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ARTIST: Green DayTITLE: "Know Your Enemy"WEB DEBUT: April 16, 2008

ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The first song from 21st Century Breakdown isn't as immediate a listen as the initial single from its predecessor American Idiot; it's a straighter-than-straight three-chord rock song with a simple shout-along verse, and a buildup to a breakdown. And that's... um... it? I guess it'll get fists pumping and car stereos a-blazing, but Billie Joe Armstrong's constant hectoring of whether or not I know the enemy makes me wonder if said bogeyman we're supposed to be wary of is...