I Listened to Every Green Day Album

[@cradio52]

“People seem to think I hate Green Day but I really don’t” *proceeds to absolutely roast their entire discography except for like 1-2 albums*

[@xkumanekox]

Same goes for me, I love Green Day, and yet I can also be very critical of their discography. But yeah, 90s Green Day are a lot more superior though.

[@kobinho1917]

They only have two good albums at most

[@derekrequiem4359]

@@kobinho1917 American Idiot and Dookie are 8/10, everything else is lower.

[@caseys2698]

@@derekrequiem4359 nimrod and insomniac would like a word

[@kierstenboyd9228]

@@caseys2698warning would like a word as well 😂

[@JoenNickforthewin]

I’m sorry but saying the drum beats on Insomniac are forgettable is just insane because that is easily Tré and Mike’s best work on any Green Day album. Panic Song, Babs Uvula Who?, Stuck With Me, Brain Stew/Jaded… I mean the record starts with a pretty iconic drum intro with Armatage Shanks.

[@samuelpinkerton5307]

Amen

[@FormalFilmsProductions]

Agree

[@grogu1986]

Facts. My fav Green Day album next to Dookie.

[@epicgamingmoment2715]

Seriously, every song on that album is just banger after banger

[@tentinquarantino876]

Agree. I was always a Dookie guy, but when I listened to Insomniac as a whole... shiiieeet, that hits on another level. It was their golden era for suuure!

[@doctorwhat3683]

Only Fantano could put American Idiot and the trilogy in the same tier.

[@nektarpanagiotis6707]

Year

[@BLUEPELICAN234]

He also said the “song writing isn’t good” when the entire album is a concept album that tells a story. His hate for it is so stupid because it’s clear he has never given it a full listen

[@caketits2723]

​@@BLUEPELICAN234 He doesn't hate it. He put it in C.

[@jakobo3044]

Honestly, what's tripping me up is how low he placed Insomniac. That album is just as good as Dookie in almost every way imo. Deserves the same tier.

[@spec-fict]

@@BLUEPELICAN234 The story kinda falls apart in the second half though & it doesn't really coalesce to anything cohesive by the end. As an album it's a lot of fun & surprisingly interesting (is Jesus of Suburbia the first progressive pop punk song?), as a concept album it's kinda undercooked

[@staidenofanarchy]

I never thought I could disagree with Fantano more than I have in the past, but this list made my ribs crack inside my chest

[@FixableHippo552]

As soon as he put American Idiot in C tier I just skipped to the end of the video. Thinking 21st Century Breakdown is a bad album, and also saying Wanting is unimaginative is mind blowing.

[@localerik]

@@FixableHippo552i can understand the 21st century breakdown take, but warning literally contains the most rhythmically interesting track Green Day has which is Misery. Also the Trilogy is at times, quite dull and unimaginative, so I don’t know his logic there

[@bambampewpew32]

@@FixableHippo552 wait wtf I haven't watched this yet but 21st CB is literally a masterpiece AND has something for everyone wtf is he on lmao

[@206hxcx]

least groomed pop punk fans ^

[@bambampewpew32]

@@206hxcx ???

[@slym0137]

I think American Idiot shines the brightest in some of its deep cuts that dont get much recognition. St. Jimmy is arguably one of their most explosive songs written, same with Letterbomb. And Homecoming and Whatsername are very underrated gems to me. Especially considering Homecoming was the first song written that kickstarted the structure for the album that I'm a fan of, although I recognize thats exactly why not everyone loves it

[@capnfapn]

Letterbomb really should've been the blueprint for the bands future

[@dumb-angel]

they literally played letterbomb at the rock n roll hall of fame haha

[@slym0137]

@@dumb-angel that's because billie joe has stated that it's one of his favorite songs on the album and he loves to play it, it's still a deep cut that's not instantly recognizable to most people

[@willtheprodigy3819]

@jamesiron4010wut

[@caseys2698]

@jamesiron4010 gay ppl love green day whatr you on about. listen to Green Day you might like them lol

[@sammo2560]

putting Insomniac on the level of the 2012 trilogy is WILD

[@vision821k4]

what a clown

[@rhubarb1073]

S - dookie A - insomniac, kerplunk, smooth B - nimrod the rest who cares

[@Flubeko]

you sinned

[@roni6135]

@@rhubarb1073no

[@xBula]

⁠@@rhubarb1073 warning?

[@johnmarcdegaard6589]

American Idiot truly is a fascinating album because it highlights a generation gap between elder millennials and younger millennials/elder zoomers. Elder millennials obviously were first exposed to Green Day by Dookie and while they look on that record with praise, American Idiot by that metric has a less positive view (Lindsay Ellis has a whole video essay chapter on Green Day that led me to this conclusion). But for zoomers/younger millennials like me, this was one of our first albums and really defined a generation. I can’t speak on behalf of everyone, but this album legit made me want to become a musician. Nostalgia aside, it’s a 10/10 record for me and every track holds up. Without it, we wouldn’t have a Black Parade or a Brand New Eyes

[@VinnytheBuddha]

American Idiot and RE4 dominated my teens

[@itmeurdad]

The need to differentiate like that within generations really highlights how pointless using them is in the first place.

[@emericask8r130]

Damn, you nailed it

[@cdizzy42069]

As someone who grew up with and loved it, I think some of the songs are pretty corny to go back and listen to, but at the same time, I admire the risks they took. Songs like Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming flow in such a rad way that's just so ambitious for them and I think really complimented their songwriting ability. But Whatsername, She's a Rebel, Extraordinary Girl and Are We the Waiting are just so damn basic and didn't age the best in my opinion along with a majority of the album. It's certainly a cool second wind for a band that far in their career at the time, tho.

[@gregvankerkhof254]

@@cdizzy42069 Totally agree. I think if they just left those songs out it would have been a much stronger album.

[@NatsumiMovies]

Green Day is the only rock band (aside Weezer maybe) who can have an album in every tier

[@lous111]

Pearl Jam. Riot Act is BAD.

