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Generally favorable reviews- based on 391 Ratings
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Positive: 323 out of 391
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Mixed: 31 out of 391
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Negative: 37 out of 391
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Aug 29, 2019
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Dec 22, 2016aMAZING Follow up to the AmazING American Idiot (2004)...
Green Day prove that are a Force of Music not only of Punk Rock Genre.
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Mar 10, 2018In my opinion, Green Day's best album. Yes, even better than American Idiot. So many tracks that are unjustly criticized
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Feb 11, 2020Another epic rock opera. Disappointingly falls short of American Idiot. Nevertheless this is still a good album. Fave tracks: 21 Guns, Viva La Gloria! , The Static Age
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Nov 25, 2019
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Feb 7, 2020This is my favorite album of all time. The songs are really diverse as well.
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May 7, 2020Amazing album. Almost as good as American idiot. Green Day’s rock opera great. One of my favorite albums of all time.
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Aug 27, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jul 27, 2021Haha this makes American Idiot look good lol. If you thought green day had lost almost everything that made them good on American Idiot, THEY LOST EVERYTHING THIS TIME! A boring snooze fest really. I love green day, but 2000-2012 wasn't exactly great for them. Thank you Metacritic for letting me use a 0 as a rating.
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Jun 7, 2022Definitely underrated, maybe not as good as American Idiot, but still provides good music and an entertaining experience
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Jul 8, 2023one of my favourite green day albums, its a bit long but I loved it enough for a 10
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The performances are blandly professional, because any major-label rock band of Green Day's abilities could shit this stuff out in their sleep, and emotionally inert. This is the crafting of a modern epic as a dreary day-job routine.
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21st Century Breakdown is far from a bad album, and, like Idiot, will likely be the best release this year from such a popular band.
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It could have easily gone any of several wrong ways, but Green Day's punk has long since been tempered with pop's most attractive attributes, and 21stCentury Breakdown, like its predecessor, is unapologetically accessible and relentlessly exhilarating.