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In the early 1990s Green Day helped bring a new brand of punk rock to the forefront of mainstream music. Bratty and bored, Green Day appealed to the so-called "Generation X" crowd—the twentysome-things who were getting bored with the slow-moving angst of grunge music. Green Day’s youthful vigor made their pop punk radio friendly and fun for a range of people, many of whom hadn’t discovered punk before. The fact that they were genuinely nice, articulate guys also gave their career a boost.

Green Day began in the town of Rodeo, California, just 15 miles north of Berkeley. There, ten-year-olds Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Pritchard—who later changed his last name to Dirnt—met in the school cafeteria. Neither had had a good home life. When he was ten, Armstrong’s jazz musician father died, fragmenting his family. Armstrong found solace in his new friend and in music. Dirnt, born to a heroin-addicted mother, was adopted by a Native American mother and a white father who divorced when he was seven. When his mom moved north when Dirnt was 15, he rented a room off Armstrong’s house.

Even if either boy had had enough money to buy records, there wasn’t a record store in town. They

learned about music from their older siblings and friends. They listened to early punk progenitors the Replacements, the Ramones, and the earliest works of British punkers the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks. They were finally able to scrape together enough cash by the time they were eleven to buy their own guitars. That’s when Armstrong got his beloved Stratocaster, which he plays to this day.

In 1987 the boys formed the band Sweet Children, with John Kiftmeyer (aka Al Sobrante) on drums. By then Dirnt had switched to the bass. Soon they became consumed by their weekend lives at the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley. This unassuming-looking caning-and-wicker shop housed a major underground punk club on the weekends. "That place and that culture saved my life," Armstrong told Rolling Stone’s Chris Mundy. "It was like a gathering of outcasts and freaks. It wasn’t about people moshing in a pit and taking their shirt off. That’s one thing I hate about the new mainstream thing: blatant violence…. To me punk rock was about being silly." Both boys tried their best juggling music, jobs, and school—virtually raising themselves.

Became Green Day
Green Day recorded their first EP, 1,000 Hours, in 1987 and by 1989 had enough steam behind them to begin lobbying Lookout! Records for a deal. They also changed their name to Green Day, the title of one of their songs. Lawrence Livermore, head of this independent punk label, signed the band immediately upon hearing them. Green Day began touring in earnest after they released their first album 39/Smooth in 1990. Just the week before that Armstrong gave up the ghost at school, dropping out the day before his eighteenth birthday. Dirnt struggled through and got his diploma. Lack of brains hadn’t been the problem for either student, it was trying to earn a living and make music that took the toll on their school work.

Meanwhile, deep in the Mendocino mountains of California, Frank Edwin Wright III lived with his family in near isolation. Wright’s nearest neighbor was Liver-more, and when his band the Lookouts! needed a drummer they called on 12-year-old Wright, renaming him Tre Cool. When Green Day got back from their first van tour in 1990, Kiftmeyer jumped ship. Cool, Kiftmeyer’s drum teacher, took over where his student left off. 39/Smooth gained the band national attention, allowing them to garner packed houses in most places they played. In 1991, with their new flamboyant drummer on board, Green Day released Kerplunk. Kerplunk quickly broke sales records for Lookout! and several successful tours ensued.

In early 1993 Green Day left Lookout! on friendly terms and began searching for a label that would be able to give them the promotion and tour support that an independent could not afford. Against the odds, Green Day had managed to cut three seven-inch singles, book seven American tours plus two European jaunts, and sell 30, 000 copies of both of their LPs all before they turned 21; the major labels had a feeding frenzy trying to sign them. It was Rob Cavallo, the young producer/A&R representative from Warner Bros.’s Reprise Records, who convinced the guys to choose Warner. Also convincing was that Warner had been the label of the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.

Debut Album a "Punk Explosion"
In 1993 Green Day released their major-label debut, Dookie, which is slang for excrement. The music blended raw punk force with pop melodies. The songs were short and catchy. They were also funny and irreverent, highlighting lives of boredom, pot smoking, and masturbation. Rip wrote: "14 whirlwind tunes sweep you up in guitar-drenched sentiments, leaving barely enough time between tracks to catch your breath. Like their musical forbears, the Who and the Ramones, they aren’t afraid of melodies, and there are some downright pretty ones here, which they tackle boldly, armed with Billie Joe’s bracing power chords, Dirnt’s agile bass lines and the dynamic drumming of Tre picked up playing with his jazz buddies." Time called it "a cathartic punk explosion and the best rock CD of the year so far." MTV put Green Day’s videos in heavy rotation and the boys graced the cover of nearly every music magazine. Bringing down the house during their mud-drenched performance at Woodstock 94, Green Day solidified their super stardom.

