Crawdaddy Magazine has a review of American Idiot written by Denise Sullivan. Here's a sample of what Denise had to say:
[quote]That kind of universality is one of songwriting's great keys; the ability to maintain it for the course of a concept album is the genius of Billie Joe Armstrong, acknowledged thief/magpie that he might be. The additional glimmer to the project was timing: Armstrong's teen epic spoke truths about a country in crisis in its wilderness years, the period before "Change" became the answer to the far right's propaganda machine.[/quote]
For those of you following "All About Dookie" by AJ Ramirez, the entry for "Longview" is up over at popmatters.com.

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