When I Come Around

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“When I Come Around”
“When I Come Around” cover
Single by Green Day
from the album Dookie
Released 1995
Format CD
Recorded 1993
Genre Pop punk
Length 2:58
Label WEA International, Reprise Records
Green Day singles chronology
"She"
(1995)		 "When I Come Around"
(1995)		 "J.A.R."
(1995)

"When I Come Around" is a single from Green Day's album Dookie from 1994. It was the final single from the album, showing Green Day's largely pop influences. It topped the Modern Rock Tracks for seven weeks.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. When I Come Around (Album Version) (2:58)
  2. Coming Clean (Live) (1:36)
  3. She (Live) (2:14)

AU Single:

  1. When I Come Around (Album Version) (2:58)
  2. Longview (Live) (3:30)
  3. Burnout (Live) (2:11)
  4. 2,000 Light Years Away (Live) (2:48)

7" Picture Disc:
Side A.

  • When I Come Around

Side B.

  • She (Live)

[edit] Other Versions

[edit] Music video

The music video shows the band walking to different places (e.g. a BART station) in Berkeley and San Francisco, 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.

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1995 Modern Rock Tracks (US) No. 1
1995 Top 40 Mainstream (US) No. 2
1995 Billboard Hot 100 Airplay No. 10
1995 Official Sweden Singles Chart No. 28
1995 Official UK Singles Chart No. 27
1995 Official German Singles Chart No. 45

It should be noted that, while the song was extremely popular in the United States, even managing to hit number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, the lack of a commercial single single-handedly prevented the song from charting on the Billboard Hot 100.

Preceded by
"Bang and Blame" by R.E.M.		 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number one single
January 7 1995 - February 18 1995		 Succeeded by
"Lightning Crashes" by Live
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