Green Day

Green Day is a pop punk band consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass) (born Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tre Cool (drummer) (born Frank Edwin Wright III). Along with other bands on the Lookout Records label, they are credited as being the pioneers of the pop punk genre popularizing the genre to the mainstream with 1994's smash album ''Dookie''. Dookie has been certified diamond (10 million copies shipped) in the US since its release. ==History== ===Lookouts=== At the age of 12, Tr� Cool became a member of the band The Lookouts. Their album attracted some attention, and Tre began performing at an early age at the Berkeley, California punk club 924 Gilman Street. In 1988, Billie Joe Armstrong (16 years old) and Mike Dirnt (born Michael Ryan Pritchard, also 16 years old) formed Sweet Children, with Armstrong on lead vocals and guitar, Dirnt, on bass guitar and backing vocals, and John Kiffmeyer (a.k.a. Al Sobrante), on drums. Their first show was in 1988 at Rod's Hickory Pit in Rodeo, California. A couple months later, they played a high school party with the Lookouts in a remote mountain location near Willits, California, where Tre and Kain Kong of the Lookouts lived and attended school. Only five kids showed up for the party, and there was no electricity in the house, so Sweet Children had to play using a generator and candlelight, but they played, as Lookouts singer/guitarist Larry Livermore put it, "As if they were the Beatles at Shea Stadium." Livermore, who also ran the Berkeley independent label Lookout! Records, immediately offered Sweet Children a deal, and in early 1989 they recorded their first Extended play, "1,000 Hours," and then decided, weeks before the EP release, to change their name to Green Day, slang for a day spent smoking marijuana. The band were joint-smokers since puberty and Billie Joe got his nickname, "Two Dollar Bill," from selling joints at that price at his high school. It is widely reported that when the boys went to their high school principal to say that they were dropping out to become a full-time band the principal observed that there "would be a green day in hell" before they amounted to anything. The record came out, with the cover changed at the last minute to reflect the new name, in April 1989. One year later, in April 1990, Green Day released their first EP ''39/Smooth'', and that summer set out in a van on their first national tour. Before leaving, they recorded another four-song EP called "Slappy," and while in Minneapolis-St. Paul they recorded a four-song EP of some of their old songs for the local label Skene Records, and called it "Sweet Children". (In 1991, ''1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours'' was released which re-issued on CD ''39/Smooth'' with 9 additional tracks from "Slappy" and "1,000 Hours".) After this tour, at the end of the summer of 1990, Al Sobrante left the band on what was supposed to be a temporary basis to attend college in Arcata, California. By this time the Lookouts had become mostly inactive, and Tre Cool, now 17 and living in Berkeley, began playing with Green Day as a temporary replacement. The combination worked out so well that he soon became Green Day's permanent drummer. During 1991, the band toured and played locally, building up a large following, and also wrote and recorded their second album, ''Kerplunk!'', released on Lookout Records in January 1992. The CD version also included the four tracks from the "Sweet Children" EP. They continued to tour through 1992 and 1993, ranging as far afield as the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) When the tour came through the UK, it was notable for a famous appearance at a Wigan social club called The Den. The gig would have been a standard stop on an independent punk band's minor UK tour, were it not for one small fact: the band decided to use their set to stage their own version of the Nativity, featuring Billie Joe as all three schizophrenic Three Wise Punks, Mike as Santa Claus and a bad-taste version of the Virgin Birth featuring Tre as Mary, a roadie as Jesus and a bag of rice pudding and tomato ketchup as the Holy Placenta. This sort of theatrical show would become common practice for the band ten years later, only on a much larger scale. ===Attention=== By 1993, Green Day had sold about 55,000 copies of each of their first albums, a huge amount for the independent punk scene in those days, and attracted a great deal of attention from the major labels. Eventually they decided to sign a deal with Reprise Records, leaving Lookout on friendly terms, and spent the greater part of the year recording their major label debut, ''Dookie'', which proved to be an almost instant sensation, helped by extensive MTV airplay for the videos "Longview" and "Basket Case." In 1994, Green Day embarked on a nationwide