American Idiot

Super nostalgic, great album.

A great album. Not the masterpiece it was first touted as, but it is incredibly strong. There is still too much filler on it, and that lets it down.

офигенный альбом

punk rock

For npcs. Disgusting and brainless

Favorite songs: American Idiot, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Are We the Waiting, Extraordinary Girl, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Homecoming, Whatsername

Post-punk classic. One of the best albums of 2000s. A must listen for every (punk)rock lovers. Even the album cover rocks. Favorites: American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Holiday

I remember listening to this one in my childhood. It holds up pretty well today, sans some of the wording and lyricism. Favourite Track(s): Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends Least Favourite Track(s): Letter Bomb, She's a Rebel, Give Me Novacaine

Didn't like the notes too metal, also didn't understood much might visit latee

Surprised me with its musical force. Their political lyrics are kind of lite-beer but the songs pretty fuckin rip. The band can find a groove and get a loud, live-on-stage feel. They’re still not punk - they were never punk - but they’ve found a unique sound. And I still don’t know if Billie Joe really sings like that or it’s a bit.

*American Idiot* is a rock opera. It’s a band from the later era of punk—or at least the songs have a wonderfully punk sound. It makes for a great listen, provided you’re in the right mood or willing to get into it. It might not be the ideal choice for waking up first thing in the morning, though. Still, after the first listen, I’m giving it 4 points.

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pretty much sort of okay!!! theres obviously a handful of tracks on here that like....it feels weird to say i Like them so much as im just Attached To Them in a way that feels different from my normal avenues of Articulating An Opinion On Music. as for the rest my general green day feelings apply....i struggle with billie joe's stiff singing (tho he's found his Timbre at this point for poppy deployment), and despite the leap in ambition this is still a p samey record across its mildly bloated length, but i do find the personality of the band very likable. its a pretty spotty tracklist but even if it wasnt, i rly only have so much appetite for green day songwriting at a time. this is kind of Tommy for gen x and millennials, for better and worse in both overlap and differences. tommy is so bizarre that its remained an object of fixation and frustration for me, where american idiot i know Exactly what it meant emotionally to both its creators and its audience. its easier to appreciate, but i am less likely to think ab it i suppose.

I don’t like Green Day. I never have. I’ve given them plenty of chances over the years, but their sound just isn’t for me. There are a few exceptions, though. I was 14 in 2004 when American Idiot came out, and it was everywhere. At school, my classmates would play it between classes. Every “skater boy” (shouts out to Avril!) with a guitar would try to cover songs from the album during lunch. I say “try” because they sounded terrible—but their enthusiasm was genuine, and all the girls would swoon over their attempts at Wake Me Up When September Ends. Songs like Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams were on constant rotation everywhere my friends and I went. It was impossible to escape American Idiot. Because of that, I ended up growing attached to several of its songs. Despite my overall dislike of Green Day, there’s no denying this album has some genuinely great moments. More than anything, though, American Idiot is tied to some wonderful memories of my teenage years. It’ll always have a special place in my heart.

I have listened to most of these songs many many times before, but never approached the whole album. I was surprised to find such a cohesive and enjoyable record. Green day were inescapable in this period and for good reasons

I can't say its my type of thing but to be fair Green Day made quite an astute come back with this album and in its genre its got snappy songs, some great writing and some astute - if not wholly original - political messaging. In the context of a massive 2004 crossover pop punk record it ticks a lot of boxes

Hittiä hitin perään. Sama energia koko albumin ajan. Biisit sulautuu kivasti yhteen, mutta on kuitenki erilaisia. Very nice.

Nicht alles so langweilig wie Boulevard of broken dreams. Paar Sachen gehen ganz gut nach vorne, aber manches ist schon eher mäßig interessant. Bekommt dann ziemliche Längen und endet eher schwach. Schade.

I really enjoyed this. Was never really into them when this came out but due to people in work have listened to their latest album and liked that so when this showed up was interested in listening and it didn’t disappoint.

Not been a fan of Green Day (which is to say they’re a band that just simply passed me by - see also Foo Fighters). But this was bouncy and brash, and the production was clean. Liked.

This is a good album, I just don't love it enough to give it the full 5 stars.

Massively overrated album

Nicee

I knew of Green Day but had not paid much attention, also dimly aware this was some kind of concept album. I listen to it while I read about it. The sound is often neat but not wholly appealing - they were maybe struggling with pressure to invent endless 'novel' riffs from a limited palette. As the album goes on, too many sections with limited dynamics, too many power chords, fortunately there is also some variance in styles. I read some lyrics but am wholly dissatisfied with the lyrical/conceptual side. As others have said, it strikes a vaguely critical (dissatisfied) pose but without any content or compassion, nothing about economics, class, race, gender or any real people - there is just a small number of gestural points but not joined up at all, lots of repetition. I was struck by this statement (indictment) from Wikipedia: "The album's story is largely indeterminate, because the group was unsure of where to lead the plot's third quarter. In this sense, Armstrong decided to leave the ending up to the listeners' imagination." That is a very weak base for an album, tour, musical and attempted film! So, I understand that this was popular with a huge number of people and feels like a shared experience of some sort of rebellious pose, but it doesn't work for me. The music is not hopeless but I have no interest to re-listen. It's Pretty Poor, 3/10.

Awesome

Love this album, suited the times. Great live group tpp

woah woah you cant say that buddy

No thanks. Reminds me of middle school but not in a good way.

Mhmm interesting

Another Great Album. Followed it up with Dookie. Excellent all around.

An absolute pop punk classic. So many bangers. The first album I’m reviewing that I’m biased towards. You absolutely need to hear this before you die. If it were 20 years ago, I think I’d rate it 4, but eh - I’m rating it higher with the power of hindsight and knowing the impact it’s made, and seeing how much of a triumph it really was. I think it deserves the 5.

I remember this album was pretty big when it came out. I was always hearing Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends. This album was just ok, I felt like it got a bit boring after a while.

Classic

overproduced

Classic!! Love Greenday!

My dad would crank this almost every morning he drove me to school and I still. Fucking. Love. This. Record. It’s a perfect pop punk album. It’s a perfect concept album. Listening to this record always makes me so emotional and reminds me of how much I love music.

Never a HUGE Green Day fan. Loved Dookie when it came out like everybody else in the 90s. This album makes me yearn for the days tot George W. Bush’s stupidity versus what we have now.

It's American Idiot, man. This album has American Idiot, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and Wake Me Up When September Ends on it. It's a generational album. From start to finish, it's amazing. My dad still cries every time he hears American Idiot because he loved the song until he found out it was about him. He's the American Idiot the song is talking about, and now the song is "political" because of that. Worth it for this alone.

Amazing album 5 stars!

So the hits are there for sure. The songs in between though, are just ok.

Wish I was alive when this album was still hype, maybe then I’d enjoy it.

This was THE formative album for me when I was first trying to develop my own independent music taste. This was the greatest album of all time when I was 14. I'm 26 now and I've listened to a lot more since then. I don't think it's the greatest anymore but man, do I still love this album.

I knew the singles but was surprised by the big 9 minute songs. I liked it all though.

One of the best things to happen to me in 9th grade is listening to this album for the first time.

Maybe I’m the faggot America…

Green Day is awesome - I love the punk influence. I would give a 4.5 if I could. This album is a repeater for me - so fun!

Writing catchy songs is an under-appreciated skill. The songs here are so catchy and earnest.

