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Green Day - American Idiot

2004 · Sticker reported near release · Rock

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About the album

American Idiot is Green Day’s seventh studio album and a deliberately connected rock record built around disillusionment, spectacle, and the search for a self inside a national argument. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool use the band’s compact attack, but the songs are arranged as movements in a larger story. “American Idiot,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Holiday,” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” each carry their own hook while feeding the album’s sequence. Rob Cavallo produced the 2004 Reprise release, helping the trio preserve direct guitars inside a broader, more theatrical frame. The twenty-one-track CD includes the long-form “Jesus of Suburbia,” whose five sections make the album’s ambition audible. American Idiot is a studio album first, but its connected characters and recurring ideas later supported a stage adaptation without needing the music to become less immediate.

Worth knowing

  • American Idiot was released in 2004 by Reprise.
  • Rob Cavallo produced the album.
  • The record includes the five-part “Jesus of Suburbia.”
  • The CD contains twenty-one tracks.

Credits

producer
Green Day
producer
Rob Cavallo
engineer
Brian Vibberts
engineer
Chris Dugan
engineer
Doug McKean
engineer
Greg Burns
engineer
Jimmy Hoyson
engineer
Joe Brown
engineer
Reto Peter
mix
Chris Lord‐Alge
mix
Dmitar Krnjaic

Tracklist

  1. 1.American Idiot
  2. 2.Jesus of Suburbia
  3. 3.City Of The Damned
  4. 4.I Don't Care
  5. 5.Dearly Beloved
  6. 6.Tales Of Another Broken Home
  7. 7.Holiday
  8. 8.Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
  9. 9.Are We The Waiting
  10. 10.St. Jimmy
  11. 11.Give Me Novacaine
  12. 12.She's A Rebel
  13. 13.Extraordinary Girl
  14. 14.Letterbomb
  15. 15.Wake Me Up When September Ends
  16. 16.The Death Of St. Jimmy
  17. 17.East 12th St.
  18. 18.Nobody Likes You
  19. 19.Rock And Roll Girlfriend
  20. 20.We're Coming Home Again
  21. 21.Whatsername

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