Tag: Green Day

Today, February 1st marks the 20th anniversary of Green Day’s third album Dookie, an important album of 90’s rock. Nirvana’s Bleach and Nevermind ushered in the end of hair metal and the rise of grunge. Dookie is the accessible 90s punk youth battle cry. With the release of Dookie on a major label, hardcore punks cried sellout at Green Day. They broke an unwritten code of underground music culture, making them outsiders to the outsiders. Maybe Green Day was trying to move away from preaching to …