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[img=101211_AI.jpg]Green Day have featured in a number of these "top 100 lists" lately. This time, 2004's American Idiot has been ranked at number 22 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 best albums of the 2000's."

Here's what they have to say about the "mid-noughties" smash hit:

[quote]The Nineties' most irrepressible punk brats grew up with a bang. They also proved they could take on the kind of gargantuan old-school concept album that nobody else seemed to have the guts to try. Not only did they pull it off, they made one of the era's lasting albums, raging against political complacency of mid-decade America with a Who-size sense of grandeur. From the nine-minute epic "Jesus of Suburbia" to the punk nugget "Extraordinary Girl/Letterbomb," they zeroed in on the rock audience's political outcasts and misfits as Billie Joe Armstrong snarled, "Welcome to a new kind of tension/All across the alien nation.[/quote]
Radiohead's Kid A took the number 1 spot. A bit of a surprise i thought. You can see the full list over at Rolling Stone site here. What do you think is the best album of the 2000's?

Thanks to desertrose (once again!) for sending this news.
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