tour and chose queercore band Pansy Division as their opening act. At the time this was regarded as quite controversial; nonetheless, the tour was a success. Green Day had made their audience aware that they were not just another 'pop' band with a couple of hit singles. The band joined the lineups of both the Lollapalooza Festival and Woodstock 1994. Green Day's Woodstock gig included a gigantic mud fight between the band and the audience, leading to a melee in which Dirnt lost his front teeth. They recorded a single called "J.A.R." in 1995, and followed it up with the album ''Insomniac (album)'' in fall 1995. It was a response to the poppy simplicity of ''Dookie'' with the album darker than their previous one. Though the album didn't approach the success of ''Dookie'', it still sold two million copies in the U.S. After that the band abruptly canceled a European tour, claiming exhaustion. Following the cancellation, the band spent the next year-and-half resting in reclusion and writing new material, issuing their ''Nimrod (album)'' in October 1997 with a more artistic and conceptual approach. It reached #10 at home and went double platinum on the strength of the surprise crossover hit "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)". After that the band took some time out of the spotlight, issuing the poppy Kinksesque ''Warning:'', another Top 5 hit, three years later in fall 2000. In 2002 the band issued their first b-side Album ''Shenanigans'', which was received warmly by fans and included the song "Ha Ha You're Dead", written by Mike Dirnt and recorded exclusively for this album. In 2003, during time spent in the studio, a New Wave band appeared on the scene, known as The Network. This 5 piece band, at first look/listen appears to be Green Day. The front man "Fink" bears a striking resemblance, visually and vocally to Wilhelm Fink (Billie Joe Armstrong's pseudonym). John Roecker, director of 'Live Freaky Die Freaky', starring Green Day and other East Bay punk alumni, and Green Day's DVD Documentary "Heart Like A Hand Grenade", has spoken of various projects recorded at Studio 880, including a New Wave album and a christmas album, during the American Idiot sessions. Studio 880 is the credited studio in The Networks Money Money 2020 album and Green Day's ''American Idiot''. ===''American Idiot''=== Fighting burnout after ''Warning:'', the band went into the studio to write and record new material for an album. After completing 20 tracks — an impressive album according to those few who heard it — the master tapes were stolen from the studio. The band chose not to try and re-create the stolen album but instead started over with a vow to be even more ambitious. The resulting 2004 album, ''American Idiot'', is being billed as a "punk rock opera", or more accurately a concept album, telling the story of characters such as St. Jimmy, Jesus of Suburbia (probably each the same person,) and Whatsername. Two of the tracks, "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Homecoming", composed in 5 different parts, are multi-movement suites that are both more than nine minutes long. In Armstrong's words, "One day Mike was at the studio and he wrote a thirty-second song. I don't know, I liked it so I wanted to do one too. The one that I did, I connected to his and then Tre did one and he connected it to mine and so on and so forth until we had about ten minutes. It was just purely out of having a good time." The song "American Idiot" has been described by the band as their public statement in reaction to the confusing and warped scene that is American pop culture since 9/11. Armstrong has said that they chose to write this way because the band has obtained respect and sway in the music world, and that this social commentary is part of their natural evolution as a band. Some songs on the American Idiot CD come in pairs. Their album ''American Idiot'' won a Grammy in 2005 for Best Rock Album along with 5 other Grammy nominations. The song "American Idiot" was featured in the video game NFL Madden 2005. The band at the moment are touring, promoting the album with a largely successful dates, continuing the theatrics of the shows from the "Warning", "International Superhits!" and "Shenanigans" tours by featuring a horn section dressed as a pink rabbit and a bumblebee, Billie Joe donning a crown and silk cape for the song "King For A Day" and drawn-out performances of certain songs, where Billie Joe uses the instrumental sections to interact with the crowd. Although the "American Idiot" album and tour are landmarks for the band, they haven't hinted that they will stop with it and also said that they don't feel at all at the peak of their careers. American Idiot will also become a movie and will begin shooting some time in 2006. See also: American Idiot: The Motion Picture ==Discography== ===Studio Albums===

