Originally Posted by: DarknessFury

Oh yes, one thing though...the album American Idiot isn't exactly political...yes, maybe the song American Idiot might be the Anti-Bush type, but the rest of the songs basically isn't...the whole albums actually a story.

Yeah, most of the rest of the album's lyrical content is composed of vaguely anti-establishment imagery and semi-symbolism, rather than coherent political messages. That doesn't stop it from being a decent album, though - it's just not the polemical punk opera that it's hyped up to be.