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237-626: Pop-punk emerged in the late 1970s with groups such as the Ramones , the Undertones , and the Buzzcocks setting the genre's groundwork. 1980s punk bands like Bad Religion , Descendents and the Misfits , while not necessarily pop-punk in and of themselves, were influential to pop-punk, and it expanded in the late 1980s and early 1990s by a host of bands signed to Lookout! Records , including Screeching Weasel ,

474-455: A liberal and Johnny a conservative . Their personalities also clashed: Johnny, who spent two years in military school , lived by a strict code of self-discipline , while Joey struggled with obsessive–compulsive disorder and alcoholism . In the early 1980s, Linda Danielle began a relationship with Johnny after having already been romantically involved with Joey, who had reportedly accused Johnny of "stealing" his girlfriend; this incident

711-409: A Deux (2008), both of which created fan confusion and backlash. Folie a Deux sold worse than their preceding albums, a representation of the backlash from their fanbase as the group experimented with a musical style differing from their established pop-punk sound. The late-2000s also saw the pioneering of neon pop-punk, a style of pop-punk that embraced more elements of pop and electronic music than

948-494: A Ride ", and " Redundant ". The band made a guest appearance in an episode of King of the Hill in 1997. In late 1997 and most of 1998, Green Day embarked on a tour in support of Nimrod . In 1999, Jason White began supporting the band during concerts as guitarist. In 2000, Green Day released their folk-punk -inspired sixth studio album Warning and, in support, participated in that year's Warped Tour . In November 2000, in

1185-595: A US tour for the summer 2024 with the Smashing Pumpkins , Rancid , and the Linda Lindas . They played another song, titled " Look Ma, No Brains! ", from the upcoming album during the When We Were Young Festival on October 22, 2023. On October 24, 2023, the title of the new album was announced as Saviors , and the album's first single, "The American Dream Is Killing Me" was released. The album

1422-507: A bigot. Many years later, C. J. lamented that despite being the two surviving members of arguably the Ramones' most commercially successful era, and despite reaching out a few times to join him on stage, he and Marky were no longer in contact. The Ramones' loud, fast, straightforward musical style was influenced by pop music that the band members grew up listening to in the 1950s and 1960s, including classic rock groups such as Buddy Holly and

1659-647: A bit more with it." Green Day were accused of selling out since the release of Dookie for signing to a major label and becoming mainstream. John Lydon of the 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols criticized Green Day and said that Green Day are not a punk band. Lydon said: "Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk. They're not, they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didn't come up with themselves. I think they are phony." Green Day guitarist and lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said: "Sometimes I think we've become redundant because we're this big band now; we've made

1896-458: A breakout success and eventually shipped over 20 million copies in the U.S. Alongside fellow California punk bands Bad Religion , the Offspring , Rancid , NOFX , Pennywise and Social Distortion , Green Day is credited with popularizing mainstream interest in punk rock in the U.S. Before taking its current name in 1989, the band was named Blood Rage , then Sweet Children . They were part of

2133-460: A brief hiatus in 1996, Green Day began work on its next album in 1997. From the outset, Cavallo and the band agreed the album had to be different from Green Day's previous albums. The result was Nimrod , an experimental deviation from the band's standard melodic punk rock. The album was released in October 1997 and provided a variety of music, from punk, pop, hardcore , folk , surf rock , ska , to

2370-449: A close friendship during their time together in the band and the latter expressed sadness over not being able to reconnect with Joey before his death. On March 18, 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , which specifically named Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, and Marky. At the ceremony, the surviving inductees spoke on behalf of the band. Johnny spoke first, thanking

2607-674: A companion collection of music videos ved International Supervideos! Shenanigans contained collected B-sides, including "Espionage", which was featured in the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance . In Spring 2002, Green Day co-headlined the Pop Disaster Tour with Blink-182 , documented on the DVD Riding in Vans with Boys . In Summer 2003,

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2844-663: A concert attended by Armstrong. In 1995, a single titled " J.A.R. " for the Angus soundtrack was released and debuted at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The band's fourth studio album, Insomniac , was released in Fall 1995. Compared to the more melodic Dookie, Insomniac was a much darker and heavier response to the band's newfound popularity. The album opened to warm critical reception, earning 4 of 5 stars from Rolling Stone , which said "In punk,

3081-502: A concert in Amsterdam and begging Joey and Johnny. Meanwhile, Stormy Shepard from Leave Home Bookings (who was booking then-up-and-coming bands like Rancid and the Offspring ) negotiated with the Ramones: "I'll put you on tour with these bands that are huge now. They're your fans; you can do whatever you want. You'll be playing in front of kids who like this style of music." At the same time,

3318-557: A cover of " I Fought the Law " made its debut on a commercial for iTunes during NFL Super Bowl XXXVIII . Finally, American Idiot was released in September 2004 and debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. Backed by the success of the album's first single " American Idiot ", it was the band's first album to reach this pinnacle. American Idiot was labeled a punk rock opera and follows

3555-587: A cover story on the Ramones in its third issue, the same month as the album's release. The Ramones' debut album was greeted by rock critics with glowing reviews. The Village Voice ' s Robert Christgau wrote, "I love this record—love it—even though I know these boys flirt with images of brutality (Nazi especially) ... For me, it blows everything else off the radio". In Rolling Stone , Paul Nelson described it as "constructed almost entirely of rhythm tracks of an exhilarating intensity rock & roll has not experienced since its earliest days." Characterizing

3792-415: A cultural movement than a genre." Other critics and publications noticed that because of Lavigne's punk-driven-pop anthems, she has earned the reputation as the genre's " queen ". For her part, Lavigne preferred to describe her music as "heavy pop rock", rather than punk. Other pop-punk bands that achieved popularity include Good Charlotte , Simple Plan and MxPx . Good Charlotte's 2002 album The Young and

4029-520: A dead genre, and just because there isn't a song on the radio to clarify that shouldn't matter. ... Pop-punk means something to a lot of people and to me, having success as a band in our genre is about longevity, touring a lot and staying true to your fans." By the 2010s, many pop-punk bands had folded; "once essentially child stars, their members are now adult musicians hoping to move beyond the teen trappings that gave them careers." Fall Out Boy and Paramore, two groups that achieved mainstream success within

4266-407: A few lineup changes, with Joey and Johnny as the only constant members. Tommy left the band in 1978 to pursue a career in record production , and was replaced by Marky Ramone , who himself was replaced by Richie Ramone in 1983. Following Richie's departure in 1987, and a brief stint with Elvis Ramone , Marky rejoined the band and Dee Dee departed two years later. From 1989 to their breakup in 1996,

