Shenanigans
by Green Day
  • Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: Jul 2, 2002
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. AllMusic
    80
    It's fun, to be sure, especially for the fans who are the compilation's target audience, but everything here sounds like the classic definition of B-sides -- good and familiar, but not as good as what made the album.
  2. CDNow
    70
    One of the band's most colorful listens.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    No acoustic stinkers. No Live And Unrehearsed At K-ROQ radio sessions. No ropy early demos. No remixes. Just Green Day, playing solid, dependable, familiar idiot-savant punk-rock.
  5. Blender
    40
    A great deal, unfortunately, fall into chugga-lugga tedium. [#9, p.148]
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  6. Rolling Stone
    40
    A compilation that never quite jells.

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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
  1. NolanLundgaard
    Apr 11, 2020
    7
    Shenanigans by Green Day: 6.74

    Suffocate: 1 :) Desensitized: 0.25 You Lied: 0.75 Outsider: 0.5 Don’t Wanna Fall in Love: 0.75    Shenanigans by Green Day: 6.74

    Suffocate: 1 :)
    Desensitized: 0.25
    You Lied: 0.75
    Outsider: 0.5
    Don’t Wanna Fall in Love: 0.75
    Espionage: 0.75
    I Want to Be on T.V.: 0.75
    Scumbag: 1 :)
    Tired of Waiting for You: 1 :)
    Sick of Me: 1 :)
    Rotting: 1 :)
    Do Da Da: 1 :)
    On the Wagon: 0.75
    Ha Ha You’re Dead: 1 :)

    11.5/14 ~ .821 -> 6.74

    Shenanigans is not the best Green Day album, but it is far from the worst (sorry, ¡DOS!). After listening to the first half of this album, I was fairly unimpressed (the unnecessary gunshots and screams in Desensitized, having tempos that don’t fit the song or are too fast (Outsider)), but for some reason Green Day saved the best songs in Shenanigans until the end of the album, and I really enjoyed a lot of the songs in the second half. Despite the rocky start there are some pretty good songs here; I was pretty fond of Suffocate and Sick of Me, along with others. I also thought Espionage had great music, though I wish that Green Day had put in lyrics to this song. The only song I couldn’t stand was Desensitized, but maybe that’s because they had footage of someone getting shot over and over again, anyways that probably ruined the song. I gave it some points because the music made that song semi-recover, though I still thought negatively of it. I also felt meh about Outsider. Its lyrics did not feel diverse at all, and though I enjoyed the upbeatness of the music, it felt like the song somehow had a tempo that was too fast. Besides that though, I was fairly impressed with a lot of the songs here, and Shenanigans certainly is a good album. Green Day fans should definitely enjoy this album, as well as lovers of rock music. Highlights: Suffocate, Scumbag, Tired of Waiting For You, Sick of Me, Rotting, Do Da Da, On the Wagon, and Ha Ha You're Dead.    … Full Review »
  2. 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 lotIf 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    … Full Review »
  3. MysticManiac
    Mar 10, 2018
    9
    If it were a regular studio album, I'd probably give it a light 8/10 but considering it's a B-side compilation, this is a very decent andIf it were a regular studio album, I'd probably give it a light 8/10 but considering it's a B-side compilation, this is a very decent and surprisingly good release. Highlights include Suffocate, Desensitized and Rotting.… Full Review »
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