After Green Day joined Reprise Company, at the beginning of 1994, Green Day released its third album, which was also the first album of their mainstream company "Dookie". Due to the continuous promotion of the single "Longview" and the second single "Waste Man", this album has become a phenomenon that runs through 1994. Both singles became champions of modern rock singles, and then performed well at the famous Woodstock Music Festival. After the release of the third champion single "When I Come to My Side", Green Day's "Dookie" was released. The three number one singles dominated the list of modern rock singles for more than ten weeks, and the album sales continued to climb. This album, which once ranked second on the Billboard 200 list, eventually sold more than 8 million copies in the United States and more than10 million copies worldwide, and brought them the best alternative music performance award in the 37th Grammy Awards with 1994. The popularity of Ducky makes punk music stand out and become an important part of rock music in the post-junk era. Green Day is regarded as the pioneer of punk revival in American pop music and one of the most important representatives of American punk revival bands, which influenced a series of later pop punk bands.
Shortly after Ducky Glory, GreenDay released the fourth album Insomnia on 1995. After the release of this album, it also ranked second on the Billboard 200 list, and a single J.A.R became the champion of the modern rock single list. By 1996, the total sales of this album failed to surpass. After that, the tired band Green Day cancelled its tour in Europe, recuperated, and recorded the fifth album Nimrod, 1997, which was only ranked 10th in the charts. After waiting for three years, the sixth album was released in 2000, which is also their fourth album "Warning" in mainstream record companies. After the release of this album, it ranked fourth in the charts with the sales volume of 654.38+056 million, and the sales volume once again exceeded one million. Four years passed after the warning. On September 2 1 2004, Green Day released their fifth album, American Idiot, which caused a sensation again.
The style of Green Day has been defined as alternative rock or punk rock. Because it was so popular, it was later defined as pop rock. After listening to the song "Wake me up when we are apart", I suggest that the style of Green Day be defined as britpop.
Wake me up at the end of September is about anti-war. I clearly remember that in the MV, the hero pointed a gun at two children and a mother at each other. The eyes of mother and son are frightened, but the eyes of soldiers are helpless. When I saw this shot, I wanted to say something, but I couldn't. There is only one tremor, coming from the softest place in the heart.
This song is selected from their album American Idiot, an American band. The name of this album ... is related to politics and war. They are not cynics, but a band, telling people in their way: no war!
In a word, I like this band, this song and this British pop style.
Now billie joe armstrong has become the idol of little girls. This guy is really cute, with a big head and a baby face like Elijah Wood, especially when he crosses with open arms. No wonder Green Day can become the most successful group of people who broke into Pop from other sources after Pearl jam. However, they still want to be a punk in their bones Look at Billie's little tie and panda eye. Although Avril Lavigne has shrunk this punk costume. Or look at the graffiti on the jacket of American Idiot. At least it embodies the spirit of anti-government and DIY. 1988 Billie (lead singer/guitar) and her childhood sweetheart Mike Dirnt (Bess, formerly known as Mike prichard) wrote Sweet Children in Berkeley, the predecessor of Green Day, at the age of fourteen. As one of six children who lost their father at the age of ten, he has every reason to be a die-hard. Al Sobrante, the first drummer, joined 1989, and Tianer became Green Day, releasing the first EP and getting the contract of the local independent brand Lookout. A year later, Green Day released its first album "103,9/Slappy Hour" under this label. In the same year, the drummer was replaced by Tre Cool (formerly known as Frank Edwin Wright III), forming a band lineup that continues to this day. In the next four years, four hardcore boys became more and more popular in California's underground music industry. 1992, the last underground album Kerplunk finally "arched" them into the mainstream.
