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

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  1. oscarthedon
    May 15, 2011
    3
    I mean really? How could the original "Stuck With Me" mess up the one on Insomniac? Anyways, the song "Ha Ha Your ****" is really funny. That song WILL get played at my funeral to end world noobiness, ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
  2. j30
    Sep 21, 2011
    2
    Skip this record. They have way better music than this. Luckily none of these tracks made it on any of their great (and just OK) early collection of albums.
  3. 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    … Expand
  4. ash????
    Jul 20, 2005
    8
    ok every one who says green day suck just go away they are reli talented as all there albums show!!!!
  5. SamD
    Oct 2, 2005
    3
    bleh kinda bland billie joes lyrics just cant seem to rise above the his current slump miss days before Warning oh well next album might be better
  6. BillyBob
    Nov 23, 2002
    9
    A great album by Greenday. Nice, punk songs and interesting to listen to. BUY BUY BUY
  7. MichaelE.
    Aug 15, 2002
    4
    "Espionage" is great fun. That's about it.
  8. 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
  9. HannahF
    Aug 14, 2006
    10
    Even though it's an album of just b-sides, it's still great. I definitely recommend it.
  10. Tib3rian
    Oct 27, 2016
    8
    Album that leading band to non-release Cigarettes and Valentines later made American Idiot is different. Shenanigans is a b-side and cover songs but a pack with a lot of good stuff, listen to the Suffocate reminds classick Green Day and Dont wanna fall in Love clearly aspirating for top 5 songs of the band.
  11. Quexor
    Nov 12, 2012
    8
    A very underrated album by Green Day. This B-Side album contains some very strong and great songs like "Ha Ha You're Dead" and "Desentisized" and includes some covers too. Not their best album, but certainly not their worst.
  12. godzillarandom
    Oct 2, 2014
    8
    This is one of my favorite albums by them,This is just B-sides ,But if you can find it,It's still worth a buy ,I give this album a : 8/10

    (p.s. If you don't like punk,You will not like this album)
  13. 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
  14. 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 and surprisingly good release. Highlights include Suffocate, Desensitized and Rotting.
  15. 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 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    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.    … Expand

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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.
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  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.
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