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Hot new video: Green Day's ''Wake Me When September Ends''

Aug 11, 2005, 03:31 PM | by Gary Susman

Categories: Music

145058__sept_lCheck out Green Day's poignant new video for ''Wake Me Up When September Ends.'' The seven-minute epic features actress-of-the-moment Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell (left, of Billy Elliot fame) as teenage lovers wrenchingly separated when he enlists in the military and goes off to fight in Iraq. Samuel Bayer, who has directed all of Green Day's recent videos (and, incidentally, the pep-rally-from-hell clip for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit''), tells MTV News that ''September'' is the best thing he's ever done -- and it's hard to argue.


andrin Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:15 AM EST

i love this song but ihave never seen this vedio can any help me with this

cami Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:41 AM EST

green day rules!!! (L)

laura Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:57 PM EST

que payasos que son para separarce!!!hacian una hermosa parejaa evan!..como vas a ponerte de novia con el pajeroo de marilyn mansoon es un purooo de mierda tiene caca en la cabeza y encima remplazarlo por jamiee!vos si que estas locaaa

laura Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:57 PM EST

que payasos que son para separarce!!!hacian una hermosa parejaa evan!..como vas a ponerte de novia con el pajeroo de marilyn mansoon es un purooo de mierda tiene caca en la cabeza y encima remplazarlo por jamiee!vos si que estas locaaa

shova Sun, Oct 7, 2007 at 10:25 PM EST

I like This rocks song! greenday

Adela Thu, Aug 2, 2007 at 04:27 PM EST

it's a good video!!!

Evan Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:11 AM EST

those who don't like GD are such dingdong.why u comment on this page if u don't care about them and their music.can you make music like them? sure you can't so I don't think you can criticize this awesome bank.u guys are out of place just go back home lol

Dalena Nguyen Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:59 PM EST

OMG!
i absolutely loved this song...i almost cried when she found out that he signed in to go to war

GD Fan Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:33 PM EST

Well Wake me up when september ends is just awesome...
I totally love GD... Is just a lie that the others cd of GC like dookie are better than American Idiot cos I have both and personally I like American Idiot tha' most. I totally need Tha' URL of this video to put it on my space.
GD really rocks...
GD... I'ma Ur 1# Puerto rican fan... I cant wait to see ya in a Greatest concert ever on Puerto rico...
I would be awesome... really love ya... guys...
still rocking alot...
by: Dne

melike Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:26 PM EST

hi i am a turrkish fan of billie joe ı love him to death and ı love jamie bell too he is veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy handsome but less than my bj

demon Fri, Apr 7, 2006 at 06:12 PM EST

it was awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gfdsgfdf Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:26 AM EST

u guys rock

Lakshman Sun, Mar 5, 2006 at 06:22 PM EST

i dont know other but the GREEN DAY is the best and the video is one of my fav n the song WHATSHERNAME is great

Neps Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:10 AM EST

Wake me up when september ends.
and
I didn't for us.
and
I never us.

WYL Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 02:08 PM EST

Why do the images so ineffably linked to the music haunt us so many months after this video was released? Green Day in its essence has the power to hook on to something needed in the hearts and minds of an entire culture... then the brilliance of Sam Bayer takes it steps deeper with a simple, innocent, powerful story that latches on to the truth of the painful history we as a nation are enduring. It is nothing short of understated and visionary artistry at its pinnacle.

Jason Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:42 PM EST

I never cared much for this band, but now they are trying to be all political and it makes them look like a bunch of tards. If they hate America so much why don't they go sing their whiny sappy songs somewhere else. Bunch of makeup wearing posers, this band sucks.

Chaba Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:23 PM EST

This song sucks balls, green day sucks balls, and anyone who likes this whiny bullshit song sucks balls

Penny Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:23 PM EST

Brittany: for someone who claims to love Green Day, you should consider *listening* to American Idiot. It doesn't appear that you've grasped its political content. "sudam hussan" didn't attack the U.S. on September 11. Pick up a newspaper dear, Billie Joe would be ashamed.

Keith Hill Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:18 AM EST

Whatever. This is the greatest music video I have ever seen. And I've been brought to tears many a time by it, since I went through the same thing (leaving my girlfriend to go into Iraq).

Sarah Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:41 AM EST

I love Green Day!This song rocks!I cannot stop listening to it!!

Steph Fri, Oct 7, 2005 at 10:59 AM EST

I love this song. It reminds me of my mom that just passed away. Green Day has been hot since *I* was a teen back in 1994.

pooblaster Sun, Oct 2, 2005 at 08:06 PM EST

good song though and i do like american idiot but the vidio isnt that great.

pooblaster Sun, Oct 2, 2005 at 08:05 PM EST

i think that all this new popularity for greenday isnt too good. a lot of people like them just for american idiot. im not saying that everyone here is like. im just saying that they have made other good albums such as dookie and insomniac

Brittany Brown Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:31 PM EST

I Love this song it makes me cry about how my friend died in 2004 his cusin went to st.james and reminds me of 9/11/01 my birthday when we were attacked by sudam hussan. I love your songs and you guys rock me and my boy friend love you guys.

