American Idiot

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

Fuck off Billie

Dogshit.

Je me suis rendu à la chanson 2

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

Not a fan of green day.

blokes

love the in beat - entertained heard this song - popular relatable like it, not my style though, would listen monthly or weekly if appeared on radio :)

Meh. It's fine.