10 Guilty Pleasure Albums Nobody Will Admit That They Love
10. Green Day American Idiot
Come on now... settle down. Green Day's American Idiot was released in 2004 to simultaneous acclaim and derision, seen by many fans as a career death knell and by others as the best piece of work the band had put out in many years. Regardless as to whether or not you're firmly in the sell-outs! sell-outs! camp or the damn, this thing is catchy camp, the truth of the matter is simple: no-one made it through the mid-2000s without singing along to nay, genuinely enjoying at least one song from American Idiot. It just wasn't possible. Aside from the title track there's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Holiday, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Jesus Of Suburbia... and those are just the singles. Sadly, nobody can actually admit it. Over time a stigma has crystallized: the notion that liking American Idiot is musically naive. But the truth is, everybody has at least one song on the album that they really like. The whole thing is so infectious that it's tough not to. And anyone who tries to deny they don't get a little bit pumped after hearing I'M THE SON OF RAGE AND LOVE is straight up lying.
