High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cigarettes and Valentines was an unreleased studio album from punk rock band Green Day that would have been the proper follow-up to 2000's Warning. In the summer of 2003, the album was nearly finished when the master recordings of 20 tracks were purportedly stolen from the studio. Instead of re-recording the album, the band decided to start from scratch, leading to the creation of American Idiot. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said the album's material was "good stuff." Musically, the material on Cigarettes and Valentines was hard, "quick-tempoed punk" songs in the vein of Green Day's Insomniac and Kerplunk. This sound would have contrasted the group's previous two studio albums, Nimrod and Warning, which displayed more alternative rock and folk punk genres respectively. Bassist Mike Dirnt described the band's decision of returning to the sound found on their older albums, stating, "We've had a nice break from making hard and fast music and it's made us want to do it again."

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