4503-536: A few months later, the band renamed to Sweet Children. One of their first songs written together was "Best Thing in Town". The group's first live performance under the name Sweet Children took place on October 17, 1987, at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, California . In 1988, Armstrong and Dirnt began working with former Isocracy drummer John Kiffmeyer , also known as "Al Sobrante", who replaced original drummer Raj Punjabi. It

4740-441: A fight about their respective drinking habits. A year after the Ramones' breakup, Marky Ramone made disparaging remarks against C. J. in the press, calling him a " bigot ", a statement he would reiterate a decade later. C. J. would later respond that he was unsure as to why Marky would make negative comments against him in the press, though he denied that it had anything to do with his marrying Marky's niece. He also denied being

4977-543: A high-school garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as the Tangerine Puppets. They became friends with Douglas Colvin , who had recently moved to the area from Germany, and Jeff Hyman , who was the singer for the glam rock band Sniper , founded in 1972. The Ramones began taking shape in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band. Colvin wanted to play guitar and sing, Cummings would also play guitar and Hyman would play drums. The lineup

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5214-560: A lot of money—we're not punk rock anymore. But then I think about it and just say, 'You can take us out of a punk rock environment, but you can't take the punk rock out of us. ' " Blink-182 also received a lot of criticism from punk rock fans, being accused of selling out for their pop-music-inspired style of pop-punk. Lydon called Blink-182 "bunch of silly boys ... an imitation of a comedy act." Blink-182 guitarist and singer Tom DeLonge responded to criticism, saying: "I love all those criticisms, because fuck all those magazines! I hate with

5451-574: A member of the Plasmatics , the album was characterized by a Rolling Stone reviewer as "nonstop primal fuzz pop". Making it his pick for "album of the week", New York Times critic Jon Pareles wrote that the Ramones "speak up for outcasts and disturbed individuals". The following year the band recorded their last album with Richie, Halfway to Sanity . Richie left in August 1987 after financial conflicts with Johnny that centered around him being refused

5688-526: A member of the early 1970s hard rock band Dust , Wayne County , and the pioneering punk group Richard Hell & the Voidoids . Bell adopted the name Marky Ramone. Later that year, the band released their fourth studio album, and first with Marky, Road to Ruin . The album, co-produced by Tommy with Ed Stasium , included some new sounds such as acoustic guitar, several ballads, and the band's first two recorded songs longer than three minutes. It failed to reach

5925-483: A new music scene was emerging in New York centered on two clubs in downtown Manhattan — Max's Kansas City and, more famously, CBGB (usually referred to as CBGB's). The Ramones made their CBGB debut on August 16, 1974. Legs McNeil , who cofounded Punk magazine the following year, later described the impact of that performance: "They were all wearing these black leather jackets. And they counted off this song ... and it

6162-437: A new wave of pop-punk groups like Stand Atlantic , Doll Skin , Waterparks and rapper Vic Mensa 's band 93PUNX . Alternative Press also cited English bands Trash Boat , Boston Manor and As It Is as making "significant contributions to the latest revival era". In September 2020, Machine Gun Kelly released his fifth studio album Tickets to My Downfall , his first entirely pop-punk album. The album debuted at number 1 on

6399-552: A number of media outlets began crediting him with leading a pop-punk revival. An article by Kerrang! credited Machine Gun Kelly as well as Yungblud as bringing the genre back to mainstream attention. In addition to this, the publication cited the app TikTok as one of the key factors, as videos tagged #poppunk had received 400 million views by January 21, 2021. On the app, viral trends took place using tracks from pop-punk bands like All Time Low, Simple Plan and Paramore. Some popular TikTok content creators even began releasing music in

6636-515: A number of shows overseas in Europe. By then, the band's second studio album Kerplunk had sold 50,000 copies in the U.S. Green Day supported another California punk band, Bad Religion , as an opening act for their Recipe for Hate Tour for most of 1993. Kerplunk' s underground success led to interest from major record labels and a bidding war to sign Green Day. The band eventually left Lookout! and signed with Reprise Records after attracting

6873-429: A parallel genre on the rise at the time. But power pop began earlier, and it was a more American phenomenon". Among the influential pop-punk bands of the late 1970s were the Buzzcocks . An LA Weekly writer later referred to the band's 1979 compilation album Singles Going Steady as "the blueprint for punk rock bands preferring tuneful tales of lost love and longing to rage against the machine." Cooper similarly cited

7110-470: A part of the group, because we never let anybody else write our songs." Richie's composition, "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", remained a staple in the Ramones set list until their last show in 1996 and was included in the album Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits . The eight-song bonus disc, The Ramones Smash You: Live '85 , is also named after Richie's composition "Smash You". The first album

7347-685: A passion Maximumrocknroll and all those zines that think they know what punk is supposed to be. I think it's so much more punk to piss people off than to conform to all those veganistic views." In a November 2004 interview, Sum 41 rhythm guitarist and lead singer Deryck Whibley said: "We don't even consider ourselves punk. We're just a rock band. We want to do something different. We want to do our own thing. That's how music has always been to us." Sum 41's lead guitarist Dave Baksh reiterated Whibley's claims, stating "We just call ourselves rock... It's easier to say than punk, especially around all these fuckin' kids that think they know what punk is. Something that

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7584-647: A pop-punk-influenced style dubbed emo pop . By the 2010s, pop-punk's mainstream popularity had waned, with rock bands and guitar-centric music becoming rare on dance-focused pop radio. During this period, however, a wave of underground artists defined a rawer and more emotional take on the genre, namely the Story so Far , the Wonder Years and Neck Deep . In the early 2020s, a new crop of pop-punk music began experiencing mainstream resurgence with various new acts such as Machine Gun Kelly , KennyHoopla and Yungblud . Pop-punk

7821-452: A popular symbol of the scene, to the extent that a number of publication have posthumously described this period as the "Defend Pop Punk Era". I think pop-punk is a zombie. ... It hushed down for a bit but then it got brought back to life in an almost undead fashion. ... Back then it was mainstream, you would see it on MTV and things like that. Now, it's different, it's got a fighting chance and it's crawling its way back up. It started out with

8058-488: A pretty selective crowd but now it's opening up to more and more people. Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer 's 2014 self titled album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and in many other countries, and received what the Guardian journalist Harriet Gibsone described as "the kind of mania only ever granted to a massive boyband". However, the band's status as pop-punk was controversial. Alternative Press described

8295-532: A redneck agenda" with "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda", a reference to Donald Trump 's Make America Great Again slogan, in criticism of Trump. The album's fourth single, " One Eyed Bastard ", was released on January 5, 2024. On the evening of January 16, 2024, the band appeared in a surprise performance in the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station of the New York subway system, with late-night host Jimmy Fallon joining them on tambourine to help draw attention to

