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American Idiot was the consequence of a musician's worst nightmare. Green Day was in the middle of recording this album when the master tapes were stolen. Instead of rerecording those tracks, the band veered in a new direction and decided to tell the story of several disenfranchised characters: Jesus of Suburbia, St. Jimmy and Whatsername. American Idiot ... follows in the "rock opera" tradition established by The Who with Tommy.
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September 21, 2004 - American Idiot will go down in history as one of the best punk albums ever made. And yet, it almost wasn't. Shortly after the release of 2000's oddly experimental Warning:, the world's most successful punk band set to work on their seventh studio album, one intended to return Green Day to their hard-and-fast Dookie and Nimrod pedigree. As the Bay Area trio worked tirelessly, they dropped International Superhits! and B-side compilation Shenanigans to sate their fans' increasing hunger. And though frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and crew categorically deny it to this day, they even found time to invent "neo-new-wave" with The Network's trippy, hilarious debut Money Money 2020.
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The first original album since 2000 from modern rock superheroes Green Day, American Idiot is one of the most anticipated and controversial albums of the year. Scathing yet self-effacing as it tells the tale of Green Day̢۪s Billie Joe Armstrong, American Idiot is the punk rock epic. "A bold, polished punk opera." (Entertainment Weekly) "They're the biggest, most successful, punk band the world has ever seen. What's more, Green Day's next album may well be their masterpiece."
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Shortly after the album was released there was speculation that American Idiot might be made into a movie. VH1 quoted Armstrong as saying "We've definitely been talking about someone writing a script for it, and there's been a few different names that have been thrown at us. It sounds really exciting, but for right now it's just talk." [1] Armstrong later stated that shooting would begin for American Idiot: The Motion Picture in 2006, stressing, "We want to see how it turns out first so that it doesn't suck." [2] On June 1, 2006 Armstrong announced in an interview with MTV.com that "it's definitely unfolding" and that "every single week there's more ideas about doing a film for American Idiot, and it's definitely going to happen," [3] but the band later said, "It is gonna take a little while."
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American Idiot is Green Day's Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album, originally released in 2004. Often classified as a rock opera and concept album, it was the first Green Day album to reach number one in the United States and United Kingdom. Rob Cavallo produced the album, his fourth for Green Day.
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Green Day's new album American Idiot is as confrontational as it is addictive. The album is just under an hour of pure Green Day trouble at its best. Hailed as a "punk rock opera", this album steers the band in a new direction, carrying a electrified political theme throughout.
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