American Idiot

Boulevard of Broken Dreams brought this from a 1 to a 2 for me, but I'm not a green day fan.

As a life long Green Day hater I’d love to give this a 1/5 but some of these surprised me. Not enough to go back but more respect for them now.

Wake me up when September ends is the best song on this album. That says a lot more about the quality of this album than anything else. I can’t fathom how this album is on this list. No one wants to listen to watered down pop punk from a band that once made actual punk. I was 15 when this album came out and I remember it being lame then, and this is one of the few times I agree with my 15 year old self on music

Most of these songs have been played into oblivion. Jesus of suburbia gives this the additional star

It's a decent album but this type of pop-punk sound always feels a bit mundane and unrewarding for me.

Ehhh, this was a lot of Green Day for me. The singles from this album are some of my least favorite Green Day singles, and the rest of the album didn't do much to redeem it.

The singles are unfairly maligned, but the whole thing was always more “musical” and less “concept album” and that is grating to me

2.5☆/5 08.03.2024

Elég volt egy életre a green dayből. 1.5/5

Stupid emo sounds with good production.

Kind of embarrassing, in hindsight.

Not my favorite Green Day Album.

I wonder how many albums on this list are less the artist's best work VS their most commercially successful work. I appreciate that this album has some depth but for my money they peaked at Dookie. Squarely in the #earlypeak category for me

I really hate this album. It feels like they set out to make something "profound" and emotional, but it just comes off like a theatre kid's version of a pop punk record.

American Idiot aged better than expected. I thought it would be hopelessly naive, but actually it was unfortunately prescient. The rest of the album I can take or leave, so I will leave it.

Never was a Green Day fan growing up and I'm not one now. There are a few good ones on this album, but there are also certainly some tunes that have aged *distinctly* poorly. Just not super my vibe!

Famously my least fav band, I was shocked by how many of these songs I did remember from the last time i listened to this album (i must have been nine years old?) I will at a later date maybe try and do some research about the best art made during the bush era of political activism (there was basically nothing good made tho...) Anyways still think it sucks :)

I found this album to be underwhelming overall. I can understand why it resonates with people but for me this is nowhere near the masterpiece I’ve heard it is. I’ll start by saying I did enjoy a few songs off it, Holiday/Boulevard of broken dreams and Wake Me up When September Ends. While I didn’t enjoy American Idiot (the song) it was anthemic, I just personally felt it was annoying. Jesus of Suburbia is kind of goofy with how long it is but again I won’t deny it has hooks all over it. Unfortunately the album on a whole just dragged on for me, it’s just way too long with way too many songs that sound the same. Every once in a while they will use a motif but I found the story/concept not interesting enough to care when a musical idea was brought back. Idk it feels like more aesthetic than an enjoyable concept album. But hey maybe it’s just not for me, I still think it’s fair to call the album iconic because I know the impact it had but as a listening experience I have no want to every listen front to back again. Wake Me up When September Ends is in my opinion Green Day’s best song.

quite bland musically, quite bland lyrically, couple of nice bangers that are relatively nostalgic, but they are genuinly alright. its not a bad album, but its not good, and its definitely not significant enough to be considered "blabla one of the greatest", its just a generic pop "punk". nothing in the world of music would change if this album didnt exist. In a vacuum id give it a 5-6/10, but in this list its a 4/10

the unwanted soundtrack to my middle school/high school years. nostalgic but not in the best way haha. probably would have been better to me if it wasnt so overplayed during that era.

It was ok.

The only American Idiots on this album are the political naïve members of this band. This cam out while I was an adult already, so I was able to see through all of their bullshit. About as terribly boring as the other albums on this list from the naughties. It really was the worst decade of Pop Music going all the way back to the 1950s. It seems that the albums that were really worth listening to, that managed breaking new sonic ground in the 2000s were not included at all on this list. For three chords and boredom, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is the only song that feels at all like an earworm on this album. I applaud the band for trying a couple of new things, but ultimately this a formulaic mess of a punk rock opera album that is also way too long for a punk rock album. What is more concerning is that are no new fresh ideas for the genre on here. Stormtroopers of Death did this idea better with SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE way back in 1985 and their concept album character Sergeant D. There are countless other punk rock acts, NOFX is another, who did all of this more interestingly than these guys. About the only positive thing I can say is that Tre Cool, their drummer, is the best thing about this band and he shows it again on this album.

Melodically 2-dimensional with some drum hooks lifted from better songs. Blink-182 without the special sauce.

Never really been a fan. Title track’s okay, although I prefer the follow-up single, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. Apart from those, i enjoyed the change of pace with Wake Me Up & I liked the closing track, Whatsername, but the most of the rest of it all sounds the same to me.

Was never a big green day fan. Overall pretty bland

Unless you're Taylor Swift, a 9 minute song is not needed, let alone TWO. The double titles on half the album is also unnecessary just pick one title. Music was not super interesting and the album was too long. Favourites: holiday/Boulevard of broken dreams, give me novacaine/she's a rebel. I'm in a hater mood today. 2/5

Hey, hey, we're The Punkees!

Stadium punk.

Never been a huge fan of Green Day but this is a pretty decent album.

always felt this was an overrated generic sounding album

Eh

Correcto pero no demasiado de mi agrado.

Not for me.

The World's most Disney "Punk" band are here to complain about something. But don't worry kids they've bought a load of highly polished commercial pop songs that all sound similar apart from the really heartfelt slow one. Still less cringe than Blink 182 and that bloke sure can play the drums... in exactly the same way on every song.

A massive pop punk hit that spawned a Broadway show. There are undeniably studio crafted hits on here but the rest are more by the numbers. Not for me.

Green Day has always made me want to shut Green Day off. If I'm gonna listen to poppy-punk, I'll choose a band that does it well (Operation Ivy, NOFX) I wanted to shut this off several times too. I do commend them on stretching out a bit for this album. I'm sure if you like GD then this album works for you, it just doesn't for me. I almost long for the days off Kerplunk or Dookie. Almost

I know it's just not my jam

I enjoyed a couple of tracks, but it was all a bit the same. Like the other punk albums, I also find the lead singer a tad monotonous.

