4 STORIES
1997 · 90S
The song played at more graduations, weddings and funerals than almost any other American rock record is, underneath, a bitter breakup song …
2004 · 00S
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, USA
"American Idiot" is not an attack on America — it's an attack on television. Billie Joe Armstrong reportedly wrote it in a flash of irritati…
2004 · 00S
A mid-tempo dirge that became the unofficial soundtrack to post-9/11 American adolescence, Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" turned p…
2004 · 00S
It is not an anti-war song and it has nothing to do with 11 September — the title is reportedly a sentence a grieving ten-year-old said thro…