Green Day - American Idiot (w/ guest Ryan Hanratty)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2015

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Guitarist, singer-songwriter, and videographer Ryan Hanratty of Wolfasaurus Rex, Catch Me If You Can, and Frosted Green Interviews (respectively) travels down from Long Island to discuss Green Day's American Idiot (2004, Reprise) with Brian and Bill. Coming 10 years after the band's breakthrough album Dookie, American Idiot saw Green Day cement their superstardom as they released their hit rock opera. Ryan ends up being the best person to discuss this with because he hit his prime punk rock years of adolescence when this album was released. We break down the 3 acts, debate the use of the "other F word," discuss the political climate of the time, and find out the lewd story behind what is "frosted" and "green." All this and more in our second longest episode yet!

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0:00.0	Don't want to be an American idiot
0:13.0	Don't want a nation under the new media
0:19.0	And can you hear the sound of hysteria
0:23.4	the subpluminal mind fuck America
0:28.3	Welcome to a new kind of attention
0:33.5	All across the early I mission
0:36.0	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm And I'm Brian. And today we have a guest
0:40.9	with us, Ryan Hanratty. How you doing? Okay, how are you doing, Ryan? Pretty good. Thanks for having me.
0:46.6	Thanks for being here. Ryan is a musician, singer, songwriter, and also a producer of an interview. I don't know what to call it. What do you
1:01.1	call it? Videographer? Yeah, videographer, I guess, would pretty much sum it up. If you want,
1:06.0	just give us a quick rundown of some of the stuff and let us know what's going on.
1:11.4	Well, I'm a singer-songwriter and my own project called Catch Me If You Can.
1:16.1	And I'm also the guitarist in a punk band called Wolfesaurus Rex.
1:21.4	Really, really good, by the way.
1:24.2	I'm sorry to interrupt, but really great band.
1:27.0	Like, very melodic too. Sorry, keep going. I've yet to interrupt, but really great band. Very melodic, too.
1:28.8	Like, sorry, keep going.
1:30.8	I've yet to hear them.
1:31.7	I heard the song that you put up with you and Brittany on it that you put up the MP3 of a few weeks ago.
1:38.8	But that's not Wolf Asauri.
1:40.1	That was just my thing.
1:41.1	Yeah, that's when we first started playing together.
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