Green Day is a punk rock band from California. Billie Joe is guitar and the lead singer. Mike Dirnt is the bass. And Tré Cool is the drumer. Here are their album lists:
1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Release Date: April 19, 1991
Track Listing:
1. At the Library
2. Don't Leave Me
3. I Was There
4. Disappearing Boy
5. Green Day
6. Going to Pasalacqua
7. 16
8. Road to Acceptance
9. Rest
10. The Judge's Daughter
11. Paper Laterns
12. Why Do You Want Him?
13. 409 in Your Coffeemaker
14. Knowledge
15. 1,000 Hours
16. Dry Ice
17. Only Of You
18. The One That I Want
19. I Want to Be Alone
Information & Notes:
Released under Lookout! Records. Recorded at Art of Ears Studio, San Francisco. Produced by Andy Ernst and Green Day. All lyrics by Billie Joe, except Knowledge, which is a cover by Operation Ivy. 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is a combination of the vinyl EPs Slappy and 1,000 Hours. This album is the only entire album that features John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante) on drums. He later quits the band and Tre Cool joins the band.
Kerplunk!
Release Date: January 17, 1992
Track Listing:
1. 2,000 Light Years Away
2. One for the Razorbacks
3. Welcome to Paradise
4. Christie Road
5. Private Ale
6. Dominated Love Slave
7. One of My Lies
8. 80
9. Andriod
10. No One Knows
11. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield
12. Words I Might Have Ate
13. Sweet Children
14. Best Thing In Town
15. Strangeland
16. My Generation
Information & Notes:
Released under Lookout! Records. Recorded in May & September 1991 at Art of Ears Studio, San Francisco. Produced by Andy Ernst and Green Day. All lyrics written by Billie Joe Armstrong, except for My Generation written by Pete Townshend for The Who, Dominated Love Slave, written and sung by Tre Cool, and Sweet Children, by Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt. Drums for tracks 13 - 16 by John Kiffmeyer (aka Al Sobrante).
Dookie
Release Date: February 1, 1994
Track Listing:
1. Burnout
2. Having a Blast
3. Chump
4. Longview
5. Welcome to Paradise
6. Pulling Teeth
7. Basket Case
8. She
9. Sassafras Roots
10. When I Come Around
11. Coming Clean
12. Emenius Sleepus
13. In the End
14. F.O.D. (**** Off and Die)
15. All by Myself*
Information & Notes:
Released by Reprise Records. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. All lyrics by Billie Joe, except Emenius Sleepus, which was written by Mike. This was Green Day's first major label release. An interesting fact about Dookie is that on the back of the original copies, it showed a crowd holding up a stuffed Ernie doll from Sesame Street. The band had to later reprint Dookie's back minus Ernie because they were threatened with lawsuits. Also some copies of Dookie come with a brown tray for the CD.
*Hidden track at the end of Dookie. To this day, this is the only Green Day album to have a hidden track.
Insomniac
Release Date: October 10, 1995
Track Listing:
1. Armatage Skanks
2. Brat
3. Stuck With Me
4. Geek Stink Breath
5. No Pride
6. Bab's Uvula Who?
7. 86
8. Panic Song
9. Stuart and the Ave
10. Brain Stew
11. Jaded
12. Westbound Sign
13. Tight Wad Hill
14. Walking Contradiction
Information & Notes:
Released by Reprise Records. All lyrics by Billie Joe. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. The artwork for this album is titled "God Told Me To Skin You Alive", by Winston Smith.
nimrod.
Release Date: October 14, 1997
Track Listing:
1. Nice Guys Finish Last
2. Hitchin' a Ride
3. The Grouch
4. Reduntant
5. Scattered
6. All the Time
7. Worry Rock
8. Platypus (I Hate You)
9. Uptight
10. Last Ride In (Instrumental)
11. Jinx
12. Haushinka
13. Walking Alone
14. Reject
15. Take Back
16. King for a Day
17. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
18. Prosthetic Head
Information & Notes:
Released by Reprise Records. All lyrics by Billie Joe. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day.
Warning
Release Date: October 3, 2000
Track Listing:
1. Warning
2. Blood, Sex, and Booze
3. Church on Sunday
4. Fashion Victim
5. Castaway
6. Misery
7. Deadbeat Holiday
8. Hold On
9. Jackass
10. Waiting
11. Minority
12. Macy's Day Parade
Information & Notes:
Released by Reprise Records. All lyrics by Billie Joe, except Misery, by Green Day. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. There is also a limited special edition verison, which contains a 52 page color book and a green Warning slipcover.
International Superhits!
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Track Listing:
1. Maria
2. Poprocks & Coke
3. Longview
4. Welcome to Paradise
5. Basketcase
6. When I Come Around
7. She
8. JAR
9. Geek Stink Breath
10 Brain Stew
11. Jaded
12. Walking Contradiction
13. Stuck With Me
14. Hitchin' A Ride
15. Time Of Your Life
16. Redundant
17. Nice Guys Finish Last
18. Minority
19. Warning
20. Waiting
21. Macy's Day Parade
Information & Notes:
Released by Reprise Records. All lyrics by Billie Joe except "JAR" Lyrics written by Mike Dirnt. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. Maria and Poprocks & Coke were the only new singles on the album. A compliation of their videos, International Supervideos!, was also released. The DVD/VHS includes videos from Longview to Waiting. For more information about Green Day's videos, visit our videos page.
