's writing style has evolved, and so has the rest of the band. There's layer upon layer upon layer of meaning bundled into 21CB's songs, more so than with AI. Not that AI's lyrics aren't brilliant or anything, it's just that his writing in 21CB has hit the level of "fucking masterpiece." The songs converse with each other and within each other. They have two, three, four, five meanings depending on what perspective you approach them from. You can weave a loose plot into them to tell a story or you can ditch the plot and see the album in a completely different way. If that isn't enough, the band has developed the ability to enhance or highlight parts of the story simply through the choice of musical style they're emulating in each song. You want to blast the failed promises and leadership of the Woodstock generation in the title track? Let's take the Who and Mott the Hoople (classic Woodstock-era stuff) as bookends and put a modern Celtic punk rhythm in the middle to tie it together. Wanna go on a rampage? Watch Green Day do Sex Pistols better than the Sex Pistols can (H&H). Want to point back to the mid '60's as the time when everything first started going to shit in a handbasket? Use a late-era Beatles sound in The Static Age, and "gimme gimme Rev-o-lu-tion!!!" in KYE. And -- the album looks and feels completely different when you try to interpret/understand the lyrics on a word-by-word or line-by-line basis, in contrast to what you get if you "zoom out" a couple hundred feet and look at a particular song or the entire album as a whole...kindof like how an impressionist painting looks so different close up vs. when you stand back a bit. My point is, this album is a LOT deeper than AI in so many different ways, and it doesn't just slam you right in the face like AI, Holiday, JoS, and St. Jimmy did. I think AI was a much more "surface-level" album that didn't require a lot of deep analysis to understand. 21CB takes a lot more time, energy, and just plain work to untangle. Now, some time has gone by since its release, the first leg of the tour is over, they've had some great live performances on the talk show circuits, there's been two singles and two videos with more to come, and people have had a chance to just sit with the album and work through some of this.

Next - remember just before the album shipped? Must have been April-ish I think. There were a lot of questions directed at the band asking why 21CB is relevant at all, because after all, "didn't Barack Obama win the election"? As if that simply wiped away 8 years of extreme incompetence, the 30-odd years of misguided policy and wasted resources that preceded it, , jobs shipped overseas, two endless wars, global warming, terrorist threats, religious extremism, a killer recession, and our financial, government, and business leaders effectively wiping out the middle class.....and the list goes on.

Tell me again why my wife and I decided to raise a fucking kid in this mess??

Now that the election afterglow has worn off and people have come to realize that not much really has changed yet (further magnified by the health care debacle and right-wing resurgence going on in the country now), Billie, Mike, and Tre are starting to look like prophets again.

Friends who I've talked to who hated parts of 21CB when it first came out now think the whole thing is just phenomenal. It'll be interesting -- to say the least -- to see what the charts say about it a year from now.

[Nova-Caine]

I am intrigued as to the UK's response when GD hit our shores in around 3 weeks time. It's been a muted affair over here so far, I am hoping that the band and their useless PR company have a shit load surprises in store for us, the media exposure for this album over here has been nothing short of criminal and none existent. I want them to explode all over the UK and be everywhere in 3 weeks time.

x

[bjrules]

Yay! I hope it keeps going up

[persons]

awesome!

[-Billiejoezee-]

Cool.

Even though its already #1 in my head....

[gmcloughlin]

I think the VMA wins helped it, at least thats my opinion

Me too.

Yay for 21 Guns