last GD album i bought was Nimrod...and I loved that album... I skipped there other ones to follow...but i may check this one out

I did finish listening to the whole streaming album, and it's pretty standard Green Day in terms of quality. What they lacked in instantly memorable songs that I like, they made up for with plenty of new stuff. Hmm.

the song american idiot does sound a lot different from the rest of the album, but it's like the theme song to a movie, and if this were an actual opera, it would fit to have it as an opener.

hey, for all you who really got into the album, would any of you be interested in laying out the story? for some reason i can only understand half the story from the lyrics. :upset:

I love this whole album... its very very hard to pick out tracks that you like the best... becuse i can't get across how amazeing the way the songs are able to play off each other are... the deepths that some of the "simple" seeming songs on the album go to when you pick up bits of lyrics from other songs...

i was trying to explane to some one befor how 'whatsername' is the girl that first apears in 'shes a reble' "she the one they call, oh whatsername"... there a deffent story to her, the first song is very much about meeting this new and very cool girl, the very next song "extrondnary girl" is album her realships with st jimmy (st jimmy is the same guy as jesus of suburbia) and then letterbomb, is a letter from her to St jimmy (this is point out in the booklet, as its 'letter' stuck in next to other lryics with starts with Dear J) "where have all the riots gone" "your not the jesus of suburbia, the st jimmy is a figment of your father rage and your mothers love" looking at the booklet you also notice after this point the letter is ened "-w" (whatername) and the rest of the song is st jimmys responce to the letter... its just like "rock and roll grilfreind" is a post card from "tunny" to st jimmy... i can't recomend enoght taht you lission to the album and read throw the lyrics sheets...

this album is a story, picking a favrot song is like picking a favrot chapter form a book, its a bit pointles... of coures you will and do, becuse they are songs, but non of the songs would be as good as they are, with out the others...

basicly, this album is amazeing... even if i wasn't allready a huge greenday fan, i would have fallen in love with this album anyway

[QUOTE=pmam21]im not a big fan of 'are we waiting?' either. too much repeating and it seems to make me sick.[/QUOTE]

And I'm screaming.

sorry to say, but greenday is dead

^ Rooney was never even alive to begin with.

[QUOTE=rooneyfan101]sorry to say, but greenday is dead[/QUOTE]

well you know, you kind of need to be alive to write an album... unless zombiecore is the new thing

I liked American Idiot at first...but then it started to be played ad nauseum on Fuse and MTV2 (cuz MTV isn't made for any kind of music) and the radio, and i listened to the lyrics...now it's just frikin annoying!

green day has been pretty much my fav. band and i owe it to mike that i am playing bass. but unlike the other albums i would rate this one pretty low just because half of it is stupid in my opion. exp. homcomming and now american idoit is starting to annoy me. but i do like holiday. this album is nothing compared to nimrod or insomnic. and whats with the lead guitarist.i wanna know why theres 4 people when there could easily be 3. (go watch the live proformances on launch) i still love green day and am going to see them but i mean why did they put something like this out

Green Day is always going to make the music that they want to make and that they are proud of. They knew that this might not go over as well with the fans, but they also knew that it was time to make a bigger step in their music making, and they did take that risk. Not everyone is going to like it, but it's still a really good album. I still like Insomniac and Dookie better though.

This has to be one of the best albums i have heard in a long time, Its also one of the best concept albums (in other words an album with a story to it) that i have heard in a long time. I'd give it a 5/5

Tazu, you do know most of warning has a 4th guy on it... they called him the 4th unofficial member... since he would play with them but did't write any of the songs on the album...

You should also know that lots of band use a 2nd guitar track when theres actaly only one guitar player... what so wrong with them expanding there music, or do you just want them to do the same old thing untill it get stale and old?

No, the band was named after the principal from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." America doesn't have "footballers."

Lot of "kids" these days only know about singles, waht's released to the billboard charts. It's a shame. They're the one who can't attribute the meaning to songs like American Idiot or who St Jimmy or Jesus of Suburbia represent .They're the American Idiots themselves, disillusioned and unaware of the issues at large, being bamboozled and hornswaggled right in front of them. Green Day took a huge leap in the creation of this album, and it works because they themselves have lived through it all, through the media coverage of everything from the war in Iraq to the releases of their own discs. They tell the tales of themselves in American Idiots. The "kids" won't understand and immediately dismiss "We Are The Waiting" and "American Idiot" as unlistenable drivel, when in fact, are probably the two most important songs on the disc.

[QUOTE=ExitWound]Lot of "kids" these days only know about singles, waht's released to the billboard charts. It's a shame. They're the one who can't attribute the meaning to songs like American Idiot or who St Jimmy or Jesus of Suburbia represent .They're the American Idiots themselves, disillusioned and unaware of the issues at large, being bamboozled and hornswaggled right in front of them. Green Day took a huge leap in the creation of this album, and it works because they themselves have lived through it all, through the media coverage of everything from the war in Iraq to the releases of their own discs. They tell the tales of themselves in American Idiots. The "kids" won't understand and immediately dismiss "We Are The Waiting" and "American Idiot" as unlistenable drivel, when in fact, are probably the two most important songs on the disc.[/QUOTE]

quoted for truth.

i like this cd very much, and as someone said, the song "American Idiot" doesn't fit in the cd. it's good that the AI-song is the first, because if it would've been in the middle it would just ruin it so much.

4/5

i'm a little late here but it woz my b'day yesterday (yay!) and i got this amazing album, certainly Green Day's greatest with Billie Joe having album concept ideas. Uh-Oh! Check out the two 9 minuters, especially Jesus of suburbia they're just little songs with the same idea all crammed into one, odd but great in a punk-rock, pop-punk sort of way. My absolute favourite and my favourite out of any Green Day song is the soon to be released (i hope) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, an acoustic with 6 repetetive notes that are amazingly gripping. This easily bumps up my review to 4/5 because it is Punk's closest to Zep's 4/Zofo/That one with stairway on it album. I'll still be listening too it years from now, easily better than Blink's album (Blink 182- the album name.)
Whoever you are buy this album you will not be dissapointed, it has too be 2004's album of the year.

[QUOTE=Tazu]green day has been pretty much my fav. band and i owe it to mike that i am playing bass. but unlike the other albums i would rate this one pretty low just because half of it is stupid in my opion. exp. homcomming and now american idoit is starting to annoy me. but i do like holiday. this album is nothing compared to nimrod or insomnic. and whats with the lead guitarist.i wanna know why theres 4 people when there could easily be 3. (go watch the live proformances on launch) i still love green day and am going to see them but i mean why did they put something like this out[/QUOTE]
i would say that they put this out because they are maturing as people. billie joe is in (or almost in) his 30's now. his tastes in music and veiws on society have changed since he started over a decade ago.


i downloaded this cd a few days before it came out and i haven't stopped listening since. i liked it so much that i actually bought it (a rarity for me). as a whole, this is an awesome album. a few of the songs weren't that great (homecoming, st jimi, she's a rebel) but it made that up with some awesome songs (jesus of suburbia, blvd. of broken dreams, wake me up when september ends). while it still has the same old green day feel, the writing is very different. this is one of my top 2 green day albums (not sure if it's better than nimrod yet). i would recommend it for anyone.

[QUOTE=YDload]^ Rooney was never even alive to begin with.[/QUOTE]

True enough