1. 3/3 2. 2.5/3 (The sections are great, but imo it runs kinda long) 3. 3/3 (This is a great double song, but the sound is starting to get repetitive) 4. 3/3 (Great switch-up in the sound when it was starting to get stale)

taki spoko

Baby's first "political" album. Having been completely overexposed to the singles of this record back in Junior High I expected this to be a cringy snooze fest but I was pleasantly surprised how hard this thing still rips in 2026. Some of the tracks are too long but generally enjoyed it despite my misgivings.

clearly most of them are

it's good but not my vibe

A monolith of an album that pretentious dweebs such as I would be quick to belittle so they can go back to glazing 'Dookie.' That desire is a fallacy however, this album is pretty cool. Chronologically this album finds its self in an transition for the genre of rock. The Strokes and other cool guy* rock bands were actively embarrassing the pop punks of yester year. All the while bands like MCR were turning pop punk into emo. In a way, this album feels like the last hurray for a genre that would fade away from the mainstream. But I mean fuck, its a good celebration. The most iconic songs off this album are well remembered for a reason. Not many can invoke bratty swagger like Billie Joe Armstrong, and the drumming on the album is always energetic and tight. They're simultaneously hooky, danceable, and triumphant. Those adjectives do carry over into most of the songs of the album, HOWEVER, it does make it a tad stale at times. "American Idiot" and "Holiday" pulls this sound off the best and the most interesting music is afterwards, found in the departures from this sound. "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Wake Me up When September Comes' being my favorite off the album. The former brings me great joy as pop punk rock opera is a silly statement and I enjoy reveling in that sound. The constant change in song structure and focus on story telling being the highlights. The latter is perhaps the dead dad song of all time, its not very deep, but truthfully that feels like one of it's strengths. It can be exhausting trying to make your grief feel flowery and vast in it's meaning, the comfort of sleep during such times is certifiably 'real as fuck.' The detractors of this album are a tonally samey mid-section and guitar sound that is a lil boring on this pair of ears despite suiting the music well, please play anything but a power chord, I dare you. its gonna be a 3.5/5 *cool guy rock bands also include bands like yeah yeah yeahs and metric, its a gender inclussive term, promise :)

Listened to while running at 6:00 km pace. Great rhythm!

This was the album everyone a few years younger than me frothed over and that makes sense because it’s political commentary for kids. The lyrics would have to actually say something to have any sort of weight, but the slick production would totally undercut the punk credentials of any genuine message. It’s the most heavy handed attempt at a concept album, just cringe through & through. Facile, shallow, bitterly disappointing. Drums sound great.

I like this a lot, but something holds me back from giving it a full 5 stars. Just a gut feeling.

Not a massive Green Day fan but this album surely has some bangers. Highlights: boulevard of broken dreams and wake me up when September ends

There's something insanely poetic about a "punk" group that wrote an entire album raging and resisting against the Bush Administration only to turn right around years later to become bootlickers of the Bidens championing AGAINST Free Speech and bodily autonomy. Sooooo punk rock (insert eye roll here). Regardless, this album has one of the best 5 opening track runs of any album, and that segue from Holiday into Boulevard of Broken Dreams is an all-timer. They're posers, but I can still appreciate a good record when I hear it.

Green Day's rock opera, their concept album. I listened to this album 5 years ago and it was very good, and on this re-listen I find I only love it more as my love for concept albums grow. Fav Songs Jesus of Suburbia Homecoming Give Me Novacaine Is it Top 1001 Worthy (is it essential)? Yes, a impeccable early 2000's rock album with a very strong collection of songs; an incredibly enjoyable experience

Classic Green Day. Still think Dookie is the GOAT

i bet if you were a lower middle class teen in this era this hit so hard.

Belting album This album means so much to me in terms of some friendships and times

Not the biggest green day fan but undeniable how influential these guys have been. Some great chord progressions on this too plus the production pure punk rock in your face

I have to applaud the ambition and the scope here, but Green Day is essentially doing a stadium punk version of Zen Arcade and it's missing the desperation and the heart. The songwriting is legitimately good and I also recognize that this just simply doesn't resonate the same way to me as others. But they've made much better music that was much less regarded.

Thinking they're The Who lol.

I haven’t listened to Green Day on purpose since Dookie so I’d never heard this one. It was much better than I was expecting. And 7 minute songs?! Who knew.

Not for a second would I deny that this record is an iconic, era defining punk rock album. And for the most part I love it. The first half of the album reminds me of my teenage years and it's superbly well written. The downside for me though is that I do find the vocals quite jarring and I always have done with Green Day. I always come away from listening to their songs unsure how I feel about them and there are parts of this album that makes me feel conflicted. It's still a strong album though and gets a light 8/10 from me.

Muy buen disco de Green day, para mi el 4to mejor disco

I was in high school when Dookie and Kerplunk were big, but somehow I skipped past American Idiot later on. I think it was probably the fact I didn't care for that September song back then. But wow, listening to this whole album start to finish, I have a new appreciation for that song and I must say, what a freaking masterpiece! Every song is essential and I will add this entire album to my library.

Easiest rating I've given so far. Forgot how good Green Day are. If it was released today (US/Iran war going on) it would be very topical. Just a blast.

Even in 2026 Green Day has a really good sound that although not new lives on.

I have fond memories of this album and it's hard for me to listen to it without the nostalgic feelings. Regardless, it's a highly polished punk album with song variation, high earworm potential, and infectious energy. Not all songs have this floating transition between them, but many of them do feel so perfectly fitting to be listened in a sequence and "Jesus of Suburbia" itself sounds like a mini-Punk-Rock-opera already.

Youth. Green Day were everywhere — American Idiot was inescapable in a way that only happens to albums that define a moment. Revisiting it now: still holds up, and then some. Punk rock is not my daily world anymore, but this isn't quite just punk rock. "Jesus of Suburbia" is nine minutes long and moves through five distinct sections — a mini rock opera from a band supposedly built on three-chord speed. That ambition is real and it works. The album is also political in a way that hasn't aged out. 2004, peak Bush, post-9/11 paranoia, media manipulation, suburban numbness — the "redneck agenda" Billie Joe was shouting about then maps onto now almost uncomfortably well. Some albums date. This one keeps finding new relevance. 4.5/5 — filed under 5. Defined a generation. Still talking to it.

Do I think this is brilliant because I listened to it so much, making it sound so very familiar? Or did I in fact listen to it so much because it is so brilliant? Actually, I don't really care. I loved it when it came out, and I loved it every bit as much relistening now. I think that the songs and the whole album is excellently constructed, the sound is guitar-heavy, just as I like it, and I somehow have a knack for these background "ooooh"s that are employed always at the right time. There are lots of well earned hit singles on here, but I love most "deep cuts" even more, like the fast paced "Letterbomb" or the beautiful closer "Whatsername". There is not much keeping this from being a 5/5, for example the opening title track being average instead of as brilliant as the rest. 4.5/5 - near perfect

The Green Day record everybody knows. It's also, according to many fans, their worst album of their peak years. I feel that's revisionist history, given the musical marring a rather good discography. It's no dookie, and that's for the best. Green Day got a lot less one-note as the years wore on.

Un clásico. Todo el mundo conoce al menos 3 canciones de este álbum y las ha cantado a pleno pulmón.

Green Day - nothing special. More american than idiot.

круто, есть хиты звучит и не скучно можно переслушать с комментом про диснеевский рок согласен 3.6

RATING: 5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Jesus of Suburbia LOWLIGHT: St Jimmy

When American Idiot came out, I remember being so anti-Green Day that I never really gave it a chance. Twenty years later, it felt like the perfect time to finally sit down and listen to it properly. A lot of that prejudice came from Dookie, which I really disliked as a teenager. Because of that, I assumed Green Day were all loud, shouty punk rock with little substance. American Idiot proved me wrong. There are some genuinely great songs here, and a lot more variety than I was expecting. What surprised me most was the ambition of the album. Yes, there are the big, energetic rock songs, but there are also some excellent ballads, strong melodies and surprisingly good storytelling running through the lyrics. It feels far more considered and mature than I had given it credit for all those years ago. It's still not a genre I would naturally gravitate towards, and I probably won't be rushing back to it regularly, but I came away with a much greater appreciation for Green Day as songwriters and musicians. Sometimes revisiting an album years later can completely change your perspective, and that's definitely what happened here. Favourite tracks: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” Least favourite tracks: Everything on the album was worth a listen Album artwork: Cool album cover

Masomenos, despues de los hits tiene algunos temas que estan buenos pero no son algo que escucharia

я ненавижу это гавно

No es mi favorito de GD Pero definitivamente extraño los tiempos de rock band, pizza y refrescos todos los viernes con mi hermano. 4.8

classic.

