This “Weekly Whatever” taps into that annual feeling one gets about this time of year– a whisper of Fall coolness in the air, the sense of another year winding down, a door closing, already the carefree days of summer seem long ago.
That’s the mood of Green Day’s “Wake Me When September Ends,” which generated months of heavy radio play in 2005, the early years of the Iraq War, which fueled the subject matter behind the video for the song. The actual spark for the song was the death of the bands Billie Joe Armstrong’s father, from cancer, when Billie Joe was only 10 years old.