Okay, okay. While I don't have a ranking per se, mostly because there are some albums I haven't fully listened (mostly because I used to listen to Green Day here on UA-cam and would just click on another recommended song I hadn't heard) so here are some of my thoughts: 1. 1039 smooth/Kerplunk: Don't have much to say about pre-Dookie era Green Day. While the raw energy is very much appreciated, a huge chunk of the songs just end up getting muddied by either the audio quality, the production or the song itself being underwhelming. I do have some songs that I like though. 2. Dookie: Catchiest hooks and riffs I've ever heard in pop punk, every punk act in the 2000's tried to have an album like this. While I'm not the biggest fan of some of the songwriting, I absolutely love the energy and the narrative these tracks produce. Even though they are simple songs, they have some variety by changing up the delivery and the focus of some songs. Shoutouts to Welcome to Paradise and She for taking my angst and anxiety away a few times on my early teens. 3. Insomniac: I love the cover art, surprised you didn't mention that! Being totally blunt here, haven't heard this thing fully, but I really love the track Brainstew and the way it explodes into Jaded, it's such an amazing, and very funny, portrayal of insomnia and I can fully relate to it. Geek Stink Breath is also amazing, I love how infectious the guitar work is consistently throughout the record. 4. Nimrod, to me, it's a bit better than Dookie although it isn't nowhere as memorable as that record. Green Day's sound had became a bit too predictable at this point, but it was really cool to see how it kept growing and maturing with them providing more room for experimentation and greater variety. I adore the strong bass that gives an edge to some of this tracks and I love how funny and crude the lyrics are. Wouldn't hear Time of Your Life ever again though. Highlights for me are: Hitchin' a Ride, King for a Day, A Grouch, Redundant, Platypus and Haushinka. 5. Warning. Absolutely love it from start to finish. While I do think there are some safe, throwaway cuts, songs like "Blood, Sex and Booze" and the underrated masterpiece at is "Misery", which involves this twisted narrative of absurdity paired with an ominous marching band like progression. It also has very catchy songs like "Castaway", "Deadbeat Holiday" and a "Church on Sunday" . 6. American Idiot: I probably heard this one the most and it's the one that's ingrained more into my system. That being said, didn't even realize it was a concept album til much later down the line. While I agree its imagery, its songs and its melodies are iconic, it's not an album I care much about to fully listen. I've done it many times before, sure, but I don't think the narrative is that compelling and it thematically strays away in some songs. There's a lot I like in this album, I like how grandiose it feels in both scale and reach. It's complex while still managing to be both accessible and endearing, and I love it's general ideas, there is just a lot I don't care to listen to, like Homecoming, which IMO is longer than it should be, Boulevard of Broken Dreams (I might have just burned this one up), Wake Me Up when September Ends (might be because of the same reason, but I never really loved it much), and Letterbomb, which sucks in my opinion. While I love the more consistent sound, I miss the more experimental side introduced in Nimrod and developed in Warning. That being said, I really appreciate the album and see the appeal and AI can't praise enough the magnificent odyssey that is "Jesus of Suburbia", or the heart wrenching "Give Me Novocaine" or the nostalgia inducing "Whatsername". I really would love to love this album, but I can't. 21st Century Breakdown: Funnily enough, my problem with this one is he opposite of American Idiot, I feel like there is a jarring compilation of sounds and ideas that should have probably been trimmed down to make it a bit more consistent. If anything, I consider the highs here on par, and some even better, than the ones in American Idiot but the lows on this thing are very fucking low. "Christian's Inferno", "See The Light", "Static Age" are all rubbish I can't even. It suffers from pacing issues going back between sounds and ideas that the concept is kind of lost in a few places. We go from "Last Night on Earth" to the aforementioned "Christian Inferno" back to back and it doesn't sound like they go well together back to back. The track list could have been cut down a bit and taken off some of the more filler-y tracks and this would be a lot better. The title track absolutely rocks though, and the energy of "Do you Know your Enemy?" and that catchy ass hook will chase me for life. Really love both "Viva La Gloria" track, with "Little Girl" giving me ton of "Misery" vibes. "Restless Heart Syndrome"is a beautiful song and person that gets sick a lot, relate to a ton. Really love "Last of the American Girls" dude, missed me with that shade~!. I visualized a little narrative