American Idiot (studio album) by Green Day

American Idiot by Green Day
Year: 2004
Release date: 2004-09-14
Overall rank: 156th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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75/100 (from 1,787 votes)
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Award Top 50 albums of the 2000s (25th)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (156th)
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.9.

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From 04/20/2022 16:37
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.
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75/100
From 02/08/2022 00:01
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.
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80/100
From 01/13/2022 23:20
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.
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90/100
From 01/04/2022 14:18
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.
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From 11/28/2021 12:02
Muy buen disco. La verdad es que no sé por qué no lo había escuchado antes. Supongo que Dookie pesaba mucho en mi.
Da mucha alegría ver que bien ha evolucionado el grupo con el tiempo y que sigue habiendo ruido guitarrero.
Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, Boulevard, Wake me up,... son algunos de sus mejores temas
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From 07/16/2021 13:40
Nem é tão excelente, mas é extremamente nostálgico!
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65/100
From 07/08/2021 18:15
Definitely has grown off me, I always go with Dookie, but still some solid tracks on here like "Jesus Of Suburbia," and"St. Jimmy."
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From 07/08/2021 18:14
Definitely has grown off me, I always go with Dookie, but still some solid tracks on here like "Jesus Of Suburbia," and"St. Jimmy."
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80/100
From 03/25/2021 19:50
80.38/100

Uno de mis discos favoritos de mi temprana pubertad. Lo compré con mi propio dinero a los 11 ó 12 años. Ahora que lo vuelvo a escuchar me trae muchos recuerdas y puedo apreciar la música con más detenimientos, y reconocer ciertos aciertos y ciertos errores. Mis tres canciones favoritas son Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Jesus of Suburbia y Wake Me Up When September Ends, con menciones honoríficas a Letterbomb y Holiday. Siempre me ha parecido que hay canciones poco reconocidas como Letterbomb o Whatsername, incluso She's A Rebel, esta última que lejos de estar ante una gran calidad de letras, logra cautivarme con su punk acelerado. Sin embargo, hacer canciones de este tipo es una gran apuesta para una de las bandas og del punk. Siento que es uno de sus mejores discos y contiene temas más memorables, no como el 21st Century Breakdown, que tiene varias olvidables. Sin embargo, hay algunas de este disco que también me parece que desentonan, algunos fan favorites como Give Me Novacaine o St. Jimmy, que en los live son muy bien recibidas, pero ni así logran convencerme. En fin, este es un album que siempre recordaré con mucho cariño por todos los recuerdos de la adolescencia que me trae, y siempre rockearé con los mejores temas del mismo.
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