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6,825
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34,379
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288,632
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43,940,701
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10,300
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Online Users:
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Usage Statistics
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American Idiot
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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The music video for "American Idiot" was voted 'The Greatest Rock Video Ever' in a Kerrang! Magazine Poll.
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American Idiot
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Submitted By: Big D
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"American Idiot" criticizes the post 9/11 U.S., referring to such issues as paranoia, propaganda and media.
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American Idiot
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Submitted By: Big D
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The intro riff is similar to the intro riff from Dillinger Four's "Doublewhiskeycokenoice", written in 1997. Dillinger Four opened for Green Day on Green Day's Japan tour.
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American Idiot
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Submitted By: Big D
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American Idiot has also been certified as an RIAA Gold (500,000 downloads) along with Boulevard of Broken Dreams, American Idiot's second single.
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Are We The Waiting
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Are We the Waiting" is the fourth song on Green Day's live album Bullet in a Bible, and is the only song with no commentary on the album other than "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)".
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Are We The Waiting
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song [according to an iTunes review] is about Jesus of Suburbia's change into Saint Jimmy. On the iTunes released version, this song is combined with St. Jimmy.
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Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
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Submitted By: Big D
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In response to Hurricane Katrina and the popularity of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Green Day donated all of the iTunes proceeds from this song for the year to the American Red Cross for Katrina aid efforts.
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Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song speaks from the point of view of American Idiot's "main character", Jesus of Suburbia, and is a moderate midtempo song characterized by moody and depressing lyrics. This is in contrast to the previous track on the album, "Holiday", which illustrates Jesus of Suburbia's "high" of being in The City. MTV's Green Day Makes a Video described "Holiday" as a party, and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as the subsequent hangover.
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Extraordinary Girl
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Submitted By: Big D
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The unusual percussion instruments in the song's intro (bongo drums in particular), combined with the electric sitar that joins it eight measures later, give the song a Middle Eastern feel until a standard drum kit and electric guitar take over where the sitar and bongos leave off. This introductory segment is evocative of The Beatles' music circa 1966, when John Lennon and Paul McCartney introduced increasingly exotic instruments into the repertoire of rock.
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Extraordinary Girl
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Submitted By: Big D
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Extraordinary Girl is in the key of A; the aforementioned intro is taken at 112 bpm which segues into the song proper at 142 bpm.
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Give Me Novacaine
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Submitted By: Big D
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Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is reported as saying "My wife Adrienne told me to put this song on the record" and suggested he wasn't sure it was a good idea. Billie Joe has also stated in one of his concerts that this is one of his favorite songs.
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Give Me Novacaine
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Submitted By: Big D
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You can hear someone coughing in the second chorus. The opening drum beat closely resembles the opening drumming to "Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2 and "Little Guitars" by Van Halen.
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Holiday
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Submitted By: Big D
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The end of the video for "Holiday", where their car breaks down, leads to the beginning of the video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
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Holiday
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Submitted By: Big D
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The spoken bridge of the song makes references to Nazi Germany, George W. Bush and France's refusal to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq:
"Sieg Heil to the President Gasman/Bombs away is your punishment/Pulverize the Eiffel Towers/That criticized your government."
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Holiday
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Holiday" was played in the movie Accepted and parts of the song were played in the movie Surf's Up.
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Homecoming
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Submitted By: Big D
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While frontman Billie Joe Armstrong writes most of the songs, this compilation features one part written and sung by drummer Tré Cool (entitled Rock and Roll Girlfriend), and another part written and sung by bassist Mike Dirnt (entitled Nobody Likes You).
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Jesus Of Suburbia
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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"Jesus of Suburbia" entered at #61 on Billboard top 100 making it the longest song ever to place in the chart at 9 minutes and 8 seconds.
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Jesus Of Suburbia
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Jesus of Suburbia" was featured on MuchMusic's 100 Greatest Music Videos Countdown at #8.
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Jesus Of Suburbia
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Submitted By: Big D
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Director Samuel Bayer said this was going to be his "swan song" video. But he went on to direct Green Day's "Working Class Hero" music video.
