Guide Note
On this page you will find links to song lyrics for the Bay-Area based Punk Rock trio Green Day. Green Day, Emerged from the Punk scene centered around the 924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley, California and shot to fame in the early 1990s helping to re-popularize the genre.
Fast Facts
- Genre: Punk
- Origin: East Bay, California
- Active: 1987- Present
- Albums sold: 60 Million
- Label: Reprise Records
- Grammy Awards: 3
American Idiot Concept
Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot was written as a concept album telling the story of a teenage drug user, who is possibly named Jimmy but is referred to as " the Jesus of Suburbia". Over the course of the album Jimmy leaves his unnamed suburban town called "Jingletown" and leads a group of disaffected followers called the "Lost and Found" into the big city. Jimmy falls in love with a girl referred to as "Whatsername" and loses control of his identity and the "Lost and Found." Eventually, Jimmy snaps into conformity, gets a job and returns to "Jingletown."
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