Green Day on üks nendest bändidest, keda ma diskriminatoorselt väldin. Mul on mingi vastumeelsus trendika internetimuusika osas ja jah ma tean, et see on jabur, aga ei ma ei selgita. Igatahes, see on selline muusika, mida ma naudiks ja salvestaks kui nad poleks Green Day. Näiteks see boulevard of dreams on laul, mis on hea, aga ma seostan seda sügavalt ujumisvõistlustega niiet ma ei suuda olla chill seda kuulates. Selles albumis oli ainult üks skipp, ehk tegelikult võin öelda, et tegu on hea muusikaga. Mulle meeldib, et nende lüürika, niipalju kui ma sellele tähelepanu pöörasin on päris punk ja nende sõnum ka. Annan albumile 5/5, mitte 4/5 ja võtkem seda kui vabandust (ma ei kuula toda albumit uuesti).

I had no idea this album was so good. I love Dookie and had stupidly assumed that nothing they had done since could touch that. This is amazing from the first to last track. I knew the obvious hits but there are so many more great tracks here that I didn’t know. Jesus of Suburbia might be their best song and I had never heard it. Shame on me.

Halfway through Jesus of Suburbia I thought I was really going to like this. Then their sound wore thin. Then it wore really thin. RYM: N Saved a song: N

325/1001 Green Day - American Idiot Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ I played this to death at the time of its release, but definitely less so now. It's an ambitious album, but also feels just a little too long. American Idiot and Holiday are such great tunes.

Loved this album as teenager and still love it now. A no skip album for me and gets me singing along with ease

So gas

This is a classic for my generation. I have listened to the musical as well. Love the instruments, super catchy songs I really like Green Day and there are several iconic songs on this album

Lots of hits, great album

all day Green Day W album

I still love this album, but not as much as I used to since I'm not angsty and young anymore.

Este deve ser o album que mais ouvi! Acho que faz parte da minha personalidade, uma boa validação da Catarina pre-adolescente. Ainda tenho a t-shirt bem guardadinha, mas não sei o que se passou com o poster de metro e meio do Billi Joe que saiu na revista Bravo..

Já estava a precisar dum album que desse mesmo gosto por. Nostalgia ftw

Acho que muito da nota e nostalgia. Mas acho que foi assim o primeiro álbum que comprei com qualidade.

Dunno if green day expected this one to be relevant 22 years later.

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

66 albums in and finally one that I’ve listened to before. It might be boring of me, but hearing it again has maybe made me appreciate it even more. Sure, it’s a bit ‘ooh edgy’, but come on, it’s brilliant. A brilliant album, and one that’s even better listened to as a whole to really appreciate the amazing transitions between tracks.

Biggest album of my generation, but on fresh listen through quite a lot fell flat, especially toward the end. Tough one to rate

One of my favorite albums when I was in high school. Grew up with my older brother's Dookie and Nimrod cassettes, and this definitely sounded different than what they'd played before. It's not as in-your-face as bands like SOAD, but it definitely reached a wider audience, and that was worth something. It only got worse when they started huffing their own farts and making musicals and shit based on the album. It still holds a place in my heart, and it's one of the few albums I know all the lyrics to heart because of how much I listened to it.

My brother hates this album & is an American…if only there was a term to call him…

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.

PEDAZO DE DISCO. Obvio lo había escuchado ya. Muchos temas que escuché en la adolescencia. Es casi un no-skip. Me dio mucha curiosidad ver la cantidad de temas "dobles" que pusieron. Será porque no sabian si iban a ser exitosos por separado? Extraña decisión, pero quedó barbaro. Dsp los sacaron cada uno x separado en el disco 2. No recordaba que estaban tantos juntos. En fin, me encanta el disco. Green Day es un bandon. Me estaba fijando que el primer disco lo sacaron en el 91'. Tardaron casi 10 años en pegar un disco mega mega comercial. Y estamos hablando de Green Day!

Banger wie Holiday Overall gut aber nd ganz so meins

bom não esperava, eh um rock pauleira classic

SIngles are good but I found it a bit boring.

Genial...!

An album that is not only amazing, but it also really captures the feeling of America in the 2000s.

plenty of good ideas, lots of enthusiasm, and very good recording/mixing/mastering, but there's more vocals writing than instrumental writing, and it ends up somewhat samey. also, you can't say that word, buddy.

Album 213. American Idiot (https://open.spotify.com/album/5dN7F9DV0Qg1XRdIgW8rke?si=pOGFxsazRjaxSepo1xia2Q) — Green Day (2004) I'm biased and I don't like it. Yes, it's a big album in different ways and blah-blah. Pop punk sounds like shit to me. 2/5 Liked: — American Idiot — Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Really enjoyed boulevard of broken dreams, would consider buying the vinyl

Good album the whole way through.

Loved this album - had just moved to Guernsey and listened to it on my 30 min walk in/ back from work. Still rocks.

Enjoy the punk pop. It's not deep, it's not punk, but if it energizes some teen-bobbers into being politically aware and is a gateway into finding the punk era, then good. Great when old(er) farts can get the kids to follow them.

So not up my alley but this was one of the first non-Christian or country albums I was allowed to listen to for some reason??? Brings back a lot of memories. We were only allowed to listen to Boulevard of broken dreams and holiday though I’m pretty sure we had gotten a karaoke machine for Christmas one year and those two songs were both on it, which is why we are allowed to listen. The only other song I remember being on that karaoke machine was toxic by Britney Spears when I was alone, I would rock out to toxic, but when my family was around, I had to pretend to be more of a Green Day guy.

There’s idiots in America?!?!

Excellent album. 100% an album you have to listen to at some point in your life.

A classic! Love it to death

I like Green Day a lot. High energy, happy, angry head banging sound. Remind me of the Dead Kennedys gone mainstream.

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 found it annoying at best.

Another record where I vacillated a lot. At times I caught myself thinking, this is a surprisingly enjoyable song. Then I would think, well that surprisingly long song had an enjoyable section. I thought I would like this a lot more than I did, considering I have generally positive feelings about Green Day. But those feelings don't appear to be based on this particular album. Overall I felt there was something here, but more judicious editing would have helped a lot.

skibidi toilet yep 4.5

Apart from the hits I wasn't sure what I was going to think about this. After thinking on it if I give it less than a five then I am lying to myself.

Recall this being on my older brother's ipod. That alone made it cool in my eyes. I was excited to revisit it, but have to say the hits from this album remain the highlights and the hidden gems I was hoping to discover were not exactly there. Feels very of a time and a place to me. Boulevard of Broken Dreams and WMUWSE are the best two songs, and I wish they went into that mode more often. But good, definitely solid.

2004 1. American Idiot: Classic Greenday banger. 2. Jesus of Surburbia: familia. Very nostalgic. 3. Holiday: this album is hit after hit. 4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams: hit. 5. Are We The Waiting: unfamiliar. Softer. I don’t mind it. 6. St Jimmy: unfamiliar. Nice lead in and fits well. 7: Give Me Novocaine: unfamiliar. Softer again. Don’t mind but a bit dull. Others do it better. 8: She’s a Rebel: right style, bit nothingy to me. Easy filler. 9: Extraordinary Girl: as above. 10: Letterbomb: hmmmm I need another listen. 11. Wake Me Up When September Ends: such a huge hit at the time. Practically had its own cult. Well written hit. 12: Homecomeing: need another listen. Gosh it’s long. Many songs in one. Not a fan of the inserts. 13: Whatsername: fine. I feel like the lyrics of this would have suited Dookie better. There a pull between different greenday eras/identities. Quite a front-loaded album, hits wise. Not at all bothered about the second half. Really of its time - it was THE sound. It’s weird listening now when all the problems that it speaks of are deeper/more entrenched and more polarising now than they were even then, and also feeling like all the radio and fame over the years waters down the meaning?

An interesting debut album filled with an abundance of short rock driven numbers. Refreshing after those boring long drawn out numbers of others. Reminds me of early rock n roll releses.

This is not punk. This is pop.

05/29 Some good moments in it. Not bad

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.

banger

Was so so close to a 5 for this one, but a couple of weak songs and pretty bad mixing kept it a 4. So many anthems, imo their most cohesive record. These guys took the 4 power chords blueprint and ran with it to make such catchy pop /punk rock. Holiday is still one of my favourite songs to play on guitar, as well as one of the first. Good stuff.

Again not a bad listen but didn’t really blow me away either. I can appreciate it

Absolute banger of an album!

