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Dookie is amazing you guys are tripping

 

I'll take Insomiac over Dookie too. Dookie is definitely over the first two, the trilogy, and probably RR.

 

Saying there are albums better than Dookie does not make Dookie less special...

 

Insomniac is the most underrated Green Day album. So many good songs on there.

 

Insomniac has a little more filler than I'd like but I also certainly agree that it has a handful of their best deep cuts.

 

I think there is an argument to be made that Dookie is the definitive pop punk album, which earns it a special place in their discography imo

 

Revolution Radio is either my second or third favorite Green Day record at this point.

 

Yes.

 

Nimrod is my favorite.

Dookie is a classic and means a lot to the genre.

I never got into insomniac, but understand the love for it.

Warning grew on me over time and today I enjoy listening to it. Warning and Castaway are my alarms.

American Idiot made them relevant again.

Everything after I could care less about.

 

American Idiot and Dookie are both easily among the top 200 records ever made, and I'd argue that American Idiot is the most important album of the 2000s. Their other records are great but those two are genre-defining classics.

That said, Kerplunk and Nimrod are severely underrated.

 

Rev Rad is edging into my Top 3 Green Day albums. Started of kinda lukewarm but it had just grown and grown on me.

 

New album is hot cringe

 

Nah. New album was great and a solid return to form

 

Yeah, I was iffy on RR at first but it really is a solid album and worthy of being included in the discography

 

Using the phrase "hot cringe" is hot cringe

 

Good performance of their hit song on TV last night. No surprises. just solid.

 

Yesterday was my first Green Day concert. It is unreal how good they are. I really don't think I've seen a better concert in my life.

 

I really want to go but the only play big arenas over here and I really don't like that

 

I'm seeing them in September very excited (fuck you kenneth)

 

This is probably the most fanboy thing I've ever typed but they really make the hugest venues feel intimate imo

 

Heard you were talking shit so I reactivated my account you wanna take this outside

 

Why does the American Idiot record somehow make even more sense to me at age almost-25 than it did at age 13? Returning to it for the first time in ages and ages and am genuinely floored at how well it's held up. Gotta be something more there than pure nostalgia.

 

On that note, I recommend everyone watch this video.

"A few years ago (2012 to be more specific), veteran mastering engineer Ted Jensen, who was responsible for the original 2004 CD version of Green Day's American Idiot, remastered that album from analog for the HDTracks music service. The remastered version features less compression than the original, meaning clearer audio, more separation, and punchier drums due to greater dynamic range. The guitar is also no longer distorted. This is the definitive version of this album, and it attests to the fact that proper, non-compressed mastering and quality mixing efforts result in better-sounding audio. The remaster was released in hi-res 24-bit 192khz."

http://www.hdtracks.com/american-idiot-133854

 

I think they hit upon something that was really relevant and resonant with the storytelling. A lot of people thought it was a Bush album and that it wasn't going to age very well. I never did. I always saw it more as the millennial twist on the Springsteen story: escapism, the American dream, and crushing failure. It hit hard in 2004 and probably hits harder now.

 

Agreed. Also, I think that as a "millennial story", it was both lyrical and musically broad enough to appeal to demographics that otherwise don't listen to a lot of rock, let alone punk. I knew a lot of kids back then that basically only listened to one rock band and that band was Green Day.