this... is actually a pretty good album

>>73410861
true

>>73410861
well
it's good for what it is
it's a pop punk album that aspired to be more and was honestly fairly self aware about it
at any rate it's certainly a fun album

>>73410861
correct, but still mainly normie trash
>/mu/ won't admit it's good

FUCK BU$H

>>73410861
Literally anybody who was growing up when this was released knows this. I smell an underage.

Well it's alright, Kerplunk, Dookie and Insomniac are better

>>73410937
No, I was just into metal back then. Except for WMUWSE and AI, I basically ignored this album. I'm reevaluating it now

>>73410881
It's incredibly good considering all the shit that bands like Sum 41, Blink 182 and what have you were releasing back in the day

>>73410959
*rolls eyes*

>>73410982
clearly you didn't listen to a lot of good pop punk lmao
but i guess you probably wouldn't enjoy it
just listen to (actual) emo, it's a lot more innovative and interesting

>>73410982
the albums blink and sum 41 released in that same period were better than this fucking trash album.

>>73410959
Only dookie is better

>>73410861
pop punk classic

SHE'S A ROASTIE
SHE'S A THO-OT
SHE'S THE COCKSLEEVE OF TYRONE
AND SHE'S DANGEROUS

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>>73411001
>clearly you didn't listen to a lot of good pop punk

Not only is this a good album the PMVs that one can find on that hub of porn are hot.

>>73411001
>pop punk
>good

Shiggydiggydoo

Whatshername is a thinking man's song

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>>73410861
Not as good as this though

Obviously I'm not as enamored with it now as I was when I was in high school but I can still give this album a listen every once in a while. It's remarkable at just how sticky this album is, like it throws a memorable line at the listener once every 10 seconds on average. It's really fucking good pop music.

>>73410861
no it's a shit album you and everyone in this thread who was afraid to admit you liked it just because it was correctly identified as a shit album were just plebs all along.

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American Idiot [Reprise, 2004]

If you're wondering what this concept album means, don't labor over the lyric booklet. As Billie Joe knows even if he doesn't come out and say it--he doesn't come out and say lots of obvious stuff--this is a visual culture. So examine the cover. That red grenade in the upraised fist? It's also a heart--a bleeding heart. Which he heaves as if it'll explode, only it won't, because he doesn't have what it takes to pull the pin. The emotional travails of two clueless punks--one passive, one aggressive, both projections of the auteur--stand in for the sociopolitical content that the vague references to Bush, Schwarzenegger, and war (not any special war, just war) are thought to indicate. There's no economics, no race, hardly any compassion. Joe name-checks America as if his hometown of Berkeley was in the middle of it, then name-checks Jesus as if he's never met anyone who's attended church. And to lend his maunderings rock grandeur, he ties them together with devices that sunk under their own weight back when The Who invented them. Sole rhetorical coup: makes being called a "faggot" something to aspire to, which in this terrible time it is. C+

Saw them live recently, thankfully they aren't retarded and played more of their old-school stuff than stuff from their new album. Good shit overall. It may not be as good as dookie or nimrod but it is still certainly a great album

It's a good album if the singles weren't so overplayed and thankfully the political content is limited to the title cut. Great zeitgeist, it really captured the feel of mid-2000s America.

The character of the Extraordinary Girl in American Idiot, who sings the line "nobody likes you/everyone left you", is actually played by Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill, while the drum beat in the song Extraordinary Girl is the same as was used in Bikini Kill's Rebel Girl.

That's a pretty neat homage imo, with the story of AI being about growing up as a punk and becoming disillusioned etc

>when a shitty album is old enough that people with shit taste can start talking about it in public since nobody with taste gives a fuck about it anymore
It's still garbage.