8532-418: A show produced by Ian Brennan , the band performed for free on the steps on San Francisco's City Hall to protest the eviction of artists from the city. The band also launched an independent tour to support the album Warning in 2001. Critics' reviews of the album were varied. AllMusic gave it 4.5/5, saying, " Warning may not be an innovative record per se, but it's tremendously satisfying." Rolling Stone

8769-553: A single, titled "Here Comes the Shock", which was later released on February 21, 2021. The band would release a remastered version of Insomniac in March for the belated 25th anniversary of the album's release, with bonus live tracks. On May 17, 2021, Green Day released the single "Pollyanna". The reshuffled Hella Mega Tour would take place in the United States from July to September 2021, and

9006-434: A small percentage of the merchandising money, which had been requested based on his tenure with the band and their use of his name and image. Richie was replaced by Clem Burke from Blondie , which was disbanded at the time. According to Johnny, the performances with Burke—who adopted the name Elvis Ramone—were a disaster. He was fired after two performances (August 28 and 29, 1987) because his drumming could not keep up with

9243-512: A stage-worn glove from Joey, Marky's sneakers, and C. J.'s stage-worn bass strap. On October 8, 2004, Tommy Ramone , C. J. Ramone , Clem Burke, and Daniel Rey performed in the "Ramones Beat on Cancer" concert. The Ramones were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007. That October saw the release of a DVD set containing concert footage of the band: It's Alive 1974–1996 includes 118 songs from 33 performances over

9480-516: A statement on the Adeline website discussing an ongoing dispute between the two bands. The bands "feuded" via press releases and statements from Armstrong. Several journalists openly referred to the group as a Green Day side project, although it was not confirmed as such until 2013. Green Day collaborated with Iggy Pop on two tracks for his album Skull Ring in November 2003. On February 1, 2004,

9717-465: A surprise Lollapalooza aftershow set at Metro Chicago on July 29, a set that was mostly improvised. The set included their first performances of "Church on Sunday" and "Warning" since 2001, and also included fan favorite deep tracks "Whatsername", "Letterbomb", and "Murder City". On October 26, 2022, Green Day was announced as a headliner for the fifth annual Innings Festival in Arizona. In November 2022,

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9954-542: A system that punk was created to challenge. In 1997, Blink-182 released their breakthrough album, Dude Ranch , and the band performed at the Vans Warped Tour that year. " Dammit ", the album's second single, received frequent airplay on modern rock stations, and the album was certified gold by 1998. By 1999, Blink achieved further mainstream success with Enema of the State . In the description of journalist Matt Crane,

10191-545: A tribute, and Lemmy performed at the final Ramones concert in 1996. Paul Dianno , who sang on Iron Maiden 's first two albums has called the Ramones his "favorite band", and often performs Ramones material in his live shows. In the realm of alternative rock , the song " 53rd & 3rd " lent its name to a British indie pop label cofounded by Stephen Pastel of the Scottish band the Pastels . Other bands and artists that have cited

10428-782: Is a natural fit with pop's core values." Vice ' s Jason Heller described "an open respect for the tradition and craft of pop songwriting" as a key characteristic of pop-punk. Bill Lamb, also from About.com, writes that pop-punk is a variant of punk music that features "a hard and fast guitar and drums base but powered by pop melodies like much of '70s punk rock." Alter the Press! defines pop-punk as "a genre that originates from mixing punk rock with pop sensibility". Lyrically, pop-punk often addresses adolescent themes of lust, romantic relationships, heartbreak, drugs, suburbia , and rebellion. Some pop-punk lyrics make an emphasis on jokes and humor. The New Yorker ' s Amanda Petrush summarized that

10665-535: Is about the early 1990s underground punk rock scene in California, mentioning pop-punk bands like Screeching Weasel and Green Day. Screeching Weasel's 1991 album My Brain Hurts influenced many subsequent pop-punk bands, with bands like Blink-182 , Allister and Alkaline Trio citing them as an influence. Social Distortion , known for playing genres like traditional punk and cowpunk , achieved moderate success starting in

10902-531: Is another band Green Day has been compared to. Dirnt said he "never owned a Dickies album, although" he "did see" the Dickies live "around the time of" Kerplunk! . Dirnt said "by that time, we'd played so many shows it had no bearing." Armstrong referred to the Dickies as "just another Ramones rip-off". Although in August 1996, Armstrong said bands like the Ramones are bands he listened to later, in June 2010, Armstrong cited

11139-464: Is believed to have been the inspiration behind " The KKK Took My Baby Away ". Consequently, despite their continued professional relationship, Joey and Johnny had become aloof from each other. Johnny did not contact Joey before the latter's death, although he said that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death. Dee Dee 's bipolar disorder and repeated relapses into drug addiction also caused significant strains. Tommy would also leave

11376-567: Is really good. For the harder stuff, it didn't work as well." The string-laden Ronettes cover " Baby, I Love You " released as a single, became the band's biggest hit in Great Britain, reaching number 8 on the charts. Pleasant Dreams , the band's sixth album, was released in 1981. It continued the trend established by End of the Century , taking the band further from the raw punk sound of its early records. As described by Trouser Press ,

11613-399: Is simple—melodic songs packaged with a punk slant." In Brian Cogan's The Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture (2006) pop-punk is characterized as "a catchy, faster version of power pop." AllMusic defines "punk-pop" as "a post-grunge strand of alternative rock " that combines the textures and fast tempos of punk rock with the "melodies and chord changes" of power pop. In the 1990s, there

11850-439: Is variously described as a punk subgenre, a variation of punk, a form of pop music , and a genre antithetical to punk in a similar manner as post-punk . It has evolved stylistically throughout its history, absorbing elements from new wave , college rock , ska , rap , emo , and boy bands . Writers at The A.V. Club described pop-punk as a punk subgenre that has "essentially been around as long as punk itself" with roots in

12087-492: Is watching us right now with a little smile on his face behind his rose-colored glasses." On April 30, 2014, their debut album, Ramones , became certified Gold by the Recording Industry of America after selling 500,000 copies, 38 years after its release. Arturo Vega , creative director from their formation in 1974 until their disbanding in 1996 and often considered the fifth Ramone, died of cancer on June 8, 2013, at

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12324-461: The Billboard 200 , Father of All Motherfuckers (2020) and Saviors (2024). In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical was nominated for three Tony Awards : Best Musical , Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design , winning the latter two. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, their first year of eligibility. Members of

12561-583: The Billboard album chart. The two singles issued from the album, " Blitzkrieg Bop " and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart. At the band's first major performance outside of New York, a June date in Youngstown, Ohio , members of Cleveland punk legends Frankenstein aka the Dead Boys were present and struck up a friendship with the band. It was not until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see