With stardom came cries of sellout. Suddenly, along with punkers the Offspring and Rancid, Green Day had brought underground punk rock into the mainstream. Assuredly, it was a new 1990s punk, much more positive and born from a different kind of angst. But it was still punk, English accents and all. Green Day responded to naysayers with reasonable thinking. To Rip, Dirnt explained that they couldn’t survive to play music without help from the big labels. "Selling out is compromising your musical intentions. And we don’t know how to do that." Armstrong put it even more simply. People reported him telling a friend, "I don’t come from that world where you can afford to turn down cash."

Green Day has a lot going for them. Besides being so radio friendly, their live performances are electrifying. Because they consider their brand of punk to have a strong silliness component, they are very silly. And, as one Berkeley club promoter put it in People, "they’re just a bunch of nice guys. They’re polite. They never put holes in the wall. Never vomited on stage." Despite their angry stage posturing and immature antics, they’re three family guys who just want to be able to raise the good healthy families that they never had. Cool and Dirnt each have a daughter, and Armstrong has two sons. In addition to being responsible parents, Green Day does their best to be a responsible band. They defy ticket company service charges by cutting their touring costs—often sleeping on the tour bus—and taking a smaller cut to keep ticket and T-shirt prices under $15. They made sure that 100 percent of the sales of their Lookout! albums go to Lookout! in order to keep that independent scene alive. Proceeds of several of their shows have gone to charity.

No matter how hard they try, first-time fatherhood and a demanding life in the spotlight takes its toll. 1995’s Insomniac was a darker, somewhat less accessible album than Dookie. Sales were still good—eventually selling more than two million copies—although not as brilliant as Dookie, which had a sold more than eight million copies by the time Insomniac came out, eventually reaching a ten-times platinum status. Reviewers didn’t come down hard as they often do on a follow-up album. In Spin, Eric Weisbard wrote, "The Green Day three have never crunched as powerfully as they do on Insomniac… One or two moments excepted, the rest is a sustained thrill." People said, "On their visceral follow up, Green Day is intent on gaining punk credibility among hard-core denizens of the mosh pit—even at the risk of diminished sales." Risky or no, Spin voted Insomniac number 15 out of 20 of the best albums of 1995.

Took Time Off
Green Day took a couple of years off to spend time with their young families following the release of Insomniac. Their next album, Nimrod, was released in late 1997. Billboard writer Craig Rosen noted that it represented a step forward in "growth and maturity" for the band. Armstrong agreed, telling Rosen that the band wanted to experiment musically and move away from the three-chord power-punk formula that fans had come to expect. "I still love punk rock. It made me who I am, but we’re capable musically of doing a lot more…. We wanted to leave ourselves vulnerable and sort of let it happen." That didn’t mean that they were abandoning the hooks that made them famous in the first place. Japan’s Daily Yomiuri proclaimed that "Green Day has the uncanny ability to reinvent the same basic one-four-five progressions with some of the best hooks in the business."

The biggest hit off Nimrod was, surprisingly enough, the acoustic, confessional ballad "Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life)" that sounded nothing like any previous Green Day hit. The Daily Yomiuri noted the omnipresence of the tune in all media outlets: "It was such a huge hit it almost became the de facto background music anytime a television show needed to establish the tone for a scene of bittersweet farewells." Indeed, the tune played on numerous prime time shows, including NBC’s Friends and ER. Armstrong defended his instrument of choice in Guitar Player, although with such a hugely popular and critically acclaimed song, there was really no need to. "One of the biggest misconceptions about acoustic guitar is that it’s a wimpy instrument. Just because it doesn’t produce distortion doesn’t mean it’s not tough."

Again, Green Day took time off before heading back into the studios to record another album. The album that resulted from this extended time off was released as Warning in 2001. "In a lot of ways Warning was like starting over for us. After we came off the road from the Nimrod tour, we were fried. We had reached a point where the music wasn’t inspirational or fun—so we stopped," Armstrong confessed to Guitar Player. The album earned heaps of critical praise. People reviewer Steve Dougherty said that Warning showcases the group’s "blossoming pop sensibilities … airy melodies, sing-along choruses and big, jovial beats." The group’s use of acoustic guitars, banjo, saxophone, and meaningful lyrics is, Dougherty wrote, the "strongest evidence yet that punk is dead." The Hollywood Reporter hailed the album as "a tremendous record." Despite the critical lauds, the album was a commericial disappointment, failing to reach platinum status two years after it was released.

"One off the Great Punk Bands"
Green Day next released a greatest hits collection, International Superhits, in 2001, and followed that up with a companion B-sides and rarities album, Shenanigans, in 2002. All Music Guide writer Stephen Erlewine, reviewing Shenanigans, wrote: "Since they’re an excellent, restless band, there’s variety here—bits of surf rock, classic British Invasion, classic British punk, and singalong pop—nothing is less than enjoyable…." Erlewine praised both of the albums and the band, calling Armstrong "a d**n good songwriter," no matter what sub-genre of pop or punk he was working in. "He [Armstrong] partnered with a band that could deliver those songs, resulting in a body of work more consistent and thrilling than the Sex Pistols and more ambitious that the Ramones." International Superhits is, Erlewine concluded, "proof positive that Green Day is one of the great punk bands, regardless of era."

