Green Day is a pop punk/alternative rock band from East Bay, California that formed in 1987. They were originally called Sweet Children, but changed their name before their first release.
Insomniac was my first Green Day album, it still feels like their best most focused blast, at least to my ears. Dookie, Kerplunk, and 39/Smooth very close behind. This band was absolutely flawless through Warning:.
I just bought an album called Green Day live on green vinyyy...yl on the back it says our first bootleg and a trident f’ing ( it says the whole word but I don’t know the rules about cuss words here). I can’t find this in their catalog. Am I missing it or should I add it? I tried looking up the label but the years that were listed don’t match up with when I assume this would have come out
Honestly one of the best and most influential bands of all time. My favorite material form them is their pre-Dookie Lookout material but I love great amount of what came after as well. It is easy to right Green Day off as sell outs and just another pop punk band but in reality they go beyond that label. 30/Smooth and Kerplunk gave the East Bay Punk scene a nationwide recognition that only Operation Ivy was able to do before them. These albums are instant classics for me and are some of the band's most authentic works. When Lookout couldnt control their success, they had to go major label. Dookie's release in 1994 helped spearhead an entire sub genre that would see success for the next two decades. Dookie still stands as a practically flawless album in my opinion. The following three albums were all great as well Insomniac was much more aggressive, Nimrod explored more sounds while maintaining their youthful energy, and Warning explored a lot of uses of acoustic guitars and acoustic punk. And their 2004 comeback, American Idiot, was a phenomenal album that shook the mainstream and gave Green Day a respected position in music. The new sound and new style of Green Day after American Idiot would shape the genre for years to come. Green Day during the Bush era became increasingly vocal about the Iraq War and politics in general and while it polarized some, I appreciate Green Day's courage to make a stand on these issues. While I think some of their releases since American Idiot have been stale, they continue to make music for themselves and their fans if its good or not. 21st Century Breakdown had good concept but didnt turn out great, the Trilogy was a mess, and Rev Rad was a return to form. No matter what, Green Day will always be one of the best.
With snappy, three-chord songs driven by effectively unshakable rhythms and squinty-faced vocals, Green Day have set the standard for Punk-Pop. Though the genre existed before their time, this Bay Area trio -- under the tutelage of Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore -- helped resurrect the catchy, two-and-a-half-minute pop song. Green Day came together at a time when Berkeley, Calif., was bubbling with new bands who were blowing air into Punk's gasping lungs. They quickly became local favorites, frequently playing 924 Gilman St. and helping to establish the venue's legendary status. Constant touring spread their easily digestible songs the world over, and Green Day began attracting considerable attention. Though not the first Bay Area Punk band to sign with a major label, they have certainly gone on to be the biggest. Despite criticism and cries of, "sell out!" Green Day remain as obnoxious and wily as when they were teenagers. ...Plus, their song formula has remained the same -- simple, catchy, and fun, changing just enough to keep from getting boring
Dookie was the first album I ever bought. That album has obvious appeal to a 10 year old, but coming back to it after 14 years it seems as timeless as the Buzzcocks or the Replacements or anything else that I only bothered to get into after the MP3 revolution. Little did I know in 1994 that they would become the superband that they are now, bridging generation gaps and such with their very opportunistic "American Idiot". It's easy to hate a band that charges $50+ for concert tickets for what even now can be pigeonholed as Ramones style power punk, maybe with a bit of post-production gloss. Even as gifted as they are with crafting those kinds of pop rock songs, they never struck me as a "talented" band, the kind that would be fetching that sort of arena rock entry fee, but win a couple Grammys and I suppose the shoe fits.
Nevertheless I still appreciate this band despite selling out or whatever it is that they've done. It's not like they made themselves out to be the kind of people that would care about such a thing. Dookie is still an amazing pop album, American Idiot succeeds most of the time despite its blatant theatrics, and on the albums in the middle you'll find a goldmine of well made pop songs. You'd probably catch me listening to Dead Can Dance or Miles Davis before these guys nowadays, and with 21st Century Breakdown it seems they're having a lot of trouble trying to top American Idiot, but Dookie was a fine entry into the world of music that I don't regret.
Ok, they're Punk, although not living like punks - even less that they would die for it. When ´Dookie´ hit the charts, they weren't even that young to claim music for teens - still in Punk or whatever's left of its 70s fashion commodity, Green Day turned into 'idiots' they refuse to be.
kanduboy80
14 октября 2022 г.