I Listened to Every Green Day Album
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- Ranking pretty much all of Green Day's albums tier list style!
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“People seem to think I hate Green Day but I really don’t”
*proceeds to absolutely roast their entire discography except for like 1-2 albums*
Same goes for me, I love Green Day, and yet I can also be very critical of their discography. But yeah, 90s Green Day are a lot more superior though.
They only have two good albums at most
@@kobinho1917 American Idiot and Dookie are 8/10, everything else is lower.
@@derekrequiem4359 nimrod and insomniac would like a word
@@caseys2698warning would like a word as well 😂
putting Insomniac on the level of the 2012 trilogy is WILD
Completely misunderstanding American Idiot’s concept. It’s not about the Bush administration directly apart from two songs, and the rest of the album tells the story of kids growing up during that era. Songs like She’s a Rebel and St. Jimmy are written from a teenagers perspective, and then as those characters age and mature in songs like Homecoming and Whatsername, they look back and realize they were being rebellious for the sake of it. They’re written that way lyrically with an intention, it’s not just a generic rebellion song. That’s why it’s a rock opera
it's about making the journey that everyone should take in life but nobody ever told you and you had to find it on your own... even though they knew... they all knew... all of them...
It really just screams "this guy has not listened to the whole album/understood what its about at all."
like the *song* American Idiot is a very obviously political song, but the album is not all about that at all
Like Wake Me Up When September Ends for instance actually isn’t about 9/11 or the war on Iraq or anything (like some have misinterpreted it to be about), but it’s actually about the death of Billie Joe’s father when he was young and how hard it is for him to cope with that. Sure certain tracks like the title track of course and Holiday are very political, but that’s not entirely what the lyrical content of the album is about.
@@michaelvessel4604I feel like the misinterpretation of the song has a lot to do with the music video, right?
@@variedsexualantics Very true, guess I forgot to mention that. Still, it's crazy to me that it's music video and the fact it's on the same album as other more politically charged songs led everyone to believe it's another deeply political track, when really it isn't at all.
I never thought I could disagree with Fantano more than I have in the past, but this list made my ribs crack inside my chest
As soon as he put American Idiot in C tier I just skipped to the end of the video.
Thinking 21st Century Breakdown is a bad album, and also saying Wanting is unimaginative is mind blowing.
@@FixableHippo552i can understand the 21st century breakdown take, but warning literally contains the most rhythmically interesting track Green Day has which is Misery. Also the Trilogy is at times, quite dull and unimaginative, so I don’t know his logic there
@@FixableHippo552 wait wtf I haven't watched this yet but 21st CB is literally a masterpiece AND has something for everyone wtf is he on lmao
least groomed pop punk fans ^
@@206hxcx ???
Only Fantano could put American Idiot and the trilogy in the same tier.
Year
He also said the “song writing isn’t good” when the entire album is a concept album that tells a story. His hate for it is so stupid because it’s clear he has never given it a full listen
@@BLUEPELICAN234
He doesn't hate it. He put it in C.
Honestly, what's tripping me up is how low he placed Insomniac. That album is just as good as Dookie in almost every way imo. Deserves the same tier.
@@BLUEPELICAN234 The story kinda falls apart in the second half though & it doesn't really coalesce to anything cohesive by the end. As an album it's a lot of fun & surprisingly interesting (is Jesus of Suburbia the first progressive pop punk song?), as a concept album it's kinda undercooked
I’m sorry but saying the drum beats on Insomniac are forgettable is just insane because that is easily Tré and Mike’s best work on any Green Day album. Panic Song, Babs Uvula Who?, Stuck With Me, Brain Stew/Jaded… I mean the record starts with a pretty iconic drum intro with Armatage Shanks.
Amen
Agree
Facts. My fav Green Day album next to Dookie.
Seriously, every song on that album is just banger after banger
Agree. I was always a Dookie guy, but when I listened to Insomniac as a whole... shiiieeet, that hits on another level. It was their golden era for suuure!
I think American Idiot shines the brightest in some of its deep cuts that dont get much recognition. St. Jimmy is arguably one of their most explosive songs written, same with Letterbomb. And Homecoming and Whatsername are very underrated gems to me. Especially considering Homecoming was the first song written that kickstarted the structure for the album that I'm a fan of, although I recognize thats exactly why not everyone loves it
Letterbomb really should've been the blueprint for the bands future
they literally played letterbomb at the rock n roll hall of fame haha
@@dumb-angel that's because billie joe has stated that it's one of his favorite songs on the album and he loves to play it, it's still a deep cut that's not instantly recognizable to most people
@@slym0137I’m gay so I can’t listen to Green Day
@@jamesiron4010wut
I have seen questionable takes in my days, but putting the uno, dos, trés trilogy TWO TIERS above 21st century breakdown is something else. You are wild for this one.
Its insane.
that mans crazy
The trilogy was hot garbage. Deserves the bottom tier
@@edschobs5204 I liked dos, specifically one song: stray heart.
I hate to make this statement but: I like 21st century more than AI just because it was not over-exploited as the last one. I was done of listening "wake me up" at one point. Sth that never happen with 21 guns.
