Green Day’s American Idiot is one of the most classic punk albums of all time. Interestingly, though, we all owe the success of that 2004 record to the failure of a previous, long-lost project: Cigarettes and Valentines. The story goes… after Green Day’s Warning (2000), the band spent about half a year writing and recording […] The post The Green Day Album That Never Happened That Led to Their Classic 2004 Album, ‘American Idiot’ appeared first on VICE .