Chords for The History of Green Day

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_ _ [Eb] Do you have [Bb] the time [C] to listen to [G] me whine?
_ They're a [Ab] bunch of [Eb] basket cases.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ Welcome _ to WatchMojo [E].com and today we'll be learning more about the history of Green Day.
Nice nice redhead _ slash, you're running out of gas. _
[B] Your sympathy will get you left [E] _
behind.
_ _ Punk rock group Green Day formed in California in _ 1987 when Billy Joe Armstrong and Mike [B] Pritchard,
better known as Mike Dernt, [E] started playing as the band Sweet Children on the [A] local underground
punk circuit.
With [E]
Armstrong as primary lyricist, vocalist and [A] guitarist and Dernt as bassist,
[E] the band recruited John Kiffmeyer or Al [A]
Cibronte as drummer.
By _ [E] 1990 the group was called Green
and had [Gb] Frank Edwin Wright III or [E] Trey [B] Cool on the skins.
Green Day [E] built a cult following
[Am] leading into the 90s with a few [E] releases on lookout [A] records, but it was their [E]
1992 effort
[A] _ Kerplunk that [Abm] made the biggest splash.
[Db] It became one [Ab] of history's most successful independent
releases.
[Db] More importantly, it got [Eb] Green Day big label recognition.
[Db] _ After [G] signing [F] with Reprise,
they set about [Db] bringing their three chord punk sound to the masses with a [Ab] major [Bb] label debut.
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ Dookie [Eb] dropped in 1994 [Bb] after a three-week [Ab] recording session.
_ [Eb] Intense [Bb] MTV airplay of
singles [Eb] like Longview propelled the [Bb] record to mainstream _ success, while songs [Ab] like Basket Case
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ and When I Come [Ebm] Around highlighted themes of anxiety, _ [B]
boredom and sex.
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Green [Gb] Day promoted the record [Db] with Lollapalooza dates as [Ebm] well as [B] a memorable set at Woodstock
[Gb] 94.
_ [Db] _ Ultimately Dookie earned them a Grammy [B] for Best [Bb] Alternative Album.
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[Ab] _ The follow-up [Eb] to that triumph [B] was _ _ 1995's [Gb] Insomniac. _ _
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_ Singles like Geek's Stink Breath [E] meant the album did respectively commercially and [B]
critically,
but it never matched the sales [Gb] of its predecessor.
_ [A] After taking [Ab] a brief break due to fatigue,
Green Day returned with new energy [Bm] and a new sound on _ _ 1997's [G] Nimrod.
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ [G] _ _ [B] Ska [Bb] and surf rock [Ab] influences [G] combined with their pop punk vibe [Em] on this [D] album,
which also included one [C] of Green Day's most [G] successful singles.
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[G] _ _ They moved further away from their familiar sound on _ [C] 2000's Warning.
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_ [F] _ _ [C] This obvious [F] change in direction [G] alienated core [F] fans,
[C] and the more upbeat lyrics and mature [G] pop feel [A]
earned mixed reviews.
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] It was their [D] least successful [G] major label [D]
album yet.
[A] _ _ Compilations [D] and a co-headlining [G] tour with Blink [D]-182 [A] followed.
Green Day [D] returned to
their roots for [G] their next [D] album.
However, [A] when Cigarettes and [D] Valentines was almost [G] [Ab] complete,
the recordings were stolen.
[Db] Instead of re-recording the lost [Abm]
material,
Green [Db] Day scrapped it and [Ab] unveiled the rock [Db] opera American [Gb] Idiot [Db] in [Ab]
2004. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Db] Bolstered by the self-titled [Ab] debut single [C] and rave reviews, that effort [Dbm] shot to number one.
True to [Ab] punk, this concept album had a political edge, and it followed [Eb] the fictional character
Jesus of [Bb]
Suburbia through [Fm] massively successful tracks [Ab]
like Boulevard of Broken [Eb] Dreams. _ _
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[Ab] American _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
Idiot [Fm] eventually sold over [Db] 14 million copies [Ab] globally,
and won the [Eb] band a Grammy for Best [Ab] Rock Album.
The boys [Bb] were back in business.
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_ _ The [Bb] extravagant live show that accompanied that [Ab] record was _ immortalized on the [Gb] album
Bullet in a Bible.
_ _ _ [Bbm] The band then laid low for a [Ab] while, but partnered with [Db] U2 to raise funds [G] for
Hurricane Katrina relief, [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ and [E] dropped an album under the moniker Foxboro [D] Hot Cub.
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ Soon, talk of [D] another Green Day album [E] surfaced.
The rock [Bb] opera _ 21st [F] Century Breakdown hit stores
_ [C] in 2009 to commercial and critical [F] success.
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[C] _ _ [F] _ [Dm] _ _ _ That [C] same year, [Ab] American Idiot the musical opened,
and was later optioned for a film adaptation. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Soon, [Eb] _
_ _ Green Day released the [Ab] live album Awesomism, which included several [Db] songs from the Lost
Cigarettes and Valentines tapes.
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[Eb] However, their next opus was [Ab] yet to come.
Green Day [Eb] unveiled
Oh Love as [Ab] the first song of the ambitious [Db] Uno Dos [Ab] Tres trilogy, and set release dates [Eb] for the
end of _
[Ab] 2012 and beginning of _ [Eb] 2013.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ Aside from their time with [Gb] Green [Db] Day, members have participated in
other projects.
[C] For example, the trio was rumored [F] to have joined [E] Devo in a new wave band called The
[Ab] Network, though this was never [Gb] proven.
Armstrong [F] also notably [E] joined The Voice in 2012 as a mentor.
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_ _ [E] _ _ After _ [Eb] _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ many _ [N] _
ups and downs, Green Day has finally solidified their spot as one of the most important
bands to come out of the 90s.
They may [Db] have started off as young punks, [Ab] but they've [Dbm] matured
to prove that they're no [Gb] American Idiot.
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