Shenanigans
Release Date: July 2, 2002
Track Listing:
1. Suffocate
2. Desensitized
3. You Lied
4. Outsider
5. Don't Wanna Fall in Love
6. Espionage (Instrumental)
7. I Wanna Be On TV
8. Scumbag
9. Tired of Waiting
10. Sick of Me
11. Rotting
12. Do Da Da
13. On the Wagon
14. Ha Ha You're Dead
Information & Notes:
Released by Reprise Records. All lyrics by Billie Joe except Outsider, which is a Ramones' cover, Ha Ha You're Dead, written by Mike Dirnt, and Scumbag, written by Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe. The song DUI, by Tre Cool was supposed to appear on Shenanigans. The track was scratched, and was said to be planned to be released only on the Japanese verison of Shenanigans. The Japanese verison was released, minus DUI. The CD inlay for the regular Shenanigans has D.U.I. on the inside, but it is spray painted out. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day.
American Idiot
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Track Listing:
1. American Idiot
2. Jesus Of Suburbia
3. Holiday
4. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
5. Are We The Waiting
6. St. Jimmy
7. Give Me Novacaine
8. She's A Rebel
9. Extraordinary Girl
10. Letterbomb
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming
13. Whatsername
Information & Notes:
This album was released by Reprise Records. Produced by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. There is also a limited special edition verison, which contains a 52 page color book.
Dookie's original title was Liquid Dookie, but they changed it because they thought it was too gross.
New copies of Dookie are made without Ernie on the back. That's because Sesame Street threatened to sue Green Day.
Billie also plays the harmonica, mandolin, drums, and the piano. Mike also plays the farfisa, guitar, and the drums. Tre also plays the guitar and the accordian.
In 1995 or so, the video for 'Longview' was critiqued on the popular MTV show, Beavis & Butthead. 'Basketcase' was also critiqued on the "Spanish Fly" episode of Beavis and Butthead.
When Green Day was recording songs for Insomniac, they were trying to think of an appropriate name for the song Stuck With Me. The band recorded the song now called "Do Da Da" around the same time, and that song was originally called "Stuck With Me", because those words actually appear in that song. But, there was a studio mix-up, and someone labeled the third track on Insomniac "Stuck With Me". When the band discovered the error, they felt the name was appropriate for the song and kept it. Later, they decided to release the real "Stuck With Me" as a b-side, so they gave it the nonsensical name "Do Da Da".
The album Insomniac is called with that name because Billie Joe didn't sleep at night. His son (Joey) cried all night, so Billie would write a lot of songs. Another way it is said that they got the name for Insomniac I s that when Billie Joe came to Winston Smith the guy who made the cover for it to see what it was like Billie Joe thought that it was really cool and he asked Winston Smith how long it took him to do it and he said about 36 hours and Billie Joe said "man you must have been tired " and Winston Smith said "to really I'm kind of an Insomniac".
"The Grouch" (on nimrod.) was originally titled "Happy Grouch".
It's rumored that Billie Joe's mom mispelled his name on his birth certificate because she was high (from the drugs given to her during childbirth).
"Haushinka" was originally written for Kerplunk, but at the time they didnt like the sound of it. So they excluded it from the album then when Nimrod came they decided to include it.
One reason there was such a long break between Nimrod and Warning was because Billie Joe was at a rocky point in his marriage and needed to spend time at home.
The Insomniac cover art (created by Winston Smith) is called "God Told Me to Skin You Alive."
The corner of Stuart and the Ave. is the corner of Stuart Street and Telegraph Avenue in Berkley, California.
When Green Day first got started, their tour bus was an old bookmobile van that Tre's dad bought and fixed up.
Five of Green Day's mainstream albums all begin with drums.
The video for "Redundant" has the same scene playing over and over again behind the band, hence the name "Redundant".
On the Insomniac cover, there are three skulls which are supposed to be the 3 skulls of the 3 members of Green Day, and in order to see the third one you have to look in the flames and hold the paper at an angle in order to see it properly This technique was used back in the Renaissance.
In the Minority video, Billie Joe is running around with the cape on and Mike throws a hand to trip him. The hand is given the peace sign. When it hits him it nocks off the pointer and gives the middle finger.
Weird Al Yankovic covered Basketcase in his song "Alternative Polka", which is on the album Bad Hair Day.
Billie and Mike recorded the vocals for "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" simultaneously, to save money, and Lawrence Livermore gave them the $1000 needed for the album.
In the "Kerplunk" inlay, it also thanks Addrienne Nesser, now Billie's wife.
Green Day hates ska except for the band Operation Ivy.
Billie, Mike, and Tre did all of their own stunts in the "Walking Contradiction" video including a scene were Billie almost gets nailed by a car.
In the "Kerplunk" credits, they thank some guy named "Brainstew".
Tre's name was given to him by the owner of Lookout Records Lawrence Livermore when Tre played in the band "The Lookouts".
If Billie Joe and Mike could play any movie role in history, they would both choose Austin Powers. Tre would prefer to be Cat Woman.
All By Myself, the hidden song on Dookie, was recorded at a party.
The Kerplunk inlay thanks Jason Relva (J.A.R.).
Billie had to be forced to doing the 'walking across the road almost getting hit by cars' stunt on the Walking Contradiction video by Tré. Billie said "Tré scared me into it. I was so scared..I thought I was gonna die right there with all the cameras on me..Well I can think of worse ways to die".
Billie Joe's favorite food is vegetarian lasagana and root beer.
The 'My Adventure with Green Day' story in 'Kerplunk!' says it was written by 'Laurie L.' The name Laurie L is actually a tribute to Laurence Livermoore of Lookout records.
