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Watch Green Day Play “Bang Bang” On Jimmy Fallon
Unknown | October 09, 2016 - 10:00 pm
Green Day – “Xmas Time Of The Year”
Unknown | December 25, 2015 - 3:35 am
Green Day Insomniac Turns 20
Unknown | October 11, 2015 - 12:10 am
Posted by @hafis_rosli | October 11, 2015
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 of Billie Joe, the success made sense. Green Day were traditionalists without realizing it, learning all of their tricks through secondhand records and second-generation California punk bands. They didn’t change their sound in the slightest after signing to a major label, which meant that they couldn’t revert back to a harsher, earlier sound as a way to shed their audience for Dookie’s follow-up, Insomniac. Instead, they kept their blueprint and made it a shade darker. Throughout Insomniac, there are vague references to the band’s startling multi-platinum breakthrough, but the album is hardly a stark confessional on the level of Nirvana’s In Utero. It’s a collection of speedy, catchy songs in the spirit of The Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Clash, and The Undertones, but played with more minor chords and less melody and recorded with a bigger, hard rock-oriented production. While nothing on the album is as immediate as “Basket Case” or “Longview,” the band has gained a powerful sonic punch, which goes straight for the gut but sacrifices the raw edge they so desperately want to keep and makes the record slightly tame. Billie Joe hasn’t lost much of his talent for simple, tuneful hooks, but after a series of songs that all sound pretty much the same, it becomes clear that he needs to push himself a little bit more if Green Day ever want to be something more than a good punk-pop band. As it is, they remain a good punk-pop band, and Insomniac is a good punk-pop record, but nothing more.
Green Day Dookie Turns 20
Unknown | February 06, 2014 - 1:11 pm
Green Day couldn’t have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind, sending a wave of imitators up the charts and setting the tone for the mainstream rock of the mid-’90s.
[WATCH] Green Day – “Oh Love” + “Holiday” + “Basket Case” 9/14/2012 Live on Good Morning America
Unknown | September 14, 2012 - 4:06 pm
[WATCH] SNL Flashback: Green Day – “When I Come Around” + “Geek Stink Breath” 12/3/1994
Unknown | September 09, 2012 - 2:51 am
[WATCH] Green Day - “Let Yourself Go” 9/6/2012 Live on 2012 MTV VMA
Unknown | September 07, 2012 - 5:35 am
[WATCH] Green Day - “Kill The DJ” Explicit Version Music Video
Unknown | September 04, 2012 - 10:05 am
Green Day Announced ¡UNO! Tracklist and Pre-order
Unknown | June 26, 2012 - 7:04 pm
Green Day has announced the tracklist for ¡UNO! , the first album from its upcoming trilogy, ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRÉ!.
¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRÉ! Produced by Rob Cavallo and being released by Reprise Records, ¡UNO! will be in store on September 25th, ¡DOS! November 23rd, and ¡TRÉ! January 15, 2013.
¡UNO! Tracklist:
01. Nuclear Family
02. Stay The Night
03. Carpe Diem
04. Let Yourself Go
05. Kill The DJ
06. Fell For You
07. Loss Of Control
08. Troublemaker
09. Angel Blue
10. Sweet 16
11. Rusty James
12. Oh Love
Pre-order ¡UNO! on Amazon
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