Green Day - Saviors (January 19th, 2024) • Page 91

Almost too many hey-o’s, probably

 

Yeah most days if someone asks me my favorite Green Day album is either nimrod or warning. Looking back it’s pretty wild just how sprawling and creative nimrod is, it has a little bit of everything

 

Given the greatness of She, Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case or When I Come Around, it feels wrong not to put Dookie at number one, but the truth is that Warning and Nimrod are also my top 2 Green Day albums.

 

Warning then Nimrod is correct

 

Dookie through AI is genuinely amazing. An all time 5 album run.

 

Surprised nothing special in the setlist

 

Really cool video for what ended up being my favorite song on the album. What an amazing era for them, I feel like this was their most successful since at least 21CBD?

 

I agree something felt bigger than the last 15 years with this release, better material for sure and the tours felt like a peak, although purely commercially I'm not sure if this did any better than Revolution Radio.

 

American Idiot not being on all these Albums Of The Century So Far lists publications have been putting out is kind of dumb, feels snobby to a fault, that album should be undeniable

 

Agreed. A pivotal album for telling the story of the past 25 years of music, IMO.

On a similar note, I saw that Steven Hyden recently did a “greatest lost albums” list over at Uproxx, and there was nary a mention of Cigarettes & Valentines on there.

 

blink's Untitled, American Idiot and The Black Parade are the three albums that shifted the mainstream face of rock away from pop-punk, and of those three American Idiot was clearly the biggest influence both musically and in sales

 

Very poor. I think aside from the rock opera aspect, artistically it wasn't that revolutionary when you look at the songs individually, but as what must be one of the top 3 post-2000 biggest selling rock albums (assume Hybrid Theory has more) that is a serious oversight.

 

Fun article to read though, thanks for mentioning it!

 

I wrote about this for the 20th anniversary last year, but American Idiot really felt like the last true omnipresent rock album to me.

 

It definitely was

 

I mean, look how much they snub Hybrid Theory.

 

This got me thinking and no other post-2004 examples come to mind so far. Even an album like Minutes To Midnight, as successful as the album and its singles were, misses the cultural impact and critical acclaim American Idiot got.

 

lol Green Day has sold over 23 million albums of American Idiot. Agreed with everyone to not include such a cultural and commercial juggernaut of an album (a great album nonetheless) on these lists is embarrassing.