In the Kerplunk! thank yous, they thank a guy named Eggplant, who appears in the Laurie L. story--he was a real person. He wrote a 'zine called "Apsolutely Zippo', in which you can also find stories by Claude (also in the story) and even by Billie Joe himself.
When Green Day toured in the Bookmobile they used as a bus, people would acutally ask them if they had books to sell.
On the dookie cover, the right side, on one of the building's it's written 'Twisted Dog Sisters'--this was the name for an actual group of girls from Berkely.
Pat Hynes is a well known Berkely artist who did the liner notes for both Dookie and Kerplunk.
The album Kerpluk! is dedicated 'in loving memory of Gravy'.
The song 'Who Wrote Holden Caufield?' is actually about a character, Holden Caufield, from J.D. Salinger's book "The Catcher in the Rye", one of Billie Joe's favorites.
The video for Basketcase was filmed in black and white, they added color afterwards.
The intersection where most of the action happens in the "Walking Contradiction" video is Centre St. and 7th St. in Los Angeles.
In the Last Ride In video, Tre plays the accordian part to DUI, but you can't hear it very well.
Green Day cursed the second most times on Behind the Music (27 times) which is fifty less than the leader, Oasis.
On the Slappy! 7" record, if you look closely on the rim of the artwork on the A Side, you can see that is says, "Might Bleed Today".
On the Kerplunk CD, there's a song called Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?, and on the Screeching Weasel cd, "How to Make Enemies and Iritate People", There's a song called I Wrote Holden Caulfield.
When original drummer John Kriftmeyer (aka Al Sobrante) left Green Day, he didn't tell Billie Joe. Billie Joe found out he was leaving through a friend. So when Green Day replaced John with Tre, Billie Joe returned the favor by not telling John directly that he was being replaced. Billie Joe doesn't think that Green Day would have had as much success if John was still in the band.
The Imus in the Morning show on NPR occasionally plays the first two lines of 'Basket Case' before commercial breaks.
On the Dead Kennedy's cd, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, and on track 9, I Kill Children, it starts out with "GOD TOLD ME TO SKIN YOU ALIVE", the name of the artwork for Insomniac.
If you turn the volume up and listen very closely to Good Riddence you can hear Billie-Joe say the f word in the beginning.
In the kerplunk inlay the band thanks a "Osama"!
On 1039/smoothed out slappy hours the band recorded and mixed the record in two day and only cost $675 to record and sold nearly a million copies.
To raise spending money for the tour, Mike shucked clams, Billie Joe flipped pizzas, and John drove a diaper truck.
You can cut up Green Day stickers to read "Gay Nerd."
In Going To Pasalacqua at the very beginning right before you hear Billie sing "Here we go again" you can hear someone cough. Also, in Prosthetic Head after the bridge and when it's just a soft guitar then Billie Joe starts sining right before he does you can also hear someone cough then too.
In the "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" video, the lamp shade is on the floor (it's lit) and the rest of the lamp is by the shade (unlit).
Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning all came out in October. Insomniac on October 10th 1995, Nimrod on October 14th 1997, and Warning on October 3rd 2000.
On Dookie, the song "Chump" ends with the "Longview" beat which goes into song 4 (Longview) like Chump never ended.
Green Day had more drummers than just Tre and Al Sobrante. They actually had quite a few! It's just that the only recorded drummers are those two.
The real origin of the name Green Day. Ernie from Sesamy Street said the frase Green Day in one of the shows and it kinda was funny for the guys smoking pot and all. So it became an inside joke with Green Day meaning a pot-filled wasted day. Then came the song Green Day and also Al Sobrante wrote Green Day on the back of his jacket and it kinda caught on from there and they decided to use it as their band's name
Al Sobrante (John Kriftmeyer) was in the band Isocracy.
On either the cover art or booklet art of Kerplunk, Dookie, and Insomniac they're is a gun.
The guitar chords to the blink-182 song "What's my Age Again" are exactly the same as When I Come Around.
1,039 Smoothed out Slappy Hours was recorded in 2 days.
At the ending of Basket Case on the International Super Hits Album while the sound is fading out there is something said that doesn't sound like it's supposed to be there. 3 You know how it says "Might Bleed Today" on Slappy. Well on the other side it says Cool Slapped Out and on 1,00 Hours it says No Way! and Too Cool! On 39/Smooth it says Call Back Tomorrow, It's A School Night, We Heart Jake, and Bill, Mike, John : Loyal Filth Groupies. On the spine it says James, Put Down That Skinhead! Also on the inlay there are three letters. One to Green Day from a record label asking them to join, One to the record label from John saying no politley and one from Lawrence Livermore to the record label making fun of them. On the spine of the Kerplunk record it says Say Ouch Before I Hafta Hurt You!
At the end of the song Walking Alone on Nimrod you can hear a glass break and someone says something like "its not like one thing......".
On the front cover of Insomniac, in the flames,there are hidden pictures. you can find a naked woman, 3 faeries, a skull, and several other ghosly faces.
The guy from the Time Of Your Life video, is also the dude who plays Carter in ER, he comes up twice in the video.
At the beginning of Prosthetic Head, there's some scratching noise like when you pull the plug from your guitar in the amp and it stops once Billie starts singing.
Insomniac was origanally going to be called Tight Wad Hill.
On the cover of Operation Ivy's "Knowledge" the part at the beginning that is said backwards says "Lets get personal" when played forwards.
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) was the official theme for the Golf PGA Tour in 1998.
