This is a great album for kids who like punk rock/pop-punk. Sure, it has some explicit content, but I'm sure your kid has heard 1477284 times worse at school. Definitely buy this for the rockstar in the family.

While this album may have some explicit themes, it is a very good album and should be okay for a 13 or 14 year old and up. The lyrics deal with adult issues sometimes including Abuse (Pulling Teeth), Sexuality (Coming Clean), Violence Having a Blast) and Insanity (Basket Case) but will also appeal to teens with topics like Boredom (Longview), Divorce (In the End) and many others, but of course they would have to be able to dissect and understand the album. The reason I say 14 and up is because of the adult topics such as violence, masturbation, relationship abuse, insanity and drug use. There is also some profanity, mostly the words "s--t", "d-mn" and "h-ll" and maybe one or two uses of "f--k". There is also a little bit of drug use (what do you think the name Green Day means?) but most teens will probably look over that. The songs are very good lyrically and the music is pretty good, but not all teens will get the lyrics. Make sure you know your teen will. Green Day's music was way better back in the early 90s time period then all of this American Idiot and 21 Guns crap you hear from them repeatedly today. This is definitely somewhat of a hidden gem.

Green Day's a great band and they've always produced great music

Awesome album. Typical, angsty teenagers, you know? But great, great stuff. Not for tweens, I think. The language is kind of rough but it's still cool. Music's music, man.

Wow. Are we going to ban 'Basket Case' because it say's "I went to a whore?" This album had new sound. And in my opinion nothing else should matter. Billie Joe has kid's and a wife he's not gonna go to far. Green Day is my favorite band and nuttin' messed up with me.

When they say sex is "non-applicable, i have no idea what they mean. The song Longview (great song, awesome bassline) is about masturbation, they even use the word in the song. Also, Bascet case talks about a whore and mention sex. The song Longview also uses the "F" word more than once or twice.

This is one of green days best albums, my favorites songs from green day are redundant and jackass. Ok so year there's language but who cares it's Green Day.

there is a cople f***s and sh**s but over all its a good cd

i love green day i like how i got it for free by burning it from a cd from some1 i know