American Idiot
by Green Day

Overrated slop for gen x, there is a reason why it only cracks the top 5000, let alone 500, albums on this site. Both rym and aoty are more accurate when it comes to rating pop-punk, post-hardcore and screamo, the comment below by user Samora is right, bea is a stronghold of green day fans that take advantage of the site small user base to overhype this.

If you knew me you would be surprised, even my kids don’t care for them. I now understand this was toned down from punk to commercial pop sound. Great guitar tracks and the more punk it was then the faster the pace. Some good instrumentals and lyrics, even though I haven’t memorized the songs. I guess I need to listen to this more often.

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From nextorgd 12/07/2024 19:39 | #306403

This album defined a lot of things for my personal life, The gd stands for Green Day, love the lyrics and the music, Just a great album for a generation that identifies with a sick world

Something about this album seems just different. There something that snags you, but you’re not sure what it is. Not saying that this album. Is good for no reason, but there’s just an underlying string of something that catches and holds on this album. There’s almost no poor moment throughout the entire album, except for the opening on Extraordinary Girl. It’s not overtly political, interesting for a political rock opera. And the rock opera! People give a lot of hate for doing a rock opera, but at that point in time, when non-punks we’re going punk and rock was dying, the most punk thing to do, is always what people least expect. So of course a rock opera.
It’s rock, it’s punk, but it’s some of the most eclectic rock music you’ll get this side of London Calling. Absolutely magnificent. Great album.

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This is a poor attempt at replicating both The Decline and The War On Errorism by NOFX. I like Green Day, but I can’t think of a more blatant rip off. And neither of the NOFX records had anything as lame as Wake Me When September Ends.

This is a hugely over rated album in my opinion. While the singles and the big songs are very good and a lot of fun to listen to the rest of the album falls short of the mark for me. We will start with the positives which is the catchiness of the music which is very good and so easy to get infected by. The choruses are genius and have you singing them no matter whether you love this album or not. Then there are the 3 big songs which are fantastic and probably the groups best 3 tracks ever. The vocal is very unique as well and you can always tell when it is a Green Day song due to the voice. However, the album is just to inconsistent for me with these 3 tracks being the only songs better than just good. While there are a few more enjoyable songs there are none that reach that same level. The album is very bloated as well and it is quite easy to cut bits out of the album and skip tracks. If the album was the length of Dookie or possibly even shorter them the album might be amongst the greatest but without doing this the length really hurts this release. Finally, there is the music itself which is just a bit simple and when you properly inspect it you find yourself wanting more out of the sound they are creating. It feels a bit empty on a lot of the songs and a bit boring. The performances on the album are pretty meh as well and when comparing them with some other albums ranked near this album the instrumentation is far better on the other records. It does get very repetitive in style by the end to. Overall, this record just might not be for me as I just can't seem to see the hype around the quality of the music but I do very much enjoy some of the songs.

Starts with a hiss and a roar with some of their best work. Dips a bit from midway but on saying that, they are still great songs well above par.
Overall a fantastic selection of tracks. They'd matured massively as a band and with this and it shows.

Kinda remember the singles at the time but wasn't quite into this punk pop sound - but gave the album a listen a couple of years back and become a firm favourite since. I'm told there is a narrative through it but I haven't really followed that.