With 20 years' hindsight, Green Day probably meant for their seventh studio album to be big. But nobody could have predicted just how big American Idiot got - and this year's latest addition to the year-end music box set line-up will showcase just how big with a package to match.

American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set at Irving Plaza in New York City that featured the album front to back. Video extras will include the 2015 documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade and a new documentary along with live performance footage from the BBC. The band's longtime producer Rob Cavallo and Rolling Stone's David Fricke have penned new essays in the liner notes booklet (48 pages for the CD, 36 for the vinyl), and each box comes with an assortment of extra swag (enamel pins, a sticker sheet and cloth patch in the CD box, and in the vinyl version, a flag and a red necktie, just like the one frontman Billie Joe Armstrong wore for much of the album's promotional cycle).

After four albums on Reprise Records, the pop-punk trio were unsure of the next direction they should go in. 2000's Warning was a softer seller than previous releases, and Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool were starting to chafe while assembling their next release, the genre-agnostic Cigarettes and Valentines. While the trio soon started resolving their differences, the project hit a major snag at the end of 2002, when its master tapes were stolen.

With Cavallo's encouragement, the band started writing new material - including several short fragments of songs that they realized would fit brilliantly together in little mini-epics like "Jesus of Suburbia" - and recorded it in order over a period of 10 months. Inspired by a general feeling of dysfunction in the wake of the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War and a growing unease heading into the 2004 presidential election, American Idiot was a concept album that took a few shots across the bow of an evil empire while also connecting to that universal feeling of being young and wanting more out of lives that feel dead-end. It was as loud, snotty and catchy as their best works (particularly the title track and the politically-charged "Holiday"), with room for acoustic-driven, indie-folk inspired bursts of emotion ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Wake Me Up When September Ends").

Featuring a memorable black, white and red cover by artist Chris Bilheimer, American Idiot was far and away Green Day's biggest hit. Their first No. 1 album, it stayed in the Top 10 for more than a year total, spawned their biggest hits in America - the No. 2 "Boulevard" and the No. 6 "Wake Me Up" (both those and "American Idiot" reached the U.K. Top 10 as well) - picked up Grammys for Best Rock Album and Record of the Year ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams") along with five nominations, including Album of the Year; was named the album of the decade by Kerrang! and sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. In 2010, a staged version of the album (which sprinkled in several B-sides from the album and material from 2009 follow-up 21st Century Breakdown, along with the outtake "When It's Time," written in the band's earliest days and demoed during the Dookie and Nimrod sessions) opened on Broadway. Armstrong and Melissa Etheridge each took time performing the supporting role of "St. Jimmy" during the show's yearlong run. In 2015, the documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade was released, offering a chronicle of the album during its recording and early release. (It will be part of the box set along with a new retrospective documentary.) The trio, currently on tour in support of this year's Saviors, their fourteenth album, have been performing both Dookie (which turns 30 this year and was recently celebrated in a box set) and American Idiot in full during those performances.

All versions of American Idiot - including a straight 2LP reissue of the album on red and black splatter vinyl - will be available October 25. Pre-order links are below; as an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Reprise, 2024)

4CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
8LP/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 
2LP (red/black splatter): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CD 1/LP 1-2: Original album

1. American Idiot
2. Jesus of Suburbia (I. Jesus of Suburbia/II. City of the Damned/III. I Don't Care/IV. Dearly Beloved/V. Tales of Another Broken Home)
3. Holiday
4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
5. Are We the Waiting
6. St. Jimmy
7. Give Me Novacaine
8. She's a Rebel
9. Extraordinary Girl
10. Letterbomb
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming (I. The Death of St. Jimmy/II. East 12th St./III. Nobody Likes You/IV. Rock and Roll Girlfriend/V. We're Coming Home Again)
13. Whatsername

CD 2/LP 3-4: B-Sides & Bonus Tracks

1. American Idiot (Live @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan - 3/19/2005)
2. Jesus of Suburbia (Live @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan - 3/19/2005)
3. Holiday (Live @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan - 3/19/2005)
4. Are We the Waiting (Live @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan - 3/19/2005)
5. St. Jimmy (Live @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan - 3/19/2005)
6. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Live @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan - 3/19/2005)
7. Favorite Son
8. Shoplifter
9. Governator
10. Too Much Too Soon
11. Are We the Waiting (Live on VH1 Storytellers)
12. St. Jimmy (Live on VH1 Storytellers)
13. Give Me Novacaine (Live on VH1 Storytellers)
14. Homecoming (Live on VH1 Storytellers)

Tracks 1-6 from deluxe Japanese pressing of the album - Reprise WPCR-12106-7, 2005
Track 7 from Japanese pressing of the album - Reprise WPCR-11910, 2004
Tracks 8-10 from "American Idiot" U.K. CD singles - Reprise W652CD1/2, 2004
Tracks 11-12 from "Jesus of Suburbia" U.K. CD single - Reprise 9362 42864 2, 2005
Tracks 13-14 from "Wake Me Up When September Ends" U.K. CD singles - Reprise W674CD1/2, 2005

CD 3/LP 5-6: Demos

1. American Idiot
2. American Idiot (Alt. Version)
3. Jesus of Suburbia
4. Holiday/Blvd. of Broken Dreams
5. Are We We Are/St. Jimmy Opera
6. Novacaine
7. She's a Rebel
8. Radio Bagdad
9. Cluster Bomb
10. Wake Me Up When September Ends
11. Homecoming (Nobody Likes You)
12. Everyone's Breaking Down
13. Just Another Year
14. Lowlife
15. What's Her Name

CD 4/LP 7-8: Live at Irving Plaza, New York, NY - 9/21/2004

1. American Idiot
2. Jesus of Suburbia
3. Holiday
4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
5. Are We the Waiting
6. St. Jimmy
7. Give Me Novacaine
8. She's a Rebel
9. Extraordinary Girl
10. Letterbomb
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming
13. Whatsername
14. Minority
15. We Are the Champions

Tracks 3-4 and 14 released on "Holiday" U.K. CD singles - Reprise W664CD1/2, 2005
Track 10 released on "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" U.K. CD single - Reprise W659CD1, 2004

Blu-ray 1: Heart Like a Hand Grenade documentary (released as Reprise 552022, 2015)

Blu-ray 2

• 20 Years of American Idiot (new documentary)
• BBC Live
  • St. Jimmy (Live on Top of the Pops - 11/6/2005)
  • Give Me Novocaine (Live on Top of the Pops - 11/6/2005)
  • She's a Rebel (Live on Top of the Pops - 11/6/2005)
  • Welcome to Paradise (Live on Top of the Pops - 11/6/2005)
  • Wake Me Up When September Ends (Live on Top of the Pops - 11/6/2005)
  • Jesus of Suburbia (Live on Top of the Pops - 11/6/2005)
  • American Idiot (Live in Studio)
  • Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Live in Studio)