Selected discography
1,000 Hours (EP), 1987.
39/Smooth, Lookout!, 1990.
Kerplunk, Lookout!, 1992.
Dookie, Reprise, 1993.
(Contributor) Angus (soundtrack), Reprise, 1995.
Insomniac, Reprise, 1995.
Nimrod, Reprise, 1997.
Warning, Reprise, 1999.
International Superhits, Reprise, 2001.
Shenanigans, Reprise, 2002.

Sources
Periodicals
BAM, January 12, 1996.
Billboard, June 25, 1994; September 20, 1997.
Daily Yomiuri, March 8, 2001.
Details, September 1994.
Entertainment Weekly, June 10, 1994; December 23, 1994; October 20, 1995; June 5, 1998; October 6, 2000.
Guitar Player, July 1994; January 2001.
Hollywood Reporter, July 24, 2001.
Musician, September 1994; June 1995.
People, March 20, 1995; October 30, 1995; October 9, 2000.
Raygun, April 1994.
Rip, June 1994; March 1995.
Rolling Stone, September 22, 1994; November 17, 1994; December 15, 1994; January 26, 1995; December 28, 1995.
Spin, September 1994; November 1994; March 1995; November 1995; December 1995; January 1996.
Time, June 27, 1994.

Online
"Green Day," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com">http://www.allmusic.com (December 30, 2002).
Green Day Official Website, http://www.greenday.com (December 30, 2002).
"Shenanigans," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com">http://www.allmusic.com (December 30, 2002).
Additional information for this profile was provided by Reprise Records press materials, 1993 and 1995.
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Out of all the post-Nirvana alternative bands to break into the pop mainstream, Green Day were second only to Pearl Jam in terms of influence. At their core, Green Day were simply punk revivalists who recharged the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs. Though their music wasn't particularly innovative, they brought the sound of late-'70s punk to a new, younger generation with Dookie, their 1994 major-label debut. Dookie sold over ten million copies, paving the way for a string of multi-platinum releases that opened the doors for a flood of American neo-punk, punk metal, and third wave ska revivalists. More than a decade later, as many of their former contemporaries settled into retirement, Green Day remained at the forefront of popular music with albums like the Grammy-winning American Idiot.

Green Day arose from the Northern California underground punk scene. Childhood friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Mike Dirnt (bass; born Mike Pritchard) formed their first band, Sweet Children, in Rodeo, California when they were 14 years old. By 1989, the group had added drummer Al Sobrante and changed its name to Green Day. That same year, the band independently released its first EP, 1000 Hours, which was well received in the California hardcore punk scene. Soon, the group had signed a contract with the local independent label Lookout. Green Day's first full album, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour, was released later that year. Shortly after its release, the band replaced Sobrante with Tre Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III), who became the band's permanent drummer.

Throughout the early '90s, Green Day continued to cultivate a cult following, which only gained strength with the release of their second album, 1992's Kerplunk. The underground success of Kerplunk led to a wave of interest from major record labels, and the band eventually decided to sign with Reprise. Dookie, Green Day's major-label debut, was released in the spring of 1994. Thanks to MTV support for the initial single, "Longview," Dookie became a major hit. The album continued to gain momentum throughout the summer, with the second single, "Basket Case," spending five weeks on the top of the American modern rock charts. At the end of the summer, the band stole the show at Woodstock '94, which helped the sales of Dookie increase. By the time the fourth single, "When I Come Around," began its seven-week stay at number one on the modern rock charts in early 1995, Dookie had sold over five million copies in the U.S. alone; it would eventually top ten million in America, selling over 15 million copies internationally. Dookie also won the 1994 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Green Day quickly followed Dookie with Insomniac in the fall of 1995; during the summer, they hit number one again on the modern rock charts with "J.A.R.," their contribution to the Angus soundtrack. Insomniac performed well initially, entering the U.S. charts at number two and selling over two million copies by the spring of 1996, yet none of its singles -- including the radio favorite "Brain Stew/Jaded" -- was as popular as those from Dookie. In the spring of 1996, Green Day abruptly canceled a European tour, claiming exhaustion. Following the cancellation, the band spent the rest of the year resting and writing new material before issuing Nimrod in late 1997. Three years later, their long-awaited follow-up, a refreshingly poppy record titled Warning, was released. Another long wait preceded 2004's American Idiot, an aggressive rock opera that became a surprise success -- a chart-topper around the world, a multi-platinum Grammy winner, and easily the best reviewed album of their career. Green Day reveled in the album's success, hitting numerous award shows and performing as part of Live 8 in July 2005. That fall brought the release of Bullet in a Bible, a concert album that documented the trio's expansive Idiot live show.

