American Idiot [PA] by Green Day

Pros: You won't believe your ears.
Cons: It won't sell 10,000,000 copies.

My feelings for Green Day are kind of lukewarm. While they have always made solid music and kept pretty consistent to their style, they very rarely diverged from the fast and hard formula. You could always expect energetic rock anthems and ...

Pros: Smart and diverse without straying far from usual style
Cons: :::

Since 1998, we've witnessed Green Day's exploration of rock beyond the pop punk they so deftly popularized in the mid-90s. Sweet love songs and sentimental acoustic ballads along with songs that were more straight-up rock than punk had many crying ...

Pros: Pretty much every song rocks my face off. Good interconnected story here, too.
Cons: There's like, all this f***in' cussing and sh*t. "Whatsername" is a lackluster closing number.

So, I had this great idea in mind for my 400th Epinion. I was going to do a review of Green Day's latest album as a bunch of humorous impressions - caricatures of political figures, other celebrities, and even fictional characters, all of them ...

Pros: Instant catchiness. "Give Me Novacaine". "Wake Me Up When September Ends". "Holiday".
Cons: The immediate "THIS ALBUM IS PERFECT" reaction is kind of, sort of only temporary. Careful.

Lays' Potato Chips has a famous taunting slogan that goes something like, Betcha can't eat just one. So true, my friends - so true. I mean, who really has enough willpower to go and get one delicate little chip and then roll the bag up, not ...

Pros: best album of the year
Cons: some people don't own it

I think it is safe to say that pretty much everyone knows who Green Day is (are?). Since the early '90s, the band, made up of lead singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bass player Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool (could that name be any cornier?), has ...

Pros: Excellent. Political rock. Concept CD.
Cons: If you don't like cuss words, then pass.

Just when I thought this generation was a lost cause (long week at school), I stumbled on Green Day and American Idiot. After catching a couple of audio clips online, I took myself to the mall in town and had them find me a copy of this ...

Pros: diverse, entertaining, tuneful, innovative, a veritable rollercoaster ride
Cons: the length of this review?

Okay. So, it seems that about half of Epinions have already weighed in with their two cents on this album, and thus said everything that could ever be considered relevant about it. There’s nothing left to add… right? Here’s where I come in! I ...

Pros: Intelligent, acidic, and varied enough to hold my interest for an hour
Cons: "Homecoming" gets lost in its own bombast a bit, I suppose

I remember my thought process in seeing the title of the new Green Day album, American Idiot: Hey, I'm American! I'm an idiot! That's an album about MEEE! Self-deprecatingly narcissistic as such a sentiment might seem in hindsight, ...

Pros: everything
Cons: Homecoming doesn't flow all that well in spots

It was ten years ago last month when punk popsters Green Day flung some mud at Woodstock '94, and in doing so, they became America's newest musical sweethearts, signaling a new age of punk where experimentation and catchiness weren't dirty ...

Pros: Strong songwriting and great mix of styles...
Cons: ...nary a loser here. This is one of the decade's top releases

Part rock opera mixed with a generous helping of pop-punk, Green Day’s American Idiot is a strange release. There is little new music here; indeed, much of the enjoyment listeners receive are the twists on familiar riffs and voicings. Like any ...

Pros: Musically dynamic; Lyrically engaging; Tells a complete story
Cons: Few and far between

Let's say you're a pop-punk band. You spiked onto the market in a big way in the early 1990s with simple, catchy songs full of immature but rebellious teen angst. Enter 2004; you're full of self-loathing. The movement you started has resulted in radio ...

Pros: whole album is great, flows nicely, Tre Cool is pimp
Cons: American Idiot was the first Album I've heard by Green Day

Green Day is another band that has been around awhile that I have come to like. Before I turned 18, I wasn’t really huge on music. I just listened to the radio or I downloaded a few songs here and there. Just recently, I’ve had a much bigger ...

Pros: Nothing too un listenable, some nice moments
Cons: Really average, nothing great about lyrics

Back in 2004 when Green day hit the airwaves with their new album American Idiot, it was the only thing everyone was talking about. I however never really caught on. I had heard a few of the songs mainly the singles but nothing really struck me as ...

Pros: Everything. No ifs, buts, or maybes about it.
Cons: Radio may soon kill Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Green Day have released some pretty good music in the past, and I'd struggle to think of a single of theirs I don't like. I never knew much about the band though, and up until recently could only name one of their albums - International ...

Pros: -
Cons: -

Who would’ve thought that ten years after their breakthrough hit, “Dookie”, Green Day would still be around? Known best for bringing punk-inspired music to the mainstream, which in turn paved the way for countless knockoffs from Blink-182 to ...