Our announcement yesterday that Green Day’s eighth album is forthcoming this spring was met by derision (“green day is a bunch of twats”), responses to said derision (“you AMERICAN IDOTS are just jealous of their awesome talent!”), analysis (too long to quote), nostalgia (ditto), and plain old excitement over the news (“American Idiot is most […]
The setlist did hold a ton of covers, they covered artists like Cheap Trick, The Who, Misfits and live debuted a cover of Queen's "We Are the Champions" for the first time that night. Check out the full setlist from the show American Idiot Tour kickoff below! Green Day - July 29, 2004 - Los Angeles, California - setlist. Sep 21, 2004 · The album became their best-selling since Dookie and was famously adapted for the distinctly un-punk setting of Broadway—a leap no band of their distinctly subcultural origins had ever really made before. In other words, here was a band by and for losers, finally accepting that they’d won. American Idiot. 1. 2:54. tRMNMd.