Well this one's hard as hell. Im just over 30 at this point. This album was everything to me when I was young. But now I wouldn't say i like it that much. But it informed so much of my musical taste down the line. Its pop punk with the tiniest smidgen of punk. This is 99% a pop record. I see that ad i got more exposure to the genre. But I still get down to alot of it. Some of it is bad or has bad parts but Im so nostalgic for it that it almost doesnt matter. But it still matters. Im kinda stuck here. I like older green day well enough but this is the line in the sand where I kinda loose that love for them. After this I would say they just kinda suck. And this record ruined them for me at least. But I have to give it props for being the introduction to my favorite music. Without this silly melodramatic theatrical slop of a record I woulda been on whatever club music was poppin in the early 00s. I dont know. Old me would give this an easy 5. And new me probably gives it a 3. Still some good songs and alot of bad stuff too. Middle of the road. But I think I need to split the difference on it. Fell out of love but still cherish the time we had kinda thing. Like my ex girlfriend... your mom.

Something about the mid 2000's and Pop Punk in the cultural zeitgeist just helped make this decade one of the best for rock music for me. You had artists like Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy cracking the mainstream with Paramore not far behind, and then you had My Chemical Romance and Green Day proving that punk rock could be artistic as well as rebellious and loud. American Idiot comes hot off the heels of the first George Dubbya term and boy has it got a lot to say. It's right in the name. This album is a rock opera of disillusionment and disenfranchised suburbanite youth bucking against a system that's making it increasingly clear that they aren't meant for greatness; or hell, comfortable living. I could delve into the various themes and characters, and the loose plot that follows the songs, but I think as of now that would be a waste of time. There's a freaking Broadway production of this album, and so many other more eloquent writers have dissected this record that I feel like I couldn't offer anything new to it really. What I will say though, is that this album shouldn't have worked as well as it did. You've got your loud and punky anthems with the title track and "Holiday", an ode to loneliness with "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and several multi-suite tracks with "Jesus Of Suburbia", the "Are We The Waiting/St. Jimmy/Give Me Novacaine/She's a Rebel" medley and the penultimate "Homecoming". These songs really put proof to paper that even though Green Day built their career so far on the foundations of four chord skate punk and hardcore roots, that they could take those influences and stretch them into grandiose territory to make something that's epic and multigenerational. Now not every song on this record is as incredible as the highlights, I particularly feel kinda lukewarm on "Extraordinary Girl" and even though "Whatsername" is a cute song, as a closer it's rather underwhelming following "Homecoming". Oh and I didn't even MENTION the heart crushing ballad of "Wake Me Up". A song that; similar to "Chop Suey!" by SOAD, has been memed to death that the original emotional intention and impact has been so watered down. This powerful anthem to the memory of BJA's father passing away; coinciding with the tragedy of 9/11, is a generational cry of SOS. The weight of this song still carries heavy in today's world as it seems every month something horrible is happening in addition to the personal struggles we all face. It's pretty exhausting physically and emotionally and this song has aged wonderfully because of it. So yeah, this is a pretty damn fucking important record not just for the rock canon of the oughts and Green Day's career, but also for the jilted youth of America that keep returning to this music and singing it's songs of restlessness. BJA is no Bob Dylan or Woodie Guthrie, but he sure embodies that rebellious spirit that's not afraid to call out the harmful administrations and societies that continue to pursue harm and control. I'll be blasting this record till I die I'm afraid.

I like it generally, timeless classic like American idiot, wake me up when September ends and more are insane. I see why it's rated so so highly. Interesting having dual songs, not sure I like it because its not 'playlist worthy'; I'm not listening to an 8 minute dual song normally. But listening as an entire album at once is great. I guess its 20 years ago but all of of songs sound very similar. Overall cool tho

Que des hits mais écouter l’album du début à la fin sous 35°c c’est un peu surstimulant

music that literally defined an era, and manages to maintain relevance, really couldn’t ask for more in a band.

One of my favourite albums ever, so consistently perfect. This album has so many great songs, it’s also nostalgic for me as well as it being an objectively great album. I was very excited to see this pop up as my album of the day. They represent punk perfectly, with a unique sound that feels like it’s theirs and only theirs. Love this album

A casualty of the Loudness Wars*. If this were mixed better, it would easily be 4 stars. Very good songwriting and musical performances. Unfortunately, the volume being maxed out and flattened just kills everything. The dynamics are all gone. It just becomes monotonous, flat, and fatiguing. And it's entirely the fault of the mastering. *For those who don't know... this got bad in the late 90's and early 00's. When mastering a recording, if you turn up the volume level in a mix, it eventually hits a ceiling. Eventually the quiet parts are just as loud as the loudest parts. So there is no dynamic contrast. But recording studios did this so that, when played on the radio, your song wouldn't be quieter than the ones around it.

One of my favourite albums already but listening to it with "new" ears confirmed it's still an absolute classic for the genre

Very good album.

Instant 5 stars. Still listened to it again though.

I’ve been listening to a lot of Green Day recently. I didn’t mind the long songs on this one. Starts off very strong. Not as good as Dookie but still good.

Some bangers I guess but I don't really enjoy this genre that much. Also the songs are soooo long. Probably the best punk? rock? album out there tho I just don't like punk rock 3.5/5

lowkey I did not super enjoy listening to most of this but it'd feel like a fraud not rating this high because tween me was a Green Day listener. Whatshername I enjoyed and also boulevard of broken dreams too. idk if these are the best songs on the album or if its nostalgia bc those r def the songs I listened to most #backinmyday

Another solid green day album. Don't like quite as much as dookie

I enjoyed a lot of songs which are super famous, but the album didn’t really have the WOW factor for me. It’s a solid album but I’ve unfortunately not been able to get into Green Day. I’m yet to put my finger on what’s exactly putting me off but I think it’s vocals… no offence Billie Joe Armstrong.

I can understand why my sister likes this album, its very driving sound and message of disenfranchisement work pretty well As an album it's quite one trick: it's raw, it's angry, and it's loud. You can argue all you like that it's inflammatory, exaggerative, and/or shallow, but I think as much as these are true I find the frustration lands for me. Nevertheless, I think it's good the album ended when it did — much more and I think the formulaic nature would probably start to wear me down The bass is better than I expected, does some nice counterpoint stuff and they give it breathing room which I appreciate The title track is a strong start, and the standout song on the album for me. It's no Fortunate Son but it certainly carries its anti-war message effectively anyhow

I've never actually listened to this, or went out of my way to listen to Green Day in general. I am pleasantly surprised. I have an aversion to this genre as I have bad expose to other bands that have extremely whiney vocals, and always found the music a bit corny, but I didnt feel that with this one. Was genuinly pretty good. I recognised a few songs that I didnt even know were Green Day songs in here too. Would listen again tbh.

Yasssssss Obviously most of these songs are very famous and maybe I've heard some so many times that they lose a little bit of their appeal (specifically "Wake Me Up When September Ends"... just makes me roll my eyes at this point). But they're still awesome.... I think to me, the ballads have worn a bit thin but the classic tracks like "American Idiot" and "Holiday" remain great. While most of this album is super familiar to me, I really enjoyed "Extraordinary Girl/Letterbomb" which I haven't listened to in YEEEEEEARs.... perhaps my favourite song on the album? dookie clears tho

The emotions this album triggers remembering a Cote d'Azure Road Trip alone are worth 5 stars. What a fun, melodic punk album with hits for the ages. American Idiots!

Not heard an album of theirs, quite enjoyed this, almost a 4

Classic. When I was younger I didn’t like Green Day but I love them now. Great listen always.

Beautiful

Have heard so many of these so many times on the radio over the years. Fine, but played out and nothing special to begin with.

1. American Idiot -- 8.3 Great. Classic. 2. Jesus of Suburbia -- 6.7 Holy moly this is a long song 3. Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams -- 9.1 THE ONLY ROAD THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWNNN 4. Are We the Waiting / St. Jimmy -- 7.2 5. Give Me Novacaine / She's a Rebel -- 7.4 6. Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb -- 7.4 7. Wake Me Up When September Ends -- 8.5 8. Homecoming -- 7.5 9. Whasername -- 7.7

A nephew of mine is a big fan of Green Day. I can understand that.

3.5, otro disco que me devuelve al cole (bad fan porque fue en el 2012)

Sell-out punks

Green day gör rockopera i Jesus of suburbia. Det spänner över musikaliska referenser från The Coral-pop till Iron Maiden-galopp och någonstans där i mitten låter det väldigt mycket Summer of 69 med Bryan Adams. Det är ändå en okej låt.

