Green Day
American Idiot

Warning was an atrocity? It's by far the best, most consistent and most inspired thing they've done up to now, and it's far better than Dookie.

Bought the new green album on the strength of their performance at reading this year,which i personally loved.. it was a great end to the weekend! Im on my second listen of american idiot and so far the track to stand out is "holiday".

They 'pioneered' US punk pop. So basically they are responsible for Blink 182, Sum 41, New F***d Glory, Good Charlotte and Simple Plan. Cheers!

My heart stopped when I read that bit...
Waiting and Macy's Day Parade are clearly classics.


But I'm not too sure about this single. The idea of Green Day going political sounds like it could be the worse thing ever.

I'm completely unafraid to say I love Green Day's music and that I think this album is fucking brilliant.

i cant believe people are having a go at green day for the sins of good charlotte etc and bringing that kinda stuff into the world. do we hate nirvana for creating the evilness that is puddle of mudd? didnt think so. personally i think green day have found a sound that is reminiscent of the time in between insomniac (sooooo underrated) and nimrod (arguably their best album) and have a real fire in them. good to see the boys back.

Perplexed - good review, but only 3 stars , which implies average??

I have no idea how Green Day got lumped in with all those shite bands. If New Found Glory or Good Charlotte EVER get compared to the Ramones, the Buzzcocks or Nirvana, then I might be inclined to think that they belong in the same league as Green Day. Otherwise, I find it plain absurd. And calling "Warning" an atrocity is just cruel.

I've never really been sure about Green Day, i mean they bring out some damn fine singles, but on closer inspection, the albums tend to be padded with shoddy filler tracks - 'American Idiot', however, is fantastic start to finish - 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' is stunning- up there with 'Good Riddance' - it's just crept into my top five albums of the year

I'm sick to the back teeth of the pixies.

I do, however, love nirvana.

I've never really been into Green Day b4, but 'American Idiot' is fucking brilliant!!!

... and i thought DiS would have given it a much better rating than 3/5, its got to be worth at least a 4/5!!!

I may have to check out some of the bands earlier records (in case i overlooked some good stuff), seeing how good American Idiot is... as its the only Green Day album i own at the mo.

and as for Nirvana... most def one of the most over-rated bands of all time!!! problem is, they're also one of the most influential :-0

Green day and blink had their day a long time ago, there is maturer and better punk coming from America and England, see Yeah yeah yeahs, Libertines, Departure, the strokes

You have no idea.

being serious?

oh you are?

you're stupid.

Hmm...
You could argue that YYYs were, in some ways, some kind of a punk band, in the loosest possible sense.

Then again, you could say they're one-album wonders who're stuffed next year when the NME does a Datsuns on them.

Gutted.

Thank fuck the Seconds are good.

No, green day are punk, for people under 15. And yes strokes are a punk band, it's all punk rock, you people are the same people who said Kink's 'you really got me' wasn't a punk song,there is nothing new in this green day album at least Yeah yeah yeahs are doing something different with the genre (to rock'n rollmassacre and zen-arcade, Yeah yeah yeah's are not punk rock!!!????! yes and nor were the sex pistols I suppose? fools.)

if you like kurt cobain you better have a good reason.
he killed himself because he couldn't write a song without ripping off the pixies.

SOOOO damn right about the 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'!! As soon as i heard it i thot of 'Good Riddance'. Only a band like Greenday could realease 2 amazing tracks like that where just the thought of it makes the lil hairs on your back go ooooooh!

An intelligent respnose which puts you above the people who do not have any clue about music on this talk back (when i said 'you people' i was talking about Zen arcade and the other 'massacre' person, and that first part is for them as well) but to say libs and strokes are'nt punk but to then admit they are directly influenced by the clash and romanes which are the clearest forms of punk is a contridiction. They are punk simply because like the sex pistols, clash and the ramones they have energy, they use 4 chord progression and they play faster and rawer then any other kind of music out there. If you do not agree that they are punk rock you tell me what they are? Rockin roll would be way to broad

Green day album is great. Of course they are punk rock. Punk rock in a way that yeah yeah yeahs and strokes could never be...both thos ebands are New York fashion catwalk bands withy nothing top say, they are both bands who would be playing any style of music if it was 'fashionable'.

Punk is dead and youre next...

"Music taste: post punk, yeah yeah yeahs, joy division the smiths"

Go back to reading the NME and dropping buzz words to your mates.
Good.
Bye.

How'd you work out that I liked Good Charlotte?

How can you hear me?
Are you, in fact, in this room?
Oh.
My.

Ohh temper temper

tell u what, i know the whole "nirvana" thing finsihed a few posts back, but guess what?!!! just because kurt cobain wrote good songs and then killed himself, it doesnt make him an angel and it doesnt make nirvana the best rock band in the world ever. yes, okay, they broke the rules. yes, OKAY, they did actually write good songs!! but when are people going 2 get over themselves? dont compare every single f-ing band 2 nirvana - some bands are different ... when have green day EVER sounded like nirvana? argh!!!!! lets stop getting stuck on the past and actually like good songs for what they really are....good songs. i think that wud b a good idea.

