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excellent
When this hit I was BIG into it, but around the time it was turned into a Broadway musical I saw a production and did not like it. Was totally soured to it, so I had not listened to it for about 10 years. Returning to it--aside from the f and r slurs--the album is a masterpiece. The only song I was like nah was Extraordinary Girl. Sometimes inspiration hits weirdly and after Green Day's previous pop album I think they were left for dead--they even did a greatest hits, lol! Something inspired Billie Joe and I was glad to listen again!
4.5. Cracker. Some songs less banging than others.
Interesting album, a couple of songs with various styles in the one song.
What a bangger
Top tier concept album that suffers from some individual tracks not being able to stand on their own, middling album without the concept and large scale songs that are on both sides
Wauw, dit is volgens mij een soort Rumours voor pop-punk. Ik ben geen groot pop-punk fan, maar bijna elk nummer komt bij al bekend voor haha. Lekker album om de week mee te beginnen in elk geval! Wel een heel stom kritiekpuntje, maar ik vind het ergens jammer dat de nummers gecombineerd staan. Ik vind Holiday namelijk een VEEEEEEL beter nummer dan Boulevard of broken dreams. Kan komen doordat die laatste wel echt overplayed is, maar soit. Ook is het middenstuk wel echt flink minder dan wat daavoor komt. De eerste 2/3 nummers zijn allemaal hits. Dan is het een tijdje een stuk minder, dan komt Wake me up when september ends en dan is het weer uitzitten tot het einde. Poppunk loopt wel een beetje tegen het probleem aan dat het goed klinkt, maar ook een beetje als meer van hetzelfde. Daarnaast; de lange nummers van bijna 9 minuten? Waren echt niet nodig. Zo begon dit album erg lekker en neigde ik meteen naar 4 sterren, maar gezien de 2e helft en het belachelijk lange Jesus nummer waar maar geen eind aan komt, word het toch 3 sterren voor mij. Prima pop-punk, maar niet iets wat ik snel nog een keer aan ga zetten. FAVO: American Idiot, Holiday/Boulevard of broken dreams, Wake me up when September ends
Bubblegum punk or just pop wearing punk sensibilities? Kudos to them for rebounding and reestablishing themselves 10 years after Dookie for a new generation.
The first three songs + the first double track might be the best start to any poppunk album ever. Usually I don't have the patience to listen to long songs, but Jesus of Suburbia manages to keep my interest. The last three tracks are also of really high quality. It's those three couplets in the middle that make American Idiot lose one star, as they are mediocre at best. As a rock opera, it is much better executed than Tommy, in my opinion. Just to be controversial right at the end.
Trash
I think the stigma that's surrounded Green Day for decades is finally starting to fade away. for years within punk and underground music culture, this band was the poster child for the word "sellout", a once-beloved Bay Area punk trio that signed to a major label, became a ubiquitous, best-selling rock act, and lost all their cred in the process. now that Green Day are firmly in their legacy years, it's allowed for a more measured appraisal of their work by many, myself included. I've never really had that kind of smoke for these guys, to be honest; and in revisiting their first seven albums, I grew to appreciate their evolution and trajectory. sometime around the late 90s, Billie Joe Armstrong's strengths as a songwriter started to really come into focus; the batch of tracks on nimrod. show this off particularly well. with American Idiot, Green Day also did something fairly punk (as much as a major-label rock band could): they were one of the first artists of their stature to position themselves firmly against then-President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. this is a concept album which, nominally, tells the story of a group of young people disillusioned by the "television dreams of tomorrow," a false hope of a bright future being propagated at the time by every sector of the U.S. media, with the supposedly righteous and just War on Terror being positioned as an unquestionable good. as they come of age, they realize that the world they were promised is gone, and they turn to drugs, sex and other vices to cope. the anti-Bush position has become much more popular over the years, but Green Day deserves the props for being early to the party. I said this album "nominally" tells a story because, if you've listened to this thing, you know that the plot kind of falls apart about two-thirds of the way through. the individual songs that make up American Idiot are often some of Green Day's finest; the title track and "Holiday" are the best political moments, and there's plenty of uptempo punk ragers counterbalanced with sentimental ballads, all of which the band pulls off really well. there's also the two 9-minute suites, easily some of the most ambitious material they ever recorded. where this album suffers most is in its weak narrative payoff. the songs on this album would later be combined with a few from 21st Century Breakdown (another concept LP with a half-baked narrative) to form a musical which gives the American Idiot story a more concrete narrative, but even then, it's still pretty loose. strong 7/10.
Incredibly dull and soulless for an album which is trying to send a message. Sounds like it was made by a bunch of rich 14 year olds.
Green Day was the first band I loved. when I was 13, i listened to Dookie for the first time and my mind blew apart. I wasn't into music until then, but this album cahnged the course of my life like nothing else. I was on the green day wagon until around Nimrod, when I decided they were poser and started to listening to "serious punk". Last year I went to see my first green Day show, not expecting much since I didn't follow their career at all, and it was AMAZING. These guys never stopped. They never grew too old for this shit, too good for the band, break it up over solo career ambitions, have to prove their musicianship by making artistic or complicated music. This is much more punk than many of the "serious punks" I steered myself towards. Punk isn't what you wear or what you listen to, it's being true to yourself and your path, and giving absolutely 0 fucks what others think of it. Now to the album... Not everything is a banger but it's got enough bangers to be a bonafide 5 even without the nostalgia bit. Yes, it's not their best, but it's a proper pop punk anthem laden to speak both to punk lovers and outsiders.
Biased as loved this album growing up. Still really enjoy a lot of the themes and the structure of the album
One of the best punk rock albums out there
Emo stuff from 2000's. That one guy who's bulliied at the school.
Simplemente hermosoo
It's weird being nostalgic for an album that I didn't really like at the time, but this feels like a soundtrack to such a big part of my life and I really didn't mind it at all.
Here's how my uneducated brain sees genre. Punk: Short form, high energy, anti-establishment, jagged, raw. Prog: long suite compositions, connected concept albums, high technical skill, cerebral or fantastical themes Then there's these guys here. Decades after punk establishes itself firmly as the anti-prog they're like "hey let's make a concept album with a bunch of long connected suites". I think that's hilarious. That it pisses off the punk "purists" just makes it even better. Kill your idols, y'all. Just say yes to disco covers of "Comfortably Numb" and pop-punk rock operas. Why? Because it's challenges what you hold sacred and that's how you grow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've had this album since just after it dropped and it's incredible. You want the boots-on-the-ground zeitgeist of 2004/2005? Here you go. Take this and take Mezmerize/Hypnotize and get out of my face. You don't get "educated, nuanced" feelings about the political issues of the day. Average people don't have nuanced political understanding. They have visceral, nightly-news, sound-clip understanding. They have "got to get up and go to school/work with all this dread inside me" understanding. They have '"why the f*** are we starting a war with Iraq? what the hell does Iraq have to do with anything?" while they have to choose between paying rent and their kid's medicine' understanding. They have 90s level homophobia (the 90s sucked y'all, and Friends is a shit show) as their cultural backdrop. They have newly emboldened hyper-nationalism and people attacking other people on the subway for *looking* Muslim as their daily climate. Columbine is a fresh memory and a bright new scar. 9/11 is a fresher memory and isn't even scarred over yet. Certain news outlets would run segments mocking Americans for not being able to find Iraq on a map. This was supposed to be proof that we were a bunch of uneducated, politically unaware boobs who should be ashamed of ourselves. Actually, it just proved how much we had no business starting yet another war with a country the average American didn't know or care about. Can we have healthcare? Nope, gotta' kill more brown people so Halliburton can cash in. "Another protester has crossed the line to find the money's on the other side." Hi, that's me. I was that protester. When you realize you're not appealing to any kind of humanity and your government doesn't represent *you*; that you're up against Corporate special interest with infinite resources and you don't have the means to even move the needle? Yeah. This album is the soundtrack to my disillusionment. The media literally televised us blowing up cities full of people. Live. As if it was entertainment. They called it 'Operation Shock and Awe' like some kind of WWE show. It was disgusting. It was everywhere on an endless loop. It was traumatizing and I didn't even realize that until just now. Writing it down. Being force-fed mass murder as entertainment was traumatizing. I was 20 in 2004. 20+ years later and things have not improved. But this album still slaps. So there's that.
Not my favorite green day album, but this album is undeniably great.
Punkki ei ole hyvä jalassa eikä korvassa, mielestäni. Hitaammat hittibiisit on ihan okei mutta muuten vähän meh
Hittibiisit on kovinkin nostalgisia jo nykysellään, vaikkei paljoa oo tullu kuunneltua muuta. En oo juurikaan tän emobändin suurin fani ollut koskaan, eikä vieläkään täysin iskenyt.