Green Day is the only rock band (aside Weezer maybe) who can have an album in every tier
Pearl Jam. Riot Act is BAD.
beach boys comes to mind as well
I love Metallica but they could fill a tier list in my eyes
Metallica is an easy one
Tiers for Fears
Anthony defending the damn Trilogy was totally unexpected. Great video
Thought he was gonna completely tear it apart after how harsh he was on 21st Century Breakdown
This comment just looks like every other joke on Fantano's channels but it's actually real lol
The trilogy is great! Has some duds, but highly underrated
Yeah bro. I was waiting for him to tear this record apart.
I actually like the trilogy too 😭
Warning is totally underrated. Beautiful album.
Agreed, it’s my favorite of theirs! They had so many weird creative little departures into bizarre worlds on that album and to call it bland makes me wonder if melon even listened to it.
100%, it's a fantastic album. It's at least B tier for me
It’s gorgeous.
Agreed. It's in the top 3 Green Day albums for me
You, me, and everyone else in this thread wants to be the minority. We don't need Melon's authority
Kerplunk is so underrated. There’s something about it that seems really authentic with how raw it was. I like Dookie and Nimrod more, but 80, 2000 Lightyears Away, and Christie Road are some of my favorites
One of the greatest pop punk albums of all time imo
Kerplunk is still their best album it's beautiful
Also Welcome to Paradise and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield are awesome
Idk if it’s just nostalgia for me but genuinely I have the most fun listening to their first two LPs. Kerplunk has always been my anthem to the start of summer and I don’t really know why
Insomniac is the Pinkerton of Green Day albums and deserves much higher
holy shit this makes so much sense
Solid album but I don’t agree with the Pinkerton comparison. Anthony is right to point out that Insomniac feels more or less like a continuation of Dookie, whereas Pinkerton was a drastic shift away from the blue album
Nah Pinkerton attained classic status for a reason
I feel like its more of a Room On Fire situation and its more of a part 2 of what came before it. Sort of a sister album to Dookie. I like the louder sound and there are some highlights but I understand that some songs are more generic and sounds like Green Day are running out of ideas with that sound which led them to innovate a bit on Nimrod.
I have been saying this for so long oh my god thank you
I always thought of the political theming of American Idiot as more of a backdrop to the Rock Opera which I always found to be the center of the record.
Yeah that’s pretty much what all detractors of the album miss; it’s not just a political album but also a concept album that tells a story through its songs
Honestly I get that, but it still felt kind of hollow. If politics ARE a part of the story, then they feel a little too Rebellion™, and the rest of the story is also kind of whatever
If anythings a political album its 21st Century Breakdown
@@Billiamwoods I’m not gonna deny that the political themes are shallow but truthfully the political themes are next to none and you should honestly not view it as much of a political album, if that’s what you’re expecting it to be
Agreed, and personally I don't think you should expect a band whose breakout single was a song about masterbation to be as deep and thoughtful about politics as Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, or NWA.
As a staunch defender of 21st century breakdown, I have never once lauded it for its commentary. Catchy songs go brrrrrr.
21st century breakdown defenders seem very few and far between but honestly i kinda prefer it to american idiot, i enjoy almost every track, it's not perfect and not their best either but 2nd worst it absolutely also is not
The message though is kinda appropriate for the internet age, where right and wrong and who the enemy is is much more ambiguous than it was back in the 90s. It is my favorite album
Viva la gloria!
I think the album’s highlights are the best of Green Day’s entire discography, the only reason I don’t think it’s their best is because it should have been a couple songs shorter.
@@kackersimo 21st century breakdown is my favorite album from Green Day with dookie and American idiot close seconds.
I’m surprised with how Anthony didn’t really like Insomniac. That album is like Green Day’s version of In Utero. It’s more dark and slightly less poppy than it’s predecessor album and there’s a slew of amazing songs on Insomniac. I guess it seems like that album was “rushed” but I think that’s part of what makes that album so good. That band’s era seemed unique to them.
That era was the worst for them, they were forced by the punk scene to be more hardcore and it just wasnt them, Billy said it the whole album was them trying to prove they can be as punk as the scene wanted them, but it wasnt them, they came to their own in Nimrod
@@fila365it was them, even if it was a little darker than usual it was still poppy and extremely catchy, that was just their mood at the time. There’s so many good songs on insomniac
Insomniac is ALL hitter. Through and through. Top tier work from Green Day's entire discography. Plus, my personal favorite thing about it is how Mike Dirnt's bass pierces through the mix! His grooves on that album are so good
@@fila365i really wish they did more songs in the vein of Platypus (stylistically). I highly recommend the Howard Stern live footage of that, if you haven't seen it. Billie dropping the guitar to just do vocals was the most hardcore I've seen them get. They definitely have it in them. Well, at least in that era!
I was watching the official song video for Panic Song from Insomniac, and I was amazed at how some people in the comments were saying it’s a perfect song. I think Anthony can agree that song is one of the highlights on Insomniac though, because it’s artistically onto another level, with how the instrumentation shows how it’s like when someone has a panic attack. Also the drums are killer on the track and it apparently caused Tre Cool’s (the drummer) fingers to bleed!
