American Idiot
by Green Day
One of the earliest memories of music albums in my personal brain. What McDonalds did to the hamburger, Green Day did to punk rock. Not necessarily a bad thing - accessible, all over the radio, lots of youths clutched onto it. In particular I remember the music videos on MTV the most vividly Hearing my older brother and sister play these tracks growing up was my cultural insight into the post 9/11 Iraq War early aughts (I was five!) Holiday / Blvd of Broken Dreams is a masterpiece