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Green Day is an American rock band formed in the East Bay
of California in 1987.[1] The band's current lineup consists of guitarist and vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool.[2]
After releasing 2 albums (1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk!) on independent punk label Lookout! Records, they reached mainstream success with their third studio album and major label debut Dookie. Their next 3 albums (Insomiac, Nimrod and Warning) were less commerically successful, though Nimrod contained hit single Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). After the master tapes for their would-be seventh studio album Cigarettes and Valentines were stolen, they got to work on a new album, American Idiot, a politically charged anti-Bush rock opera which plunged them back into the mainstream. They have since released 6 more albums, 21st Century Breakdown, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré!, Revolution Radio and Father of All Motherfuckers.
Because of their success and major label status, there is much debate as to whether or not Green Day constitutes true punk rock.[3]
They are generally described as punk rock,[4][5][6][7][8][9] pop-punk,[4][9][10][11][12] skate punk,[4][13][14][15][16][17] melodic punk,[18][19][20][21][22] alternative rock,[12][23][24][25] and occasionally power pop.[9][26][27][28] Critics have disputed the qualification of the band as power pop.[29]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Green Day". iMDB. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ↑ "Green Day". Britannica. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ↑ "IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN DAY . . . THE SELLOUT BAND THAT ISN'T REALLY SELLING". The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.). 1995-12-24. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Mundy, Chris (January 26, 1995). "Green Day: Best New Band".
- ↑ Cooper, Leonie (August 12, 2016). "Why Green Day Are The Greatest Living Punk Band".
- ↑ "Green Day are punk's greatest band—and we have the magazine to prove it". March 13, 2020.
- ↑ Whatley, Jack (February 17, 2021). "From Sex Pistols to The Clash: Punk rock's 10 greatest guitarists of all time".
- ↑ Foege, Alex (September 22, 1994). "Green Day: The Kids Are Alright".
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Crain, Zac (October 23, 1997). "Green Day Family Values". Miami New Times.
- ↑ "Turning Green Day's 'American Idiot' into a rock opera". Los Angeles Times. September 13, 2009.
- ↑ Erlewine, Stephen. "Green Day – Biography". AllMusic.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Rytlewski, Evan (February 6, 2020). "Green Day: Father of All... Album Review". Pitchfork.
- ↑ Pattison, Louis (September 12, 2005). "Green Day : Shenanigans". "There is a little filler here: ‘Espionage’, a spoof on spy movie scores, plucked from the ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ soundtrack where it should have remained, and an unspectacular cover of The Ramones‘ ‘Outsider’ that reveals Green Day to be at their best touting the proficient three-chord West Coast skate-punk design, not its smacky two-chord New York equivalent."
- ↑ Patton, Alli (November 15, 2022). "Green Day Confirm New Album in the Works".
- ↑ Luke, Ashie. "Every Influential 90s Artist That Helped Shape Music Culture Today". "Skate punk music broke into the mainstream in the 90s with obvious help from Green Day. In 1994, their album Dookie which reeked of rebellious, skater-punk vibes sold 10 million records in the United States after its release. Green Day changed the face of punk rock in a big way and charged an appetite for more upbeat punk-rock."
- ↑ Deusner, Stephen (July 17, 2012). "Green Day: Rock's saddest joke". "hen Green Day formed in the late 1980s, they were brash suburban teenage skate punks who made their first recordings before they were old enough to vote."
- ↑ Peacock, Tim (September 16, 2020). "Heaven Is A Half-Pipe: The Joys Of Skate-Punk".
- ↑ di Perna, Alan (December 16, 2012). Green Day: The Ultimate Unauthorized History. Voyageur Press. p. 41. ISBN 9780760343241. Retrieved February 12, 2023. "The latter reads, 'Melodic Punk, straight from the USA.'"
- ↑ Myers, Ben (May 26, 2005). Green Day - American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion. John Blake. ISBN 9781784189433. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
- ↑ Lanham, Tom (September 20, 2019). "'American Idiot' turns 15, but the Green Day punk opera still prevails 'American Idiot' turns 15, but the Green Day punk opera still prevails 'American Idiot' turns 15, but the Green Day punk opera still prevails".
- ↑ Silvers, Emma (February 17, 2016). "Facing Gentrification, 924 Gilman's Stability Boosted by Green Day Tribute".
- ↑ "Insomniac by Green Day". Apple. "Green Day were a melodic punk band who saw their role as writing fast, strong songs that fans could dance and pogo to without thinking."
- ↑ Wood, Mikael (September 11, 2019). "Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer at Whisky a Go Go: Review". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Conde, Chris (September 11, 2017). "Green Day Destroys San Antonio". Sacurrent.
- ↑ Abbey, Cherie D., ed (September 2002). "Aaron Carter 1987-". Biography Today Vol. 11 No. 3. Omnigraphics, Inc.. p. 17. ISBN 0-7808-0499-6.
- ↑ "Green Day's Top 20 Songs". October 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Green Day - Demolicious". May 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Cool Tunes, for a Bunch of Punks : GREEN DAY "Nimrod" Reprise * * *". October 12, 1997.
- ↑ Lauden, S.W. (March 6, 2021). "Let's Argue About Power Pop!".