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79 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics What's this?

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8.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 420 Ratings

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  • Summary: Structured as a rock opera complete with 9-minute-plus songs and a somewhat complicated storyline, 'American Idiot' is the Berkeley punk band's first album in over four years.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Mojo
    90
    It's exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rock'n'roll band in the 21st century. [Oct 2004, p.106]
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  2. All Music Guide
    90
    In its musical muscle and sweeping, politically charged narrative, it's something of a masterpiece, and one of the few -- if not the only -- records of 2004 to convey what it feels like to live in the strange, bewildering America of the early 2000s.
  3. Blender
    60
    Concept or not, American Idiot is still decent fodder for a mosh pit, a luagh and a sob session. [Nov 2004, p.136]
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  1. Positive: 256 out of 290
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 290
  3. Negative: 27 out of 290
  1. patc
    10
    its got it all. great album.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. alexa
    4
    Sub-sub-par Green Day at best. So much of it is forced and reachy, musically and lyrically. The well is tapped I'm sad sad sad to say; I'm the biggest GD fan there ever was...was.… Expand
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  3. BrianM
    3
    Pretentious, overblown, and boring. You can hear all the chords and harmonies in the music from musicians that pioneered the sound in the 70's. Skip this record, it's nothing new.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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