Green Day
 This
California based punk rock band consists of Billie Joe
Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing
vocals, born Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tré Cool
(drummer, backing vocals, born Frank Edwin Wright III,
in Germany). Since their sixth album, the band have included
close friend and associate, back-up guitarist Jason White.
Their success has been a major influence on other prominent
pop-punk bands, such as Sum 41 and blink-182.
Green Day is credited as having paved the way for the
pop punk genre with their 1994 album Dookie. In 2004,
their second best-selling album American Idiot enjoyed
acclaim and won the band a Grammy Award for "Best
Rock Album". Green Day swept the MTV Video Music
Awards 2005 winning seven out of eight nominations: "Video
of the Year", "Best Rock Video", "Best
Group Video", "Best Direction", "Best
Editing", "Best Cinematography" - all for
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and the "Viewer's
Choice Award" for "American Idiot".
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Genre: Punk Rock
Discography
Albums
- 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1991)
- Kerplunk! (1992)
- Dookie (1994)
- Insomniac (1995)
- Nimrod (1997)
- Warning: (2000)
- American Idiot(2004)
Hit Singles
- Basket Case (1994)
- Longview (1994)
- Welcome to Paradise (1994)
- She (1995)
- When I Come Around (1995)
- Brain Stew (1995)
- Geek Stink Breath (1995)
- Stuck With Me (1995)
- Walking Contradiction (1996)
- Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) (1997)
- Hitchin' a Ride (1997)
- Nice Guys Finish Last (1998)
- Redundant (1998)
- Minority (2000)
- Warning (2000)
- Waiting (2001)
- Macy's Day Parade (2001)
- American Idiot (2004)
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2004)
- Holiday (2005)
- Wake Me Up When September Ends (2005)
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