What was the title of the Green Day album that was stolen in 2003 before they recorded American Idiot?

What was the title of the Green Day album that was stolen in 2003 before they recorded American Idiot? The answer is Cigarettes and Valentines.

Cigarettes and Valentines was an unreleased Green Day album intended to follow Warning. The band had been developing the project around 2002 and 2003, and its master recordings were reported to have been stolen while the album was nearly complete.

Rather than recreate the record, Green Day chose to start over. Working with producer Rob Cavallo, the band developed a more ambitious direction that became American Idiot, released in 2004. The abandoned project therefore became a crucial part of the story behind one of Green Day’s biggest reinventions.

The theft account has sometimes been questioned or retold differently, and the original album has never been officially released in full. That uncertainty does not change the title normally associated with the lost pre-American Idiot project: Cigarettes and Valentines.