[@bobbibop8980]

beach boys comes to mind as well

[@elisteele9373]

I love Metallica but they could fill a tier list in my eyes

[@philly_sports1558]

Metallica is an easy one

[@ervin7178]

Tiers for Fears

[@justinwallace4688]

Kerplunk is so underrated. There’s something about it that seems really authentic with how raw it was. I like Dookie and Nimrod more, but 80, 2000 Lightyears Away, and Christie Road are some of my favorites

[@chefboyardeeznutsinyourmouth]

One of the greatest pop punk albums of all time imo

[@SmallvillenerdTwo]

Kerplunk is still their best album it's beautiful

[@SomeoneThatIsHappy]

Also Welcome to Paradise and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield are awesome

[@perrywclifton]

Idk if it’s just nostalgia for me but genuinely I have the most fun listening to their first two LPs. Kerplunk has always been my anthem to the start of summer and I don’t really know why

[@jmichael91]

Love Kerplunk and I agree, I love the worser quality equipment. Adds to the character of those songs. No other Green Day album has those same sounds and tones. My personal favorite off the record has always been No One Knows

[@tolaut]

I have seen questionable takes in my days, but putting the uno, dos, trés trilogy TWO TIERS above 21st century breakdown is something else. You are wild for this one.

[@rishisahgal4529]

Its insane.

[@estefanoleonardo2658]

that mans crazy

[@edschobs5204]

The trilogy was hot garbage. Deserves the bottom tier

[@ggnadeknight7733]

@@edschobs5204 I liked dos, specifically one song: stray heart.

[@Rodrigombia1990]

I hate to make this statement but: I like 21st century more than AI just because it was not over-exploited as the last one. I was done of listening "wake me up" at one point. Sth that never happen with 21 guns.

[@militaryman2121]

I always thought of the political theming of American Idiot as more of a backdrop to the Rock Opera which I always found to be the center of the record.

[@sxth2915]

Yeah that’s pretty much what all detractors of the album miss; it’s not just a political album but also a concept album that tells a story through its songs

[@Billiamwoods]

Honestly I get that, but it still felt kind of hollow. If politics ARE a part of the story, then they feel a little too Rebellion™, and the rest of the story is also kind of whatever

[@jmichael91]

If anythings a political album its 21st Century Breakdown

[@militaryman2121]

@@Billiamwoods I’m not gonna deny that the political themes are shallow but truthfully the political themes are next to none and you should honestly not view it as much of a political album, if that’s what you’re expecting it to be

[@joe.osullivan]

Agreed, and personally I don't think you should expect a band whose breakout single was a song about masterbation to be as deep and thoughtful about politics as Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, or NWA.

[@BillyCobbOfficial]

Oh man, you’re kicking the hornet’s nest with this one

[@krishivkaran5337]

Crazy how a comment coming from you managed to drown in the comments section lmao, love your work btw

[@User-jk8wq]

Hey Billy

[@Poopmannn]

They’re big mad in here

[@drewmsn]

@@User-jk8wq hey ron

[@xtra_krispy693]

No way, the goat billy cobb🐐🐐🐐

[@leonsalgeuro]

Anthony defending the damn Trilogy was totally unexpected. Great video

[@hollowsid9623]

Thought he was gonna completely tear it apart after how harsh he was on 21st Century Breakdown

[@mgm8255]

This comment just looks like every other joke on Fantano's channels but it's actually real lol

[@lakedoggydog]

The trilogy is great! Has some duds, but highly underrated

[@themusicaljunkie37]

Yeah bro. I was waiting for him to tear this record apart.

[@TheTreyBlue]

I actually like the trilogy too 😭

[@panchojd]

Warning is totally underrated. Beautiful album.

[@passthehanky]

Agreed, it’s my favorite of theirs! They had so many weird creative little departures into bizarre worlds on that album and to call it bland makes me wonder if melon even listened to it.

[@ScoobyDooIsDead]

100%, it's a fantastic album. It's at least B tier for me

[@EvonZundel]

It’s gorgeous.

[@trowa9960]

Agreed. It's in the top 3 Green Day albums for me

[@alexdflop]

You, me, and everyone else in this thread wants to be the minority. We don't need Melon's authority

[@bobabubbletea393]

I’m surprised with how Anthony didn’t really like Insomniac. That album is like Green Day’s version of In Utero. It’s more dark and slightly less poppy than it’s predecessor album and there’s a slew of amazing songs on Insomniac. I guess it seems like that album was “rushed” but I think that’s part of what makes that album so good. That band’s era seemed unique to them.

[@fila365]

That era was the worst for them, they were forced by the punk scene to be more hardcore and it just wasnt them, Billy said it the whole album was them trying to prove they can be as punk as the scene wanted them, but it wasnt them, they came to their own in Nimrod

[@toddpacker4683]

@@fila365it was them, even if it was a little darker than usual it was still poppy and extremely catchy, that was just their mood at the time. There’s so many good songs on insomniac

[@lavenderllamamusic]

Insomniac is ALL hitter. Through and through. Top tier work from Green Day's entire discography. Plus, my personal favorite thing about it is how Mike Dirnt's bass pierces through the mix! His grooves on that album are so good

[@lavenderllamamusic]

@@fila365i really wish they did more songs in the vein of Platypus (stylistically). I highly recommend the Howard Stern live footage of that, if you haven't seen it. Billie dropping the guitar to just do vocals was the most hardcore I've seen them get. They definitely have it in them. Well, at least in that era!

[@bobabubbletea393]

I was watching the official song video for Panic Song from Insomniac, and I was amazed at how some people in the comments were saying it’s a perfect song. I think Anthony can agree that song is one of the highlights on Insomniac though, because it’s artistically onto another level, with how the instrumentation shows how it’s like when someone has a panic attack. Also the drums are killer on the track and it apparently caused Tre Cool’s (the drummer) fingers to bleed!

[@Tgatx1996]

Insomniac is the Pinkerton of Green Day albums and deserves much higher

[@antonionsfw]

holy shit this makes so much sense

[@deljay1840]

Nah Pinkerton attained classic status for a reason

[@chan_martin]

I feel like its more of a Room On Fire situation and its more of a part 2 of what came before it. Sort of a sister album to Dookie. I like the louder sound and there are some highlights but I understand that some songs are more generic and sounds like Green Day are running out of ideas with that sound which led them to innovate a bit on Nimrod.

[@GreenDayMixes]

I have been saying this for so long oh my god thank you

[@nickgotvyak5890]

I think nothing in Green day discography really fits as an analogy for Pinkerton, because Pinkerton was a direct result of 0 to 100 mainstream success that weezer got, whereas Green Day was already with 2 albums (or album and 3 EPs) and years of performing experience before Dookie, and were arguably much better prepared. So they didn't make a hard departure from Dookie and didn't face this big of a backlash. The only parallel is more unfiltered/sincere subject matter but that is not that much.

