UK Top 10 song (#8) in 1986 by the Pet Shop Boys from the album "Please". Song & video inspired by the film of the same name by Penelope Spheris about disaffected, rioting youths. One of my fave PSB songs of all time.
by joannedj January 14, 2007
A bit like my town by the sound of things. A Shitheap. Home of morons, degenerates and sociopaths or just neurotic, bored bastards like me.
by Nigel Tufnel December 27, 2005
A word often referred to in punk rock music by such bands as Green Day and Something Corporate. An area of sub-par living accomodations run by idiots and morons.
Away with these nightmares,
Away with suburbia.
Shake down away.
You marry a role and
You give up your soul til you break down.
Away with suburbia.
Shake down away.
You marry a role and
You give up your soul til you break down.
by Hurtzy45 February 5, 2005
by Choeluvr420 July 14, 2022
The protaganist in Green Day's 2004 album "American Idiot." JoS is a representation of everything the typical American outcasted youth is. He does drugs ("and Mary Jane to keep me insane, while doing someone else's cocaine") and drinks ("to fall in love and fall in debt, to alcohol and cigarettes") He's depressed, unloved and hates his Mom (and his step-dad, Brad)
Jesus hates his town and the people in it, and has no care for anything at all. Later in the song bearing his name, in "Dearly Beloved" we see that Jesus is a quite poetic and cynnical guy. Jesus then leaves his home in the suburbs to go to the city. There he meets St. Jimmy, and his love interest which we only know as Whatsername. St. Jimmy is revealed to be a figment of JoS's imagination, constructed by him to protect Jesus from his weak self (almost like the wall in Pink Floyd's 'the Wall'). St. Jimmy "commits suicide" which leaves Jesus to face the facts after Whatsername leaves him, and grows up. Jesus gets a job, gives up drinking and such, and begins going insane. He then returns home with his friends and loses contact with Whatsername.
2. "Jesus of Suburbia" A ten minute long suite by Green Day. It tells the story of the Jesus of Suburbia and his life. Consisting of the parts:
I - The Jesus of Suburbia
II - City of the Damned
III - I DON'T CARE
IV - Dearly Beloved
V - Tales From Another Broken Home
Jesus hates his town and the people in it, and has no care for anything at all. Later in the song bearing his name, in "Dearly Beloved" we see that Jesus is a quite poetic and cynnical guy. Jesus then leaves his home in the suburbs to go to the city. There he meets St. Jimmy, and his love interest which we only know as Whatsername. St. Jimmy is revealed to be a figment of JoS's imagination, constructed by him to protect Jesus from his weak self (almost like the wall in Pink Floyd's 'the Wall'). St. Jimmy "commits suicide" which leaves Jesus to face the facts after Whatsername leaves him, and grows up. Jesus gets a job, gives up drinking and such, and begins going insane. He then returns home with his friends and loses contact with Whatsername.
2. "Jesus of Suburbia" A ten minute long suite by Green Day. It tells the story of the Jesus of Suburbia and his life. Consisting of the parts:
I - The Jesus of Suburbia
II - City of the Damned
III - I DON'T CARE
IV - Dearly Beloved
V - Tales From Another Broken Home
New Green Day Fan: "What's American Idiot about?"
Commited Fan : "Jesus of Suburbia's tales from another broken home."
Commited Fan : "Jesus of Suburbia's tales from another broken home."
by Mtn. Jew November 8, 2012
The main character of Green Day's album "American Idiot," a rock opera in which the characters represent the youth of America in a modern-day metropolis filled with rhetoric, lies, and censorship. The entire story is an exploration of the main characters' thoughts and interactions with each other that takes place over the time span of approximately one year.
Jesus of Suburbia represents the average young American who doesn't quite fit in and has "disciples", or a clique consisting of the rest of the unheard youth who don't feel as though they fit into the well-established structures of the corporate American society.
Jesus of Suburbia represents the average young American who doesn't quite fit in and has "disciples", or a clique consisting of the rest of the unheard youth who don't feel as though they fit into the well-established structures of the corporate American society.
by paul4tA December 10, 2004
Billie Joe Armstrong: I’m the son of rage band love. The Jesus of Suburbia. The bible of none of the above on a steady diet of Soda Pop and Ritalin. No one ever died for my sins in hell as far as I can tell. At least the ones that I got away with.
by Dray’s Dictionary September 24, 2020