American Idiot
by Green Day
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American Idiot is ranked as the best album by Green Day.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 42 hours ago | Nifcake | 40 | 85/100 | |
| 4 days ago | Whataguy | 30 | 79/100 | |
| 05/19/2026 00:40 | golrab67 | 173 | 91/100 | |
| 05/13/2026 15:15 | Lefty21 | 518 | 75/100 | |
| 05/10/2026 12:02 | Adhura | 1,671 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.8.
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A Magnificent album I doubt they could ever repeat or exceed!
Every track is lyrically brilliant, has resonance with the time in the US and can reflect the western world at large as well.
Most tracks, if not all are on my playlists.
A Magnificent album!
Their best album by some distance. Great stuff
Flawless album that flows beautifully from song to song and has little to no dips in quality to speak of. I adore it.
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.
Even though I don’t agree at all with the political message of the album and the band probably doesn’t even want fans like me listening to their music…I still love this album and will continue to own this album and recognize the sheer talent that went into making the American Idiot album.
I’m just a fan of good rock music…and Green Day has always been one of those bands that make pure pop-perfection.
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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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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