[@mootplane6474]

So nice of you to shine the spotlight on a Swedish Pop Band!!! Keep it up melon

[@Eric-yt7fp]

Love those trap beats. And the features were stellar.

[@heavenwaits]

grœn dej 😭

[@Zandr33]

Grän däj

[@malcolme9780]

​@@heavenwaits*Grön Dag

[@DS-nw4eq]

I loved the album Glegenshmirben

[@sethbane9861]

Completely misunderstanding American Idiot’s concept. It’s not about the Bush administration directly apart from two songs, and the rest of the album tells the story of kids growing up during that era. Songs like She’s a Rebel and St. Jimmy are written from a teenagers perspective, and then as those characters age and mature in songs like Homecoming and Whatsername, they look back and realize they were being rebellious for the sake of it. They’re written that way lyrically with an intention, it’s not just a generic rebellion song. That’s why it’s a rock opera

[@FeelingShred]

it's about making the journey that everyone should take in life but nobody ever told you and you had to find it on your own... even though they knew... they all knew... all of them...

[@bnashee]

It really just screams "this guy has not listened to the whole album/understood what its about at all." like the *song* American Idiot is a very obviously political song, but the album is not all about that at all

[@michaelvessel4604]

Like Wake Me Up When September Ends for instance actually isn’t about 9/11 or the war on Iraq or anything (like some have misinterpreted it to be about), but it’s actually about the death of Billie Joe’s father when he was young and how hard it is for him to cope with that. Sure certain tracks like the title track of course and Holiday are very political, but that’s not entirely what the lyrical content of the album is about.

[@variedsexualantics]

​@@michaelvessel4604I feel like the misinterpretation of the song has a lot to do with the music video, right?

[@michaelvessel4604]

@@variedsexualantics Very true, guess I forgot to mention that. Still, it's crazy to me that it's music video and the fact it's on the same album as other more politically charged songs led everyone to believe it's another deeply political track, when really it isn't at all.

[@josephc2303]

As a staunch defender of 21st century breakdown, I have never once lauded it for its commentary. Catchy songs go brrrrrr.

[@kackers]

21st century breakdown defenders seem very few and far between but honestly i kinda prefer it to american idiot, i enjoy almost every track, it's not perfect and not their best either but 2nd worst it absolutely also is not

[@linuxman7777]

The message though is kinda appropriate for the internet age, where right and wrong and who the enemy is is much more ambiguous than it was back in the 90s. It is my favorite album

[@grezzo2]

Viva la gloria!

[@skyleague9844]

I think the album’s highlights are the best of Green Day’s entire discography, the only reason I don’t think it’s their best is because it should have been a couple songs shorter.

[@noahpyke6091]

@@kackersimo 21st century breakdown is my favorite album from Green Day with dookie and American idiot close seconds.

[@chelseajupiter2103]

The thing about protest music is that it is usually a limp appendage gratifying itself. It rarely speaks to a crowd larger than the audience already present. That's what was special and interesting about American Idiot, even though the messaging wasn't all that radical. It was radical for a commercial success. It was protest music that was heard by everybody. As a result, it was the first entry-point for a lot of teenagers into political thinking. While I understand you were already very politically-minded and listening to much more powerful protest music, I think you missed out on some of the actual significance of American Idiot when you detailed its impact.

[@Twink6629-lg3te]

Listening to this as a kid led me down atheist pipeline and gave me an idea why I felt so unhappy with my life and environment, it put my discontent with the world and politics into words I could understand and groove too as a kid. Definitely led me down to the left leaning me I am now. Everything you said is also very well put!

[@philly_sports1558]

I know Green Day isn’t everyone’s cup of tea (especially on this channel) but I will always love them and appreciate all the memories they’ve given me throughout my life. They’ve been one of my favorite bands ever since I was like 6 years old, and that is never gonna change. They could release 1000 Fathers of All and that couldn’t stop me from loving them any less.

[@TheGooGaming]

I'll be 70 and dookie will make me feel 13 again fr

[@asgardandres3251]

L

[@floresmv]

wish i felt the same because I loved Green Day but Father of all literally completely changed my perception of them and how I felt about their music and I genuinely cannot listen to a lot of their post-Warning stuff without cringing

[@bigmeanie420]

ok philly_sports1558

[@vivi_stardust]

this

[@jonsmith1956]

Melon put American Idiot in the C Tier because he thought they were talking about him

[@Alan.livingston]

So cheap. I love it. Dad.

[@Weirdkid9022]

Dad, what did I say about making childish comments on Fantano videos

[@craigdaily4510]

Insomniac was always my favorite one. Instruments sounded great and lots of songs had a good drive to it.

[@thenash76]

Big guitar Green Day is the best Green Day

[@chev5451]

panic song, stuart and the ave, and jaded are all excellent punk songs. good album

[@guillegarcia7146]

They make really good games as well

[@mattd1659]

Insomniac was my first GD album (then Warning, weird order) so it’ll always be A tier for me. Also it slaps

[@WilliamSussman]

Geek Stink Breath is still one of my favorite songs by them. I still remember singing it out loud when I was like 13 having no idea what it was about lol

[@humongouschungus8894]

Insomniac is kick ass, the whole album doesn't slow down (except brain stew, still a cool song) while still being damn catchy. babs uvula who is such a tight song stuff like this feels like the band even evolved a little. Also I know its a compilation album but Shenanigans has some great stuff on it; Desensitized, scumbag, suffocate, I want to be on T.V, Ha Ha... some of my favs. AI is amazing jesus and Homecoming alone have so many great twists and turns and melodies, even as a kid they felt melancholy. and warning is a fun one, title song and minority alone should bump it to at least a C

[@coltonrhode916]

Finally some love for shenanigans❤

[@edschobs5204]

@@coltonrhode916I bought it not knowing it was a B-sides album. It had just came out so I thought it was just a new album. Love it start to finish. Some of their best work is on that album!

