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Universal acclaim- based on 841 Ratings
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Positive: 769 out of 841
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Mixed: 22 out of 841
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Negative: 50 out of 841
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Lt.DrebinNov 10, 2005Their best album...and that's saying a lot.
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glenngNov 2, 2005Sets the standard in the 00s!
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EmilyO.Jan 15, 2005This is such an intelligent CD with real insights. The Greenday band has really grown up, which is quite visable in "American Idiot". It was well worth the $20 I paid for it!
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MiguelCJan 18, 2005awesome album
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kayliepDec 12, 2005I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! i can relate to it in so many ways. i fell in love with this album the moment i heard it. 10!!!
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OZyYoungJan 20, 2005Wow! THis CD is amazing.
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HelenBOct 22, 2005Fantastic work! The best rock album i've ever known.!
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douglasmDec 2, 2005An absolutely complete and stunning album, it doesnt get much better than this!
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RobFJan 30, 2005Great Album to listen from a different sound of Green Day. They did a great job doing this album about America and what has happen through the years in America. Alot of Green Day fans who are only into the punk of Green Day put Green Day had grown up a bit and change there sound and songwriting. Great Job Green Day.
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mattrOct 9, 2005One of the best rock abums i have er heard defintly greendays best
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KristinFeb 13, 2005This is the best album by greenday! I love this cd!
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PjFeb 14, 20051 word-PERFECTION!
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JoshuaEMar 12, 2005holy crap this album is amazing. green days best
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BENLMar 17, 2005Green Day's best. The only album I can listen to from start to end. Bush Bashers include American Idiot and Holiday (Holiday is better than AI). Boulevard is an extremly good song and any one who buys this cd will not be dissappointed.
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dunnolostitMar 25, 2005a good album, compared to whats around today its fantastic. Greenday will definatly make an imprint in music history.
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DavidLMar 28, 2005Just for the record, IGN gave this a 10/10
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DanielNMar 29, 2005This album is their best yet. I loved Dookie and appreciate the far more mature lyrics and outstanding music from this album. I'm hooked!
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angelabApr 10, 2005One of if not the best CD i have ever listened to. Every song is amazing and i could listen to it over and over again w/o getting bored or tired. i love all of Green Day's previous albums but this is by far the best and the most fun. My favorite track is number 10-Letterbomb.
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anonaApr 13, 2005
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DavidPApr 15, 2005
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SamMApr 18, 2005They manage to link together musically diverse songs with surprising cohesion. And here I thought they were washed up years ago.
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sophiedApr 2, 2005i think that american idot is the best album released so far by green day.
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meghancApr 26, 2005this cd was amazing, one of the best i've heard in a long time, its not the usually whiny pop-punk u get today. and like all the other green day albums i can sit through the whole thing with out wanting to skip songs or just plain turn it off
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JamesH.Apr 3, 2005Holy crap...i got this cd after reading ign's review (perfect 10) and i listen to the whole album on a regular basis. Green Day is one of those bands who just consistantly get better and more mature. One of my favorite albums of all time
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jaybApr 4, 2005this is great! and the best songs arent even the singles... whatsername is the best!
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DanielBApr 6, 2005
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CherelleAMay 11, 2005
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RandyEMay 14, 2005This CD will rank with Seargent Peppers.
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christianeoMay 27, 2005this album is such a really good one of them .. I love Green day!!!
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AlexPMay 4, 2005undoubtedly the best band ever as far as music goes for me. i gave it a ten because it really appealed to my soul... it is for those with those of broken souls and have romantic passion... it is everything i ever wanted from a cd. I walk a lonely road...
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BillieJoe'sLoverJun 17, 2005i think the album is one of the best..i had just started to get into green day right before the album came out but this c d really started me up w/green day i honestly love the new look they have... and they are one of the best bands i have ever seen! exohexoh billie joe is hott
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DavidMacJun 23, 2005this wus a gr8 album i think that it will relly take them places
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eddyfJun 24, 2005this is the best fucking album released in 20 years
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FloPJun 26, 2005This is the best punk rock album which has ever been released!!!!!!