Billie is now criticized for betraying the mainstream underground organization, which can be said to be the reason why this independent album was planted: the popularity of Kerplunk made mainstream brands extend an olive branch to Green Day. 1994 Two things happened: In spring, Green Day's first album Dookie sold well under the mainstream label Reprise; In the summer, Billie married his girlfriend, adrianna Nesser. Ducky eventually sold more than 8 million copies, and a year later Billie also had her first son, Joseph Marciano. At this point, both career and family are proud, and it is not difficult for Billie to "go her own way" on the mainstream road. But American Idiot is still a popular punk, light, soft and sweet, but it doesn't let go of the cold, hard and heavy punk. The whole album pays great attention to the coherence between songs. Even the MV scenes of Holiday and Broken Dreams are like series. Musically, the drum is simple, the harmony is simple, and the guitar bass is simple and weighty, following the punk classic triad tradition. Generally speaking, it is neither skillful nor ugly-although there are some songs with quite interesting melodies, they are still inevitably reduced to trying to please the situation between pop and punk, giving people an impression of not being happy enough.
Some people say that "American Idiot" was launched in the 2004 American election year, which has a strong political tendency. Although Green Day did not personally vote for Kerry's campaign front line like david grohl did, they are definitely not the incumbent George W. Bush. Some people say that American Idol is suspected of alluding to American Idol, but it seems to have something to do with attacking new media. However, this album is not the type to criticize the malpractice of the times, and it has no clear direction to the real society. On the contrary, it is more like a nightmare of juvenile temperament. It is still a group of decadent, yuppie capitalist teenagers. When they came under the tragic sunshine of Warning in the 1990s, the first song set the tone of the environment: a nation that subconsciously fuck the United States under the media (a country enslaved by the media, the United States whose head has been subconsciously dried) still puts on a pair of denunciations of post-modern industrial society, regardless of discipline or spirit. We are not the people who are destined to follow (we are not the people who are born to follow others), which still sounds like the echo of Pink Floyd's The Wall Decades ago.
Interestingly, the second "Jesus in the Suburb" and the penultimate "Going Home" are a pair of contrasting twin songs, each of which is divided into five parts, all of which are nine minutes long. The rebellious curtain provoked by American Idiot shows a flesh-and-blood stage in Jesus in the Suburb, which provokes religion, has a dim future, doubts love, accuses broken families and takes drugs, and previews the whole album's "social care", like a classic collection of capitalist white teenagers' growing pains. They all tried to innovate their musical style in every part, but "Jesus in the suburbs" was not as comfortable as his brother "going home". In fact, this is because the role of the latter is similar to that of concluding remarks, and there is no fear of information leakage of the former. The resources at his disposal include almost all the moving things in the album, including the four lines of cruel fairy tales with the sound quality of the little girl in Letterbomb (Noble likes you/everyone has left you/they have gone out without you/have fun …), and Billie's voice also sternly reviews a childhood trauma.
Speaking of Letterbomb, the song itself is not conspicuous, and the surly words are not unique to the whole album. But only its introduction makes people shine. A little girl's voice sang the cruelest words of her childhood, which suddenly awakened her ears that were gradually numb in the hot pop punk.
The most popular song in the whole album is the youthful and affectionate Wake me up when we are apart, but some music critics who are obsessed with the hard-core era of Green Day think that this song is too flattering to business. Intro is a clear and hearty acoustic guitar. In this song, Billie uses a song that is between boys and men and transcends dreams and reality. It is young, indifferent and slightly bitter. After intro, the walls of electroacoustic and drum will be pressed down, and the lead singer's voice is thin but not light, and it is always tenaciously supported in the center of the stage. The MV of this song is a very expensive movie. In 2003, Evan Rachel Wood, the actress who starred in the cruel youth film Thirteen, played a pure and beautiful small town girl. Her lover is a simple and sensitive small town boy who is afraid of growing up. Looking forward to the future and uneasy, the boy ignored the opposition of his family and girlfriend and was sent to the battlefield in a daze, witnessing the hell on earth of blood and fire-the war scene was so realistic that several tanks were used-while the girl sat alone in the country, looking up at the sky and reciting the original vows. Love and peace, youth and death have all collected such pleasing elements, and the ambition of this song to the charts is self-evident; Although Green Day is a hard-core history, it is also a rare masterpiece of pop rock.