[@lavenderllamamusic]

_I GOT A KNACK FOR FUCKIN' EVERYTHING UP!_ ugh i love that album. Also, I remember buying Shenanigans and International Superhits! at walmart when i was in middle school. Desensitized and J.A.R. were stand-outs for me

[@ArchibaldClumpy]

Man, from my teenage years through to now I've always thought Warning was the best thing they ever did. They took that aesthetic of theirs and dialed it way down, into sort of a throwback folky way, combined with that 90s production and feel. I think every track is pretty great and honestly just due to the sound of the music, it feels more political than American Idiot. There's kind of an inherent energy that comes with that sound.

[@CainXVII]

I like warning. It's not my favorite but there are some great tracks on it. I have done an audition singing Macy's day parade

[@burnacco]

Warning is OBJECTIVELY a musically GREAT fucking album and I guarantee you any commendable songwriter would agree, Melon unfortunately wouldn't know

[@mrseaweed88]

He ranked the trilogy higher than warning and 21stCB..... I have no words

[@ModMouse93]

Just so blatantly wrong. Usually I have respect for his takes I don’t agree with and he does a good job at explaining them but idk what happened here.

[@RenatoBorgesMth]

@@ModMouse93 i think i know what happened here

[@AceofSpades-6728]

I'd agree on warning, but 21CB def deserves to be below the trilogy

[@karicherrycola]

Dookie, Nimrod, and Warning are my personal faves, i would've put Dookie and Nimrod both in A personally and Warning in B

[@thatoneadamkid24]

Completely agree. These are the best 3 for sure

[@niftythegoblin]

Yeah, I was shocked Nimrod didn’t go in A, it’s easily one of their best albums.

[@wiggibow]

Warning is criminally underrated IMO, one of their best albums. I'd put it right up there with Dookie and Nimrod. Castaway, Macy's Day Parade, Church on Sunday, Waiting, Hold On, Deadbeat Holiday... all go toe to toe with any of their best work for me. I've always been a little sad we never got to hear them explore that sound further.

[@ohnoourtableitsbroken6527]

Yeah warning is actually quite good

[@immigrationproblems]

Warning is easily my most listened to Green Day record

[@smoov22_sonic]

I cant believe you got Swedish Songwriters to script this video. smh I miss the good old days

[@johnkaplun9619]

I just wish they had taken the best stuff off the trilogy and made one record. That would have been a massive fun record.

[@FeelingShred]

please put it into a playlist and paste the link to the playlist here, there's no way I would search for each song separately

[@FeelingShred]

some other guy commented same idea than yours but he listed his songs: 1. Nuclear Family 2. Stay The Night 3. Fell For You 4. Loss of Control 5. Sweet 16 6. Rusty James 7. Oh Love 8. See You Tonight 9. Lazy Bones 10. Wild One 11. Stray Heart 12. Baby Eyes 13. Amy 14. Brutal Love 15. Missing You 16. 8th Avenue Serenade 17. Drama Queen 18. X Kid 19. Walk Away 20. 99 Revolutions 21. The Forgotten It’s probably too many songs but it clocks in at 1 hour and 15 minutes.

[@vova32123]

No “Kill the Dj” “Nightlife” or “Amanda”?

[@johnkaplun9619]

@@FeelingShred I'd cut another half that list...

[@xXMachineGunPhillyXx]

You should be in prison for this tier list. Warning in *D Tier?* The trilogy on the same tier as AI and Kerplunk? The police will be arriving shortly, sir.

[@ZachBobBob]

Literally nobody on earth saw the placements in this ranking coming

[@BajaFrecuencia]

Fantano, I love you, but just thinking about the fact you put Kerplunk and American Idiot in the same tier as the trilogy is giving me headaches

[@bellabliss1860]

Insomniac too lol

[@thecinematicmind]

@@bellabliss1860I agree Insomniac deserves higher.

[@aledandrian]

I have a weird personal attachment to the trilogy because they came out when my brothers and I were in high school and learning how to play guitar and joining bands, and learning about Billie Joe's personal crisis at the time really affected us, so it's nice to hear Anthony talk about them in a relatively positive light His take on 21st Century Breakdown is unforgivable tho

[@OlYables]

"¡Viva La Gloria!" is as good or better than anything on American Idiot!

[@hollowsid9623]

​@@OlYablesnah

[@JimmyStrummer]

2:24 - 2:34 Take a listen to a couple of the outtakes from the Dookie 30th Anniversary edition. “Christie Rd.” off of Kerplunk and “409 In Your Coffeemaker” from their second EP were both re-recorded during the Dookie sessions, and those versions are phenomenal.

[@rishisahgal4529]

Not sure what he means about Insomniac...was a superb album. Had more thoughtful and complex songwriting...and a darker mood. A top 3 for sure. I revisit it more often than I do Dookie

[@theanticitizen]

Insomniac in C is a personal attack on me lol I think that album is Dookie on steroids while staring into the abyss I love how much angrier and nihilistic it is and it’s one of my all time favorite albums 😂

[@Hardcastle83]

Insomniac aged the best imo. I was a big fan and cringe a little in hindsight, but insomniac is solid. I could see putting Dookie above it, but nothing else.

[@cubedmelons876]

@@Hardcastle83 Hey, no need to cringe at being a green day fan in your youth. There's a LOT worse out there. At least you weren't a Limp Bizkit fan like I was.

[@localerik]

@@Hardcastle83personally, 1. American Idiot, 2. Nimrod, 3. Dookie

[@Hardcastle83]

@@localerik well I gotta agree with Fantano's take on American idiot. Not because he said it, but because I thought the exact same thing 20 odd years ago when it came out. Greenday are inherently kind of shallow and trivial and juvenile, which actually works for short punchy catchy punk songs about masturbating and doing drugs and having girl problems. It makes it kind of raw and authentic. It doesn't work when you start trying to make deep political statements but still are the same idiot jerking off and picking scabs off his face. Pulling off a preachy soapbox political message is really hard, you better be all about that life and super smart and really mean it. That is not greenday, and for me it bombed pretty hard for that reason. American idiot for me is just right down the bottom. The first 4 albums are head and shoulders above the rest.

[@DraculVaDomni666]

Insomniac is absolutely incredible and only surpassed by Dookie and AI, IMO. However, depending on the mood, I'd put it above Dookie.