Oh man, you’re kicking the hornet’s nest with this one
Crazy how a comment coming from you managed to drown in the comments section lmao, love your work btw
Hey Billy
They’re big mad in here
@@User-jk8wq hey ron
No way, the goat billy cobb🐐🐐🐐
So nice of you to shine the spotlight on a Swedish Pop Band!!! Keep it up melon
Love those trap beats. And the features were stellar.
grœn dej 😭
Grän däj
@@heavenwaits*Grön Dag
I loved the album Glegenshmirben
Insomniac is kick ass, the whole album doesn't slow down (except brain stew, still a cool song) while still being damn catchy. babs uvula who is such a tight song stuff like this feels like the band even evolved a little. Also I know its a compilation album but Shenanigans has some great stuff on it; Desensitized, scumbag, suffocate, I want to be on T.V, Ha Ha... some of my favs. AI is amazing jesus and Homecoming alone have so many great twists and turns and melodies, even as a kid they felt melancholy. and warning is a fun one, title song and minority alone should bump it to at least a C
Finally some love for shenanigans❤
@@coltonrhode916I bought it not knowing it was a B-sides album. It had just came out so I thought it was just a new album. Love it start to finish. Some of their best work is on that album!
_I GOT A KNACK FOR FUCKIN' EVERYTHING UP!_ ugh i love that album. Also, I remember buying Shenanigans and International Superhits! at walmart when i was in middle school. Desensitized and J.A.R. were stand-outs for me
Literally nobody on earth saw the placements in this ranking coming
American Idiot truly is a fascinating album because it highlights a generation gap between elder millennials and younger millennials/elder zoomers. Elder millennials obviously were first exposed to Green Day by Dookie and while they look on that record with praise, American Idiot by that metric has a less positive view (Lindsay Ellis has a whole video essay chapter on Green Day that led me to this conclusion).
But for zoomers/younger millennials like me, this was one of our first albums and really defined a generation. I can’t speak on behalf of everyone, but this album legit made me want to become a musician. Nostalgia aside, it’s a 10/10 record for me and every track holds up. Without it, we wouldn’t have a Black Parade or a Brand New Eyes
American Idiot and RE4 dominated my teens
The need to differentiate like that within generations really highlights how pointless using them is in the first place.
Damn, you nailed it
As someone who grew up with and loved it, I think some of the songs are pretty corny to go back and listen to, but at the same time, I admire the risks they took. Songs like Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming flow in such a rad way that's just so ambitious for them and I think really complimented their songwriting ability. But Whatsername, She's a Rebel, Extraordinary Girl and Are We the Waiting are just so damn basic and didn't age the best in my opinion along with a majority of the album. It's certainly a cool second wind for a band that far in their career at the time, tho.
@@cdizzy42069 Totally agree. I think if they just left those songs out it would have been a much stronger album.
Melon put American Idiot in the C Tier because he thought they were talking about him
So cheap. I love it. Dad.
Dad, what did I say about making childish comments on Fantano videos
2:24 - 2:34 Take a listen to a couple of the outtakes from the Dookie 30th Anniversary edition. “Christie Rd.” off of Kerplunk and “409 In Your Coffeemaker” from their second EP were both re-recorded during the Dookie sessions, and those versions are phenomenal.
The thing about protest music is that it is usually a limp appendage gratifying itself. It rarely speaks to a crowd larger than the audience already present. That's what was special and interesting about American Idiot, even though the messaging wasn't all that radical. It was radical for a commercial success. It was protest music that was heard by everybody. As a result, it was the first entry-point for a lot of teenagers into political thinking. While I understand you were already very politically-minded and listening to much more powerful protest music, I think you missed out on some of the actual significance of American Idiot when you detailed its impact.
I know Green Day isn’t everyone’s cup of tea (especially on this channel) but I will always love them and appreciate all the memories they’ve given me throughout my life. They’ve been one of my favorite bands ever since I was like 6 years old, and that is never gonna change. They could release 1000 Fathers of All and that couldn’t stop me from loving them any less.
I'll be 70 and dookie will make me feel 13 again fr
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wish i felt the same because I loved Green Day but Father of all literally completely changed my perception of them and how I felt about their music and I genuinely cannot listen to a lot of their post-Warning stuff without cringing
ok philly_sports1558
this
Fantano, I love you, but just thinking about the fact you put Kerplunk and American Idiot in the same tier as the trilogy is giving me headaches
Insomniac too lol
@@bellabliss1860I agree Insomniac deserves higher.
Man, from my teenage years through to now I've always thought Warning was the best thing they ever did. They took that aesthetic of theirs and dialed it way down, into sort of a throwback folky way, combined with that 90s production and feel. I think every track is pretty great and honestly just due to the sound of the music, it feels more political than American Idiot. There's kind of an inherent energy that comes with that sound.
I like warning. It's not my favorite but there are some great tracks on it. I have done an audition singing Macy's day parade
Warning is OBJECTIVELY a musically GREAT fucking album and I guarantee you any commendable songwriter would agree, Melon unfortunately wouldn't know
I agree. If anything, it’s the Green Day album most deserving of a critical reappraisal. Most of the fans have come around to realizing it’s a great album
I felt very similarly but I do put American Idiot and 21st Century higher. I just felt as though they were tapping into much deeper themes with those, and I was just getting into punk, because that was grade school for me, and junior high for me. IT wasn't until after those I felt disappointed by Billie and the gang. I also put Uno Dos Tre much much lower than you. They seemed so bloated. I felt that 70% of those songs could've been cut, BUT you did change my mind, and that's what I like about your videos. I feel differently now in retrospect, because a return to formula IS a good thing. Those did have some very catchy melodies in them. I like hearing you talk about music. I don't watch your videos to see where you rank things. I watch them because you have VERY interesting insight on music, and I like the language you use to describe what you're hearing. Your videos are S tier my friend!!