with that song and a few others from this LP and AI, and have a fondness for this song because of it. I also think it's very fun and bouncy, something I appreciate. Overall, I love the anthemic flair this LP has, especially on it's first half, and how varied, for better or worse, it is. The Trilogy: Sticking this into one because this is already getting long. I echo your thoughts on UNO being the more competent and realized of the three, while Tré being a bit more bland, though bold in a few areas and DOS being fun and nonsensical. That being said, after UNO I don't enjoy either of them barring a few tracks. I feel like if we had gotten a tighter, well rounded LP compiled of the best the trilogy has to offer, this would be a power pop classic. People really make it out to be as if there aren't any good songs to find here, but I mean..."Kill the DJ, anyone?" "Amy? "Nuclear Family?" "Dirty Rotten Bastards?"Hell, even the Forgotten is different from what the band usually offers and can be enjoyed on its own terms. Overall, decent compendium of songs buried in a ton of mediocrity, poor songwriting and underdevelopment with a few home runs. Revolution Radio: Once again, I echo your thoughts. When it dropped, I dunno if it was because of the hype, I genuinely loved the record and incredible, but my fondness for it has diminished over the years. It was the first album that dropped since I started being a fan so it holds some value to me because of that and, while there is nothing unlistenable, there just isn't anything that memorable or remarkable besides the first two singles. That being said, love the anthemic, criminally underrated "Forever Now" even if the first half is a bit anemic lyric wise and how it makes takes cues from "Forever Now" to give the album a thematic closure. I also really like how Green Day tried to change their sound a bit with songs like "Say Goodbye" and "Troubled Times", which sounds a bit heavier than your usual GD track. All in all, solid record, just gets mixed into the bunch because of the lack of thematic tie, which makes the middle part really big down and draaaag. Starting with social critiques and then getting into songs like "Youngbood" and "Outlaws" really showcases how jumbled the album is thematically. Father of All Motherfuckers: Wasn't too interested in it til I saw your review on it and was a bit let down by it, but I'm not gonna give it a verdict because the sound quality of the leak just wasn't good enough and buried some of the tracks on the record. Early thoughts are that, at least to me, it's a bit boring and samey even with the different styles Green Day plays with, I just feel like they didn't go as hard as they could with some of this sounds and ends up making a bunch of generic sounding tracks. So yeah, I like all of these records but it would be hard for me to rank them. Nimrod would be very high though, and the rock operas album somewhere there too because how nostalgic I feel about them.
This is a great list, even though I love insomniac (I can’t say much I love kerplunk more than Dookie). There are some quite toxic people on here I would say: 13 Father Of All.. 12 Uno 11 Tre 10 Dos 9 39/Smooth 8 Revolution Radio 7 21st Century Breakdown 6 Warning 5 Dookie 4 Insomniac 3 Kerplunk 2 American Idiot 1 Nimrod
13. Dos 12. Father of all 11. tre 10. Uno 9. Revrad 8. 21st century breakdown 7. 39/smooth 6. warning 5. American idiot 4. nimrod 3. kerplunk 2. dookie 1. insomniac
You got me curious with a point you made about post-2000 albums that will be remembered. Besides American Idiot, which other album do you think it's gonna still be played in 50 years and point to as a seminal record?
1. American Idiot 2. 21st Century Breakdown 3. Dookie 4. Warning 5. Nimrod 6. Kerplunk 7. Insomniac 8. Stop Drop and Roll 9. Revolution Radio 10. Dos 11. Uno 12. Tre 13. Money Money 2020 pt 1 14. Shenanigans 15. Father of All 16. 1039 SOSH 17. Money Money 2020 pt 2
Really glad you made this video! Was kiiiiinda losing hope you were gonna do it at this point, looking forward to more ranked videos, they are a joy to watch. Anyway, my experience with Green Day is kind of a weird one. It was probably the first band I got into after watching "American Idiot" on TV in...2013, I think. Didn't have cable/internet access before that but it was between 2012-2013. Thanks to the band I opened to more music and browsed UA-cam for more and more music, I ended up finding some of my favourite artists ever thanks to this, including Radiohead and Gorillaz. That being said, I just don't seem to enjoy their music that much anymore. I dunno if it's because I absolutely burnt some of these tracks, I must have heard Whatsername at least 100 times. Now I kinda see them as a guilty pleasure, I usually don't listen to them but when my very strong teenage angst gets to the max, they are probably the band I'm listening to. Even if I don't enjoy them, I keep gravitating towards them. So I see it as a weird love/don't really like you that much relationship. I'm still really fond of them though.
