Song · Green Day
“East Jesus Nowhere” by Green Day
From the album 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
“East Jesus Nowhere” by Green Day appears on 17 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2009 and 2010. It was first released in 2009 on the album 21st Century Breakdown. Its best result is #27 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #65 alternative song of 2009.
Watch
Video from YouTube (Dayana Lopez). Pressing play loads YouTube's player. Watch on YouTube
"East Jesus Nowhere" was the third single from Green Day's eighth album, 21st Century Breakdown, released on October 19, 2009, and it's a snarling swipe at fundamentalist religion. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote it after Mike Dirnt went to church to see a friend's baby baptized, and borrowed the title from a phrase in the 2007 film Juno, where it means the middle of nowhere.
Butch Vig produced it, and the band tears through it with stomping, crowd-baiting punk-rock fury, Armstrong sounding like a preacher who has switched sides. Chris Dugan and M. Douglas Silverstein put together the video from live footage and images from the band's world tour behind the album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about "East Jesus Nowhere" by Green Day.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.