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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.
- 39/Smooth – ‘Going to Pasalacqua’
- Kerplunk – ‘One of My Lies’
- Dookie – ‘When I Come Around’
- Insomniac – ‘Walking Contradiction’
- Nimrod – ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’
- Warning – ‘Waiting’
- American Idiot – ‘Jesus of Suburbia’
- 21st Century Breakdown – ‘¡Viva La Gloria!’
- ¡Uno! – ‘Oh Love’
- ¡Dos! – ‘Amy’
Green Day’s debut LP, 39/Smooth, was a true underground album. Released on the influential independent punk label Lookout Records, the LP was the group’s only album to feature original drummer John Kiffmeyer. Selling roughly 3,000 copies on its original release, 39/Smooth features a band that is lightyears away from the world-conquering stadium act...
By the time they reached their second album, Green Day had all the pieces in place. Cool was officially on board, and Billie Joe Armstrong was starting to hone in on his clever songwriting bent. The group didn’t have the money or resources to produce anything that sounded particularly good, but Kerplunk has plenty of ragged charm going for it. In t...
Where to start with Green Day’s classic major label debut, Dookie? Simply put, this album is the one with the highest number of great songs from the band’s catalogue, with classic singles like ‘Basket Case’,‘Welcome to Paradise’, ‘She’ and ‘Longview’. The album’s deep cuts are even more enthralling, with tracks like ‘Burnout’, ‘Chump’ and ‘Coming C...
There was no time to sleep for Green Day. That was both figurative and literal: the group’s intense touring schedule and high public demand caused them to enter the studio almost immediately after wrapping up the final support dates for Dookie. Fuelled by coffee and amphetamines, Insomniac was darker, faster, and less pop-oriented than Dookie, alie...
By 1997, straightforward punk rock was beginning to get boring. Green Day was desperate to redefine themselves, even as their audience was begging for another Dookie. Instead, the band cranked out Nimrod, a massive 17-song collection that works in everything from ska to violin gipsy folk. Armstrong was at his wit’s end, channelling all his frustrat...
Green Day was staring down the crossroads as the new millennium dawned. There were two ways to go: continue to be just another ‘90s punk band trying to keep their careers afloat, or go in a completely different direction. Warning was the final album that Green Day released where they could still possibly be written off. It’s lighter and folkier tha...
It was going to be business as usual for Green Day in the early 2000s. A set of punk rock songs entitled Cigarettes and Valentines was being recorded when a series of demos and other recordings were stolen from the band. Rather than re-recording them, the band decided to start over. Taking inspiration from the long history of rock operas, Green Day...
After the major success of American Idiot, it only made sense to revisit the rock opera format for the follow-up, 21st Century Breakdown. Although less classic than its predecessor (and the unwitting start of Green Day’s late-period creative slide), Breakdown is still Green Da at its most ambitious. Pop-centred tracks like ‘Know Your Enemy’ and ‘21...
The early 2010s was a confusing time to be Green Day. In order to try and inject some new blood, the band officially promoted touring guitarist Jason White to a full-time member and embarked on their most ambitious project to date: a trilogy of full-length albums featuring some of the most diverse musical choices the band had ever made. To say ¡Uno...
The most direct and focused album of the trio set, ¡Dos! is mostly just goofy garage rock fun. I don’t hate ‘Fuck Time’ and can even recommend ‘Stray Heart’ and ‘Ashley’. Most of the other tracks are mostly just lower-level punk rock filler tracks, but they do harken back to the deep cuts that fill out the band’s classic LPs. The one real surprise ...
- 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.
- 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.
Mar 16, 2020 · Since the band just put out their 13th studio release last month, we found it fitting to rank all 170 album tracks with Green Day super-fan Tom Kunzman of the band 18th & Addison.
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Oct 5, 2017 · In Green Day’s case, they decided to make the album of their career, an album that shouldn’t work but absofuckinglutely does: a punk rock concept album complete with storyline, characters and nine-minute songs.
