This album was played in full at Reading and Leeds Festivals last summer, and is the album that launched them into the global stratosphere. There are still some early teething problems, but the tunes by and large work, as well as hint at what would follow. Opener 2000 Light Years Away is an impressively refined number, while Christie Road is a great anthem that fully sums up the experience of boredom. As well as containing the first draft of a mega-hit, trends that would send Green Day to megastardom on that following LP also emerge here, but there’s plenty here to keep this as its own beat. An earlier, rougher version of future Dookie single Welcome to Paradise also appears here. The first album to feature long-standing drummer Tre Cool also contains his first song for the band, in the form of hilarious bondage anthem Dominated Love Slave. Most the songs here, by contrast, are rough sketches that time has not been kind too. But most of the highlights of this early period came on the EP’s, such as Only of You, Paper Lanterns and the cover of Operation Ivy track Knowledge, which instead exist on the extended compilation 10,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Some songs did hint at early promise, such as the garage-punk Going to Pasalacqua, while the very first composition At The Library is still a delightful ditty that gets a deserved airing now & then. This album is sweet-tinged punk melodies and lyrics of teenage nerves and lust. This is the only album to feature early drummer John Kiffenmeyer, who left the band after cutting this album and two further EP’s with the band. But are these the band’s best albums, and what else should the band be remembered for? These high profile anniversaries are marking the band’s two best known records. Further down the line, September 2004 saw the band release American Idiot, which came out when the band had lost some of their star power and the LP duly made them stadium rock stars the world over – not least here in Milton Keynes, where the band played two sell out nights at the Bowl in 2005. GREEN Day are celebrating a number of high-profile anniversaries in 2014.Īll the way back in February 1994, 3rd album Dookie turned them from a large act on a minor label to beginning a punk-rock takeover of the Billboard charts and inspiring a number of other consequent acts.
Green Day performing live in London in August 2013
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