Ongelofelijke knallers zitten er tussen en ondanks dat ik pas later met Green Day bekend werd heb ik er toch altijd wat mee gehad
7.5/10, zeker als je bedenkt dat ze van bijna een decennium langzame neerwaartse spiraal gingen, naar een killer van een album. Niet het beste in losse genres, maar toch wel de beste punk-pop rock opera (weinig competitie). Laatste halve puntje krijgen ze voor hoe Billie Joe Armstrong als een verdwaalde worm op het podium lag soms
271/1089 Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams is such a great track and such a classic the whole album is pretty decent imo, i think the middle section of Are We Waiting to Letterbomb is a bit of dip below the rest though 74/100
An iconic first half let down by a meandering second act. Still, it’s a hell of a record. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fairly listenable, but not my thing
This album is way overhated in certain music circles, but I think it is Green Day's best. Over-the-top in the best way, the band abandoned the usual Pop Punk mold in favor of something grander and more mature. The Punk ethos isn't lost, particularly in the protest-riddled lyrics which criticised the Bush administration, but very well still apply to current times, over 20 years later. Which is a bit sad, but I digress. I remember seeing the band perform "Jesus of Suburbia" at some MTV award show and thinking they were playing for a long time. Cool song, cool album, and when was the last time a mainstream artist came out with a honest-to-god Rock Opera and pulled it off? I can't think of many. Key tracks: American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday Boulevard of Broken Dreams St. Jimmy She's a Rebel Wake Me Up When September Ends
I LOOHOOHOOOVE THIS ALBUM
okay, legalzinho
no es mi favorito de green day ni de cerca, pero algo que siempre he valorado del american idiot es que se siente la esencia del origen de la banda. un poco más romantico, pero con esa vibra punk-rock a flor de piel. lo que destáco particularmente son las letras y las temáticas que se abordan en este disco. aguante green day siempre
This is the album of the 2000s kid! Amazing!
While it's not as instantly catchy as most of Dookie was, it's still an enjoyable listen. Favorite track: Holiday
reminds me of middle school but nothing mind blowing
The perfect adult angst album!
A really good and loyal to-go since I was young!!! L O V E.
based nostalgic BANGER after BANGER
Somehow this album has only gotten more relevant over time, also ‘when September ends’ makes me go wah wah :(
album #30 LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!!!!! this is such a fantastic album, solid from start to finish! it's fun and i am a huge fan of concept albums, so the story throughout is really appealing. extraordinary girl and she's a rebel are probably the weakest of the album, mostly because it feels more in line with their kerplunk! era. it's hugely nostalgic for me. i was 6 when this album was released; i remember listening to the cd in the car with my mum and watching the music videos on kerrang. great memories! fuck facism and, whilst we can always push this message further, i think green day's sincere (and ambitious) approach to their message is commendable, especially for 2004. 100% deserves it's place on the list, whether it's your scene or not. ꩜ average track rating: 4.2/5 ꩜ favourite track(s): jesus of suburbia, holiday, letterbomb ꩜ least favourite track(s): extraordinary girl ꩜ album rating: ★★★★★ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 1,059 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 16 (+1 American Idiot) ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 7 (+1 American Idiot) ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 23
First lap on this one in a while. This was on the very first iPod I ever had, so I know it's in my top 10 most listened to albums ever. Embarrassing "fun" fact: I used to think Wake Me Up When September Ends was about having to go back to school. And I remember crying listening to it at Sheep Pond the last weekend before 8th grade. Now, let's get into it. The hits here are hits. They were inescapable in the radio/trl era of 2004. And, I didn't mind. I loved these songs. I always liked the 9 minute montage of St Jimmy. Loved Holiday. I forgot how much I liked Letterbomb. The things I didn't enoy are these: Extraordinary Girl stinks. Homecoming didn't need to be that long. And the whole record feels a little two shiny and overproduced. It feels like the beginning of the over-produced rock records from bands like Twenty One Pilots. 4/5
I listened to this repeatedly when it released -- big time moment for my middle school tastes releasing a career highlight to kick off high school. at the same time, this was probably the last "punk" or "punk pop" album that I paid attention to before my tastes shifted pretty hard in other directions. it's been nearly 20 years since I've listened to this front-to-back. some of these tracks I had completely forgotten about ("Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb" and "Whatsername") and others I would be fine if I never heard again ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams" -- not cause it's bad but cause I've heard it enough times). they took some risks on this album and they paid off. loaded with hooks, makes statements without feeling ham-fisted, multi-suite song structures that are crucial to the song, and mostly stellar production/engineering (it's interesting listening now how many songs have guitar parts where it's difficult to distinguish individual downstrokes). also interesting that the version I listened to on Tidal (and that was released on CD) had many of these songs combined into single tracks. after listening, I found another version on Tidal that splits each song into distinct tracks. not sure which I prefer, though it would be cool to stream "Holiday" without having to commit to "Blvd of Broken Dreams" ultimately Green Day knocked this one out of the park and created a highlight of the genre in the process.
‘American Idiot’ came out when I was in sixth grade, probably the prime age to absolutely love it. And I did. And I still do. This album produced a few major hits and was producing minor ones like a year after it came out. After the initial singles “American Idiot” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” had slightly faded from the airwaves, “Holiday” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” were there to maintain Green Day’s stranglehold on the radio. Hell, I even remember “St. Jimmy” had its time in the sun. Has there been a bigger rock release, in terms of radio play, since this? Was this the swan song for rock as the dominant popular music force? It’s perfect pop-punk musically, and Billie Joe kills it on the lyrics and melodies too. There are so many good lines on “Jesus of Suburbia” alone. Even the ones that aren’t hits have big hooks. The sequencing on this album is perfect, you really do get a sense of a narrative arc. The version that they have on streaming services now makes it so that a lot of the songs are combined with another one, whereas on the initial release they were separated. It’s much better the way it was, it’s kind of a baffling move. This was one of my top three favorite albums for a long, long time, along with two others that aren’t on this list: ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’ by Bright Eyes and ‘East Nashville Skyline’ by Todd Snider.
Hay temazos. Me termina cansando un toque el punk, pero disco de culto
It's a fun album with some recognizable hits. It's not all my favorite, but in general I had a good time listening to this. 4/5
The hits are hits, the rest mostly filler
Iconic, recognizable and had a lasting impact on the 00s culture. Yeah, it fits on this list. ironic hearing it in 2026 when American idiot seems very fitting. It's easy to listen to and uses effective but predictable progressions. so it might not be a technical masterpiece. I liked Green day since I was young so I'm biased
easily one of the more complete albums i've encountered on this list - wall to wall classics, fun transitions, coherent concept. at times armstrong's voice is just a little annoying, and there's definitely something corporate/sanitized about this punk, but for some reason that's working in their favor here. at the end of the day it's just a great listen. (sentiments absolutely colored by the fact i saw them live while high as tits on molly. this album just exploded off the stage - straight air guitar and headbang fuel. won't ever forget it.)
It’s still strange to think that Green Day did a concept album. It works and feels less annoying than it did when it came out.
What a banger
I've never really listened to any of the albums post Dookie, maybe because by like, my 20s, I felt too old for Green Day, and their music, at least the singles, seemed mostly worse. That being said, on relistening to this years later, the singles are pretty good here--American Idiot, Boulevard and Holiday. Overall the songs just aren't quite as good as Dookie--many sound a little more general. 3/5
Ok
Blah. Boring mainstream punk-ish sound.
I HATE GREEN DAY
Probably their best album. The energy keeps going till the end. Lyrics are a bit naive but still a decent listen
Knew the singles, but not the album. Protest music for 12 year olds, and that's not a bad thing. Was doing well until they did a nine minute track. The Who is not punk.
Halt DAS Album mit all ne Radio Hits.
"It’s late at night. your parents think that you’re sleeping. you’ve listened to this one before, but can’t really remember all of it, so you decide to listen again. and every song, there is a different “holy shit this is so good” moment. lyrics that revel against the Iraq war, media polarization, and the bush administration. The band really matured with this one, too. They haven’t really gone back to their old sound. 11/10 the best album of the millennium"
Góð fløga, gloymi hvussu nógvar evergreens eru á henni.
10/10
Love Green Day. As a teen I binged their entire discography and when this album dropped it was thrown right into the mix. Back then we used to listen to the radio all the time and I'd love when "American Idiot" was playing. I remember walking to the mall after school to pick up the album when it came out. All that to say I really like American Idiot. Every track is unique and cool (but, but, but it's all just power chordzz hurrr durrr!!). Drums and guitar are tight as always, and BJAs vocals are iconic. I tried to pay closer attention to the drumming this listen, and it can't be overstated how good and fitting for the album Tre's drumming is. Best tracks are literally all of them. It's a front to back listen. You can't go wrong. It's all non-stop energy and spite and rock and roll. Definitely a 5. Maybe the last Green Day 5 banger. Gonna go back and listen to everything else up through this album again. Nobody likes you, everyone left you, they're all out without you having fun. Peace.
Suprise to no one pero 5/5. Un concept album lleno de bangers. Loud sound and loud lyrics cement this as nothing short of iconic
Superb. On all levels. 4.5ish stars. So rounded, 5 stars.
3.7 I overplayed this within 6 months of it coming out, such that it's hard to rate it properly. The 4 main singles I now can't really do, though tbh apart from the title track I didn't really dig the rest at the time. The albums gems are the two longer tracks - Jesus and Homecoming. Apart from Tre's (in my opinion) unnecessary segment in the latter, these are some of Green Days finest moments. It's a shame they didn't push on from here, I didn't rate 21st century much and then I stopped listening despite loving the spell from Dookie to this. With the political fodder there now for the taking I would love a Trump update. If the Bush administration is evicerated this bad then surely Trumps is there for the taking...
