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Full of religious overtones, the 18-track epic tells the story of two young punk lovers, Christian and Gloria, adrift in the broken post-Bush era. Remarkably, the band returned five years later with an even more ambitious conceptual project, 21st Century Breakdown. The band had learned to fuse its pop sensibilities with a propensity for album-length storytelling in a way that none of its contemporaries had. "Holiday," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" each reached the charts as hit singles while still fitting with the album's rich narrative. "Jesus of Suburbia," a nine-minute, five-part suite, is the centerpiece, moving seamlessly from thrash to balladry to delicate harmonies and country shuffles while maintaining a narrative. Bush-the titular idiot-and two months before the 2004 ballot in which he won re-election, the album depicts an American dream thwarted. Released four years into the administration of George W. It would be four years before Green Day returned with American Idiot, a fully-realized rock opera and great leap forward in the band's musical capabilities and cultural importance. Two compilations followed: A best-of, International Superhits! (Number 40, 2001), and the B-sides round-up Shenanigans (Number 27, 2002). Despite producing the radio hit "Minority," the album was a commercial letdown, selling fewer than a million copies. Nimrod (Number 10, 1997) sold a million copies but won fresh exposure for the group, largely on the strength of the ballad "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." In 2000, Green Day released Warning (Number Four), a more introspective, even folk-influenced record that showed the group stretching artistically. The 1995 follow-up Insomniac sold nearly 3 million copies and charted at Number Two, but failed to repeat the success of the band's major-label debut. The album won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance and sold 10 million copies worldwide. Its 1994 release, Dookie, proclaimed the next generation of punk, hitting Number Four on the album chart, buoyed by the band's effervescent presence on MTV and at Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1004. With a solid fanbase built on the nurturing, all-ages hardcore scene in Berkeley, the group signed with Reprise in April 1993. Two more EPs followed, with Kiffmeyer leaving to focus on his studies and Tre Cool, with whom Armstrong had played in a band called the Lookouts, taking over on drums for 1992's Kerplunk. The next year, the group recorded its first full-length album, 39/Smooth, in a day. When they were 17, the pair first recorded as Green Day, signing with the punk label Lookout and releasing the 1989 EP 1,000 Hours with drummer John Kiffmeyer. They formed their first real band, Sweet Children, at 14. But Green Day became elder statesmen during the 2000s with American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown-a pair of epic, politically charged rock and roll operas that chronicled the confused reality of life in the first decade of the new millennium.įriends since age 10, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt grew up in Rodeo, California. They were bratty, mischievous twentysomethings when they hit MTV in 1994, and with a green-haired, snaggle-toothed Billie Joe Armstrong ripping up the furniture, dancing with a monkey, and singing about the joys of masturbation, the raucous trio's major-label debut, Dookie, went triple-platinum. Punk revivalists with style, substance and hooks galore, Green Day have gone through two distinct identities.
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