Today, I continue posting random songs to this Cortex platform to ask Shackers the same question. Does this song suck? Today's song is Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia."
Reasons it might suck:
- Do punks really sing about Jesus?
- Suburbia is not something to fetishize
- This is like the opposite of the Dead Kennedy's song "This Could Be Anywhere"
- The song is schizophrenic as fuck
- pick a side, Green day, we are at war
- Ooooh harmonies make me want to punch something
- Some of these lyrics are terrible:
- I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall
- Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
- And so it seemed to confess
- It didn't say much but it only confirmed that
- The center of the earth is the end of the world
- And I could really care less
- The center of the earth is the end of the world
- It didn't say much but it only confirmed that
- And so it seemed to confess
- Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
- At the center of the Earth in the parking lot
- Of the 7-11 where I was taught
- The motto was just a lie
- Of the 7-11 where I was taught
- I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall
- Remember when these guys were punk?
- That piano breakdown borders on emo trash
- This whole album toes the pop-punk-emo-trash line, and I am not here for it
- I can tell how much I am going to hate a Green Day song by checking out how much eyeliner their lead singer has on
Reasons it might not suck:
- The actual song is well-produced
- Some parts of the song sound sort of punk
- Some of these lyrics are okay, I guess:
- Everyone is so full of shit
- Born and raised by hypocrites
- Hearts recycled but never saved
- From the cradle to the grave
- Hearts recycled but never saved
- Born and raised by hypocrites
- We are the kids of war and peace
- From Anaheim to the middle east
- We are the stories and disciples of
- The Jesus of Suburbia
- We are the stories and disciples of
- From Anaheim to the middle east
- Everyone is so full of shit
- Tre Cool is still a good drummer
- It's a better song than "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Here's a live performance of the song in case you need more intel before you make a decision:
Did you notice all of those people waving their arms in unison? Bleh...
Also, check out Senior Guyliner:
Just yikes.
The question I pose to you, Shacknews... Does this song suck?
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