1 July 1991	1. ''1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours''	Lookout	Contains material from "''39/Smooth''", "''Slappy''" and "''1,000 Hours''". Has been re-released with rare live videos, photos from their childhood, extra pages in the book, and other CD extra content.	-
17 January 1992	2. ''Kerplunk (album)''	Lookout	The second record on Lookout. Has been re-released with some of the songs from the "''Sweet Children EP''". Notable songs include "2000 Light years Away" and an early version of "Welcome to Paradise".	-
1 February 1994	3. ''Dookie''	Reprise Records	Their first major label debut, ''Dookie'' is Green Day's most critically acclaimed album with popular singles "Basket Case" and "Welcome to Paradise". It is certified 10 times platinum in the US.	#2 US, #13 UK
10 October 1995	4. ''Insomniac (album)''	Reprise	The album features generally darker, harsher subject matter and lyrics than Dookie's poppy leanings. Despite solid reviews, Insomniac failed to match the sales and buzz of the previous album. Contains the hits "Brain Stew/Jaded" and "Geek Stink Breath".	#2 US, # 8 UK
14 October 1997	5. ''Nimrod (album)''	Reprise	Green Day begins to stretch out artistically. Includes the hit song "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", which is still played at many weddings and proms.	#10 US, #11 UK
3 October 2000	6. ''Warning (album)''	Reprise	A folkish-pop album. The material of the album is drawn from The Kinks (the title track bears a strong resemblance to their hit song "Picture Book") and The Beatles. It was well received by critics and fans, though it inexplicably only went gold in the US.	#4 US, #4 UK
21 September 2004	7. ''American Idiot''	Reprise	Conceptual punk rock-rock opera. The album was well-received by critics and fans, and has been Green Day's biggest success since "Dookie". It has sold 6 million copies worldwide and has gone triple-platinum in the US since its release.	#1 US, #1 UK

