List of 50 American Rock Bands of All Time from in Gibson.com

Gibson.com is counting down the top 50 American bands on their website. They posted bands 41-50 today and Green Day has come in at number 50.

Other bands of note in the 41-50 range include The Strokes, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, and Kings of Leon.
 

Green Day are an American band who make ambitious music out of, well, questioning America. The music of their 2004 album, American Idiot, expresses the fear in the U.S. the days after 9/11, as well as the band’s disillusion with the government of the era. All politically charged lyrics aside, Green Day are a rare bunch who have sold millions of albums (at 15 million, 1994’s “Dookie” is the world’s best-selling punk rock album ever), launched a Broadway musical and earned generations of punkster fans. – Anne Erickson

Gibson will continue updating a full 50 list american band until next 4 July.

You can see the list by clicking here

Source : Idiot Club Indonesia | Green Day Authority

Vote your's favorite Green day Album in VIRGIN RADIO Italy

Vote for your favorite Green Day album at Virgin Radio Italy: HERE, in there is eight album :

1). 39/Smooth (1990)
2). Kerplunk! (1992)
3). Dookie (1994)
4). Insomniac (1995)
5). Nimrod (1997)
6). Warning (2000)
7). American Idiot (2004)
8). 21st Century Breakdown (2009)

it's your's choice to choose :)

The Network's Money Money 2020 set to release on vinyl at july 26th

On July 26th,  Adeline Records Will be releasing The Network's first album Money Money2020 on 180 gram blue vinyl. 


Originally Money Money 2020 was released in September of 2003, about a year before Green Day unleashed American Idiot on the world.


If you would like to learn more about The Network, you can read all the "known" information about them by  clicking here.


Source : Green day Authority.

Click The image to pre order on Amazon.com only $15.58

Limited Edition Minority EP

This exclusive 7" EP release features the hit tunes "Minority" and "Jackass" from GREEN DAY's Warning album, along with two UNRELEASED live versions of "Brat" and "86".

Track Listing:
1. Minority (Radio Version)
2. Brat (Live From Tokyo)
3. 86 (Live From Prague)

Order: HERE

Source : Green Day.Com

"Awesome As Fuck" available for pre-order on iTunes

Now on iTunes, you can pre-order Green Day's upcoming live album "Awesome As Fuck" which will be coming out on March 22nd.

One is the normal version of the album and the other is a "Deluxe" version that has three bonus tracks. You can see a list of iTunes bonus tracks below:

iTunes Bonus Tracks
- Letterbomb (Chula Vista, California)
- Christie Road (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Paper Lanterns/2000 Light Years Away (Alpharetta, Georgia)

You can pre-order the standard version by clicking here and you can pre-order the deluxe version by clicking here.

Source : Green Day Authority

American Idiot and Dookie entered the list of 99 Best Album Cover

Recently, Inspiredology.com made a list of what they thought were the "99 Best Designed Album Covers". Green Day made the list twice with American Idiot and Dookie.

Other bands included in the list are Yellowcard, The Clash, Paramore, and much more.

You want to know anyone and what albums are on the list? clicking here.

List of Songs in the live album "Awesome As Fuck"

 List of Songs in the Live Album "Awesome As Fuck" has been announced by the band through their official website, GreenDay.com

 "Green Day recorded every show on the 21st Century Breakdown tour. When it concluded, the band members, singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool, sifted through the audio to deliver the best performances from their shows around the world. An iTunes Exclusive edition of the audio portion will feature two bonus tracks. The footage on the bonus DVD was shot at the band’s show in Tokyo, Japan. The package includes Green Day’s biggest hits and fan favorites, including “21 Guns,” “American Idiot,” “When I Come Around,” and “Good Riddance.” See below for full track-listing."

As stated in the press release, the album will be released on March 22nd.

The Album Cover :

The track-listing for Awesome As Fuck is as follows:

CD :

1. 21st Century Breakdown – (London, England)

2. Know Your Enemy – (Manchester, England)

3. East Jesus Nowhere – (Glasgow, Scotland)

4. Holiday – (Dublin, Ireland)

5. Gloria – (Dallas, Texas)

6. Cigarettes And Valentines – (Phoenix, Arizona)

7. Burnout – (Irvine, California)

8. Pasalaqua – (Chula Vista, California )

9. JAR – (Detroit, Michigan – August 23rd 2010)

10. Holden Caulfield – (New York, New York)

11. Geek Stink Breath – (Saitama-shi, Japan)

12. When I Come Around – (Berlin, Germany)

13. She – (Brisbane, Australia – December 8th 2009)

14. 21 Guns – (Mountain View, California)

15. American Idiot – (Montreal, QUE)

16. Wake Me Up – (Nickelsdorf, Austria)

17. Good Riddance – (Nickelsdorf, Austria)

DELUXE ALBUM BONUS TRACKS (ALL DIGITAL RETAILERS EXCEPT iTUNES) :

1. Letterbomb – (Chula Vista, California)
2. Christie Road – (Hartford, Connecticut)

iTUNES BONUS TRACKS :

