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American Idiot: Parental Advisory | 
| Artist: Green Day
Label: Reprise
Category: Music
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Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 511
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 48777
UPC: 093624877721
EAN: 0093624877721
ASIN: B0002OERI0
Release Date: September 20, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | American Idiot | | • | Jesus Of Surburbia | | • | Holiday | | • | Boulevard Of Broken Dreams | | • | Are We The Waiting | | • | St Jimmy | | • | Give Me Novacaine | | • | She's A Rebel | | • | Extraordinary Girl | | • | Letterbomb | | • | Wake Me Up When September Ends | | • | Homecoming | | • | Whatsername |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
There's a clenched fist grasping a heart-shaped hand grenade on the cover of IAmerican Idiot/I, a militant mural presumably designed to inform us that Californian punk-pop vets Green Day love America but hate what's becoming of it. Inferences aside, you could argue that IAmerican Idiot/I is a suspect device--a punk concept album/rock opera primed to blow up in the faces of the ruling right-wing American classes but which could just as easily leave splattered egg on the faces of the insurrectionists. The concept is fuzzy (telly-brainwashed teenage runaway falls in with the wrong crowd, something or other happens with drugs, rock and a character called "Whatsername") and the political protestations against the metaphorical Arrnies and Dubyas are mere slapstick custard pies compared with the Dead Kennedys' CIA-bothering debunking of Reaganomics. However, something about IAmerican Idiot/I both excites and rings true whilst simultaneously beggaring belief. Spanning influences from The Who's ITommy/I to Husker Du's IZen Arcade/I, IAmerican Idiot/I has the listener living in cliff-hanging fear of an unexpected Richie Blackmore guitar solo or Tarkus-style ELP exposition but actually never strays from Buzzcockian melodiousness or phlegm-drenched rifferama even when things get ridiculous. "Homecoming", for example, is probably the best amalgamation of The Clash, Pink Floyd's IThe Wall/I, Millwall football supporters terrace chants, Deep Purple, The Levellers, Bob Mould, UK Subs, Rush, Pete Townsend and The Tubes you'll ever hear. IAmerican Idiot/I could be brave or it could be stupid, but it really can't be ignored. --IKevin Maidment/I
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 Taking punk to the masses! February 23, 2007
No Quarter (Lancs, England)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
OK, no matter what all the whiney 'true fans' say (I know I'm a true fan because I love this), this is their best album since the early days of Dookie. Yes it's commercial but that's great because it means more people are listening to them than ever before. As with all bands that 'sell out' the old fans get annoyed because they feel their band is being taken away from them and now everyone knows them. Well what was Basket Case thirteen years ago if not pure pop??
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br /Every song on American Idiot is great and it can't be faulted as a complete work. Once you get to the tracks at the end like Letterbomb and Homecoming it's so joyous, and it feels like it actually means something. It's the whole American Idiot concept album thing that really makes this something special. I too would have hated them if they'd made a commercial album that felt soulless but Billie Joe has never sounded more believable and genuine telling this story.
A few facts and opinions October 22, 2005
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'm truly amazed at some of the reviews and had to comment myself. Some people are saying Green Day are selling out because American Idiot is amazingly popular and has taken them to a new level. Back in '94 when Dookie got popular, people climbed up on the stage at live shows (I'm thinking of Lollapalooza) with banners with massive dollar signs. So you aren't being very original saying they are selling out.pSomeone said they were jumping on the anti-Bush bandwagon 'a year after everyone else stopped caring'. I can understand how you could think that if you hadn't been keeping up to date with GD over the last few years. In December '01 just after 9/11, Billie Joe was posting messages on their website speaking out against what Bush was doing - this was at a time when it was very UN-popular to be anti-Bush. Picture this - a campaign by BJ in late 2001 to stop a war in Iraq before it started (nearly 1 and a half years before it started). BJ led the way in being anti-Bush, so get your facts straight before you say he's jumping on a bandwagon.pAnd as for the people saying 'this is nothing like Dookie' or whatever. Of course it isn't. Do you want GD to be stuck in a time-warp, perpetually aged 22 years old? They have matured, along with most of their original fans. I have to admit that when Warning came out in 2000, I had similar thoughts such as 'why can't they write songs more like on Dookie?'. But I've matured and realised this would be a bad thing. I'm sure they could easily write Dookie-style material (in fact I'm sure they have lots of songs like this that nobody outside their immediate surroundings has ever heard). But its so much more worthwhile to listen to the songs as a transition. Its the story of Billie Joe's life, how he's felt, what he's been going through, the ups and downs. It would be so fake to just stick with one formula. As it is, GD albums reflect his journey through life.
