Green Day compiles 30 years of music in greatest-hits CD

NEW YORK — Green Day released a massive greatest-hits album on Friday, but the trio isn’t saying “Good Riddance” anytime soon.

The Grammy Award-winning band and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees released “Greatest Hits: God’s Favorite Band,” an album that spans about 30 years.

Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said he views it as the perfect soundtrack for our “age of outrage,” and, instead of a farewell album, is “sort of like a book of short stories.”

“I don’t think there’s really any sadness,” Armstrong, 45, said by phone from Bogota, Colombia. “I think it’s more a little bit of nostalgia and reflecting on what we’ve done in the past and delivering to our fans.”

Armstrong and the band, which also includes drummer Tre Cool, 44, and bassist Mike Dirnt, 45, said the timing just felt right this year for the compilation.

“The great thing is we’re young enough that we have another lifetime in front of us. That’s the part that I’m excited about,” said Armstrong, who was 16 when the band was started in 1986.

The new 22-track collection includes hits such as “When I Come Around,” “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” “American Idiot,” “21 Guns,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “She” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”

The group — known for its raw, pop-punk approach — is finding a new audience in 2017 through protest songs such as “American Idiot,” which was written about former President George W. Bush.

“We always live in chaos, and once you think you start to have it figured out, it changes immediately,” Armstrong said.

“That’s just the way our culture is. Right now, we’re in the age of outrage and revenge.”