Maybe their best album quite good
Ok
Green day vind ik heel erg cringe. Het mag van mij in het rijtje: suzan en freek, kane, kensington en macklemore. De Tenenkrommers
Als muziek algoritme in 2005 al had bestaan had ik Green day extreem vaak voorgeschoteld gekregen. Het was iets wat in mijn straatje zou moeten liggen met de muziek die ik toen luisterde. Het stemgeluid is altijd iets wat mij irriteerde. Het klonk altijd als een chronische verkoudheid. Het is dus ook voor het eerst dat ik het hele album luister ipv de singels die op mtv langs kwamen. De openingstrack american idiot is van de de dag relevanter dan ooit. Dit was kritiek op het medialandschap en de bush regering en alles wat america was in die tijd. Helaas is de boodschap niet aangekomen en is het alleen maar erger geworden met de Amerikaanse media en de grootste american idiot ooit op de troon. Ik kwam er nu pas achter dat dit een concept album is wat ik wel kan waarderen. Tegelijk is het ook altijd een beetje stom als "punk" verschuift van anarchistisch naar moraal ridder muziek. Dunne lijn waarbij Green day zich aan de verkeerde kant begeeft. Muziekaal gezien het voor punk rock erg gepolijst met emo ballads. Niet echt leuk. Op elk vlak komen ze een beetje nep over. Ik haat ze ook niet echt want ze bedoelen het wel goed maar het komt niet op mij over.
Ik was 14 toen dit album uitkwam, de perfecte leeftijd om deze muziek te kunnen waarderen, ik zat namelijk al in de hoek van Sum 41 en blink 182. Dit heeft me destijds minder gepakt en het doet me nog steeds vrij weinig. Sowieso ben ik een beetje allergisch voor het woord opera in combinatie met punk of rock. Het is eigenlijk te gelikt en over geproduceerd om het echt punk te laten zijn. Ik vind het voor die tijd ook een beetje outdated, een punkband met kritiek op de overheid, ja oké.. de hits zijn verder wel goed hoor, maar voor mij niet nostalgisch ofzo, de zanger doet me altijd denken aan Dirk Kolkman, ik denk dat hij t wel 5 sterren zou geven.
Just a great album
Just add the heretic is worse than the heathen, (American) pop punk is worse than no punk at all.
This album was popular for a reason. Loud poppy punk.
Me gustó algunos son muy nostálgicos , bonitas letras
me gusta que sus letras son tan reales, me encantó la instrumental
AMOOOOO, green day è fd demais fazendo musica. emocionante e atual — adoro as críticas q esse álbum faz ao mesmo tempo que traz reflexões pra nós mesmos sabe
And here we are 22years later and America is still full of idiots, dangerous and deranged idiots. Not Green Day’s best album but still enjoyable
It’s fine. Felt a little longer than it actually was for some reason? 2.5/5
I once befriended a kid who grew up in a strict Christian Apostolic community. I’m talking women could only wear skirts type of community. We rode the bus together and I introduced him to A LOT of non biblical music on bus rides to and from school. He was my first kind of real friend in Kentucky so I overlooked a lot of red flags on a weirdo I probably otherwise should have seen. ANYWAY… His parents wouldn’t let him do normal stuff play call of duty or listen to music like Green Day (particularly this album). Sadly, I introduced him and his younger brother to both. I got to witness what a first person shooter tailor made for a PlayStation console and irate rock does to a guy. He went from like a silent/rebellious honor student who invited me to church to like full-on hanging out with D level students and bragging about getting into fights in the span of two months type of kid. I’m not kidding… His introduction to this album coincided with our grade reading The Outsiders. This kid LOVED American idiot. When we shared my iPod buds on the bus he’d always be like “Play that one American song man.” I also started noticing him bragging about going to fights against ‘socs’ to kids three levels younger on the bus. It was then I knew that maybe I had introduced this kid to too much. This guy reminded me a lot of Icarus and Green Day was his sun. After like two straight weeks of riding the bus together he kept requesting Green Day. That “play that American song man” request was starting to piss me off. Like, friends introduce each other to different music genres - they don’t make you constantly play Green Day 24/7. I started getting pissed and playing Don McLean and Bruce Springsteen when he made the “American song” request. But this album and particularly American Idiot had a weird withdrawal effect on him. It’s all he could crave. One day I silently deleted Green Day from my iPod and he couldn’t take it. I told him we could listen to other stuff. But after like a week of no Green Day (and particularly this album) he started sitting with other kids on the bus and our friendship never really recovered. Green Day was little more than a subtle paste that held us sitting together on a bus ride that lasted 20-25 minutes. Flash forward 15 years… I looked him up while listening to this album. He now has a couple of kids, didn’t maintain the apostolic lifestyle, and may or may not work. Wild to believe Green Day, this album, and maybe what American Idiot can do to a guy. Idk, maybe those weird republicans from the 90/00s railing against modern rock had a point. Was that all those republicans were trying to protect us from? Hell of an album though. I can still see this guy slapping his leg when American Idiot comes on. 4/5 stars, wouldn’t change a thing.
oh fuck yeah
Haven’t listened to this one all the way through in some time, but I loved it. 4-4.5
I was never a big Green Day fan growing up. My exposure was mostly limited through their radio hits, but I remember my cousin was a huge fan. We'd play Battlefront II on his PS2 and listen to this album. Listening to it today brought made me wistful for innocence. This album also makes me think of the guy who threw a shoe at George Bush. I hope he's having a good day.
I bought this CD at Hot Topic in 2009, along with the then-new 21st Century Breakdown (which is basically just American Idiot but worse) and I thought the cashier was hot and she talked me into buying a deluxe edition of Let the Dominoes Fall by Rancid (an okay enough album) that came with a bunch of posters and guitar picks and a DVD and a second acoustic CD and then she wrote down a list of bands I should listen to and like half of them were ska bands that I don’t remember. Anyway, my grandma let me play American Idiot in the car on the way home and her review was “I guess it does have kind of a nice beat.” My grandma was the best.
Muy diferente de lo que estaba esperando, grandes temas!!
Probably going a little lower than most people on this one. The first 5 or so songs are all recognizable bangers. This one just felt a little soft & lower level than what I like to listen to. I kept thinking it reminded me of other, better music and went Beatles to Bowie to Clash to Ramones back to Beatles back to Clash, etc. Half of the album sounded like it was made by the That Thing You Do band, the Wonders (O-needers).
V good
Best of whatever it is
Why weren't you paying attention? Yes, I'm talking to you fuckwits that saw Donald Trump as a better option because he 'gets things done'. Green Day, not part of your MAGA agenda, turn up on my 1001 at just the right time and earn themselves 5 stars. This album is a bit of a blast, notwithstanding the current bout of lunacy we are witnessing. Why, just yesterday Donald Trump posted a picture of himself as Jesus (not of Suburbia) bringing someone back from the dead!! The album, a story of disillusionment from the Bush Jr presidency, has a narrative of someone wanting to go off and 'find themself' but all they do is become a bit of a caricature before they eventually realise they could be true to themself at home! Or something like that. And the songs are great. Outside of the 4 singles that were huge and received lots of airplay and chart action, Are We The Waiting, Extraordinary Girl and Whatshername also stand out, while Jesus of Suburbia hops from act to act, unsettled and constantly shifting focus like our main protagonist. It's a fascinating, entertaining album, doesnt feature in the Epstein Files and hasn't bombed Iran! 5 stars.
OK, I'm maybe a bit biased in my score, as Green Day come from my hometown, Oakland. You have to realize how big it was for them to win a Grammy, considering where they started. The same band that would typically write in-your-face, snotty, ironic pop-punk was now experimenting with song structures and socially contentious themes and lyrics? Seriously? Yes, indeed—and they did it in true form. This book has one of the biggest omissions in rock music: Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade. THAT album showed us all what rock and punk music could be: a vehicle for experimentation, thematic sociopolitical concepts, filled with noise and emotion that people would find appealing—not just a way of writing simple songs. So, I'll take American Idiot as a replacement, as much as it hurts. It's what Green Day managed to do here, while still breaking into the mainstream like never before. "Jesus of Suburbia" is far from a radio-friendly format, yet it's as perfect a pop song as anything made before it. The other singles are, of course, good (ESPECIALLY "Holiday"), but this album works best as a concept and should be listened to in a single sitting. It sometimes gets a bit repetitive, but I still love it to this day and have massive respect for the band for becoming successful while continuing to do their own thing.
pretty good
Rebellious ahh music 🥀🥀💀💀
its alright "nobody likes you everyone loves you" is homo asf
Fucking awesome!!!
muito bom ouviria sempre
Still don't love the nasally twang, but the album lived up to the memory. Excellent album.
a banger, as always
So much better than I expected, and so much better than "Dookie"--what a difference a decade makes, apparently. I'm really impressed that (a) they decided they wanted to pursue a concept album, especially a punk/rock opera concept focusing on alienation and disillusionment, and (b) this trio of misfits largely succeeded in this audacious project (although I'm not sure I would have wanted to see the 2010 musical on Broadway). It's still a very Green-Day-sounding album (not my favorite band, I'll admit), but there are only a few tracks on this overly long album that seemed weak/Dookie-era songs; mainly just the pair "St. Jimmy" and "Give me novacaine", although I can see how each at least serves as a vehicle for their storyline. I'm also really impressed at how well their videos (all directed by Samuel Bayer, apparently) for a number of the tracks extended the opera theme quite well, especially the first three tracks and the remarkably long "Jesus of suburbia". (Such a shame that Green Day chose to change up some of the lyrics to "American idiot" for their recent Super Bowl performance, although I'm sure that wasn't their choice.) Add in the justifiably hit singles "Holiday", "Boulevard of broken dreams", and "Wake me up when September ends" (the latter with an impressively bleak video) and this is a winner of an album, much to my surprise.