12798-552: The Billboard Top 100 . However, " I Wanna Be Sedated ", which appeared both on the album and as a single, would become one of the band's best-known songs. The artwork on the album's cover was done by Punk magazine cofounder John Holmstrom . After the band's movie debut in Roger Corman 's Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), renowned producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their fifth album End of

13035-627: The Beastie Boys , Gorilla Biscuits , the Misfits , and The Mob . Roger Miret of Agnostic Front has stated that Leave Home was the first album he bought with his own money. The Ramones' debut album had an outsized effect relative to its modest sales, particularly in the UK . According to Generation X bassist Tony James , "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock—that rama-lama super fast stuff—is totally down to

13272-566: The Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart. On 18 October 2024, Bruno Mars and K-pop singer Rosé released the pop-punk single " Apt. ", which became one of the biggest streaming successes in both the United States and the world upon release, topping Spotify 's global and US daily streaming charts. Emo pop became popular in the mid-2000s, with record labels such as Fueled by Ramen releasing platinum albums from bands including My Chemical Romance , Fall Out Boy , Panic! at

13509-479: The Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first rock album to top the chart since Tool's Fear Inoculum in September 2019. The Evening Standard credited the album as "bridg[ing] the gap" between the modern pop punk scene and the mainstream interest that developed from the emo rap scene. " My Ex's Best Friend ", a song from Tickets to My Downfall , has since peaked at number 21 on Billboard Hot 100 . Because of this,

13746-638: The Dead Kennedys . Then, in the seventh grade, there was a girl at school who would bring in records like T.S.O.L. and say, 'Here, listen to this.'" Armstrong said he thinks he "really started getting into" punk rock "in 1987 with Turn It Around! , a double seven-inch compilation record put out by [punk fanzine] Maximumrocknroll ." Armstrong cited Turn It Around! as an influence, calling it "a pretty big record" for him. Armstrong would also cite fellow East Bay punk bands Operation Ivy, Jawbreaker , and Crimpshrine as influences. Tré Cool has stated that

13983-632: The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album , and the band was nominated for nine MTV Video Music Awards , including Video of the Year. In the band's homestead of the East Bay following Dookie' s success, the band felt a sense of hostility. Billie Joe Armstrong recalled aggressive glares and furtive whispers. The band's success would trickle onto other East Bay bands such as Jawbreaker , a local favorite of Armstrong's, which garnered accusations of selling out during

14220-572: The New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United States and elsewhere, the Ramones are often cited as the first true punk rock band. Although they had never achieved significant commercial success, the band is seen today as highly influential in punk culture . All members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname Ramone, although none were biologically related: they were inspired by Paul McCartney , who would check into hotels under

14457-572: The New York Dolls ], who was copying Mick Jagger ... But Joey was unique, totally unique." The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones , in February 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", barely surpassed two and a half minutes. While the songwriting credits were shared by the entire band, and each member did contribute some writing, much of

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14694-576: The New York punk scene of the 1970s —and reflected the band's short, simple songs. Tommy Ramone recalled that, musically and visually, "We were influenced by comic books, movies, the Andy Warhol scene, and avant-garde films . I was a big Mad magazine fan myself." The band's logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega , with guidance from the Ramones. Vega, a longtime friend, had allowed Joey and Dee Dee to move into his loft. He produced

14931-498: The Ramones crafted a blueprint for pop-punk with their 1976 debut album, but 1978 was the year that the genre "came into its own". He noted that some bands "were unmistakably pop punk bands by today's definition of the term, but in 1978, the distinction wasn't so clear. Plenty of punk groups of the era threw a token pop tune or two into their set—sometimes for ironic effect, other times earnestly." Heller also acknowledged that many "burgeoning pop punk groups in 1978 bordered on power pop,

15168-502: The Warped Tour played a crucial role in launching up-and-coming pop-punk artists. Pop-punk's mainstream popularity continued in the mid-to-late 2000s, with artists such as Fall Out Boy , My Chemical Romance , and Paramore achieving high levels of commercial success. By this point, pop-punk acts were largely indistinguishable from artists tagged as "emo", to the extent that emo crossover acts such as Fall Out Boy and Paramore popularized

15405-503: The late 1980s/early 1990s Bay Area punk scene that emerged from the 924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley, California . The band's early releases were with the independent record label Lookout! Records , including their first album, 39/Smooth (1990). For most of the band's career, they have been a power trio with Cool, who replaced John Kiffmeyer in 1990 before the recording of the band's second studio album, Kerplunk (1991). Though

15642-488: The soundtrack to the musical, featuring a new song by Green Day titled " When It's Time ". In June 2010 iTunes released "When It's Time" as a single. During the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2009 , it was announced that Green Day was set to have its own Rock Band video game titled Green Day: Rock Band , as a follow-up to the last band specific Rock Band game, The Beatles: Rock Band . The game features

15879-653: The "classic pop of the Beatles , the Kinks , and the Beach Boys , often pitting sweet harmonies against bratty, rowdy riffs." According to Ryan Cooper of About.com , "pop-punk is a style that owes more to The Beatles and '60s pop than other sub-genres of punk". There is considerable overlap between power pop and pop-punk, and the two styles are often conflated. Web publication Revolver acknowledged that, while pop-punk and power pop are often presented interchangeably, "the core concept

16116-511: The "rawness" of pop-punk "lies not in the music" but by conveying the "spectrum of human experience, all that longing and self-doubt." The term pop punk was first used by John Rockwell in a New York Times in March 1977 article to describe Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Punk rock has long shared sensibilities with pop music, especially since the late 1970s. In his book Rock and Roll: A Social History (2018), author Paul Friedlander lists

16353-490: The 2012 tour attracted 556,000 festival-goers, its third-best attendance. Bobby Olivier of The Star-Ledger wrote: "The genre ... continues to reinvent itself and Warped is pop punk's prom." In 2016, Rolling Stone reported that pop-punk was "still one of the most predominant and popular rock genres". The magazine conducted a reader's poll for the "10 Best Pop-Punk Albums of All Time" that ultimately included Green Day ( Dookie , American Idiot , Nimrod ), Blink-182 ( Enema of

16590-593: The Altar , Yours Truly , Noah Finnce and Jxdn as "reinventing pop-punk for 2021". In 2023, Cassadee Pope (from the defunct band Hey Monday ) announced that she was stepping away from country music and going back to her roots in pop-punk, with the release of the singles "People That I Love Leave", "Almost There", and "Coma" (featuring Taylor Acorn). In August 2023, Rodrigo released the song " Bad Idea Right? ", which features pop-punk and indie rock influences, from her second studio album Guts . The song peaked at number-one on