With their popularity and commercial viability restored, Green Day took on several small projects before returning to the studio. They contributed a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" to the charity album Instant Karma, appeared in The Simpsons Movie, and recorded an entire album of '60s-styled rock & roll under the alias of Foxboro Hot Tubs. While presenting an award at the Grammys in early 2009, the band announced the impending release of Green Day's eighth album, 21st Century Breakdown, which had been recorded with veteran producer Butch Vig. In May of 2009, 21st Century Breakdown was released, picking up where American Idiot left off, as another ambitious punk rock opera. The album was a commercial success, selling over 215,000 copies in its first three days of sales. In 2009, American Idiot was adapted for the stage, and the following year Green Day lent their talents to the original cast recording, combining a driving score with Broadway vocal arrangements. The band released the live Awesome as F**k in 2011. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Green Day

Green Day performing on August 3, 2010 in Camden, New Jersey.
Background information
Origin East Bay, California, United States
Genres Punk rock, pop punk, alternative rock
Years active 1987–present
Labels Lookout!, Reprise
Associated acts The Lookouts, Pinhead Gunpowder, The Frustrators, Screeching Weasel, The Network, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Rodeo Queens, Iggy Pop, Isocracy, The Boo, U2
Website www.greenday.com
Members
Billie Joe Armstrong
Mike Dirnt
Tre Cool
Past members
John Kiffmeyer

Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool. Cool replaced former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990, prior to the recording of the band's second studio album, Kerplunk, and has been a member of the band since.

Green Day was originally part of the punk scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. The band's early releases for the independent record label Lookout! Records earned it a grassroots fanbase.[1] In 1994, its major label debut Dookie became a breakout success and eventually sold over 10 million copies in the U.S.[2] Green Day was widely credited, alongside fellow California punk bands Sublime,[3] The Offspring and Rancid, with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States.[4][5] Green Day's three follow-up albums, Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning did not achieve the massive success of Dookie, though they were still successful, with Insomniac and Nimrod reaching double platinum and Warning reaching gold status.[6] Its rock opera American Idiot (2004) reignited the band's popularity with a younger generation, selling five million copies in the United States.[6] The band's eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released in 2009.

Green Day has sold over 65 million records worldwide with 24.639 million in the US alone.[7] The group has won five Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, Record of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Best Rock Album for the second time for 21st Century Breakdown and Best Musical Show Album for American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording. In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical has been nominated for several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Scenic Design, and has received generally positive reviews.

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Band history

Formation and Lookout years (1987–1993)

In 1987, friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 15 years old at the time, formed a band called Sweet Children. Its first live performance took place on October 17, 1987 at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, California where Armstrong's mother was working.[8] In 1988, Armstrong and Dirnt began working with Sean Hughes and the former Isocracy drummer John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante. Kiffmeyer served as both the band's drummer and business manager, handling the booking of performances and helping the band establish a fan base, and Sean Hughes served as the band's bassist. As said in the film Punk's Not Dead, Armstrong cites the band Operation Ivy (which featured Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman of Rancid) as a major influence, and a group that inspired him to form a band.

After Hughes left Green Day in 1988, Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout! Records, saw the band play an early show and signed the group to his label. In 1989, the band recorded its debut extended play, 1,000 Hours. Before 1,000 Hours was released, the group dropped the name Sweet Children; according to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band Sweet Baby.[9] The band adopted the name Green Day, allegedly due to their fondness for marijuana.[10]

Lookout! would release Green Day's debut studio album, 39/Smooth in early 1990. Green Day would record two extended plays later that year, Slappy and Sweet Children, the latter of which included older songs that the band had recorded for the Minneapolis independent record label Skene! Records. In 1991, Lookout! Records re-released 39/Smooth under the name 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, and added the songs from the bands first two EPs, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours. In late 1990, shortly after the band's first nationwide tour, Sobrante left the East Bay area to attend college. The Lookouts drummer Tre Cool began filling in as a temporary replacement, and when it became clear that Sobrante did not plan to commit to the band full time, Cool's position as Green Day's drummer became permanent. The band went on tour for most of 1992 and 1993, and played a number of shows overseas in Europe. The band's second studio album Kerplunk sold 50,000 copies in the U.S.[11]

Breakthrough success (1994–1996)

Armstrong performing in 1994.

