Green Day Almost Said “Good Riddance” To #1 Hit

Billie Joe Armstrong would say, “The deeply personal “Good Riddance was a far cry from the loud, frenetic punk music Green Day was cranking out at the time. As such, Armstrong initially opted to hide the song from bandmates Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt. In fact, he refused to even bring it up until the recording sessions for 1994’s Dookie.”
“We didn’t put it on Dookie because it didn’t fit,” producer Rob Cavallo said in the book Nobody Likes You, “and we said, ‘Well this doesn’t really fit. We think it’s a great song, but it doesn’t really fit the album.’”

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