===EPs===

Year	Title	Label	Other information
1988	''The Sweet Children (EP)''	Skene Records	EP (originally released by Sweet Children)
1989	''1,000 Hours''	Lookout! Records	EP
1990	''Slappy''	Lookout! Records	EP
2004	''American Idiot''	Reprise	EP
2004	''Sessions@AOL - Green Day''	Reprise	EP

===Compilations, Lives and Videos ===

1996	''Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking (album)''	Reprise	Live EP	-
13 November 2001	''International Superhits!''	Reprise	Greatest Hits LP of 1993-2001	#40 US, #15 UK
13 November 2001	''International Supervideos!''		Greatest Hits DVD of 1993-2001	-
2 July 2002	''Shenanigans''	Reprise	B-sides and rarities with one new song.	#27 US, #32 UK

===Singles=== * '''From ''Dookie'': ** 1994 \"Welcome to Paradise\" #20 UK ** 1995 \"Basket Case\" (re-issue) #7 UK ** 1995 \"Longview (song)\" #30 UK ** 1995 \"When I Come Around\" #27 UK * From ''Insomniac'': ** 1995 \"Geek Stink Breath\" #16 UK ** 1996 \"Stuck With Me\" #24 UK ** 1996 \"Brain Stew\" / \"Jaded\" #28 UK * From ''Nimrod'':''' ** 1997 "Hitchin' a Ride" #25 UK ** 1998 "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" #11 UK ** 1998 "Redundant (song)" #27 UK * '''From ''Warning'': ** 2000 \"Minority (song)\" #18 UK ** 2000 \"Warning (song)\" #27 UK ** 2001 \"Waiting (song)\" #34 UK * From ''American Idiot'':''' ** 2004 "American Idiot (song)" #61 US; #3 UK; #1 CAN ** 2004 "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Green Day)" - #2 US; #5 UK; #1 CAN ** 2005 "Holiday (song)" - #19 US; #11 UK; #1 CAN ** 2005 "Wake Me Up When September Ends" - #8 UK ==See Also== *1990s music groups *List of alternative music artists *List of popular music performers ==External links== ===Official sites=== *[http://www.officialgreenday.com/ Official Green Day Website] *[http://greendayconcerts.com/ Concert Information] *[http://greendayconcerts.com/remix Remix American Idiot] ===Fan sites=== *[http://www.anotherbrokenhome.com/ Another Broken Home] *[http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/ Geek Stink Breath community] *[http://www.greendayauthority.com/ Green Day Authority] *[http://www.greenday.net/ GreenDay.net] *[http://www.rabid-revolver.com/ Rabid Revolver] ===Green Day pages on general sites=== *[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040404011944440721&sql=Bphw67ub0h0jd All Music Guide: Green Day] *[http://www.bandnews.org/Green%20Day Bandnews: Green Day ] *[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=954266 iTunes Music Store: Green Day (requires iTunes to open)] *[http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/G/Green-Day.html Rare Lyrics: Green Day] *[http://www.tartareandesire.com/bands/greenday.html Tarten Desire: Green Day] ===Other links=== *[http://www.mugshots.com/Music/Billie+Joe+Armstrong.htm Billie Joe Armstrong's mugshot] *[http://www.studio880.com Studio 880] Green Day Rock music groups American musical groups 1990s music groups2000s music groups