Insomniac was always my favorite one. Instruments sounded great and lots of songs had a good drive to it.
Big guitar Green Day is the best Green Day
panic song, stuart and the ave, and jaded are all excellent punk songs. good album
They make really good games as well
Insomniac was my first GD album (then Warning, weird order) so it’ll always be A tier for me. Also it slaps
Geek Stink Breath is still one of my favorite songs by them. I still remember singing it out loud when I was like 13 having no idea what it was about lol
I cant believe you got Swedish Songwriters to script this video. smh I miss the good old days
Not sure what he means about Insomniac...was a superb album. Had more thoughtful and complex songwriting...and a darker mood. A top 3 for sure. I revisit it more often than I do Dookie
I’d love to see this kind of video ranking for the Lawrence arms and the menzingers two very underrated but amazing punk bands
He ranked the trilogy higher than warning and 21stCB..... I have no words
Just so blatantly wrong. Usually I have respect for his takes I don’t agree with and he does a good job at explaining them but idk what happened here.
@@ModMouse93 i think i know what happened here
I'd agree on warning, but 21CB def deserves to be below the trilogy
Insomniac in C is a personal attack on me lol I think that album is Dookie on steroids while staring into the abyss I love how much angrier and nihilistic it is and it’s one of my all time favorite albums 😂
Insomniac aged the best imo. I was a big fan and cringe a little in hindsight, but insomniac is solid. I could see putting Dookie above it, but nothing else.
@@DogmenHardcastle Hey, no need to cringe at being a green day fan in your youth. There's a LOT worse out there. At least you weren't a Limp Bizkit fan like I was.
@@DogmenHardcastlepersonally, 1. American Idiot, 2. Nimrod, 3. Dookie
@@localerik well I gotta agree with Fantano's take on American idiot. Not because he said it, but because I thought the exact same thing 20 odd years ago when it came out.
Greenday are inherently kind of shallow and trivial and juvenile, which actually works for short punchy catchy punk songs about masturbating and doing drugs and having girl problems. It makes it kind of raw and authentic. It doesn't work when you start trying to make deep political statements but still are the same idiot jerking off and picking scabs off his face. Pulling off a preachy soapbox political message is really hard, you better be all about that life and super smart and really mean it. That is not greenday, and for me it bombed pretty hard for that reason. American idiot for me is just right down the bottom. The first 4 albums are head and shoulders above the rest.
Insomniac is absolutely incredible and only surpassed by Dookie and AI, IMO. However, depending on the mood, I'd put it above Dookie.
I just wish they had taken the best stuff off the trilogy and made one record. That would have been a massive fun record.
please put it into a playlist and paste the link to the playlist here, there's no way I would search for each song separately
some other guy commented same idea than yours but he listed his songs:
1. Nuclear Family
2. Stay The Night
3. Fell For You
4. Loss of Control
5. Sweet 16
6. Rusty James
7. Oh Love
8. See You Tonight
9. Lazy Bones
10. Wild One
11. Stray Heart
12. Baby Eyes
13. Amy
14. Brutal Love
15. Missing You
16. 8th Avenue Serenade
17. Drama Queen
18. X Kid
19. Walk Away
20. 99 Revolutions
21. The Forgotten
It’s probably too many songs but it clocks in at 1 hour and 15 minutes.
No “Kill the Dj” “Nightlife” or “Amanda”?
@@FeelingShred I'd cut another half that list...
39 smooth through warning for me is all S, A, or B tier no contest. The power pop era of Green Day is the most timeless and I keep coming back to almost all the songs on these records.
Dookie, Nimrod, and Warning are my personal faves, i would've put Dookie and Nimrod both in A personally and Warning in B
Completely agree. These are the best 3 for sure
Yeah, I was shocked Nimrod didn’t go in A, it’s easily one of their best albums.
Warning is criminally underrated IMO, one of their best albums. I'd put it right up there with Dookie and Nimrod. Castaway, Macy's Day Parade, Church on Sunday, Waiting, Hold On, Deadbeat Holiday... all go toe to toe with any of their best work for me. I've always been a little sad we never got to hear them explore that sound further.
Yeah warning is actually quite good
Warning is easily my most listened to Green Day record
I have a weird personal attachment to the trilogy because they came out when my brothers and I were in high school and learning how to play guitar and joining bands, and learning about Billie Joe's personal crisis at the time really affected us, so it's nice to hear Anthony talk about them in a relatively positive light
His take on 21st Century Breakdown is unforgivable tho
"¡Viva La Gloria!" is as good or better than anything on American Idiot!
