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Incredible rock opera. I always admire this album for still being extremely good even if you don't pay attention to the plot - the songs are all great when isolated, something I, a Pink Floyd fanboy, can't even say about The Wall (let's be honest, nobody is putting "Bring The Boys Back Home" in their playlists). Punk doesn't get better than this from what I've heard, easy 5/5.
Banger
So good top to bottom. Jesus of Suburbia is an all time anthem. Some hugely identifiable guitar riffs throughout the entire thing
Absolute CLASSIC. Like, wow. A lot of these songs hold up so well, they capture the epic emotions and paradoxically small scale of the suburbs. Beautiful!
Where to start? I got into Green Day back in '02, when I was 19. I played the shit out of International Superhits! When American Idiot dropped I had just seen Green Day headline Leeds festival (my first festival and Green experience) so to say I was in the height of my fanboy phase is an understatement. I remember watching the American Idiot music video weeks before and no joke, every single damn one of my friends owned this album. The end of 2004 and going into 2005 was a great time in my life and this album was the soundtrack. It was everywhere I went. House parties? Gaming with friends? While I was at work? This album was on constant rotation by me and everyone I hung out with. It was huge. It was my favourite Green Day album for the longest time but I rarely listen to it now. I have listened to it so many times that I kinda ruined it for myself. It will always be a 5* album for me though. The one song I can still happily revisit is Jesus of Suburbia. That song has everything. The other highlights for me are American Idiot, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, St. Jimmy, Give Me Novacaine, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Homecoming. Pretty much the whole album.
A pretty perfect rock album, not a bad song on there. Verges on operatic in composition. St Jimmy, Give Me Novocaine, Homecoming, Whatsername all great but Jesus of Suburbia is the obvious classic - punk Bohemian Rhapsody
Fantastic. One of the first CDs I ever bought, and it still holds up.
I'd written Green Day off as a one album wonder before this came out...... but this was a ferocious return to form
Going into this, I thought there was no way American Idiot could rate as high as Dookie. I was wrong. This was the annoyingly catchy popular sellout album for a reason: The music was annoyingly great, and everybody knew it.
Absolutely fantastic shit that I ignored for so long just because I hated how beloved it was in middle school or whatever
Def some nostalgia here
Obwohl teilweise gestückelt passt alles wunderbar zusammen. Man merkt ein klares Konzept. Fett Fett fett. In jeder Nummer gibt's an geilen Höhepunkt.
Great album, worth it's accolades.
❤️❤️ Jedan od najbitnijih albuma u mom životu, dan danas znam svaki takt jer je jebeno savršenstvo. Jebiga to je komedija i tragedija, to je Sv. Ivica i to je moje ime... AND DON'T YOU FUCKING WEAR IT OUT.
Good music, good lyrics, brought me back to my high school years
I can't even begin to quantify how much of a soft spot I have for this album. It came out when I was a kid, and was the first rock music I got REALLY into at the time, having listened to contemporary country up until then. Easy 5/5, but I'm biased as hell to the point where I'm not gonna bother trying to explain why I feel that way. I did actively relisten to the album for this, but I seriously considered just skipping it because I have literally every song on it already in my usual playlist. If you want a nuanced opinion ask literally anyone else.
Very nostalgic. Loved this album growing up
Awesome classic
Green Day's masterpiece. What a perfect pop-punk album. Every song flows together nice and moves into the next one. It's one of the few 21st century albums that really engages you from song to song and is best listened to in its entirety. What a fantastic album from one of my all-time favorite bands. Listening to this when I was in my youth during the Kerplunk! days would have been slightly disappointing, but now that I've grown up, I can really appreciate American Idiot for what it is: perfect for its time and genre. Nice work, Green Day!
This album has been in regular rotation for me since it was released. As much as Dookie was incredibly influential for the pop-punk scene and the band continued to evolve their sound on Insomniac and Nimrod - it wasn’t until American Idiot that they really cemented their legacy as a Hall of Fame band. Haven’t been as big of a fan of anything since but still love the classics. This album tells a story and does so in a way that’s never boring. Would love to see the musical (or a film adaptation) some day. Fav Tracks: “Jesus of Suburbia” “Letterbomb” “Homecoming”
Know this one great. Good one.
Whew, American Idiot is an absolute classic in my eyes. The entire album is filled with commentary on the political and disenfranchised state of the USA in the early/mid 00s, and although the album is almost 20 years old, sadly it still speaks to the state of USA. This conceptual album is multi Grammy award winning, has been adapted for Broadway and has a documentary that was filmed about the process of making the album. This takes me back to early high school blasting this in my headphones on my discman, and to what we now know as a much simpler time considering what the Trump Administration has brought to the world. Best: American Idiot; Boulevard of Broken Dreams; Wake Me Up When September Ends Worst: Are We the Waiting Note: Spotify has joined some songs as one, which I can see why they've done it for the flow, but I have always listened to them as separate songs. (Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams; Are we The Waiting/St. Jimmy, and a couple of others)
That's my childhood, no way I could not love it
banger
I know all the songs in this album by heart! I used to listen to it when I was an awkward teenager, so it will always be special to me. Favourite track: Jesus of Suburbia but honestly I like them all
I don't want to be an American idiot.