United och Tottenham undvek förra säsongen nedflyttning, inte tack vare egna prestationer, utan tack vare att det fanns andra lag som var så fruktansvärt dåliga. GD undviker ettan, inte tack vare egna prestationer…

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.

Not for me

4/10

I'll just have to let my nostalgia do the talking here, it's unavoidable. American Idiot is the first non-compilation album I've ever listened to, any and all objectivity goes out the window with that fact alone. Not to mention that they're the first band I've ever seen live and that I've learned how to play guitar almost exclusively with their songs. While I'm way more into their early work nowadays, there's a lot to love about this album as well. First of all, the hooks are consistently pretty good, and the mixing accentuates that perfectly. While the guitar is the most prominent part of every composition here, it's massively carried by Mike and Tré's tremendous energy. My biggest gripe with Green Day albums made after American Idiot is how little attention Mike gets in the mix, but that's not a problem here at all. In fact, I'd argue he's the star here. Billie Joe changes his vocal delivery and tone for this album pretty drastically. While I prefer his younger, sloppier, rawer delivery of the '90s, this change was a wise choice for this album and helps prop up some of the more emotional moments sprinkled throughout. Finally, the song structures are ambitious, well thought out and executed almost perfectly. I never agreed with the critique of American Idiot being too shallow in its presentation of political themes and emotional turmoil. Sure, Billie Joe has shown himself to be a lacklustre songwriter in this department for the last couple of Green Day albums, but those criticisms don't really apply to American Idiot, in my opinion. It's an attempt shove it in a particular punk sphere it just doesn't belong in. They're not Bad Religion. This is a rock-opera about an edgy, moody teenager, of course the songwriting has melodramatic tendencies and lacks nuance. I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm not gonna act like it's a flawless album, though. It has a couple of weak tracks, mainly She's a Rebel. Also, as I've already mentioned, I definitely prefer their more energetic and bratty albums, such as Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod, that type of pop-punk is when they're at their best. Favourite track: Holiday

7,15

To much the same

fun, got me reminiscing

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

🖤😮‍💨✨

Overblown and overrated. But we sure did play this one out back in the day.

3 for the nostalgia. My brother loved this album and I secretly loved a few songs, but would have never let him know at that time.

A near perfect album that is still woefully relevant.

I liked this album. Kind of like a punk rock opera. Has a thread to follow, and some good songs with food for thought. Worth giving a few spins. 3.5/5

============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== -------------------GREEN DAY------------------ ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- -----------------AMERICAN IDIOT--------------- ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------(2004)------------------- ============================================== ============================================== -----------------CALIFICACIÓN----------------- --------------------★★★★⯨-------------------- --------------------(4,833)------------------- ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== 1. American Idiot (★★★★★) -Fav 2. Jesus of Suburbia (★★★★★) -Fav 3. Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams (★★★★★) -Fav 4. Are We the Waiting / St. Jimmy (★★★★★) 5. Give Me Novocaine / She's a Rebel (★★★★⯨) 6. Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb (★★★★⯨) 7. Wake Me up When September Ends (★★★★★) -Fav 8. Homecoming (★★★★★) -Fav 9. Whatsername (★★★★⯨) ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== PUNTAJE TOTAL 5+5+5+5+4,5+4,5+5+5+4,5 = 43,5 ============================================== ============================================== PUNTAJE PROMEDIO 43,5 / 9 = 4,833 ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== CALIFICACIÓN FINAL ★★★★⯨ (4,833) ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== ============================================== COMENTARIO -Nunca le presté tanta atención a este álbum, y ya me gustaba de antes, ahora que entiendo mejor la intención, me parece muy bueno, una genialidad, llena de buena música y letras, con una estructura pensada y excelente ejecución y resultados. ============================================== ============================================== ==============================================

This is an album from my childhood man. I remember looking at my older sister’s cd collection and her playing this for me on her computer.

Monday May 18th, 2026. I love Green Day. The lyrics are very meaningful and the guitar is awesome. 9/10. My favorite song of the album is American Idiot, the guitar on it is just *chefs kiss*.

While I appreciate Green Day’s willingness to stand up for good causes, their activism has always felt a bit shallow… and this album definitely illustrates that pretty well. There are some strong, energetic moments in here, but the length gets a bit draining after a while. “Jesus of Suburbia” is a wonderful example of this–none of the many sections of this song stick around long enough to feel fully fleshed out, and they don’t even flow into one another very well. It says a lot that my favorite songs off of this album are mostly due to their nostalgia. Basically, I think I just prefer early Green Day, when they were a little more wild and weren’t trying to be taken so seriously. Favorites: American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends

Did we need a rock opera from a band that made their trade on hooky pop-punk tunes that would rarely even touch the 3 minute mark? I would say no, but the world disagreed. This just doesn't work for me, the whole idea of it turns me off, I guess. I'll always appreciate Green Day for their run from Kerplunk to Nimrod, and I still return to those records for a nice hit of nostalgia and songs that get in and out without wearing out their welcome. These songs do not do that for me. 16 year old me had already moved on from Green Day, imagine how 38 year old me feels.

A friend of mine once said that it's hard to believe that Green Day has two of the most important albums in our lifetimes, 20 years apart from one another. I do not disagree with him. Dookie kicked off the goofy pop punk movement of the 90s and then American Idiot went back to punk rocks and told a story of how the government loves to fuck us all over. This album his filled with hits and scathing commentary of the country we were at the time of release. What is mind blowing is now, in 2026, how much worse it is and maybe we are ready for a sequel? American Idiot 2: MAGA edition. I'd buy it. I'd listen to it. Anyways, this record is amazing and should be listened by everybody.

Less punk but still fun

I don't like it that much Not for me.

You have to be an American Idiot to enjoy this.

An socio-political album that perfectly explains the USA and their uneducated citizens. Perfect depiction of the USA current state today written 22 years ago and could have been written in 1960. Timeless masterpiece of our times. This cemented Green Day as a top band for the rest of music history

A couple good tracks.

Great listen from a solid band, nostalgia certainly helps here

so many hits, was good to listen as a body of work rather than just singles

un toque pesado es que no lo escuche solo quizás eso hubiese estado bien pero seguro lo terminaré en algún momento, más metido en el genero supongo, lista naranja. 🍊

Irritante. No veo de dónde los Green Day son tan amados. Le pongo dos estrellas porque no considero que sean malos músicos y de pronto salen buenos momentos, pero ni les creo su música, ni su postura y en general el disco me puso un poco de malas. Y los grandes hits de este disco me parecen odiosos.

Ok. This is definitely a progression in songwriting from Dookie. But it's still not my taste. It's pretty solidly done throughout, but again, not my taste. Was I glad it was over? Yup, but it doesn't deserve a 2.

Alright album. I feel like it's technically punk but too mainstream for me to actually feel like it's a punk album. More like "pop punk" I guess. But it was still a nice listen and like how later tracks reference previous tracks St. Jimmy and Whatsherface. Overall good album but not something I would listen to again tbh.

Hmmm... this felt pretty manufactured to me... as if, perhaps unironically, the target consumer were, in fact, the American idiot, himself... It's not really punk... it's not really rock... it feels more like a (successfully) calculated cash grab than anything else... Personally, I wasn't able to find anything relatable nor even all that interesting here, but, like 'The Marshall Mathers LP' before it, I guess it still deserves a slight bump for achieving what it seemingly set out to do: make lots of mainstream money... the singles have certainly been brutally overplayed at any rate...

There is some relevancy here based on current events. So there is that. Yet I couldn’t help but be annoyed by all the two songs in one track nonsense. It didn’t help with make this album longer than it needed to be.

The fact that the highest-rated review of this album is bashing it just shows how good the album is. I've never listened to anything past the singles and never really deeped the album before, but listening to this now in the state the world is currently in just solidifies the importance of education.

Cringe 90’s music to my ears but see why it was so well received from that generation

awesome album loved it

This album shouldn't get 5 stars. But how can you not make such rating when it reminds you of such good times?

suna hai

First listen of this adventure through 1001 Albums and I was pleasantly surprised at the flow of this album and the lyrical content which seems timeless.

its alright, the songs are too long tho

Yayaaaaa 13yr old me wasn't into this... But I really appreciate the nostalgia.