Jesse Micheals, ex-lead singer of Operation Ivy did the disc and cover art for 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, Jesse Micheals and Operation Ivy were then thanked in Kerplunk! along with Tim Armstrong from OPIV.
The band each takes a shot of Vodka before every gig.
The three small pictures inside the 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours covers come from the following: Billie Joe - The picture comes from the Green Day bootleg, "Radio Daze"; Mike - Its a picture of one of his tattoos.; John - Its a picture adapted from Zippo magazine.
The dog on the Slappy E.P.'s name is Mickey, "Slappy" was a nickname given to him by Jason Relva.
Green Day has 14 transitional songs. They are Chump/Longview, Brain Stew/Jaded, Uptight/Last Ride In, and Jinx/Haushinka, Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Are We the Waiting/St. Jimmy, and Give Me Novacaine/She's a Rebel.
In Kerplunk! it says 'In Memory of Gravy...' Gravy was actually Mike's pet cat who died.
No Doubt's brass section was used in the recording of the album Nimrod.
Reel Big Fish's brass section once toured with Green Day, playing their songs.
On MTV's "Top 10 songs to break up to" (or something like that) Time Of Your Life got to number 2.
Basket Case was mentioned as number 2 in Kerrang's best videos.
The noise heard at the beginning of the song "Green Day" is a bong, and for those who dont know, a bong is a weed smoking device.
At the end of Burnout, you can hear someone laughing.
On Common Riders first EP, Billie Joe had played lead on it and sang. Common Rider was Jesse Michaels (ex- OPIV) last band.
At the very begining of "Going to Pasalacqua", Before "Here we go again...." if you turn it up and listen closely in the silence he says "Here we go again" before he actually says it.
"80" is short for Adrienne (it's also her nickname).
In Brain Stew after the drums start playing Billie Joe makes a noise kinda like "uhhhh" but you can barely hear it.
The band "All American Rejects" might have gotten there name from one of Green Days songs (probably Reject).
After John Kiffmeyer left Green Day, before Tre came in, a friend of the band joined as drummer for a few weeks, but left saying he wasn't good enough for the band.
Dita Von Teese, who is singer Marilyn Manson's girlfriend, appeared in one of Green Day's videos.
In the special features of the Social Distortion's Live in Orange County DVD, Mike Ness brings his kids up on stage and his son is wearing a Warning t-shirt.
The story in the Kerplunk booklet was written by Lawrence Livermore (Laurie L.), who was the founder of Gilman St. and Lookout! records.
"Brain Stew" can be seen in the Green Day: Behind The Music under the name James Washburn.
In between playing shows in Florida in 91, the band's van was broken into and many of their clothes were stolen.
The house where they filmed Longview wasn't only inhabited by the band...it was also lived in by several other people, and it was the basement to a real house, and in the kitchen the pipes were so low that they would hit their head on them. And it only had about one bedroom.
The video for Basketcase was originally filmed in black and white, but later it was colored in by technicolor.
Green Day came up with the ideas for the first few music videos.
In the music video of "When I Come Around", midway through the video you can see present back up guitarist Jason White with a girlfriend of his at the time.
On Brain Stew, right after the verse when the drums coem in, if you listen closely, you can hear Billie Joe say "oh" then "yeah" under his breath.
If you take the chords and rhythm from the Bltikrieg Bop intro, keep the rhythm, but play the chords backwards, it's the "Welcome to Paradise" into.
When Green Day recorded "Dry Ice", they kept messing up and ended up doing about 18 takes on the song until they finally got it down. So at the end of the song you can hear them all shouting "YES! YES! YES!", becasue they were so happy they got it done.
On the new American Idiot cd on the track Jesus of Suburbia during the part Dearly Beloved, you can clearly hear Billie Joe sing "Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?". However, if you watch Sessions @ AOL on tv for Green Day, Billie Joe clearly sings "Am I retarded or am I just unemployed?"
In Longview, after they say "Call me pathetic, call me what you will", you can hear something in the background that sounds like a kid crying or a dog dying or something.
When John decided to leave Green Day for college, another drummer joined named Dave E.C.. He was only in the band for a few weeks when he decided to leave and then Tre joined.
Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt's first gig was at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, CA, where Billie's mom worked.
Lawrence Livermore started Lookout records with his welfare money.
In May 1995, Green Day played 2 nights at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, CA. They donated all of the profits (including T-shirt revenues) to Food Not Bombs, which provides meals for the homeless and three other charities.
If you look closely on the Nimrod, you can see that all the words that are scratched out in the entire booklet simply say "Delete This. Delete This. Delete This. Delete This." over and over again.
Billie Joe used to actually have a friend named "Eggplant" when he was like 16, like the character in the "My adventure with Green Day" story.
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams video, St. Jimmy and whatsername (the ones from the Limitied Edition booklet of American idiot) are shown standing around a trashcan fire.
In the 'Holiday' video, just after he kisses Tre, Billie Joe's trousers slip down at the back and you can see his butt crack!
In 'Longview' just after Billie Joe says "call me what you will", if you listen carefully, you can hear Mike call Billie 'whatyouwill'. I suppose he thinks he's being clever.
The guitar for Brain Stew is nearly identical to the Chicago song "25 or 6 to 4".
On the song Hold On (Warning) someone screams 'Hope' in the background after Billie says 'A cry for hope'.
In the video for Holiday, if you look closely at the bar when Tre (in drag) is dancing, you can see pictures of Billie Joe with TNT on him.
Billie Joe used to have a nose ring, but he took it out because it got caught on his shirt.
Billie Joe sometimes suffers from panic attacks and aniexty.
Billie wears Jockey underwear.
It has been said that Billie Joe is a registered member of Poetry.com. I've heard his name is B. Armstrong.
At age 15, Billie tried to go to an Operation Ivy concert, but he was refused entry. One of the members of the band heard he wasn't allowed in, so they came out and personally esorted him into the show.
Billie drives a blue 67 Ford Fairlane. Mike drives a BMW, and Tre sports an SUV.
Billie Joe's cat, Zero, died in his washing machine.
Billie's trademark first guitar is named Blue, and was given to him by his father before he died. Blue is now retired, but Billie has several replicas of the guitar.
Billie Joe has been rumored to have been romantically linked to Winona Ryder.
When Billie was younger he put 409 in his teacher's coffee. (409 in Your Coffeemaker)
Billie Joe's nickname in high school was "Two Dollar Bill" because he sold joints for two dollars.
Billie Joe's mother spelled his name wrong on his birth certificate. Not because she was high with illegal drugs, she was loopy because of the massive amounts of painkillers in her body to ease childbirth.
In the second grade two girls beat up Billie Joe so that he would date them.
Billie Joe and Adrienne spent their honeymoon at Berkley's Claremont Hotel, which is a short distance from their house.
The first time Billie Joe kissed Adrienne he went home and wrote 2,000 Light Years Away.
Billie Joe's birthday is on the same day as National Cabbage Day.
Billie likes playing the drums most out of the piano, harmonica, and the mandolin.
Billie occasionally wears nail polish.
For the video for Jaded, because the lyrics are about being stoned and how you feel when you're stoned. Billie decided to get high while shooting the video just to get the feel for the song.
It's an old tradition of Billie's that at every one of his concerts he kisses a guy.
Billie Joe thinks that Staind's lead singer sounds like Cher.
Billie Joe hates Slipknot. He said that the masks "Are so ******* retarded", and one time, a fan threw some screwed up mask on the stage, and when Billie Joe picked it up he looked in disgust and said, "Were not ******* slipknot, you asshole!"
Billie Joe doesn't like Eminem.
Billie Joe played football for John Swett High School in Crockett, CA.
Billie uses Jhirmack Styling Spritz to get his hair good and crunchy.
Billie has a guitar made with with different parts called Frankenstein.
Billie Joe's brothers that introduced him to "punk" were named Matt and Eric.
On the "1,000 Hours" record they spell Billie's name as "Billy".
Billie's had his blue 67 Ford Fairlane for ages, it's even featured in Christie Road "Standing on my beat up car". When Billie first earned enough money with his music, he had the car primered.
Billie Joe when talking about future plans said he would become a soccer team coach.
The first album Billie Joe bought as Elvis Presley's "The Sun Sessions".
In the song "Sick Of Me" on Shenanigans, right before billie joe says "Like a dog...." you can hear a "squishy" noise
Billie Joe likes to take books on tour.
The electricians tape on Billie Joe's large cutaway on Blue is there because some dude knocked into him at one of their first gigs and he dropped the guitar, causing it to crack from the strap lock down. He then later taped it up.
The BLACK FORK album ROCK FOR LOOT was produced by Billie Joe. Even though in the insert it is spelled Billy Joe.
In early 2001 Billie Joe was mugged at gunpoint and is now terrified of guns.
Billie Joe got body lice while on tour in Germany in Green Day's early days.
Billie Joe said that if he could be any female celebrity, he would be Chrissie Hynde.
Billie Joe was in a documentary called "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" in 2003.
Billie Joe played "Ghostly Betting Man" on the show Haunted in 2002. The episode is named "Simon Redux." It has never aired in the USA.
Billie Joe guest starred on the Howard Stern Radio Show on December 9, 2000.
Mike took the picture of himself in the Nimrod booklet.
Mike smoked his first joint with his mom's friend.
Mike wrote the bassline for Longview while he was high and forgot it the next day.
Mike was born with a heart problem and sometimes has panic attacks.
Mike's adoptive parents divorced when he was 6.
Mike once rented a small part of Billie's house to live in during high school.
Mike got mistaken for a ambushing fan at Woodstock 1994, and a security guard kicked him and knocked a couple of his teeth out.
Mike actually believes that one day dogs will take over the world (remember the Dookie cover?)
In the self titled New Found Glory CD inlay it thanks Green Day and the bass player has a special thanx to Mike "...and Mike Dirnt for the influence...".
Mike has a sister named Myla.
Mike Dirnt is the part-owner of Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe in Emeryville, California. Emeryvillie is between Berkeley and Oakland.
Mike and Billie Joe are both wearing work shirts that say "Chuck" in two music videos, Mike in Basketcase and Billie Joe in Redundant
Mike Dirnt completed a years worth of college courses after high school.
On the back cover of the green day booklet for Dookie, there is a picture of Mike Dirnt looking in the mirror. If you look in the mirror, you can partially see the person taking the picture.
Mike likes donuts and hotel coffe, and Starbucks coffee aswell, maybe just coffee in general.
Mike likes to have those little packages of donuts on tour.
Mike dressed up as a vampire, or as he said "Count Mikeula", for Halloween 2004.
Tre has his left nipple peirced (however he might have took it out in recent years).
Tre once milked a dog because he wanted milk for his coffee, and the house he was staying in didn't have any.
Tre was class president for a time when he was in high school.