Nostalgia. Letterbomb and Homecoming don't really stand out but the rest are really great. A must.
perfeito clássico!
Grew up listening to Green Day, needed to be a 5
Riley says 5 stars and I agree. I have a soft spot in my heart for pop punk and Green Day does it better than anyone. Jesus of Suburbia is like a microcosm of the whole album, a tiny pop punk rock opera all on its own. Even if you don’t love them, you have to appreciate the ambition here.
Perhaps I’m just rating it highly because I lived in the East Bay for so long, but this album seriously holds up after 17 years. A punk rock opera was genius then and is genius now
Been touring this album for 15+ years and that's alright. Good stuff.
Nostalgic bliss
I've had heard the hits, but never the full album. Every song is good or a masterpiece, it's a very solid album.
Rating: 10/10 Best songs: all
Still one of the best concerts I ever saw was their American Idiot tour. I also still know most of the lyrics as I listened along. Jesus of Suburbia is still a classic and forever will be.
Still awesome!
Absolutely fantastic album that is a highlight of Green Day’s career. I love so much of this album and have for as long as I can remember.
Great piece of American music.
Very very awesome Album!!!
Да это же лучший жанр, поп-панк! Стоит, вероятно, немного пояснить за отношение к коллективу. Узнал где-то в период своего роцкерского становления на A-One. Вероятно, сразу после клипа на Бульвар поставил ярлык недорока для школьниц и боле шанса даже не давал. Ещё негатив подкрепился тем, что именно Green Day стали единственной "современной" (на тот момент) группой, удостоившейся собственной игры с пластиковыми гитарами. То есть встали рядом с Metallica, The Beatles, AC/DC, Aerosmith и Van Halen, отчего я немного негодовал. Посему в ближайшем окружении хейтил. Спустя годы выкупил прикол панка так какового, да и поп-панка в частности. Енто позволяэ как-то иначе взглянуть на творчество коллектива. На самом деле альбом сделал мои выходные, грубо говоря. Возможно, тут можно говорить о явлении, когда кто-то испытывает ностальгию по тому, чего в жизни и не было. Тупа веет яркой молодостью. Издали думал, что альбом является где-то первым-третьим с основания группы, мол в начале запилили, хайпанули, а потом паразитируют на начальных успехах. Но, сука, альбом то седьмой и запилен через 18 лет после основания! Уже подобное вызываэ увожение. Аналогия навскидку проводится разве что с пристовским Паникулёром. Чё там по трекам... На самом деле, прослушивание на 4-5-е выкупаешь, что все хорошие. Хотел сказать, что к концу явно просаживается, но то, что опосля Whatsername - цэ, оказывается, бонус-треки. Не, реально, как-то всё в единое концептуальное полотно выстраивается с сопоставимой степенью качёвости, из которого вырывать что-то отдельное и не хочется особо. Разве что 3 "главных" трека: есессна, заглавный, Бульвар и Сентябрь. Заглавный ранее казался недостаточно цепляющим, чтобы быть цепляющим при своей лаконичности. Но ныне, особенно в рамках альбома, звучит вполне достойно. К Бульвару сохранился немного школьный негатив, наименее живой трек на альбоме. Звучание веет словом "коммерческий". Ну типа а вдруг так вышло просто? Написался трек, как и остальные, но там продюссеры подсуетились, давайте ща стерильности наведём, сотни нефти подымем. Ну типа а чё бы и нет. Возможно, один из тех треков, по котором публика знакомится с исполнителем, а, прошарившись, не особо и ценит. Но трек в целом всё же хороший. Сентябрь, возможно, даже и не слышал ранее. Разве что фрагменты где-нить, да и то не точно. И прям чёт сразу пропёрся. Этот рек всё же достаточно цепляющий, чтобы быть интересным при лаконичности. При этом он не такой уж и лаконичный, там вон инструменты разные всякие, переходы. Ну типа попс, да. Но попс то мы тут не хейтим сам по себе. В целом, возможно, лучший новый для себя альбом в рамках 1001. Синтез идей прошлых декад, причём тех, что мне самому заходят. Тут слышу Битлов, там - Квинов немного, тут - Дэвид Боуи, там - глэм-митол 80-ых. И при этом как бы не завершает ход эволюции, а служит её звеном. Так, хук из Letterbomb я будто слышу в angelic milk - Rebel Black. Короче, отличный альбом. Отличный альбом, оставлю на плеере.
Un álbum prácticamente perfecto. No lo escuchaba desde hace más de 10 años y lo he disfrutado más de lo que creía. Las melodías vocales son perfectas, el ritmo prácticamente no decae, es una historia desesperada; no hay héroes, no hay cambio. El cambio es la quimera. "Letterbomb", el punto álgido.
One of the legendary Rock Opera's of our time. Right up there with Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Great album. Career defining. Good guitars, beats, melodies!, sensicle lyrics.