It is a really solid slice of highly polished stadium rock. The melodies and riffs are simplistic and catchy, though it does lack some of the energy of their earlier work.

I was all ready to rag on this but, when viewed purely as a pop album, it does what it sets out to do well. Catchy riffs, some quotable lyrics, and maintains energy. I’m still not much of a fan though and, despite it trying to rail against the politics at the time, it comes across as quite shallow and lacks any real sense of vitriol behind it, possibly due to a pervasive view that this is where they ‘sold out’ and targeted the arenas rather than the more grimy gig venues with music that had greater mass appeal as a result.

So Green Day has grown up and stopped singing about farts and jerking off in favor of a “concept” album about the “Jesus of Suburbia”, huh? Still don’t like them but I’ll admit a little nostalgia for purveyors of power chords that their sound is indicative of. Under all the production and distortion most of these songs are basically corny doowop songs that don’t really push the truth of music forward in any way.

If you like power chords and that annoying way Armstrong sings, have I got an album for you. This album.

it was good but not my style

This might be the greenest day. No song overstays it's welcome. It feels tight and doesn't feel too dated.

Nothing new here, but enough catchy pop tunes to keep it interesting

I think that I haven't ever listened this album through. Almost all songs are somewhat familiar and radio hits are rather worn out. Still this solid album that could be rated as weak 3 stars.

American Idiot was a weirdly emotional revisit. Back in the day I listened to this CD to death, heard the hits constantly on the radio, and even saw Green Day live a few times. I expected the album to feel boring now because these songs have been played into the earth’s crust, but surprisingly it still sounds really good. Jesus of Suburbia and Wake Me Up When September Ends still hit somewhere deep inside. Not every song survived equally well though — Holiday now feels more like mandatory mall punk cardio than an actual revelation. Still, the album has aged surprisingly good.

#390 / 1089 Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ❌ US pop-punk has never been to my taste, I like NoMeansNo and Bad Religion, but the poppier "skate punk" side of these things does nothing for me. Give be G.B.H. or Exploited or Napalm Death any time. I've heard some of these songs before, while they do have the radio hit quality to them, this is not the style of punk rock that I like. I like my punk music angry, unpolished, fast and to the point. Not rock opera with grammy ambitions. Disinterested 2 out of 5, this is not annoying enough to justify just one.

Absolute pop punk HOF. Greatest album

Love this album. I was the perfect age for this when it came out and the first 4 songs are probably the best start to any album in the 2000's. 5/5 album

Not quite as bad as I feared, and while I do like pop-punk this isn't for me

Always kinda shunned it, but this is a good record. Great songs, slightly too tight production for a punk record, but the anger and emotions are there.

Legendarisch, zo veel iconische nummers en de onbekende nummers zijn ook bangers

I never liked Green Day. Even when it would have been cool to like them as a teenager, still couldn't fake it. I listened to this whole album and it's the same all the way through? I appreciate the sentiment of it but I just really don't like them.

Great!

Green Day were the second band I really got into after Queen when I was 13, I loved everything from their first album to warning and a chunk of this album but this is where I see the band going downhill personally

I hadn’t heard this in a very long time because back when I was a LOSER I deemed this too uncool to enjoy. Now that I am smart and beautiful I think it’s pretty good.

talvez se eu tivesse menos de 14 anos

Great album, really into this style of music right now so its a nice surprise from the generator. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams was my fav song of the album. Holiday and Letterbomb (my fav first listen) were my other highlights

Been a few years since I've heard this album in full. I think the narrative, of disenfranchised kids finding community and conflict in each other amid a highly politicized and war-glorifying societal climate, still holds up, but musically everything got a bit samey over nearly an hour. Was considering 4 stars, but downgrading to an honourary 3.5.

This may be my favorite album of the nearly 400 albums I’ve listened to from the 1001 so far. I want to go back in time and kick my own ass for not listening to the full album sooner. Massive hits with staying power throughout. How did I go my entire life not knowing that Holiday went into Boulevard of Broken Dreams? How had I never listened to Jesus of Suburbia or Whatsername?

You know what, this album is sick as hell!!! Went into this already fondly familiar with the big hits, though fully expecting to be let down by the deep cuts as with many past albums. Instead, the album experience completely recontextualized the hits, and I can confidently say there is not a moment of filler on this!!! You mean to tell me Holiday led into Boulevard of Broken Dreams all this time?!?! The lone guitar note transitioning the two genuinely blew my mind! The concept album angle was also a really pleasant surprise. Even if it's not as topical today as it was back then, that cohesion elevates the album so much to me. I was on the fence about the rating until I found myself listening front to back two more times today, each listen better than the last. How can I argue against that? Banger banger banger. Standouts: American Idiot • Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams • Are We the Waiting / St. Jimmy • Give Me Novacaine / She's a Rebel • Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb • Homecoming

While listening to this album I realized that there was a period in my life where I was actually listening to this album very frequently. The fact that I could not remember when, or why, or even that I had done it, says everything I could possibly say about this album.

Great album, already super familiar with it. Jesus of suburbia is a great 3 parter References to a mysterious woman and then closing the album with whatsername So many bangers, glad they didn’t break up just prior to this album

Good

Gut

The songs on here that stood the test of time are truly great - but there is a lot in this release that’s just super mediocre/forgettable. I wanted to give it a 4 but I’m just not gonna spin this whole album again - some of the bangers yes, but there’s too much fluff in this imo.

Great guitar licks, the harmonies feels kinda 50s/60s lite. Kind of like pop-punk. It's good, but it gets dull after listening to it so many times.

I hate to admit it... I really do...

Definitely one of my favorite albums.

a couple of iconic songs that are good, the others are a bit long but maybe would like if i listened more

Some decent songs on here. Not quite as energetic as you would expect from them. Like the theme of the title track. It’s an okay album. 2.5/5 Might listen again

this actually sounds pretty good omg.. the first song reminds me of da johnny test intro

Had a few really nice tubes on it. I meant to type tunes but I'm going to leave that. They're nice tubes and I enjoyed them. I've never been a rock opera guy. I am a punk fan. I'm conflicted.

Maybe the high school nostalgia affects my judgment a little, but I liked this album when it came out and I still do. This isn’t really your standard pop punk album either, especially with it being a concept album. It feels bigger and more locked in than that, and as a protest album it really captures the attitude a lot of artists had at the time. The front half is definitely loaded, especially those first four tracks. That stretch does a lot of the heavy lifting and gives the album a ton of momentum right out of the gate. “Are We the Waiting” is probably the weakest song on here for me, but even with that, there’s too much good stuff on this album for me to rate it any lower. Favorite song: "Holiday"

Green Day are about as main stream and big as punk can get and remain recognizable. Musically this stretches a little thin and it’s not exactly a master’s thesis conceptually. But it is a really good distillation of a current of thought from its time of release, so it’s certainly worth a listen for that, and it’s highlights are great for a revisit.

2000s alt-rock. Absolute classic of the genre. Rock opera concept album, very political, punk influence.

cool cool cool teenage dirtbag kinda album 🤟🏻🖤🎸

I'm not a huge Green Day fan, but they kick so much ass. I'm glad they made this record.

Punk rock opera. Energy from start to finish. It tells an amazing story that was extremely relevant in 2004, and even more so in modern times. This is a 5/5 album, and always will be.

not my favorite but nostalgic

This album greets me like an old friend. Every time I hear it I feel totally justified in my love of Green Day despite their recent and gigantic missteps in the studio.

American Idiot, Holiday y Boulevard of Broken Dreams son las canciones de mi adolescencia, me levantan la energía al toque. Jesus of Suburbia, me aburre. Prefiero su alterego St. Jimmy que es para matarse en un pogo. Pierde sentido en mi casa. El resto son bastante olvidables. WMUWSE- me hace llorar siempre. Es hermosa. Todo el resto están bien pero es un poco más de lo mismo y no son canciones que escucharía a diario. Sé que me pierdo lo conceptual porque ni idea las letras, pero bueno.

I wanted to hate this album more but it was pretty good. Teenager in me is joyed. I don't appreciate this as an actual punk-rock because there's way more bands that do it better and more genuine, but it's a pretty solid pop-punk with some bangers like Boulevard of Broken Dreams or Holiday. But otherwise I'm not a huge fan of Green Day.

