Best Album: Green Day

[justinsayne]

Ok, it's pretty simple, what do you think is Green Day's best album, and why?

-39/Smooth (1990)

This CD has been re-released as "1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" and contains the "Slappy E.P." and the "1,000 Hours E.P." songs.

1. At The Library
2. Don't Leave Me
3. I Was There
4. Disappearing Boy
5. Green Day
6. Going to Pasalacqua
7. 16
8. Road to Acceptance
9. Rest
10. The Judge's Daughter
11. Paper Lanterns
12. Why Do You Want Him?
13. 409 In Your Coffeemaker
14. Knowledge
15. 1,000 Hours
16. Dry Ice
17. Only Of You
18. The One I Want
19. I Want To Be Alone

-Kerplunk (1991)

This CD has been re-released with the songs from the "Sweet Children E.P."

1. 2000 Light Years Away
2. One For The Razorbacks
3. Welcome To Paradise
4. Christie Road
5. Private Ale
6. Dominated Love Slave
7. One Of My Lies
8. 80
9. Android
10. No One Knows
11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
12. Words I Might Have Ate
13. Sweet Children
14. Best Thing In Town
15. Strangeland
16. My Generation

-Dookie (1994)

1. Burnout
2. Having a Blast
3. Chump
4. Longview
5. Welcome to Paradise
6. Pulling Teeth
7. Basket Case
8. She
9. Sassafras Roots
10. When I Come Around
11. Emenius Sleepus
12. Coming Clean
13. In The End
14. F.O.D.
15. All By Myself ("secret song")

-Insomniac (1994)

1. Armatage Shanks
2. Brat
3. Stuck With Me
4. Geek Stink Breath
5. No Pride
6. Bab's Uvula Who?
7. 86
8. The Panic Song
9. Stuart and the Ave.
10. Brain Stew
11. Jaded
12. Westbound Sign
13. Tight Wad Hill
14. Walking Contradiction

-Nimrod (1997)

1. Nice Guys Finish Last
2. Hitchin' A Ride
3. The Grouch
4. Redundant
5. Scattered
6. All The Time
7. Worry Rock
8. Platypus (I Hate You)
9. Uptight
10. Last Ride In
11. Jinx
12. Haushinka
13. Walking Alone
14. Reject
15. Take Back
16. King For A Day
17. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
18. Prosthetic Head
19. Desensitized (Japanese Version Only)

-Warning (2000)

1. Warning
2. Blood, Sex, and Booze
3. Church On Sunday
4. Fashion Victim
5. Castaway
6. Misery
7. Deadbeat Holiday
8. Hold On
9. Jackass
10. Waiting
11. Minority
12. Macy's Day Parade

-American Idiot (2004)

1. American Idiot
2. Jesus of Suburbia
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. Letterbomb
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming
13. Whatsername

I left off International Superhits, Shenanigans, and Bullet In A Bible because they were just more or less just filled with songs being that had already been released, I wanted to keep it just with albums that were filled (for the most part) with original songs

The two choices that seem most likely to get the most votes would be Dookie and American Idiot, and those would probably have to be my choices as well, even though I don't really think their is a single Greed Day album I don't like, I'm gonna say Dookie was their best album just for the fact that it took them from nothingness and shot them into being one of the biggest bands in the world, it is an album that has stood the test of time, and one I still listen to on a pretty regular basis, American Idiot comes in at a close second but I just feel Dookie made a far greater impact on their careers and on music in general

 

[X]

American Idiot was shit. Total drivel.

Dookie got my vote here. Not much argument really needs to be made, I think it's fairly obvious to most Green Day fans and music fans alike that this is their best album. Before they began to think of themselves as rock stars and simply as musicians. When I Come Around's emotion beats anything they've done since IMO. Guess I might be biased here though considering Dookie was the soundtrack of my younger years, and was actually the first album I ever owned (on cassette of course).

Kerplunk is a great album as well, "2000 Light Years Away" is simply amazing.

 

[Freedom 35]

American Idiot was shit. Total drivel.

Dookie got my vote here. Not much argument really needs to be made, I think it's fairly obvious to most Green Day fans and music fans alike that this is their best album. Before they began to think of themselves as rock stars and simply as musicians. When I Come Around's emotion beats anything they've done since IMO. Guess I might be biased here though considering Dookie was the soundtrack of my younger years, and was actually the first album I ever owned (on cassette of course).

Kerplunk is a great album as well, "2000 Light Years Away" is simply amazing.

chea Xfear, do work! American Idiot is shit, but in all seriousness Green Day was THE Band for me growing up and IMO there best album was defenitely dookie but my personal favorite has to be Nimrod, plenty of classics on there and I think they peaked at that album and really IMO was when their sound was at its best.

and IMO an honorable mention for me would have to Kerplunk like you said, it was one of the first albums I bought and is still heavily in my rotation.