[@DaxTheWolf17]

Honestly this seems like the Green Day tier list from someone who just doesn’t like Green Day lol

[@Alt_f4_NOW]

Here is what I would have rated them S Dookie, American Idiot. A Nimrod, Insomniac, 21st Century Breakdown B Kerplunk, 1,039/Smoothed Out slappy hours , Warning, Now, I am getting to the albums that I don't particularly care for C uno, dos, tré, Revolution Radio, Saviors And now, for my least favorite album 🥁 🥁🥁 D Father of All Motherfuckers

[@JasonPCVideos]

Rev Radio and Saviors should be higher. Still Breathing being a song about Billie overcoming alcoholism alone should put it higher. Saviors I would put in high B tier for One Eyed Bastard and Dilemma alone

[@gallargus]

warning is one of their most creative records imo; calling it unimaginative just doesn't feel right when you compare it to their previous stuff. there's a whole 5-minute narrative ballad (misery), and some like saxophones and non-punk instruments that they really used to their advantage. there's so many ideas on the album and it feels so different in their catalog, i love it.

[@QueenFondue]

And Macy's Day Parade which is just such a powerful and melancholic closer that I can't help but adore it

[@johnb56565]

It made me sad putting it in D 😢

[@bswalem]

​@@johnb56565it's not in your D John, and that's all that matters ❤

[@J.S.3259]

They’re first fully self-produced, and among their most distinctive. GREAT videos for the singles, too

[@dumb-angel]

calling that album power pop is even more crazy

[@lugarespecial]

Putting Father of All... in the S tier was such a bold move.

[@ardemgourdikian1394]

39 smooth through warning for me is all S, A, or B tier no contest. The power pop era of Green Day is the most timeless and I keep coming back to almost all the songs on these records.

[@bellabliss1860]

this is incredibly unexpected especially as a big green day fan... i'm scared. edit: the trilogy above warning is... certainly a take, lmao. honestly this was nicer to them than i expected it to be, i vehemently disagree on his assessments of insomniac, warning, 21st century breakdown, and american idiot though. revolution radio a bit too. but i appreciated the look into the band's catalogue even though 1039/smoothed out slappy hours was pretty much totally ignored lol.

[@kidzbopdad5801]

In addition to snubbing their first album, he completely forgot to include Shenanigans. I was waiting for that one to be the first F on the list.

[@alexanderalmondoffcial]

Yeah I was kinda bummed that he put warning as low as it was. I don’t think it’s there best, but I really don’t think it should be below the trilogy and on the same level as revolution radio.

[@sxth2915]

1039 is a really solid record with a lot of creative guitar riffs. Wish he would've talked about it

[@0beseman]

@@kidzbopdad5801eh, shenanigans doesn’t really count. It’s just a b-sides record.

[@MasonVis]

​@@kidzbopdad5801shenanigans, in my opinion is not a real album in a general album standpoint. While it is a cohesive collection of songs, it is still just a b-side collection of songs that were previously released many years before shenanigans itself.

[@kssarh]

I remember my local radio station talking about Green Day visiting the studio for the 'Nimrod' release. They bought a giant roll of those yellow 'Nimrod' stickers and were placing them everywhere. Was a giant pain to try to clean up, and years later they were still finding them.

[@sxth2915]

Trilogy over 21CB breakdown and warning is insane. Warning is easily top 5 GD and Rev Rad is a really solid album

[@AshArtzMusic]

I think it’s funny he called warning “unimaginative” just feels like he didn’t hear the same album I did

[@sxth2915]

@@AshArtzMusic I don’t really understand how he’s giving any Green Day album post rev rad lower than a D. To say that warning is a “bad” album is so foreign to me. The performances are great with interesting songwriting to boot.

[@jugginator2.068]

Fr Rev Radio is more or less the most listenable album since American Idiot in my opinion. I haven't listened to Father if all at all tbh. The singles for the latest album don't have me hype. I'd still see em live tho

[@canucks2017]

Rev Rad felt like a sequel to American Idiot, not that it's a concept like that but feels like American Idiot in alot of ways. Given he doesn't care for AI I'm not surprised he didn't connect to RR

[@sonoskay]

​@@jugginator2.068 father of all is an odd album. The title track is okay. Then you get like 4 garbage songs in a row, and the back half , I feel, is surprisingly solid. The singles from that album leave a bad impression, and the album itself back loads the more interesting stuff.

[@DarklordKermit77]

How can someone be the most famous music critic whilst also knowing nothing about music.

[@LordBrozart]

I actually did try to make an album out of the best songs of Uno Dos and Tre and this is what I came up with: 1. Nuclear Family 2. Stay The Night 3. Fell For You 4. Loss of Control 5. Sweet 16 6. Rusty James 7. Oh Love 8. See You Tonight 9. Lazy Bones 10. Wild One 11. Stray Heart 12. Baby Eyes 13. Amy 14. Brutal Love 15. Missing You 16. 8th Avenue Serenade 17. Drama Queen 18. X Kid 19. Walk Away 20. 99 Revolutions 21. The Forgotten It’s probably too many songs but it clocks in at 1 hour and 15 minutes.

[@SimoLInk1698]

A "Best of" version of the trilogy would be an A-Tier for me. But there's just too much filler in my opinion that drags down the real bangers.

[@FeelingShred]

please post it into a playlist and copy paste the link here, no way in hell I'm gonna search each one of these songs on their own 🤣I might

[@audizss]

@@FeelingShred A quicker way is to just go to the albums and find the songs and KILL THE DJ IS A GOOD SONG TO ADD

[@wabdih]

Those songs were pretty good, but it would hav ebeen better if they kept it to 12-13 songs and fleshed them out a bit more

[@lovelaj0149]

Revolution Radio deserves critical reassessment. That album was the first since Nimrod to give me that old school Green Day feeling. It feels like if it had come out instead of Warning, it would have bridged the gap between Nimrod and American Idiot perfectly.

[@oxrjbizzle1984y]

bang bang is definitely a brilliant song, back to green days raw punk sound.....

[@NovacaineRebelxx]

Here’s an actual, real tier list: S: American idiot, Dookie A: Nimrod, 21st CB, Insomniac B: Saviors, Rev Rad, Kerplunk, Warning C: 39 Smooth, Uno, Trè D: Dos E: Father of All

[@hollowsid9623]

W

[@tomasbedoya2901]

Move RevRad to A and we are golden

[@NovacaineRebelxx]

⁠​⁠@@tomasbedoya2901 I can actually somewhat agree with that, Rev Rad is actually an album that is incredibly overlooked. It’s an album that I can easily listen to front to back no issues. The only two songs that bring down the ranking of it for me a little bit is Say Goodbye, Youngblood and maybe Outlaws. All three aren’t bad songs by no means, definitely listenable, but they’re easy skips for me most of the time. I’d rank it maybe a B plus, but it’s not in the same league as the ones above it imo.

