Green Day - American Idiot

American Idiot by Green Day Song Info

"American Idiot" is a song by American rock band Green Day, and is the first single from their seventh album, American Idiot. According to the American Idiot Songfacts, Billie Joe Armstrong was inspired to write this song after hearing a jingoistic Lynyrd Skynyrd song being played on his car radio, whilst driving to the studio. Released in 2004, the single peaked at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Green Day's first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry (excluding singles that charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart), helping revive the band's career. However, the appearance of "American Idiot" on the US singles charts occurred just prior to Billboard Magazine's inclusion of internet download purchases into their Billboard Hot 100 chart data, which would have made a significant difference in the song's peak had it benefited from the new chart tabulation system. This most recent form of sales assessment has resulted in the far greater successes of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Holiday" and "Wake Me Up When September Ends". "American Idiot" became Green Day's first Top 5 single in the United Kingdom, reaching #3, and peaked at #7 in Australia. It debuted at #1 in Canada, holding onto the zenith position for five weeks. In Australia, the song was ranked #22 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004. Green Day performed this at the 2005 Grammy Awards. The album won for Best Rock Album. The song was featured in the trailer for the 2005 film Wedding Crashers. The song features on the soundtrack of the American football video game Madden NFL 2005. It was featured as the closing theme song for the first season of the "Andy Milonakis" show. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his album Straight Outta Lynwood as "Canadian Idiot" - a satirical commentary on American nationalism and the stereotypical American view of Canadians. In The Simpsons Movie,the song was played by an organist at the band's funeral. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this song into a lounge style on their 2005 album Aperitif for Destruction, and Avril Lavigne did as well in 2006. The guitar riffs of the song were sampled for the theme for Johnny Test and multiple episodes of the show. Song information The song was written by all three members of Green Day, and was co-produced by Green Day and Rob Cavallo. It is in the key of A-flat major, and is widely known for the guitar riff that plays through the whole song, excluding the chorus. The whole song 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, and released a split 7" with Billie Joe Armstrong's side project, Pinhead Gunpowder "American Idiot" criticizes the post 9/11 U.S., referring to such issues as paranoia, propaganda and media. "American Idiot" has also been certified as an RIAA Gold (500,000 downloads) along with "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", American Idiot's second single. The song helped pave the road for the future American Idiot singles, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (which, in a great turnaround, would reach #2 in the U.S.), "Holiday" (a Top 30 hit worldwide), "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (which would reach #6 in the U.S. and the Top 20 worldwide), and "Jesus of Suburbia". It was their first #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks from the American Idiot album and their sixth overall.

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- Hope Back In The USA isnt album only

I'm a HUGE GD fan, so I already have every GD song on here. I only wanna buy Back in The USA. I hope that song isnt album only.

- YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Great songs! Life long fan!!!

- Finally...

Been waiting for this forever and I am NOT disappointed!!!

- Amazing 💕💕💕

An amazing collection of songs from an amazing band. To all that say "Come up with new stuff", they just came out with a new album, let them do something while they work on more new music. These greatest songs albums will never stop changing with a band that constantly comes out with great music. Also, don't take the title seriously, it's just a joke lol (although I don't deny that if god does exist, he'd definitely listen to them 😉).

- Hey guys it's a Joke

The joke of "Gods Favorite Band" comes from Tre saying a joke on a live concert DVD. Obviously, it's not a serious remark of title. They are being funny, and making fun of themselves.

- 🖕🏻

Come up new stuff posers

- Love

Love the song with Miranda! 💕

- Its worked before : Try again? Fail

Green Day : A band that rose to popularity big time with their album Dookie in the early ‘90s started to slump towards the late ‘90’. So they release a Greatest hits with a couple of pretty goods new songs. They then do a super political and driven CD called American Idiot-that allows them to do it all over again... The difference this time, is follow up albums are really poppy crap with a couple of good songs- They then release 3 full albums of this crap - Again with just a couple of very forgettable songs .... Now in order to try again they release “some” of their actually Great songs (missing many others) and added some of the forgettable crab. No a political driven video for a not so good song! - Guys “hire someone or write songs with some punk friends” This direction just isn’t working.

- Not necessary

The songs on this are great, but they already had a greatest hits album of all of their hits up through warning. Maybe a greatest hits from American Idiot to the present would be a better idea.

- Huge fan

Amazing

- Love it but

Where’s Scattered and Jesus????? Still a great album.