16827-521: The Beatles . On March 18, 2002, the original four members and Tommy's replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. In 2011, the band was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award . The original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens . John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had both been in

17064-427: The California punk scene of the late 1980s, and several of those bands, especially Green Day and the Offspring , helped revive interest in punk rock in the 1990s. Green Day arose from the 924 Gilman Street punk scene in Berkeley, California . After building an underground following, the band signed to Reprise Records and released their major-label debut album, Dookie , in 1994. Dookie sold four million copies by

17301-521: The Century (1980). There is a long-disputed rumor that during the recording sessions in Los Angeles, Spector held Dee Dee at gunpoint, forcing him to repeatedly play a riff. Although it was to be the highest-charting album in the band's history—reaching number 44 in the United States and number 14 in Great Britain—Johnny made clear that he favored the band's more aggressive punk material: " End of

17538-466: The Century was just watered-down Ramones. It's not the real Ramones." This stance was also conveyed by the title and track selection of the compilation album Johnny later oversaw, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits . Despite these reservations, Johnny did concede that some of Spector's work with the band had merit, saying "It really worked when he got to a slower song like ' Danny Says '—the production really worked tremendously. 'Rock 'N' Roll Radio'

17775-711: The Clash , making their public debut. The next night, members of both bands attended the Ramones' gig at the Dingwall's club. Ramones manager Danny Fields recalls a conversation between Johnny Ramone and Clash bassist Paul Simonon (which he mislocates at the Roundhouse): "Johnny asked him, 'What do you do? Are you in a band?' Paul said, 'Well, we just rehearse. We call ourselves the Clash but we're not good enough.' Johnny said, 'Wait till you see us—we stink, we're lousy, we can't play. Just get out there and do it.'" Another band whose members saw

18012-601: The Clash and things, but it comes from a different well. When we started, punk to me was the Clash, the [Sex] Pistols, and the Buzzcocks over here [the United Kingdom], and in the [United] States it was the Dolls , Iggy , and the Ramones. We invented our style, just like the Clash did and the Ramones did. But the bands that have come later, some of them you see tend to just ape what went on before, where I'd rather them do their own thing

18249-557: The Clash —helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene. The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double bill was successfully reprised at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles the following month, fueling the punk scene there as well. The Ramones were becoming an increasingly popular live act—a Toronto performance in September energized yet another growing punk scene. Their next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia , were released in 1977. Both were produced by Tommy and Tony Bongiovi ,

18486-863: The Crickets , the Beach Boys , the Who , the Beatles , the Kinks , Led Zeppelin , the Rolling Stones , the Doors and Creedence Clearwater Revival ; bubblegum acts like the 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express ; and girl groups such as the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las . They also drew on the harder rock sound of the MC5 , Black Sabbath , the Stooges and the New York Dolls , now known as seminal protopunk bands. The Ramones' style

18723-783: The Disco , Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Paramore . Maloney wrote: "While many pop punk fans adamantly deny any association between their favorite acts and those labeled "emo," crossover bands who melded the two have gradually put both genres in the same scene-boat." Easycore (less commonly known as popcore , dudecore , softcore , happy hardcore , and EZ ) is a genre that merges pop-punk with elements of metalcore . It often makes use of breakdowns , screamed vocals , major key progressions and riffs and synthesizers . The genre's roots come from early 2000s pop-punk groups Sum 41 and New Found Glory . New Found Glory's self-titled and Stick and Stones albums and Sum 41's song " Fat Lip " were some of

18960-551: The Hopeless went triple platinum. Simple Plan's 2002 debut album No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls was certified double platinum and its 2004 follow-up Still Not Getting Any... went platinum. In the United Kingdom, Busted and McFly gained notability through merging pop-punk musicality with boy band aesthetics. Busted's 2002 self-titled debut album was certified 4× platinum and their second album A Present for Everyone

19197-475: The Network released a music video for their first song in 17 years, named "Ivankkka Is a Nazi". After a couple of weeks of small hints on social media, as well as Green Day claiming they were not the Network, the band released an EP on November 20, 2020, titled Trans Am . On December 4, 2020, the Network released their second album Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! . In February 2021, Green Day announced

19434-478: The President of the United States ' would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows—to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whomever dares to attack us—and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly. But we decided to change it a little bit. Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie . And since Johnny

19671-507: The Queers , and the Mr. T Experience . In the mid-1990s, the genre saw a widespread popularity increase and entered the mainstream with bands like Green Day and the Offspring . The genre experienced another wave popularized during the late 1990s and early 2000s led by Blink-182 , and in their wake followed contemporary acts such as Sum 41 , New Found Glory , Good Charlotte , and Avril Lavigne , while

19908-647: The RIAA. MTV and radio stations such as Los Angeles' KROQ-FM played a major role in the genre's mainstream success. The Warped Tour , started in 1995, brought punk even further into the United States mainstream. With punk rock's renewed visibility came concerns among some in the punk subculture that the music was being co-opted by the mainstream. Some punk rock fans criticized Green Day for "selling out" and rejected their music as too soft, pop-oriented and not legitimate punk rock. They argued that by signing to major labels and appearing on MTV, bands like Green Day were buying into

20145-514: The Ramones came out in 2004. Johnny, who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999, died on September 15, 2004, in Los Angeles , shortly after the film's release. On the same day as Johnny's death, the world's first Ramones Museum opened its doors to the public. Located in Berlin , Germany, the museum features more than 300 items of memorabilia, including a pair of stage-worn jeans from Johnny,

20382-839: The Ramones as an influence include Evan Dando of the Lemonheads , Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters , Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater , Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam , (who introduced the band members at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction), the Strokes , and the Primitives . Green Day Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California , in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt , with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990. In 1994, their major-label debut Dookie , released through Reprise Records , became

20619-462: The Ramones as an influence. He also said his "range of favorite songwriters goes anywhere from the Sex Pistols to Lennon–McCartney ." During the American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown era of Green Day, the band was influenced by the Who, U2 , Motown albums, and musicals such as Grease . Billie Joe Armstrong regularly invites musicians at Green Day concerts onstage to substitute for

20856-541: The Ramones consisted of Joey, Johnny, Marky and bassist C. J. Ramone . Recognition of the band's importance has built over the years. The Ramones were ranked number 26 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the " 100 Greatest Artists of All Time " and number 17 in VH1 's 2012 television series 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock . In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin , trailing only

21093-449: The Ramones perform, the Damned , played their first show two days later. Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 has said that he considers the Ramones his band's "only blueprint". The central fanzine of the early UK punk scene, Sniffin' Glue , was named after the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", which appeared on the debut LP. Ramones concerts and recordings influenced many musicians central to

