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Green Day

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Vydáno: 15.11.2005

Bullet In A Bible (CD/DVD)

Seznam Skladeb

1.	American Idiot	audio
2.	Intro
3.	Jesus Of Suburbia	audio
4.	American Idiot
5.	Holiday	audio
6.	Jesus Of Suburbia
7.	Are We The Waiting	audio
8.	Holiday
9.	Are We The Waiting
10.	St. Jimmy	audio
11.	Longview	audio
12.	St. Jimmy
13.	Hitchin' A Ride	audio
14.	Longview
15.	Hitchin' A Ride
16.	Brain Stew	audio
17.	Brain Stew
18.	Basket Case	audio
19.	Basket Case
20.	King For A Day/Shout	audio
21.	Wake Me Up When September Ends	audio
22.	King For A Day/Shout
23.	Minority	audio
24.	Wake Me Up When September Ends
25.	Minority
26.	Boulevard Of Broken Dreams	audio
27.	Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
28.	Good Riddance	audio
29.	Good Riddance

Biografie

As I lay here dying in my hospital bed from terminal cancer, I am flooded by memories I had back in the year 2004. It was the time I was asked to document Green Day in the studio for a proposed documentary on the making of their album American Idiot. Of course the record is now regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, an artistic leap, musically ambitious, always neck and neck with Sgt. Pepper as the greatest album of all time, etc. But no one realizes the risk it was to overtake this project. Things were different back then and today when I am on talk shows, all they ask me are the same general questions. "What was it like to be there?" "Did everyone get along?" "What did you eat?" And "Would you please stop trying to fondle me?" And I respond with the same answers. "It was an amazing experience being with three genius'," "Yes, everyone got along and there was a lot of laughter and farting," "Lunch and dinner consisted of the now controversial Zone/Atkins diet" and "Sorry, I thought that was my pocket."

The memories gush out of me as does my bedpan, so I am going to write this quick before the nurse comes by and scolds me for eating corn (I am on a strict no starch diet). Times were different then. A cruel and harsh King ruled us and the artistic community was scared to voice any opinion that would oppose the mighty King. Green Day, as I recall, loved the challenge and set out to make the greatest record of their career without the slightest bit of hesitation or compromise. The King of course, would be upset but we would send him a promo copy regardless. American Idiot, as you now know, is more than a concept record, more than a rock opera and it’s more than 60 minutes long. The band that made the perfect 3-minute song was now writing the perfect 9-minute song. I am, of course, talking about the song “Jesus Of Suburbia,” the first opera on the album and the most perfectly structured song ever recorded. As they carry my dead body out of the church, this is the song I requested to be played (that is, if I have enough money to pay Warner’s Bros. for performance rights). But I am getting ahead of myself here; my body will just have to wait until it can curl up in a coffin. This story has to be told!

The recording of the album started on President’s Day and as soon as the band started to record the first song a fire broke out. Was God himself so jealous of these mere mortals making the greatest music ever recorded that he had to smite them? Or was it just a short in the amp? We will never know! But one thing we do know, the boys continued their artistic journey and composed an album that will live throughout the ages.