But American Idiot’s rage seems more like artifice now, especially when it’s performed from a stage of Stonesian proportions.

But here’s Bullet in a Bible just in time for the holidays, the commercialistic addendum to Idiot's supposed apathetic anthems.

And it contained none of the danger and fun that Billie Joe Armstrong had congratulated himself for bringing back to rock’n’roll during his acceptance of the Best Rock Album Grammy for American Idiot. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.

The record still had its thematic scope, and subtitled set pieces, but with the singles played to death it was starting to sound really, really flat. Type Green Day in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Bullet in a Bible in the box under the TÍTULO column heading.Bullet in a Bible was released as a double-LP set on November 10, 2009, as part of the band's 2009 vinyl re-release campaign. With American Idiot they have a real problem, because, as Bullet in a Bible’s very existence proves, their big Message Record is also a Monstrous Hit.

Bullet in a Bible is a live album by American rock band Green Day, released on November 15, 2005, by Reprise Records. Green Day profile their "American Idiot" concert at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England in 2005. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Now here's hoping there's not a repress coming from a hypothetical American Idiot 20th anniversary celebration of some sort.Notes: Released on CD and DVD, it captures the band playing two of the biggest shows in their career on the American Idiot tour. Back then they smirked at the world from underneath green hair dye, and goaded suburban children into gleeful mud fights. But by “Wake Me Up When September Ends” it was unclear what Idiot was supposed to mean in the first place. More than a decade later, their superstardom is a mascara-clouded mess of sloganeering, middle age, and punk rock lip service, and the firebrand moments in 2004’s American Idiot diminish with every millionth unit shifted.