{"id":3759,"date":"2022-03-21T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:54:33","slug":"arachnophonia-green-day-american-idiot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2022\/03\/arachnophonia-green-day-american-idiot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Green Day “American Idiot”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Deisy (class of 2024) and features Green Day’s 2004 album American Idiot<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, Deisy!<\/em><\/p>\n

Green Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

American Idiot<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Green Day<\/a> is a band that many are fans of and many have heard of. I remember going to my local dentist and waiting to be attended to when their infamous song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams<\/a>” begins to play. Without fail, every year I would step into this dentist and the song would start playing on the radio. As time went on, I discovered the name of the song and eventually got into listening to the band and have since fallen in love with many of their songs. And I wonder, was this song such a prominent part of other people’s lives just as it was to me, or was I just exposed to it too consistently in that dentist room? <\/p>\n

The band’s official beginnings started in 1989 as a group of teenagers in Northern California came together to create Green Day<\/a>. Their most successful and biggest hit album, American Idiot<\/a><\/em>, shook the world when it came out in 2004. This album contains songs like “Boulevard of Broken Dreams<\/a>“, “Holiday<\/a>“, and “Wake Me Up When September Ends<\/a>“. <\/p>\n

While this music may not be to everyone’s taste, it is certainly a genre that can allow one to feel free and youthful. Green Day was known as a band that empowered the youth and was not scared to point out the faults of today’s society. They are the type of band one listens to when trying to de-stress and feel that sense of freedom many young adults crave. <\/p>\n

Currently, the Pearsons Music Library has a copy of American Idiot<\/a><\/em> and other notable albums such as 21st-Century Breakdown<\/em><\/a> (2009) and Dookie<\/a><\/em>, which are available for loans or to simply listen to in our study rooms. If at any moment in the semester you feel like decompressing with some pop-punk, try giving Green Day<\/a> a listen!<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[38126,76115,61217,76116,206966,191328,76114,76117,76113,15334,92883,37972,61343,92896,76118],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-alternative-rock","tag-american-idiot","tag-arachnophonia","tag-billie-joe-armstrong","tag-concept-album","tag-deisy","tag-green-day","tag-mike-dirnt","tag-pop-punk","tag-popular-music","tag-punk-rock","tag-rock","tag-rock-music","tag-rock-opera","tag-tre-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-YD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}