21330-512: The Ramones recorded It's Alive , a live concert double album, at the Rainbow Theatre , London, which was released in April 1979 (the title is a reference to the 1974 horror film of the same name ). Tommy, tired of touring, left the band in early 1978. He continued as the Ramones' record producer under his birth name of Erdelyi. His position as drummer was filled by Marc Bell , who had been

21567-496: The Ramones recorded with Richie was Too Tough to Die in 1984, with Tommy Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers. The album marked a shift to something like the band's original sound. In the description of Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine , the "rhythms are back up to jackhammer speed and the songs are down to short, terse statements." The band's main release of 1985 was the British single " Bonzo Goes to Bitburg "; though it

21804-421: The Ramones, in attempting to re-create the excitement of pre-Dolby rock, were to cast a huge shadow—they had fused a blueprint for much of the indie future." Writing for Slate in 2001, Douglas Wolk described the Ramones as "easily the most influential group of the last 30 years." Locally, several musicians who would play in New York hardcore bands cite the Ramones as an influence. These include members of

22041-618: The Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then." The Ramones' two July 1976 shows, like their debut album, are seen as having a significant impact on the style of many of the newly formed British punk acts—as one observer put it, "instantly nearly every band speeded up". The Ramones' first British concert, at London's Roundhouse music venue, was held on July 4, 1976, the United States Bicentennial . The Sex Pistols were playing in Sheffield that evening, supported by

22278-530: The Replacements , and that their influence is particularly noted in the band's chord changes in songs. Green Day has covered Hüsker Dü's " Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely " as a B-side to the "Warning" single, and the character "Mr. Whirly" in the group's song "Misery" is a reference to the Replacements song of the same name. Southern California-based hardcore bands Social Distortion and Bad Religion have also been cited as influences. Green Day would cover

22515-488: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Fall Out Boy . On April 24, 2015, Rob Cavallo revealed Green Day were recording a twelfth studio album. Cavallo claimed to have heard "five new songs that Billie has written and demoed", and that the fans should be "sure that when they do return, the music will be amazing". On December 24, 2015, Green Day released a Christmas song, " Xmas Time of the Year ". On August 11, 2016, Green Day released

22752-579: The Roof", was released on the same day as the album. On April 6, 2020, Armstrong revealed that he had written six songs intending to record new music with the band once the COVID-19 pandemic had passed. On May 21, 2020, the band released a cover of Blondie 's " Dreaming ". On October 30, 2020, the band's secret side project, the Network , teased upcoming activity with a video titled "The Prophecy" and mentioned their upcoming sequel album. Then on November 2, 2020,

22989-471: The Starting Line's song " Best of Me " was cited by Alternative Press as one of the most influential songs in the genre. Avril Lavigne 's 2002 album Let Go set a precedent for the success of female-fronted pop-punk acts. Journalist Nick Laugher wrote that it was "undeniable" that the record launched pop-punk into the mainstream, "blurring the lines with it and straight-up pop music, and making it more of

23226-618: The State was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA and its song " All the Small Things " peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 . Sum 41's debut album All Killer No Filler was certified triple platinum in their home country of Canada. Its song " Fat Lip " peaked at number one on the US Billboard alternative airplay chart and number eight on the UK singles chart. Around this time the genre saw

23463-575: The State , Take Off Your Pants and Jacket , Dude Ranch ), the Ramones ( Ramones ), the Offspring ( Smash ), Jimmy Eat World ( Bleed American ), and Generation X ( Valley of the Dolls ). In the late 2010s, the genre was influential in the development of emo rap . Many emo rappers gained mainstream attention during this period. In particular, Lil Peep , Lil Uzi Vert , Juice WRLD and XXXTentacion were all vocal about their love for and influence from pop-punk. Emo rapper Wicca Phase Springs Eternal

23700-692: The Stork Club in Oakland and Toot's Tavern in Crockett, California . In an interview with Carson Daly, Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson revealed that Butch Vig would be producing Green Day's forthcoming album. The span of nearly five years between American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown was the longest gap between studio albums in Green Day's career. The band had been working on new material since January 2006. By October 2007, Armstrong had 45 songs written, but

23937-541: The U.S. Billboard Hot 100 music charts. Plain White T's was another Illinois emo pop band that received major mainstream success. Their album Every Second Counts (2006) went number 10 on the Billboard 200 charts and featured their number one single " Hey There Delilah ". New Jersey band My Chemical Romance was one of the faces of emo pop during the 2000s. MCR's albums Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004) and The Black Parade (2006) each sold more than 3 million copies in

24174-562: The US alone. The latter of the albums debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 charts. The album's lead single " Welcome to the Black Parade " topped the US Alternative Songs chart and reached number 9 on the Billboard hot 100. Taking Back Sunday 's third album Louder Now (2006) debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 charts. According to Brooklyn Vegan ' s Andrew Sacher, after

24411-405: The US. American Idiot won the 2005 Grammy for Best Rock Album and was nominated in six other categories, including Album of the Year . The album helped Green Day win seven of the eight awards it was nominated for at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards ; the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" video won six of those awards. A year later, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" won a Grammy Award for Record of

24648-471: The United Kingdom in June and July 2022. Between legs, on November 5, 2021, the band released the single "Holy Toledo!". BBC Sessions , the fourth live album by Green Day, was released on December 10, 2021. Eight days later, they put out a teaser video with the captions " RAK Studios . London, England. Green Day. 1972". In 2022, Green Day played a handful of major festivals in the United States, including Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. The band also played

24885-520: The United States, and their 2009 album Nothing Personal peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Digital Albums chart. The Maine's 2008 debut album Can't Stop Won't Stop peaked at number 9 on the Billboard digital albums chart. Cobra Starship's 2009 album Hot Mess reached number 4 on the Billboard 200. Boys Like Girls' 2009 second album Love Drunk peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart. Pop-punk lost its mainstream popularity in

25122-538: The Year for " Boulevard of Broken Dreams ", and Best Musical Show Album for American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording . In 1987, friends and guitarists Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 15 years old at the time, along with bassist Sean Hughes and drummer Raj Punjabi, a fellow student from Pinole Valley High School , formed band "Blood Rage", the name taken from the eponymous film , and played together in Punjabi's father's house garage at Rodeo, California ;

25359-518: The Year . In 2009, Kerrang! named American Idiot the best album of the decade, NME ranked it number 60 in a similar list, and Rolling Stone ranked it 22nd. Rolling Stone also listed "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot" among the 100 best songs of the 2000s, at number 65 and 47, respectively. In 2005, the album was ranked number 420 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time . In 2012,