Fake punk music. Musicianship is good but message is lacking substance.

Only one Green Day is required in the collection, Dookie. Interesting lyrics, same-y songs.

😴

I'm not mad about any post Insomniac Green Day.

This is the album that made Billy Joe armstrong think he is the best thing since sliced bread. Yet it has at best mediocre songwriting.

Bit meh Fave track: novocaine

Cmon I never have to hear this again. This list is basic mid shit so far like you’re gonna tell me I just goooottta hear this album by (looks around and leans in) “green day”. Have you heard of them? I’m pretty sure I can buy the vinyl to this at Homesense

Ja wel pure nostalgie maar echt me ding niet meer

Kind of boring. Jesus of Suburbia is the lone standout.

It's hard because I love Green Day and I'm happy for them but man this really marked the beginning of their mediocrity. Its almost good but you can just feel the 'sell out' dripping from it. annoying.

I mean, it’s Greenday so it’s my jam but it’s one of the worst Greenday albums so I guess that makes it average maybe? It’s a bit elevator music-ish in places but also each song has a little bop in it that means I can’t pick any stand out bad songs. It’s a confusing album cos I want to hate it and I can’t, and it’s boring except when it’s not.

Oy. Ok, first off, this is not punk. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone who thinks this is punk, doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Stop calling anything after 1993 punk. This is frat rock. Loud annoying pop, would be more accurate. Look, this band sucks. Their sound is ordinary and contrived. Jesus of Suburbia is a rip off of David Bowie’s Life on Mars. And they still managed to gunk it up with what sounds like fake cheese in a can. The only thing this band can take credit for was the balls it took to release American Idiot during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, by the Bush administration. At the time, Dubbya Bush was the worst, most atrociously offensive, idiotic mess of a piece of shit president, that anyone could possibly imagine. But he created the “you’re either with us or you’re against us”, motto right after 9/11. So, anyone who disagreed with the invasion, was publicly shamed and ostracized. This record was the first piece of music that successfully captured the protest movement and general dis-ease, that had been overshadowed by the racist pro-war political climate. It benefited from the fact that it was released years after other artists had already taken the heat. But still, it was well-received by the general American audience, and that in itself was the achievement of the time. That said, this band sucks and their music is terrible.

this is prob another of these things where i can understand the context and why it was a touchstone but i am not personally big on it, rock opera always hard for me to stomach idk why, i am now praying this list will not make me listen to tommy or sth idc about ur pinball wizards bro!! anyway. this started out ok but overstayed its welcome for me. :( faves: holiday / blvd

first two songs are bangers, then it just sounded like i was listening to the same thing over and over again

i dont like this album never had liked it having to listen to it again made me depressed 2/5

I found this a slog. I have a slight nostalgic affection for early Green Day, Dookie’s singles were all over MTV in the late 90s and although it wasn’t my thing, it was fine because they didn’t seem to take themselves too seriously and some of the songs were ear worms (Basket Case, Longview, When I Come Around). This, by comparison seems dreadful. They lost the sense of humour and upped the production gloss. The very idea of a concept album seems the least punk thing imaginable. American Idiot is ok, mainly because it’s a slightly bloated version of their early style, a little bit Buzzcocks maybe, but the attempts to branch out fail badly. They’re too polite to be punk, and not catchy enough to be power pop. Oddly, they remind me of the dreadful bands they helped inspire - that wave of god awful emo-punk dross like Funeral For A Friend and My Chemical Romance. Whatsername is Fountains Of Wayne without the hooks or wit. At their very worst (Wake Me Up When September Ends) they sound like Snow Patrol. Turgid. Adding one star for nostalgia.

More Green Day? ugh... It's fine but not something I'll likely revisit. I recognize the 'hits', "American Idiot," "Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," none of which was I into when they were released. The rest of the album doesn't really stand out much... lots of power chords and cymbals all over the place. Not the worst album I've listened to on this albums generator but also not one I enjoyed. 2/5

Het is touwtrekken geblazen tussen jeugdsentiment aan de ene kant, en de volwassen bezinning dat post-Nimrod Green Day gewoon kutmuziek maakt aan de andere kant. In het begin van het album lijkt de eerste het te winnen, en moet ik toegeven dat er ook echt wel overblijfselen te vinden waren die deden denken aan de aanstekelijke 90s pop-punk van de band. De titelsong is niet al te best, en representeert voor mij de lichtzinnigheid van deze muziekstijl. De elementen voelen allemaal zo gefabriceerd aan, dat het echt een karikatuur van het punk genre is. Plastic punk, if you will. Ik kan de vertakking van classic punk naar melodieuze, radiovriendelijkere muziek soms best waarderen, maar dit is over de top. En die auto-tuned stem van Billie, alsof hij door een radiofoon praat, maakt het lachwekkend. Ze hebben wel effectief aantekeningen gemaakt bij het beluisteren van werk van de peetvaders van het genre, the Buzzcocks. Die snelle riffs zijn onmiskenbaar, maar helaas konden ze het nummer niet redden. 'Jesus of Suburbia' laat daarentegen zien dat de band de simpelheid voorbij wilde, wat een ware pop-punk Bohemian Rhapsody opleverde. En je weet, ik ben geen fan van Bohemian Rhapsody, maar die heeft in ieder geval nog verrassende wendingen. Dit nummer schakelt een aantal keren naar een ander tempo en melodielijn, maar echt memorabele momenten levert het niet op. Behalve het stukje wat bijzonder veel op Summer of '69 lijkt. Anyway, een stap in de goeie richting, en het geeft aan dat de intentie van het album was om een pop-punk opera neer te zetten. Inventief, maar het had van mij niet gehoeven. Dan komen we aan bij het hoogtepunt (lees: de Vaalserberg in een land vol heuvels) 'Holiday', waarbij de nostalgie het getouwtrek voor even wint, en de haat aan het genre met de kont door de drek sleurt. By far het beste refrein van het album, en had niet misstaan op Dookie. In combinatie met 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', die uitstekend werkt als tegenhanger, wordt het album dan toch opeens interessant. Maar het was niet meer dan een stuiptrekking. De rest van het album vind ik niet echt de moeite waard om dieper in te duiken, anders dan dat ik even kwijt wil dat het klinkt als een 'somewhat punky' versie van '3 Doors Down'. De politieke thema's op de eerste helft van de plaat zijn aandoenlijk, maar als er op deze manier wordt afgesloten dan overheerst de cringe. Next. 5/10 Highlights: Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Its so front loaded that you dont want to listen to the second half and this split track technique where the tracks are sewn together like a Stars on 45 remix doesnt really work. This album is a turning point, after this Green Day would be creatively bereft

Good sounds but got to be a little much

i cant

A bit cringe.

