When I Come Around

"When I Come Around"
Song

"When I Come Around" is a single from Green Day's third album, Dookie from 1994. It was the final single from the album. "When I Come Around" was Green Day's most popular radio single in their early career, peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay. This was their highest charting radio single until 2005's Boulevard of Broken Dreams peaked at number 3. The song was also their breakthrough hit in most of the world. The song topped the Modern Rock Tracks for seven weeks, and also hit number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks.

Track listing

Initial Pressing

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

• (Live tracks recorded November 18, 1994 at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago)

AU Single

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

• (Live tracks recorded March 11, 1994, at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, Florida)

7" Picture Disc

Side A.

• "When I Come Around" - 2:58

Side B.

• "She" (Live) - 2:14

Other versions

• The infamous live performance at Woodstock '94 after a mud fight.
• A live version found on the Foot in Mouth EP. (recorded live January 27, 1996 at Harumi Arena, Tokyo)
• A live performance on SNL
• The older version "Better Not Come Around" can be heard live on the Live at Gilman Street EP. There are also older versions included in the Dookie Demos.
• A rendition by the band The Business

Music video

The music video shows the band walking to different places like the Mission District and a BART 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 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 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 Billie Joe in the video for starting a fashion trend of similar sweaters.

Chart positions

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay	10
U.S. Billboard Pop Songs	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Alternative Tracks	1
Sweden Singles Chart	28
UK Singles Chart	27
German Singles Chart	45