For veteran fans, "American Idiot" may not be a surprise, but at best it is in the standard. But the excellent packaging and skillful publicity techniques of this album really make Green Day warm up again. From the release of CD in 2004 to DVD in 2005, it was really a painful year. The most precious thing about billie joe armstrong is that she has been a husband and father for 40 years, but she still retains a childlike charm.
Green Day band member
Billie joe armstrong (lead singer/guitarist)
Mike Dirnt (Bass Player/Harmony)
Tre Cool (Drummer/Harmony)
Green Day-Master Album
American Idiot, 2004.
Pranks, 2002
International supercar, 200 1
Warning, 2000
Nimrod, 1997.
Insomniac, 1994
Ducky, 1994
Cronk, 1994.
GreenDay- punk pop band GreenDay rose in the post-Nirvana period of American alternative music, and is actually the most influential band after jam pearl. "Green Day" is essentially the revival of punk, reviving fast and concise punk pop songs with three chords. Although their music is not particularly innovative, they brought it to the new younger generation with the "Ducky" prize punk in the late 1970s. Green Day failed to maintain their success-Ducky sold 8 million copies, and its next one sold a quarter of the former, but their influence was far-reaching, because they opened the door to American new punk, punk metal and the third ska music wave.
Green Day is in the underground punk music circle in Southern California. In the same year, friends billie joe armstrong (guitarist and lead singer) and mike dirnt (bassist, formerly known as Mike prichard) formed the "Sweet Kids" band in Rodeo, California, at the age of 14. 1989, the band recruited drummer al sobrante and changed its name to "Green Day". In the same year, the band released their first EP,1000 Hours, which was well received by the hardcore punk music circle in Southern California. Soon after, the band signed lookout, an independent company of local Larry Livermore, and replaced the drummer with John Kieft Mayer. The band's debut album "39/smooth" was released the following year and was recorded in only one day. After that, the band made a domestic tour. Kieft Mayer left the team because he wanted to finish his college studies. The band has a new drummer, Tre Cool, who was employed by Larry Livermore's Lookout when he was 12 years old.
Throughout the early 1990s, "Green Day" continued to expand its followers, and the release of 1992 album "kerplunk" injected more energy into it. At this point, Armstrong's proposition that anything but linguistic substitution is inevitable. He answered a reporter's question about what contemporary America needs. He said, "Less exercise, more painting; Less golden joe, more Van Gogh! "The band also cooperates with many people, such as Needle Powder and screadhing weasel. Armstrong also cooperated with another pop band, rancid, on radio, radio and radio.
Green Day-cronk
The success of underground attracted the interest of major record companies, and the band finally decided to sign reprise. Ducky and Green Day's first big company album was released in the spring of 1994. Because of mtv's support for the single longview, this album is very popular. Ducky continued to heat up in the summer, and the second single "Waste Man" topped the American modern rock charts for five weeks in a row. At the same time, the band appeared on Woodstock 94, which further expanded the sales of the album. The fourth single "When I Come to My Side" won the championship for seven weeks in a row in the modern rock charts at the beginning of 1995. Dookie finally sold 8 million copies in the United States, and the global sales volume was100000. He also won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance with 1994.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/995, Green Day was the soundtrack J.A.R of Angus, and won the top spot in the modern rock charts. In the autumn of the same year, the band quickly released the album Insomnia. The album started to go well, ranking 265,438 in the American charts, and sold 2 million copies in early 1996. However, none is as successful as the former. At the same time, "Green Day" suddenly canceled the European tour on the grounds of fatigue. The band began to rest and write new songs. However, it can be predicted that the market created by "Green Day" with its "Three Minutes Punk" songs will be maintained and developed. 1997 10, the band released a new album "nimrod". Although the album has reduced some pop punk elements, the fast and charming melody is still the core of their music.