Green Day - American Idiot

Of the millions of albums which have been recorded, only 15 can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musician's and at number 3 we have American Idiot by Green Day (2004)

The story behind this album was that Green Day were recording an album but someone stole the Master tapes so rather than re-record the same songs again they wrote a bunch more 'spikier' tunes which reflected their disillusionment with was was going on in America at the time and as this was the America  of George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney with their Afghan and Iraq Wars, there was no shortage of American Idiots to be disillusioned with.
Turns out having their original songs swiped was a great move because this 'punk rock opera' turned them from a decent pop-punk band into Global superstars and deservedly so although it meant us small band of Green Day fans who had followed them since 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours now had to share them with everyone else.  
Whereas the previous Green Day albums came with the standard punk driven 3 minute songs about non-important things, American Idiot was a less than subtle slap around the face with socially critical and politically charged lyrics while keeping that basic Green Day sound and to be honest kicking back against authority was what punk was originally all about although whereas the Clash and Sex Pistols did it in 3 minutes, Green Day went with 9 mins of Jesus of Suburbia and another 9 mins of Homecoming amongst the softer ballads of Wake Me Up When September Ends which i assumed regarded the 9/11 attacks but was about the death of the singers father and Boulevard of Broken Dreams which is a real builder and is joined onto the previous song Holiday which runs into Boulevard to emphasise that Holiday is the 'fire and rage' and the Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the resulting painful and lonely hangover. Gotta admit that's very astute and poetic of them boys.
Kerrang magazine put it in 13th place in the Greatest Albums of all time but i've gone higher and pegged it at number 3 which means the top 2 have to be amazing and number 2 is although i thought it would be a shoo-in for top spot and the Album which is number 1 with the least amount of skipped songs surprised even me and i'm the one writing this. Go figure!