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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.
- ¡Uno!
- ¡Dos!
- Honorable Mention: Stop Drop and Roll!!!
- Father of All Motherfuckers
- Honorable Mention: Money Money 2020
- ¡Tré!
- Honorable Mention: Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So!
- 21st Century Breakdown
- Revolution Radio
- 39/Smooth
The only truly disappointing Green Day record. 37 songs were recorded in the sessions for “¡Uno!,” “¡Dos!,” and “¡Tré!,” and released within three months of each other as a piecemeal triple album, and frankly, it sounds like it. Lyrics, chord progressions, and themes are recycled from other Green Day songs. Potentially promising tracks like “Let Yo...
What to say about “¡Dos!?” The lowered expectations brought on by “¡Uno!,” released just seven weeks prior, certainly helped, but this installment is more fun and has a certain charm that helps it stand on its own. It has faux British Invasion garage rock vibes, with the band going as far as to call it “the second Foxboro Hot Tubs album” (more on t...
Foxboro Hot Tubs has been called a side project, but since it includes all of Green Day, plus touring members Jason White, Jason Freese, and Kevin Preston, it’s really more of an alter ego, where Green Day dives into their ‘60s garage rock influences. “Stop Drop and Roll!!!” doesn’t break any new musical ground, but it’s not supposed to. It plays l...
The “Father of All…” cover depicts the agitprop heart-as-hand-grenade artwork from “American Idiot,” defaced to include the new album title and a vomiting cartoon unicorn. The message seems to be that nobody needs another serious political sermon right now–this world’s on fire, so let’s dance on the ashes. And as it was released weeks before Covid ...
In 2003, Billie Joe offered assistance to a cryptic foreign new wave band called The Network, and ended up being contractually forced to release their debut album, “Money Money 2020,” on his label, Adeline Records. The Network repaid the favor by antagonizing Green Day in the press and hiding behind masks and pseudonyms to conceal their true identi...
The ill-fated “¡Uno!/¡Dos!/¡Tré!” trilogy concludes a trajectory where each installment slightly improves on its predecessor, meaning that by “¡Tré!,” whichever listeners have actually stuck around get a decent album. “¡Tré!” sounds like the record that logically would have come out after “Warning,” if the guys hadn’t veered into concept albums and...
You can’t say they didn’t warn us. The Network gave 17 years advance notice of dark times to come when they issued “Money Money 2020” way back in 2003. When the titular year itself greeted us with deadly disease, heightened police brutality, and a wannabe-dictator gameshow grifter trying to reclaim the White House, The Network emerged from the shad...
Green Day shifted their paradigm when they released the critical and commercial smash “American Idiot” in 2004. Then they followed with “21st Century Breakdown,” a second consecutive politically-charged rock opera, which largely feels like “American Idiot Part 2.” Not surprisingly, five songs from “21CB” were included in the Broadway stage adaptati...
“Revolution Radio” may sound like the name of a Clash B-side, but it’s actually a Green Day record, and considering it’s the 12th studio album by a band approaching three decades together, “RevRad” still manages to check the right boxes. “Bang Bang,” a gun culture commentary, is as aggressive as anything the band ever released, “Still Breathing” wa...
It’s Green Day’s first full length and it slays. You likely know it as ‘1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours,” the CD version that combined the “39/Smooth” LP, the “Slappy” EP, and the “1,000 Hours” EP. “At the Library,” “Going to Pasalacqua,” “The Judge’s Daughter,” and “Paper Lanterns” are absolute classics. That the album came out when Green Day was ...
Apr 7, 2022 · 10. 39/Smooth (1990) Recorded for just $700 — and for a record company (Lookout!) that signed the band on a handshake, no less — Green Day’s debut album marked its authors as ones to watch ...
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Sep 15, 2024 · Nimrod, Green Day's fifth studio album, earned its place in rock history after being recorded at Hollywood's Conway Recording Studios in 1997.Winning fans with tracks like "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and "Hitchin' a Ride," it peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and achieved double-platinum status.
Apr 4, 2021 · 6 When I Come Around (Dookie, 1994) Billie Joe’s ode to his then-long distance Minnesotan girlfriend Adrienne Nesser felt like proof, all the way back in 1994, that this was a band destined to ...
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