Green Day - American Idiot (2004)
  This album really blew me away, I haven't been too into Green Day for their last few albums, but then they came out with American Idiot and i was blown away. This is a great concept album, It kinda sounds like Green Day raped Pink Floyd in a dark alley, and believe me that's a good thing.  I'm going to review every song on this album because i think it deserves it and it's the first review on the site. so here ya go:

  The album starts out with "American Idiot" easily the low point of the album, the most political and the most Green Day-sounding  song on the album, not all that bad, It's a basic punk rock song that talks about America being controlled by this and that, but hey, Billie Joe says "Fuck" and "Faggot" in it, and i love those words. next song!
"Jesus of Suburbia" is a nine minute long epic song with 5 different parts, all of which could be different songs but the flow into one another perfectly, lots of ups and downs, some pretty deep lyrics, some funny lyrics, some pissed off moments, some downright beautiful parts. just awesome. Next up is "Holiday", you've probably heard this on the radio, some don't like it for the politics, I think of it more along the lines of the Pink character in The Wall, but hey I must be wrong, again... the word "fags" is in this and that rules. Then along comes "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", nice song, some say it's overplayed, i say "stop listening to the radio". "Are We The Waiting" is a nice mellow song that leads into   "St Jimmy" which  is a rocking number with a bunch of cool cliche lyrics.
After that is "Give Me Novacaine" I love this song, lyrics you can identify with a chorus that picks up and is catchy as fuck, the song ends suddenly and goes into a cool, fast, generic, punk sounding song called "She's a Rebel".  "Extraordinary Girl" is an okay song, kinda fits in the story but nothing extraordinary about it, man i'm clever. "Letterbomb" is freaking baf, one of the best songs on the album. "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a mellow song that's pretty moving and sad.
"Homecoming" is the second epic song on the album, again it has a ton of parts, this one even features Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool singing parts of it, both part's rule. Tre sings the "Rock n Roll Girlfriend" part and it's nothing short of great,  so many ups and downs,  various choruses, boy do i love these nine minute songs.
  The album wraps up with "Whatsername", a slower song that depresses the shit out of me, lines like "i made a point to burn all of the photographs" seem to get to me, anyone can identify with this song, it's great,  really powerful chorus, and an awesome finish for an album.
I can't believe Green Day pulled off such a great album, to me it's an instant essential album, it may be a concept album but you can easily identify with damn near every song on a personal level and it has tons of replay value. 

Rating: (5/5 skulls)