Tre is the only person to ever climb the Universal Studios ball (their trademark) in Orlando, Florida. He climbed the ball at the 1998 MTV Music Awards.
Tre loves to golf.
Tre only has one testicle. He lost the other one in a tragic unicycle accident. He was riding it on a stage at a high school near his home town when suddenly he fell off the stage and landed on the unicycle. His testicle went inside his body, and the doctor examining him took one look and said "hmm... translucent scrotum..."
Tre played violin in the second grade.
Tre's dad built Lawrence Livermore's house.
Tre actually went to a clown college before the band got big which explains his wild antics.
Tre uses the same drumkit, Slingerland, as the drummer from The Who does, which is Keith Moon. This is also of course Slingerland, and oddly the two drummers have the same wild and crazy stage antics.
In an interview on Trio, Tre has said that if he were any female celebrity he would be "that chick from the Golden Girls, because she's old and loose".
Tre once caught a shark on accident, and after beating it with a baseball bat multiple times, it finally died when he hit it with the stump of the bat.
Tre is the godfather of Billie Joe's kids.
In an interview, they were asked what kind of music they liked, and Tre answered, " I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song"................Mike "seconded the motion".
In the Walking Contradiction video Tre is chased by a bread truck.
Tre's dad was a Vietnam helicopter pilot.
Tre likes his shoes.
On MTV's Wildest moments of the VMA's there's a short Clip of Tre with David Grohl from The Foo Fighters (and previously from Nirvana) singing to Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People".
Tre dressed as a priest at a gig (in Dublin). It was probably in reference to Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) who is a big fan.
Tre dressed up as Benji Madden of Good Charlotte for Halloween, 2004.
Tre made his first records with The Lookouts when he was 12.
Tre is french for very, which makes him very cool.
Tre hopes that if if the band does star in the American Idiot movie, at least he gets to dress in drag.
In Chasing Amy several copies of Green Day albums are visible in the record store scene behind the actors.
In the movie Analyze That an International Superhits Green Day poster is visible in the sons room.
In High Fidelity a girl asks if they have the new Green Day album.
In Angus several Green Day references are made.
In the movie "House Arrest" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollock, the heavy metal kid warns off the police by pretending to be an electrician saying "there was a problem connecting the main wire to the Green Day connecter."
On an episode of "Do Over" When Joel enters a Star Search-like competition using a hit song from the future, he reevaluates whether he should become an accomplished musician the honest way or by stealing someone else's material.. NOTE: The song Joel sings is Green Day's "Time of Your Life".
In the TV series 24 a Warning poster is visible in the daughters room during the first season.
On the Craig Kilborn Show, when guest Matthew Fox appeared he was wearing a Green Day dragon style T-Shirt.
On the last episode of Seinfeld, Green Day's Time of your Life was played.
On Sabrina the Teenage Witch one of the characters bands fictitiously opened for Green Day.
On Days of Our Lives the character Belle has a promo poster for the Pop Disaster tour in her college dorm room. Now the character Abby has the room.
On the Friends episode of Rachel's 30th birthday, and they're showing a clip of Ross' 30th, when he gets the car, there's an Alternative Press poster with Green Day on it, behind them.
On two different episodes of Friends. outside the coffee shop, CENTRAL PERK, there's a record shop. on one episode there was a nimrod poster (the yellow circle with nimrod written in it.
On Season 4 of the television show ER had the episodes "Gut Reaction" and "Shades of Gray" that included Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" to go with the storyline of characters nurse Jeanie and the dying boy, Scott Anspaugh.
97.1 The FM talk station in Los Angeles constantly plays Green Day as bumper music during the Tom Leykis Show.
Jim Rome's radio show has been known to play Green Day as intro and outro music.
Toronto's 102.1 'the edge' plays 'last ride in' multiple times every afternoon while doing the traffic report.
In one of the Jimmy Neutron episodes Jimmy starts a band with Carl and Sheen and they play the song 'Warning'.
105.7 The Point in St. Louis used the opening riff to "When I Come Around" in an ad for a Sum 41 concert.
On the Rottentrolls (childrens tv in UK), Roger, the king of the trolls, sings two lines of Good Riddance as he's walking along a path.
On the diary of Avril Lavigne she is listening to Time of Your Life by Green Day in the limo and singin to it.
In the movie "High Fidelity" Green Day is brought up between someone working in the record store and a customer.
In the movie "10 Things I Hate About You", Julia Stiles is buying an album. The album is Green day's INSOMNIAC.
On MTV's big urban myth show, they were playing the song Warning in the backround for a few seconds and there was like a half second clip from the dookie video, but all you can see is Tre and Mike's hand
On the new show on Fox called the Pitts n the girl's room there is a poster of Shenanigans.
On an episode of the MTV show "Punk'd", when they were "punking" Wilmer Valderrama (Fez from That 70's Show), at the end when they told him what happened, a sound clip of Brain Stew can be heard.
If you watch the blink 182 Urethra Chronicles 2, there is a point in which Tom DeLonge talking about dancing, and if you look in the background you can see a blured-out Pop Disaster poster, which included Green Day.
In the blink-182 biography, Tales From Beneath Your Mom, in one of the photos, Mark Hoppus is wearing a Green Day Kerplunk t shirt.
In the George Lopez show,in the girl's room an International Superhits poster can be seen.
Green Day was mentioned in the new Less Than Jake DVD, specifically mentioning the album Dookie.
In the Foo Fighters CD, One by One, Billie Joe is thanked first.
