Wake me up when September ends, am I right? If 1994’s Dookie was the album that made Green Day the biggest punk band in the world, AmericanIdiot is the album that transcended punk entirely, ...
It was one thing for Green Day to score a No. 1 album, as it did with 2004’s “AmericanIdiot,” a full decade after the scrappy Bay Area punk trio broke out with “Dookie” in 1994.