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Review: Following on from the global success of 1997's Nimrod, pop-punk heroes Green Day would find themselves at a creative impasse, with an earnest desire to eschew much of their pre-established formula and tap into outsider influences. These compositional experiments led to 2000's Warning; an LP considered somewhat of a commercial flop upon release, further strained by a tepid fan response and the full project leaking to Napster three weeks before official date. Time finally catching up to all things as it does, the decades of dust gathering since has led to the album being reappraised throughout the years as one of the finest examples of Billie Joe Armstrong's penmanship; drawing on inspiration from peers in the alternative rock scene such as Nirvana and R.E.M. while citing Bob Dylan's 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home as a vital guide to retooling the Green Day formula to fit a more slacker rock/acoustic folk-punk style. Four years later would see the dawn of American Idiot and Green Day being passed, as it were, from Generation X to the millennials, for an entirely new era and fanbase, marking Warning as the band's last 90s-imbued work and final chapter for many a longtime listener.

Review: Celebrating its 30-year anniversary with a monolithic deluxe edition, Green Day's Dookie has gone on to become one of the cornerstones of pop-punk, pre-dating Blink-182 with its global expansion. Spawning timeless anthems such as 'Basket Case', 'Longview' and pop smash hit 'When I Come Around'; the album signalled the artistic prowess and bright future the band have continued to live up to in the decades since. Complete with 17 previously unreleased demos, studio outtakes and both their Woodstock 1994 and unreleased Barcelona 1994 live performances, as well as a 36-page book cataloguing the creative journey of these formative years, this 6xLP beast is not for the faint of heart but for the devout and avid legions of generation spanning followers the trio still continue to amass to this day.

Review: If you want to talk about landmark albums, how about Dookie? The third LP from a then-fresh faced but already-jaded Green Day represented a true 'moment' in the development of skate rock and punk, pre-empting the rise of pop punk. Casting a mind back to 1993, when the record hit, and memories prevail of record walls lined with t-shirts sporting the iconic artwork, and a sense that the future of guitar music would be anything but the overblown stadium mega rock that dominated much of the 1980s. Perhaps that never quite became the truth - Green Day catapulted this sound to the top of main stage festival bills in just a few years - but the raw energy, voice of generation X attitude still hits today. We could try and namecheck the highlights, but ultimately, from 'Burnout' to 'All By Myself', Dookie is the largely upbeat driving force of a very special time.