There are exactly two good songs out of 18 here, East Jesus Nowhere and Horseshoes and Handgrenades (and not because they drop a few “f” bombs in it). The first single, Know Your Enemy, is ok if you can take the constant repitition. The rest of this CD is lamer than a Kenny G record. There are three ballads on this thing…Does Billie Joe think he is Paul McCartney now? Each one is whinier than the next. He even quotes McCartney in the last one, 21 Guns, using the line “Live and Let Die”. And the chorus to this sounds oddly like Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes”. UGH!

One other problem…Do they now have to do a carnival song on every record? Songs like “Lil” and “Misery” on previous CD’s were ok, but there is another one on this CD, “Viva La Gloria (Little Girl)”. Do they now go into the studio one day and say, “Hey, we have to do that carnival sounding song today”. Is it like Eminem having to do a Slim Shady song on every record? This might be the biggest disappointment I’ve had since I found out Jessica Alba was getting married. Starving for new music, and I get this awful excuse for a CD.

Needless to say, I do not recommend listening to this CD, unless you enjoy putting a fork in your ear to ease the pain. Hopefully, someone will come to my rescue with some good music, because this surely wasn’t it.