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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.
Sep 20, 2024 · Green Day 's new album represents a spiritual link between their past and present. Fittingly titled Saviors, the band's 14th release is wholly in the present while connecting to their lynchpin albums: 1994's Dookie and 2004's American Idiot.
- 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.
- Insomniac
- ¡Tre!
- Nimrod
- Warning
Dookie had turned Green Day into the one thing no punk band is ever supposed to be: pop stars. As a result, its followup Insomniacfeels a bit like a self-conscious attempt to make it clear to the world that they hadn’t sold out. There are certainly some good songs here, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that in order to “stay true” to his punk roo...
Of the three albums Green Day released in 2012, this one was easily the most consistent and enjoyable. Opening track “Brutal Love” is a beautiful ballad that would make even the Everly Brothers proud. “8th Avenue Serenade” continues the old-school rock’n roll vibes that Green Day wanted to return to with these albums. Of this three-album set, the f...
This was the album where we began to see Billie Joe’s songwriting mature a little bit. Rather than the straightforward blasts of pop-punk that defined Dookie and Insomniac, this was a bit more diverse, most notably in the wistful ballad “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life).” Thanks to epic over-saturation (seriously, you couldn’t go five minutes with...
The relative commercial disappointment of this album set Green Day up for the “comeback” of American Idiot, but this is actually a fantastic record even if it didn’t move a ton of copies. “Minority” and the title track were well-deserved hits, while the dark-but-super-catchy “Blood, Sex & Booze” adds a mandolin to proceedings and somehow manages to...
- Dookie (1994) Runtime: 39:38. Brain Stew: After Kerplunk struck indie gold, Green Day found themselves at a crossroads. They could either double-down on their DIY punk ethos (effectively constructing a self-imposed commercial ceiling) by remaining with Lookout!
- American Idiot (2004) Runtime: 57:12. St. Jimmy’s Watchin’: Things happen for a reason. In hindsight, one might argue it was fate that someone stole Green Day’s master recordings for Cigarettes and Valentines, their initial follow-up to 2000’s Warning.
- Warning (2000) Runtime: 41:14. Brain Stew: It’s safe to say that Billie Joe and the boys wouldn’t have felt comfortable making Warning if it weren’t for the success of Nimrod’s “Time of Your Life.”
- Kerplunk (1992) Runtime: 33:58 (42:09 if bundled with the Sweet Children EP) Brain Stew: Kerplunk cost $1,200 to record, and the band knocked it out with a level of urgency that’s mirrored by the music itself.
Apr 7, 2022 · We ranked every album by Green Day, from classics like Dookie and American Idiot to Revolution Radio. See the list.
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