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Originally Posted by Zero1986
Well it might have different on your side of the pond. In the 4 years between Warning and American Idiot they were pretty much forgotten about by the mainstream here, they were seen as has-beens. Even the American Idiot single didn't make too much of an impact on the radio, it wasn't until Boulevard of Broken Dreams was released when sh!t went skyward and suddenly you could'nt escape them. That's what I was referring to.
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But they still had sold boatloads of albums prior to that, no? I usually think of the term "blew up" as referring to a small time band getting popular, not an already famous band staging a comeback.