American Idiot - An Unexpected Comeback
Changing The Subject
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CONTENT WARNING: This video contains discussion of mature subjects, viewer discretion is advised.
After the failure of their 2000 album “Warning,” Green Day spent the next four years planning on how to follow it up. Despite challenges such as competition from within their transforming genre, lack of commercial appeal, and even an entire planned album being scrapped. The band struck back in 2004 with their colossal comeback album “American idiot.” Singlehandedly reinventing who they were for a new generation, and saving Green Day from potential implosion. In this video we not only take a look into the long creative journey that got them to that massive success, but also the story told within the album itself.
Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
Part 1 - This Isn’t A Test (2000): 0:30
Part 2 - Touring, Towers, Trial & Error (2001): 4:48
Part 3 - B-Sides The Point (2002): 9:59
Part 4 - Masks, War, Theft (2003): 14:30
Part 5 - Rebirth (2004): 24:10
Part 6 - Touring, Side Projects, & Broadway (2005-2010): 31:08
Part 7 - Legacy: 36:35
Part 8 - Narrative: 39:11
Part 9 - 1:13:16
Discord Server: Discord: discord
Sources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/119LN...
Isolated vocal stems provided by: @st.jimmysstuff4165
Thumbnail designed by: @coreypinemusic
Part 5 title card designed by: @sweetchildrenmixes
Special Thanks:
@freshestcool
@silktongs
@dzhigmusic
@jaydenb_118
@superrjrv
Oh, and also:
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Rob Cavallo, American Idiot, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Holiday, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Jesus Of Suburbia, 21st Century Breakdown, Bullet In A Bible, Heart Like A Handgrenade, The Network, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Warning, International Superhits, Shenanigans, Cigarettes and Valentines, Blink-182, Pop Disaster Tour.
#greenday #americanidiot #boulevardofbrokendreams #billiejoearmstrong #mikedirnt #trecool #wakemeupwhenseptemberends
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Thank you for this essay. American Idiot (the title track) was my first Green Day song and intro to Punk Rock and the ethos of the movement. I'm not American, I'm from Botswana, but culturally this album is very relevant to me. Green Day got me into the culture of listening to full albums, Bullet In A Bible was the first musical work I bought and there are many aspects of the story I can still relate to as a married man pushing 30 (quite a far cry from the teen who first discovered American idiot on YouTube in one of those "Top 10 Hot Rock Tracks" videos, but here we are).
American Idiot - An Unexpected Comeback
Changing The Subject
39,621 views
CONTENT WARNING: This video contains discussion of mature subjects, viewer discretion is advised.
After the failure of their 2000 album “Warning,” Green Day spent the next four years planning on how to follow it up. Despite challenges such as competition from within their transforming genre, lack of commercial appeal, and even an entire planned album being scrapped. The band struck back in 2004 with their colossal comeback album “American idiot.” Singlehandedly reinventing who they were for a new generation, and saving Green Day from potential implosion. In this video we not only take a look into the long creative journey that got them to that massive success, but also the story told within the album itself.
Chapters:
Intro: 0:00
Part 1 - This Isn’t A Test (2000): 0:30
Part 2 - Touring, Towers, Trial & Error (2001): 4:48
Part 3 - B-Sides The Point (2002): 9:59
Part 4 - Masks, War, Theft (2003): 14:30
Part 5 - Rebirth (2004): 24:10
Part 6 - Touring, Side Projects, & Broadway (2005-2010): 31:08
Part 7 - Legacy: 36:35
Part 8 - Narrative: 39:11
Part 9 - 1:13:16
Discord Server: Discord: discord
Sources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/119LN...
Isolated vocal stems provided by: @st.jimmysstuff4165
Thumbnail designed by: @coreypinemusic
Part 5 title card designed by: @sweetchildrenmixes
Special Thanks:
@freshestcool
@silktongs
@dzhigmusic
@jaydenb_118
@superrjrv
Oh, and also:
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Rob Cavallo, American Idiot, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Holiday, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Jesus Of Suburbia, 21st Century Breakdown, Bullet In A Bible, Heart Like A Handgrenade, The Network, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Warning, International Superhits, Shenanigans, Cigarettes and Valentines, Blink-182, Pop Disaster Tour.
#greenday #americanidiot #boulevardofbrokendreams #billiejoearmstrong #mikedirnt #trecool #wakemeupwhenseptemberends
0:00 (or 0:01 for mobile users) - I misspelled the word "grief," I put the e before the i.
56:35 - The order of events here is wrong. Bilheimer designed the cover because of that lyric, not the other way around.