Reprise
2004’s American Idiot was an unexpected masterpiece for a band that most people had written off in the late ‘90s. Now that Green Day have reinvented themselves as serious, ambitious arena rock superstars, the weight of following up …Idiot is daunting to say the least. Happily, Billie Joe & Co. do a solid job of just that. This concept album follows the trials of star-crossed lovers and each track (particularly the Beatles-esque “Last Night On Earth”) is epic. A solid follow-up to a classic. –dusty culpepper