[@tomasbedoya2901]

@@NovacaineRebelxx I think Outlaws is fantastic, especially in album context. RevRad's concept is usually overlooked, and I feel it is a powerful one. The album builds up this sense of mature nostalgia, of wishful thinking of the times when you were young and the world was limitless, and how it feels looking at those days from the middle of the road. Outlaws is a track that brings cohesion between the first and second parts

[@NovacaineRebelxx]

@@tomasbedoya2901 I do actually like Outlaws too, it’s just not one of my top choices from the album.

[@Advent3546]

Putting my nostalgia for American Idiot aside (hard as that is) you are still underrating that album.

[@pinhead27able]

Fantano's attempt at being edgy. Absolute joke. The album was huge.

[@incog.nyto.]

I mean I loved it as a kid but honestly he's right, even though there's some absolute anthems on this one and it was a cultural moment, it's a bit disingenuous at how profound it thinks it is while sometimes sound like the most generic arena rock with paper-thin lyrics. I gotta say looking back on it, it's not as good as it was. I would say a C to a light B but not much more than that.

[@dmidkif]

Probably one of the best concept albums of its decade. Don’t lie melon, that album slapped, and I’m sure you loved it when it came out, no matter how dated it sounds now

[@kadin7852]

@@pinhead27able is it really crazy or edgy to say that the commentary on the album really isnt that deep? cuz its really not.

[@incog.nyto.]

@@dmidkif it's not because an album has a concept that it's a good concept album.

[@Hiimjohn]

This list makes my tummy hurt ☹️

[@moosemf]

Defending the trilogy is exactly what I wanted in this video. 2012 me demanded you to review this and I’m glad I have closure at age 27. Insomniac not being in B is a little heinous though. It’s definitely a highlight in the catalog but I agree that Nimrod is better

[@Ltjrevival]

Trilogy is an undercooked bloated mess with like 2 good songs per album

[@rocketgeek96]

My personal ranking of Green Day albums: S) Dookie, American Idiot A) Nimrod, 21CB B) Insomniac, Warning, RevRadio C) Kerplunk, Uno D) 1039 SO/SH, Dos E) Tre F) FOAMF I admit, my love of 21CB is more nostalgia than anything else, and I do genuinely love it for all its flaws, but everything else is basically set in stone for me.

[@WilliamSussman]

Honestly mine is scarily close I just might switch nimrod and insomniac and lower 21cb

[@atomicpunk2360]

Holy fuck, our tier lists are nearly identical lol. I just lumped the whole trilogy in C. I legit thought I saw my comment when I saw yours 😂 21CB is underrated as fuck. I hate that the only songs that get any attention from the band when they play live are Know Your Enemy and 21 Guns when those are arguably the two worst tracks on the album (not counting Song of the Century since I don’t count that as a full track, and Christian’s Inferno is surprisingly weak).

[@inspector38]

I always thought Warning being so different from the rest gave it a sort of charm. I dig the 'melancholy vibe'

[@madeleinep.828]

Warning is that super shy and outcasted kid you aren't really sure about at first and then you eventually talk to them and find out they're actually really cool.

[@caseys2698]

so accurate! my fave track from Warning is Misery. it's a shame he couldn't see how the album actually is very imaginative in its own right.@@madeleinep.828

[@robbymorgan9951]

Maybe I was just at the right age when it came out, but 21st Century Breakdown in the E tier might be one of the most ludicrous takes I've ever seen. Under the TRILOGY?!?!?! How is an album with that many bangers in the goddamn E bracket? Also, an album hat brings together all the best songs from the trilogy does exist! Demolicious was a record store day exclusive, with demos of songs from the trilogy, and it's even more raw-sounding and visceral. The ultimate Trilogy listening experience IMO

[@1983Corolla]

I haven't been an active Green Day fan since literally 2009 but these takes are driving me crazy, you say you re-listened to them but this has so much "I half assed listening to them" energy, Warning and Insomniac are so much better than the way they are described it's insane, like huh? Both of those albums have like a list of catchy, popular bangers on each of them and a bunch of other solid songs. But I don't know, maybe it's also just different when you listened to Dookie, Insomniac and Warning as a broody teenager growing up and connected so much with them that it's hard to understand the appeal of them now or something cause I can't imagine writing off especially Insomniac as like boring Dookie leftovers basically like, what the actual hell

[@TheBVillanacci]

Huge Green Day fanatic here. I love each of these records in their own way, but to me, American Idiot remains the greatest thing that they’ve ever done. 21st Century Breakdown and Dookie are up there as well, but Idiot and it’s “punk rock opera” approach with a singular story throughout is just remarkable. Each album speaks to a different era, both for the band and for the world, but American Idiot does SO much. The ideas, the concepts, and how they were able to capture that in a story just resonates with me in so many ways. I’ve also got A LOT of faith in their new album, Saviors, as well. Things are looking very promising. No matter what anybody says, Green Day rules.

[@WoahLookAtThatFreak]

I really didn't care for any of the songs they've released or played live off of Saviors so I'm not holding out much hope for the new album. But then again, I havent loved a Green Day record since Nimrod 😂

[@AceofSpades-6728]

Warning is a good album but fair enough, American Idiot is overplayed and just uninteresting imo. ​@cmbotch5739

[@alex30425]

You could tell Anthony wanted to put American Idiot in D tier.

[@tuszkki9357]

Honestly I'd say warning deserves to be higher just because it has Misery on it - that song is probably one of green days best imo

[@alexanderalmondoffcial]

Yeah it has a lot of really great stuff and it feels like it really gets underrated because of how different it was for the time. While I don’t think it’s their best record, I think it holds a lot of really great deep cuts like Church on Sunday, Macy’s day parade, misery, and Blood sex and booze. I will stand by the hill of ‘it’s actual a really good album if give it a chance’.

[@sovka8394]

I also think American Idiot deserves to be higher…Maybe it is a nostalgia but I still think it contains some listenable songs that stood the test of time.

