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Nirvana contemporaries but Berkeley-born, Green Day wears their music genre like a reversible jacket: some times punk-pop, other times pop-punk. Green Day's fans, however, who range from cult to mainstream and roughly parallel the band's timeline fro...more

Nirvana contemporaries but Berkeley-born, Green Day wears their music genre like a reversible jacket: some times punk-pop, other times pop-punk. Green Day's fans, however, who range from cult to mainstream and roughly parallel the band's timeline from early to more recent history, insist the trio of Armstrong, Dirnt and Tre Cool (who replaced original drummer Al Sobrante in 1991) has always favored the pop and point to Warning, from 2000, as evidence. Coming out of the blocks a bit slowly, their second album, Kerplunk in 1992, was a bigger hit than their first and Dookie, in 1994, was bigger still. Great songwriting and refined guitar are signature with Green Day, and allowed the band slip the slur of "three-chord blunder" that some critics paste on Green Day's successors. Tour favorites to the point of their own exhaustion, the band took a pass in 1997 and spent a long time refining new material. Warning was a welcome splash of water for fans in the band's self-imposed creative drought, and American Idiot, released in September 2004, was highly anticipated and well-received both critically and commercially....less