Kerplunk's underground success led to a number of major record labels being interested in signing Green Day, and the band eventually left Lookout! on friendly terms and signed to Reprise Records after attracting the attention of producer Rob Cavallo. The group was impressed by his work with fellow Californian band The Muffs, and later remarked that Cavallo "was the only person we could really talk to and connect with".[12] Signing to Reprise caused many punk rock fans to regard Green Day as sellouts.[1] Reflecting on the period, Armstrong told Spin magazine in 1999, "I couldn't go back to the punk scene, whether we were the biggest success in the world or the biggest failure ... The only thing I could do was get on my bike and go forward."[13] After signing with Reprise, the band went to work on recording its major label debut, Dookie.
"Longview"
Sample of "Longview", the first single from Dookie, which combined a memorable bass and drum intro, and a powerful attack of guitar in the chorus.
"Basket Case"
Sample of "Basket Case", the third single from Dookie, which was about Armstrong's panic attacks.
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Recorded in three weeks, and released in February 1994,[14] Dookie became a commercial success, helped by extensive MTV airplay for the videos of the songs "Longview", "Basket Case", and "When I Come Around", all of which reached the number one position on the Modern Rock Tracks charts. That year, Green Day embarked on a nationwide tour with queercore band Pansy Division as its opening act. At a September 9, 1994 performance at Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston, mayhem broke-out during the band's set (cut short to seven songs) and by the end of the rampage, 100 people were injured and 45 arrested.[15] The band also joined the lineups of both the Lollapalooza festival and Woodstock '94, where they started an infamous mud fight. During the concert, a security guard mistook bassist Mike Dirnt for a stage-invading fan and punched out some of his teeth.[16] Viewed by millions by pay-per-view television, the Woodstock 1994 performance further aided Green Day's growing publicity and recognition,[12] and helped push its album to eventual diamond status. In 1995, Dookie won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and the band was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year.[17]

In 1995, a new single for the Angus soundtrack was released, entitled "J.A.R.". The single debuted at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was followed by the band's fourth studio album, Insomniac, which was released in the fall of 1995. Insomniac was a much darker and heavier response to the band's newfound popularity, compared to the more melodic Dookie.[12] The album opened to a warm critical reception, earning 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone, which said "In punk, the good stuff actually unfolds and gains meaning as you listen without sacrificing any of its electric, haywire immediacy. And Green Day are as good as this stuff gets."[18] The singles released from Insomniac were "Geek Stink Breath", "Stuck with Me", "Brain Stew/Jaded", and "Walking Contradiction". Though the album did not approach the success of Dookie, it sold two million copies in the United States.[19] In addition, the album won the band award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist, and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards, and the video for "Walking Contradiction" got the band a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form, in addition to a Best Special Effects nomination at the MTV Video Music Awards.[20] After that, the band abruptly cancelled a European tour, citing exhaustion.[21]

Middle years and decline in commercial success (1997–2002)

After a brief hiatus in 1996, Green Day began to work on a new album in 1997. From the outset, both the band and Cavallo agreed that the album had to be different from its previous albums.[22] The result was Nimrod, an experimental deviation from the band's standard pop-punk brand of music. The new album was released in October 1997. It provided a variety of music, from pop-punk, surf rock, and ska, to an acoustic ballad. Nimrod entered the charts at number 10. The success of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" won the band an MTV Video Award for Best Alternative Video for the song's video, which depicted people undergoing major changes in their lives while Armstrong strummed his acoustic guitar.[23] The song was also used in the second "clip show" episode of Seinfeld and on two episodes of ER. The other singles released from Nimrod were "Nice Guys Finish Last", "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Redundant". The band made a guest appearance in an episode of King of the Hill entitled "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteberg", which aired in 1997. In late 1997 and most of 1998, Green Day embarked on a tour in support of Nimrod.

In 2000, Green Day released its sixth studio album Warning, a step further in the style that they had hinted at with Nimrod. In support of the album, the band participated in the Warped Tour in 2000. The band also had an independent tour to support the album in 2001. Critics' reviews of the album were varied.[24] Allmusic gave it 4.5/5 saying "Warning may not be an innovative record per se, but it's tremendously satisfying."[25] Rolling Stone was more critical, giving it 3/5, and saying "Warning... invites the question: Who wants to listen to songs of faith, hope and social commentary from what used to be snot-core's biggest-selling band?"[26] Though it produced the hit "Minority" and a smaller hit with "Warning", some observers were coming to the conclusion that the band was losing relevance,[24] and a decline in popularity followed. While all of Green Day's previous albums had reached a status of at least double platinum, Warning was only certified gold.

At the 2001 California Music Awards, Green Day won all eight of the awards that it was nominated for. The group won the awards for Outstanding Album (Warning), Outstanding Punk Rock/Ska Album (Warning), Outstanding Group, Outstanding Male Vocalist, Outstanding Bassist, Outstanding Drummer, Outstanding Songwriter, and Outstanding Artist.[27]

The release of two compilation albums, International Superhits! and Shenanigans, followed Warning. International Superhits and its companion collection of music videos, International Supervideos!, sold well, being certified platinum in the United States. Shenanigans contained some of the band's b-sides, including "Espionage", which was featured in the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

In the spring of 2002, Green Day co-headlined the Pop Disaster Tour with Blink-182. Despite the co-headlining title, Green Day would play each show before Blink-182, who at the time were experiencing more success. The tour was documented on the DVD Riding in Vans with Boys.

