The album spawned five successful singles: the titular track, "American Idiot", " Holiday", " Wake Me Up When September Ends", " Jesus of Suburbia" and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year winner " Boulevard of Broken Dreams".Īmerican Idiot was very well received critically. It was later certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2013.
It has sold over 16 million copies worldwide, making it the second best-selling album for the band (behind their 1994 major-label debut, Dookie) and one of the best-selling albums of the decade. It marked a career comeback for Green Day, charting in 27 countries, reaching for the first time the top spot on the Billboard 200 for the group and peaking at number one in 18 other countries.
Additionally, the band underwent an "image change", wearing red and black uniforms onstage, to add more theatrical presence to the album during performances and press events.Īmerican Idiot became one of the most anticipated releases of 2004. The result was a more societally critical, politically charged record which returned to the band's punk rock sound following the more folk and power pop-inspired Warning, with additional influences that were not explored on their older albums. However, recording was cut short when the master tapes were stolen following this, the band made the decision to start their next album from scratch. In order to accomplish this, the band used unconventional techniques for themselves, including transitions between connected songs and some long, chaptered, creative compositions presenting the album themes.įollowing the disappointing sales of their previous album Warning (2000), the band took a break and then began what they had planned to be their next album, Cigarettes and Valentines. The album expresses the disillusionment and dissent of a generation that came of age in a period shaped by tumultuous events such as 9/11 and the Iraq War.
A concept album, dubbed a " punk rock opera" by the band members, American Idiot follows the story of Jesus of Suburbia, a lower-middle-class American adolescent anti-hero. Recording sessions for American Idiot took place at Studio 880, in Oakland and Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, both in California, between 20. As with their previous four albums, it was produced by Rob Cavallo in collaboration with the group. American Idiot is the seventh studio album by American rock band Green Day, released on September 21, 2004, by Reprise Records.
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