Shit

Erinnerung von früher: Nicht mein Ding

After reading that Billy Joe wanted this to be his Bohemian Rhapsody I decided to listen to Queen’s A Night at the Opera instead.

Boooo but better than I thought

You believe their conviction and drive, but musically it's just not interesting enough for me.

Very Green Day. Not my kind of music.

NO

Never thought I'd sit down and listen to this album as an adult... I knew almost every song from simply being a teenager in 2004. This is definitely past Green Day's prime, and it is WAY too long. If it were most tight and concise, I feel like I could've gone with a 3, but I'm not feeling that generous with this today.

It was fine, reminiscent of fall out boy, mcr, but definitely feels like an album you can grow out of somehow. Which is rather how I felt. Wouldn’t have said I would feel like I missed out if I didn’t hear this before I died.

Listened to the first half so far. All the energy and snot that I enjoyed on dookie is nowhere to be found here. Trying to find moments I enjoy but it’s just a slog. I guess I appreciate the fact that it had a lot of youth rocking against bush for whatever that’s worth.

a little hard on the nervous system, all the drum beats & heavy guitars. Did have flashbacks to when it came out? or maybe to movies the songs have been in. there was definitely familiarity.

wake me up when this record ends

I don’t remember Green Day fondly, and I think it’s because this album was the first time I really felt a band I liked Changed. I saw them on the tour for this one and it sucked, I almost never listened to them again after that. However, after listening to about one hundred 1960s Brit Rock Operas on this list so far, this actually doesn’t seem that bad.

Not sure if title refers to the purveyors of purchasers of this record, which isn’t terrible by the standards of late adolescent music and no doubt rates highest with low-information voters who fancy themselves politically informed and engaged, but are at least likely to have their hearts in the right place. Can’t tell if it's a poppy punk record or a punky pop record. Either way, it’s pretty bland, being awfully obvious and mainstream-y (if of above- average ambitiousness). Oh sure there is a story arc but – editors take note – one not even remotely in Quadrophenia’s league. Even if the plot line were worthy of a Booker Prize, that wouldn’t solve for the musical meh-ness any more than the decently cool art cover does. Hooks are so broad, if likable, as to suspect R. Rubin was at the controls (alas, no). The political commentary isn’t exactly piercing and not even additive or even remotely worth one’s time (for their being scads of better sources, obvs). The power ballads (“Are We the Waiting” and “When September Ends”) are kinda cute. “Boulevard of broken dreams” — hmmm, where has one heard that line before? That cut/paste – and certainly not mature – songwriting (eh, editors?). Last cut might be best of the lot but it will almost certainly be a coincidence or accident if one ever heard it again.

Angst rock. Occasionally melodic but too one note in sound and themes.

Loved this album when I was a kid but I don't think it's held up very well aside from a couple songs.

There were a few glimmers of hope (Holiday stands out), but save some time and just listen to Dookie.

Green Day only has one good album. This album is not Dookie.

Undeniably efficient and serves as a solid entry point into (pop) rock. The musicians are quite good, but overall the album seems somewhat bland.

Quite like the title track but otherwise I found this a little dull. Lack of variation and at times it comes across as a Clash tribute act

Rebelling against a tedious, pedestrian way of life by writing tedious, pedestrian music.

No thanks

Idiot album

I liked this album when it first came out, but it was way over played on the radio

Too cheesy for me

corny ass stem. ik snap dat het voor de pop punk scene een belangrijk albums is. maar niet voor mij.

Nothing really offensive, just nothing to get excited about either.

These guys were more subversive when they wrote songs about jerking off.

I found it mostly generic. It's not bad music, but to listen to the entire album became repetetive and boring, then annoying, because it's very "simple" music. These are songs to play on a party to create the corresponding undertone.

Not a huge Green Day fan.

The production is too much. It sounds hot, bright, and overly sweet. The songs are decent. These Bush-era protest songs are not nearly as good as the Thatcher-era produced but the rock opera format is honored by this album -- for whatever that's worth.

Nostalgic, quintessential teenage pop punk, ambitious if still undercooked. Protesting the general state of American life without having any idea what kind of life would be better. Angsty. Production sounds good though.

Great instrumental; the vocals could be annoying, and it doesn’t need nine minutes because of two songs together. I don’t feel anything about this one. 4/10

what an icon of culture, even me who lives under a rock away from popular music is well aware of this whole album. though, i only really care about the title track, "boulevard of broken dreams", and "wake me up when september ends". the rest ranges from boring at best to making me forget that i like long songs at worst.

I was in 7th grade when this came out. Prime demographic. I didn't like it then and I still don't like it now. Old Green Day is still the best Green Day.

There was a time when Green Day was one of my favorite bands. Dookie, Nimrod, and Warning were heavily in my rotation and I still think they're good but I've gotten so sick of hearing half this album everywhere I go to this very day. I'm not even going to listen to it again. Don't need to.

I remember when this album came out, and I wanted so badly to dislike it because it was the Green Day sell out album. But man, it was catchy and cool and I wanted to fit in. Does it hold up nearly 20 years later? Eh, it’s a good time if you’ve never grown in your music tastes since its release. It’s definitely a hit machine if nothing else. I think it’s been talked into the ground, and I have nothing new to say about it. Armstrong’s voice gets pretty grating after a few tracks. You like Green Day and haven’t heard this album? I’d go ahead and do that.

