Green Day - Nimrod
Nimrod Nimrod very well may be the album everyone expected to come from Green Day after 1994’s Dookie. But when faced with their major-label follow-up, Green Day went for the stadium-rock grandeur of Insomniac’s huge guitars and tightened up playing. With that out of their system, the band had the chance to take on the hard shuffling of “Hitchin’ A Ride,” the sour pop...
Green Day - Insomniac
Insomniac After Dookie, Green Day were faced with a variety of options. Poised to take over the world if only they re-wrote another alterna-anthem like “Basket Case,” the band took a step back and looked through their back catalog. In order to fill the stadiums they were about to play with a full sound, the band bumped up their...
Green Day - Dookie
Dookie There’s a collective thought that once a band sign a major label contract, they take the money and run, letting their major label debut fall flat among high production values and A&R men searching for the single. With Dookie, Green Day seem to attack that myth with a vengeance. From the opening drum fill on “Burnout,” the band rip into a fierce slacker anthem...
Green Day - Kerplunk
Kerplunk Out the gate, Green Day are trying to prove something with Kerplunk. “2000 Light Years Away” comes polished off with new drummer Tré Cool’s unpredictable and precision rat-a-tat fills, Mike Dirnt’s dominating bass and Billie Joe Armstrong’s newfound sense of perfect pop hooks. The band take full advantage of their secret weapon—a solid rhythm section—through the rest of...
Green Day - 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours Origin stories tend to give insight into comic book characters that helps explain the choices they’ve made, the directions they’ve taken, and the importance of their past. For Green Day, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours shows the band using upbeat three-chord pop-punk songs to manifest their scorned love, budding alienation and youthful scrappiness. Billie...
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