“Exit out the back / And never show your head around here again.” Going from indie label-level buzz to multi-Platinum sales (and accusations of selling out by an overly judgmental punk community) in less than a year was a head-spinner for young men of Green Day, and like fellow Generation X idols Nirvana and Pearl Jam before them, they reacted by entrenching. While not every Green Day full-length is able to pull its weight when put into the greater context of the group’s catalog, those that do belong in any serious discussion concerning the essential recordings of modern punk. With Green Day’s 11th studio album ¡Tre! due out next week, Sound Affects now takes the time to look back on the band’s previous ten LPs and rank them in ascending order of quality. For every blockbuster or fan-favorite, there are the uneven experiments and the holding patterns that linger around in the back of your CD collection, seldom heard save for a few choice tracks. Still, not every full-length endeavor has been fruitful for the group. In its two-decade career, the punk trio has moved from the indie label ranks to rock radio playlists and Grammy Award ballots, in the process assembling a robust discography that should be the envy of any long-running rock band, under- or overground.
Sometime between getting into a mudfight with a crowd of rowdy Gen X-ers at Woodstock 1994 and unleashing three albums in quick succession this year, Green Day became an institution.
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