@@OlYablesnah
This list makes my tummy hurt ☹️
“Lack of lyrical depth” when talking about American Idiot lmao that’s wild
That feels like a statement better suited to the trilogy or any album since lol
I agree with the moustache man. For me it just doesn’t work and gets less interesting throughout the album
Trilogy over 21CB breakdown and warning is insane. Warning is easily top 5 GD and Rev Rad is a really solid album
I think it’s funny he called warning “unimaginative” just feels like he didn’t hear the same album I did
@@judicia_alt1792 I don’t really understand how he’s giving any Green Day album post rev rad lower than a D. To say that warning is a “bad” album is so foreign to me. The performances are great with interesting songwriting to boot.
Fr Rev Radio is more or less the most listenable album since American Idiot in my opinion. I haven't listened to Father if all at all tbh. The singles for the latest album don't have me hype. I'd still see em live tho
Rev Rad felt like a sequel to American Idiot, not that it's a concept like that but feels like American Idiot in alot of ways.
Given he doesn't care for AI I'm not surprised he didn't connect to RR
@@jugginator2.068 father of all is an odd album. The title track is okay.
Then you get like 4 garbage songs in a row, and the back half , I feel, is surprisingly solid.
The singles from that album leave a bad impression, and the album itself back loads the more interesting stuff.
this is incredibly unexpected especially as a big green day fan... i'm scared.
edit: the trilogy above warning is... certainly a take, lmao. honestly this was nicer to them than i expected it to be, i vehemently disagree on his assessments of insomniac, warning, 21st century breakdown, and american idiot though. revolution radio a bit too. but i appreciated the look into the band's catalogue even though 1039/smoothed out slappy hours was pretty much totally ignored lol.
In addition to snubbing their first album, he completely forgot to include Shenanigans. I was waiting for that one to be the first F on the list.
Yeah I was kinda bummed that he put warning as low as it was. I don’t think it’s there best, but I really don’t think it should be below the trilogy and on the same level as revolution radio.
1039 is a really solid record with a lot of creative guitar riffs. Wish he would've talked about it
@@kidzbopdad5801eh, shenanigans doesn’t really count. It’s just a b-sides record.
@@kidzbopdad5801shenanigans, in my opinion is not a real album in a general album standpoint. While it is a cohesive collection of songs, it is still just a b-side collection of songs that were previously released many years before shenanigans itself.
I actually did try to make an album out of the best songs of Uno Dos and Tre and this is what I came up with:
1. Nuclear Family
2. Stay The Night
3. Fell For You
4. Loss of Control
5. Sweet 16
6. Rusty James
7. Oh Love
8. See You Tonight
9. Lazy Bones
10. Wild One
11. Stray Heart
12. Baby Eyes
13. Amy
14. Brutal Love
15. Missing You
16. 8th Avenue Serenade
17. Drama Queen
18. X Kid
19. Walk Away
20. 99 Revolutions
21. The Forgotten
It’s probably too many songs but it clocks in at 1 hour and 15 minutes.
A "Best of" version of the trilogy would be an A-Tier for me. But there's just too much filler in my opinion that drags down the real bangers.
please post it into a playlist and copy paste the link here, no way in hell I'm gonna search each one of these songs on their own 🤣I might
@@FeelingShred A quicker way is to just go to the albums and find the songs and KILL THE DJ IS A GOOD SONG TO ADD
I haven't been an active Green Day fan since literally 2009 but these takes are driving me crazy, you say you re-listened to them but this has so much "I half assed listening to them" energy, Warning and Insomniac are so much better than the way they are described it's insane, like huh? Both of those albums have like a list of catchy, popular bangers on each of them and a bunch of other solid songs. But I don't know, maybe it's also just different when you listened to Dookie, Insomniac and Warning as a broody teenager growing up and connected so much with them that it's hard to understand the appeal of them now or something cause I can't imagine writing off especially Insomniac as like boring Dookie leftovers basically like, what the actual hell
warning is one of their most creative records imo; calling it unimaginative just doesn't feel right when you compare it to their previous stuff. there's a whole 5-minute narrative ballad (misery), and some like saxophones and non-punk instruments that they really used to their advantage. there's so many ideas on the album and it feels so different in their catalog, i love it.
And Macy's Day Parade which is just such a powerful and melancholic closer that I can't help but adore it
It made me sad putting it in D 😢
@@johnb56565it's not in your D John, and that's all that matters ❤
They’re first fully self-produced, and among their most distinctive. GREAT videos for the singles, too
calling that album power pop is even more crazy
Putting my nostalgia for American Idiot aside (hard as that is) you are still underrating that album.
Fantano's attempt at being edgy. Absolute joke. The album was huge.
I mean I loved it as a kid but honestly he's right, even though there's some absolute anthems on this one and it was a cultural moment, it's a bit disingenuous at how profound it thinks it is while sometimes sound like the most generic arena rock with paper-thin lyrics. I gotta say looking back on it, it's not as good as it was. I would say a C to a light B but not much more than that.
Probably one of the best concept albums of its decade. Don’t lie melon, that album slapped, and I’m sure you loved it when it came out, no matter how dated it sounds now
@@pinhead27able is it really crazy or edgy to say that the commentary on the album really isnt that deep? cuz its really not.
