Shenanigans
by Green Day
  • Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: Jul 2, 2002
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 60 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 60
  3. Negative: 6 out of 60

Review this album

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. Kieran9395
    May 28, 2012
    6
    Bay area punks return with a collection, which will win fans over

    Green Day had enjoyed a massive amount of success during the 1990s, particularly with their mainstream debut album "Dookie." During the last few years Green Day had experience a major decline in their career, with their albums " Nimrod" and "Warning" not nearly selling as much copies combined as debut "Dookie." Three hit    Bay area punks return with a collection, which will win fans over

    Green Day had enjoyed a massive amount of success during the 1990s, particularly with their mainstream debut album "Dookie." During the last few years Green Day had experience a major decline in their career, with their albums " Nimrod" and "Warning" not nearly selling as much copies combined as debut "Dookie."
    Three hit albums later and we have this, the album "Shenanigans which in short is a collection of the bands B-side and covers which where found on their singles.

    The album rockets off to a great start with the opener " Suffocate" with Armstrong yelling the lyrics, " Whereâ    … Collapse
  2. MichaelE.
    Aug 15, 2002
    4
    "Espionage" is great fun. That's about it.
  3. killermonkey
    Dec 13, 2005
    6
    a pretty good album not their best but not their worst either this came out in 2002 and isn't that bad but will never be their best anyway i'm out
  4. Gamesearcher1
    Aug 29, 2019
    6
    If I was forced to describe this album, I’d say ‘Insomniac with a touch of Warning, but the problem of being a B-sides album’. There is a lot of nothingness on this album, which isn’t all too surprising, seeing as it’s a compilation of B-sides and covers, but there are some actually great moments on this album, and those are mostly the ones that sound ripped out of Insomniac.
    Favourites:    If I was forced to describe this album, I’d say ‘Insomniac with a touch of Warning, but the problem of being a B-sides album’. There is a lot of nothingness on this album, which isn’t all too surprising, seeing as it’s a compilation of B-sides and covers, but there are some actually great moments on this album, and those are mostly the ones that sound ripped out of Insomniac.
    Favourites: Desensitized, Suffocate, Espionage
    Least Favourites: I Wanna Be on T.V., Sick of Me    … Expand

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. CDNow
    70
    One of the band's most colorful listens.
    Read full review
  2. Blender
    40
    A great deal, unfortunately, fall into chugga-lugga tedium. [#9, p.148]
  3. Rolling Stone
    40
    A compilation that never quite jells.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »