Supplied note - not independently verified
Billie Joe Armstrong's struggles with anxiety and panic attacks.
View background statusGreen Day
7 catalog entries, grouped by year.
ARTIST ESSENTIALS
Explore Artist EssentialsGreen Day: a curated listening guide
Move from concise punk-pop songs to acoustic contrast and the longer shapes of the later albums.
15 selections with release evidence; 9 beyond the yearly lists.
About Green Day
Green Day emerged from the Bay Area punk scene with Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool forming the familiar trio. Dookie brought their concise, melodic songs to a much larger audience in 1994. Subsequent records added acoustic ballads and a wider range of arrangements, while American Idiot developed an extended rock-opera form that later reached the stage. The group entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Original band recordings remain separate from the later theatrical cast versions.
Artist background sources
Green Day - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Bay Area background, Armstrong/Dirnt/Cool identities, punk-pop development and 2015 induction. The song cards separately associate Welcome to Paradise with Kerplunk 1991 and Dookie 1994, Longview with Dookie 1994, and Good Riddance with Nimrod 1997. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Dookie - Rhino original album history
Original 1994 release, with Basket Case, When I Come Around and Welcome to Paradise identified as Dookie recordings. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
American Idiot - Rhino original album and tracklist
Original 2004 release metadata and thirteen-track album listing, including the separate full Jesus of Suburbia suite and individual Holiday, Boulevard and Wake Me Up tracks. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Green Day 2009 official press release preserved by the official fansite
December 3 entry explicitly reproduces the GreenDay.com/Business Wire announcement of a newly recorded 21 Guns with the American Idiot cast. The original band recording and new featured-cast recording are separate; unrelated archive dates are not used. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
1994
1995
Supplied note - not independently verified
Billie Joe Armstrong's struggles with anxiety and panic attacks.
View background status2004
Supplied note - not independently verified
The song was inspired by the band's criticism of American media and politics.
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Supplied note - not independently verified
The song was inspired by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's feelings of loneliness and isolation while touring.
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The song was a political commentary on the Iraq War and American foreign policy.
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Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song about his father's death, which occurred in September 1982.
View background status2009
Supplied note - not independently verified
The song is a critique of warfare and questions the reasons for conflict.
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