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Green Day's 2004 rock opera and concept album that told a story across its tracks while channeling the political frustration of the mid-2000s. A punk-rock comeback powered by the megahits 'American Idiot,' 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams,' 'Holiday,' and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends.' It won the Grammy for Best Rock Album and was later adapted into a Broadway musical.
Pop-punk pioneers who mixed juvenile toilet humor with real melodic craft and suburban-teen honesty. From scrappy San Diego garage band to first punk album atop the Billboard 200. Their untitled third album was the moodier reinvention; the hiatus in 2005 felt less like goodbye and more like a pause in a story everyone knew would resume.
The Orange County lifers who took punk from the underground to total radio domination in one 1994 stroke. Smash became one of the best-selling albums ever released on an independent label, with "Come Out and Play" and "Self Esteem" detonating on modern-rock radio. A second, goofier peak followed with Americana and "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)." Decades later, frontman Dexter Holland finished a PhD in molecular biology—and the band never stopped touring.