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== Green Day= PUNK == Green Day is not punk, nor punk rock. They are pop-punk, and I believe they have been quoted as saying that. To be punk, you need to be making a political statement, which is absent from all of their albums save American Idiot. But in the case of that, they sound more like a genuine rock band. --User:66.68.32.177 00:00, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) :*Does it mean The Ramones were not punk either? As far as I know, they were not political at all. But have always been regarded as one of the greatest names of punk. -200.195.88.155 They are upbeat and have little to no talk on politics or current events. Real punk is like NOFX and Strike Anywhere. Green Day is not. I tried to put that they were pop-punk but it kept being reverted. User:Andre Wong 02:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) I removed: Green Day's music is similar to earlier punk bands:' * Bad Religion * NOFX * The Offspring * Operation Ivy * Seven Seconds * The Subhumans (UK) Because it's POV (many would claim Green Day is utterly unlike NOFX or Op Ivy). See Talk:Fiona Apple for some other reasons. User:TUF-KAT :I've re-added the list under a different title: 'Other earlier punk bands include:'. I agree it is POV saying that Green Day's music is ''similar'' to those in the list, but I think a list of related bands is always useful, especially for genre-driven, subcultured music styles like punk rock. --User:Zaim Ah, sorry, I've just removed it again (same list as above but with the addition of Rancid). "Other earlier punk bands" is too vague. We have lists of other earlier punk bands elsewhere - see Punk rock. It would, however, be good to say what the band themselves have cited as influences, or what reputable critics have said about their music, and what it is similar to. It's okay to mention critic's opinions, but we're not allowed to say whetehr we agree with them... -- User:Oliver Pereira 18:10 1 Jun 2003 (UTC) :Ah, that was quick. Just to note that that was my first Wikipedia edit. And I see what you mean, thank you for pointing that out. Wiki and Wikipedia is very nice. --User:Zaim :: Oh, well in that case, welcome to the project! And yes, it is nice, I have to agree with you there. :) -- User:Oliver Pereira 19:23 1 Jun 2003 (UTC) Green Day is so not like NOFX, and I think that they are more POP-punk than punk. Generally, traditional punk is darker and less upbeat. Like Pennywise. BTW, Zaim, I love Wikipedia too, as it has helped me infinitely on school projects. Thanks to all! User:Andre Wong 01:38, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) Come on, Green Day is so pop-punk. Their subject matter and their playing style is wayyy too upbeat.User:Andre Wong 00:14, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) This article comes across as being written by a fan. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't exactly create a NPOV. I removed the incomplete sentence 'Hopefully they do.' as that doesn't exactly come across as Enyclopedic. I could say the same thing about many band pages on Wikipedia. User:Discolando 15:34, 23 Nov 2004 (CDT) Upon further reflection, I removed the entire sentence, "Dirnt has been quoted on MTV as saying they may or may not find the master tapes soon." This is more of a temporary news blurb and doesn't add any value to the article. User:Discolando 18:16, 23 Nov 2004 (CDT) ==Green Day In Disguise== *For the IP that edited the paragraph regarding GD's 2003 master tapes being related to "The Network": Sorry, but that sounds rather unlikely that a band could release an album using someone else's master tapes. The whole thing seemed kind of POV, so I excised it from the article. If you'd like to prove your case, feel free; I'm always open to being proven wrong. I think I might have proved myself wrong, and as such I'm going to *cough* attempt to hide the evidence. >_>[[User:Mo0|User:Mo0[User Talk:Mo0]]] 22:38, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) *Okay, let's try this again. I'm going to leave the article up the way it is, without reverting it. What I'll ask for is simply a confirmation of whether The Network is, in fact, Green Day. Once that happens, I will rewrite the things related to The Network, as what is there feels a bit POV-ed. Apologies for the massive stupidity on my part. [[User:Mo0|User:Mo0[User Talk:Mo0]]] 22:45, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) == "green day in hell" == User:67.67.132.59 wrote in the article "It has also been reported in print by the band members themselves that a principal at their school once made the comment that it would be a "green day" in hell before they amounted to anything." I cannot find any original citation of this although it is often repeated so I have made it anecdotal until we have verified the source. --User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 14:55, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye open and a Google tab available to hunt down that citation - if it really exists, that is. =) User:TheWanderer 02:45, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC) == Real punks should care less about whether a band is "punk" == Oh no, here's another "this band is/isn't punk argument. For one, Green Day is pop-punk, but pop-punk is a form of punk. While it's true they have deviated from this sound lately, they still are and will always be pop-punk. Green Day is pop-punk, as is NoFX, so whoever thinks NoFX is punk but Green Day isn't has a problem. And whoever mentioned the Ramones being the originators of punk but not political at all has a good point. A band doesn't have to be political to be punk, but many are anyway. Also, Green Day was political before American Idiot - listen to "Minority" and "Maria" for two good examples. With the exeption of War on Errorism, NoFX hasn't been all too political either. Their biggest hit was arguably "Bob", a song about as pointless as Green Day's "Longview". True punk is dead, but punk revitalists such as Green Day, NoFX, Bad Religion, Rise Against, ect., regardless of whether they are political or not, will continue to make awesome music, and to a real punk, that's all that should matter. Well said. User:Sabrebattletank 06:11, May 2, 2005 (UTC) :I completely agree with your position, this kind of dispute appeared on blink-182's article, it is kinda lame to have this discussions, instead of really caring about making a much better wikipedia...--User:Greedyredbag 18:19, 2 May 2005 (UTC) Does it matter what the band is? They are who they are, they rock and make me have a good time. Call them what you will but why put lables on some thing that you don't really know. For all you know they could sing lullabies while in the shower or some thing like that and well that not punk or pop thats just lullabies in the shower. stars2005 may 19 Labels... puh! If we step back and put a bit of logic into this, we can correctly point out what kind of music they are. The most obvious indicator is how well-known they are in the musical mainstream, and since they've been causing a stir from the start with Dookie, it's safe to assume they're well-known. That factor immediately adds the word "pop" to whatever other genre they are. The other gender, then, breaks down into the musical conventions the band follows more closely - and although the sound is rather experimental, it all breaks down into basic chords on the guitar and a moving bass line (often at a fast pace). BAM - there's your punk label. Mainstream music (pop) + balanced chord structure and moving bass line (punk) = Green Day (pop-punk). And that's my only word on this subject. User:TheWanderer 02:51, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC) Really, we should be following NPOV, which means that anything controversial should be attributed to those who hold the opinions. Does anybody feel like citing some sources? It doesn't matter what I think, or what stars2005 thinks, or what Wanderer thinks; we should rather be citing print or web sources (how does allmusic classify them? how do punk purists classify them? add this to the article, with links and references as needed). User:TUF-KAT 21:14, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC) ==Sales levels== Does anyone know which records went gold, platinum, double platinum, etc.? Three singles were flagged with such qualificatiosn but this is misleading if we do not yupdate the entire list in one go. Please could knowledgable editors annotate the following list so that we can update the article in one consistent hit. Please italicise each title as you bring it up to date so that we know when low-selling titles have been processed.—User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 12:48, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ===Albums=== 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Kerplunk!
Dookie
Insomniac
Nimrod
Warning
American Idiot International Superhits! Shenanigans
===EPs=== Sweet Children
1,000 Hours
Slappy
American Idiot
Sessions@AOL - Green Day
Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking ===Singles=== Welcome to Paradise
Basket Case
Longview
When I Come Around
Geek Stink Breath
Stuck With Me
Brain Stew/Jaded
Hitchin' a Ride
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Redundant
Minority
Warning (2000)
Warning (2001)
''American Idiot'' [Platinum]
''Boulevard of Broken Dreams'' [Triple Platinum]
''Holiday'' [Gold]
Wake Me Up When September Ends

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