Did you ever listen to [article id="1634702"]Green Day's American Idiot[/article] and think to yourself, "I wish this could sound bigger"?

Well, you're in luck. Because streaming right now on MTV's The Leak, is American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording, and it's pretty massive. The album -- featuring the musical's stars John Gallagher Jr., Michael Esper, Stark Sands, Tony Vincent, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Mary Faber and Christina Sajous singing music orchestrated by Tom Kitt -- comes out on April 20.

Loaded with full choirs, classically trained vocalists singing for the rafters and guitars, bass and drums that sound like they've been retrofitted with rocket boosters for the band's trip to the Great White Way, this version of American Idiot is a super-charged spring through the band's album (and, its follow-up, 2009's 21st Century Breakdown), the kind of thing that no doubt sounds amazing rattling around in the eaves and proscenium arches.

The first half of the album -- featuring songs like "American Idiot," the "Jesus of Suburbia" suite and a fiery "St. Jimmy" -- crackles with sonic energy and bursts with vocal pyrotechnics. It makes you realize that Green Day probably should've turned this thing into a musical a long time ago. But, to the composers' credit, they also realized that every great stage show needs its share of slower moments, too, and the middle portion of the album is full of them. A bittersweet "Give Me Novocain" starts soft and tender, with swaying, gently strummed acoustics. "Last of the American Girls" is given a pretty, baroque string intro, and "Last Night on Earth" is downright dour, with a mournful cello bellowing beneath an ominous guitar line.

It goes to show you that "massive" has many different meanings. Even the quieter moments carry an enormous amount of emotional heft. Of course, things wrap up with more of the epic, big-sounding stuff (the "Homecoming" suite, the full-cast version of "Whatsername" and the album-closing ballad "When It's Time"), because you've got to send the audience home happy.

But if the Broadway recording proves anything, it's that Green Day songs are packed with more emotional wallop than you probably think, and they lend themselves nicely to the big sound of the stage. It seems like the guys in GD could actually be onto something here.

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