What Green Day songs should i listen to?

[SeeYouTonight]

I am a recent fan, so to say. I have heard some of their latest work, but I don't feel like I truly know them as artists through their earlier stuff. if you have a song you would like to suggest (preferably old) you are welcome to post it here

[HolyHandGrenade]

I am a recent fan, so to say. I have heard some of their latest work, but I don't feel like I truly know them as artists through their earlier stuff. if you have a song you would like to suggest (preferably old) you are welcome to post it here

1039/SOSH: Going to Pasalacqua + Paper Lanterns

Kerplunk: 2000 Light Years Away + Who Wrote Holden Caulfield

Dookie: She + FOD

Insomniac: Stuart and the Ave + Walking Contradiction

Nimrod: Scattered + Jinx/Haushinka

Warning: Castaway + Waiting

[Jake Bingham]

defiantly Basket case, longview, welcome to paradise

[OhTheGuilt.]

Mmmmmmm try with "Dry Ice", "80", "Words I Might Have Ate", "Stuck With Me", "Stuart and the Ave.", "The Grouch", "Scattered", "Minority", "Hold On" for now..

[HolyHandGrenade]

In addition, the track list for Int'l Superhits will lay down the basics regarding Green Day in the 90's

[Certified Nimrod]

Listen to International Superhits! and American Idiot to start out.

[alienlifeform]

Going To Pasalacqua

Disappearing Boy

Paper Lanterns

Knowledge

2000 Light Years Away

Christie Road

Dominated Love Slave

One of My Lies

Who Wrote Holden Caulfield

The Whole Dookie Album

Armatage Shanks

Stuck With Me

Geek Stink Breath

Brain Stew

Jaded

Walking Contradiction

Nice Guys Finish Last

Hitchin' a Ride

Scattered

King For a Day

Good Riddance

Warning

Blood Sex and Booze

Castaway

Waiting

Minority

+ Jaded In Chicago Concert

[R_Z-Log]

If you REALLY want to get to know them as musicians, you should listen to everything! Start with 1039/Smoothed out slappy hours (their first full legnth studio album) and don't stop until you're all the way through Tre. It's a big undertaking of course, but it's fun and you can really hear them growing and evolving with each album.

[dangreenday]

you should get every album and listen to every track on it !! it will be the best time you have ever had

p.s - Listen to The album Kerplunk first

[Guest]

I'd start with American Idiot. It's the most "accessible" of their albums in terms of having a mainstream sound. Move into the 90's stuff from there. Dookie is straight pop-punk, Insomniac is harder, almost metal in places and Nimrod is more experimental. From there, just kind of explore and see what you like.

[Cath]

my favorites one;

at the librairy, in the end, she, westboung sign, nice guys finish last, redundant, scattered, blood sex and booze, scumbag, homecoming, jesus of suburbia, whatsername

[CarpetDietVictim]

Oh, yes you must listen to everything

ONE of my favourite songs(but to tell the truth you can´t have a favourite song ) is Misery from Warning.

Have fun!

[alienlifeform]

I'd start with American Idiot. It's the most "accessible" of their albums in terms of having a mainstream sound. Move into the 90's stuff from there. Dookie is straight pop-punk, Insomniac is harder, almost metal in places and Nimrod is more experimental. From there, just kind of explore and see what you like.

sorry but insomniac has nothing like metal on it (except for Brain Stew).. it is absolutely raw punk rock

[inthehallwaynow]

its weird being surrounded by people that are obsessed with them 24/7 and then finally we get the chance to show somebody past glory it makes me excited haha

[moonflower93]

i'd also say start to finish.

[R_Z-Log]

I am a recent fan, so to say. I have heard some of their latest work, but I don't feel like I truly know them as artists through their earlier stuff. if you have a song you would like to suggest (preferably old) you are welcome to post it here

I'm curious to know what songs you've heard that you've liked so far. Keep us posted when you start listening to more!

[Guest]

the one recommendation i have, listen to Dookie through to AI first, then give 1039/Kerplunk! a go. they are NOT albums, as a new fan, you want to listen to first. i don't give a damn what people say, they are not the albums you use to introduce people with. they are good albums, but are not good at displaying Green Days talent and skill because of the god awful recording quality. listen to them last.

straight up pop punk Dookie - Burnout, Having A Blast, Longview, Basket Case, She, When I Come Around, Coming Clean, In The End.

dark punk rock Insomniac - Armatage Shanks, Stuck With Me, No Pride, Brain Stew.

"experimental" Nimrod - Hitchin' A Ride, Scattered, All The Time, Worry Rock, Good Riddance, Prosthetic Head.

punk rock Warning - Warning, Blood Sex & Booze, Fashion Victim, Castaway, Deadbeat Holiday, Waiting, Macys Day Parade.

collection of b-sides Shenanigans - Desensitized, Don't Wanna Fall In Love, Don't Wanna Be On TV, Haha You're Dead.

political rock opera American Idiot - American Idiot, Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, St Jimmy, Give Me Novacaine, Letterbomb, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Homecoming.

story teller 21st Century Breakdown - 21st Century Breakdown, Know Your Enemy, East Jesus Nowhere, Peacemaker, Last of the American Girls, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, The Static Age, 21 Guns.

[HolyHandGrenade]

I'd start with American Idiot. It's the most "accessible" of their albums in terms of having a mainstream sound. Move into the 90's stuff from there. Dookie is straight pop-punk, Insomniac is harder, almost metal in places and Nimrod is more experimental. From there, just kind of explore and see what you like.

I've never considered Insomniac metal, and the closest Green Day has come to that is Take Back. Really, it's just dirtier guitars and drums added to darker lyrical content

[IsaGreenDay]

I think you should listen to all the albums from start to finish, really. It's worth it. Especially the rock operas (AI and 21st CB), so you can understand the storylines. And watch Bullet In A Bible and the Woodstock '94 concert.

But anyway, here are some of my favorite songs: Road To Acceptance and 16 (1039/SOSH); Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? and Dominated Love Slave (Kerplunk); Having A Blast and Longview (Dookie); Stuck With Me and Panic Song (Insomniac); Prosthetic Head and Walking Alone (Nimrod); Waiting and Jackass (Warning); Ha Ha You're Dead and Rotting (Shenanigans); Jesus Of Suburbia and Whatsername (American Idiot); American Eulogy and Murder City (21st Century Breakdown).

[quinn92]

i too suggest to start with american idiot and international superhits... then go back through their entire discography!!

my favourite old albums are dookie and 1039 smoothed out slappy hours... nimrod comes straight after... their only album i didn't listen to is insomniac (except no pride... great song)

[lizziebix]

Don't forget to check out all their side projects too. They're just as awesome!

[The Disappearing Boy]

It's far too rare that we get a genuinely new fan on here asking these kind of questions. It's good. If you want to explore the range of this band's talent's, start off with Warning which is their first real experimental album (more experimental than Nimrod) and parts of their latest Trilogy (Nightlife and Brital Love particularly) as these are all quite "out there".

Other than that, International Superhits is a collection of their singles from the 1990s (plus a coupe of new songs) so that might be worth listening to as well as the "big hitters" like American Idiot and Dookie. I agree, leave their first two albums 'til last. The quality of the music is no less than the other albums, but the low level of production might put you off.

[Artificial Idiot]

Listen to the Slappy album.

[!]

Ignore everything you've read, and listen to Strange land 6 times in a row

[Fish]

Longview and Hitchin A Ride before anything else. They are so good.