The once loved and jubilant band is desperately grasping for the dookie days with this stagnant album.

I liked Green Day for their short songs. Dookie is part of my teenage soundtrack. I applaud them for taking punk and wxtending it to a 9 minute epos. I was never a fan of JoS, but on an album, it works

Unbelievable album

Green Day is the U2 of punk rock.

Love it !!! One of my absolute favorites!

So much melodrama, self-importance, angst - and I love it all. So many great hooks and memorable lines. Maybe my favorite Tre Cool drumming performances? Always been a huge fan of She’s A Rebel and Whatsername

I already knew most of the album and had never listened to it before. I think I enjoyed the unreleased songs more than the ones that everyone knows. I’m not a big Green Day fan but this was a lot of fun and very inventive for a pop punk band.

Had heard the singles, for me, Dookie was good fun, the rest of their catalog hasn't been hugely interesting. Now, the title track is one I've enjoyed since first hearing it, the rest of this is just alright. I was impressed at the fact they threw down a couple of lengthy tracks with some structure to them, but I'm not rushing out to hear this again.

Uggghhhh

Rate: 10/10. Green Day nunca fue música para tibios, recuerdenlo. En lo personal, soy muy fan de las portadas y este álbum tiene una portada sencillamente muy linda.

Light 4

This is Green Day's masterpiece and finally fulfilled the promise they had shown with Dookie a decade earlier. It's slightly below the level where I see my greatest albums of all time, but close enough that I'm rounding up (rather than a seriously considered down) for this rating.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

Classic childhood memories rooted in this one. Very well put together and ground breaking.

Fire

This is a pretty solid album. Boulevard & Wake me up have always been my top songs of theirs.

A punk rock concept album? Seems kinda silly now. But at the time this landed it was a huge re-start for a band that clearly couldn’t last on the Dookie model of making music. An ambitious effort that at times is pretty long in the tooth, and yet still sounds a lot newer than it actually is. Probably because the idiots being sung about are in full force today.

Really solid, but the whole rock opera thing is tough to pull off without occasionally feeling hokey. Even if that’s the point, warrants a downgrade from me

Biggest complaint being that this was so overplayed. But after stepping away for a while and coming back, I enjoy this a lot. Saw these guys play the full album at wembly in 2024 and it was greatness. Not sure there’s a band that gets as much out of power chords as these guys. 4.5 and rounding up

One of those albums I listened to a bunch when It came out, it got played into oblivion, and now I generally skip. That said, it is objectively a solid album with a bunch of hits. And really benefits from this country really growing into the American Idiot moniker over the years... sheesh. 4/5

Every song very similar, hadn't realised that theyd done boulevard of broken dreams. Very much american coming of age movie music

Knew most of it, much easier to listen to than some Green Day albums good for time released

As a teenager, my wife had a friend, another teenage girl, who was taken on tour with Billie Joe Armstrong and trafficked across several European nations for his pleasure. Although, I didn't mention it in the review of Play, this is also true of Moby. I won't be taking seriously any politicking - on American Idiocy or Animal rights - let alone moralising from them. Ignoring the lyrics and attempt at a narrative - much more a musical than an opera - it is hard not to hear The King is Half Undressed by Jellyfish and The Passenger by Iggy Pop and a dozen other popular riffs, chord sequences, and tunes. This is not decry plagiarism, which is an open hazard of any pop songwriting, but to identify American Idiot's music for what it is: repentant, reconstructed, barely considered rock'n'roll. There is nothing daring or inventive here and, if the politics are naïve, the music is even more so. 1.5 Yesterday, on the daily album drop page in the Reddit community for this project I encountered an all-too familiar response to Joanna Newsom’s Ys - 1 star, couldn’t listen to her voice. That Newsom’s music - for me as powerfully beguiling and absorbing as anything I’ve heard this century - can be fatally hamstrung for a listener by a simple distaste for the particular timbre of her voice seems tragic to me. However, that’s perhaps as far as I can criticise that (common enough) response to Ys without hypocrisy. Truthfully I have only listened to 4 of Green Day’s 14 studio albums but I know for certain that I cannot stand any of them, because Billie Joe Armstrong is the singer on every one. Billie Joe’s voice - to my ears Yogi Bear with pretensions - defeats me before a shot is fired. To my credit, over those who abandon Ys before Monkey and Bear have even got out the gate, I listened to American Idiot in full, twice today. “Well done you!” the Green Day fans may well concede, “For does not American Idiot, just like Ys, have multiple songs over 9 minutes long?” Honestly, no it doesn’t *really* although it does have Wake Me Up When September Ends, which lasts forever. Yes - the tracks Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming clock in over 9 minutes, but each is really a volley of several short, simple songs, only bearing the most superficial of musical and lyrical connective tissue between. In the ‘Digital Edition’ of this album - whatever the significance of that is - all of the tracks between Jesus of Suburbia and Wake Me Up.. are presented as part of a diptych. This is novelty and window-dressing and that’s all the name-calling I will do about that. So I listened twice and it was no great trial of concentration; instead my energy was focused on trying to be fair. Because I am aware that lots of people - not least among my own generation - treasure this album, not enough to have gone to see American Idiot the Musical of course, but still - treasure it, so they do. So what, in fairness, should I focus on here? Not the musicians. Can any Green Day fan pretend that there is any distinctiveness in the guitar, bass or drums? Could be me doing all that sawing and palm-muting, could be my wee brother - you’d never know. There are no musical ‘ideas’ in Green Day’s playing outside the ordinary gestures of their genre, large though the band may loom within that genre. So everything must be staked on the songs themselves. Surely then, with the divisiveness of Billie Joe’s voice also acknowledged, we can do no less now than invoke a comparison between American Idiot and the work of Bob Dylan. It’s only fair. Jesus Christ, this is fairer than fair. Whoever enjoyed such magnanimity from a listener? Bringing out Dylan is perfect justice. For is not American Idiot celebrated as one of the iconic popular political texts of its era? There was George W Bush and Iraq and what not…’grrrrrrr‘, said America‘s youth, before a pitifully small number of them turned out to help stop him being reelected in a landslide. Still, it is doubtful that American Idiot would have had the same resonance under a John Kerry presidency, useful to America and I dare say the rest of the world as that would have been. Like Green Day, Bob Dylan did a decent bit of resonating back in the day as well. Yet when I think about the songs of his ‚protest‘ era and American Idiot, you might be surprised to learn that it is the differences rather than the similarities that really struck me. There are notable examples of Dylan in protest mode using the narrative ‚I‘. A Hard Rain‘s… God on our Side, and Masters of War spring to mind, and let’s keep the generosity flowing here: ‚But I see through your eyes/ And I see through your brain/ Like I see through the water/ That runs down my drain‘ ..is by no means too good to have come from the pen of Billie Joe Armstrong. Just as often however, the ‚I‘ is entirely absent from Dylan‘s protest; Blowin‘ in the Wind, The Times They are a Changin‘, Hattie Carroll, and Hollis Brown among others. Dylan (as ever) was capable of becoming poetically absorbed enough in his subjects that he was never stuck navel-gazing. There is no ‚I‘ in Like a Rolling Stone either, a song often understood as being caustically personal. Can the same compliment be paid to Billie Joe? ‚I‘m not a part of a redneck agenda‘ (America Idiot) ‚I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies‘ (Holiday) ‚I walk alone, I walk alone‘ (Boulevard…) ‚Is she dreaming what I’m thinking?‘ (She’s a Rebel) ‚I don’t wanna stay/ Get me out of here right now/ I just want to be free‘ (Homecoming) These are not examples of an isolated ‚I’ (as we find for example at the end of Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom) these songs hinge on the narrator’s own belly-button. These are not the only songs that do it and in fact I also exclude here anything from the most egregious example - Jesus of Suburbia - because it is far too rich in self-obsession, whether or not one reads some of it as the mere portrayal of a ‚character‘, to be reduced to one or two lines. Lies and injustice are only as significant as the effect they have on Billie Joe‘s experience and identity. Where there is any respite from this torrent of energetic egotism, the results are worse: "Sieg Heil" to the president Gasman Bombs away is your punishment/ Pulverize the Eiffel towers/ Who criticize your government The poetic poverty of those lines is only eclipsed by the crassness of the sentiment; Billie Joe indulging in imagining a violent suppression of political dissent when America’s government had not only actually, back in reality, bombed and invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, but passed the Patriot Act which defaced its own citizenry‘s rights to free speech and privacy. Billie Joe found himself entirely unable to address those realities. The less said about the ‘gasman’ bit the better. Billie Joe was simply not the songwriter for the hour that had come. 9/11 - a subject Springsteen gamely devoted an album to, even if he didn’t cover himself in glory in the analysis - is here quietly folded away as a subtext to a confessional about Billie Joe’s loss of his father 20 years before. Perhaps that struck some listeners as a touching juxtaposition. I thought it was, again, crass, the worst song on the album, and in my personal opinion one of the worst songs ever to rhyme ‘rain’ with ‘pain’, which is to say one of the worst songs ever written. Is there really ‘protest’ at all here? There is perhaps a spittle-thin veneer of disapproval for America’s governance, and the influence of the increasingly powerful right-wing media; although not even that much is observed - it’s just ‘the media’, and if we are being that inexact with the term, why shouldn’t Green Day of Warner Music Group be thrown in there with the rest of the accused? Of course almost all bands who claim any kind of outsider status to the maschinations of consumerism and corporate oppression are indulging in a spot of hypocrisy. But I well remember walking past Clinton Cards in the early to mid noughties and seeing a whole Green Day stand; posters, wrist bands, patches, key rings, who knows what else… not Rip-Off mind you, where you could dump your money on pruck from any number of rock bands, CLINTON CARDS where you would typically pop in to grab an emergency birthday card for your granny and the fuckers had their OWN STAND. No wonder America’s youth forgot to vote in November 2004 - they were all out buying Green Day stickers for their skateboards. I fear ‘fairness’ may have fallen a little behind me now but I would like to point out that Billie Joe isn’t exactly fair either. In the midst of any such flurry of accusations that Green Day’s material is too shallow to pass for real protest or decent art there is a subtle sense here that Billie Joe (and those fans just here for the puerile thrill of the chunes) can always fall back on not caring: I don’t care if you don’t care/ I don’t care/ Everyone’s so full of shit (Jesus of Suburbia) Yes there it is. That’s the essence of punk rock isn’t it? We target authority in superficial ways and take credit for anything resembling a palpable hit against it but we don’t really ‘care’ at the same time - go listen to your Joan Baez, boomer. Not caring is a powerful piece of rearguard defence and part of the defining spirt of every true punk from Joey Ramone through to Dick Cheney. Hard to believe that there are people out there who think Green Day ‘sold out’ in some way. Who are these ‘American Idiots’ though? ‘Rednecks’ is it? Because to be fair to rednecks, it is often less that they are idiots than that they, too, don’t care. Watergate does not bother them. Does your conscience bother you? 0/5