Take It For What It Is May 20, 2007
C. Young (England)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I've read a vast majority of the reviews and some of them are just unbelievable. People who read into this album too much need to take a lie down somewhere, preferably a dark room.
br /This is not a punk album, it's a rock album. Green Day are from a punk background but have not been a punk band since Nimrod. Green Day (Bille, Mike and Tre) have made a great album and for the criticism they took this album sticks two fingers to all those doubters. People claim they sold out, so what? Punk is about being yourself and doing what the f*** you want....correct me if I wrong but that's what they did.
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Take it out of my stereo and hide it! It's just too good! November 4, 2004
Sarah Barker (Wiltshire)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This album should come with a health warning! Green Day have done it again, another top class bounce-around-your-room-like-an-idiot album. I can't honestly remember the last time I bought an album as good as this, they truley are the best at what they do.pIt opens with everyone's favourite, 'American Idiot' then crashes into the first of two, nine minute 'rock operas' (as they've been affectionately named) called 'Jesus of Suburbia'. Many people would probably shun a nine minute song as gimicky and expect it to run out of ideas and trail away at the end with no impact whatsoever. But they would be wrong. This (and the second, 'Homecoming') maintain that unique Green Day 'X' factor that we've all grown to love, throughout the entire songs.pThere aren't many things to complain about on this album, but if I had to pick one or two, my first would be 'Extraordinary Girl'. It starts like Britney Spears' 'My Perogative' and doesn't get much better after that. Get rid of it I say! And second: Tre Cool's section in 'Homecoming' called 'Rock and Roll Girlfriend' IS TOO SHORT! make it longer and turn it into its own song!pThere are also some amazing ballads remminicant of 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)' for example 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' (dedicated to Billie Joe's dad) and 'We Are The Waiting' which is destined to be a huge stadium anthem. pWithout a doubt 'St Jimmy' is THE best song on the album and as a word of warning, the first line of 'Letterbomb', is extreamly addictive and will probably end up being sung very loudly in the middle of Sainsburys one afternoon! And also don't be surprised if you also start sing the line "Jesus of suburbis" along to the old song of 'Walking Contradiction' (I did, but I'm not sure if that's just me...)pBillie Joe is possibly THE best songwriter around with such lines as "here they come marching down the street, like a desperation murmer of a heartbeat" (Homecoming) and "there's a flag wrapped around a score of men, a gag, a plastic bad on a monument" (Holiday), and so many others that I just can't fit here, you'll wonder why other bands even bother with their jobs! No-one can beat Green Day.pOverall:p
Seminal pop punkers get political November 4, 2004
Mr. Jon Peache
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Who'da thunk that the most outwardly political album of 2004 would be recorded by a bunch of middle aged punks who 'sold out' years ago ?pWell, that's exactly what happened. American Idiot is a concept album, but don't let that put you off. Equal parts Queen, Clash and Pink Floyd, this is an essential album, and ranks alongside Dookie as the band's finest hour.pThe opener and title track would fit in nicely alongside the likes of 'Basket Case' and 'Welcome to Paradise', but it's with the rock opera of 'Jesus of Suburbia' a song of 5 parts that Green Day circa 2004 really earn their stripes. Telling the story of disenchanted youth of America today, it is wide ranging in its styles, matched only by 'Homecoming' later in the album.p'Holiday' is possibly the most anti-Bush statement to be made, it's spoken word 'address' during the middle 8 as full of vitriol as the Pistols ever were. 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and 'Are We the Waiting' are rock ballads at their finest, while 'St Jimmy' reverts back to the thrash punk style that has served the band so well.pThe following three tracks, whilst OK, do not really stand much comparison with the rest of the album, although 'Extraordinary Girl' has a catchy as hell chorus. pIt is 'Letterbomb' however which is the spark for the album's finale, with its closing refrain one of the finest endings to any song ever. 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' is the final ballad here, before 'Homecoming' follows 'Jesus of Surburbia' into the rock epic hall of fame, with Billie Joe even letting Mike and Tre take over on vocals. The final track, 'Whatsername' is a fitting end, and although Billie Joe can 'remember the face' but 'can't recall the name', this is an album which will remain in the listener's memory for a long time to come.
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