great... I would not go that far.
Now I will start by saying I am a Green Day fan.... I do not hate them... but I still think American Idiot is mediocre at best. It is not an awful album, it has it's certain charm, but it is still far from being a great album.
Green Day will always be a band that is fun when they do not take themselves overtly seriously... Dookie was great because it had a good poppy sound, and kinda charmily simple lyrics... as was "Kerplunk" (my favorite Green Day album)...
but as they went on, and started going more serious they lost their charm and became ever more trivial and out of touch.
I think American Idiot is a good album in it's own right, but not a great one.
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