Suspiciously Similar #3

Green Day announced today, their plans to release their 8th studio album in May. The album is entitled 21st Century Breakdown. I'm actually looking forward to it. If you've been paying attention, you know that I love Green Day and know that they were one of the bands that changed my life and really got me interested in music.

When American Idiot came out, I was sad that it was filled with Liberal rhetoric, and thus did not purchase it for a couple years when I finally found it used for $2.95. I have since grown to really like the album and look past said rhetoric. It is, after all, a form of punk music, and what is punk music if not often times political & rebellious.

I'm still hoping Green Day will release an album of Sex Pistols and early Clash-style punk, but I doubt the new release will sound like that. In my opinion, I think it would be quite "punk rock" for Green Day to follow up their massively huge American Idiot with some raw punk that would make the teenagers scratch their heads.

Anyway, the point of this post is to point out the cover art for the new Green Day. It is quite possible that Banksy, the world famous graffiti-ist who was responsible for Think Tank (below) is also responsible for 21st Century Breakdown. This has not yet been confirmed. If it isn't the work of Banksy...then this is "suspiciously similar" indeed.

Enjoy.

Think Tank '03 & 21st Century Breakdown '09

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Note: the picture at the header features nearly identical album covers by Fountains of Wayne and The Flamingoes. The Flamingoes album was released only TWO WEEKS before Fountains of Wayne hit it "big" with their self-titled album.