This album is in the line of what wonderful group Green Day. Despite what some think the words we speak very precisely the "21st century breakdown" with sex, drugs, violence, politics. Being a fan of Green Day, I was a little scared to see an album too pop and too gentillet ... Well no, even if the old billie joe (37 years ago Oo) said that it'd be over the power pop than punk rock, although we hear the sound punk rock. Okay it's not hardcore punk or Oi, and it's not like the sex pistols yelled (although I also like what I just mentioned) but it's punk rock, quite simply, and it works well ^^ I can not count the number of times I took the time to listen to this album (yeah I have to catch up the number of times I have listened to the other) To conclude: it is not as good as the good and the beautiful 1039 dookie smoothed out slappy hours but a fan of green day must have it. An album that was not to seduce but to hardcore punk punk who used the sex pistols and well here is for them the same kind and more melodic, less ^^ and yelled with a more elaborate music (at the same time it has level it is difficult to do worse ^^ but anyway we like the sex pistols). An album for punk rockers and a little bit for pop music fans
ps: I did not put 5 stars becaufe perfection does not exist, even among my favorite band and 5 years of waiting, AC was beginning to long anyway =)