[@collinellsworth8622]

Minority too! I loooove Minority

[@sebastianfischer2082]

Waiting is one of their best too

[@tuszkki9357]

@@sovka8394 oh American idiot absolutely deserves higher. I really don't agree with his take that it's bad at social commentary and isn't saying anything "profound" - like it needs to say something profound in order to be a good punk record. London Calling doesn't really say that much profound stuff and is still seen as one of the best if not the best punk albums ever

[@jimbopoppin3152]

insomniac on the same level as kerplunk is definitely one of the takes of all time

[@Salad531]

Kerplunk is such a banger actually, Insomniac doesn't have Christie Road

[@Gluu4]

Kerplunk is honestly better

[@theloopdigga6966]

Kerplunk kicks so much ass

[@Hardcastle83]

Kerplunk for me is their third best album, but below insomniac.

[@johndeleonardis901]

? That’s truly the coldest take about this. What’s odd is that they’re both so perfect yet are only in C. Anthony way underrating this band across the board.

[@Liam_]

“Lack of lyrical depth” when talking about American Idiot lmao that’s wild That feels like a statement better suited to the trilogy or any album since lol

[@Weirdkid9022]

I agree with the moustache man. For me it just doesn’t work and gets less interesting throughout the album

[@tommyriner9914]

@@Weirdkid9022I don’t at all, it’s the most intricate greenday album it literally tells a story

[@conors8117]

It's funny because I was 11 when American Idiot came out and then when I was about 12 or 13 I obtained the CD and I remember that was the only CD that my mom enjoyed just as much as I did, and I think that definitely counts for something But yes I also agree that there's a shallowness to it and it kind of just seems more of a fashion statement than a political statement.

[@KaRaTeLoRd11PS3]

Placing Father of All… in S-tier surprised me since you did give it a 0/10, but hey it’s cool to see your opinions evolve over the years, Melon!

[@hoon3789]

The insomniac disrespect has put me in a foul mood melon

[@davebryan8416]

It’s S Tier and better than Dookie. Way more punk, way more badass and fun the whole way through.

[@hoon3789]

@@davebryan8416 100% it goes incredibly hard and is my favourite album by them and I was honestly expecting it to be at least A tier

[@TheOnlyBasketCase]

Im super happy that the song King For A Day is the one that resonates with you! Though saying that you think of Eminem every time you hear it is a bit much.

[@UnderWeekend]

The definitive ranking: (If your opinion doesn’t match you’re wrong) S Tier: Dookie A Tier: American Idiot, Nimrod B Tier: Insomniac, Saviours C Tier: Waiting, Revolution Radio D Tier: 21st century breakdown E Tier: Uno, Dos, Tre F Tier: Father of All Never listened to Kerplunk

[@zrl-rn3lj]

I think people who were younger when American Idiot dropped have more love for that album. I don't really go back and listen to it much anymore, and I'd probably have the same feelings about it if I was born 10 years earlier, but as an 8 year old kid it was my gateway into better punk and pop punk. I'll always appreciate it for that even though my taste in music has evolved past it.

[@tessgonzalez285]

i agree. it was my first introduction to a lot of this kind of music and i will always appreciate it and it certainly resonated with me.

[@cathyrayTV]

i like that anthony implies he has willingly listened to father of all multiple times since he reviewed it as if there's any reason to do that aside from making a tier list

[@Mighty_Atheismo]

Green Day having an almost 40 year career is gut wrenching.

[@Lu-db1uf]

Why?

[@Mighty_Atheismo]

@@Lu-db1uf cuz that makes them more like The Who or The Rolling Stones than the kids they were at Gilman. It's hard to square the innately youthful lyrical content of my favorites tracks with a number as big as forty. Also it makes me feel hella old and forces me to confront my own mortality.

[@NatsumiMovies]

​@@Lu-db1ufthe band formed in 1987

[@atomicpunk2360]

…which is kinda crazy since they’re barely in their 50s

[@Donovarkhallum]

​@@Mighty_AtheismoI think it's the latter instead of the former . Them being old. Doesn't make them like the who or stones .

[@bluemcdaniel99]

Insomniac in C is heartbreaking. I get it though. Still, the melodies on that album are weird as hell. I love it. Nimrod is definitely insomniac if it went to college though.

[@The8347135]

The trilogy, especially Uno is very underrated imo. One of my favorite albums

[@SDsailor7]

Check out the band The Warning they are a rock power trio that is kicking major A$$ do yourself a favor and check out their music here on YT, they have opened for Muse, Gn Roses, Halestorm. Check out their concert live from teatro Metropolitan CDMX and you will know what I mean. Cheers

[@trevorhess4721]

​@SDsailor7 I like them too but they do not give me trilogy vibes at all

[@SDsailor7]

@@trevorhess4721 That's because their music is different than the one you mention.

[@chadlionsfan5057]

Greenday continues to fall in quality as years go by, in a lot of ways very similar to weezer

[@Blackenedin92]

This list looks like it was made by someone who listened to every green day album once. I felt the same way about warning and insomniac when i first heard them, but those albums get so much better over time

[@coltonrhode916]

He's just engagement baiting. This is just some pretentious garbage

[@KnaveMurdok]

I still hold a torch for Warning after all these years. I adore Blood, Sex and Booze, Church on Sunday, Deadbeat Holiday, Misery, etc. I could go on. I love singing along to this record, I think I could perform it front to back vocally without reference. for me, it was the first "new" Green Day album. When I first got into them, Nimrod was riding high and in the three years between that and Warning coming out I got plenty of time to delve into their back catalogue, but Warning coming out was BIG NEWS to me because it was NEW, and yeah, I latched right onto it, and am holding on tight to this day.

[@J.S.3259]

I love how it veers into folk punk. An amazingly distinctive record, and Fantano’s description of it is inaccurate

[@caseys2698]

i can't believe he said it's unimaginative!... Misery is so cool *because* of its guitarless folky instrumentation- my favorite track from it.@@J.S.3259

[@OlYables]

12:50 Maaaaan who CARES about "She's a Rebel's" lyrics?! That thing is STUPID catchy.

[@sizwemoyo4292]

If you take this guy's opinion seriously, just remember that he rated UNO, DOS & TRE in the same category as American Idiot. Aight big dawg.

