When I Come Around


"When I Come Around" is a song released by American rock band Green Day. It is the tenth track on their third studio album, Dookie, and was released as the fourth single from that album in 1995. It was played live as early as 29 August 1992. "When I Come Around" was Green Day's most popular radio single in their early career, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. This was their highest charting radio single until 2004's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" peaked at No. 2.
"When I Come Around" was one of the most successful alternative rock songs of 1995. It topped Billboards Alternative Songs chart for seven weeks, and also hit number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. It was Green Day's third straight number-one from Dookie, after "Longview" and "Basket Case". As of August 2010, "When I Come Around" has sold 639,000 copies, making it the band's second best-selling single of the 1990s behind only their 1997 hit "Good Riddance ".

Track listing

Initial pressing

  1. "When I Come Around" – 2:58
  2. "Coming Clean" – 1:36
  3. "She" – 2:14
  1. "When I Come Around" – 2:58
  2. "Longview" – 3:30
  3. "Burnout" – 2:11
  4. "2,000 Light Years Away" – 2:48
Side A
Side B
The music video shows the band walking to different places, like the Mission District and the Powell Street Station in San Francisco and Berkeley, 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. The band's touring 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 aired a 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 Armstrong in the video for starting a fashion trend of similar sweaters.

Use in media

"When I Come Around" was featured in South Park episode "Hummels & Heroin". It was also featured in the Green Day-themed Rock Band game . It has been featured in multiple media such as the trailer for Blast from the Past and the episode in Hindsight.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart Peak
position
US Billboard Rock Digital Songs31

Year-end charts

Certifications