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Green Day was a part of the CA punk scene.
Childhood friends Billie Joe (guitar, vocals) and Mike (bass), formed their first band, Sweet Children, in Rodeo, CA when they were only 14 years old.
By
1989, the group has added drummer Al Sobrante who was very ambitious and after some time he had left the band leaving his place to Tre Cool. That year, the band released their first EP, 1,000 Hours, which was well-received in the punk scene. Soon, the group has signed a contract with the local independent
label, Lookout! Records.
1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours & Kerplunk
1.039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, Green Day's first album, was released later that year. Shortly after its released, Sobrante quit the band and, as I said, was quickly replaced with Tre Cool who became the band's permanent drummer. In that time they changed their name to Green Day. Yep, they
owe their name to CA slang, actually kinda humorous name for wasting your day smoking pot.. Throughout the early 1990, Green
Day continued to cultivate a cult following, which only gained strength with the release of their second album Kerplunk, 1992's. The underground success of Kerplunk led to a wave of interest from mayor record labels: the band eventually decided to sign with Reprise
Records.
Dookie
Dookie, Green Day's mayor label debut was released in the spring of 1994. Thanks to MTV's support for the initial
singles Longview and Welcome To Paradise, Dookie became a mayor hit.The album continued to gain momentum throughout the summer, with the another single
Basket Case, spending 5 weeks on the top of the American modern rock charts. At the end of summer, the band stole
the show at Woodstock 1994 which helped the sales of Dookie increase. By the time the 4th single When I Come Around began its 7 weeks stay at number 1 in the modern rock charts in early 1995, Dookie has sold over 5 million copies in the USA alone: it would eventually top 8 million in America, selling
over 12 million copies internationally. Dookie also won a Grammy in for best alternative music performance of 1994.
Insomniac
Green Day quickly followed Dookie with Insomniac in the fall of charts with J.A.R., their contribution to the soundtrack of the movie Angus. Insomniac performed well initually, entering the U.S. charts at number 2, and selling over 2 million copies by
the spring of 1996, yet none of its singles, including the rado favorite Brain Stew/Jaded, were as popular as those from Dookie. In the spring of 1996, Green Day cancelled an European tour, claiming exhaustion.
Nimrod
Following the cancellation, the band spent the rest of the year resting and writing
new material. The end result is what was called the best album of their career: Nimrod. Nimrod was well received by most critics and fans. The album sold 80,000 copies in its first week to land at
#10 on the Billboard charts. The first single from Nimrod was Hitchin' A Ride. The single made it to #5 on the modern rock charts and was in heavy rotation on Much Music and MTV.
The next single the band released would not make it to #1 (its highest position was #2), but it's now probably the most well
known song Green Day ever wrote. Featuring Billie Joe on accoustic guitar and vocals, Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) became the song to play in any remotely sad situation. The song was even used on the final episode of
the hit TV show Seinfeld (the most watched finale in the history of TV). Along with Seinfeld, the song was also played on
2 episodes of E.R.. Nimrod has sold just over 2 million, the lowest sales total out of their 3 mayor label albums, but it probably
garnered the band more respect than they could have expected with another Dookie or Insomniac.The band also improved their live show and even won Best Live Performance at the Kerang! awards in 1998.
»» Some say constantly that they sound British but this Billie Joe's quote says everything: 'I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.'
Someone will be kinda disappointed, someone will put two thumbs up for Billie Joe's sense of humour :)
Warning
After nearly 2 years with barely any mention of the band, Green Day returned in late
1999 to play Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit concert: their first live accoustic performance. Green Day began recording
their follow-up to Nimrod shortly after, which would eventually become Warning. Early in the recording process, the band decided to fire their new producer, Scott Litt, and produce
the album themselves, marking the first time since Kerplunk that anyone but Rob Cavallo produced the band recording. After they finished recording, Green Day decided
to do something else they hadn't done before headline the 2000 Vans warped tour. Green Day played an amazing set and brought
more fans to the tour than any other year in Warped's history. Warning was released in the fall of 2000 and is by far Green Day's most ambitious album to date. If its first
singles Minority and the album could prove to be extremely successful. Just 4 weeks after the release of Minority it sat on the top of Billboard's modern rock charts: no other Green Day song has hit the top that fast.
International Superhits & Shenanigans
Green Day's compilation called International Superhits!, which contains the greatest songs, was released in the fall of 2001. It also contains a song dedicated
to Pennywise's member that died, Jason. International Superhits! is kinda ultimately answer to dilemmas. Otherwise, all of Green Day's greatest hits, gathered together,
show that CA trio is actually an example for any following analysis of the phenomen called melody punk. Due to their pop melody
puzzled with punk aggressiveness, Green Day actually turned punk rock in the right way..Green Day's very best gift for the
fans is bringing on stage 3 fans out of the audience to play instead of them.. 3 lucky Green Day freaks (sometimes just 1,
sometimes 1 for each instrument + vocal) get the chance to play to thousands of screaming fans.. You better thank your lucky
stars :) Gotta go further and mention Green Day's new album named Shenanigans which contains unreleased and B-side songs, actually 14 rare outtakes, cover songs and other shenanigans
:). A song Espionage from this album appeared in the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as an original soundtrack.
American Idiot
American Idiot is another album that happened to be released on September, 21st 2004. There's nothing I
know about it, except two possible song names Homecoming and What's Her Name?. You have to admit that they are always original
in giving names to their albums :) You just have to be happened to be a punk..
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