I liked this more than I thought I would but they're still annoying. I want to see them playing in a garage and then to stand outside and slowly close the door with an automatic garage door opener.
The second I saw this album pop up, I knew it was going to be a 5 star for me. I just adore the vibes on this album. Pretty much every hit from the band is on here, and it doesn't lose momentum for even a second. I really appreciate Green Day's ability to make a political statement in a way that is entertaining and meaningful. The riffs on this album are awesome, every song is memorable, and it ages incredibly well. I just adore this album.
Green Day no es de Mis bandasfavoritas Pero este álbum es un 10
I really liked it! It sounds like music from the movies and so nostalgic! Loved it!
Pas mon style
I love this album. A fun rock opera.
Punk pop for the youth. Heard it 50 years ago.
Terrible álbum, me hace acordar a mi infancia
First time listening to Green Day, always heard about it but never actually interested in them tell now 5/5, will listen to them again. Also thank you for Ikoxun's Corner for introducing me to this awesome website. XD
American Idiot is the first Rock album i was introduced to when i was 11 years old and completely hooked by it and after relistening it 9 years later, it still gave the nostalgia, sadness and abit rebel but some of it doesnt give the same energy or vibes that i once felt before. So, the rating is a 4 star
I hate this band. Nothing they have done or will ever do will warrant being included in this list.
Punk/power pop with ballads. Some great songs and others not so much. Just learned that Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the one sing that's different than their others, has the same chord progression as Wonderwall. 😕
Only heard blvd of broken dreams (and *heard of* American Idiot) which is a song I enjoy mostly because of nostalgia, but never bothered to branch into their stuff. Found myself pleasantly surprised with some of the material here. Much of the tracks are split into different segments and the transitions often feel well-timed and smooth. Of course there is a lot here that I find utterly uninteresting and I came away from this record pretty confident I wouldn’t have the urge to listen to it in full for a while. However, I enjoyed multiple tracks and feel as if there is the potential for it to further grow on me. Wake Me Up When September Ends is great. Don’t see myself coming back much but came away happily here. 3/5.
American Idiot is an album I listened to a lot when I was younger, and revisiting it now hit me much harder than I expected. Songs like Holiday, Wake Me Up When September Ends, and Whatsername feel deeply tied to my own memories, to the point where it’s difficult to separate the music from my past. It’s not something I can evaluate objectively, it’s more like confronting a part of my life I can’t fully detach from.
Primeras impresiones: Mid pero me algunos arreglos me sorprendieron. De todas maneras no es el tipo de música que pondría a voluntad, pero no disgusta y, a la vez, no me emociona tanto.
An absolute classic and part of the soundtrack of my youth. I listened to this religiously when I was in my teens and it hasn't aged a day in 22 years. I love every song on this album, but Jesus of Suburbia is special. A song I will never get tired of listening to, and an album I will always adore. The fact my least favourite song of the lot is the title track, says it all. A work of art and the easiest 5/5 so far.
It has some great songs but overall it’s not great. Not my favourite
This is an ok album, with a few really good songs. But I won’t listen to it again.
You know, it's a really good album. I get why it got so freaking popular.
This was much better than I thought it would be. I remember hearing a couple songs too much and I dreading this listen. Not bad.
Another album that suffered from over saturation on the radio. In fact american idiot still gets too much radio play. I knew all the words, but this one was a miss for me. I prefer their earlier albums.
Fine album.
The always overrated Green Day finally puts out an album that measures up to their big head reputation. The story of American Idiot is difficult to follow, but a few of the songs are well thought out and have insightful lyrics including; Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Are We the Waiting, and Give Me Novacaine. (3.9*s) Who’d a thunk there could be a successful punk rock opera?
Even though I am a Green Day purest, this album is quite good. A rebranding of the band and one could say a bit of a sell out, but still got the punk roots that made them popular with Dookie. Much like U2 or RHCP, their work has slowly dwindled in quality but they have stayed relevant. I mean they just opened for the super bowl and still sounded pretty good. American Idiot is a solid concept album with themes that will probably always resonate with each generation...certainly do at the present in mid-2026. Lame government, dumb wars, over commercialization and consumerism will always be the US. Amongst the hit tracks are ones that have some deeper meaning and don't suck. The album wraps up perfectly with Jesus returning home and remembering "Whatsername" with a bit of scorn. I certainly liked this record now more than when it came out...ages well. 3.7 stars for these American idiots putting out a decent release mid-career (did they peak?).
I remember when this album dropped and hit the airwaves. It was definitely a tour de force as a handful of the singles were all over the place and it seemingly revitalized Green Day's career after fading a bit over the prior decade. Although I think you could argue they were already superstars in the wake of Dookie, American Idiot definitely re-catapulted them back to the top of the charts and cultural zeitgeist. American Idiot rips out of the gate with a handful of singles, many of which are still enjoyable today. It gets a little thinner as the album continues but the sum of its parts are greater than the individual tracks as you get through the album and all in all it wraps up pretty nicely. American Idiot made a statement in the wake of 9/11 and the political fallout. While I wasn't overly interested in the political message or the opus that was American Idiot back in 2004, it was a welcomed listen when it arrived on the list. I can't say I was surprised how well it held up as the world that it was commenting on has only leaned further into how ridiculous it can get. The overall storyline and message was enjoyable and the pop punk tunes that Green Day assembled remain very accesssible more than 20 years later. I can see why it is heralded as a solid pop punk opera as its appeal seems like it could range from teenager to people over their 50's. The work has taken on a new life as it was adapted into a musical and the title track has been used as an anthem in various ways. Pretty well deserving entry by Green Day. Enjoyed the listen and glad I was able to revisit it. 3.60 stars
I hate most concept albums (efforts from Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye aside), but this works even if you aren't paying attention to the narrative. A mix of the band's earlier punk rock with more of a classic rock Who/Kinks element that works (although sounds awful on paper). I like this album more than I love it, but appreciate the band's attempts to break out of the box, something they haven't tried again since.
Bueno, me hace recordar la adolescencia
Album I used to listen a lot when I was a teenager. First Green day album that I heart. Great time listening to it again
Such a nostalgic album for me, I really enjoyed listening to this one since I haven't in a while.
Epitome of that 2000s pop-punk-rock-ish sound to me. Love this album and its politically charged lyrics, sick riffs, and goofy emo voice Billy. Heavy dose of nostalgia as well, soundtrack to a part of my childhood.
The epitome of pop punk. Very angsty, very fun, good album to mysteriously walk through the neighborhood to.
Favorite song: Jesus of Suburbia Least favorite: Are We the Waiting The quintessential pop punk album. It is successful both as cleanly mastered pop perfection and a piece of political media that still holds its weight today. American Idiot manages to avoid the trite, surface-level lyrics that often define others in this genre as extremely far removed from their “punk” roots. The album has something to say, but delivers it in a polished and catchy manner that still resonates 20 years after its release.
heard this tons of times as a kid, and tons more over the years from various sources. guess this was like "baby's first punk album" for me American Idiot - 5/5 Jesus of Suburbia - 4/5 Holiday - 5/5 Boulevard of Broken Dreams - 5/5 Are We the Waiting - 3/5 St. Jimmy - 4/5 Give Me Novacaine - 3/5 She's a Rebel - 4/5 Extraordinary Girl - 4/5 Letterbomb - 4/5 Wake Me Up When September Ends - 5/5 Homecoming - 3/5 Whatsername - 3/5 Average score: 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ i feel about the same about this album as i did about Dookie. the hit tracks are about as good as i remember. everything else... meh. having finally heard Dookie in full not too long ago, i think that's better than American Idiot by a razor-thin margin
12 year old me owes Mitchell Greer an apology. This album slaps ass. I think that the first half clears the second half, but the second half is still VERY good. The double track format is really interesting, particularly for a pop punk record. I don't really understand the sellout allegations. Is it because of how good the music is? Its still sonically gorgeous and complex. Its literally a concept album/rock opera. I loved this so much. 4.2 (but will likely get higher.)
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Green Day, but there's a reason the best punk songs are under 3 minutes (honestly, the BEST punk songs are under a minute thirty, but I'm being inclusive). Like my ex-wife, Green Day and I have matured in different directions. I'm glad they had the space to grow and all that, but it's just not for me. postscript: just got to 'homecoming,' the longest song on the record, and I'm vaguely 'into it'
So much more than Millennial protest music, although it's obviously great at being that ("Holiday" and the title track). It's also perhaps our best chronicle of the experience of being alive in the mid-2000s and becoming aware that there are no grownups in charge (i.e. that the moms and Brads are away) - and that, despite how much you claim you don't care, you really do ("Wake Me Up When September Ends"). The closer "Whatsername" is a genuinely moving emo tune from a band that was never even emo. All in all, this is punk's answer to *The Wall* and a statement of purpose for anyone, from Anaheim to the Middle East, who intends to survive the Anthropocene with their heart intact. America: fuck, yeah.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ganska absurt egentligen med en Rock-opera album från ett punkband men alltså det här albumet är så lättillgängligt. Det kanske inte är superavancerat och så punk är det väl inte men ibland vill man bara ha rak och enkel pop-rock. Det här albumet känns som en tidkapsel (fast Dookie är nog ändå mer så). Det är lätt att gilla, det är fullt med lättuggade spår som är svårt att inte gilla. Sista spåren Homecomming och Whatsername hade de kunnat skippa och då hade albumet också fått en lagom längd. Tycker albumet håller för en 4a. Bäst är Jesus of Suburbia, Give me Novacine/She's a rebel,
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Didn’t like it then. Don’t like it now. (Sorry Elliot)
Absolutely top tier. No doubt it's one of my best 20 of all time. You just don't see a lot of cohesive, full album narratives, let alone ones this well done, with songs that are also capable of standing on their own.