In the program on Nickelodeon called Brothers Garcia, the son gets a job in a CD store, and you can see the International Superhits poster in the background, Warning signs, and stands everywhere.
In the MTV movie awards - uncensored, Time of Your Life was played in the background.
In Kirsty's Home Videos (a program kind of like You've been Framed), Stuck With Me is played all the way through in the background.
On how to live like a rockstar (on MTV) Stuck With Me is played, and they show a clip of Mike trashing his bass into an amp.
Green Day songs are often featured as background music on the tv show Entertainment Tonight, or ET.
On the show "Who Knows The Band?", one of the three people on trail for knowing a famous band or musician claims that Green Day had stayed at his house once on tour. By the end of the show, this turned out to be true.
On the "Top 50 Greatest Teen Icons" show on VH1, the part on Carson Daly, they show a clip of Carson hugging Mike and you can see Billie and Tre also. In another part, they also play "Good Riddance".
At the end of every Carrot Top show, a small clip of "Good Riddance" is played.
On the Brothers Garcia's newest episode (Nickelodeon), George is offered a job at the CD store. When a storage door opens inside, a 'International Superhits!' album ad is posted on it.
Green Day's 'Warning' was played on Men and Motors programme 'Pulling Power' when the Smart Roadster was being reviewed.
On one episode of Drew Carey, in the beginning, members of the cast are repeating like in the video Redundant.
In the diary of Avril Lavigne (on MTV), when they are on the boat, she sings a part of longview and then Longview stars playing in the background.
Green Day guest voiced on an episode of "King of the Hill", as teens that are good at paintball. Tre was the voice of the leader, Kane.
On the Saturday Night Live episode when Green Day preforms, Roseanne introduces them wearing a Kerplunk T-shirt.
In the movie Freaky Friday, theres a Green Day poster in Anna's room.
On an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Colin Mockery talks about Green Day.
In an episode of Step By Step, a college guy's room has the Dookie poster on the back wall.
On MTV's History of the Mosh Pit, Green Day is featured in some of it and Mike makes fun of people moshing to When I Come Around.
On VH1's Top 200 Pop Culture Icons, when they introduced the Fonze (from Happy Days), they played a clip of 'Minority' for background music.
There is an old episode of Saturday Night Live where they were playing Jeopardy and Adam Sandler playing a girl. He said "my favorite band is Green Day!!!" like really enthusiastically.
In School Of Rock, the last scene during the credits, Freddy the drummer is waring a Green Day Warning shirt from the 2001 Warning tour. (Picture)
In the show "Rock Me Baby" in the background at the radio station where he works under the window theres a Green Day poster.
On the show Sabrina the Teenage Witch, there is an International Superhits poster hanging on the wall on top of the water cool in Sabrina's workplace.
Green Day's song "Waiting' is played in a episode of The-N's show O'Grady.
On the show Mad TV, Green Day is a musical guest two times. They play the songs Warning and Blood, Sex, and Booze.
They played Minority on a documentery of an actor named Adamo Ruggiero from the show Degrassi, on The N.
At the beginning of the first season of "24," the senator (future president)'s kids had just come back from a Green Day concert. The son talked about being onstage while they were playing!
On MTV 2's 22 Greatest Bands Green Day was number
On VH1' 50 Greatest Album Covers, Dookie was #7.
On VH1's "I Love the 90's", clips of Green Day are shown when they talk about Woodstock '94. Billie is also named as one of the alternative rockers of 1995.
It is an unsubstantiated rumour involving Green Day, that they infact are part of the band known as "The Network" which are currently releasing albums under "Adeline" records.
On Vh1's countdown of the 100 greatest songs in the last 25 years, Green Day's "Time of Your Life" was #78.
Jay Leno's Tonight show band plays a cover of Green Day's "Welcome to Paradise". You can hear some of it before they go to a commercial break. Also, Dave Lettermen's band with Shaffer, regularly plays Basketcase with the horns! It sounds cool, but you can only hear it as they are coming OUT of the commercial break!
Green Day recorded a show for MTV, but it couldn't be shown on MTV before 10pm because it was said that Billie was too out of it and he could possibly scare young children.
On the Top 40 Greatest Reality TV moments on when this one girl was cleaning a toilet with her enemy's electric toothbrush, they played "Longview."
In the movie The Prince and Me, in Eddie's dorm room, you can see a Green Day poster on the door many times throughout the movie.
In UK soap Hollyoaks, the character Liam, has the martial arts Green Day poster in his room.
On September 13, 2004, he beginnng of the show called Las Vegas on the WB, played almost the entire song American Idiot at the beginning.
On the show 'Who's Line Is It Anyway?' Drew makes the guys sing a song Green Day style.
On the show Blue Collar TV, the introduction video in the beginning sounds exactly like "Warning".
In 2001, Green Day was on the Chris Isaak Show, on the episode called "Charity Begins at Home (episode 2.17) (July 9, 2002)
Green Day was again on the Chris Isaak show on January 27, 2002, on the episode "Wrong Number."
On the show "Later with Jools Holland," Green Day guest starred. (October 15, 2004)
In 1994, Green Day guest starred on Saturday Night Live, as a musical guest.
On a recent episode of the WB show, Smallville, they play Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Vh1's show "I Love the 90's", Green Day is named Dirty Sort of Punk Rockers.
MTV's show "Pimp My Ride" uses the sound bite to American Idiot and Stuck with Me.
VH1 has a network commerical running right now (November 2004) that shows a picture of Green Day.
VH1's TV show "Best Week Ever" did a segment on Green Day when American Idiot was released. They also use Green Day soundbites often.