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Jesus Of Suburbia
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Submitted By: Big D
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The video contains a reference to The Smashing Pumpkins' music video for "1979".
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Jesus Of Suburbia
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Submitted By: Big D
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Part II heavily quotes "On With the Show" by Mötley Crüe, "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams, Part IV quotes "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Come On Eileen". Part V quotes "Ring of Fire" by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash.
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Jesus Of Suburbia
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Submitted By: Big D
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The title may be a reference to "The Buddha of Suburbia" by David Bowie.
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Letterbomb
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Submitted By: Big D
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It is in the key of E, a common key signature for punk rock songs, but more relevantly it is one of only two songs (the other is "Whatsername") on the entire album not with a key signature of G, A-flat, A (which are each only a semitone apart), or F minor in any part of the song. This radically different key signature subconsciously makes the listener aware that this song marks a transition, both in the album's tone and the continually unfolding story of Jesus of Suburbia.
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Letterbomb
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Submitted By: Big D
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Letterbomb featured Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna singing for the opening of the song.
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Longview
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Submitted By: Rest Easy Soul
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Dookie's first single, "Longview", refers to boredom-induced masturbation.
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She's A Rebel
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Submitted By: Big D
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It modulates from the previous track's key signature of A down a step to G major. Its chord structure is simplistic even by the standards of punk rock, progressing in an ordinary I-V-IV pattern in power chords (which changes to the equally common I-IV-V in the verse). This song is Whatsername's "introduction" song, much like the songs Jesus of Suburbia and St. Jimmy. However, this song is not written from the point of view of the person it describes. Whatsername's "voice" is later heard in "Extraordinary Girl" and "Letterbomb." The song bears striking similarity to Molly's Lips by The Vaselines (covered by Nirvana), Boxcar by Jawbreaker, and Motivation by Sum 41.
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St. Jimmy
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Submitted By: Big D
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"St. Jimmy" is often combined with the song "Are We the Waiting", the preceding song on American Idiot and between which there is no pause in the music. Beginning in the same key (A) as the "Are We the Waiting", "St. Jimmy" has a brisk tempo of 136 BPM. Following the intro, and a count of "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4", the song continues in double time.
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St. Jimmy
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Submitted By: Big D
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"St. Jimmy" was featured in an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide on Nickelodeon.
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St. Jimmy
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Submitted By: Big D
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St. Jimmy's name might be a reference to The Who's Doctor Jimmy. Doctor Jimmy is the alcoholic mad-man alter-ego of the protagonist Jimmy in The Who's rock opera Quadrophenia, much like St. Jimmy is in American Idiot. On the other hand, St. Jimmy is also an inversion of the name of the early Bruce Springsteen character Jimmy the Saint from the song "Lost in the Flood" on Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J..
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St. Jimmy
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Submitted By: Big D
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Uses the same 3 chord progression as Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones.
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Wake Me Up When September Ends
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Submitted By: Big D
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There once was much debate about what the song was about, one of the most common initial beliefs being that it is about the events of 9/11. However, Billie Joe Armstrong has confirmed to the public that the song was written as a memorial anthem about his father, a jazz musician and minor league baseball catcher, who died of lung cancer when Armstrong was only ten years old.
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Wake Me Up When September Ends
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Submitted By: Big D
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In this melancholy ballad, Armstrong revisits his painful childhood and thinks about the day he lost his innocence when his father died. Like many faced with such a traumatic event, he never truly recovered, and he can't believe that twenty years have passed since that September day. As Armstrong associates pain with the month September, he would rather not deal with anything related to the month, prompting him to sing, "As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost... Wake me up when September ends..."
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Wake Me Up When September Ends
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Submitted By: Big D
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This song is in the key of G major and is four minutes and forty five seconds long. The verses are an example of 32-bar AABA form.
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Wake Me Up When September Ends
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song eventually became a tribute song to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and sound bytes were added from various news coverages to the song. A live version of the song, recorded on September 3, 2005 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts was released soon after and dedicated to the hurricane's victims.
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Whatsername
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Submitted By: Big D
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The chord progression and rhythm are somewhat similar to the 1996 song "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers.
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