American Idiot and renewed success (2003–2006)

Tre Cool (bottom left) and Mike Dirnt (right) performing on July 27, 2005.

In the summer of 2003, the band went into a studio to write and record new material for a new album, tentatively titled Cigarettes and Valentines.[28] After completing 20 tracks, the master recordings were stolen from the studio by an unknown individual. Instead of re-recording the stolen tracks, the band decided to abandon the entire project and start over, considering the material to be unrepresentative of the band's best work.[29] It was then revealed that a band called The Network was signed to Armstrong's record label Adeline Records with little fanfare and information. After the mysterious band released an album called Money Money 2020, it was rumored that The Network was a Green Day side project, due to the similarities in the bands sounds.[30] However, these rumors were never addressed by the band or Adeline Records, except for a statement on the Adeline website discussing an ongoing dispute between the two bands.[30]

Green Day collaborated with Iggy Pop on two tracks for his album Skull Ring in November 2003. On February 1, 2004 a new song, a cover of "I Fought the Law" made its debut on a commercial for iTunes during NFL Super Bowl XXXVIII.

The resulting album, American Idiot (2004), debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, the band's first album to reach number one, backed by the success of the album's first single, "American Idiot". The album was labeled as a "punk rock opera" which follows the journey of the fictitious "Jesus of Suburbia".[31] American Idiot won the 2005 Grammy for "Best Rock Album" and the band swept the 2005 MTV music awards, winning a total of seven of the eight awards they were nominated for, including the Viewer's Choice Award.[32]

Through 2005, the band toured in support of the album with nearly 150 dates—the longest tour in its career—visiting Japan, Australia, South America and the United Kingdom. While touring for American Idiot, they filmed and recorded the two concerts at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in England, which was voted 'The Best Show On Earth' in a Kerrang! Magazine Poll. These recordings were released as a live CD and DVD called Bullet in a Bible on November 15, 2005. This CD/DVD featured songs from American Idiot as well as a songs from all its previous albums, except Kerplunk and 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. The DVD featured behind-the-scenes footage of the band, and showed how the band prepared to put on the show. The final shows of its 2005 world tour were in Sydney, Australia, and Melbourne, Australia, on December 14 and 17 respectively. On January 10, 2006 the band was awarded with a People's Choice Award for favorite group.

Green Day live in Germany during the American Idiot tour.

On August 1, 2005, Green Day announced that it had rescinded the master rights to its pre-Dookie material from Lookout! Records, citing a continuing breach of contract regarding unpaid royalties, a complaint shared with other Lookout! bands.[33] The pre-Dookie material, which remained out of print for about a year, was reissued by the band's current label, Reprise, on January 9, 2007.[34]

21st Century Breakdown and American Idiot: The Musical (2007–2010)

Green Day engaged in a number of other smaller projects in the time following the success of American Idiot. The group released an album under the name Foxboro Hot Tubs entitled Stop Drop and Roll!!!. In 2008, the Foxboro Hot Tubs went on a mini-tour to promote the record, hitting tiny Bay Area venues including the Stork Club in Oakland and Toot's Tavern in Crockett, CA.[35]

Green Day performing during a secret show at the Kesselhaus in Berlin on May 7, 2009.

In an interview with Carson Daly, Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson revealed that Butch Vig would be producing Green Day's forthcoming album.[36] The span of nearly five years between American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown was the longest gap between studio albums in Green Day's career. The band had been working on new material since January 2006. By October 2007, Armstrong had 45 songs written, but the band showed no further signs of progress until October 2008, when two videos showing the band recorded in the studio with producer Butch Vig were posted on YouTube.[37] The writing and recording process, spanning three years and four recording studios, was finally finished in April 2009.[38]

21st Century Breakdown, was released on May 15, 2009.[39] The album received a mainly positive reception from critics, getting an average rating between 3 and 4 stars.[40][41] After the release, the album reached number one in fourteen countries, being certified gold or platinum in each. 21st Century Breakdown achieved Green Day's best chart performance to date. The band started playing shows in California in April and early May. It was their first live show in about three years. Green Day went on a world tour that started in North America in July 2009 and continuing around the world throughout the rest of 2009 and early 2010.[42] Wal-Mart refused to carry the album as it contains a Parental Advisory sticker and requested that Green Day release a censored edition. The band members did not wish to change any lyrics on the album and responded by stating, "There's nothing dirty about our record... They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there. We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something."[43][44]

In 2009, the band met with award-winning director Michael Mayer and many cast and crew members of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening to create a stage version of the album American Idiot. American Idiot: The Musical opened in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre during the end of 2009. The show features an expanded story of the original album, with new characters such as Will, Extraordinary Girl, and Favorite Son.

