Release Date: March 22, 2011
Length: 63:46
Label: Reprise Records
Notes: Green Day’s second live album after 2005’s Bullet In A Bible. Contains tracks recorded in various locations during the 21st Century Breakdown tour in 2009/10. Included on the album is a live performance of an unreleased song called ‘Cigarettes & Valentines’ which was originally supposed to appear on the studio album of the same name that the band scrapped. A DVD was released along with the CD that had the band’s full concert that was filmed in Saitama, Japan.
Tracklist:
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Know Your Enemy
- East Jesus Nowhere
- Holiday
- ¡Viva la Gloria!
- Cigarettes And Valentines (New)
- Burnout
- Going to Pasalacqua
- J.A.R.
- Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
- Geek Stink Breath
- When I Come Around
- She
- 21 Guns
- American Idiot
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
- Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Music Videos:
Cigarettes And Valentines
New Songs:
6. Cigarettes And Valentines (live)
"Subjects in songs become more complex in time. What used to be one muse or subject can become MANY. Hard to describe. However, 'Cigarettes And Valentines' is about my Adrienne."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
This song is about a couple going through their life together on Valentines. They're spending the day together and want this day to last forever (I don't wanna go back home, I don't wanna kiss goodnight). They are also planning to squeeze out everything they can think of to do and cramp it into a single day (Let us paralyze this moment 'til it dies). From creating paper valentines for each other to their dreams of travelling the world together (To the end of the earth under the valley of stars, take a ride to the avenues across the Great Divide). In the end, they smoke up some cigarettes and just have fun at home. Hence, cigarettes and valentines.
- song meaning written by u/potlah on r/GreenDay
Well I don't wanna go back home
And I don't want a kiss goodnight
Let's paralyze this moment 'till it dies
To the end of the earth
Under the Valley of the Stars
There's a car crashing deep inside my heart
Take a ride through the Avenues
Across the Great Divide
There's a siren screaming
"I'm alive" it cries
Red alert is the color of your paper valentines
Intertwined on this moment passing by
Take a ride through the Avenues
Across the Great Divide
There's a siren screaming
"I'm alive" it cries
Red alert is the color of your paper valentines
Intertwined on this moment passing by
So come away
With me tonight
With cigarettes and valentines
Cigarettes and Valentines