I must sheepishly admit that I never listened to this album in its entirety, even during its peak when I was younger. While I've found select favourites within the punk rock/pop genre – with tracks from bands like The Offspring, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Fall Out Boy resonating with me – I'm admittedly quite picky. Green Day has always been a more mixed bag for me. Nevertheless, of all the tracks on this album, 'Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams' stands out as my favourite. But I'm also not likely to revisit it anytime soon.

a bit boring

2-3

I mean it could be subversive if you were the most middle American person possible. I am not and so it seems more like a corporate put together mainstream bland "punk". All guitar riffs sound the same throughout. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is the stand out which shows it's not really punk at all but middle of the road rock.

Very much of the zeitgeist. Sounds hoary now (certainly didn't expect to recognise the slightly reworked chords of Bryn Adams' 'Summer of 69' amidst this...

I know this was a big album when it came out but I’ve never been a fan. Just never sat well with me. Giving a two as there is likely something I’m missing.

I'm not a Green Day fan, and there's not a single from this album that I have liked, but I listened to it anyway...it's not good. Overindulgent but completely uninteresting punkish rock opera with annoying vocals and songs that go on way too long. At it's best, it's okay (I don't mind Whatsername or Holiday), at it's work it's insufferable. 1.5/5

Green Day has spent their career disproving my hypothesis that I can totally hate them. And, while I can't totally, easily hate them...this record comes close with every overproduced, over-instrumented slow number meant to be "meaningful" from the band that brought us the album titled "Dookie" and named themselves after a big weed session. And here we are with this record. I'm not a fan of Green Day's Grease by way of the Clash mixed with their own selves from a decade ago and a dropout version of Professor Greg Graffin's course on Bad Religion. Quadrophenia this is not. And yet, I'll give it an entire star for existing at all as a signpost to punk that existed in the mainstream during some rough years for radio rock and a second star for the opening track.

Didn’t listen, grow up album generator.

Highlights: "American Idiot," "Holiday" It's easy to understand the success of this as a resolute musical comeback for a beloved pop group, with all the hooks and energy their fans could want. But I don't think anyone would have asked for this group to make something so self-serious as a narrative concept album with nine-minute medleys. You can't really call it a "rock opera" so much as a musical, a mark of the increasing convergence in emo et al between rock fans and theater kids. You could imagine Lin Manuel Miranda featuring somewhere in here. Just kidding. But not really. "Dookie" has an appeal as one of many 90s albums about being a loser, something way more grounded and honest and sympathetic than being a millionaire in the Bay making an utterly flat character with a 'Christ figure' label say "how dare you sir." What's really so frustrating is that the narrative seems to obscure the initial setup. The lyrics of "Holiday" don't even line up semantically, let alone arrive at a message, but you definitely get extremely political airs with a clear context of Bush-era jingoism for two wars in the Middle East. And this album literally has a bleeding heart as a weapon on the cover. And it says nothing at all with that. The protagonist gets a girlfriend, smokes weed, gets dumped, and commits suicide. The "letterbomb" in the album if *figurative* for a mean letter sent to an ex. Even if this is some allegory, suggested by the inept use of quasi-pseudo-Indian affect to introduce the love interest, the tail is wagging the dog, and it's not only incomprehensible but ultimately self-pitying. It's purely inward-looking, interested in the suffering and guilt of Americans. Or else that's giving it too much credit. Really a touchstone of feckless liberal resistance preening, a work of dithering, diffusive controlled opposition, a great cash cow dropped all of two months before Bush took a second term, giving no one a moment's pause over what it really had to say.

this was worse than i remember i was rly annoyed

I had a better time with this than Dookie, but I think that's mostly from familiarity (I'll cop to kinda liking "Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams," but otherwise I've really disliked their stuff). I'm definitely in the age cohort such that this one was a big, big deal to people when it came out, so it was nostalgic to play this and realize I knew each song on here really well. But it's also interesting to pull the lists of what else was going on in rock music at the time, and 2004 had a lot going on! Like that's the year that brings us Franz Ferdinand and "Hot Fuss," Modest Mouse released "Good News," White Stripes had just put out "Elephant" the previous year... idk I know emo went strong into the aughts, but my personal big music touchpoints for that era tended to be alt-rock/indie stuff.

Je déteste c'est surcôté à balle et c'est gênant comme pas possible

Clearly a band trying to outgrow one-note punk, but the only good songs on this are the one-note punk songs. And what's with the voice?

I have mixed feelings about this album. It sounds great, and sounds like Green Day, but the concept album kind of ruins it for me. I suppose this album is, for me, like Dookie was 10 years prior to all the original Green Day fans. A big change that made them even more popular than ever, but I wasn't a huge fan of.

3 stars for the drummer. -1 star for everything else being shite.

Never listened to before, only heard select songs "Old" comparatively Very same-samey from song to song Start of Extraordinary Girl is nice because its not punk rock and then it becomes punk rock again. tsk tsk Not an enjoyable album, cannot comment on its production quality Thought the last song was incredibly good until I realized that spotify had turned on radio mode and was playing a Gorillaz song LMAO

Despite the nostalgia behind this one, I can’t get myself behind everyone’s favorite mainstream emo LP of the aughts. The highlights (‘Idiot,’ ‘Boulevard,’ ‘September’) show the band at their most creative and confrontational, but they’re ultimately dragged down by being coupled to longer, less innovative sections in the weird decision to shove two songs together into one for a cinematic purpose. The rest is just filler - I’m not expecting punk songs to use more than three chords, but the production is so sterile and lifeless that the lack of dynamic melodies/tempos/rhythms really sinks this one to two-star territory.

Green Day has always been an anomaly. Highly polished, impeccably produced and finished, and aimed at the heart of the American wallet. But when you listen to them, all of their themes are raw, gritty, and anti-capitalist. If you like Green Day, you'll love this pop-punk opera. If you don't then you're better off listening to something else.

From albums named after shit to political agitator, hey? Naaaaah.

mid

Fine for what it is, again not my kind of thing

Eigenlijk iets leuker dan ik dacht, maar toch ook weer niet heel interessant. Beter dan Dire Straits, dat dan weer wel.

To me they still sound like a high school teen band.

I always love the idea of a concept/rock opera album. But they never quite live up to the potential. Anyway, this was just background noise for me. Maybe I'd enjoy it more if I listened to the lyrics?

jeune mais pas dingouf

Meh. They sold out after Dookie.