@@dmidkif it's not because an album has a concept that it's a good concept album.
great stuff. your take on insomniac is a real hot one though. yea it's rushed. but that's kind of the point. they were pissed off at the scene rejecting them for being successful and they got that emotion on tape quickly. it kicks ass IMO
Defending the trilogy is exactly what I wanted in this video. 2012 me demanded you to review this and I’m glad I have closure at age 27. Insomniac not being in B is a little heinous though. It’s definitely a highlight in the catalog but I agree that Nimrod is better
Trilogy is an undercooked bloated mess with like 2 good songs per album
I remember my local radio station talking about Green Day visiting the studio for the 'Nimrod' release. They bought a giant roll of those yellow 'Nimrod' stickers and were placing them everywhere. Was a giant pain to try to clean up, and years later they were still finding them.
Revolution Radio deserves critical reassessment. That album was the first since Nimrod to give me that old school Green Day feeling. It feels like if it had come out instead of Warning, it would have bridged the gap between Nimrod and American Idiot perfectly.
bang bang is definitely a brilliant song, back to green days raw punk sound.....
Interesting that you recently uploaded this. I just started listening to Greenday recently after 10 years of not doing so. Insomniac surprised me by how good it was. Probably their best imo.
Dookie
There are some Green Day records i really like... i haven't delve into Insomniac that much but after reading some of the comment.. i am gonna give it another attentive listen.
I never heard the trilogy albums... so im checking those out too.
Honestly this seems like the Green Day tier list from someone who just doesn’t like Green Day lol
This was a pleasant surprise to see. Love these discography tier lists ❤
i hope you have a wonderful passing
@@zoyasexycoolI hope your family is doing well
It would be cool to see a Swans discog tierlist. Especially for the variety since they have 16 studio albums
Yo melon you forgot to put their album Shenanigan’s in there. Also agree with what you said about Uno, Dos, Tre-shoulda mentioned that their “Demolicious” version makes those songs even more listenable like old green day. Also wild you didnt even mention Jesus of Suburbia lol, easily one of their best tracks. but being new to punk music / growing up with American Idiot did make that album really important to me.
Im super happy that the song King For A Day is the one that resonates with you! Though saying that you think of Eminem every time you hear it is a bit much.
You should listen to the Christie Road dookie outtake they recently released if you wanna see how it would’ve sounded with better production
The only issue with it is that it’s a tad too slowed down.
There was honestly so much good material spread out across the trilogy that if you cherry picked a few and put them all into one album, you'd have a banger.
Which is what they did with Demolicious. Honestly one of my favourite releases from the era between 21cb and RevRad, it's kinda lo-fi, and it's a really good compilation (i think) of the highest points of all three albums.
Huge Green Day fanatic here. I love each of these records in their own way, but to me, American Idiot remains the greatest thing that they’ve ever done. 21st Century Breakdown and Dookie are up there as well, but Idiot and it’s “punk rock opera” approach with a singular story throughout is just remarkable. Each album speaks to a different era, both for the band and for the world, but American Idiot does SO much. The ideas, the concepts, and how they were able to capture that in a story just resonates with me in so many ways. I’ve also got A LOT of faith in their new album, Saviors, as well. Things are looking very promising. No matter what anybody says, Green Day rules.
I really didn't care for any of the songs they've released or played live off of Saviors so I'm not holding out much hope for the new album. But then again, I havent loved a Green Day record since Nimrod 😂
Warning is a good album but fair enough, American Idiot is overplayed and just uninteresting imo. @cmbotch5739
Honestly I'd say warning deserves to be higher just because it has Misery on it - that song is probably one of green days best imo
Yeah it has a lot of really great stuff and it feels like it really gets underrated because of how different it was for the time.
While I don’t think it’s their best record, I think it holds a lot of really great deep cuts like Church on Sunday, Macy’s day parade, misery, and Blood sex and booze. I will stand by the hill of ‘it’s actual a really good album if give it a chance’.
I also think American Idiot deserves to be higher…Maybe it is a nostalgia but I still think it contains some listenable songs that stood the test of time.
Minority too! I loooove Minority
Waiting is one of their best too
@@sovka8394 oh American idiot absolutely deserves higher. I really don't agree with his take that it's bad at social commentary and isn't saying anything "profound" - like it needs to say something profound in order to be a good punk record. London Calling doesn't really say that much profound stuff and is still seen as one of the best if not the best punk albums ever
I always thought Warning being so different from the rest gave it a sort of charm. I dig the 'melancholy vibe'
Warning is that super shy and outcasted kid you aren't really sure about at first and then you eventually talk to them and find out they're actually really cool.
so accurate! my fave track from Warning is Misery. it's a shame he couldn't see how the album actually is very imaginative in its own right.@@madeleinep.828
Fantano had his neckbeard "I hate things perceived as emo" phase in the mid naughts and hasn't been able to look at that era with a different lens.
Putting Father of All... in the S tier was such a bold move.
I still hold a torch for Warning after all these years. I adore Blood, Sex and Booze, Church on Sunday, Deadbeat Holiday, Misery, etc. I could go on. I love singing along to this record, I think I could perform it front to back vocally without reference. for me, it was the first "new" Green Day album. When I first got into them, Nimrod was riding high and in the three years between that and Warning coming out I got plenty of time to delve into their back catalogue, but Warning coming out was BIG NEWS to me because it was NEW, and yeah, I latched right onto it, and am holding on tight to this day.