Getting back to the album: I like it. But on some listens it seems average, others it seems great, which is odd. Fave track is Wake Me Up When September Ends, although it's hard to dislike Homecoming when it includes a song like Rock & Roll Girlfriend. Who would have thought the drummer would write an album highlight?

Personally, i think american idiot is the one of the most overplayed and shite songs green day have ever done. I was sick of it when they began playing it on the lock up ages ago, and still it hangs around like a dead fish. As for the album, who knows, suppose its good cos its "green day and we all love them". Nimrod will still remain a classic.

I have been a LOYAL GREEN DAY fan since 1997 when a friend gave me a coppied tape of DOOKIE (B4 peeps had CD burners!), and I was instantly hooked. It was a completely new musical direction for me, as I had always been into the heavier end of Rock and Metal, not punk, but I became addicted to their catchy riffs and piss take lyrics. Then NIMROD was released and I was Blown away. I then hunted down all of their previous albums, and officially became a Green Day collecter. If punk could be distilled into it's purest form, then GREEN DAY would be the result! Nimrod was, for me, by far their best album, and it is still as strong today. But then came WARNING!! Even though I would never put the boys down, it was by far the weekest album they ever did, and was TOTALLY different from the sound on all the previous albums! But hey!... At least they weren't afraid to experiment, because look at what we have now!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!A M E R I C A N I D I O T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I first heard the title track, I was lost for words! Not only had they found their raw energy again, but had nicked everyone elses as well! The pure sonic/lyrical ambition and depth/scope of creativity on tracks like JESUS OF SUBURBIA and HOMECOMING have only been heard before from the likes of PINK FLOYD and LED ZEPLIN!! Mark my words, this album will take a long time to sink in and be recognised for what it is. The songs are so DEEP that you have to listen to the whole album whilst reading the lyrics for weeks untill you truly understand what Billie Joe is singing about!! I mean, all the tracks on the album is linked to each other by the lyrics. 100's of on-line forums are buzing with questions like " Who are 'The Jesus of suburbia', and 'St. Jimmy'?". I guarantee you that in years to come, this album will be compared to the likes of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and THE WALL for its vision and artistic complexity!!!!!
If you like GREEN DAY but don't rate the AMERICAN IDIOT album, then you are missing the whole point of what the album is all about. It is not to be taken as a normal music album, but listened to all the way through, in its entirety, as a whole story. Because that's what it is, a story. Who's story you ask? Well, that would be telling!! Oh, alright then. It is Billie Joe Armstrongs story!!!!! The reference to the "Jesus of suburbia" is about George W Bush, Who Relies on the support of the Republican Fundamentalist Christianas and their votes to do what he wants, and "St. Jimmy" is a refference to the desire to take drugs and get wasted, to escape, and even to die by overdose (GIVE ME NOVACAINE)!!! YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!!! I am going to see GREEN DAY on their AMERICAN IDIOT TOUR at Cardiff International Arena on 3rd Feb. I will let you know how the gig goes. Tickets ARE still available from www.ebay.co.uk for most of their gigs in the UK, and average at about £70. considering all the ticket vendors sold out within 48 hours back in october, there are a few to be had. GET THEM WHILE YOU CAN!!!
The AMERICAN IDIOT album has changed the course of music history forever, whether people like it or not.
It is definately ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feel free to reply.
Regards,
Thagoatboy!

"THERE IS NOTHING NEW IN THIS GREEN DAY ALBUM"??????????????????????????????????????????
Where the fuck have you been for the last five years?!? Perhaps you should listen to WARNING again, and then listen to AMERICAN IDIOT!! I mean come on brodieman_11. How many bands since PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPLIN and BLACK SABBATH have written songs that are FIVE tracks in one and last nearly TEN minutes??? ( I am reffering to the two songs: Jesus Of Suburbia, AND Homecoming. Two on one album!!!).
The AMERICAN IDIOT album is a MASTERPIECE that will CHANGE and INFLUENCE the sound and face of PUNK ROCK FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The core element of the music may be the same, but the is a lot of added piano, glockenspiel, lots of different percussion instruments going on! Punk for under 15's? dont think so somehow..intelligent, thought provoking lyrics, Billie Joe playing solos again etc. This isnt a Good Charlotte style band. The Strokes?.....come on dude, they are manufactured, hype driven bullshit, theres a band whose songs all sound the same!

Considering the had a whole new album recorded which was leaning more to 'Warning' style that got stolen, its a testament to their skills. They forced each other to look at themselves and the stolen work and say "Was that the best we could do?" They couldve easily just re-recorded the stolen tapes, but scrapped it all and came up with 'American Idiot' extremely quickly. Green Day are one of the most punk bands in the world, and by that I mean they have never sold out their ideals and never became "bloated and arrogant rock stars". In this day and age, thats to be applauded.

They are musicians, they know that, we know that, thats the way it is. No bullshit or hype....

Oh come on, she so did kill him.