Meh

Green Day always made me feel old and out of touch, even when I was 13. I just get absolutely nothing from it, and never have. As far as this album: the lyrics sound interesting on first listen (if you can make out what he's saying...he's drowned out by instruments a lot of the time), but then you actually look into them and they don't seem to stand up to any sort of analysis...just come off as surface-level and sort of vacuous. The whole album just seems like it was written to be someone's first exposure to the kinds of ideas in the album (e.g. Certain problems with American suburban life, America's foreign policy, people giving up their dreams/values to be a "paper-pusher" in a cubicle somewhere, etc.). If your in your early teens and it's one of the first times that you're thinking about these things, then maybe you think "Oh shit, he's right! These are problems!" but for me: I just can't find anything new/interesting here. That's not to say that albums/songs/art needs to have new ideas; sometimes these things are good for taking an old, well-known idea and illustrating it in a new or interesting way (or just a way that is pleasant to listen to). But I don't think this album does that either. Seems like a bunch of things that have been done better in the decades prior to this album's release. Maybe this album puts it in terms that better speaks to certain subsets of America's youth, but I was never in those subsets, and it certainly does nothing for the me of today. Incidentally, I do hate Billy Joe Armstrong's voice, so that obviously doesn't help me enjoy this album. Positives: I don't mind "Give me Novocaine", and I think the drums are good in many songs. I also have respect for concept albums that try to do big things - I just think this one falls short.

Þetta er ekki beinlínis leiðinlegt, en þetta er tilbreytingarlítið og verður leiðigjarnt til lengdar. Boulevard of broken dreams gæti ég hlustað á nokkrum sinnum, hitt er voða bleh.

Not my thing

⭐⭐. Não consegui nem terminar. Já conhecia a maioria das músicas. Meh.

Wake me up, when this album ends

Just… kind of bland. Doesn’t feel energetic and doesn’t feel emotional

Not bad per se, just not what I’m into. Lots of songs that I remember from the radio but feels like it lacks the emotion of their earlier albums.

Meh

Hon min fälla drottning...

meh

Tjoooj, dobri su mi i definitvno vidim zasto su se proslavili, imali jak utjecaj na kulturu/glazbu tada, ali imam jaku averziju prema GD-ju zbog nekih zena pa ce bit dvojka :/

"The emotional travails of two clueless punks—one passive, one aggressive, both projections of the auteur. There's no economics, no race, hardly any compassion."

Repetitive

If I was a disenfranchised young white kid living in the suburbs I might be able to relate and get into this more but all I hear is a ton of guitar and a whiney punk pop voice for an hour

Ein großes Lob ans saubere Handwerk; super produzierte Songs; vielleicht hat man sich an den technischen Möglichkeiten so sehr ergötzt, dass man vergaß, ein paar seiner Darlings zu killen. Was zur Völlerei am Punkrock Stick noch etwas komisch hinzukommt, ist der Jeckyll/Hyde Gestus des radiotauglichen Stadion-Materials, das auf sehr schmalzige Art sellout säuselt. Chris Martin gibt mehr als 1.6

This is not my favorite. Top tracks Holiday Wake me up when September ends

This album is terrible.

This album was… ok. It wasn’t my favorite but I didn’t hate it either. The only tracks I really enjoyed were the singles they’ve dropped when this album came out. It was plain and lacking a spark that I look for in music. Top tracks: American idiot, Give me Novacaine, Wake Me Up When September Ends

Though this album marked a bad turning point for this band, the album as a whole was better than I remembered. Could be nostalgia talking, but I thought it ages well.

The worst green day The fall of green day

I find this music quite uninspiring.

Good old Green Day. Wasn't a fan back then, not a huge fan now.

Ergh. Nah, not having this. Only interested in Nimrod and Dookie.

A pop-punk album that hasn't aged well and sounds trite/over-produced. 'Jesus of Suburbia' is the least hackneyed, due to the meter changes. 4/10, used to like this.

It was ok. Just ok.

Not my favorite Green Day album.

Decent. A few alright singles. 5/10

Meh

Don't want to listen to this generic hot trash.

Wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be but still not one I’m going to come back to

It's nice to see kids music making the cut, but this doesn't really do much for me as an adult.

Not a big fan. Never been huge into Green Day and pop punk in genre, all feels very samey. Highlights: Holiday, Too Much Too Soon

Tough. So much harder to listen to than anticipated. Just too much all the time. I also saw that E-boy was listening to Mac while I was listening to this and I really needed that antidote

Gähn day. Generisches Punk Rock -Gedudel. Die Platte hat 2-3 Momente, sonst aber gar nix.

meh

i didn't wanna listen to this lol im just gonna give it a two

Nobody ever asked for 7, 8 and NINE minute green day songs. That being said some good individual tracks but not enough to save the whole piece.

Nope.... this type of grunge is just bad pop dressed up and sold to the disenfranchised.

1st album was cool, this was just overplayed on the radio.

я ненавижу это гавно

From 924 Gilman to this...man what a shame

Baby’s first corporate-backed, surface level attempt at being political punk. Your least favorite soccer mom’s favorite punk band. No place on this list or any list of best albums.

I’ve never been a fan of Green Day. I think all their songs kinda sound the same. And this album was so overplayed when it came out that I literally couldn’t stand it. I can’t even get through the song “wake me up when September ends”. Honestly I think the only reason this is on the list is because of the whole political scene at the time. Which is probably why I also dislike it so much.

I hated their sound when Dookie came out, and I hate it now. That clean, 90s production style, the guitar sound, the way the drums are miked ... everything about this causes waves of hostility to be unleashed within me. They are good at what they do, which explains their successful careers. But I hate what they do.

Acknowledged, Green Day flipped the script on themselves and did things they'd never even contemplated while their global fame/money machine was being built. And, being a poser had real weight when I was 15, at least in a world that included Pete Verdone. Green Day challenged my understanding of the trajectory of punk, and upset my understanding of the social order in force at the time. So I rejected them. I still don't care for their music.

