When Green Day’s first album appeared, anyone predicting that fame, MTV, top-selling albums, and more would be on the horizon in the near future…
Green Day – 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1991)
Green Day – Kerplunk! (1992)
Green Day’s second full album was the perfect dry run for the band’s later assault on the mainstream, containing both more variety and more…
Green Day – Dookie (1994)
Green Day couldn’t have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind, sending a wave…
Green Day – Insomniac (1995)
Dookie gave Green Day success, but it was never really clear whether they wanted it in the first place. However, given the incessantly catchy songwriting
Green Day – Nimrod (1997)
Following the cool reception to Insomniac, Green Day retreated from the spotlight for a year to rest and spend time with their families. During that extended…
Green Day – Warning (2000)
By 2000, Green Day had long been spurned as unhip by the fourth-generation punks they popularized, and they didn’t seem likely to replicate…
Green Day – American Idiot (2004)
It’s a bit tempting to peg Green Day’s sprawling, ambitious, brilliant seventh album, American Idiot, as their version of a Who album…
Green Day – Bullet in a Bible (2005)
Bullet in a Bible is a CD/DVD package (also available as a UMD, for those who want to carry it around on a Sony PSP) documenting Green Day’s show at the…
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
American Idiot was a rarity of the 21st century, a bona fide four-quadrant hit, and it turned Green Day into something it had never been before…