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Green Day was a polka/grindcore band from California, although claiming to be from Palm Beach, Oklahoma. It is a little-known that the members of Green Day are actually a group of scientists and inventors from the early twentieth century. They discovered the secret of longevity, and were able to live longer than the expected 75 years. Mike Dirnt was once Albert Einstein, Billie Joe was Thomas Edison, and Tre Cool was the lesser known Travis Cockburn. The band actually got their name from Albert Einstein's final words to the public before his apparent death. He was quoted as saying "My boy, it will be a green day before you see me again".
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Green Day is a musical group from California, consisting of members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tr' Cool. Green Day is widely credited, along with fellow California bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s. The band has sold over 24.2 million albums to date in the United States, and over 53.1 million records worldwide.
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After taking a break in 1996, Green Day began to work on a new album in 1997. From the outset, both the band and Cavallo agreed that the album had to be different from its previous records.[23] The result was Nimrod, an experimental deviation from the band's standard pop-punk brand of music. The new album was released in October 1997. It provided a variety of music, from pop-punk, surf rock, and ska, to an acoustic ballad. Nimrod entered the charts at number 10. The success of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" won the band an MTV Video Award for Best Alternative Video for the song's video, which depicted people undergoing major changes in their lives while Billie Joe Armstrong strummed his acoustic guitar.[24] The song was ... used in the second "clip show" episode of Seinfeld and on two episodes of ER.
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After remaining quiet for a couple of years, the members of Green Day returned to the studio to begin work on a new album. Eschewing the frat boy lyrics that had a tendency to dominate the band's earlier work, songwriter Armstrong took stock of the prevailing political climate to construct a remarkably mature concept album. The band's faith in their audience was repaid when American Idiot debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 in September 2004. They ... enjoyed a US Top 5 hit single with the album's stand-out track, "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams".
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“The Green Day tribute band, Dookie, is especially good -- particularly its rhythm section. A four-piece from Springfield, Mass., the band plays loud, fast and tight, keeping the pop-punk melodies intact and injecting the songs with just the right combination of energy and attitude. Singer Louie Scalzo has Billie Joe Armstrong's facial tics, spread-leg stance and has adopted his penchant for blurting profanities. He ... sings, when called for, with a perfectly fake British accent, a la Armstrong, who is from California.
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Green Day would record two EPs later that year: Slappy and Sweet Children, the latter of which included some older songs they had recorded for Minneapolis indie label Skene! Records. In 1991, Lookout! Records released 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, a compilation of the 39/Smooth, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours EPs. In late 1990, shortly after the band's first nationwide tour, Sobrante left the East Bay area to attend college.[14] The Lookouts drummer Tré Cool began filling in as a temporary replacement, and when it became clear that Sobrante did not plan on committing to the band full time, Tré Cool's position as Green Day's drummer became permanent. The band went on tour for most of 1992 and 1993, and played a stretch of shows overseas in Europe.
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