That's when I got into them. Personally, I'd say Dookie then American Idiot. Not too into the whole concept album idea anymore. They need to change their style and just go for straight post-punk again, like Dookie, in my opinion.
Yeah, they did. But it was less successful than American Idiot because it didn't have a great hit single. Know Your Enemy done badly in the charts, whereas American Idiot got number 1 in most countries. Also, 21st Century Breakdown was nowhere near as good as American Idiot, but still pretty good. Had some great tracks on it.
21st Century Breakdown was pure and utter conceited bullshit. Not one single inspired song on the entire record.
They did amazing with Idiot, really wrote their hearts out and it came through in the music- the story was well told and the music was as punk as pop could get at the time...really just perfect. Then they were like "HOLY SHIT WE'RE SO GOOD AT THIS LETS DO IT AGAIN", and it went...
"onnnnne. twenty one gunnnnnnnns. blah blah blah blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"