Green Day was formed in 1987 as an American rock trio. The band consists of Billy Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirny (bass guitar, vocals) and Tre Cool (drums, percussion). It first breakthrough album come in 1994 with Dookie. With that album, Green Day won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and was nominated for nine MTV Music Awards. It ended up having a falling out with a couple albums not doing so well, Nimrod and Warning. But in 2004, Green Day created the American Idiot ablum, which topped the charts right away. In 2005 they went on the longest tour of their careers. They visited Japan, Australia, South America and the UK. In 2006, Green Day won another Grammy Award for Record of the Year for Boulevard of Broken Dream that spent 16 weeks at the number one position on the Billboards. They have recently come out with a new album 21st Century Breakdown and is on tour now for that album.
This band is an example of a different type of rock. This more modern type of rock is very different from the rock of ACDC and The Eagles but is considered rock. As stated by Eriling in an article we read for week 5, “The genesis of genre is therefore to be found in our natural and irrepressible tendency to classify.” We as individuals have to classify between two different types of rock, whether it be ACDC or Green Day, they are both considered Rock but have different sounds.
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