On April 20, 2010, American Idiot: The Musical opened on Broadway, and Green Day released the soundtrack to the musical, featuring a new song by Green Day entitled "When It's Time". In June 2010 the UK iTunes Store received the single "When It's Time".[45] During the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2009, it was announced that Green Day was set to have its own Rock Band video game, as a follow-up to the last band specific Rock Band game, The Beatles: Rock Band. The game was released on June 8, 2010. The game features the full albums of Dookie, American Idiot, and 21st Century Breakdown as well as select songs from the rest of Green Day's discography.

Ninth studio album (2011–present)

During the second leg of the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour the band had said that they are writing new material.[46] In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, Armstrong spoke about the possible new album: "We did some demos in Berlin, some in Stockholm, some just outside of Glasgow and some in Amsterdam. We wanted get [the songs] down in some early form."[47] On August 24, 2010, the band posted on their Twitter account that there is a possibility that a new live album will be released soon: "We've been recording our live shows since the beginning of tour. Possible Live album coming. A ton of songs! We're in texas!"[48] On August 28, the band mentioned the live album again at a show in Denver, Colorado. Armstrong told the audience, "Hey, I just want to tell you something right now. We are recording a live fucking album right now", before playing a "new" song called "Cigarettes and Valentines", which was the title track from the unreleased album from 2003.[49] The band also stated that they were recording a live album during the entire tour on the last date of the tour in Mountain View, California, also before playing the song "Cigarettes and Valentines".

In October 2010, Dirnt was interviewed by Radio W, mentioning that they have completed the writing process of the ninth studio album and stating that, "We are always working on songs, when it's time and when the music is right we will put it out. I like to think that we have enough material right now to put out a great record, but we want to go back home and make sure that it's perfect for everybody before we put it out." In the interview, Dirnt also mentions that the new live album will "most likely" be released with a live film.[50] Shortly after the interview, there was a live Ustream broadcast with the band, where they announced that they had written 30 songs for the ninth album, and that they have recorded every show (audio and video) for the live album.[51] The live CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray entitled Awesome as Fuck was released on March 22, 2011.[52]

On April 13, 2011, a film version of American Idiot was confirmed.[53] Michael Mayer, director of the Broadway musical, will be directing the film. It will be produced by Green Day, Pat Magnarella (Green Day's manager who also produced Bullet in a Bible, Awesome as Fuck, and Heart Like a Hand Grenade), Playtone (Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman) and Tom Hulce.

On August 11, 2011, Green Day played a secret show in Costa Mesa, California, and performed an entire set of over 15 new songs.[54] It has not been confirmed whether these songs will be on the upcoming album, although one of the songs called "Stay the Night" was performed over one year before during a soundcheck in Dublin, Ireland.[55] Green Day put a news post on their official website which read "Thanks everyone for coming out to the show..." and "Stay tuned for more".[56] It also included lyrics to a new song that was played at the show called "Amy" which is dedicated to Amy Winehouse, who died weeks before the show.[57]

Green Day will be performing at the 2012 Summer Sonic Festival. [58]

Musical style and influences

Green Day performing "King for a Day," a ska-inspired song featuring saxophones and trumpets.

Green Day's sound is often compared to first wave punk bands such as the Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, and the Buzzcocks.[21] Citing the band's musical style prevalent on Dookie, Stephen Erlewine of Allmusic described Green Day as "punk revivalists who recharged the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs."[59] While Armstrong is the primary songwriter, he looks to the other band members for organizational help.[60] Billie Joe Armstrong has mentioned that some of his biggest influences are seminal alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, and that their influence is particularly noted in the band's chord changes in songs.[21] Green Day has covered Hüsker Dü's "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" as a b-side to the "Warning" single, and the character "Mr. Whirly" in their song "Misery" is a reference to the Replacements song of the same name.[61] Among other influences, Green Day have also cited The Who and power pop pioneers Cheap Trick.[62]

The band has generated controversy over whether the band's musical style and major-label status constitutes as "true punk".[63] In reaction to both the style of music and the background of the band, John Lydon, former front man of the 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols commented:

"So there we are fending off all that and it pisses me off that years later a wank outfit like Green Day hop in and nick all that and attach it to themselves. They didn't earn their wings to do that and if they were true punk they wouldn't look anything like they do."[64]

Armstrong himself has discussed the group's status of being a punk band on a major record label, saying "Sometimes I think we've become totally redundant because we're this big band now, we've made a lot of money – we're not punk rock any more. But then I think about it and just say, 'You can take us out of a punk rock environment, but you can't take the punk rock out of us.'"[63] English rock musician Noel Gallagher of Oasis also complained about the band semi-jokingly, claiming that they ripped off his song "Wonderwall" with their song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".[65]

