10 Great Songs That Never Made A Studio Album

Green Day have always been a punk band, but their musical palette has never been limited to that one niche of rock music. When the band decided to come together with other artists on a charity album to benefit Darfur in 2007, they took John Lennon's folk tune to gargantuan proportions.

Lennon's original version of "Working Class Hero" is immaculate as it warns of the dangers that come with the work-day mindset. While Green Day's version stays true to the original at first, the song keeps building as each verse goes on until its a full-on rager. But the power behind the song's production never muddles the song's core character. Billie Joe Armstrong's vocal delivery sells the song's message of the lack of empathy in society magnifucently. Lennon's version may have shown the blunt picture of the work environment, but Green Day's version shows how the infrastructure of work is falling apart.

And as the song keeps building to its final chorus, the song dissipates as the audio of Lennon's original song softly begins to play to lead out the track. With a few epic strokes, Green Day took Lennon's perfect song and turned it into something even more extraordinary.