This hasn't aged well but it still takes me back to chugging too many drinks at house parties and jumping off of the roofs of various neighbours
"No one ever died for my Sins in hell As far as I can tell At least the ones that I got away with" (Jesus of Suburbia) "Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allan Poe Raised in the city under a halo of lights The product of war and fear that we've been victimized I'm the patron saint of the denial With an angel face and a taste for suicidal" (St. Jimmy) A Green Day sí le permito hacer canciones de más de cinco minutos.
Wow this album unlocked childhood memories I forgot existed. Was a little nervous that it wouldn't be as good as I remembered, but oh my god am I so glad I was wrong. That rocked hard as hell, its got a political message that still rings true today, was a total risk by a band way outside of their comfort zone thematically, and still was an incredible success. We've had a lot of concept albums lately and I haven't been the biggest fan, but yo this is how its done right. Also, who else was a 5th grader who didn't really know anything about politics but didn't like George Bush just because of Green Day? Any ways, this group just earned its pop-punk merit badge because its 5s across the board for Green Day!
Not surprised that this ended up on the list. Jam-packed with hits, somehow polished and pop while maintaining the raw edge.
Américan idio, Jesús suburbio y boulevard broken dreamS
YEESSSSSSSSS
more timely than ever!
Superb.
Solid album that represents Green day maturity. I just don't get the double songs per album track.
Punk Opera about the disillusionment of growing up in suburbia? Easy 5 stars. I listened to this album so hard the summer it came out that I spent the next 3 years hating on it. Once I went back and realized I had just overplayed it for myself, it went back into a moderated heavy rotation.
stone cold classic.
Energetic, one of my favourite albums then I was a teenager.
Can't not give it a 5
Great. Recognize lots of songs.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I definitely bought this album on the day it came out - I was 16. I was riding in the back seat of my friend's car listening to "Holiday" - we had it cranked and he was driving too fast trying to take a turn off 18th Ave - into the ditch we went! A fond memory. I get why some people don't like Green Day but they were such a big part of my formative years and I come back to their music often enough. I think this is their best album. "Jesus of Suburbia" is epic, I love that song. Rounding up to a 5.
Epic!
idiota americando da minha juventude idiota
Absolute classic.
Probably my best Green Day album as well. Loved the first one but this one is just really good.
One of the albums I listen to often, very good.
Was very excited to see this bad boy pop up. This was the album that introduced me to Green Day but I haven’t listened in forever. Very rewarding for us lyrics listeners ;) Kathleen Hanna should’ve sang Letterbomb though.
One of my favorites, a great commentary and timeless rock sounds to bang your head along with.
Hands down the best Green Day album of all time, one of the best concept albums of all time, and one of the best albums in general. 5 stars, all killer-no filler.
I mean. The songs were stuck in my head before I even started listening for the day.
Ah, nostalgia. Take me back. Spiked hair, skateboards, baggy jeans that soaked up all the rain, walking in a certain way so your cd doesn't skip, twisting the headphones so the loose connection isn't a problem and freedom. -------------------------------------------------------------- I can't believe how many hits were on this album. Holiday is the pick for me with it's rhythmic bounciness. The drums and bass through are tonally perfect whether that be the more punk rock style of songs like st Jimmy or the rock opera of homecoming. Those tom fills demand attention. There's a lot of depth here musically, something I didn't appreciate on release. Back in the day this wasn't heavy enough for edge lord me, but now? Hits just right. The vocals are distinctive and well delivered. Sure the messages are a bit ham-fisted but you can't deny the enduring quality of American Idiot. It's not quite a 5 but it's getting a 4 with distinction.
If you were in 6th-8th grade in 2004-5, this was one of THE albums, and there’s no questioning that. It felt like every third song on the radio was from this record. It being Green Day and I being in the Portland metro area then, it had major crossover appeal. I listened to this on a whim pretty recently (by that i mean within the past 2 years) and the super-saturation of Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends was still fresh enough after decades that i skipped both. This time i threw in Blvd and i can say again that i do like it. Letterbomb is an incredibly slept on (by me) Green Day song Homecoming > Jesus of Suburbia don’t @ me Overall? This album holds a really special place in my memory, and it might be nostalgia goggles a little bit but i still think it’s a very solid one. I enjoy it a good deal, but i wouldn’t say it’s GREAT, you know? A 4 it is!
Ooo
I didn't pay much attention to Green Day or their 90s pop punk peers back then. I wasn't really dismissive or anything, just had my head in other things. I'm familiar with the radio songs of course. I'm warming up to this band a lot more lately even before I got this album. The deeper cuts are damn good tunes. It does droop during the ballad-y songs so I will be skipping those on future listens.
A really good album. Solid songs and great sounding.
I was expecting to hate this album. I dislike the singles and think Wake Me Up When September Ends is one of my least favourite songs of all time. So I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it. Songs that feel bombastic or sappy on the radio make sonic sense in context. Don’t get me wrong, Wake Me Up When September Ends still isn’t great but other songs made up for it. I especially liked Are We the Waiting and the glockenspiel on Homecoming.
