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The best Green Day might just be American Idiot. It spawned a Broadway musical! It does have a lot of great tracks for a concept album, so it makes sense. Coming right out of the gate with "American Idiot," the album is fun and dramatic and...rockin'.
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Going back to their Dookie days, Green Day made a name for themselves in the alternative rock scene of the '90s. I didn't include "Longview" but it did manage to capture the general Green Day sound. I just happen to like "Welcome to Paradise" more.
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Yay, 4 chords! That makes this one the best automatically.
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Thanks to many popular mashups and remixes, I've probably listened to this track more times than I could count during my early college years.
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I never realized this was two songs, thanks to the radio always playing both together. They blend together so seamlessly. At least with Queen's "We Will Rock You/We are the Champions," it's easy to tell that they are different songs.
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Something about that Stray Cats sound pulled me into this one.
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Hmm, I probably should have saved this one for my vacation mix.
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Yes, it sounds exactly like "Picture Book" by the Kinks. That's why I kept it. Some may call it theft, I call it repurposing.
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Along with "21 Guns," this song was included in the American Idiot musical. I guess, Green Day wasn't through picking apart today's generation of American idiots.
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American Idiot set out to be an epic, so of course there had to be some epic songs on it.
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Hey, Green Day's still got it! There were many choices from their Uno! Dos! Tres! albums I could have included in place of this one.
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I was saving this for my graduation mix, but it fits well for any sort of era coming to an end. I always listen to it at the end of a particularly memorable event.
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This is the last song on American Idiot, and it's also the finale for the musical. It's one I nearly overlooked, but I'm glad I stuck through the album the whole way. A perfect conclusion.
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