Loved the video. Green Day is my favourite band but I can’t help by saying you’re saying the title “Haushinka” completely wrong 😂😂. Don’t mean to sound like a dick, just helping out
I definitely agree with you on that and re recorded some of the songs that they haven’t done that they should’ve done in the first place like minors taking out the acrid Ian it’s like re recording the record but being fresh now that’s the Green Day that I want for my opinion would say. But for warning it’s like insomniac but in a mean in a good way someway and somehow but in the mix of kerplunk and dookie all in that record of warning I’ve listened to that record all of the time and for my opinion I wish that Green Day re recorded all of their albums from the day that they were on the independent project lookout records to the present day of the release of the record father of all. That’s true they were definitely trying to make a American idiot record part 2 and all we got was the 21st century breakdown and that was it. Now I definitely agree with you on that we definitely need that cigarette 🚬 and valentine’s tapes back and the person that stole the tapes need to give it back to Green Day and the guy is going to jail and that’s true.
Okay, I respect everyone’s opinion on everything. However, Father of All is complete garbage compared to other Green Day albums. By far their worst. I can agree with about every other placement, but Father of All should not be above 39/smooth, uno, dos, or tre, or insomniac. It should be last. Dead last.
Okay, okay. While I don't have a ranking per se, mostly because there are some albums I haven't fully listened (mostly because I used to listen to Green Day here on UA-cam and would just click on another recommended song I hadn't heard) so here are some of my thoughts:
1. 1039 smooth/Kerplunk: Don't have much to say about pre-Dookie era Green Day. While the raw energy is very much appreciated, a huge chunk of the songs just end up getting muddied by either the audio quality, the production or the song itself being underwhelming. I do have some songs that I like though.
2. Dookie: Catchiest hooks and riffs I've ever heard in pop punk, every punk act in the 2000's tried to have an album like this. While I'm not the biggest fan of some of the songwriting, I absolutely love the energy and the narrative these tracks produce. Even though they are simple songs, they have some variety by changing up the delivery and the focus of some songs. Shoutouts to Welcome to Paradise and She for taking my angst and anxiety away a few times on my early teens.
3. Insomniac: I love the cover art, surprised you didn't mention that! Being totally blunt here, haven't heard this thing fully, but I really love the track Brainstew and the way it explodes into Jaded, it's such an amazing, and very funny, portrayal of insomnia and I can fully relate to it. Geek Stink Breath is also amazing, I love how infectious the guitar work is consistently throughout the record.
4. Nimrod, to me, it's a bit better than Dookie although it isn't nowhere as memorable as that record. Green Day's sound had became a bit too predictable at this point, but it was really cool to see how it kept growing and maturing with them providing more room for experimentation and greater variety. I adore the strong bass that gives an edge to some of this tracks and I love how funny and crude the lyrics are. Wouldn't hear Time of Your Life ever again though. Highlights for me are: Hitchin' a Ride, King for a Day, A Grouch, Redundant, Platypus and Haushinka.
5. Warning. Absolutely love it from start to finish. While I do think there are some safe, throwaway cuts, songs like "Blood, Sex and Booze" and the underrated masterpiece at is "Misery", which involves this twisted narrative of absurdity paired with an ominous marching band like progression. It also has very catchy songs like "Castaway", "Deadbeat Holiday" and a "Church on Sunday" .
6. American Idiot: I probably heard this one the most and it's the one that's ingrained more into my system. That being said, didn't even realize it was a concept album til much later down the line. While I agree its imagery, its songs and its melodies are iconic, it's not an album I care much about to fully listen. I've done it many times before, sure, but I don't think the narrative is that compelling and it thematically strays away in some songs. There's a lot I like in this album, I like how grandiose it feels in both scale and reach. It's complex while still managing to be both accessible and endearing, and I love it's general ideas, there is just a lot I don't care to listen to, like Homecoming, which IMO is longer than it should be, Boulevard of Broken Dreams (I might have just burned this one up), Wake Me Up when September Ends (might be because of the same reason, but I never really loved it much), and Letterbomb, which sucks in my opinion. While I love the more consistent sound, I miss the more experimental side introduced in Nimrod and developed in Warning. That being said, I really appreciate the album and see the appeal and AI can't praise enough the magnificent odyssey that is "Jesus of Suburbia", or the heart wrenching "Give Me Novocaine" or the nostalgia inducing "Whatsername". I really would love to love this album, but I can't.