A classic
4.5 I feel like it could be a 5; I am unsure why I'm holding back from giving it 5 stars.
Dope
okay, day 2 i listen to this album my favorite song is american idiot, wake me up when sept end, whatsername,
Tykkäsin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lapsuuden yks kulutetuimmista. Hyvä lätty.
Green Day are another album that represented something of a musical blindspot, though I was of course familiar with 'American Idiot' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams.' Overall, I was impressed with what I heard. The aforementioned two tracks are obvious highlights but my pick of the punch might be 'Holiday.' 'Jesus of Suburbia', 'Letterbomb' and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' are other highlights.
Leuk. Iconisch
I enjoyed most of it. Nostalgia bumps this up quite a bit.
a rare punk rock concept and thematic album. Nice story about a band on the verge of breakup who reconcile and collaborate to make a great album.
One of the best bands of the 90s, some classics on this album.
I like a good protest song! 💪
Ka es fuckoju ar teenage movie soundtrack tipa dziesmam
Man nepatīk pop-rock vai whatever šis rock žanrs saucas, bet šis albums ir labs
Lead single that gives the album its name is indeed as fun as it ever was. Lyrics do be hitting, too... 9 minute songs??? Pretty cool for what it was. Is that a saxophone?? Holiday and Boulevard are more pleasing sonically than I remember/expected. Governator for example is annoying, and it's kinda like the default I envision when someone mentions punk/punk rock. Too Much Too Soon is kinda similar, but in a better way (not annoying; neat; nothing that really moves me or stays any for a moment longer after it finishes playing). Letterbomb is a step up further for that, noice. I appreciate the inter-song references. --- As a whole, it's pretty good. Didn't deep dive into the lyrics but what I could "get" on the first few listens was good and helps provide more depth to the experience. About as good as it would get for my appreciate of punk rock, I think - unless there's some hidden gem I am not aware of - wherein I liked it musically/sonically more than The Black Parade. Interestingly, though, both the first listen of the album in order and the shuffle listen later on was quite more enjoyable than I expected - I genuinely enjoyed this more than Nirvana's In Utero and even Pantera's Vulgar Display Of Power, which is quite shocking for me. Perhaps I am indeed evolving my tastes through this experiment. Can't give this a 5 as ultimately this is an exercise in subjective listening, and this does not spark the same joy as some of the hidden gems we previously got in this experiment, nor as some of my favorite music, but it does do much better than I thought it would, and than I remembered it for. Strong 4+, or 4 with an upside. Probably better overall than most of my 4s and even some 5s, but lacked the extra spice I like.
Твердая 8.5-9/10, интересная история которая тянется на протяжении всего альбома, понравились переходы в песнях. Boulevard of broken dreams и Give me Novacain прямо в сердце.
Охуенный концептуальник, 8/10 поскольку пока не фанат панка. Но зная саму суть альбома - 8 поскольку концетуальники я люблю.
La verdad buen álbum pero no soy tan fan de green day
American Idiot : 4 Jesus of Suburbia : 5 Holiday : 3,5 Boulevard of Broken Dreams : 3,5 Are we the Waiting : 4 St. Jimmy : 5 Give me Novocaine : 3 She’s a Rebel : 4 Extraordinarily Girl : 3,5 Letterbomb: 4 Wake Me Up When September Ends : 5 Homecoming : 2 Whatsername : 3,5 American Idiot is a good album. Problem is, I’m from that generation when it came out, and it was all over the place. Even today, Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams are still heavily played. There’s a couple of songs that reminds me of the old Green Day, like She’s a Rebel and Letterbomb. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a solid album, but the second half isn’t as good as the first. 4/5. Been a while since I’ve listened to it, but probably my next listen will be in a while too.
hay muy buenos hits pero se llega a hacer aburrido, aun asi creo que vale la pena 4
Pop punk and alternative rock feeling like being pulled into a protest march where everyone around me is shouting the same slogans, jumping, pushing forward, and feeding off the collective energy. The guitars, drums, and Billie Joe Armstrong’s forceful vocals make the music feel immediate and confrontational, while the album’s rock-opera structure turns the whole thing into a larger story of alienation, rebellion, and escape. I’m not standing outside the crowd here; the music keeps dragging me along with it, even when its slogans and repeated anthemic gestures start to feel almost too deliberate.
Another whiny classic. I like it.
It seems I know more songs from this album than I thought I did: I was singing along to quite a lot of it. Really enjoyable rock music.
This is very much another case of. This album was so good everyone started copying it, making it retroactively worrse, or at least makes it feel overdone. The music is actually well made, and they do at least try to be punk in their lyrics and themes. But there exist another 100 (worse executed) post-punk rock albums from mid to late 00s. Which sadly do negatively affect this album.
Good stuff, but not as good as Dookie
Loads of tunes
Good
Some bagers, Songs are really long but good
American Idiot is not a perfect album about America. It’s a very good album about being young, angry, alienated and desperate to escape—with America serving as the environment that produces those feelings. And that’s why it has lasted. The politics date. The Bush-era references date. The pop-punk aesthetic dates. But the central feeling doesn’t: “Something is wrong with the world I’m inheriting, and I don’t know whether I should fight it, escape it, or become part of it.” That’s why American Idiot remains powerful.