25596-646: The [return] of the genre", and Kerrang! called him the "leader of pop punk's new generation". Olivia Rodrigo 's 2021 pop-punk song " Good 4 U " peaked at number one on the Billboard singles chart, which according to Slate magazine, made it "rock's first hot 100 number 1 in years". Publications such as the Face , the Independent and USA Today cited this wave as having an increased diversity of sexuality, race and gender when compared to prior eras. A February 2021 article by Louder Sound cited artists like Meet Me at

25833-405: The acoustic ballad " Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) ". Nimrod entered the charts at Number 10. The mainstream success of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" won the band an MTV Video Award for Best Alternative Video. The song was used in the second clip show episode of Seinfeld and two episodes of ER . The other singles released from Nimrod were " Nice Guys Finish Last ", " Hitchin'

26070-502: The additional vocals on the album citing that members of the band (including himself) were going through personal troubles and changes to the point where he did not want to be in the band anymore. Although it received mixed reviews upon its release in May 1989, the album included the band's highest-charting hit in America, " Pet Sematary ". Despite not wanting to be in the band anymore, Dee Dee (who

26307-481: The age of 65. The final original member, Tommy Ramone, died on July 11, 2014, after a battle with bile duct cancer . On October 30, 2016, the band had a street in Queens , New York named for them. As of that date, the intersection of 67th Avenue and 110th Street in front of the main entrance of Forest Hills High School was officially named The Ramones Way. On April 15, 2021, the 20th anniversary of Joey Ramone's death, it

26544-421: The album as it contains a Parental Advisory sticker and requested that Green Day release a censored edition. The band members did not wish to change any lyrics on the album and responded by stating, "There's nothing dirty about our record... They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there. We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something." In 2009,

26781-408: The album as one of punk's most influential and added that Buzzcocks' "pop overtones [led] them to be a primary influence on today's pop punk bands.". Heller referred to the Undertones as "the most subversive band" of the genre during this period, particularly their 1978 single " Teenage Kicks ", "one of the most striking and definitive pop punk classics." Bad Religion , formed in 1979, helped to lay

27018-506: The album was certified Gold in Brazil after selling 100,000 copies, being the first Gold certification the Ramones were ever awarded, while its lead single " Poison Heart " was another top ten hit in the US for the band. Acid Eaters , consisting entirely of cover songs, came out in 1993. That same year, the Ramones were featured in the animated television series The Simpsons , providing music and voices for animated versions of themselves in

27255-567: The album was ranked number 225 on Rolling Stone' s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . While touring for American Idiot , the group filmed and recorded the two concerts at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in England. These recordings were released as a live CD and DVD set called Bullet in a Bible on November 15, 2005. The DVD featured behind-the-scenes footage of the band and showed how its members prepared to put on

27492-479: The album, produced by Graham Gouldman of UK pop act 10cc , moved the Ramones "away from their pioneering minimalism into heavy metal territory". Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision, a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio. While Pleasant Dreams reached number 58 on the U.S. chart, its two singles failed to register at all. Subterranean Jungle , produced by Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin,

27729-439: The albums Insomniac (1995), Nimrod (1997) and Warning (2000) did not match the success of Dookie , they were still successful, with Insomniac and Nimrod reaching double platinum status, while Warning achieved gold. Green Day's seventh album, a rock opera called American Idiot (2004), found popularity with a younger generation, selling six million copies in the U.S. Their next album, 21st Century Breakdown ,

27966-518: The albums. On January 22, 2013, the band announced that ¡Cuatro! , a documentary about the making of ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! , would premiere on January 26 in Aspen, Colorado as part of the X Games FILM showcase, and would be released on DVD April 9, 2013. Another documentary was announced called Broadway Idiot which focuses on the creation on the American Idiot musical and Armstrong's run as playing

28203-588: The alias Paul Ramon. The Ramones performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years, and released fourteen studio albums. In 1996, after a tour as part of the Lollapalooza music festival, they played a farewell concert in Los Angeles and disbanded. By 2014, all four of the band's original members had died – lead singer Joey Ramone (1951–2001), bassist Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948–2004) and drummer Tommy Ramone (1949–2014). The Ramones had experienced

28440-418: The attention of producer Rob Cavallo . The group was impressed by his work with fellow Californian band The Muffs and later remarked that Cavallo "was the only person we could talk to and connect with". Reflecting on this period, Armstrong told Spin magazine in 1999, "I couldn't go back to the punk scene, whether we were the biggest success in the world or the biggest failure ... The only thing I could do

28677-474: The band after being "physically threatened by Johnny, treated with contempt by Dee Dee, and all but ignored by Joey." As new members joined over the years, disbursement and the band's image frequently became matters of serious dispute. The tensions among the group members were not kept secret from the public as was heard on the Howard Stern radio show in 1997, where during the interview Marky and Joey got into

28914-507: The band and brought them to the attention of the label. Stein's wife, Linda Stein , saw the band play at Mothers; she would later co-manage them along with Danny Fields . By this time, the Ramones were recognized as leaders of the new scene that was increasingly being referred to as " punk ". The group's unusual frontman had a lot to do with their impact. As Dee Dee explained, "All the other singers [in New York] were copying David Johansen [of

29151-478: The band as punk rock , pop-punk , skate punk , melodic punk , alternative rock , and power pop . Critics have disputed the qualification of the band as power pop. The band has casually explored other musical styles, including post-punk and pop-rock with 21st Century Breakdown , and garage rock on ¡Dos! and Father of All.. . Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described Green Day as " punk revivalists who recharged

29388-411: The band as "authentic American primitives whose work has to be heard to be understood", he declared, "It is time popular music followed the other arts in honoring its primitives." Newsday ' s Wayne Robbins simply anointed the Ramones as "the best young rock 'n' roll band in the known universe." Despite Sire's high hopes for it, Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on

29625-460: The band as important to the marketing of the pop-punk scene, whereas in a Clash magazine interview with Terry Bezer, he described them as "not pop-punk... [but] a valuable gateway for young kids to begin taking their first steps towards bands of... more substance." Around this time, a number of other pop-punk-influenced pop artists gained mainstream attention, including Charli XCX and Halsey . Several pop-punk bands embarked on anniversary tours in

29862-527: The band award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist, and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards , and the video for "Walking Contradiction" earned the band nominations for Best Video, Short Form, at the Grammy's, in addition to Best Special Effects at the MTV Video Music Awards. After that, the band abruptly canceled a European tour, citing exhaustion. Following

30099-400: The band due to his alcoholism. He was replaced by Richard Reinhardt, who adopted the name Richie Ramone . Joey Ramone remarked that "[Richie] saved the band as far as I'm concerned. He's the greatest thing to happen to the Ramones. He put the spirit back in the band." Richie is the only Ramones drummer to sing lead vocals on Ramones songs, including "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice" as well as

