Albums

Below you’ll find  a list of Green Day studio albums throughout the years along with blurbs covering the history of the album- if this selection doesn’t make you crave some Green Day tickets nothing will!!

1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1990)

Released on Lookout Records, 39/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was a combination of tracks from 39/Smooth both the 1,000 hours and Slappy EPs. It includes an Operation Ivy cover of “Knowledge” along and was re-released in 2004, reaching platinum status.

1. “At the Library” (39/Smooth)
2. “Don’t Leave Me” (39/Smooth)
3. “I Was There” (39/Smooth)
4. “Disappearing Boy” (39/Smooth)
5. “Green Day” (39/Smooth)
6. “Going to Pasalacqua” (39/Smooth)
7. “16″ (39/Smooth)
8. “Road to Acceptance” (39/Smooth)
9. “Rest” (39/Smooth)
10. “The Judge’s Daughter”(39/Smooth)
11. “Paper Lanterns” (Slappy)
12. “Why Do You Want Him?” (Slappy)
13. “409 in Your Coffeemaker” (Slappy)
14. “Knowledge” (Originally by Operation Ivy) (Slappy)
15. “1,000 Hours” (1,000 Hours)
16. “Dry Ice” (1,000 Hours)
17. “Only of You”(1,000 Hours)
18. “The One I Want” (1,000 Hours)
19. “I Want to Be Alone” The Big One Compilation

Kerplunk (1992)

Green Day’s last release on an independent label sparked the interest of a handful of major record labels when they saw how many Green Day tickets and albums were being sold without radio play – Reprise won the bid and the band was signed in 1994. This is the first CD to feature Tre Cool on drums in place of Kiffmeyer and was one off the best selling independent albums ever to date. The album includes a cover of The Who’s “My Generation” and “Welcome to Paradise,” which would be featured in the upcoming album Dookie.

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

The first CD I owned, Dookie, Green Day’s 3rd studio album was their first major label release and charted in 7 countries reaching number 1 on the US Billboard 100. The album pushed 5 hit singles and is currently Green Day’s only diamond album – “Longview,” “Welcome to Paradise,” “When I Come Around,” “Basket Case,” and “She” were featured on major radio stations and MTV. dookie would go on to win a Grammy for Best Alternative Movie Album a year after it’s release. According to Rolling Stone – “Employing the Jam and the Damned on Dookie in the same way the Rolling Stones emulated Elmore James, Billie Joe, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool of Green Day render the spirit of (19)76 in crunchy pop-guitar hooks, trebly bass and madcap tempos. They’re convincing mainly because they’ve got punk’s snotty anti-values down cold: blame, self-pity, arrogant self-hatred, humor, narcissism, fun.”

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. “Coming Clean”
12. “Emenius Sleepus”
13. “In the End”
14. “F.O.D.”

Insomniac (1995)

Darker than Dookie and slightly less successful, the album, which was originally named Tight Wad Hill, went double platinum and reach number 2 on US charts regardless.

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

Nimrod (1997)

Lighter than other Green Day album, the album combines surf rock, ska, acoustic ballads and punk songs and speed punk. The lyrics this time around present a more mature structure, and went double platinum, reaching the number 10 spot on US charts.

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)

Returning to their punk rock roots, Green Day employs a much more mature sound, abandoning tell tale traces of their snot-core attitude and reflecting upon the just-hitting-30’s crisis. The album earned mixed reviews as some critics welcomed the change with open arms, others were unconvinced. What do you think? Would you like to see more tracks from Warning at the next Green Day concert?

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”

American Idiot (2004)

Coming the concept of maturing in the US, the album has said to be a play on john Mellencamp’s American Fool, which covered the same concepts. The album began as Cigarettes and Valentines, the master tracks however, were stoned from the studio and the entire album was lost. So instead of rerecording the album, the band decided to model a rock opera inspired by The Who, The album won a Grammy for Best Rock album, and hit the number one spot on the Billboard 200 reaching 8x platinum in the US.

1. “American Idiot”
2. “Jesus of Suburbia”
* I. Jesus of Suburbia
* II. City of the Damned
* III. I Don’t Care
* IV. Dearly Beloved
* V. Tales of Another Broken Home
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”
* I. The Death of St. Jimmy
* II. East 12th St.
* III. Nobody Likes You
* IV. Rock and Roll Girlfriend
* V. We’re Coming Home Again
13. “Whatsername”

21st century Breakdown (~May, 2009)

Green Day’s 8th studio album set to be released in May, 2009 and will future delve away from Green Day’s roots into what they call more “religious” with influences by Brice Springsteen, The Beatles and The Who. Like American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown will run in a rock opera format and cover subjects such as politics, with distributors having difficulty with the obscenity on the album.

Act 1 – Heroes and Cons

1. “21st Century Breakdown”
2. “Know Your Enemy”
3. “Viva la Gloria”
4. “Before the Lobotomy”
5. “Christian’s Inferno”
6. “Last Night on Earth”

Act 2 – Charlatans and Saints

7. “March of the Dogs”
8. “Restless Heart Syndrome”

Act 3 – “Horseshoes and Handgrenades”

1. “21 Guns”

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