I wonder if most Republicans are going to not like the message and give it 1 star and Democrats are going to give it 5. Rating it on just the music there are some really great songs on this album. I generally love concept albums but there are some not so great tracks. If l was rating based on enjoyment it probably would be 3 stars but the effort put in to making it a cohesive album earns a bit more respect from me.
This album surprised me. I’d always associated Green Day with corny 2000s punk rock, but there’s something genuinely nostalgic and melodic about this one. 7/10
Green Day were one of my first favourite bands. Dookie changed my life when I heard it as an 11 year old in '94. It was one of the handful of albums that set the trajectory for my tastes and identity for my entire teens and into my twenties. I was a very different 21 year old when I heard this for the first time. Much more jaded and into far heavier punk and hardcore. To that 21 year old this was at best a cutesy novelty and at worse a gross, overly commercial betrayal. It certainly signalled the end of Green Day being one of my favourite bands. Revisiting it for the first time my opinion has softened. It's a lot of fun! Billie Joe seems like a good guy, ambitious and earnest, more in the lineage of songwriters like Paul McCartney and Paul Simon than Lou Reed and Jello Biafra. He has a strong grasp of rock n roll structures and melody, and he swings for the fences here. The biggest touch points on this album are, of course, other rock operas, most notably Tommy, but there are little referneces and easter eggs littered throughout to classic rock. There are some moments that haven't held up, most notable the two 'balleds' the turgid Wake Me Up Before September Ends and Boullevard of Broken Dreams. The upbeat numbers are a lot of fun, and the multi song pieces are enjoyable in their composition without overstaying their welcome or being too clever. This album was definitely the moment Green Day left behind any remaining punk cred and fully embraced their theatre kid future. 21 year old me was furious, but I've changed. It's good to change. Green Day changed and acheived one of the most successful second acts in modern rock. Good job guys.
#424 Having not listened to this in a good 20 years, I kind of assumed I didn’t like it enough. I owned it at the time and even went to see them play on this tour but I probably drifted away from Green Day after this. I thought this would be a bit bloated and overlong, however, I enjoyed my listen today and it certainly didn’t outstay its welcome. I also don’t think I appreciated at the time that this was a bit of a concept album / rock opera, the latter would certainly put me off usually. Heard before? ✅ Would I revisit? ✅ Listen before you die? ✅ Fave track(s): Jesus of Surburbia Rating: 7/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Liked this way more than I expected. Good album.
Music is so formative. This album was everywhere when I was 16 and my mind instantly goes right back. The first half is a greatest hits album. I don’t really understand the stylistic choice to couple some of the songs up - makes listening unnecessarily cumbersome but otherwise I love it.
I have previously only heard the album "Dookie" by this band, and compared to that, this release is more mature both musically and lyrically, though that's not saying very much. The album's political and social commentary borders on superficial, but thankfully the music is good. The songs are diverse for punk rock, ranging from shortish, sub-three-minute tracks to minor epics approaching ten minutes in length and comprising multiple sections. The early tracks are particularly good, but the quality doesn't really drop towards the end, either.
A record stuffed with inescapable hit singles, I'll admit to having listener fatigue with many of the songs here due to how often I heard them as a youth. That does not mean they aren't great songs, as they blew up for a reason. Green Day could have just put out Dookie soundalikes and would still had a decent career but instead they choose to do something that is incredibly ambitious. The pop punk is still here, it's just more grandiose with songs like "Jesus Of Suburbia" hitting 9 minutes and featuring vastly different sounding sections. The album runs its course once the emotional ballad "Wake Me Up When September Ends" finishes up as I don't think the final two tracks added anything that wasn't already there and the generic "Whatshername" feels like a rather limp way to close such a bombastic record. I think that My Chemical Romance is did the whole pop punk rock opera thing better, but I will give Green Day credit for doing it first.
I knew this was a good album, and it is a little better than I thought. 4 stars or B+.
"American Idiot" and "I walk alone" are the ones I knew well. Hadn't really taken the time to listen to the entire album. It's good. Great, well I don't know. I think a four for being a great album, but nothing feels particularly innovative or original.
Things that impressed: - their ability to do so many things within individual songs in this album (Jesus of Suburbia, St Jimmy) less so by: - all the angst. I am sure it resonated with the 21 year old, but less so with the 42 year old. This exercise is great for reminding you of the songs you loved from this album, and revisiting the tracks you didn't really connect with the first time - but find pretty great (Homecoming).
Одна из величайших рок-опер и наверное главный альбом Green Day. Не сказал бы что я огромный фанат группы, но отрицать величие этого альбома не могу. Он монументальный, с отличным развитием и динамикой песен. Особенно классно звучат монументальные композиции типа Jesus Of Suburbia. Вобще однозначно гениальное, но для меня не на 5/5
Lekker
First time listening on proper gear to this record. Pleasantly surprised by the production and details.
