10 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries In Rock Music History
5. Green Day’s Lost Album
When you sit down to make an album, you’re going to want to put everything you have into making it the best that you can possibly do. And that seems to be what Green Day did after Warning, looking to go back to the old school punk rock they were known for and giving them a whole new lease on life. The only problem was that the album in question was not supposed to be American Idiot.
Long before Billie Joe Armstrong had the idea to make a political rock opera, Green Day’s latest vision was actually supposed to be a punk rock album called Cigarettes and Valentines, until they went ahead to mix the project to find all of the masters stolen from their studio. That kind of blow should have been crushing for any band, but the setback made the band look at what they were doing and try to aim even bigger, which is where the seeds of American Idiot were planted in Billie Joe’s head.
Although we did get a great album out of it, we’ve only heard bits and pieces of what Cigarettes and Valentines was supposed to be, and the band have said that they have no intention to revisit the project since they have used some of the riff ideas in other songs since then. From the sounds of the title track Cigarettes and Valentines on the album Awesome as F*ck though, it sounded like we were in for something that was even heavier than what we got back in the days of Dookie.