My biggest enemies
I gotta say, I feel like Green Day really finds the sweet spot between commercial Punk Opera for the disaffected suburban crowds and the low key callbacks to their early stuff for the heads and pop punk aficionados on this album. They’ve got the big anthems that everyone will remember while they were first exploring their suburban footprints and still make room for a few hits that will be remembered by the die hard fans.
I don’t know man, I guess it’s fine. I feel like this was a massive hit & kinda launched these guys to another level. And I understand it’s supposedly smart social critique or sthg. I wanted to at least appreciate it for that reason, or understand what the critics seemed to adore. The problem as I see it, is it sounds so much like Green Day. I just have no patience for the pop punk sound. There were a few moments that sounded interesting but I don’t remember which & I don’t care to go back & find out. I’m granting 2.5 stars & I guess we can round up out of deference to its supposed greatness
This record is the most serious one to come out of the pop punk movement, has 4 of the biggest rock songs of all time, and was just performed at the Superbowl. Anything less than a 4 is criminal and above that is personal preference
The first four songs elevate this album tremendously. The rest of the album kinda meanders in places, with some highlights for me (St. Jimmy, Gove Me Novacaine, Wake Me Up” but the others lose me
Really loved listening to this albums very nice 9/10 very great and highly recommend
This was an album I could swear I had already listened to back-to-front many times, but clearly I haven't. It is filled with an optimistic frustration at post 9/11 politics, but with 2026 ears you can't help but hear the naivety in it. Some of the songs are classic bangers, but there is quite a bit of bland filler. As is life!
Who amongst us on the cusp of Gen Z and milennial didn't have a phase where they thought this was the peak of music? If you say you didn't then ur lying! Looking back it's kinda naff, but then that's only because things were only gonna get worse than George Bush later down the line. But then Billie Joe and co couldn't have known that. It's like, enjoyable upbeat pop punk rock, catchy and fun.
Really good, so close to a 5
Great album! Boulevard, Extraordinary girl and Wake me up were the standouts, but a really great flow
A harsh 3 but Dookie is better and that wouldn't get a 5. That's my justification.
4.4/5 Favorite songs: Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams Wake Me Up When September Ends Give Me Novacaine/Shes a Rebel
I was a massive fan of this album when it was released. It’s a no skip album for me.
Anthemic punk rock that defined the 2000s. Some of the songs are still surprisingly relevant today.
It's not Dookie or Insomniac,but not as terrible as I thought it may be
6.5/10
enjoyed some more than others, wake me up when september ends would be fun to play on drums. didn’t realise a lot of the songs were two in one lol? but yeah idk about this one
4.5
8.0/10
They should make this into a musical.
what a classic album filled with BANGERS i didnt realize how much ive actually heard from green day until i sat down and listened to a full album lol
Phenomenal album. Strong, versatile and with so many outstanding songs that are still relevant today. American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Holiday and so on. Love it.
Banger!
Wow. Now i understand why this one is generational.
Great album
Great album and very pivotal release. This record has aged very well given the current state of the US and the world. The music was innovative at the time and Green Day has always had a distinct sound. This is a solid record.
Had some bangers, but I couldn't get myself to finish the album. i might give it a proper re-listen
Green Day provides timeless enjoyment and relevance to today's events. More likely my children's prime entertainment when it was released. I just get the benefit of sharing with them.
Excellent 👌 this album will always be a great social commentary :)
Definitely one of my favs from Green Day, I love how 4 of the tracks in the middle are actually two songs. Fun album
Maybe my lack of nostalgia hurts me here but this just doesn’t do much for me. Very whiny
The more things change the more they stay the same, yeah?
I was expecting more of a nostalgia bump for this album, but it is pretty weak in between the hits. There's more instrumental/style variety than a typical pop-punk album, but it's still underwhelming.
Although I’m not the biggest Green Day fan, revisiting the album does remind me that it was a pretty good album. But the radio overplayed songs I can live without.
Saved? ✅ Would listen again? ✅ Would recommend to anyone? ✅ Would buy on Vinyl? ✅
Himnos y sin dudas marcas de una época. No es para mi yo actual!
Green Day grows up on this record, eschewing the rude and crude...replaced with political banter and a punk rock opera.
Heard it a million times
Um.....wow...i thought it was noise and noise and noise...but then i used my headphones and 360 flip...it is quite nice. I am not much of a high production music fan but "wake me up when September ends", "are we waiting", 'bvld of broken dreams' are really good. But still it's not my thing or maybe i am just not in the right head space.
Good rock album. It comes across as punk, and the messaging seems to be in line with that. Doesn't quite have the grit that historically punk albums had, but perhaps this was the start of a new evolution of the genre. It was certainly more main stream. Overall, it's a good fare. Due to all enormity of radio play, I knew every word of the hits. But that doesn't take away from their goodness. They are done well and still have some meaning. I did enjoy it and might go back to it someday.
Basic Ramonesy power pop plus trite politics, pretentious frippery and a whiny emo mood. A lot of my friends were into this band in the 1990s but I always found them profoundly meh. This came out in 2004 by which time I wasn’t in this scene at all so this LP was new to me. I found lots of the individual songs were quite good (if overlong) but nobody needs 57 minutes of this.
I already know and love this album so was so happy to listen to it.
Ambitious. I’ve never paid enough attention to follow the narrative, but the standout tunes are great.
I suppose Green Day were an entry point to Punk for Busted and McFly fans. So that’s a positive. But I was already into Punk when they emerged so they seemed a little dull and old fashioned. Some of there singles are undoubtedly fun but there’s nothing fun about this incoherent concept album.
Billy Joe Armstrong has such a good voice. I think the best part about these songs is that I can sing along
really wanted to love this for nostalgia's sake, and for 9 minutes, i totally did - Jesus of Suburbia is a bratty, pathos-laden power-pop epic, incredibly confident and winning. but this doesn't last - the politics, though refreshingly bold today, wear thin really quickly, and then we're left with a lot of overwrought balladry and rock n roll with very little bite. i'm happy that this album once sounded dangerous and important, and you could do so much worse than lots of what's here, but i'm 28! I've moved on and that's fine
Is it me or do these guys feel like industry plants? I swear, it's the same generic "punk" rock as their last hit album. Most of the songs here sound like their were ripped from some eighties tunes, and I don't mean sounds like it I mean literally the same songs. I sound like I hate them, which isn't the case. The music is simple but high energy, they have a good political message, but it is just generic and not great. I can't figure out why they made the list twice now, I know it was popular but what makes this a must hear album?
The longer cuts on this thing I never listened to are actually the best! Suburban Jesus and Homecoming are some great anthems to listen to. Never knew this was a concept album which really helps tying things together not only lyrically but also sonically. Nice surprise
Awesome
My second favorite Green Day album. Nothing tops Dookie for me. This is like Green Day lite, and it's good don't get me wrong, its a bit more pop-y and I still enjoy the majority of the songs on this. I mean 'Jesus of Suburbia' has no business working as a 12 min epic but it does, the first 4 songs on this album are absolute perfection. This album could probably shave 3 songs off and be even tighter and better. Again it's good but can almost feel corny at points. Only further proven by the fact that this album led to a tony award winning musical. It's amazing how these musical responses to the Bush era have only gotten more relevant today.
3.5/5
Great Rock Opera
Great Album. After learning about their precious master tapes being stolen, listening to this album from stary to finish took on a whole new meaning. Great story telling and anthem feel.
it was kinda bland and primitive, but maybe i just hate fun
Good for this genre. Lots of big tracks!
Alarmingly relevant to the times we live in today. America has always been awful, who knew?
Not a huge fan of punk generally, but at least it has teeth. What good is toothless punk?
To be 14 again…
Veramente insipido.
Very first half heavy album, first 4 songs plus Wake Me Up When September Ends were great but the other ones were either boring or just straight bad, very inconsistent album
love this one - on a scale of 1 to fun = Very fun! 4/5 #Musicsky #albumsky
Zajebista płyta, niektóre kawałki już znałem głównie z radia. Czuć, że jest to jedna z lepszych i ważniejszych rockowych płyt.
Perfect
2026.03.09.
Have already listened to this all the way through back in December 2024 Loved it, Green Day's best, still hits Top 3 Tracks 1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams 2. Wake Me Up When September Ends 3. Holiday Gave it an 8.8/10 previously, relisten today = 8.8/10 wow
Too longs songs, but the album have a punk pop rock energy very interesting, even cool for your decade.
Listening this album entirely for the first time and realizing that I missed great songs in the past. And some songs that I already listened before, listening now feels like I am 15y old again. Really nice!