The album that put them back on the map as a big league rock band for the millennium. I'm sure John Lydon had a lot to say about a punk rock opera and it makes you think how powerful the satire and protest is compared to the political climate of now. It certainly is very tuneful and they do sound quite familiar at times, even having the character of the recent Scooby Doo TV theme! Although bits of it are a but clunky, I'm not a fan of the penultimate song, but many of my GCSE students have been assessed playing the title track, wake me up before September ends and Boulevard of broken dreams over recent years. A good effort and a grammy winner no less.....
Idk why I just don’t really care for Green Day, good music just don’t care much for the tone
So easy to listen to! Longer than I remember it being...I'm still a fan even if things start to blend together in the last few songs.
The titular track, "American Idiot" is just the song of an entire generation. Some songs are staples of their zeitgeist, this is definitely one of them for the early 00s. The iconic power chord set, the megaphone vocals... despite being political in nature, it is just super fun. Those telltale guitar chords associated with the band (and I think would be for many more years to come) are present in "Jesus of Surburbia", used in a cool way with the a triple slam of the chords prefacing the chorus. Despite all the variation with the piano sections and the more anthemic vocals around the 5min mark and beyond, this track was a little long in the tooth for me. Then comes the more depressively romantic "Boulevard of Broken Dreams". Between it's pianos, consistent bass, ringing guitar chords and Billie's vocals... it makes for something I've always found truly special. It's another track that definitely bears the mark of it's time, but it's still a great track. The way is breaks apart in the end with it's sinister guitar also delicious. "St. Jimmy" is arguably more punk than what came before, that machine gun guitar riff at the beginning and thrashy chords after really bring the energy. From memory, the rest of the album plays on these tone shifts from something fun and punky to melodically somber; from "Letterbomb" to "Wake Me Up when September Ends". Also really enjoyed: "Holiday", "Extraordinary Girl", "Shoplifter". Overall, it's hard to deny how much I loved it when I first heard it in 2004 when I was a teen; one of those gateway albums that delivered me from Eminem and Electronica into a world of modern guitar laden music. In many ways it still holds up for me, especially as it represents a sound I'm hearing less and less of with the release of new music from new artists.
Hall of fame album that has a ton of bangers on it. 8.6/10
A lot of bangers. but for me, the lesser known songs hit hardest. the transition of Are we waiting/St. Jimmy was awesome. Great album.
Top tier pop punk… 3.9
Couldn’t believe how many hits there were on this album. It’s packed, and even the songs between the hits are pretty solid too. Helps that it was a big part of my late teens. 8/10 Most Excellent
7/10 There is no doubting BJ Armstrong can write a tune, and this features some great ones. Paired with the rather excellent punk sensibilities of the bass and drums, this is a top record. However, I care not for the medley nor a rock opera, and both of those have a strong presence here
It’s a bit over-long, and a bit self-satisfied and self-important, but it’s a good record. The story in the concept doesn’t really hang together, or have any real direction, but that doesn’t really matter - it’s more of a mood piece imo, and as such it does display the anger and disaffection of the time. And, let’s be honest, that’s only got worse over time, hasn’t it?
This album landed at absolutely the right time for me to be obsessed with it, after listening to pop punk for a few years something just slightly different (also ese blink-182s self titled) was very interesting. Wore a few black shirts with red ties to college, good times. Haven't listened to it in a good few years but it was a lovely nostalgia trip. Jumped out to me how lacking in humour it is, which was a departure from Green Days previous stuff. Dead Kennedys (which GD clearly love) showed you can do political stuff and still be funny, so it's a shame they didn't take this a bit less seriously, think it would have benefitted. It's a bit too dramatic and musical, I definitely listen to dookie and Nimrod every so often so this definitely didn't stick with me as much. This was a great listen though and my younger self would be giving immediate 5s.
good album loved the song it can be my favorite
wake me up when september endssssssssss
I completely missed this when it came out (checks notes, lol) about a quarter century ago. Always kind of had my back up against these guys since they were so obviously being sold as The Next Big Thing in the early-mid 1990's, when I was most prone to getting my back about stuff like that. This was good - much better than I was expecting - though everything by them still sounds pretty much the same to me.
3.5
Top 3 of theirs .
It was really difficult to decide on a rating for this album. It's definitely one of the more tolerable things that my mum plays in the car but I can only listen to so much Green Day. The first couple of songs are great to listen to after a long time though so its a 4.
i thought i was prejudiced against green day until today. i really enjoyed it and would give 3.5/5.
a genuine treat. haven’t listened to this since i was a kid
This album feels very strong from the start, but loses some magic halfway through.
A classic for me
A bit heavy for me but still an absolute vibe
I agree with everything Sebastian said and have nothing really to add. One minor note is I basically zero ear for production/mixing, but this one is kind of weird. On the one hand, that clean, crispy sound was a revelation to little me. It sounded like something from the future, and I just can’t shake that association. Nowadays, though, I’ll compare it to, like, Dookie, and it just sounds kind of bad.