On VH1's 100 Cheesiest Video Trick's in the part about the dentist Geek Stink Breath is played in the background.
The MTV television show Laguna Beach featured a sound bite of "American Idiot" in their camping episode.
In an episode of King of the Hill titled 'Aisle 8A', you can see a Green Day sticker in Bobby's locker.
Recently at the Nascar awards banquet, a couple of Green Day soundbites were used in the Driver's montages. Part of 'American Idiot' was played during Kurt Busch's montage.
In the Simple Plan video, Shut Up, David, the bassist, has an American Idiot sticker on his bass.
In the show Sabrina the Teenage Witch, when Sabrina works for a magazine in the magazine office place there is a International Superhits poster on the walls.
A Green Day mention is a stand up comedian named Bobcat Goldwaith says "I'm trying to look punk but I came out looking like Green Day's dad."
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) was used as the background song for the best bits of UK Big Brother 2004.
On the show "Joey" on the right-hand side of his door, there is a sign which says "Nice guys don't finish last".
On a "Get Fuzzy" comic for January 2005 (not sure what date) the boy is wearing a shirt with GREEN DAY on the front. The cat makes fun of his "12 year old skater look".
About half of the song 'Holiday', was played twice as background music for 'Jamie's School Dinners' on U.K. T.V.
'American Idiot' was used as background music for the beginning of '100 Best Cartoons', on the 27.2.2005, on U.K. T.V.
At the MTV Movie Awards They played Stuck With Me for the nomination of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Brugandy (Best On-Screen Team), American Idiot when Dustin Hoffman won Best Comedic Performance for Meet the Fockers, Holiday for the nomination of Leonardo DeCaprio for the Aviator (Best Male Performance), and Boulevard of Broken Dreams when Napoleon Dynamite won Best Movie!
Yahoo! Music put out a commercial online and in TV this fall ('05) with animations of Green Day playing "Holiday"
In "The Pacifier" you can see a Green Day poster in the sons room.
At the end of the "Andy Milonakis" show, their exit song is "American Idiot"
Before Rivers Cuomo, from Weezer, actually knew how to write a song he studied the songwriting techniques of Kurt Cobain and Green Day. Weezer would probably be nowhere without Green Day.
In the thank you's of Rancid's CD 'Let's Go!', they thank both Billie Joe and Addriene. Billie also wrote the song 'Radio' on that cd.
Good Charlotte thanks Green Day in their latest release, "The Young and the Hopeless". Benji from Good Charlotte has a small Green Day sticker on his guitar. He told me [Courtney] himself when I met him that he has been a Green Day fan for almost 9 years.
Sum41 also thanks Green Day in their CD, "All Killer, No Filler".
Blink-182 thank Green Day on their Enema Of The State album,
Bad Religion also thank Green Day on their Stranger Than Fiction album.
On the song 'El Scorcho' (Pinkerton) by Weezer... Green Day is mentioned: "I asked you to go to the Green Day concert....You said you never heard of them."
On the Sum 41 video for "Still Waiting" a record producer mentions Green Day.
On Tilt's album "Been Where? Did What" Billie Joe is given a credit with Kevin Army for mixing and recording the song "Worse To Bad."
On The Donna's cd "Turn 21" they thank Green Day. Green Day is thanked in NoFx's CD Punk in Drublic and the Frenzal Rhomb song 'Jesus' mentions Green Day.
In the thank yous In Reel Big Fish's Why Do They Rock So Hard? Green Day are thanked.
MxPx thank Green Day on their "Ever Passing Moment" album
Unwritten Law thank Green Day on their "Oz Factor" album
If you watch the latest New Found Glory DVD (the one with the popcorn theme on the front) while interviewing some of the members on the van, there is a Green Day poster in the background.
Agent 51 thanks Green Day and both Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong in their album "The Red And The Black" The Ataris listed Green Day as one of bands that influenced them making their album "Anywhere But Here" along with other bands like Bad Religion, Jawbreaker, and NOFX
on MTV's Top 25 people under 25, a question is asked about who Good Charlotte's influence was, and Green Day was one of the choices, and they showed a clip of Hitchin' A Ride.
The band Kilroy thanks Mxpx, Homegrown, and Green Day on their cd "Squeaky Clean".
On the Ataris first cd, Anywhere But Here, the Ataris say that without Green Day their songs would be completeley different.
AFI thanks Green Day on their CD Sing the Sorrow.
Billie Joe get's thanked by Tony Lovato on Mests album "Destination Unknown". He says "Billie Joe Armstrong - it's because of you so many great bands were created".
Anti-Flag thank Green Day on their Underground Network CD.
Green Day is one of Brett Gurewitz' favorite bands... he's the second guitarist of Bad Religion, and founder of the Epitaph record label.
On AFI's CD, The Art of Drowning, Tre Cool is mentioned under the thank you's.
The pop rock band, Superdrag, who had a minor rock hit in 96 “Sucked Out”, thanks Green Day in their 2000 release “In the Valley of Dying Stars”.
Papa Roach thank Green Day in their new album , "Getting Away with Murder".
Bif Naked thanks Green Day on her recent album, "Purge".
In Simple Plan`s new cd "Still Not Getting Any", they thank Green Day, as well as other punk rock bands.
In the music video for My Chemical Romance's "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", at the end where they say the thank you's, the thank Green Day first and then a few other bands.
Billie Joe and Adrienne are thanked on Jesse Malin's "Fine Art of Self Destruction" CD.
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