The best Green Day songs
The top 3 according to 55 votes from people: American Idiot · When I Come Around · Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). (Updated Aug 17, 2022.)
From Dookie to American Idiot: the Green Day songs critics and fans rank highest.
Top 14
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1
American Idiot
2004. The title track of their rock opera.
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2
When I Come Around
1994. A mid-tempo classic.
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3
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
1997. The acoustic ballad of every graduation.
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4
Basket Case
1994. The song that lit the fuse of their mainstream explosion.
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5
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
2004. A Grammy for record of the year.
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6
Holiday
2004. Gang vocals and political arena rock.
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7
She
1994. Another Dookie single.
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8
Longview
1994. Boredom turned into punk.
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9
Minority
2000. An anthem for the nonconformist.
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10
Welcome to Paradise
1992. Re-recorded for Dookie.
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11
Jesus of Suburbia
2004. A nine-minute suite in five parts.
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12
Wake Me Up When September Ends
2004. Written about the death of Billie Joe's father.
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13
21 Guns
2009. A ballad from 21st Century Breakdown.
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14
Brain Stew
1995. A heavy, insomniac riff.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (5)
Basket Case first is right, but Jesus of Suburbia is their masterpiece
Good Riddance at every graduation forever
Minority is so underrated
American Idiot is better than anything on Dookie, fight me
lol no way, Dookie is the classic