Well, today was the day that I heard Green Day played at a dance recital. For a fucking BALLET routine, no less. They couldn't have picked a Green Day song to go with a tap or jazz routine. No. Ballet. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time
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Green Day, 'Dookie' (1994)
Green Day's major-label debut exploded across teenage America in the wake of Kurt Cobain's death like sweet, manic relief. Dookie was an irresistible paradox: 14 songs about despair detonated with Who-ish zeal and radio-tight pop craft. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong called it his "journal about what it's like to live as a street kid" — desperate for connection and frustrated to an atomic degree.
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