I will forever be pissed at Green Day for not doing the "don't wanna be in the MAGA agenda" thing at the Super Bowl. What a bunch of cop-outs. My gripes with this band aside, this album is atrocious. It's so painfully basic in a way that punk music shouldn't be. It's kind of hard to call it punk music at all. It's alt-rock that sometimes insults George Bush or suburban neighborhoods, I guess. The music is all chord progressions I've genuinely heard in nursery rhymes with some of the most bland and unmotivating lyrics I've heard in an album that's trying to be whatever unmotivating isn't. I don't even care that half the album is overplayed, I haven't heard half of these songs in a year or two and I like them LESS than I did then. Special bonus points to Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams for managing to ruin an almost good song by tacking a boring radio hit to the second half. That's how the entire album is, although "almost good" is a stretch for anything that isn't Holiday by itself and the latter two parts of Homecoming. I swear the only reason this album got anywhere near as popular as it did is because they tried to make the most un-punk punk album imaginable, and they sure as hell succeeded. Genuinely one of the worst albums I've had on the list so far.

Sell-out punks

Eurovision komplett med tonartshöjning. Är det Jon-Henrik som gästar i We are the waiting? Könsrock utan kön. Medelålders män som tror de fortfarande riskerar att bli utsparkade från High school. Sk. Punklåtar över 3 minuter. Fruktansvärda trummarfills och gitarrsolon. Jag behöver tvätta öronen med svintask efteråt.

American idiot is so relevant today Everything else has been boring Sample the beginning music of whatsername

Uggghhhh

Rubbish

Trash

Blah. Boring mainstream punk-ish sound.

I HATE GREEN DAY

Green day vind ik heel erg cringe. Het mag van mij in het rijtje: suzan en freek, kane, kensington en macklemore. De Tenenkrommers

Punk pop for the youth. Heard it 50 years ago.

I hate this band. Nothing they have done or will ever do will warrant being included in this list.

My biggest enemies

Afraid I don't know these guys...the only Green Day I know of made a couple great albums in the early 90's. Wonder what happened to em

Soft "punk" rock for middle class socialist brats from suburban families who never really had to work.

Don't like them, didn't listen.

This shit fucking honks why would this even be on the list?

Abhorrent

A few famous songs. Overall not my taste.

I’m really happy that’s over

Woof

Beste Lieder: Holiday/ Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Whatsername Lieder auf Playlist: 0

First 1/3 of album: ok this still slaps. Rest of album: mayyyybe not 😞 But we still needed to collectively experience this as a generation so I'm glad I went through the American Idiot Listening of 2004.I DID NOT ENJOY THIS.

Bailed after about 3 songs as it was clearly going to be the same all the way through. Plodding pop rock. Idiots indeed.

This is punk rock glossed up to the point that it has about as much sonic character as a Toto record. The songs themselves are strings of dull metal-leaning power chords topped off with affected singing that sounds more like Broadway than the Bay Area. And really, so many words with so little of substance actually being said.

God I hate Green Day. Watered-down, overproduced, pop-punk trash.

Terrible

Cheese balls. Dookie was their peak

I really liked this one when it came out. Now, during this relisten, I was so bored.

green gay

Not listening

It’s not for me and I also think it’s objectively bad.

Just awful. What a bunch of poseurs.

No.

I can't stand this album. 1 Star. I used to love Green Day back when they released Dookie. But I feel like this band has continued to disappoint me with the direction they've taken their sound ever since.

Ass

I've heard a lifetime of Green Day, and 100% of it was forced upon me.

Don’t like green day

Stupid

Pop punk shit

Lyder som introen til en nickelodeon serie

Shopping mall punk. Billy Joe has a knack for melody, but it is still a sacrilege.

track 2 being 9+ minutes is a greater crime than any carried out by the bush administration tbh

I hate Green Day with the exception of their first album. They are the same as Sum41, Avril Lavigne for me.

Hahaha. This is as far from a masterpiece as you can get. Every track sounds like it was written by a marketing team in Converse for people who think rebellion is a font choice. A soundtrack for kids grounded for the weekend. A middle finger pointed towards yourself.

Green Day. Do not need to say much more, avoid at all costs.

This will hopefully be the last time I have to listen to this album. Being a millennial who grew up in the peak of emo and pop punk I have to say, I've never gotten the appeal. The term "Pop Punk" itself feels like an oxymoron. The album is just painfully boring, too long, and way overplayed. Just not a fan of this album or Green Day or Pop Punk in general.

I don’t like them.

Only giving this heap one star because I have to rate it.

Fuck you Bush. It's time to get out of Iraq, Bush. What were you doing there in the first place, Bush? You didn't even get properly elected, Bush. Are you happy now, Bush? Fuck you, Bush.

There are only a handful of Green Day songs that were released after Kerplunk, this album does not have any of them.

It makes total sense that this became a successful Broadway show.

+: Holiday, St. Jimmy +-: American Idiot, Are We the Waiting, Give Me Novacaine, Extraordinary Girl, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Homecoming, Whatsername -: Jesus of Suburbia, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, She's a Rebel, Letterbomb 4,0/10

I dont get how Green Day have held on to such a big place in American culture - Dookie was amazing, Brain Stew was pretty good, but that Good Riddance song gave them a ruinous taste of sincere balladeering and since then it's been a long steep decline. This album was their big return to the spotlight - an Anti-Bush pop punk opera that is just as embarrasing as that sounds. They still have a nice bright overdriven guitar sound and some decent riffs as well as a gift for a catchy vocal melody, but they're totally wasted on this. Turgid slow tempos turn into forced sped up breakdowns, bombastic production, bloated song writing (8 minutes! 8!), corny arena rock climaxes. The lyrics are pure dumb guys making a statement stuff. Honestly, their songs about teenage disaffection, smoking and jacking off offer a more profound insight into suburban American culture and alienation than this overblown grandiose turd. When Sept Ends is truly abysmal - I know I 've heard this before, but it is so much worse than I could possibly have imagined, how was THIS their return to the bigtime? Good lord this whole thing just sucks so bad.

Trash

BJA is a douchebag USA hater. I love the band, but cannot give a great review to them.