7/10. rounded to 4
1. Jesus of Suburbia 2. Give me Novocaine / She’s a Rebel 3. Whatsername
This album is loaded with hits. I get that the pop-punk (emphasis on punk) can get a little stale, but you cannot deny the staying power of the popular songs here. Plus, Jesus of Suburbia is an INCREDIBLE song. I'm gonna give this a solid 4 for those reasons.
A little more polished than my favourite Greenday Album (Dookie) however still adequately provocative and uncooperative to not feel like a sellout . 4 Segue songs on an album is surely unprecidented with Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams generationally iconic
I thought I would dislike the soft moments on the album more, but I really enjoyed them. I've heard this album before and expected to enjoy it as a whole, but found new favorite moments than I'd previously found in listening to the song single by single. American Idiot and Jesus of Suburbia are of course excellent, but I loved Are we Waiting and Give me Novacaine were new favs. Homecoming is by far the weakest portion. Feels like a 7/10 project, maybe verging on an 8. Other than Homecoming it's very strong, it's just not necessarily the most engaging or interesting style to me.
Kjennskap: 80% Første album med en del sanger jeg har god kjennskap til. Vokste opp med dette. Mye bra, men litt tungt å høre på i lengden. Fav: Wake Me up When September Ends
Fun!!
Very good if you like approachable pop punk. Some very memorable tracks, including a few I had forgotten about, and Green Day's sound is distinctive enough for them to be easily differentiated from other pop punk bands.
Probably the best pop rock/punk band out there. This album is so by the book, but maybe that's what makes it so good? I love "Jesus of Suburbia".
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i remember dancing to Holiday in my friend morgan's house when we were 10 years old, having no idea what the song meant, but rocking tf out. my best friend Marie and I were obsessed with Boulevard of Broken Dreams and we thought the "uh huh uh huh" refrain was really funny for some reason. I heard Wake Me Up When September Ends so incessantly on the radio that I grew to hate it, and still I really dislike that song. Otherwise, I always appreciate Green Day's ability to diagnose hypocrisy and flay the myth of American exceptionalism and while some may see this album as too pop, i was so young when Green Day were putting out their more punk albums that I just thought they were cool.
If this had been vinyl an amazing side killer after killer after killer. One or two tracks just bring this down a touch almost perfect.
Me recordó al de The Clash: hacen mucho con poco, y si fuera la mitad de corto sería perfecto.
Fun to listen to the protest songs of yester year, quite sad they're licking the boot now
Lots of meaning, made into a musical for a reason. I didn't realize so many of the songs were paired together.
EL disco de Green Day. Voy a poner esto antes ni siquiera de ponerme a escucharlo. Si no hubiera escuchado cuando era adolescente no habría acabado escuchando la música que escucho, creo que ni siquiera tendría los mismos gustos, me ha moldeado de una forma increible. Le voy a dar 4 porque sé que los hay mejores pero vamos, en mi corazón le doy 20.
Me ha gustado bastante. Mucha cancion mitica. Me ha parecido guay lo de las canciones dobles
Wake me up when September ends, es una canción perfecta para su época y para su estilo, después de ser unos locos hardcore se paran y te cuentan algo que importa. A partir de ahí un disco en su línea divertido, rockero, que pide ser joven y saltar en un bar o en un concierto con sus canciones. Me guardo esa canción y también Jesus of suburbia y Holiday/Boulevard of broken dreams.
It was a very good listen, not much more to say but it kept me engaged.
I enjoyed that trip down memory lane
Great, but I appreciated Dookie's raw, unfiltered punkness much more than this: which is a tad more cleaner and more polished. I want some gritty punk, man!
Punk music can be split into two distinct eras: the early era where it was sped up 12-bar blues, and the later era where it became 4-chord songs. Oh how to rate this one. Love the political energy which hasn't aged a bit, but it's also steeped in that pop sound. So polished, a true punk rock opera, but with 4-chord songs... But it's only the radio hits that have that going for them. So is that really the album's fault or the audience?