I love how it veers into folk punk. An amazingly distinctive record, and Fantano’s description of it is inaccurate
i can't believe he said it's unimaginative!... Misery is so cool *because* of its guitarless folky instrumentation- my favorite track from it.@@J.S.3259
You should be in prison for this tier list. Warning in *D Tier?* The trilogy on the same tier as AI and Kerplunk? The police will be arriving shortly, sir.
i'd really like to see you compile all the decent/good songs from the trilogy into one album some day
You could tell Anthony wanted to put American Idiot in D tier.
insomniac on the same level as kerplunk is definitely one of the takes of all time
Kerplunk is such a banger actually, Insomniac doesn't have Christie Road
Kerplunk is honestly better
Kerplunk kicks so much ass
Kerplunk for me is their third best album, but below insomniac.
? That’s truly the coldest take about this.
What’s odd is that they’re both so perfect yet are only in C. Anthony way underrating this band across the board.
Insomniac, to me, has the best collection of iconic green day songs
The trilogy, especially Uno is very underrated imo. One of my favorite albums
Check out the band The Warning they are a rock power trio that is kicking major A$$ do yourself a favor and check out their music here on YT, they have opened for Muse, Gn Roses, Halestorm. Check out their concert live from teatro Metropolitan CDMX and you will know what I mean.
Cheers
@SDsailor7 I like them too but they do not give me trilogy vibes at all
@@trevorhess4721 That's because their music is different than the one you mention.
Placing Father of All… in S-tier surprised me since you did give it a 0/10, but hey it’s cool to see your opinions evolve over the years, Melon!
I was about to go into this video defending every opinion I had, but I realized we actually share some viewpoints on specific albums. We may not see eye-to-eye exactly, but for instance, what you said about the trilogy I feel almost exactly the same way about. They definitely were not that bad but I think they would have succeeded had the condensed all three albums down to one powerful album
On dookies 30th anniversary edition they have christie road and 409 in your coffee maker (christie road is a kerplunk track and 409 is a 39/smoothed track) in the style of dookie which he mentioned around the 2:30 mark... they sound pretty cool and are worth a listen
You should do this with blink while you’re touching on this sector of music! Besides the last 3 new albums, you’ve only ever really touched on Enema of the State. Would be interesting to get a tier list of their catalogue.
i feel like if you were in high school in 2009 (me), 21st Century is low-key a classic even if it doesn't hold up today.
I can confirm this. I was 16 when the album came out.
I was 9, remember counting the days down for it
This list looks like it was made by someone who listened to every green day album once. I felt the same way about warning and insomniac when i first heard them, but those albums get so much better over time
He's just engagement baiting. This is just some pretentious garbage
its funny cause they actually did an album with the best demos of the trilogy called demolicious, and it is so frustrating cause you can hear that, if given the same treathment as the albums, it could've been a really funny decent album.
My tier list -
1. Kerplunk - One of their best works, also one of the best indie pop punk album of all time imo. A
2. Dookie - I don't have anything to say about this other than that it's sear perfection. Easy S
3. Insomniac - Some of their best works are in this album and the only reason I'm not putting in the top is because yes it kinda felt rushed. A
4 Nimrod - Kinda like a little brother to Insomniac but they tried to play it too safe. B
5 Warning - Green Day's most personal album I would say, they got so much hate for maturing and taking risks but a lot of fans would agree that the album grew on you as time goes by and it's their most underrated album. Im kinda biased because it's my fav album of them. A
6 American Idiot - Yes I agree it was over produced but I appreciate their evolvement from the backlash they received from Warning and the unfortunate incident with stolen master tapes. This album has a brand of its own and deservedly so. Sure its very mainstream but non single tracks like Letterbomb, Whatsername, St Jimmy, Homecoming etc are some of the best songs I have ever heard. A
8 21st CB - The fact that many people think this album is underrated makes it overrated. I didn't enjoy any of the singles and the album is way too long. That being said none of the tracks aren't bad and easily a great album if it wasn't produced by Green Day. The expectations were high after AI and yeah it couldn't live upto it but nevertheless a good album. C
9 Uno - A few decent songs. I don't have anything to say after that. D
10 Dos - Uno but worse. E
11 Tre - Dos but worse. F
12 RevRad - A breath of fresh air after the god awful trilogy and I actually enjoyed some of the songs. C
13 Father Of All - This is their best album till date. This album is so good that it doesn't belong in this world. The album is so deep that it should be put in a museum under a pile of garbage. Literal garbage, doesn't deserve a rating.
Maybe I was just at the right age when it came out, but 21st Century Breakdown in the E tier might be one of the most ludicrous takes I've ever seen. Under the TRILOGY?!?!?! How is an album with that many bangers in the goddamn E bracket?
Also, an album hat brings together all the best songs from the trilogy does exist! Demolicious was a record store day exclusive, with demos of songs from the trilogy, and it's even more raw-sounding and visceral. The ultimate Trilogy listening experience IMO
i like that anthony implies he has willingly listened to father of all multiple times since he reviewed it as if there's any reason to do that aside from making a tier list
Anthony my man I was waiting for like a list with the best tracks from the trilogy
I'd love to see your opinion on Radiohead's discography, granted I'd like to think we'll be getting another album but seeing as they haven't mentioned anything about working on a new Album such would controdict their general manner of anouncing often a bit too ahead of times that they are working on a new allbum.
