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This Punk-Rock trio was founded in the late '80s in Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area USA, by two 14-years-old guys: vocalist+guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt, real name Mike Pritchard; the pair began playing music as Sweet Children; in 1989 they were joined by drummer John Kiffmeyer and the group changed its name to Green Day.

That same year, the new band released an independent EP titled "1,000 Hours".
During 1990 Green Day recorded two discs: the 4-track EP "Slappy" and their debut full-length, "39/Smooth", the latter was later repackaged and retitled "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours"; months after releasing their first album Kiffmeyer left Green Day, Tre Cool, real name Frank Edward Wright, replaced him on drums.
The band toured frequently around the Bay Area writing new material and in 1991 they issued "Kerplunk" which attracted major label attention and the trio was finally signed to Reprise Records.
In 1994 Green Day released the expolsive third full-length disc, "Dookie"; three singles off the album stormed The Modern Rock Tracks chart: "Longview" and "Basket Case" both peaked at #1 and "Welcome To Paradise" reached the #7; the group's third LP soared to the #2 spot on The Billboard 200 chart selling over 12 million copies worldwide. Green Day with "Dookie" won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
The follow-up, "Insomniac", immediately shot to #2 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart upon its October 1995 release and generated the Modern Rock #1 hit "When I Come Around" plus three Modern Rock top 5 hits: "Geek Stink Breath", "She" and "Brain Stew"; that same year, the group, topped The Modern Rock Tracks chart with another single, "J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)", a song taken from the soundtrack to "Angus".
They returned in October of 1997 with "Nimrod" which reached the top 10 in North-American Albums charts but didn't gain the praise compared to the multi-platinum previous LPs; two singles, "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)" and "Hitchin' A Ride", eventually enjoyed a chart presence on Billboard's Modern Rock list peaking respectively at #2 and #5 spots.
Three years later Green Day resurfaced with "Warning", the record was another transatlantic success, it rose to #4 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart spawning two Modern Rock top 3 hit singles including the #1 "Minority" and "Warning" plus the minor hit "Waiting".
The band in mid-2002 released "Shenanigans" which collected B-sides cover-songs and other material, the compilation reached the #27 in U.S. Top 200 chart.
The threesome returned to action in early 2004 with the rendition of "I Fought The Law" used in the Pepsi television commercial, the track preceded the release of Green Day's seventh album, "American Idiot", which arrived in September; it rose to #1 on The Billboard 200 chart while the title-track became an instant #1 on The Modern Rock chart and on the Canadian Pop Singles chart; the second single off the CD, "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", shot to #1 on both Mainstream and Modern Rock Tracks charts falling just one position short of #1 on The Billboard Hot 100.

 

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1,000 Hours
[EP]

(1989)

1. 1,000 Hours
2. Dry Ice
3. Only Of You
4. The One I Want

 

Slappy
[EP]

(1990)

1. Paper Lanterns
2. Why Do You Want Him?
3. 409 In Your Coffeemaker
4. Knowledge

 

39/Smooth

(1990)

1. At The Library
2. Don't Leave Me
3. I Was There
4. Disappearing Boy
5. Green Day
6. Going To Pasalacqua
7. 16
8. Road To Acceptance
9. Rest
10. The Judge's Daughter

 

Kerplunk

(1991)

1. 2000 Light Years Away
2. One For The Razorbacks
3. Welcome To Paradise
4. Christie Road
5. Private Ale
6. Dominated Love Slave
7. One Of My Lies
8. 80
9. Android
10. No One Knows
11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
12. Words I Might Have Ate

 

Dookie

(1994)

1. Burnout
2. Having A Blast
3. Chump
4. Longview
5. Welcome To Paradise
6. Pulling Teeth
7. Basket Case
8. She
9. Sassafras Roots
10. When I Come Around
11. Emenius Sleepus
12. Coming Clean
13. In The End
14. F.O.D.
15. All By Myself [secret track]

 

Insomniac

(1995)

1. Armatage Shanks
2. Brat
3. Stuck With Me
4. Geek Stink Breath
5. No Pride
6. Bab's Uvula Who?
7. 86
8. The Panic Song
9. Stuart And The Ave.
10. Brain Stew
11. Jaded
12. Westbound Sign
13. Tight Wad Hill
14. Walking Contradiction

 

Angus
[soundtrack]

(1995)

INCLUDES:

- J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)

 

Nimrod

(1997)

1. Nice Guys Finish Last
2. Hitchin' A Ride
3. The Grouch
4. Redundant
5. Scattered
6. All The Time
7. Worry Rock
8. Platypus (I Hate You)
9. Uptight
10. Last Ride In
11. Jinx
12. Haushinka
13. Walking Alone
14. Reject
15. Take Back
16. King For A Day
17. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
18. Prosthetic Head

 

Warning

(2000)

1. Warning
2. Blood, Sex, And Booze
3. Church On Sunday
4. Fashion Victim
5. Castaway
6. Misery
7. Deadbeat Holiday
8. Hold On
9. Jackass
10. Waiting
11. Minority
12. Macy's Day Parade

 

Shenanigans

(2002)

1. Suffocate
2. Desensitized
3. You Lied
4. Outsider
5. Don't Wanna Fall In Love
6. Espionage
7. I Want To Be On TV
8. Scumbag
9. Tired Of Waiting For You
10. Sick Of Me
11. Rotting
12. Do Da Da
13. On The Wagon
14. Ha Ha You're Dead

 

American Idiot

(2004)

1. American Idiot
2. Jesus Of Suburbia
3. Holiday
4. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
5. Are We The Waiting
6. St. Jimmy
7. Give Me Novacaine
8. She's A Rebel
9. Extraordinary Girl
10. Letterbomb
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming
13. Whatsername

 

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