I feel like this is when Green Day got bigbig and all their true punk rock fans stopped thinking they were good because they were huge on the radio or MTV and little pop kiddies like me started singing along. I think they’re one of the few pop punk rock bands that stood the test of time and they’ll be remembered for the place they held in their genre and era. I’m glad they’re still sticking to their message, and giving a middle finger to the man, even as old men.

Rubbish

A priori négatif, notamment de part ma dernière écoute. J’imagine du punk/garage rock moi et très adolescent American idiot est bien quand même ! Je pense que j’aime pas le chanteur et que je trouve les riffs fainéants. Jesus of suburbia par exemple je trouve que c’est une mauvaise chanson. + en 2004 ils utilisent le mort « retard » au 1er degré, ils sont pas bases mais ça ne m’étonne pas D’autres rifs sont efficaces et faut avoir assez cultes (holiday). Mais la voix du chanteur me donne vraiment mal à la tête. La transition holiday dans boulevard est superbe Les paroles sont emos au point d’être énervantes, ce qui est totologique, mais avec cette voix insupportable et ces rifs benêts ça rend vraiment l’écoute difficile. Ça sent le 5 de merci pour les travaux C’est vraiment un des trucs les plus corny que j’ai jamais entendu

I’ve been avoiding this album for more than 20 years — tired of people telling me it was great or a big step forward for Green Day, or it had something important to say. I was a mostly-unwilling participant in Green Day being the soundtrack to my high school years and I was damned if I was going to let it follow me into my 20s as well. 20 years later, I think I was right to avoid it. It’s not horrible, but it has none of the fun and great tunes that made me enjoy Dookie despite it not being my favorite type of music. All the unavoidable radio songs still make me wince and hearing them in the context of the record doesn’t help. Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams probably fares the best of the hits. All that said I do appreciate that Green Day couldn’t make slacker teen punk music forever. It would have been worse if they entered their 30s still trying to recreate the feeling of smoking pot in their parents’ basement. A sprawling rock opera wasn’t the way I expected them to move on, and it’s not something I was interested in hearing — particularly from them. The middle section of the album is the worst part, playing out like a tiresome pop-punk version of Abbey Road, full of semi-unfinished loosely connected ideas. All that said, there is so much evidence throughout this record that Green Day is a band who is meticulous about their craft. It’s kind of daring for a band associated with music that loudly shouts, “who cares!?” to clearly care so much. Maybe part of me wished they still appreared to be as effortlessly cool as they did in the 90s, but looking back now I can’t fault them for realizing that version of Green Day had reached its expiration date. I probably won’t listen to this again. I respect it, even while I admit it’s not really for me.

Es un album increíble de principio a fin. Sin duda no te aburres en ningun momento y sin ser amante de este género, son canciones que cada vez que la escucho, las disfruto al máximo.

I’m still not convinced a 9 minute punk song works, but the two on American Idiot are probably the closest anyone’s ever going to get. I was familiar with the bigger hits off this but the other songs are basically just as good too

I wanted to give this a 1 based solely on Billy Armstrongs Haircut. Also wanted to give it a 1 as it comes off as pretentious drivel, a punk opera with an 8 minute song? Go fuck yourself. Also wanted to give it a 1 because the power chords, learn music you dick fucker. But alas, there are some hits, even if they've been so overplayed I would be happy enough to never hear them again.

Suburban Jesus is better than i remembered

its alright Not my fav but is a classic

This album is really excellent. Melodies are catchy and so well supported by the instrumentation. His voice is funny but fits the music so well.

Teenage musicality, pre-teen politics.

Uber strong start that goes gradually downhill before rallying a little at the end. 3.5 stars really.....

A pretty good album, some good songs on it

It’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer but ultimately a good collection of pop rock

Super good rock album

Been a little while since i listened to this but knew it would be 5*s. Possibly forgot just how good it is though - as well as being a stunning album choca with hits it just has so many smaller moments that grab the attention in such a unique way. The 'Dearly Beloved' bridge on Jesus of Suburbia The transition from Holiday to Boulevard The whiplash switch from Are We The Waiting to St Jimmy The slide guitars on Give Me Novocaine The brief 'American Idiot' vocal callback on Homecoming Aside from all this, I have a lot of love for Billy Joe's vocals, and the band absolutely nailed the concept album. 10/10

Geenday uh american idiot is good and if the music of its genre they do a p good job but just not the right type of noise for me.

Green Day's most graduated album. While kerplunk and dookie are their roots, they've grown up in this rock epic. Outstanding album.

I kind of get it but it’s just annoying. It sounds like everything else I don’t get it.

When Green Day first appeared, they were a bit too poppy and commercial for snobby 19-year-old me. It's been strange to see them become elder statesmen of rock. These days, I like their politics and I can see that they make an impressive noise for a simple three-piece punk band. I enjoyed this, but only the singles really stood out for me.

A welcome evolution from their pop-punk sound in Dookie! Sad that I was born too late to really enjoy this album in its heyday. Really interesting to hear Green Day try out operatic-punk, which goes well with the heavy-handed topics it addresses.

I'm not going to lie, this isn't my favourite GD album and it's not their biggest (either by numbers or in rock history). However, it had a massive commercial impact and restored their relevance with its pivotal, redefining sound from pop-punk to punk-rock. The arrangements are bigger, tempos and moods are more varied and lyrics have more emotional depth. They reshaped their audience and catapulted themselves across generations whilst maintaining their identity. This is an easy 5. I just hope this isn't the only GD album on the list!

Love it

I remember the boys listening to this album. Pretty good listen.