20 years ago this past Saturday, in another election year, Green Day released an album that would become an enduring embodiment of American protest music.
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While the group has been marking the album's dual decade legacy by playing it in full -- along with the album "Dookie," released 30 years ago -- on its current "Saviors" tour, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt rang in their rock opera's birthday with a massive hometown show at San Francisco's Oracle Park Friday - which stretched into Saturday.
The album that almost was not -- the band only started writing it after the master tapes for its intended seventh studio album, "Cigarettes and Valentines," were stolen -- hit stores on Sept. 21, 2004, just a handful of weeks ahead of the culmination of President George W. Bush's re-election battle with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
"You don't have to analyze every bit of information in order to know that something's not f***** right, and it's time to make a change," Dirnt added in the same piece, regarding the band's feelings on American mass media and government at the time.
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