2005, Reprise
VINYL FORMAT. It's a bit tempting to peg Green Day's sprawling, ambitious, brilliant seventh album, American Idiot, as their version of a Who album, the next logical step forward from the Kinks-inspired popcraft of their underrated 2000 effort, Warning, but things aren't quite that simple. American Idiot is an unapologetic, unabashed rock opera, a form that Pete Townshend pioneered with Tommy, but Green Day doesn't use that for a blueprint as much as they use the Who's mini-opera "A Quick One, While He's Away," whose whirlwind succession of 90-second songs isn't only emulated on two song suites here, but provides the template for the larger 13-song cycle. - All Music Guide
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | American Idiot |
| 2 | Jesus of Suburbia: Jesus of Suburbia/City of the Damned/I Don't Care |
| 3 | Holiday |
| 4 | Boulevard of Broken Dreams |
| 5 | Are We the Waiting |
| 6 | St. Jimmy |
| 7 | Give Me Novacaine |
| 8 | She's a Rebel |
| 9 | Extraordinary Girl |
| 10 | Letter Bomb |
| 11 | Wake Me Up When September Ends |
| 12 | Homecoming: The Death of St. Jimmy/East 12th St./Nobody Likes You/Rock |
| 13 | Whatsername |
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