Pop punk rock opera, loved it when it came out still do. 5 Star
Day 209 Highlights American Idiot Wake me up when September ends Whatsername
used to listen to it as a pre-teen so it took me back to those times. I don't listen to music like that anymore but I realized that I still enjoy it. -1 star because I couldn't listen to it again today or the next few weeks ;)
Nice, a lot of classics, the reintroduction of green day to the new century
Listening to this in March of 2026 while the headlines are all about the US war in Iran feels somehow appropriate, though I suppose there’s a certain timelessness about American military adventurism in the Middle East. I have to give Green Day a fair bit of credit for having the ambition to write a rock opera about social dysfunction in then-contemporary (and now as well?) America particularly when they first found fame through songs about smoking weed and jerking off. And that most of that era of pop punk seemed stuck in perpetual adolescence even when the musicians and listeners were far too old to keep up that ruse. For me, the ambition doesn’t quite match up to the results. To take an example, the second part of “Jesus of Suburbia” sounds like Bryan Adams’s “Summer of 69”, which I guess works for singalongs in the arenas and stadiums Green Day was playing, but it’s just all kind of middle of the road and, well, not very punk rock. It sounds and feels safe. Billie Joe Armstrong has some nice vocal melodies on this, but the music doesn’t veer far enough from the three chord thing they were doing before to pull off something like this. It’s not a bad listen, but not something I feel that I need to hear again either.
A generational album no doubt, but its cracks are definitely showing. Its commentary is surface-level, with the band never making any actual attempt in political discourse. The music itself is fine I guess, and the hooks are still somewhat catchy.
I can't believe how well this holds up. Especially American Idiot. It's almost prophetic. 20 some odd year old album still the same problems. I wish I had listened to it back then but I didn't care & was in a different place musically. Still a great rock opera. 5
Another childhood classic. Lots of nostalgia and yet no notes.
Banger after banger.
When “punk” goes mainstream
Still relevant today - captures that feeling post 9/11. Listening in order it tells a story.
Loved the album! Maybe the best Green Day album with how every song was a hit for me. A very fun and unskippable album!
Mwah
first time listening to green day, wish me luck. it was really interesting how i have never listened to green day but apart for their iconic songs, i got a feeling of nostalgia listening to the ones i didnt know, weird but i guess being born in the 2000's, i inherited some kind of fondness to music of those years without even know it
American Idiot is a fine album, but I still prefer the earlier albums like Dookie and Insomniac.
Hot dog this is much better than I remember. It's not quite as fun as Dookie, but it makes up for it with the righteous anger and drive. Obviously the title track is one of the great openers, all stop-start, angular riffs and an absolutely banging chorus. The other singles are also really evocative and mature. The rest of the album is a tiny bit one paced in places, and I'm not sure every song should be as long as it is, but this was super strong.
The pros: Iconic, genuine, defines an era, unbelievably catchy singles, some hidden gems thrown in like "Novocaine," ambitious, and great use of chords and themes to tie the overarching concepts together. Cons: Billie Joe's voice can grate on your ears a bit, it can come across as privileged whining, the Bush era critiques feel dated in the 2020s, has been milked for every cent, and sometimes the message feels a bit devoid of substance. Despite the warts, American Idiot ultimately holds a well-deserved spot in the American consciousness. This is probably the best that pop punk has had to offer, culturally. As for my rating: I've gone back and forth as to whether American Idiot is a strong 4 stars or a weak 5 stars. For now, I'm going to be generous and give it the 5. In light of the impact American Idiot had (and the fact that some of my critiques are less to do with the musical quality itself), I feel a 5 is appropriate. I will revisit this one and edit if necessary.
I liked American idiot, Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Gran álbum, de lo poco que no se siente tan tan comercial de los años 2000 en mi opinión, no fue pesado de escuchar, este álbum tiene elementos de opera a lo que había visto antes y si hay un par de canciones que muestran eso en acción, tratan de tocar temas serios y crítica entonces les quita el aspecto de ser vacíos a mi parecer 3.7
Just an exceptional record.
Very nostalgic for 13 year old me
Wake Me up When September Ends is just an incredible song. I'm annoyed by the double song tracks. I don't really understand the point if it's done for every single track and makes the songs 10 minutes long. That being said, in every song, I found something that I liked. They just all sounded too similar for me to give a higher rating than this.
I don't like Green Day at all, I think they are a cringe factory. But unfortunately, this album is perfect. There's literally no skips, the songwriting is phenomenal, and it's just a damn pleasantry to listen to. There's SO many classics on this thing it's unbelievable. I find it hard to believe people like Dookie over this.. Dookie sucks. It is literally named after a shit.
It feels insane listening to this again after more than twenty years. Conceptually, it's a great album with biting and clever lyricism. A lot of memories come back to me listening to this and I can't help but think, given how insanely popular this is, how did we end up here exactly? I really do not like pop punk, it is one of my least favourite genres. I have my problems with this album but I do love it, and not just because it evokes a lot of memories for me (if anything, that should bring the score down). It's a fantastic album with massive hits and the songs that weren't singles are great. I can't bring myself to give it a 5 but this was a LOT better than I expected it to be or remember it being. Highlights: American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends
Afraid I don't know these guys...the only Green Day I know of made a couple great albums in the early 90's. Wonder what happened to em
When to listen: feeling like raging against the man, millennial style. Can’t believe how many angsty teen hits were on this one. But was more impressed when I thought about the global influences, the lyrics, and the gestalt of it all. It sounds like a band the weird kids formed in their garage and they’re finally playing the school talent show… and I kinda love that?
2.6 stars
Album 65 Top 3 favorites off the album: Jesus of Suburbia, Whatsername, Are We the Waiting/St. Jimmy We finally got it, folks. The very first album I ever listened to by choice, for myself. A completely legitimate copy on the CD rack and not a burned one from one of my parents' friends, of course, listened to on my mom's CD player that is now sitting on my dining room table. This feels like cheating, too, because I enjoyed it then and I enjoy it now. Maybe I'll reframe it in my head as a treat for getting through a bunch of albums I didn't enjoy so much. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, PUNK ROCK OPERA??? I totally missed the storyline that was going on until today. Perhaps I'm not the only one. Crazy what reading does for you, huh? I was maybe going to cheat and skip this one and just review based on my memories of it, but I'm glad I did a full listen. It sounds different than I remember it. I often forget just how many songs on this album have been played to death, but I still enjoy them. I've always liked Jesus of Suburbia, though. It was something of a life changing experience listening to that one for the first time with the variation in sound. I'd never heard a song quite like it. I think this album as a whole is their most successful for a reason. I'll wait to see if they prove me wrong, but Revolution Radio is the only one I own for maybe two songs total, and what I've listened to of their earlier stuff was okay-good, not my favorite. As with most things, my relationship to this album has changed a bit over time. The almost-emo middle schooler dealing with loneliness for the first time became a high schooler who had a small group of good friends but felt pulled in a lot of directions to be different for different people, went to college and stopped being good at being different selves away versus at home, kind of collapsed in and exploded all at once, and now we're here. All that purpleness to say: I still indulge in Boulevard of Broken Dreams sometimes, but more as a hug to the parts of my former self I still have that genuinely felt *that* disillusioned with human connection. I think everyone feels that at some point. This album is really, really good for being that age. It's one I still come back to at certain times, too, when I'm feeling like that kid again. My favorite songs have also changed some over the years. Jesus of Suburbia still clears easily, but I forgot Whatsername even existed until today. This was a fun revisit. I think I'm kinder to my younger self because of it.
мне нравится кантри звучаение, очень понравилась песня whatsername
ok ok ok shut up
ughhhh I respect Green Day so much, they're so important to me, I've listened to them a lot during my teenage years. I like some of the tracks and I like that the album is conceptual and conveys the message for all the rebellious kids to stay true to themselves. BUT the music itself is not very impressive if I listen to it objectively. However! I do like that it's stylised as a musical, because it enhances the story. And of course I should mention my appreciation of the pure emotion in Billie's voice, this is the thing that hypnotises you as a raging teenager.