1. Letterbomb – (Chula Vista, California)
2. Christie Road – (Hartford, Connecticut)
3. Paper Lanterns/2000 Light Years Away – (Alpharetta, Georgia) (iTunes Exclusive)

DVD :

“21st Century Breakdown”
“Know Your Enemy”
“East Jesus Nowhere”
“Holiday”
“Static Age”
“Gloria”
“Blvd. Of Broken Dreams”
“Burnout”
“Geek Stink Breath”
“Welcome To Paradise”
“When I Come Around”
“She”
“21 Guns”
“American Eulogy”
“Jesus Of Suburbia”
“Good Riddance”

'21st Century Breakdown' cover design receives great recognition

Inspiredology.com has put together a list of of their "Top 35 Inspiring Examples of Typography in Album Covers." Green Day's album "21st Century Breakdown" has made the list.

The cover, inspired by Sixten and designed by Chris Bilheimer, features the very recognizable custom font used as the "Green Day" text.

The entire list can be viewed on Inspiredology's website by clicking here.

Source : Green Day Authority

Trailer "Awesome As Fuck" live album released

As we already know that Green Day will release a Live Album + DVD titled Awesome As Fuck March 15 this year.

Live album will take the songs from their tour during World Tour Breakdown 21st Century, and a bonus DVD which records their current two-day concert at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama-shi, Japan, last January.

You can see the DVD Trailer below.

You can preorder the live album on Amazon.com now by clicking here for $18.79.

Dookie comes in at number 193 in Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time

Recently, Rolling Stone made a list of their "Top 500 Albums of All Time". Green Day's album Dookie came in at number 193 on the list.

Rolling Stone said:

"The California trio Green Day sold plenty of tickets and indie records on their own, but nothing they did before or since had the impact of their major-label debut. The skittish Dookie was recorded in little more than three weeks, and singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong blazed through all the vocals in two days. "Right from getting the drum sound, everything seemed to click," their A&R man Rob Cavallo marveled."

You can see all of the albums that made the list on RollingStone.com by clicking here.

Source : Green Day Authority

Live Album / DVD of Green Day called "Awesome as Fuck" release date 15/03/2011

Amazon.com has listed Green Day's upcoming live album and DVD as "Awesome as Fuck" and it's release date set for March 15, 2011.

The live album was first announced by Billie Joe on Twitter earlier this year :

“We’ve been recording our live shows since the beginning of tour. Possible Live album coming. A ton of songs! We’re in texas!”

And then has been confirmed by the GDA that the DVD will also be released together with the Live album.

The Live  album will include shows from all over the world during the 21st Century Breakdown tour, but the DVD will be a recording of from two shows Green Day played in Tokyo.

American Idiot cast album nominated for "Best Musical Show Album" in Grammy Award

The American Idiot cast album has been nominated for "Best Musical Show Album". Other nominees include "Sondheim on Sondheim", "Fela!", and "Promises, Promises".

The Recording Academy's Best Musical Show Album is awarded to the Album Producer(s), and to the Lyricist(s) & Composer(s) of 51% or more of a new score. Last night the nominees were announced and we're happy to share that Green Day as the composers and Billie Joe Armstrong as lyricist have been nominated for the Original Broadway Cast Recording: American Idiot (Featuring Green Day)! This is the 19th nomination Green Day has received from the Recording Academy since 1995!

If Green Day wins the award, technicly speaking this would not be the first Grammy that the band has received for the songs in the musical. 'American Idiot' won a Grammy in 2005 for "Best Rock Album" and '21st Century Breakdown' won a Grammy in 2010 for "Best Rock Album".

Tune in to the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on CBS on Sunday, February 13th at 8PM ET/PT to see if Green Day will take home their 5th Grammy award

Source : Green Day Authority

Green Day mentioned as a band with a "shelved album"

New York Magazine put Green Day into the category of bands who have  “Shelved Album” or which could have an album called "ruled out" / "retired", it is because the album was stolen, they finally started making a new album called "American Idiot ".

“Following 2000’s tepidly received Warning, Green Day decided to return to its scaled-down roots, recording nearly twenty new songs (which, given Green Day’s early pop-punk metabolism rate, would have yielded an album about eleven minutes long). But the master tapes were stolen from the recording studio, prompting the band to start over again, a task that resulted in 2004’s American Idiot.
…
For years, fans speculated that Green Day had been releasing Valentines tracks under the guise of the Network, the band’s New Wave side project. But the band members have always denied the charge, and the songs remained forever lost — until this summer, when Green Day recorded Valentines and Cigarettes’s [sic] title track for a forthcoming live album. “

The full story and a few other bands who have "shelved album" like Pink Floyd, Korn and Duran Duran are discussed here. .

International Superhits was released 9 years ago yesterday

Nine years ago today, Green Day released International Superhits. It was released on November 13, 2001 through Reprise Records. It contains the major singles that the band has released, from Dookie(1994), their major label debut, up to their most recent album at the time, Warning . 

