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American Idiot was the protest album of 2004, but its message is timeless
It’s 2004 and Green Day is on a stadium tour supporting their surprise hit protest album American Idiot. From almost any other band, the surprise would be that an inherently political album, with a brash and pointed lead single that paints early 2000s …