JAKARTA Memories of today, 20 years ago, September 21, 2004, all over the world have won the latest music album from the punk rock band Green Day entitled American totaling. The band from Berkeley, California is trying to express their anti-US President George W. Bush political stance.

Previously, Green Day was widely known as a sign of the rise of punk in California. This existence is evidenced by the presence of various music albums. Their music also tried to break through the existing punk standard. A punk in the style of Green Day.

Billie Joe Amstrong and Mike Dirnt are known as true friends. The two have been friends since childhood. This closeness makes them live and music together. They began to hear a lot of music from world-renowned punk groups like Ramones and Dead Kennedys.

Inspiration made them think of forming a band. Billie (guitar, vocals) and Dirt (bass) then invited Sean Hughes (drums) to build a band called Sweet Children in 1987. Hughes was also on his way replaced by John Kiffmeyer (Al Sobrante).

Every day the young man from Berkeley continued to hone his musical talent. They began to explore the essence of punk as resistance music. Ulam's beloved pinnacle arrives. They get the opportunity to enter the recording kitchen through a local label, Lookout Records.

This condition made Sweet Children change their name to Green Day. They also released their first album, 39/Smooth in 1991. Later Sobrante left. The man whose full name is Frank Edwin Wright III (Tre Cool) then replaced him.

Tre Cool's presence was able to give Billie and Dirnt a new spirit. This condition made them issue their second album, Kerplink in 1992. However, Green Day's biggest gong voice came when a big record label, Reprise signed Green Day.

The brilliant result of the albumDonie was released in 1994. The album is a great marker of Green Day being taken into account in the music scene. Their songs are like Basket Ca so that When I Come Around continues to be played radio throughout the world.

This condition makes Dokie able to sell as much as 15 million copies worldwide. An achievement that is the trigger for Green Day is increasingly enthusiastic about working.

The next two Green Day albums, Insomniac (1995) and Naimrod (1997), were successful commercially but failed to match Docoie's great success, and Warning (2000) marked the band's fading popularity, "is written on the Britannica page.

The album Warning was indeed considered a sign of fading Green Day's charm. However, Billie and his friends did not have the word to give up in their dictionary. They tried to accumulate their political stance which was embarrassed to see the behavior of the US President in the 2001-2009 era, George W. Bush.

The behavior came from the events of September 11, the Iraqi War, to the existence of Bush, did propaganda. Green Day also poured out his dislike for Bush through songs like AmericanturbationandHoliday.

As a result, the two songs coincided with other politically charged songs on the American total album. The album was released simultaneously worldwide on September 21, 2004. The album received a lively welcome. Green Day's courage also brought praise.

Even so, there is nothing more important on this album than the opening number, as well as the album title, American total. Armstrong attacks the Bush government, which is dominated by media power and propaganda, through lyrics that are much more slapping than when Sex Pistols teased Queen Elisabeth II through God Save the Queen in 1977.

Armstrong seperti menyebarkan mantra baru yang langsung terdiri di puncak daftar lagu di seluruh dunia:Don't want to be an American Total, Don't want a nation under the new media, (one nation controlled by the media) Can you hear the sound of hysteria, The subliminal mind f*ck America, ujar Akmal Nasery Basral dalam tulisannya di buka Tempo berjudul Mantra Baru dari Berkeley(2005).


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