#1 American Idiot – Green Day
In 2004, Green Day, the immature punk
rockers who brought you the ridiculously catchy, rude, and
brilliantly simplistic pop punk album Dookie, went in a direction no
one saw coming. They released American Idiot, a concept album played
out as a punk rock opera narrating the rise and fall of the American
dream for the "Jesus of Suburbia" while criticizing the political state
of the US. Not only were the lyrics a tier above anything the
California rockers had released previously, but the music was diverse
and perfect, not wasting a single second on any track (which is
saying a lot with two 9-minute songs in the line-up). Popularity is
not always the best tool for measuring an album's greatness, but when
an album has six radio hits and a Tony Award-winning Broadway Show, it's difficult to argue otherwise.
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