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NunyoBJul 19, 2005I have always loved Green Day, but this album simply blew my mind! Every song on this album is different and great. It has the perfect mix of politics and punk-riffs. Anybody who says Green Day sucks, has never heard any REAL music before in their lives. This is what an album should be. This is the standard. This is perfection!
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ash?????Jul 20, 2005this is savage and green day are even better in concert and u cant say that about alot of bands !!!!!
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JoleneFAug 12, 2005This album of Green day rocks!!
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AdrinaAAug 14, 2005Amazing album full of brilliant songs! :D
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VictoriaKAug 15, 2005I LOVE GREEN DAY!!! omg this is such a good CD....the concert in Barrie rocked
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ThomasHAug 30, 2005Outstanding and addictive
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BICSep 20, 2005Green Day is pure genius. You people are listening to decent music for a change.
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JesseSSep 22, 2005This Green Day album is da best thing that ever happened in their career!
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EliYoudonSep 30, 2005This is a good album overall, but it isn't ALL GOOD. Wake Me Up When September Ends is basically the one I'm not crazy about. Otherwise though, it's good stuff, if just a tad lengthy.
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earlSep 6, 2005excellent
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badontSep 7, 2005i love this album green day is the best love them go green day i love all ur songs
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ExecutionerJonesJan 13, 2006A masterpiece.
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AlexGJan 6, 2006one of my all time fave albums althought hated on alot,
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KirstenJan 8, 2006
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joecFeb 26, 2006enough said
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joelMar 11, 2006it's not their best album but its ok.
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MikeMar 17, 2006To me, this album did for music what Lord of the Rings did for movies. Almost everything else seems petty by comparison.
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WayneMar 3, 2006
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ScottApr 20, 2006This albums rocks. One of the best rock albums so far this decade
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kylietMay 11, 2006this album is brill i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
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DylanJul 17, 2006I give it a nine, the songs are very creative and talk about the real world, but 10 minute songs that sometimes go on and on about the same thing dragged the score down. Songs like "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Home Coming" are one of their longer songs,though they do give a message about America today. I give "American Idiot" a great 9 out of 10
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hannahJul 19, 2006Amazing!!!!! best band ever!!!!
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SunnyGSep 18, 2006Always best and rocking one. Best album
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DaveNSep 22, 2006This easily the best CD Green Day has released since Dookie.
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AaronSJan 1, 2007
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eskildbMar 19, 2007This album is the greatest ever! I mean look at the songs. They are so good. And Tre Cool, is so funny. And Billy is so good and cool.
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BenNMar 23, 2007I would be an american idiot if i did not like this album
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kadekMar 24, 2007
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meganrApr 6, 2007I love American Idiot because it tells about what is going on in the world today and the war.
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SamMay 13, 2007
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jamJun 19, 2007
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KeilaTJul 9, 2007OK so this is like 4 yrs after Aerican Idiot was released but I still adore this album with every fragment of my teenaged soul. I wish that everyone could comprehend the brilliance and underhanded eloquence of this organized rave! Green Day is impeccable hands down.
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VonCJan 14, 2009Fantastic album with well-written lyrics and hilly emotional ride from start to finish. It's funny to see the low scores with nothing but deflection and scorn from, I guess, two-time Bush voters! Someone actually used the term "moonbats"! What's this? A political forum? LOL! Billy must have been signing about those dead-enders.
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BenCFeb 11, 2009
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SidSMay 18, 2009When you are an old Green Day fan and are just willing them to bring out another 'Dookie', a bit disappointing.
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KevinL.Jun 17, 2009Of course, American Idiot pales in comparison to the likes of Dookie or Insomniac but it's far from crap. In fact, it's an excellent album. I don't think Green Day wanna live in the shadow of Dookie forever so I welcome their change.