1001 Albums Vol. 0024: American Idiot ============================================================ Introduction: Well now, this is one of the few albums that I knew I would eventually come across. And, on top of that, it's one of the few (probably) albums that I'm actually very familiar with. This isn't necessarily due to me listening to it from my own volition, however. Like with way too much music in my life, it was shoved down my throat when I was younger due to someone I know really liking a particular few songs on this album. It actually wasn't my dad though. If you actually understand why I wrote that last sentence then I actually love you by the way. Anyway, the point is, I"m pretty familiar with the more popularized material from this album. Songs like Boulevard, Holiday, and September, those kinds of songs. That being said, the less popularized, and arguably worse material, I am barely familiar with. I went through a brief phase in my life where I was independently into Green Day and tried to give this entire album a listen a few times, but all I would do is listen to the better songs and just let the stuff in the middle of the album play for a few seconds before scrolling to the next song. You could say this was due to my hyperactivity, but I personally just think it was because I found the songs boring. I mean, I know a lot of people who would likely agree with me on that stance. Either way, who the hell would say that Saint Jimmy is their favorite song off American Idiot? Nobody...nobody with a brain at least. Anyway, let's actually get into the album now. This album, released by Green Day in 2004, was a major, major release of the early to mid-2000's. Seriously, this album could genuinely be considered a cultural phenomenon due to how much of an impact it had upon its release. The influence that this album has on people now is still undoubtable as well. And I'm not talking about how pretty much any album can be considered "life-changing" to a specific group of people either. This album impacted fashion, musical taste, and just did so much for so many people. Now, impacting musical taste? I mean, that makes complete and total sense. What about fashion though? Well, Green Day had a very peculiar, one could even say avant-garde, fashion style in the early 2000s and even nowadays to an extent. Its members wore very alternative styles, borderline rebellious styles of clothing, wore heavy eye makeup, had very peculiar hairstyles, and were just all around different from what would have been considered the norm at the time. If this sounds at all familiar to a modern subgenre of fashion, that's because it is. While emo as a genre of music and fashion did exist before this album's release, this album brought both the genre of music and the fashion style to mainstream attention. Many people, specifically young people, felt as if this album resonated with them on a personal level. This resonation ultimately contributed to the massive rise of emo as a genre of music, fashion style, movement, and so on throughout the 2000s. And, of course, the effects on this can still be seen today. Overall, I'd say that this album had almost like a Ziggy Stardust effect upon its release. I will say already, regardless of the overall quality of the album or music, I appreciate how Green Day tried to frame their public image after what they had expressed in their release. It adds an undoubtable layer of depth to the music and makes it feel as if the album is a personal look into the mind of an artist. You could of course call it all an act. That being said, I'd still take an act over looking up the faces behind this album and realizing that the lead-singer is the most typical Joe-Schmoe that you can find on the street...like some other artists in the same genre...much like Pierce The Veil....Nevertheless, I like this aspect. If anything, you could compare this to metal artists having long hair in the 80s. Yeah, this does feel a bit more like an act than that did due to the sudden tonal shift from Punk Rock to Emo Anthems, but I still like it nonetheless. I thought that David Bowie was awesome whenever he turned into one of his characters from an album, and that was an act. You can't change my mind. You just can't. Now, with all that said, I've gone on long enough. Let's get into one of the most influential albums of the 2000's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track 1: American Idiot Score: 8/10 Track 2: Jesus of Suburbia Score: 10/10 Track 3: Holiday Score: 9/10 Track 4: Boulevard of Broken Dreams Score: 9/10 Track 5: Are We the Waiting Score: 6/10 Track 6: Saint Jimmy Score: 8/10 Track 7: Give Me Novacaine Score: 7/10 Track 8: She's a Rebel Score: 6/10 Track 9: Extraordinary Girl Score: 5/10 Track 10: Letterbomb Score: 8/10 Track 11: Wake Me Up When September Ends Score: 9/10 Track 12: Homecoming Score: 7/10 Track 13: Whatsername Score: 8/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusion: Alright, I'll admit, listening to this thing in full was quite a strange experience. The highs were as high as I remembered them being and the lows were surprisingly low. I mean, it wasn't too terrible overall, just quite a strange experience listening to everything that I had been missing this entire time. That missing stuff obviously being songs like She's a Rebel, Letterbomb, Saint Jimmy, and all of the other lesser known songs off this album. Just have to get that out of the way Now, that being said, did that missing material change my opinion of this album? Well...it unfortunately kind of did. Not in a good way either. I mean, this album is still pretty great overall, but the quality is very mixed across the runtime. For starters, unless you're wanting the full experience of American Idiot, then I wouldn't say you're necessarily missing anything by just listening to the big songs. The big hits songs are where most of the quality went into this album. They're the best part of the album without a doubt. That being said....I'm here TO talk about the full experience of this album so...it's still pretty good overall. I mean, it has a pretty well-written story, its music is generally pretty good throughout most of the album, and there were genuinely moments on here that felt very unique to listen to at times. Firstly, I'll mention the music that this album has to offer. Obviously, as I went over in the intro, Green Day as a band had a major tonal shift with this album. They transitioned from a much more Punk Rock sound to a mix between Pop, Punk, and Emo. This mixture should already create a very distinct sound for this album, but Green Day's...honestly pretty good writing takes this personality of sound a lot further. They managed to create music that felt grandiose, edgy, rebellious, and distinct to this album all at the same time. It may have been because of certain production choices such as the layered vocals or loud guitars, but there are just so many melodies off of this album that simply feel rebellious in nature. And I mean that in nothing but a good way because that feel is exactly what this album was trying to capture. Through both the music and narrative this album presents, it attempts to capture the feeling of being carefree and reckless. It tries to capture a feeling that, to an extent, many of us can only wish we could experience. I'm not necessarily talking about the drug use, alcohol use, and potential violence that this album presents, but rather the carefree nature of it. This album's overall theme is very relatable to basic human nature, giving it, at least to me, a way to personally tie it back to myself and how I feel. This feeling is objectively a way to make good music. The listener should be able to feel and, on some level, relate what the album or song attempts to present to you. This album does exactly that throughout its runtime. Now, that being said, how does the story of this album tie into the rebellious nature of its music? Well, this story will be quite a doozy, but I'll try my best to explain it all. So, our unnamed protagonist, who is likely somewhere from his mid-teens to mid-twenties, realizes how crappy America post-9/11 truly is. Our unnamed protagonist creates the name "Jesus of Suburbia" for himself because he thinks that he's miserable and the world is a terrible place. He also reflects on his own insecurities and eventually decides to leave his home because of his hatred and spite. Holiday's purpose on the album is just to give us insight into Suburbia's political opinions and how he views the government. Nothing much more to say about it. Suburbia eventually realizes how lonely he is from simply living alone on the streets and decides to start hanging out with the wrong people. Suburbia then finds who he considered to be his people in Are We the Waiting. This then leads our protagonist to change his identity again to a rebel by the name of Saint Jimmy. Jimmy then starts to do alcohol and drugs because of the people he's hanging around. And now we get to a very central theme of the album. Love. Jimmy meets a rebellious girl who he considers to be a saint and extraordinary. Jimmy and this girl then start dating for an unspecified amount of time before they break up in a pretty cruel way in Letterbomb. Jimmy goes over the situation in his head and ultimately feels a sense of sorrow and grief from his breakup. It has a profound effect on him. So much so that he reflects on the direction that his life is going in a whole and comes to the conclusion that he's in a terrible situation. He eventually decides to return to his home which he had abandoned for however long by then, get a job, kill off his Jimmy persona, and so on. Now, this would be a cool enough album with a cool enough message about politics, society, rebellion, and so on. However, the last song adds a whole other layer of depth to this album. Our protagonist, who now doesn't have a name anymore, reflects on his time with the girl he was with in a pretty nostalgic and somber way. He questions whether she is married, admits to himself that he will never forget her, and so on. This song is honestly pretty bittersweet and adds a whole new layer of emotional vulnerability to the album. Yes, this album tackles many themes across its runtime. It tackles people's rebellious nature, how society can influence one, drug use and its potential effects, politics, which, especially in modern America, I do not want to get into at all, and many more themes. However, the message of love is this album's most personal and relatable message to anyone no matter who they are or where they live. In my opinion, it's trying to say that no matter where you are in life, however good or bad, love is a profound feeling that can stick with you throughout life. You can create an entire fake persona for yourself and decide to throw it away later, but love is something that can stick with you no matter what you are. That message is very profound and thought-provoking. It's honestly a great message and the overall best part of this entire album. Now, that being said, why am I just giving this album an eight out of ten if it had a very profound effect on me? Well...firstly, it took the entire damn album to have a profound effect on me. It wouldn't have had the same effect either had it not been for the inclusion of the final song. Other songs that I've listened to have managed to achieve a similar effect in much less time than this album took. On top of this, the music that this album presents can be a bit thin at times as well. There's a very Progressive sense across most songs on this album, but it can still get a bit thin at times, especially on songs in the middle. Some songs are simply a bit forgettable as well. Nothing more to say about that. Now, with all that said, would I consider this album to be a masterpiece? Not quite. It's definitely great. I don't think a lot of people give it nearly as much credit as it deserves, and to be fair, that may be due to how mainstream this album was upon its release. I mean, really anything being too overplayed or too mainstream will eventually cause someone not to like it. It's inevitable. That being said, this album is still quite great. It has a good message, good music for the most part, and had a major impact on society upon its release. I like it. Everyone who gave it a one of five will just have to kill me to change my mind. ============================================================ American Idiot Score: 8/10 Song Average: 7.7/10
Good but all their songs sound the same to me
Green Day has great pop instincts....good melodies, pop-punk, with some topical influence. Was a little long/repetitive, but is an important document of its era/political moment, so I'll average all that out to go 3.5 with a round down.
This surprised me as I didn't really take notice beyond the singles when it came out. I think the second half isn't quite as strong but it still has energy all the way through. The start of Boulevard over the end of Holiday was a nice touch.
Concise, loud. This plays like a mission statement.
Much better than I expected. Lots of humour, and punk energy in commercial form.
American Idiot was released at the perfect moment for me, just as I was getting into music. Unfortunately, I was getting into completely different music and was ideologically opposed to all forms of pop punk and emo. This meant that I wasn’t able to appreciate the classics released across my childhood. As I’ve aged I’ve matured enough to appreciate the music from my adolescence. Looking back, it was audacious for Green Day to channel their creativity into multi-stage, prog-like song structures with clear political messaging. These songs are nothing like the super short nihilistic ones that made up Dookie. They are linear, longform and operatic. I would love to know if they took any nods from NOFX’s War on Errorism, released the previous year. Even when American Idiot is not overtly political, it sums up the experience of a young person in Bush’s post-9/11 America. Both bands proved that pop punk could handle themes more complex than teenage angst and skateboarding. Although they remained indispensable in soundtracking a PlayStation 2 rendered Tony Hawk. American Idiot is possibly the most memorable and iconic pop punk record of all time with crossover appeal that spilled into mainstream, non-teenage angstridden culture. These big pop songs pleasingly still hold up.