[@aestheticbeatz5700]

I felt very similarly but I do put American Idiot and 21st Century higher. I just felt as though they were tapping into much deeper themes with those, and I was just getting into punk, because that was grade school for me, and junior high for me. IT wasn't until after those I felt disappointed by Billie and the gang. I also put Uno Dos Tre much much lower than you. They seemed so bloated. I felt that 70% of those songs could've been cut, BUT you did change my mind, and that's what I like about your videos. I feel differently now in retrospect, because a return to formula IS a good thing. Those did have some very catchy melodies in them. I like hearing you talk about music. I don't watch your videos to see where you rank things. I watch them because you have VERY interesting insight on music, and I like the language you use to describe what you're hearing. Your videos are S tier my friend!!

[@BLUEPELICAN234]

You never fail to have the worst takes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bswalem]

I'm interested to hear what the 'best' take on Green Day's catalogue is

[@Salad531]

@@bswalemnot warning below the trilogy that’s for sure

[@atomicpunk2360]

@@bswalemDookie and American Idiot at S-tier, for one

[@WoahLookAtThatFreak]

Well make your own list so we can see how bad your takes are as well

[@cubedmelons876]

This video is basically "How to piss off every 2000s kid in existence 101".

[@DTheAustralian]

A Father of All joke is too obvious, so I’m just going to call Fantano out for routinely underrating American Idiot. Amazing album, easily A at the very least.

[@Advent3546]

At least an A. This is a big album to my childhood

[@ryanvandale6541]

Yeah I was pretty surprised when I got the rating it did, but I’m also hugely biased. It’s probably the first album I would listen to front to back

[@philly_sports1558]

He loves Black Parade so much and doesn’t like American Idiot. I don’t get that and never will. Both albums essentially do the same thing and have the same goals in mind. So weird how you can love one and not the other. They’re both 10/10s for me.

[@atomicpunk2360]

@@philly_sports1558those are probs my two favorite albums ever, period

[@bailagringacovers]

@@philly_sports1558so true

[@eelistrator]

its funny cause they actually did an album with the best demos of the trilogy called demolicious, and it is so frustrating cause you can hear that, if given the same treathment as the albums, it could've been a really funny decent album.

[@Sticker_By_NCT_127]

American Idiot is not strictly a political album, Holiday and American Idiot are the only two protest songs on it. The rest of the songs follow a storyline about a teenager who is part of the generation living under the Bush administration. That explains why songs like She’s a Rebel are about love and not politics.

[@ianmiller8282]

i feel like if you were in high school in 2009 (me), 21st Century is low-key a classic even if it doesn't hold up today.

[@DanielCh9393]

I can confirm this. I was 16 when the album came out.

[@August12321]

I was 9, remember counting the days down for it

[@Hamptonio]

GD’s Woodstock 94 performance is god tier. What a moment.

[@suburbansage1256]

Not the 21st century breakdown take down 😭 That album made me feel edgy in middle school

[@WoahLookAtThatFreak]

Lol. Geto Boys' "Making Trouble" was my edgy album

[@anakin269]

fantano ripping into american idiot then going on to defend the trilogy tooth and nail is genuinely the craziest fantano moment since the swimming incident

[@Gwyn1stborn]

I might put Dookie in S but yeah, it's a steep downhill slope from there

[@Tocinos]

We applaud you for your brave efforts, Melon.

[@chutzpah4050]

Putting the trilogy above 21st Century Breakdown shows that Fantano is more concerned with being a contrarian than being correct.

[@coltonrhode916]

He's just pretentious

[@nadie516]

melon playing devil's advocate on the trilogy is something i've never imagined could happen

[@davidsepulveda5961]

21:47 When He Said About The Members Writing Sh*tty Baseball Stadium Rock, I Was Like "Is "Stadium" Rock Even A Thing!?"

[@LucaVincent]

1 nimrod 2 insomniac 3 dookie 4 american idiot 5 21st century breakdown 6 kerplunk 7 39/smooth 8 warning

[@423chart]

This was a pleasant surprise to see. Love these discography tier lists ❤

[@zoyasexycool]

i hope you have a wonderful passing

[@KennedyIvy]

​@@zoyasexycoolI hope your family is doing well

[@DildoSchwaggins1]

The song “Minority” off Warning is one of the best Green Day songs.

[@marlmachine]

Insomniac, at that low point, is fightin' words

[@chgenerationx]

Insomniac has my favorite drum and bass production of their whole career. Geek Stink Breath is prime earlier Green Day for me

[@the_laybacks]

You summed up 21CB perfectly. I've been trying to articulate it like that for years.

[@mafeuk]

He didnt say anything tho

[@dclarkmusic]

Never thought I’d have to watch Big Tony put Dookie right up into his A

[@47d75]

Maybe it's just my personal nostalgia, but American Idiot and 21st Century are my two favorite albums from the band, so it's both shocking and heartbreaking to see them not in S and A Tier, but freaking C & E Tier!

[@unleashedbread6146]

I truly don’t understand how this guy is giving dua lipa and taylor swift albums 8,9, and 10’s but calls out green day’s american idiot too bland and generic. It was a literal grenade of change in rock culture and was even big enough to break outside of just rock music with songs like holiday, wake me up, boulevard of broken dream, AND american idiot. it’s simply a bad take, there’s no other way of seeing it.

[@2000Doriyas]

Because it was a pop album that only had a good handful of catchy songs, that’s why you can compare it with other pop artists. There’s guitars bass and drums but everything else about the writing and production and recording of American Idiot is that which is done with major label pop artists. They were no longer a punk act by ‘97. They were hardly a rock band in the studio.

[@derekrequiem4359]

@@unleashedbread6146 Nostalgia aside, American Idiot is just a standard mid-00's radio rock album. It's got guitars, bass, drums, and even vocals. Even the socio-political lyrics that are often mentioned as a supposed highlight of the album were being done by every punk/rock band during that time period. I definitely agree that it's a *good* album, at least a 7/10, but it's really easy to see why many people don't consider it anywhere close to S tier.

[@Th-tg4zm]

Insomniac, to me, has the best collection of iconic green day songs

[@dracomalfoyvevo]

This video is almost a year old but I actually had an stroke seeing Melon miss understand american idiot, but then celebrating the triology like WHAT!? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Skatebardfilms]

Yo melon you forgot to put their album Shenanigan’s in there. Also agree with what you said about Uno, Dos, Tre-shoulda mentioned that their “Demolicious” version makes those songs even more listenable like old green day. Also wild you didnt even mention Jesus of Suburbia lol, easily one of their best tracks. but being new to punk music / growing up with American Idiot did make that album really important to me.