On this day in 2004, Green Day released American Idiot.
It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 267,000 copies sold in its first week, the first chart topping album of the band's career after more than a decade together. The rock opera about Jesus of Suburbia turned three punks from Berkeley into a stadium act, spun off Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Holiday, and took Best Rock Album at the 2005 Grammys.
Twenty two years later it still sounds like it was written this morning.