Year: 1991
Country: US
City: Berkeley
Label: Look out!
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 29
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Pop
Hard to believe but Green Day was once a truly "alternative" and DIY band, and they often played live concerts in squats or social centers from its begining in 1986 until 1994, when the band signed with major "Warner" with the album "dookie". Before, they worked next to independent label now already defunct "Look Out Records" and gained few money for concerts. This one is a very good example of simple mix of pop and punk. Fast, simple, short, direct... and honest... music. A fistfull of songs not so good as Dag Nasty, Descendents or Bad Religion, but good anyway.
"dookie"Year: 1994
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
"Dookie" is the third studio album by the rock band Green Day, released on February 1, 1994, through Warner Music ("Reprise Records"). It was the band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo and its major record label debut. The album became a worldwide commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 and charting in seven countries. The album helped propel all punk rock music into mainstream popularity next to other bands like The Offspring or most of "Epitaph Records" during the second half of 90's decade. It sold 10 million copies just in 1994.
Year: 1995
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 33 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
"Insomniac" is the fourth studio album by rock band Green Day, released on October 10, 1995 by Warner Music (Reprise Records). Though it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified 2x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1996, Insomniac did not have the sales endurance of its predecessor "Dookie", largely due to its slightly darker lyrical tone and its heavier, cruder and more abrasive sound. "Insomniac" has sold over 2,100,000 copies in the United States according to Billboard as of 2012. The album was reissued on vinyl on May 12, 2009 and has an excellent artwork made by Winston Smith, famous for his Dead Kennedys cover, logo, T-shirts, etc.
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Year: 1995
Label: none
Format: digital
Tracks: 12
Time: 33 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
Insomniac is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 10, 1995 by Reprise Records. Recorded as the release to the band's multi-platinum breakthrough Dookie, Insomniac featured a heavier sound and bleaker lyrics than its predecessor. Lyrically, the album discusses themes such as alienation, anxiety, boredom, and drug use. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's songwriting and sarcastic sense of humor. Four songs were released as singles, "Geek Stink Breath", "Brain Stew / Jaded", "Stuck with Me", and "Walking Contradiction". Though it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1996, Insomniac did not have the sales endurance of its predecessor Dookie, largely due to its slightly darker lyrical tone and its heavier and more abrasive sound. Insomniac has sold over 2,100,000 copies in the United States according to Billboard as of 2012. The album was reissued on vinyl on May 12, 2009.
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"nimrod"Year: 1997
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 44 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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"warning"Year: 2000
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Folk Punk
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"american idiot"Year: 2004
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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"21st century breakdown"Year: 2009
Label: none
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 18
Time: 45 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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Year: 2012
Label: none
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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Year: 2012
Label: none
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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Year: 2012
Label: none
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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Year: 2016
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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Year: 2020
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
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"Woodstock 1994"
Year: 2019
Label: Reprise
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
"live in Barcelona"
Country: Spain
Year: 1994
Label: none
Format: digital
Tracks: 16
Time: 34 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Pop
A crisp, energetic soundboard recording (with a stupidly loud bass in the mix) from Green Day's first European tour after Dookie went big. Censored, probably from an FM broadcast, but there's a lot of alternate sources for this show and I don't know which this one is specifically. Features most of the hits from Dookie, but plenty of older highlights too.
"saviors"
Year: 2024
Label: Warner
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 15
Time: 44 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Pop Punk
Green Day has a real knack for showing off its distaste with the sociopolitical landscape and its disgust for growing up with curt, caustic humor and seductively contagious melody — most of all in the handsome bookends of 2004’s “american idiot” and, now, “Saviors.” The Bay Area pop-punk trio couldn’t have done better for a real or imaginary sequel to the preceding Bush-era classic than this week’s bruising, culture-bashing release.
