[img=011012_cigsandvals.jpg]Gibson.com has included Green Day "lost album" Cigarettes and Valentines in their list of the "10 Great Albums That Were Shelved or Abandoned".
No one outside of the band and their close friends know what actually happened to the album, but it is presumed by many fans that the band just didn't feel like the album was "maximum Green Day". Some fans even doubted the albums existence until the band began playing the title track "Cigarettes and Valentines" on the last American leg of the "21st Century Breakdown tour."
Other albums on the list include The Who's Lifehouse and Bruce Springsteen's Electric Nebraska. You can see all ten albums that made the list over on Gibson.com by clicking here.
Thanks to JDookie for posting this in our forum.
This intended follow-up to Green Day's 2000 album, Warning, never saw the light of day for one simple reason: the master tapes were stolen from the studio. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong later said the pilfered material was "good stuff," while bassist Mike Dirnt remarked that the songs constituted a return to Green Day's "hard and fast" punk roots. Nonetheless, instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to go a different route. The result was the acclaimed 2004 disc, American Idiot.
No one outside of the band and their close friends know what actually happened to the album, but it is presumed by many fans that the band just didn't feel like the album was "maximum Green Day". Some fans even doubted the albums existence until the band began playing the title track "Cigarettes and Valentines" on the last American leg of the "21st Century Breakdown tour."
Other albums on the list include The Who's Lifehouse and Bruce Springsteen's Electric Nebraska. You can see all ten albums that made the list over on Gibson.com by clicking here.
Thanks to JDookie for posting this in our forum.