21st Century Breakdown: Funnily enough, my problem with this one is he opposite of American Idiot, I feel like there is a jarring compilation of sounds and ideas that should have probably been trimmed down to make it a bit more consistent. If anything, I consider the highs here on par, and some even better, than the ones in American Idiot but the lows on this thing are very fucking low. "Christian's Inferno", "See The Light", "Static Age" are all rubbish I can't even. It suffers from pacing issues going back between sounds and ideas that the concept is kind of lost in a few places. We go from "Last Night on Earth" to the aforementioned "Christian Inferno" back to back and it doesn't sound like they go well together back to back. The track list could have been cut down a bit and taken off some of the more filler-y tracks and this would be a lot better. The title track absolutely rocks though, and the energy of "Do you Know your Enemy?" and that catchy ass hook will chase me for life. Really love both "Viva La Gloria" track, with "Little Girl" giving me ton of "Misery" vibes. "Restless Heart Syndrome"is a beautiful song and person that gets sick a lot, relate to a ton. Really love "Last of the American Girls" dude, missed me with that shade~!. I visualized a little narrative with that song and a few others from this LP and AI, and have a fondness for this song because of it. I also think it's very fun and bouncy, something I appreciate. Overall, I love the anthemic flair this LP has, especially on it's first half, and how varied, for better or worse, it is.
The Trilogy: Sticking this into one because this is already getting long. I echo your thoughts on UNO being the more competent and realized of the three, while Tré being a bit more bland, though bold in a few areas and DOS being fun and nonsensical. That being said, after UNO I don't enjoy either of them barring a few tracks. I feel like if we had gotten a tighter, well rounded LP compiled of the best the trilogy has to offer, this would be a power pop classic. People really make it out to be as if there aren't any good songs to find here, but I mean..."Kill the DJ, anyone?" "Amy? "Nuclear Family?" "Dirty Rotten Bastards?"Hell, even the Forgotten is different from what the band usually offers and can be enjoyed on its own terms. Overall, decent compendium of songs buried in a ton of mediocrity, poor songwriting and underdevelopment with a few home runs.
Revolution Radio: Once again, I echo your thoughts. When it dropped, I dunno if it was because of the hype, I genuinely loved the record and incredible, but my fondness for it has diminished over the years. It was the first album that dropped since I started being a fan so it holds some value to me because of that and, while there is nothing unlistenable, there just isn't anything that memorable or remarkable besides the first two singles. That being said, love the anthemic, criminally underrated "Forever Now" even if the first half is a bit anemic lyric wise and how it makes takes cues from "Forever Now" to give the album a thematic closure. I also really like how Green Day tried to change their sound a bit with songs like "Say Goodbye" and "Troubled Times", which sounds a bit heavier than your usual GD track. All in all, solid record, just gets mixed into the bunch because of the lack of thematic tie, which makes the middle part really big down and draaaag. Starting with social critiques and then getting into songs like "Youngbood" and "Outlaws" really showcases how jumbled the album is thematically.
Father of All Motherfuckers: Wasn't too interested in it til I saw your review on it and was a bit let down by it, but I'm not gonna give it a verdict because the sound quality of the leak just wasn't good enough and buried some of the tracks on the record. Early thoughts are that, at least to me, it's a bit boring and samey even with the different styles Green Day plays with, I just feel like they didn't go as hard as they could with some of this sounds and ends up making a bunch of generic sounding tracks.
So yeah, I like all of these records but it would be hard for me to rank them. Nimrod would be very high though, and the rock operas album somewhere there too because how nostalgic I feel about them.
I like how considerate you are and how much you understand why other people wouldn’t agree with you.
1- American Idiot
2- Nimrod
3- Insomsiac
4- Dookie
5- Warning
6- 21st Century Breakdown
7- Kerplunk
8- Revolution Radio
9- 1039/ Smoothed out Slappy Hours
10- ¡TRE!
11- ¡DOS!
12- ¡UNO!
13- Father of all...
Stopped it after you put Insomniac second last sorry
Great vid, Moony! You sound a bit tired though, hope you are hitting the pillow enough.
It's just cool to see content from you, so I wish to get more!
My ranking:
13: 39/Smooth (5/10)
12: Insomniac (6/10)
11: Uno (6/10)
10: Father Of All... (7/10)
9: Dos (7/10)
8: Tre (7.5/10)
7: Kerplunk (8/10)
6: Warning (8.5/5)
5: American Idiot (9/10
4: Revolution Radio (9/10)
3: Dookie (9/10
2: 21st Century Breakdown (10/10)
1: Nimrod (10/10)
This is a great list, even though I love insomniac (I can’t say much I love kerplunk more than Dookie).
