nickelback club. we've got a big club. ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ >> a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it's almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you're talking about green day. ♪ ♪ don't want to be an american idiot ♪ >> you can't undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush's america came from green day. ♪ welcome to a new kind of tension all across the alien nation ♪ ♪ everything's meant to be okay ♪ >> it was kind of like a rock opera. you had to listen to it from front to back because it told the entire story of what was going on in the decade. ♪ wake me up when september ends ♪ >> the fear of terrorism. the media. the wars. people being sent off to fight. ♪ here comes the rain again ♪ >> rock wasn't all that surprising in the 2000s, so when you got something like "american