Has there been any discussion in here about this? I did a search, but if it's been discussed, it was buried too far for me to see it.

A friend burned this for me before it was yanked, and what a pleasure it is. Green Day's American Idiot expertly mashed with a shitload of songs I recognize, from Queen to Oasis and beyond. I Googled it, and by kwinkydink, there's a review of it today in the SF Chronicle.

DEAN GRAY

With "American Idiot," Green Day ditched its punk past, lifted a bunch of chords from the Time-Life library of classic rock and embraced a production style so slick that even Nickelback would wince. The album may have sold 4 million copies, but ultimately the whole thing felt a bit hollow. That is until rogue remix duo Dean Gray (a.k.a. Party Ben and Team 9) took apart the disc's original tracks, stirred in hits by the likes of Johnny Cash, Kanye West and Depeche Mode, and diligently restored each one with the fun and cunning the East Bay trio had seemingly outgrown. In the spirit of DJ Danger Mouse's "Grey Album," which brilliantly mashed up the Beatles' "White" album with Jay-Z's "Black" album, "American Edit" bristles with creativity at every turn. Released free online, the set acts as both criticism and tribute, revealing the band's embarrassing source material (the Bangles and Dire Straits, who knew?) while applauding its sheer audacity. "Novocaine" is seamlessly grafted onto Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," the "Doctor Who" theme makes a snug fit with the chorus of "Holiday," while the Eagles' "Lying Eyes" provides an eerily appropriate soundtrack for "Wake Me Up When September Ends." The real triumph, however, is "Boulevard of Broken Songs," an epic reconstruction of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" that takes in unlicensed samples from Oasis, Aerosmith, Travis and Missy Elliott. It's the best Green Day track, even if the band had nothing to do with it. The site that hosted the initial bootlegs may have been shut down with a Warner Bros. cease-and-desist order, but that hasn't stopped indignant bloggers from spreading the MP3 files all over the Internet.

-- Aidin Vaziri

Fucking brillig.

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Keeping with the theme, I had to edit this post.

I don't consider Dire Straits embarrassing source material, but that's just me.

Green Day could only dream of doing songs as good as "Romeo & Juliet," "Skateaway" and "Private Investigations."

i think that the mash-up craze has run its course.

No shit



I'd actually like to hear this, despite never having heard a mashup.

I'm downloading a torrent of it.

Dire Straits puts me to sleep.

that dopplebanger mix was the shit.

i dl'ed the album off soulseek a while back
havent listened to it yet though
but there is one song i know thats awesome, boulevard of broken songs, it came out in late 2004
i regularly visit the sites of the albums creators
http://www.partyben.com/
http://www.team9.net/mp3s.htm

I do my best to avoid music on the radio but I think I've heard the last 3 or 4 Green Day singles at least 40 times each. I won't be downloading this.