American Idiot (2004)

Green Day's punk rock opera follows the Jesus of Suburbia from suburban boredom to the city, with St. Jimmy and Whatsername as the other figures in his story. Two nine-minute multi-part suites, Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming, show how far the band could stretch pop-punk without losing a hook. Boulevard of Broken Dreams makes more sense in sequence than it ever did on the radio.