It also includes two previously unreleased tracks, "Maria" and Poprocks & Coke". It also contains "J.A.R.", a single released on the Angus soundtrack in 1995, not appearing on any of Green Day's albums.

The album reached #40 in the US and #15 in the UK upon its release, International Superhits! has sold 1,896,000 in the US as of September 2010 where it went platinum and over 3,000,000 worldwide.

So please, take an hour of your day and listen to International Superhits front to back along with us today.

Today is Nimrod's 13th birthday

Thirteen years ago today, Green Day's fifth studio album 'Nimrod' was released on October 14, 1997, The album entered the Billboard U.S. charts at #10, and achieved double platinum status, although it did not revive Green Day's sales to the level of Dookie. 

It is the band's fourth best-selling album (behind Dookie, American idiot, and Insomniac. with a sale success of 2,083,000 copies sold in the US alone and over 6 million worldwide.

Nimrod was reissued on vinyl on June 16, 2009^. The album was released in Europe as an HDCD. The songs "Nice Guys Finish Last", "Hitchin A Ride", and "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" are featured in the video game Green Day : Rock Band. The portraits covered on the album cover are Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry S. Truman.

The album includes fast-paced punk rock songs ("Reject", "Platypus (I Hate You)", "Nice Guys Finish Last"), slower-paced Pop Punk songs ("Redundant", "Walking Alone", "Worry Rock"), Ska Punk ("King for a Day"), Suft Rock ("Last Ride In", which is an instrumental track), Southren Rock ("Walking Alone"), Hardcore Punk ("Take Back"), and an acoustic ballad ("Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)".

 

Reject" came from an incident where a boy received Green Day's previous album, Insomniac, for his eighth birthday from his grandma. The boy started singing Green Day's songs (with explicit lyrics), and his mother got angry and wrote a complaint letter to Armstrong; Armstrong wrote an actual letter back to her, and this song was based on his response.

 

 

There are many stories behind this great album, so it gave time for you guys today to listen to the album Nimrod from first to the finish, and do not forget to congratulate the birthday of Nimrod with comments on the article

Happy Birthday to 10 "Warning"!

Today, ten years ago, was born the 6th Green Day album is "Warning".

This album is filled with controversial because many say Green Day change starts here, but, not least also to support continued and finally got ranked # 4 on the Billboard top 200.

The album has nonetheless been certified Gold in the United States and has sold over three million copies worldwide, as of 2010. Warning was reissued on July 14, 2009.

The album was released 4 singles namely, Minority, Warning, Waiting, and Macy's Day Parade.

If you have time today, please listen to full album from the album Warning. And leave your thoughts on the album in the comments below.

New Green Day live album coming soon?

The band just posted on their twitter account that there is a possibility for a new live album soon.

'We've been recording our live shows since the beginning of tour. Possible Live album coming. A ton of songs! We're in texas!'

There hasn't been a live album released from the 21st Century Breakdown tour yet so this would be great if we got one. There was an EP released earlier this year titled "Last Night on Earth (Live in Tokyo)" that featured a couple songs recorded in Japan last year. Before that EP release, the last live album released was Bullet in a Bible.

We will keep you up to date if any more news comes out out this.

411 Mania's Number One Band

A couple writers from the website 411 Mania have included Green Day in their series "The Weekly Top 5." Green Day comes in at number one on Alistair McGeorge's list.

'Green Day were the first name that sprung to mind when I read this week's topic. Over the last 22 years, Green Day have grown and matured, going from the punk kids on Kerplunk! and 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours to the epic stadium rockers we've heard on recent albums American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown.


Honestly, I love every album Green Day has made (although American Idiot is a low point for the diehard fan in me), from the experimental, acoustic-rock style on Warning to the pop-punk perfection that is Dookie. Never content with sticking to one genre.'

Another writer, Aaron Titan, also included Green Day on his list at number two.

I know they've got a bit of bad press from die-hard fans who think they've lost their edge, but they're selling 21st Century Breakdown short. It's not Dookie-era Green Day, but it's so much more. There's a bit of everything, from pop-punk tracks like "Know Your Enemy", "The Static Age" and "Murder City" to ballads like "21 Guns" and "Last Night On Earth".

The songwriting is fantastic, and they really are the biggest rock band in the world right now.

Meet Scott Hampton from Comic-Con Artist Alley

What inspires your art?

Sometimes music. When I discovered Green Day's American Idiot album, I just listened to it non-stop. I also listen to a lot of books on tape while I'm painting.

[Full interview at FeatNet]

Absolute Radio 90s poll

The newest Absolute Radio station, Absolute Radio 90s has recently just been launched and they are continuously playing music from the 90s. In celebration of the launch of this new station Absolute Radio is asking you to vote for your favorite album from the 1990's.


Even though Green Day released five albums in the 1990's you can only vote for Dookie on the poll. The deadline to vote is Thursday, July 1st.

You can vote for Dookie on AbsoluteRadio.co.uk by clicking here,.

Source : Green Day Authority