was this the last "big" album, the last album to actually be relevant?
Was this the last "big" album, the last album to actually be relevant?
Leo Jones
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Hudson Thompson
No.
Sebastian Rodriguez
No I think this is
Asher Cooper
did anyone else have a huge green day phase back in middle school but listening to them now just makes you cringe?
Ian Wilson
yes
i feel that way about basically all the music i listened to that came out in the early to mid 2000s
Jayden Roberts
bro her career really fell off after this album
Jacob Hernandez
Yes, but now I kinda like them again because I just enjoy it as nostalgic singalong pop music with simple catchy melodies and lots of energy.
Henry Smith
yes but mostly just american idiot
whenever something like basket case comes on the radio at work I can still enjoy it, though admittedly even that's only after a solid decade of cringing at my middle school self
Andrew Allen
Actually wait maybe this (but probably not)
Was Lemonade "big"?
Carson White
It's only rembered because Adele btfo it and all its fans at the Grammy's.
Isaac Watson
yeah but Dookie and Insomniac are actually pretty fun still
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Liam Collins
nope
Matthew Gutierrez
Excuse me
Joseph Campbell
It's literally Nevermind and music has been in decline ever since
Wyatt Walker
Michael Mitchell
This
along with arctic monkey's AM
Joshua Gray
This is the closest thing to be the last one, all things considered.
Jose Hughes
This.
Black Parade was the last album that mattered. Sure there have been good albums since but very no album has impacted pop culture like this.
Xavier Harris
Rock album? Maybe.
Album in general? I'd say pic related
Evan Reed
How did it impact pop culture?
Thomas Wilson
Yeah but i only cringe when I hear anything released after American Idiot
Lincoln Torres
Kerplunk through Warning still holds up. American Idiot is overrated but okay, everything after that is just bad.
Andrew Stewart
I kept liking them. I mean after 21CB their albums took a weird turn and generally weren't as good, but I always enjoy anything from before that point.
Jonathan Anderson
I like their first two albums. Rest is all dog shit though
Luke Powell
i never liked them. all the other kids claimed they were amazing but i always thought they were shit. i used to still be into a lot of garbage though
Tyler Wright
Kind of. Green Day was the first band that I was a massive fan of, I listened not only American Idiot but their entire discography, even stuff they made in late 80's. I still think that some of their songs are genuinely great, especially second half of American Idiot starting from "Are We the Waiting". For example Letterbomb is an excellent banger. Truth be told, I even liked some songs from 21th century breakdown, like Murder City. There are also some great songs from earlier albums, I think Warning is a very good and underrated album. I'd even say that Warning is probably my current favorite if I had to tell one on top of my head, even though I haven't been listening to Green Day actively for like 7 years.
Other than that, if I had to go through 21 Guns, American Idiot, Wake me up When September Ends, Holiday or other hits of that period, I'd cringe hard because it reminds me of my edgy, immature teenage thoughts I used to get from listening them.
I don't know what's so captivating that I specifically used to like that band so much, I guess it's because pop punk stuff vibes so well with edgy teenage thoughts like "why doesn't she like me", "fuck school", "fuck parents and grown-ups, they are all sellouts who gave up on their dreams". I think everyone goes through that phase, but I am glad youtube or social media wasn't as big back then, so I fortunately didn't make a too big of a fool of myself during that time.
I guess it's "kind of good" in some sense, but listening to it felt weird, like Green Day is stuck in some timewarp still going on about their Gen X zeitgeist while rest of the world has moved on.
Ryan Watson
holy shit are you me? I got made fun of for not liking green day in middle school; I was the white stripes kid
Eli Cox
I do the same thing. It reminds me what it was like to be happy.
Bentley Campbell
I still find the narrative within the album pretty accurate to the average suburban young adult lifestyle. Yuppies obsessing over going to the city and doing something with their lives; being a part of something bigger than themselves. In the end they always end up back where they started, perpetuating the cycle and becoming exactly what they initially avoided. It outlines the concept of counter culture very well and almost critiques it in a way.
Julian Torres
this was forced as badly as the solange album and both are rarely if ever mentioned anymore
Caleb Brown
>I was the white stripes kid