There are some quite toxic people on here
I would say:
13 Father Of All..
12 Uno
11 Tre
10 Dos
9 39/Smooth
8 Revolution Radio
7 21st Century Breakdown
6 Warning
5 Dookie
4 Insomniac
3 Kerplunk
2 American Idiot
1 Nimrod
13. Dos
12. Father of all
11. tre
10. Uno
9. Revrad
8. 21st century breakdown
7. 39/smooth
6. warning
5. American idiot
4. nimrod
3. kerplunk
2. dookie
1. insomniac
You got me curious with a point you made about post-2000 albums that will be remembered. Besides American Idiot, which other album do you think it's gonna still be played in 50 years and point to as a seminal record?
phi latio16 probably The Black Parade I would assume
Kid A
1. American Idiot
2. 21st Century Breakdown
3. Dookie
4. Warning
5. Nimrod
6. Kerplunk
7. Insomniac
8. Stop Drop and Roll
9. Revolution Radio
10. Dos
11. Uno
12. Tre
13. Money Money 2020 pt 1
14. Shenanigans
15. Father of All
16. 1039 SOSH
17. Money Money 2020 pt 2
For me:
#13. Father...
#12. Tré
#11. Uno
#10. Dos
#9. Warning
#8. Kerplunk
#7. Nimrod
#6. Insomniac
#5. Revolution
#4. 39/Smooth
#3. 21st Century
#2. Dookie
#1. American Idiot
1. 21st Century Breakdown
2. American Idiot
3. Revolution Radio
4. Dookie
5. Warning
6.iUno !
7. iDos!
8. Nimrod
9. Kerplunk
10. Insomniac
11. iTre!
12. 39/Smooth
omg this is absolutley my exact ranking except id put nimrod before dos and insominac after kerplunk
Really glad you made this video! Was kiiiiinda losing hope you were gonna do it at this point, looking forward to more ranked videos, they are a joy to watch.
Anyway, my experience with Green Day is kind of a weird one. It was probably the first band I got into after watching "American Idiot" on TV in...2013, I think. Didn't have cable/internet access before that but it was between 2012-2013.
Thanks to the band I opened to more music and browsed UA-cam for more and more music, I ended up finding some of my favourite artists ever thanks to this, including Radiohead and Gorillaz.
That being said, I just don't seem to enjoy their music that much anymore. I dunno if it's because I absolutely burnt some of these tracks, I must have heard Whatsername at least 100 times. Now I kinda see them as a guilty pleasure, I usually don't listen to them but when my very strong teenage angst gets to the max, they are probably the band I'm listening to.
Even if I don't enjoy them, I keep gravitating towards them. So I see it as a weird love/don't really like you that much relationship.
I'm still really fond of them though.
Really great list
Dude RevRad is definitly better than FAOMF..
Loved the video. Green Day is my favourite band but I can’t help by saying you’re saying the title “Haushinka” completely wrong 😂😂. Don’t mean to sound like a dick, just helping out
I've never said it right, just repeat how it sounds in the song lol
Haushgara?
I definitely agree with you on that and re recorded some of the songs that they haven’t done that they should’ve done in the first place like minors taking out the acrid Ian it’s like re recording the record but being fresh now that’s the Green Day that I want for my opinion would say. But for warning it’s like insomniac but in a mean in a good way someway and somehow but in the mix of kerplunk and dookie all in that record of warning I’ve listened to that record all of the time and for my opinion I wish that Green Day re recorded all of their albums from the day that they were on the independent project lookout records to the present day of the release of the record father of all. That’s true they were definitely trying to make a American idiot record part 2 and all we got was the 21st century breakdown and that was it. Now I definitely agree with you on that we definitely need that cigarette 🚬 and valentine’s tapes back and the person that stole the tapes need to give it back to Green Day and the guy is going to jail and that’s true.
I don't blame you for it, but did you forget Shenanigans?
Bogdan Rylski didn’t include it, not an official album
@@MrMoony1235 huh, I didn't know that. Under what circumstances was it released?
@@bogdanrylski4330 it's just a b sides album. That's it
Even though it’s B-Sides, it would still be high for me
The fact that you like Dos! better than Uno! Tre! and RevRad is a disgrace
No it’s not, it’s an opinion
@@GregHeffley-fo1kh a shit opinion
If you don't think that give me novacaine is in green day's top 1 than you are an absolute failure
DMGaming Nobody thinks that Give Me novacaine is number 1 dummy. Everyone has his own opinion kid
What are you man?
Rev rad and insomniac below trilogy?
Wtf? Rev rad is one of their best work.
And did you said dos is the best in trilogy? 😂😂
it is his opinion
Okay, I respect everyone’s opinion on everything. However, Father of All is complete garbage compared to other Green Day albums. By far their worst.
I can agree with about every other placement, but Father of All should not be above 39/smooth, uno, dos, or tre, or insomniac. It should be last. Dead last.