They being the band that truly pulled me into Music on a whole new level.
Regardless, considering it isn't far off from it being a decade since they last released anything, already topping their period since a new release came out. Quite personally I feel as if the Band would have more to sa more to focus on, with a really solid album to unlike my prediction for the sound A Moon Shaped Pool encorporating all learned from that done in prior albums with the addition of Classical/Orchastrial Music, as soon as I heard their potential album for James Bond upholding all such and I further knew I would be correct.
Anyhow, have always enjoyed your teir list hence my promoting one of my all time favorite Musicians.
He already did
Insomniac, at that low point, is fightin' words
Green Day having an almost 40 year career is gut wrenching.
Why?
@@Lu-db1uf cuz that makes them more like The Who or The Rolling Stones than the kids they were at Gilman. It's hard to square the innately youthful lyrical content of my favorites tracks with a number as big as forty.
Also it makes me feel hella old and forces me to confront my own mortality.
@@Lu-db1ufthe band formed in 1987
…which is kinda crazy since they’re barely in their 50s
@@Mighty_AtheismoI think it's the latter instead of the former . Them being old. Doesn't make them like the who or stones .
Insomniac has my favorite drum and bass production of their whole career. Geek Stink Breath is prime earlier Green Day for me
The placements on some of these are questionable 😂
I do agree with your comments about the trilogy, I've turned it into a 12 track playlist from it that I think is strong (in my opinion anyway). It's probably worth mentioning as well was the iHeart Radio drama happening just as the first one was coming out, having that mixed with another 2 albums to wait for kinda tarnished them for me at the time.
We applaud you for your brave efforts, Melon.
Insomniac in C is heartbreaking. I get it though. Still, the melodies on that album are weird as hell. I love it. Nimrod is definitely insomniac if it went to college though.
It's funny because I was 11 when American Idiot came out and then when I was about 12 or 13 I obtained the CD and I remember that was the only CD that my mom enjoyed just as much as I did, and I think that definitely counts for something
But yes I also agree that there's a shallowness to it and it kind of just seems more of a fashion statement than a political statement.
are you going to review?
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Frankie and the With Fingers - Data Doom
Nihiloxica - Source of Denial
Matmos - Return to Archive
Knower
Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
G Jones - PATHS
Great Falls - Objects Without Pain
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
My personal ranking of Green Day albums:
S) Dookie, American Idiot
A) Nimrod, 21CB
B) Insomniac, Warning, RevRadio
C) Kerplunk, Uno
D) 1039 SO/SH, Dos
E) Tre
F) FOAMF
I admit, my love of 21CB is more nostalgia than anything else, and I do genuinely love it for all its flaws, but everything else is basically set in stone for me.
Honestly mine is scarily close I just might switch nimrod and insomniac and lower 21cb
Holy fuck, our tier lists are nearly identical lol. I just lumped the whole trilogy in C.
I legit thought I saw my comment when I saw yours 😂 21CB is underrated as fuck. I hate that the only songs that get any attention from the band when they play live are Know Your Enemy and 21 Guns when those are arguably the two worst tracks on the album (not counting Song of the Century since I don’t count that as a full track, and Christian’s Inferno is surprisingly weak).
12:50 Maaaaan who CARES about "She's a Rebel's" lyrics?! That thing is STUPID catchy.
You summed up 21CB perfectly. I've been trying to articulate it like that for years.
He didnt say anything tho
Fantano mentioning welcome to paradise makes me so happy because christie rd and 409 were outtakes and i just really am glad that he himself recognises that the production quality affects the music quality!
I got Uno Dos Tre whittled down to ten tracks and it's easily one of their best albums.
Which ten?
Which ten??
@@bencollins1183
Nuclear Family
Let Yourself Go
Stay the Night
State of Shock
Ashley
Stop When the Red Lights Flash
Makeout Party
Stray Heart
Lazy Bones
Missing You
BOOM! You got at least a decent 7/10 album
state of shock is a great track... ironically it didnt even make the trilogy@@gz4wbz
Listen to Demolicious. Best of compilation basically but grittier sounding.
Not the 21st century breakdown take down 😭 That album made me feel edgy in middle school
Lol. Geto Boys' "Making Trouble" was my edgy album
I am SO HYPE for this
@fantano you got a track list for a single album of the uno/dos/tre trilogy? I've been doing some digging and there's a handful that everyone agrees on but there's a fair amount of variability...
A Father of All joke is too obvious, so I’m just going to call Fantano out for routinely underrating American Idiot. Amazing album, easily A at the very least.
At least an A. This is a big album to my childhood
Yeah I was pretty surprised when I got the rating it did, but I’m also hugely biased. It’s probably the first album I would listen to front to back
He loves Black Parade so much and doesn’t like American Idiot. I don’t get that and never will. Both albums essentially do the same thing and have the same goals in mind. So weird how you can love one and not the other. They’re both 10/10s for me.
@@philly_sports1558those are probs my two favorite albums ever, period
@@philly_sports1558so true