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MoondustNov 14, 2004Billie Joe and the Crew Have done it again, The album Is great.
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IainHNov 15, 2004The best album of 2004 beyond doubt. Only Morrsieey, The Libertines and The Ordinary Boys come close. Every song is magnificent.
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cindyPNov 15, 2004It's amazing. Normally I couldn't listen to an entire Green Day album from start to finish in one sitting. This one is different. They are on!
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LukeNov 16, 2004BEST YET
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TimKNov 18, 2004It is amazing it is the best song of Green Day I have ever heard. I can even play it on my electric guitar!
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CarlWNov 19, 2004this album rocks
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ChrisPOct 16, 2004Green Day's greatest album! I listened to it once and fell in love right away!
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SarahDec 11, 2004Absolutely the best cd that green day has come up with in a very long time. The tracks are much more mature, have depth, but still manage to be catchy and fun to listen to. Awesome, Awesome CD, it's on repeat in my stereo...
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clarisacDec 30, 2004this cd rockes so hard i luv it!!!!!!
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harrybDec 5, 2004
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JasonSOct 27, 2004Easily the best album of the year - I cant' stop listening to it. You can really hear the emotion in Billie Joe's voice, the desperation of the characters.
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BrandonESep 21, 2004I have been a fan for years...and with this new album is a reason for me to love their music even more...Flawless work..A+
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HollySep 27, 20043 words- Green Day Rox!!!!! Truly the best cd i've heard in my life!
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gfhfghfhgfhfNov 28, 2005awesome cd...very mature themes..green day has grown up!!!
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greendayfreakjelatoNov 4, 2005THE best band, THE best album, would travel the world 2 see green day!! they ROK!!! the american idiot is ma life saver. green day rules
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RJBabcockJan 14, 2005Punk will never be the same. American Idiot changes everything. You will now have to say something and sound good doing it. A masterpiece!
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ScottCJan 15, 2005Absolutely the best rock album of this decade bar none. I've always liked Green Day but I must admit I would never have guessed that they were capable of such an ambitious effort. They've packed an entire career worth of unbelieveably kick ass hooks into one album.
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RudyRulesDec 11, 2005The best pop punk album yet.
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theyrockDec 12, 2005this album rules.
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GreendayRocksDec 23, 2005I'd personally take on anyone who say's greenday is boring or annoying. This album is easily their 1st to 3rd best album. Every song has it's own brilliance. Also this album is very political. From boulevard of broken dreams to american idiot to jesus of suberbia this album stoops nowhere below brilliance. Two words 'Get IT'!
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PaulaJan 23, 2005Green Day rock and they prove that their new stuff is just as good as their older stuff with the American idiot album
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SergioMJan 23, 2005The sort of album that a 30-something and a teenager can both rave about... What a wonderful album! I got chills listening to it - timeliness and urgency make it an album for the ages á la Pink Floyd's The Wall and The Beatle's St. Peppers.
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JakeDec 31, 2005An absolute masterpiece.
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bobbMar 22, 2005is this the greatest album of all time, it might just be. awesome
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BradSApr 19, 2005Best rock album I've heard in years. I'm a 50+ year old rock fan who has started to listed to opera because it has the passion that rock lacks today. American Idiot has me believing that there's still some life left in rock and roll.
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mICKEYjohnApr 24, 2005JUST LOV IT
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RMErMay 14, 2005Unreal
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billiejoearmstrongJun 16, 2005it is the best and anyone who doesn't like Green day are stupid and its the best thing that has com out since slice cheese
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MaxJun 16, 2005
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edelcJul 13, 2005
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Awards & Rankings
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It is exactly what the band needs to boost itself to the next level of pop-punk prowess.
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There's still plenty of spunk in to be found in this Sgt. Pepper-lite.
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Not only does it contain Green Day’s finest songs (and choruses) to date... but it also scratches at the surface of political dissatisfaction with nails sharp enough to leave a nasty scar.