- When I Come Around
Infobox Single
Name = When I Come Around
Artist =Green Day
from Album =Dookie
Released = January 31, 1995
Format = CD
Recorded = 1993
Genre =Pop punk
Length = 2:58
Label = WEA International,Reprise Records
Producer =
Last single = "She"
(1995)
This single = "When I Come Around"
(1995)
Next single = "J.A.R. "
(1995)"When I Come Around" is a single fromGreen Day 's album "Dookie " from 1994. It was the final single from the album. "When I Come Around" was Green Day's most popular radio single in their early career; not only did it top theModern Rock Tracks for seven weeks, but it also hit number two on theMainstream Rock Tracks and number ten on theBillboard Hot 100 Airplay .Track listing
Initial Pressing
#"When I Come Around" - 2:58
#"Coming Clean" (Live) - 1:36
#"She" (Live) - 2:14
*(Live tracks recordedNovember 18 , 1994 at Aragon Ballroom,Chicago )AU Single
#"When I Come Around" - 2:58
#"Longview" (Live) - 3:30
#"Burnout" (Live) - 2:11
#"2,000 Light Years Away" (Live) - 2:48
*(Live tracks recordedMarch 11 , 1994, at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg,Florida )7" Picture Disc
"Side A."
*"When I Come Around" - 2:58"Side B."
*"She" (Live) - 2:14Other Versions
* The infamous live performance at
Woodstock '94 after a mud fight.
* A live version found on the "Foot in Mouth" EP. (recorded liveJanuary 27 ,1996 at Harumi Arena,Tokyo )
* A live performance on SNLMusic video
The music video shows the band walking to different places like the Mission District and a
BART station inSan Francisco and Berkeley,California at night along with various scenes of people doing common things all inter-related. One of the first scenes of the video eventually leads back to the scene at the end of the video. The band's friend and now backup guitarist Jason White can be seen in the video, with his girlfriend at the time. Mark Kohr directed this video.Before the video was filmed,
MTV used live performance of the song by the band at the 1994 Woodstock Festival.MTV's Ultimate Albums: "Dookie" special credited the simple horizontally-striped sweater worn by Billie Joe in the video for starting a fashion trend of similar sweaters.
Chart positions
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