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Green Day burst on the national scene 15 years ago with its major- label debut, "Dookie," as an anodyne interpreter of classic three- chord punk rock. The music preserved the bouncy ska beats of punk's heyday, but the group's distortion-heavy guitar lines had a sugared feel to them - as if to signal to the listener not to take things too seriously.
This grunge-era pose represented a radical departure from the traditional punk ethos, which demanded that fans adopt an almost cultish attitude toward the music and the anarchic politics it represented lest one suffer the ultimate indignity of poseur-hood. Punk demanded fashion concessions that gave it a separatist character. Green Day was punk rock for the charts, punk rock without homework.See the full content of this document
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Green Day Still On 'Idiot' Cycle
That all changed with the release in 2004 of "American Idiot," an ambitious (some would say overweening) rock opera that parodied t...
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