Mid to high 4 for me on american idiot, we both remember it v fondly, the singles still hit hard, but it sags in the second half - still, iconic moment for pop punk and pop rock
Great
American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday Give me Novacaine/She’s a Rebel Letterbomb
American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams Are We the Waiting Homecoming
A*
This album has held a special place in my heart for a long time now. It was one of the first albums to get me into music in general. This high energy punk rock opera is well paced for a double album. So many great and iconic songs on one album. Favorite Track - Jesus of Suburbia Least Favorite Track - Whatsername
I’ll try give this another listen at some point but overarching sentiment is its hard to seperate what are i think very good songs from the very particular vibe and era that they evoke and also mid oughts animated films
I often forget that this is Green Day’s SEVENTH studio album but god is it a good one. I’m partial to a concept album but a concept album done WELL is something else. I know this album is steeped in deep nostalgia for me but I’m pretty sure it’s not clouding my judgement here. This is a 5-star-er, if only because it taught me that I can be loud and defiant and angry. I really enjoyed returning to American Idiot and will be glad to do so again.
An album I don’t think I’ve ever listened to in full but have been meaning to! Iconic singles on here and ones that I remember loving in year 4. Christmas 2005 I was so disappointed to be given the Green Day International Superhits album because it didn’t have any songs from this album (I would later learn that their early career songs were also great). Lots to love here: the ambition, the storytelling, the dynamics and also the brazen political messaging. Also, songs like Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Holiday still sound so good. I love Jesus of Suburbia even though I have to brace myself for the r-word every time I listen to it. 4 stars only because the second half did not really live up to that opening run. However, Whatsername is a great closer and now one of my favourites
Well written pop-punk songs with good hooks but a voice that irritates the shit out of me. I can appreciate it. Whatever.
3.5
Generationally ubiquitous album that is pretty damn corny at the end of the day. Green Day trying to be artsy with 9 minute song "suites" seems like a reach to me. At the same time, half of these songs and riffs are coded to my brain forever so I'll just give this a three and stop thinking about it.
LOVE. This entire LP is awesome.
Not my favorite. Probably the hipster in me but the popular songs felt like a chore. I enjoyed the double feature aesthetic of each song but the songs were a bit too long. I won’t be returning to this.
Obvious 5star for me. Love the concept album
what a fucking good album, iconic in all its right and wrongs, from the iconic album cover to the hit after hit after hit tracks. you have to love it from the punky guitars and political opinions, and SLURS. its a good fucking album. birthed in the middle of the advancement and the more corrupt the world grows, the harder the album goes. unlike dookie which was closer to punk, they went undoubtedly closer to pop in this track. but the lyrics remain relevant and angrier than ever. this album birthed every single track that everybody knows, punk or not ur gonna sing to either american idiot or holiday/boulevard or wake me up. the album js throws u into it, its so amazing. they strayed away from the the offspring, descendants stuff and took more of an explosion to pop-ification. amazing still.
Soft "punk" rock for middle class socialist brats from suburban families who never really had to work.
Just incredible
I was firmly in my teenage years when this album came out, I would've been exactly the target audience, but I'd listened to Dookie and Nimrod before this, so my general reaction to this was "what is this punk opera shit about". For many years I avoided this album. Listened to it last year as my partner was due to go to their gigs. Still didn't hit. Sitting down with it again, it's still a frustrating album. There's some great tracks in this - Letterbomb, Extraordinary Girl, and with the exception of Jesus of Suburbia which is about 2 minutes too long, all of the singles still hold up. Does it make me take back all the crap I gave it 20 years ago? Nah, but it's not a bad album.
Nostalgi. Fattade aldrig att det var en slags punk-opera. Hade negativa förutfattade meningar men detta är inte alls så dåligt! Kanske inte lyssnar på hela igen men en stabil 3:a
Crisp and excellently written pop-punk. I made fun of this kind of music so relentlessly when it first came out, and now I really just appreciate “good tunes.” I do think some of the political/concept album stuff is still pretty cheesy and think the horrible musical nullifies some of its legacy. The gulf of quality between singles and the rest is pretty noticeable for me, too.
A classic! Still holds up to this day. Big fan of the "rock opera" style songs/arrangements. Pair with a cold American IPA, obviously.
Nice punk pop rock album
This album is pop punk rebellion. The instrumentals are great and Billie Joe Armstrongs vocals and writing are in incredible. This album is filled with bangers from the title track to the much more melancholy wake me up when September ends. There are a couple of songs that are in protest of war and commentary of post 9-11 culture. But then there are songs that tackle issues with mental health, loneliness and loss of loved ones. This album has range and it bangs.
Love!!
A real modern rock opera going far beyond the boundaries of their earlier punk rock stuff. Masterfully composed and played with lots of sixties pop influences it is also great fun to listen to. Their Magnum Opus in my opinion.
An all time classic album for a reason
Only enjoyed last song but I don’t really like pop punk.
Don't like them, didn't listen.
dookie הכי טוב
Fine although very classified in that era, 2 good songs
2/5
He escuchado este álbum, conozco al grupo, Green day es una de las bandas que escuche cuando era adolescente. La canción que más me gusta de este álbum es Wake Me up When September Ends y Whatsername, creo que son unas de las canciones más emblemáticas para mí.
Fazia mais de 10 anos que não escutava nada deles. Envelheceu mal, hoje achei bem chatinho
Highlights: St Jimmy, American Idiot, Holiday, Jesus of Suburbia. In a nutshell: the Millennial Quadrophenia. Overall: 7/10
I'm probably being a little generous here, and I'm definitely giving in to a certain amount of nostalgia. Getting a couple critiques out of the way: The band's shift to a more arena rock sound is mostly a lateral move. I really miss the active bass lines and rawer sound from their earlier work The lyrics and the whole Saint Jimmy story are a little on the cheesy side That said, I love this album from start to finish. Most concept albums have a really hard time finding good singles that still fit the surrounding storyline, but this one does a great job of balancing those needs. The writing, the execution, and the vibes are all excellent.
like, ok, it’s basically Green Day doing a worse Bad Religion, and it can be overly earnest, and it’s still obviously a big political rock opera concept album from the guys who got big writing a song about the tedium of masturbation but I’ve got a soft spot for Green Day. I like when bands are probably reaching a little too far, ambitions over honest appraisal of their abilities. I love concept albums (that aren’t Tommy or Kilroy Was Here or Music From the Elder). It’s hard not to like an album trying this hard, when it jams basically a summary of itself into a nine minute song with five acts like some kind of concept album inception. There’s also just some great tracks on here. Holiday, Whatsername, Give Me Novacaine. Holiday in particular feels like an old sneering Green Day song with some Bad Religion edge to it. They’ve also got one of my genuinely favorite bassists. Mike Dirnt has been putting out secretly killer bass lines since Dookie, punching way above the band’s weight class, and that does a lot for this album. Is this a real four or am I being a little too charitable? Man, I don’t know. 100+ albums in I’ve given up on caring about how objective or consistent I am in my review criteria. Sorry other albums that are probably better than this and still got threes
I had such a tough time picking a favorite song from this album. It helped define the 00's, and it was everywhere then for a reason: every song here is still incredible now.
3.4 3x watched the music videos (extended) as well. doesn't compare to dookie
Classic Album. my childhood haha
This shit fucking honks why would this even be on the list?
Hmmm, I get why they were popular and I did listen to Green Day in that timeline but I was never a real die hard. They do have a clean, crispness to their punk energy that is very specific to them. Stylistically, unique and worth a listen. This was a decent album.
takes me back to the good old days. so many memories associated with this album. one reviewer said 'green day makes music that encapsulates how it feels to be a teenager' and i think those are wise words
Enjoyed this, felt vital throughout, very full sound
We listened to "Wake Me Up When September Ends" in World Music. Green Day performed "American Idiot" - I'm not apart of a MAGA agenda! - for the superbowl something. Over 20 years later still remains ridiculously relevant.
Absolute fire... Love this entire album! It grows on me more and more all the time.
Good one. 4 stars
I like this. 4 *
Awesome, just awesome. Remember buying this when it came out and listening to t on my walk to work. American idiot - what a salute to the president!
Awesome album
Surprisingly good. Nostalgia for a time i was barely concious.
10/10 album
1: American Idiot 2: Wake Me Up When September Ends 3: Holiday/ Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Their best record since Dookie, bursting with purpose…and sadly relevant again. The longer medleys don’t necessarily work so well but the overall impact remains.
So much better than I expected (memories of the title track meant I was anticipating a 3.5 or 4 for this). I understand why the title track exists and it really did pull me in as a youngster, but I'm so glad the rest of the album is so much more nuanced and whole, and so less grating. I of course remembered how much I have loved Boulevard and Wake Me Up for decades now, and Jesus of Suburbia and Are We The Waiting are as good as I remember. But the other album songs I haven't heard before (never actually listened to the whole album before?!) are so much better than I anticipated. Brilliant album. 4.5 rounded up!
Good, but doesn't hold up as well as I would like
It’s always been a great album.
Great album, young or old you should enjoy this
I love Green Day so much !! This album is a classic I don't care what y'all think
très sympa. agréablement surpris, bel album complet. 3.5/5