I have a bias against this album and band. So my reviews won't be very objective. To me. This is just fraudulent punk rock. It lacks sincerity. But again I'm biased.

nope

Overrated

Capitalism, according to various thinkers concerned with the cultural mode of postmodernism, is fantastic at absorbing its critique. So good that it often goes one better – commodifying the terms of its deconstruction, always-already negating its critics … to the extent that if they’re especially charismatic and/or unlucky, they’re turned into t-shirt designs. In the early 00s, Greenday was smarting. “Warning” had represented a doomy portent only to the band themselves: they were in danger of becoming obsolete. Greenday huddled, began tracking a new record … and then the tapes were stolen. It’s a sliding doors moment, as had they released “Cigarettes…” they might have disappeared forever. Instead they scrapped the project and began working on what would become “American Idiot”. And the rest is history; or, as the angel of history might put it (and in more ways than one), “a bad record.” As the angel sees history piling up before her, destructive winds driving her forever backward, this album can boast a mounting body count of better artists and their ideas. Here there’s melodies lifted from Bryan Adams, Joann Jet; riffs and ornamentation seemingly lifted completely (surely Dillinger Four got an out of court settlement?); and then – not content with having “musically quoted” from The Kinks on the abortively boring “Warning” – there’s the one where our Anglophile magpies return to Blighty to the answer the question of “what would happen if ‘How soon is now’ was also ‘Wonderwall’?” I wouldn’t mind it – in fact I might even enjoy it – if it weren’t for the fact that it feels so nakedly cynical. Everything about this album feels like the result of focus group testing: the “emo” uniform, the accusatory anti-government stuff (“this trended great with the NOFX kids, Bill, just consider it”), the “concept” of a “Jesus of Suburbia” – a figure who might be the target persona of this elaborate marketing action brought to musical life. And then there’s the “punk rock opera” element: songs that blend into one another, a creative choice that feels grafted onto the whole thing late in the piece after someone noticed that everything’s in pretty much the same key. It’s enough to have one wondering whether the “American Idiot” being narrated isn’t actually you, the listener, for ever letting yourself think that this meant anything more to Greenday than revivified album sales numbers. So, while I’ve been trying to keep my cool through this review, I also need to be fair to myself: this felt fucking lame in 2004 and it feels fucking lame now. This is not an album of rebellion, these are not songs of resistance or hope. This is a pastiche of punk, the sound of the end of history. There is no alternative. Suburbia’s soundtrack is the only game in town. For 15-year old Matthew’s sake, here are three albums released in or before 2004 that I loved back then, succeed where American Idiot fails, and actually should be on this list: “Sticks and Stones” by New Found Glory (pop-punk that looks for you, finds you, and stays with you; actual magic); “Casually dressed and deep in conversation” by Funeral for a Friend (the ultimate melding of post-hardcore and emo, unapologetically hi-fi and edifyingly anthemic); “Tell all your friends” by Taking Back Sunday (atmospheric, antagonistic, bratty, brash, brilliant – gigged into shape, never knowingly focus-grouped).

That's just not possible. What kind of albums are they suggesting to me? 'Pippi Pop Punk' by Vorstadt Kids. I hate it. There would probably be more of a punk attitude if they had peed the songs on garbage cans. No, I really can't do anything with that. Apart from that, I can't do anything with any "Green Day" release that I know of. That's something for the garbage can of music history.

Dookie is one of the most influential albums of my life. This is not Dookie. Ambitious, maybe, but that didn't make for good listening for me. Each song I was hoping to be the last and there'd be another. And another.

Newer Green Day sucks nuts

Not really my choice.

Had I been 12 when this came out I might have considered this "deep" and "edgy" and then I might have something positive to say in this review. However even in 2004 I was a lot older then 12 and also I don't think I ever heard it before now since I don't recognize any of it. From my review for Dookie "Loud but only slightly obnoxious". This album however is more than slightly obnoxious as reflected in the 1 star rating.

I had no idea that Green Day had sold so many of this album, nor that they'd sold nearly twice as many of Dookie. They are both way up there in the best selling albums of all time. In some ways it's not surprising with this one: it's such middle of the road inoffensive pop rock. Personally, I struggled to get through it. There was a bit of Homecoming that I enjoyed, but that was about it. I struggle to understand how I can find this so uninspiring, but Dookie can be one of my favourite albums of all time. It's either (1) I heard Dookie at a formative time and listened to it so much that it became a part of me, and every subsequent listen reminds me of how i felt and who i was when i first discovered it but actually if I heard it for the first time now I wouldn't think it had value; or (2) Dookie and American Idiot are on two sides of a change in the band that involved them adapting their sound to fill stadiums with modern audiences, rather like what happened to Kings of Leon after Aha Shake Heartbreak, and I don't like music produced after a band makes that change. If it is (1) then I feel the difference would be so intrinsically a part of my personality that objectively assessing it would be like trying to look at the back of my own head. However, I'm pretty sure it's (2), that Dookie is actually great and this is actually shit. I mean: at times it actually sounds like someone is taking the piss out of bad quality W-era protest songs. It belongs in the same bin as NOFX's War on Errorism, when just saying President=Moron was something insightful, amusing, rebellious. But then again, I think Dookie is firmly "pop punk", and is there any pop punk album I would listen to for the first time now and enjoy? Perhaps not. But I listened to Warning around the same time as Dookie and I'm pretty sure I would consider that shit even though I liked it at the time. Maybe I should just stop trying to look for any objectivity in valuing these albums and embrace that two albums that probably have similar musical value can be at opposite ends of the scale for me. Dookie IS a 5 star album, this definitely a 1.

hate

Shite, pointless

Low quality "punk" for middle schoolers.

As expected with punk rock. Noisy screaming music. Not my thing.

DNF. Doesn't belong on this list. I like pop punk as much as the next guy but this is easy boring music.

Interesting as a snap shot of early 2000s history. Give me Dookie any day though. The guys voice annoys me and I found the sound of the album as a whole gave me a headache. The simple power cords over and over became so boring.

i dont like pop punk, sorry

I guess it's supposed to be something like their most mature album to date when it was released? All I can hear is that irritating crisp/bright guitar sound so typical of pop punk of that era and these dull melodies. Oh and now they're grown up so they even use accoustic guitars and have freakin' ballads. And of course pseudo-political lyrics. I hated it when it came out, I still hate it.