That’s not to say that Green Day’s five albums in-between “American Idiot” and “Saviors” didn’t sparkle. They did, some more than others. But none of those records sharply synopsized and criticized the cultural currency of their release days’ moment and the ennui of incremental adulthood – with some nicely-relayed Beatles-esque twists – than those two albums, 20 years apart. In fact, though “American Idiot” spawned a Broadway musical of the same name and sold six-times platinum, “Saviors” is even crisper and richer. Credit Rob Cavallo — the producer behind “American Idiot” and Green Day’s commercial breakthrough of 1994, “Dookie” — with aiding Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool in unsheathing their knives and sharpeing their new music with such complex harmony alongside the old-school punk.
Truth, justice, love and idiocy, American-style, still plague and embolden singer-lyricist Armstrong’s worried mind on “Saviors.” Starting with the spunky gallop of “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” Armstrong and his bandmates/co-writers rave savagely with sweet, swiftly rendered Beatles-ish strings on the song’s bridge and antisocial (and anti-MAGA) sentiments such as “Don’t want no huddled masses, TikTok and taxes / Under the overpass, sleepin’ in broken glass.” And the near-hardcore riffing of “Look Ma, No Brains!” gives way to a gorgeously melodic chorus whose highlight is its ascending intricacy, and a set of lyrics poking fun at a system that awards gold stars to its least-deserving souls.
Not every song on “Saviors” touches down hard and humorously on America’s weak moral conscience, iwalking wounded or easily led followers.
The rocking, ’50s-ish swoon of “Dilemma” looks at the bicameral mindset of sobriety, drunkenness and falling in love. The stuttering “Bobby Sox” wears its omnisexuality with pride (with Armstrong screaming “Do you wanna be my girlfriend,” true romance has never sounded scarier). The Flogging Molly-like “One Eyed Bastards” is a love letter to all things “Goodfellas” (or “The Departed,” if you allow Green Day its Irish Scorsese moment), with its “kiss the ring” theology and a sing-song-y chorus of “Bada bing, bada bing, bada boom” that would make Joe Pesci proud.
Nostalgia plays a big role in “Saviors” when it comes to “1981,” “Suzie Chapstick” and “Corvette Summer.” While the first makes memorable its chorus with the phrase “She’s gonna bang her head like 1981,” and the second pleads for making memories far beyond Instagram, “Corvette Summer” is a ruminative stunner – a goofy love letter to rock ‘n’ roll filled with Beach Boy lyrical cribbing, loud cowbells and the silly, angsty plea of “hit me with power chords.”
The smirking but still earnest sentimentality of their biggest hit, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” seeps into two of “Saviors’” most radically different-sounding tunes. While the ”fairy dust and ballyhoo” promises of “Strange Days Are Here to Stay” is reminiscent of Generation X-era Billy Idol, the insistent testing of a family’s wills is given spoonful-of-sugar melodicism with its acoustic start point and its lingering sawed strings.
Still, when Armstrong does what he does best, takes aim at society’s ills, he uses a poison pen to blithely look at the every-hour-every-day ultraviolence of “Living in the ’20s” with the phrase “Another shooting in a supermarket, I spent my money on a bloody, soft target / Playing with matches and I’m lighting Colorado.”
Though “Saviors’” penultimate track, its title tune, sounds grandly climactic with its “Sgt. Pepper”-esque dénouement, Green Day has time for one more sad, socially scabrous, fresh finale in “Fancy Sauce.” As the slow parade of crackling snare drums and strangled guitars rocks pensively to its close, Armstrong – in probably his most passionate vocal – bleats on about “Scratching at the wallpaper, in my solitude,” cartoon newscasts and ever-present victimhood before turning Kurt Cobain’s most cherished phrase on its head — updated as “Everybody’s famous, stupid and contagious” — before ending with a sardonic “We all die young someday.”
Armstrong has real guts taking on the ghost of grunge, the alternative nation and “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Then again, this is the same week that Pitchfork all but died off, sadly, so go figure.
From winding up Nirvana to raging over our long national nightmares, Green Day keeps the good-bad times rolling with spite, silliness and sarcasm on “Saviors,” with a big helping of merry mellifluence. Here’s Green Day now. Entertain us (*Review by A.D. Amorosi ).
