Green Day - Cigarettes & Valentines (2003)

'Cigarettes & Valentines' was to have been the follow-up to 2000's 'Warning', but in November 2002, with the album nearly finished, the master tapes were mysteriously stolen from the band's studio. Instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to start from scratch, leading to the creation of the classic 'American Idiot'. They were later able to relocate and recover some material, and reworked this for b-sides to their singles. Green Day fan bskert has had a go at reconstructing the original 'Cigarettes & Valentines' album from possible track listings which he found on the net, and also his knowledge of the band in general, and this is what he's come up with. Some songs were later renamed for release on other albums, and so 'Dropout' is actually 'Brutal Love', 'Sleepyhead' later became 'Lazy Bones', 'Clusterbomb' was renamed 'Letterbomb', and 'Wasteaway' ended up as 'Oh Love'. The title track was only ever performed live and no studio recording of it exists. 

Track listing

01 Cigarettes & Valentines

02 Hearts Collide

03 Clusterbomb

04 Walk Away

05 Sleepyhead

06 Dropout

07 Too Much Too Soon

08 Favourite Son

09 Youngblood

10 Lights Out

11 Olivia

12 Governator

Green Day - Cigarettes & Valentines (2003) CONFESSION TIME

This post has been up for over two weeks now and had 40 plus downloads, and as no-one has commented about 'Olivia', it's time to come clean and admit that this recording is not actually by Green Day at all. As I mentioned earlier, the band only ever recorded it in concert, and so as a studio version of it doesn't exist, the band Hearts At War have lovingly recreated it in a style as close to Green Day as they could make it. I think that fact that no-one has commented on it not sounding like Green Day is testament to the care that Hearts At War have taken with their recording, and so I just want to give them the credit they deserve.