- YUSS

Looking forward to it.

- Nope

All terrible songs

- Can’t wait

As an Green Day hardcore fan I can wait to hear this, also the special version of Ordinary World and the new song Back In The USA. Although it says that this album has 2 new songs it’s only 1. (Maybe they are counting the version of Ordinary World as a new one).

- OMG

I love this band. I’m just a teen, didn’t grow Up w/ this kinda music, but my mom did, and she raised me right!

- AMAZING

Such a good compilation of songs, and Back In The USA is absolutely amazing!!! Green Day literally never disappoints💞

- God's Favorite Band

I preordered it and it's gonna be great!!

- Teeny Bopper Garbage

Sell outs, all for money, and without heart and soul you just have auto tuned zombies

- ^You’re*

These are all great songs.

- Almost perfect

This would’ve almost perfect if they had Christy Road.

- Worth $12.99

A nice collection of songs. If you like Green Day it’s worth the download.

- Green Day’s finest

I love all these songs there are a few that didn’t make it that I would have liked to see but still all classics and absolutely love back in the USA

- Beautiful compilation!

I’ve been a fan of Green Day since the first time I saw them play, in a mostly empty warehouse in Berkeley, many moons ago! This album is packed full of truly awesome songs- I already have them all, but it’s worth getting the album, nonetheless. Green Day is timeless perfection 😘

- More like gods favorite walking contradiction

Aren't the three of you atheists? And why release another best of album? What's the point of this. Nothing on RevRad was a classic especially compared to what you guys have made in the past.

- Green Day is back old school

I can’t wait to hear the new album Greatest Hits is gonna be the best than the International Super Hits ! Thanks Billie Mike and Tre

- God Listens to Green Day

This is a ballsy album title considering none of the band members are religious, but Green Day has never been held back by political correctness. They one of my favorite bands; even as they evolved to a more mainstream sound they kept writing songs that I love. If any of my fellow Christians are offended by the album title, then y'all need to get a sense of humor.

- Amazing

Just amazing

- Should have just done International Superhits 2

Should have just done International Superhits 2 and only pick songs from American Idiot and onward

- Should Have Started at American Idiot

I love the track listing, but I think that it should've started from the album American Idiot to Revolution Radio (plus bonus tracks). International Superhits had Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning. If these album's songs were cut from the track list, there could have been more songs from UNO, DOS, and TRE. Really? Only Oh Love? What happened to DOS and TRE? It should have had AT LEAST Stray Heart and 99 Revolutions.

- Posers Posing

Wow! They actually took a break from doing stupid Broadway shows to figure out a way to get the suckers to buy more product. Who buys this corporate imitation of Punk? They're about as Punk as the Archies. Just the worst.

- 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Amazing as always! Green Day never disappoints. I’m also really glad they added s song from the Trilogy on it.

- Just another best Of with mostly same songs!

They already have A best of! Why not just do part 2 and do songs post 2003 since the last best Of was in 2002? Total money grab! Lame

- More should be included

I know a greatest hits album can’t include everything, but Nimrod and Insomniac didn’t get near enough attention

- Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Yes, all of these songs are previously released, BUT, they finally got smart and released Boulevard of Broken Dreams as a buyable single (without you needing to buy the entire album to get it). I cannot tell you how long I've waited for them to do this. For that, this album gets 4 stars. Plus, I mean, it's Green Day, so you can't really rate them anything lower than that.

- Great Compilation of all of my Faves !

Love It💚 & WOW 💚 I LOVE THE NEW VIDEO!!!!!! “Back In The USA” is so great that I’m sure it will be stuck in my head for days! I would have picked these songs out myself. (Of course us diehards would just string every album together on a loop) but this is the next best thing. Now that the Tour in the USA is over, I really miss you guys!! Not to worry, I am still listening Daily since RevRad came out in Oct 2016. Truly GOD’s Fave Band AND MINE. Is it weird that I just want the candles for Christmas? 💚💚💚#GreenDayPunksRocksLoves

- Shakerag 1 is dumb

Yo Shakerag 1, have you literally never heard of sarcasm? Because a band of atheists naming an album "gods favorite band" is a joke that like, anyone, even someone who is religious, would totally get. I feel like people from your personal life call you captain obvious. And btw, you are literally the classic trope of being a hater. When normal people don't like something, they just simply don't listen to it. Haters feel the need to broadcast their dislike.

- Omg just check out the songs

❤️

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