Green Day is an punk rock band, that has put out 5 albums. Their first album was
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, which came out in 1990 from Lookout Records. This contained
the songs their previous EPs: 1,000 Hours, Slappy, and 39 Smooth. This is includes the song
Green Day that they're named after. Their next album was Kerplunk!, from Lookout in 1991, which
made them popular nation-wide. This included the song Sweet Children, which is the original name
of the band. After Kerplunk!, Green Day went to Warner Brothers' Reprise Records, which was
bigger than Lookout. Their first album with Reprise was Dookie, in 1994, which has sold over 8
million copies. After Dookie, Green Day's lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, got married and had a
baby. Green Day was at Woodstock '94, and their performance turned into a mud fight after an
audience member threw mud at Billie Joe, he caught it in his mouth, and threw it back. It resulted in
people throwing more mud and running onto the stage. When security guards were trying to get the
people off the stage, they "mistakenly" tried to throw Mike off as well, despite him saying that he
was with the band. Their next album with Reprise was Insomniac. Billie Joe says it is named
Insomniac because most of it's songs were written during sleepless nights with his new baby. Since
Insomniac, Tre got married. Their latest album, Nimrod. (also from Reprise Records) is slightly
different from the rest with non - punk songs such as Last Ride In and Good Riddance.