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- Dookie (1994) Green Day’s third album launched the Berkeley trio into the stratosphere, reminding the wider world that punk rock still existed. A faultless, irresistible collection of instant classics, Dookie pulls together the frantic energy of Basket Case with the artfully controlled When I Come Around and makes both sound like they were made to be together.
- Insomniac (1995) How do you follow up an album that unexpectedly and simultaneously makes you both global superstars and pariahs among punk purists? By pouring all the anxiety and needling energy into its follow-up, of course.
- American Idiot (2004) Green Day’s second act began with not so much a bang as a full fireworks show and Christ-like resurrection. It’s difficult now to overstate just how unexpected American Idiot was: equal parts a swing for the fences by a band on the ropes, and a familiar reassurance that you’d be a fool to doubt their nous, ambitious and song-writing skills.
- Warning (2000) The early 2000s were Green Day’s mid-career stumble. While album sales remained respectable, they found themselves lower down the punk rock pecking order than Blink-182, and there was a general sense that they’d become the wrong kind of misfits.
- Dookie (1994) Billie Joe Armstrong might have humbly pondered, ‘Do you have the time to listen to me whine?’ on Dookie’s second single Basket Case, but it’s a question that is incessantly met with a resounding “Yes” over a quarter of a century later.
- American Idiot (2004) Really, what more can be said about Green Day’s monumental seventh album? Yes, the songs are genuinely incredible, but the context in which the full-length was made also makes it all the more jaw-dropping.
- Insomniac (1995) Adopting a much more bleak tone – both lyrically and sonically – than its predecessor, Billie Joe told Rolling Stone that he “wanted to show the uglier side of what Green Day was capable of” on Insomniac.
- Nimrod (1997) Okay, now this list is really getting tricky. You might even say that we’ve found ourselves at a ‘fork stuck in the road’ (sorry). And of course Billie Joe’s bitter break-up ballad to an ex-girlfriend who had moved to Ecuador played a momentous role in the triumph of Nimrod, but there’s so, so much to Green Day’s fifth LP than just Good Riddance.
Sep 20, 2024 · 10 Reasons Why 'American Idiot' Is Green Day's Masterpiece. In the midst of Green Day's Saviors Tour, the group's seminal 2004 album turns 20. In honor of the anniversary, dig into all of the ways it became the band's magnum opus. Green Day looked in danger of slipping into irrelevancy following the underperformance of 2000's Warning and 2001's ...
- St. Jimmy (American Idiot, 2004) Jesus Of Suburbia might’ve been American Idiot’s protagonist, and Whatsername his almost-saviour, but St. Jimmy represented the punk fire burning within.
- She (Dookie, 1994) There’s a thinking that by the time Warner dropped the fifth and final single off Dookie in May 1995, the levels of Green Day in the public consciousness had reached saturation point, resulting in it being the only one not to reach the Top 40.
- Basket Case (Dookie, 1994) ‘Do you have the time to listen to me whine / About nothing and everything all at once?’ Perhaps the most forehead-slappingly obvious inclusion on this list, Basket Case has long since entered the punk pantheon as an all-time classic but it’s nonetheless worth stopping to remind ourselves just how much it means to fans today.
- Burnout (Dookie, 1994) ‘I’m not growing up, I’m just burning out…’ Longview might’ve been Dookie’s lead single, but album opener Burnout is the real intro to those 40 minutes of punk paradise for the millions of fans who’ve spun the record since.
- Insomniac (1995) Spotify. Apple Music. Rough Trade. Amazon. Plagued by accusations of selling out, Green Day told the punks they didn’t need them by… writing a punk record.
- Warning: (2000) Spotify. Apple Music. Rough Trade. Amazon. If Nimrod plays like reading a resume, Warning: is the first day the band came to that job with a T-shirt on.
- Dookie (1994) Spotify. Apple Music. Rough Trade. Amazon. Dookie is the platonic ideal of a pop-punk record. It’s juvenile, it’s basic, it’s dumb, it rocks. Before I knew what pop-punk was, I had heard Dookie a million times, and I’ve probably heard each song 10 million times since then.
- Nimrod (1997) Spotify. Apple Music. Rough Trade. Amazon. I assume that every young punk has heard the refrain from someone older: “At some point, you’re gonna give up all of that punk stuff and grow up.”
May 25, 2023 · 6. Kerplunk (1991) Another Lookout! album, and another banger. Tré Cool had just joined, so this is the first album by the classic Green Day lineup. Billie Joe has called “Kerplunk” his favorite Green Day record; many early fans will agree. For all intents and purposes, this is the album that gave the world Green Day.
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May 16, 2018 · Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) A night-closing alt-club epic, this hug-inducing banger still stands up as one of modern rock’s most perfect acoustic numbers. We dare you to try not to belt ...