Related projects

Main article: Green Day related projects

Since 1991, members of the band have branched out past Green Day and have started other projects with other musicians. Notable related projects of Green Day include Billie Joe Armstrong's Pinhead Gunpowder (which also features Green Day's live back-up guitarist Jason White), The Frustrators in which Mike Dirnt plays bass, and The Network, in which all three members of Green Day play under fake stage names.[66] Billie Joe Armstrong has also confirmed that the main members of Green Day are in the band Foxboro Hot Tubs. A Foxboro Hot Tubs album titled Stop Drop and Roll!!! was released on May 20, 2008.[67] In late December 2011, Armstrong formed a new side band called The Boo along his wife Adrienne and their two sons. The band released a four-song christmas homonymous EP. [68] [69]

In September 2006, Green Day collaborated with U2 and producer Rick Rubin to record a cover of the song "The Saints Are Coming", originally recorded by The Skids, with an accompanying video. The song was recorded to benefit Music Rising, an organization to help raise money for musicians' instruments lost during Hurricane Katrina, and to bring awareness on the eve of the one year anniversary of the disaster.[70]
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In December 2006, Green Day and NRDC opened a web site in partnership to raise awareness on America's dependency on oil.[71][72]

Green Day released a cover of the John Lennon song "Working Class Hero", which was featured on the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. The band performed the song on the season finale of American Idol. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008, though lost to The White Stripes' "Icky Thump". That summer, the band appeared in a cameo role in The Simpsons Movie, where they perform the show's theme song. Their version was released as a single on July 24, 2007.

In 2009, the band collaborated with theatre director Michael Mayer to adapt their rock opera American Idiot into a one-act stage musical that premiered at the Berkeley Rep on September 15, 2009. The show then moved to Broadway on April 20, 2010.

The reviews of American Idiot: The Musical have been positive to mixed. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times wrote an enthusiastic review for the Broadway production. He called the show "a pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions ... only to transcend them through the power of its music and the artistry of its execution, the show is as invigorating and ultimately as moving as anything I’ve seen on Broadway this season. Or maybe for a few seasons past." Jed Gottleib of the Boston Herald enjoyed the premise of the show but found that "the music and message suffer in a setting where the audience is politely, soberly seated".[73] Michael Kuchiwara of the Associated Press found the show to be "visually striking [and] musically adventurous", but noted that "the show has the barest wisp of a story and minimal character development". Paul Kolnik in USA Today enjoyed the contradiction that Green Day's "massively popular, starkly disenchanted album ... would be the feel-good musical of the season". Time magazine's Richard Zoglin opined that the score "is as pure a specimen of contemporary punk rock as Broadway has yet encountered [yet] there's enough variety. ... Where the show fall short is as a fully developed narrative." He concluded that "American Idiot, despite its earnest huffing and puffing, remains little more than an annotated rock concert. ... Still, [it] deserves at least two cheers – for its irresistible musical energy and for opening fresh vistas for that odd couple, rock and Broadway."[74] Peter Travers from Rolling Stone, in his review of American Idiot, wrote "Though American Idiot carries echoes of such rock musicals as Tommy, Hair, Rent and Spring Awakening, it cuts its own path to the heart. You won’t know what hit you. American Idiot knows no limits—it's a global knockout."[75]

The musical has been nominated for a number of Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Scenic Design. It was also nominated for a number of Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

In October 2009, a Green Day art project was exhibited at StolenSpace Gallery in London. The exhibition showed artworks created for each of the songs on 21st Century Breakdown, was supported by the band, and led by their manager Pat Magnarella.[76] He explained in an interview that "[Artists are] basically like rock bands. Most are creating their art, but don't know how to promote it."[77] For Billie Joe Armstrong, "Many of the artists... show their work on the street, and we feel a strong connection to that type of creative expression."[78]

Involvement in politics and social justice

When asked his opinion regarding whether all musicians ought to try to add a social or political message to their work, Armstrong replied that "the only people who should sing about social issues or politics are the ones who aren't full of shit." [79] American Idiot provided a voice for those "disillusioned by millennial America"—the fact that it was released two months before President Bush was reelected caused the album to become "protest art." [80] Created as an anti-war album, "American Idiot" contains many new-age protest songs, including not only the titular song but also "Holiday," which satirically rails against George Bush's decision to invade Iraq. [81] Armstrong described the song as a means by which to "to battle your way out of your own ignorance",[82] and as "not anti-American, it's anti-war."[83]

Band members

Current members

Current touring members

Former members

Former touring members

  • Timmy Chunks – guitars (1997–1999)
  • Garth Schultz – trombone, trumpet (1997–1999)
  • Gabrial McNair – trombone, tenor saxophone (1999–2001)
  • Kurt Lohmiller – trumpet, timpani, percussion, backing vocals (1999–2004)
  • Mike Pelino – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2004–2005)
  • Ronnie Blake – trumpet, timpani, percussion, backing vocals (2004–2005)

Discography

Main article: Green Day discography

See also

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Notes

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