Brittany Brown Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:30 PM EST

I Love this song it makes me cry about how my friend died in 2004 his cusin went to st.james and reminds me of 9/11/01 my birthday when we were attacked by sudam hussan. I love your songs and you guys rock me and my boy friend love you guys.

Ray Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:56 PM EST

awsome video...awsome song, and I don't even listen to that type of music, I'm a hip-hop fan!

nora Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:17 PM EST

GREEN DAY ROX!!!!!!!!i love thier band! its lyk my fav band. i think their the best and if they keep doing wat they r doin then they will go far in life. plus i love the video. but my fav song from them was holiday. i think it was so original and unique. so ya it rox! who ever thinx differently sux..... sry. but thats my opinion. they dont care wat ppl think so thats kewl. o ya they r also the best looking..... rite?

HockeyGirl4eva! Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:53 PM EST

The video was great! Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell did an amazing job! And the song rocks. Green Day is just a great band. I love their newest album American Idiot, but my favorite album is Nimrod. I don't think Green Day has changed at all, I think that they decided to write about what is going on in the world right now, and they always write about how they feel about things, and they've written some damn hilarious songs (ex. King For A Day). But no matter what, they always pull it off. Billie Joe, Mike and Tre kick ass and are just musical geniuses. GREEN DAY ROCKS!!!!!!!

J Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:46 AM EST

Green Day is the best.....but have you seen Backstreet Boy's new videos man they rock like green day!!!

shannon Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:34 PM EST

hmm.. okayyy green day is an amazing band. or acutally, was. there old stuff was just good, there the ultimate punks. from FOD to the grotch, they clearly dont care about what any of us think. we care to much about what other people think, okay to the point. the video, i would probably consider it really good if it were by another band. so,yeah its a good video. it just makes me sad that green day made it so far, and then started becoming so, different. I guess thats what bands do these days. but, I dont see what this has to do with the rest of the cd, so the song is about his dads death? put it on another Cd.

Brittany Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:50 AM EST

This video is one of the best I have seen the video brings me to tears everytime cuz to be honest I think bout if I had a guy to treat me as good as he treats her I jus wouldnt want him goin to war.. I would be depressed til the day he came back. I dont really care for Greenday all that much but this is the best ever!

Margret Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:11 AM EST

Chad and iProd should shut up, first, wtf? they're not from Warner Bros. Records you dingdong, they're from Reprise, which is where awesome rock comes from.... and Billie is 33, so, you're saying that 7 years away is close to 40? and if 60 year old women wear blue eyeshadow, y cant a 33 year old man wear black under his eye? no one said it wasn't meant for men, at least no one who actually thought about it... second.. emos??? they r not emos, no where close even.. emos r just a bunch of whiners saying they're life sucks, and they wanna die, and cry all day, and say how it sucks to live cuz life sucks, and it sucks to be them... they're a bunch of idiots listening to music, which they call emo, when its not even a type of music.... so if you are using that to refer to green day... you better get the real definition of it first... and do not believe those things that say "they're emotional, and its music.. blah blah blah.... emos are a type of person that only exists in the mind of an emo

ps. yea i told my brother than evan rachel would looks somewhat like avril lavigne, but i think she's a lil prettier

iProd Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:06 PM EST

Green Day is just a bunch of emos trying to be cool but they are really a bunch of queers on a little play of pissycakes.

Brandon Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:55 AM EST

Dialogue was hackneyed, but the song and the actors were good. The video was touching in an impermanent way.

samantha Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:11 AM EST

actually, Kerplunk was the best Green Day album. maybe someone (Chad) should look before mainstream Dookie for on educated opinion.

I do agree that the video was just okay. Evan Rachel Wood is over-rated, but Jamie Bell was fantastic! The song isn't my favorite on the album though.

Green Day is trying to be the next U2?! Hahaha i laugh! Who would want to be them? U2 can't get past Bono's huge ego to get respect from anyone other than people who were in college when they started out.

Sami Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:56 AM EST

Video was just ok, but Green Day rocks and so does the song.

mike M Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:24 PM EST

Best Album of the last five years.
Maybe 10 years along with The Verve's "Urban Hymns"

Chad Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:21 PM EST

That was boring, the song was boring, the video was boring and Evan Rachel Wood was seriously misused as the smalltown Avril.

Billie lacks any amount of charisma or stage presence that it takes to sell a song and he needs to lose the eyeliner, he's gotting be heading to 40 soon.

Dookie was their only good album and that's only true because I was a freshman in high school.

They should give up on their dream of being the "Next U2" or the biggest band in the world, cuz it's not gonna happen with whiny, syrupy sap crap like that.

P.S. TimeWarner owns EW and Warner Bros. records (GD's label) so no wonder the praise.

Daniel Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:15 PM EST

It's not THAT good guys. It's actually kind of cheesy(dialogue expecially, and doesn't really bring anything new or fresh to the video format. The song's okay though, and it's tough to argue against the fact that these are two excellent young actors.

Vu Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:51 PM EST

Wow. This is just great. What a beatiful piece of art.

ashley Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:42 PM EST

Green Day rules. They could tour with Hall and Oates and I'd still respect them. I was moved to tears during the video and people stopped my my desk and watched it too. All too scary and surreal.


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