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American IdiotGreen Day
Alternative & Indie · 2000s

American Idiot

Green Day
Released 2004Alternative & Indie
ClassicPicked by a lifelong record collector

An ambitious punk-rock opera of post-9/11 anger. Anthemic and huge. Their commercial and creative peak. Released in 2004, it's one of Green Day's later high points.

On vinyl: Vinyl can be scarcer than the CD from this era, so it's worth looking for a recent repressing.

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