Listens: very familiar I didn't really know what rebellion was in fourth grade (or honestly really at any point in my childhood), so it's kind of funny to look back and see what this meant to so many other kids my age or slightly older. Granted, I had liberal parents, so the liberal attitudes expressed by this album (Bush bad, war bad) didn't feel rebellious so much as simply righteous, even if I had no idea why Bush was bad or what we were supposed to be doing in Iraq or Afghanistan anyway. (I was nine!) The album offered plenty of edginess besides, from denouncing the tv-watching masses (thus allowing me to feel superior to my classmates) to calling Americans idiots (weren't my parents always saying that?). Of course, the majority of the edginess—and much of it is that, just edginess—was lost on my tiny brain. Kids being fed too much "ritalin"? Must be some sort of junk food. "Kill all the 'fags' that don't agree"? Just a mean word to call someone. Saint Jimmy "blew his brains out into the bay"? I was terrified to blow my nose after that, lest my own brains be blown out. That all aside, I was obsessed with this album. It maintained rotation on my little discman for years, and though much of its charm has worn off for me at this point in my life, several of its songs are still huge favorites of mine, "Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" especially. To me, the joy of this album was less in its (honestly fairly shallow) political commentary than its many twists and turns, its perfect production, and its *coherence* as an album. All the track segues excited me so much as a kid, especially the two nine-minute song suites, which expertly weaved tiny punk song ideas into tight, polished entrees. In a time before I'd discovered Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile, it showed me what an album could do, what it could be. In general I detest pop-punk, but though there are definitely cheesy moments, this album never felt like the whining, cynically teenager-aimed music of Blink-182 and their ilk. Sure, it's a concept album built around the teenage "Jesus of Suburbia", but even today it feels more like an expression of concern for the youth rather than an attempt to court them. Green Day (already legendary by that point, of course) went on to continue to flirt with vapid radical symbolism, talking about "revolution" like it's nothing more than a metaphor, or a fun plot point in an RPG game. Anything they had to say, they said on this album. Sure, 2004 was a very different time politically, but even so it was not exactly a hot take that the Iraq War was unjustified. Nonetheless, the album's role as a rallying cry for liberals was culturally significant, even if it didn't help defeat Bush (alas), even if the messages stunningly went above many conservatives' heads as well.
4.5 stars! Nostalgic, pop punk with some fantastic songwriting. Just a little too punk for me to give it a five. As close to five stars as you can get, I just don’t connect with it enough to give it a 10/10
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Hyvä platta ja kai tätäkin voi jonkinnäköisenä "aikansa kuvana" pitää.
Hittibiisit on kyllä edelleen kovia, mutta ei niiden ulkopuolelta oikein löytynyt mitään uutta kivaa. Mutta mennään nyt nelosella silti.
For some reason I always convince myself that I'm not a Green Day fan, but it turns out I'm wrong I'm not the biggest fan of the title track, but the album on the whole is ace. I thoroughly enjoyed it
A little frontloaded and cheesy, but still a total blast all these years later!
I've enjoyed this album since teenagehood. Listening again, I've definitely grown in my tastes but it still is a nice listen.
Rico disco, tiene un par de temas medio olvidables así que se come 4 estrellas. Aguante Jesus of Suburbia vieja. Sape
Very high energy for sure.
Something familiar with enough unknown tracks to keep me interested throughout. This is the most thought I have given to the band to this point so reading about the journey that led to this album was very engaging. The theft of the masters, the band being on the brink of splitting and coming together to focus their attention on a punk rock political opera is quite a ride. I'm not into opera's or musicals due to my own limitations but I wasn't even aware there was a grander story being told here before now. I think the music works really well, they lean hard into those big booming sounds from the drums and bass guitar and it creates a lot of Anthemic sounding moments which is easy to listen to. Vocals are hard to parse on their own just due to how much ive heard it growing up but its got a hard punky edge when it needs to and doesn't bother me. I'd be happy to have most any song come up in a random playlist without skipping although some of the longer tracks can begin to overstay their welcome on repeat listens.
4.5
This was a pleasant surprise - I've always kind of avoided Green Day
Super nostalgic, great album.
Favorite songs: American Idiot, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Are We the Waiting, Extraordinary Girl, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Homecoming, Whatsername
Didn't like the notes too metal, also didn't understood much might visit latee
*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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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
Hittiä hitin perään. Sama energia koko albumin ajan. Biisit sulautuu kivasti yhteen, mutta on kuitenki erilaisia. Very nice.
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.
Love this album, suited the times. Great live group tpp
woah woah you cant say that buddy
Classic
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.
I knew the singles but was surprised by the big 9 minute songs. I liked it all though.
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.
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
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
Belting album This album means so much to me in terms of some friendships and times
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I still love this album, but not as much as I used to since I'm not angsty and young anymore.
Dunno if green day expected this one to be relevant 22 years later.
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…
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!
Really enjoyed boulevard of broken dreams, would consider buying the vinyl
Good album the whole way through.
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?!?!
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.
skibidi toilet yep 4.5
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.
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.
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
music that literally defined an era, and manages to maintain relevance, really couldn’t ask for more in a band.
Very good album.
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.
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 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
Classic. When I was younger I didn’t like Green Day but I love them now. Great listen always.
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
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
fun, got me reminiscing
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
awesome album loved it
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.
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.
This might be the greenest day. No song overstays it's welcome. It feels tight and doesn't feel too dated.
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.
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.
Great!
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
Gut
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...
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.
I'm not a huge Green Day fan, but they kick so much ass. I'm glad they made this record.
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 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
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.
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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
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
Knew most of it, much easier to listen to than some Green Day albums good for time released
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.
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
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.
Uber strong start that goes gradually downhill before rallying a little at the end. 3.5 stars really.....
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 remember the boys listening to this album. Pretty good listen.
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
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.
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.
Biased as loved this album growing up. Still really enjoy a lot of the themes and the structure of the album
Emo stuff from 2000's. That one guy who's bulliied at the school.
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.
Not my favorite green day album, but this album is undeniably great.
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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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
The perfect adult angst album!
A really good and loyal to-go since I was young!!! L O V E.
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.
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