Bullet in a Bible

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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. 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.

Type Green Day in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Bullet in a Bible in the box under the TÍTULO column heading. But American Idiot’s rage seems more like artifice now, especially when it’s performed from a stage of Stonesian proportions. In theory Green Day’s still singing to those suburban mudslingers, the ’90s kids who grew up to find only apathy, fear, and nothingness beyond the fast food wrappers and blaring televisions. Bullet in a Bible is a live album by American rock band Green Day, released on November 15, 2005, by Reprise Records. There’s nothing here as hilariously cheesy as “The Road,” but a few of Armstrong’s interview segments on the DVD have the clichéd “I don’t know/We do so many shows in row” air of the traveling rock superstar.

All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong; all music is composed by Green Day, except where noted No. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Green Day have released most of the videos from this concert on their YouTube page except for " Boulevard of Broken Dreams", " Wake Me Up When September Ends", and the other songs which have been omitted from the album release. But here’s Bullet in a Bible just in time for the holidays, the commercialistic addendum to Idiot's supposed apathetic anthems. They might have meant to beat against the Head Redneck’s agenda, might have wanted to bury a punk rock pipe bomb at the intersection between populist politics and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

Green Day profile their "American Idiot" concert at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England in 2005. But by “Wake Me Up When September Ends” it was unclear what Idiot was supposed to mean in the first place.

The band was supported by Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday, and Hard-Fi during their American Idiot world tour.Bullet in a Bible documents one of the two biggest shows that Green Day have performed in their career; they played in front of a crowd of over 130,000 people at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in United Kingdom on June 18–19, 2005.