Fuck this album

Not really my thing , but the title track and ‘when september ends’ are decent pop punk songs . rest of it is formulaic and dated.

Pretty much the only thing I like by Green Day is the song Basketcase and on first full listen, this did nothing to change that.

an ugly, obsolete cultural artifact...weirdly enough made me appreciate the importance of more poignant, specific lyrics (especially to evoke that melancholic vibe i crave) because this has virtually nothing genuine to say...endless filler over a repetitive, tinny mush of compressed power chords 2/10

Horrible. Sanitized pop punk with a forced message trying to be edgy.

Corny, overproduced shite for angry teens. This list so white.

Fuck Green Day

Greenday was greated with cheers when they published Dookie,,, 10 years later.... I skipped through most of the songs on this album, as song A sounds like song B sounds like song C... How has this band managed to captivate so many people for so long? This is the first album that I am giving 1 star...

I really don’t like Green Day

Would rather listen to the real punk/new wave rather than this 20 year's too late sanitized rubbish. Not for me

One of the worst things to come out of 9-11.

Wildly dated clown show

There's nothing worse than bands spouting political opinions held by the retarded class

didn't listen 1/5

crrrriiiiinnnnnggggggeeeeeeee bin genervt dass ich mir das anhören "musste"

Mostly noise and instrument banging, but good if you like that

Ok album singer is a dogshit person -5/5 hope he gets shot :) imagine this 1 star is -5

Un disco terriblemente malo. Pop disfrazado de punk.

Why does this album have two 10-minute songs?

Songs should only be 5+ minutes long if they are good and interesting. I fucking hate Green Day

This is soooo bad. Green Day played a pretty pivotal role in my very early years listening to music. Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac, even Nimrod were all great. Dookie was absolutely vital. I had never listened to this before and I can't believe how far they fell with this record. It's absolutely pandering and derivative and feels so phoned in. As it went on I was realizing more and more that I find it down right offensive. And it just goes and goes and goes, it's way too long. This has to be a candidate for leaving the list when newer stuff is added. 1 star all the way.

Do not appreciate

Green Day sucks!

Hateful divisive speech. Did not like at all.

Never was a fan.

Meh, I appreciate it for being a pivotal album in the mainstreaming of the last vestiges of American punk, but that's also what I hate about it.

bruh

I hate green day - I won't listen.

Have heard 1000 tiems ill pass

oof.

Not my style

This feckless, pseudo-protest bullshit can fuck all the way off.

how dare you send me from Dookie to this shit 1/5

I’d rather undergo nine years of medieval torture than ever listen to this shit again

Dude, the Johnny Test theme song!!! I'm kidding, obviously. It's funny how similar they are, though. Was not excited for this one. Don't have the nostalgia for it that a lot of people have. I also don't really like his voice. I don't really know what to feel about this. It could have been worse. I'm sure that there's some important themes in this album, but I can't really focus on them. There were parts I dare say were okay, and I didn't absolutely hate my time with it like I suspected I might, but I got pretty annoyed and tired of it by the end... I'm left feeling empty. I expected to come out of this experience angry, but there's nothing. I guess my favourite song was Give Me Novacaine/She's a Rebel. but even that song annoyed me at parts.

awful trash

Not a fan of Green Day, still not. The pre-genitors of whiney boy rock wanna-be punk rock bands.

Didn't like it all. I just hate the singers voice, and the instrumentation was more boring than i thought it would be. The lyrics are bad. Some of the guitars sounded okay. But it was not an enjoyable experience, sad because I thought I would have liked it.

God I hate Green Day. Almost all of their famous songs either sound goofy, cheesy, or rip-off another song. You can argue that "songs sound like other songs" all the time in music, but Green Day does it so much that they constantly get called out for it, and that obnoxious voice only detracts from these iconic songs. Now, I will admit most of these rip-off songs are not on this album, but that doesn't excuse my hatred of this whiney ass band. So, let's just say I'm not going into this album with the most neutral mindset of these pop punk shit. Alright, this isn't any better. His vocals still suck, and knowing almost every song in some way just made me know right when it started I hated it. And why, oh why, is a punk album, what's know for being short and sometimes sweet, have multiple way too long songs. I realize they are usually multiple songs in one, but they are always listed as one, so they shall be punished as one. Just awful. Have no clue why pop punk is such a popular genre.

Yritin kitkeä tätä halveksineen teiniminän ja suhtautua avoimesti, mutta siis ei helvetti. Ei ei ei. Kamalia biisejä kaikki paitsi ehkä pari hittiä. Boulevard of Broken Dreams saa isot sympatiat/nostalgiat, koska oli eka biisi, jota opettelin skidinä kitaratunnilla. Mutta en voi sen perusteella antaa tähtiä.

Couldn’t get into it. It just felt very phony to me. I don’t need Billie Joe to tell me how to feel about George Bush, or anything else that actually matters. What on earth is the point of slick, serious Green Day? Don’t get me wrong, I also dislike the rest of their music. But my sense of it is that it at least has a certain integrity in being the anthem for a kind of kid who actually comes from a totally safe suburban home, but chooses to be a dirtbag because everything else is too much effort. Or maybe it’s just that one song.

tough listen, only 1 or 2 decent songs wouldn't listen to it again

Crap

Maybe it was always commercial pop...I was only 13, how could I have known.

What happened to Green Day? I'm all for bands/artists reinventing themselves or choosing different musical paths to explore, but I feel they've almost become a parody of themselves! There's no real substance throughout and every song sounds the same to me, but that's just my opinion

no thank you

Two green day albums in one week, this site fucking hates me

I refuse to listen to this.

didn’t like it

Is it nostalgia? What am I not getting here? 1.5/5

No

Sorry, just not my cup of tea!

fuck me, this was so much worse than i expected. the singles aren't even the worst bit and they're fucking awful. i have no understanding of how this steaming pile of shite was so popular.

Production: 5/20 Songwriting: 2/20 Innovation: 2/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 2/20 =11 Just did a sick

Bloated

Not for me