Who would have ever predicted that America would be in the state that it’s in now? With police brutality on the up and up, rapists seemingly getting off scot free and a blonde haired buffoon (not you Boris) is in charge of the entire country. Rewind ten years and the American Dream was a polar opposite. Without the feeding of xenophobic behaviour the country’s turmoil was very much to do with itself. The poor remaining poor and the rich getting, well you know how the story ends. Having been one of the decade’s most important albums, skyrocketing the band and having the record made into a major broadway picture American Idiot was an iconoclast.