If you haven't seen the Broadway play, stick with the original album. If you HAVE seen the Broadway play, you will want to supplement the original with this score, just so you can remember how wonderful the play was. And I was lucky enough to see it with BJA as St. Jimmy!
This is a very interesting and very polished alternative to the regular album. I especially like the toned down versions of some of the songs.
I think this is definatly one to collect after seeing the show....I didn't so I am not sure about this yet. A couple more listenings I think.
it fits... from Woodstock to Broadway sell your music to the highest bidder
I am as tired of hearing complaining music fans dropping the words "sell out" as I am listening to the conservatives say "activist judges." Get over it already, this is amazing! I have more respect for Green Day now than I ever had. They took a gutsy chance letting someone stage their music and it worked. It still has all of the (well-deserved) anger towards the destructive wastelands of the Bush years. Keep it up guys!
I see the haters stopped in and commented before me. Green Day is a great band. American Idiot had the thread of a story throughout it's tracks. For someone to turn it into a musical isn't selling out; it's introducing more people to their music. Artists and their work will survive the test of time. Critics and haters won't.
Theater is dead. At least this lame money grubbing attempt would lead me to believe so. It's obvious this project is for profit rather than any artistic merit.
saw the pre-broadway in berkley and it was amazing... the recording does it justice!!!!
Only insecure losers care about their cred with the in-crowd. The band had matured significantly by the time the original album came out and it stands to this day as THE great musical indictment of American culture in the Bush-era. That its been brought to the stage is an honor and I am proud to know that this great Bay Area band and their top-notch, meaningful music is being represented to the mainstream on a nightly basis. Probably going to win some Tony awards too.
I can remember when Green Day was worried that being on MTV would get them kicked out of Gilman... now this?
With the recent success of Green Day's American Idiot and Fela! on the Great White Way, the line between Broadway and rock is blurrier than ever. And why shouldn't it be? The two have so much in common: The theatricality, the booming voices, the social experience, the sweat and repetition. Below you'll find some of the best examples of this burgeoning trend. Now let's see those jazz hands! more »
