Random thought..I never really liked the studio version of the song American Idiot...the intensity and anger of the lyrics do not really present themselves in the music (the vocals especially). Fortunately, the first time I listened to that song, it was in Bullet in a Bible, when I was watching American Idiot live on YouTube. I was completely mind-blown by raw power of that song, and how the people cheering during the solo actually made it sound like a revolution. Even now, I always listen to the live version, and I almost always skip the album track of American Idiot. Seriously, compare the music and vocals of this-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSa8H7eIKaM
to this-
Although I know that most of you would have seen these already, I urge to listen to then one more time.