30336-711: The band had recorded for the Minneapolis independent record label Skene! Records . In 1991, Lookout! Records re-released 39/Smooth as 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and added the songs from the band's first two EPs, Slappy and 1,000 Hours . In late 1990, shortly after the band's first nationwide tour, Kiffmeyer left the East Bay area to attend Humboldt State University in Arcata, California . The Lookouts ' drummer Tré Cool began filling in temporarily and later permanently, an offer which Kiffmeyer "graciously accepted". The band went on tour for most of 1992 and 1993 and played

30573-503: The band have collaborated on the side projects Pinhead Gunpowder , The Network , Foxboro Hot Tubs , The Longshot and The Coverups . They have also worked on solo careers. Green Day has sold roughly 75 million records worldwide as of 2024, making them one of the best-selling music artists . The group has been nominated for 20 Grammy Awards and won five of them, with Best Alternative Album for Dookie , Best Rock Album for American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown , Record of

30810-703: The band in the studio as an additional musician. This marks the first time that White had played guitar on a Green Day album. That summer, Green Day played several festivals and promotional shows, including the Rock en Seine festival in France, the Rock am See festival in Germany, and the Reading Festival in the United Kingdom. ¡Uno! , ¡Dos! , and ¡Tré! were released on September 21, November 9, and December 7, 2012, respectively, and were met with generally positive reviews from critics, though fans were more lukewarm towards

31047-531: The band is influenced by music that they did not like, naming artists like Hall & Oates , Cyndi Lauper and other 1980s music. Although Green Day has been compared to the Buzzcocks, the Ramones and the Clash, Mike Dirnt said he had never heard the Buzzcocks when Green Day began. Dirnt said: "First off, you can't sound like any of those bands. And secondly, those are probably the last ones in my record collection." Armstrong responded to Dirnt, saying: "Mine too. Those are all bands I got into later." The Dickies

31284-492: The band launched a new website with the name "The American Dream Is Killing Me". Included on the website was a video appearing to tease new music, and a circled date of October 24, 2023, leading some news outlets to believe that it is related to their next album. Before the album's release, they played the first song, " The American Dream Is Killing Me ", during a live show in Las Vegas , Nevada , on October 19, 2023, and announced

31521-434: The band members on guitar, bass and drums, often letting the guest musicians keep the instruments they used during their guest spots. Armstrong explains, "I remember being a kid and seeing Van Halen play. I was, like, 12, and Eddie would come out, and I'd go, 'God, it would be so cool to be up there and do what he's doing. So I was always keeping that in mind, subconsciously that's basically what ended up happening, breaking down

31758-621: The band met with award-winning director Michael Mayer and many cast and crew members of the Tony Award -winning musical Spring Awakening to create a stage version of the album American Idiot . American Idiot opened in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre during the end of 2009. The show features an expanded story of the original album, with new characters such as Will, Extraordinary Girl, and Favorite Son. On April 20, 2010, American Idiot opened on Broadway, and Green Day released

31995-477: The band play an early show and signed them to his label. In April 1989, the band released its debut extended play , 1,000 Hours . Shortly before the EP's release, the group dropped the name Sweet Children; according to Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion with another local band, Sweet Baby . Sweet Children adopted the name Green Day, instead, due to the members' fondness for cannabis . The phrase "green day"

32232-633: The band released their Woodstock 1994 performance on vinyl for the first time. It contains all 9 songs they played live, as well as audio of the ensuing mud fight. On September 10, 2019, the band announced the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer as headliners alongside themselves, with the Interrupters as the opening act. They also released the single, " Father of All... " off their thirteenth album, Father of All Motherfuckers . The same day, in an interview with KROQ , Armstrong announced

32469-703: The band showed no further signs of progress until October 2008, when two videos showing the band recording with producer Butch Vig were posted on YouTube. The writing and recording process, spanning three years and four recording studios, was finally finished in April 2009. 21st Century Breakdown was released on May 15, 2009. The album received a mainly positive reception from critics, getting an average rating between 3 and 4 stars. The album reached number one in fourteen countries, being certified gold or platinum in each. 21st Century Breakdown achieved Green Day's best chart performance to date. The band started playing shows in California in April and early May. These were

32706-435: The band stated they were recording for a new studio album. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo , marking his first album working with the band since ¡Tré! (2012). Prior to the album's release, the band played a new song titled "1981" during their live performance at Festival d'été de Québec on July 16, 2023. On September 30, 2023, Green Day was announced as the halftime show at the 110th Grey Cup . The following day,

32943-526: The band would be parting ways with Reprise after the album's release, as they were off their contract with Warner . On September 30, 2019, Green Day signed a two-year agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL). The album's second single, "Fire, Ready, Aim", was released on October 9, 2019. The album's third single, " Oh Yeah! ", was released on January 16, 2020. The album was released on February 7, 2020. The album's fourth single, "Meet Me on

33180-420: The band wrote and recorded material for an album tentatively titled Cigarettes and Valentines . After completing 20 tracks, the master recordings were stolen from the studio. Instead of re-recording the stolen tracks, the band decided to abandon the entire project and start over, considering the taken material to be unrepresentative of the band's best work. It was then revealed that a band called The Network

33417-555: The band's T-shirts—their main source of income—basing most of the images on a black-and-white self-portrait photograph he had taken of his American bald eagle belt buckle, which appeared on the back sleeve of the Ramones' first album. He was inspired to create the band's logo after a trip to Washington, D.C. : I saw them as the ultimate all-American band. To me, they reflected the American character in general—an almost childish innocent aggression ... . I thought, 'The Great Seal of

33654-465: The band's fans and blessing George W. Bush and his presidency, and America. Tommy spoke next, saying how honored the band felt, but how much it would have meant for Joey. Dee Dee humorously congratulated and thanked himself, while Marky thanked Tommy for influencing his drum style. Green Day played "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", and " Blitzkrieg Bop " as a tribute, demonstrating the Ramones' continuing influence on later rock musicians. The ceremony

33891-486: The band's manager, Gary Kurfurst had just worked out a deal where he was going to get his own record label, Radioactive Records . When C. J. Ramone heard Johnny talking about signing to Kurfirst's label, he questioned: "Johnny, you've run this band for years. You carried it all yourself. I don't understand how you don't see the conflict of interest in signing to your manager's label. Just in terms of business, I don't understand how you don't see that. You're really throwing away

34128-696: The band's. There were the Lurkers from England, the Undertones from Ireland, Teenage Head from Canada, and the Zeros and the Dickies from southern California. The seminal hardcore band Bad Brains took its name from a Ramones song. The Riverdales emulated the sound of the Ramones throughout their career. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong named his son Joey in homage to Joey Ramone, and drummer Tré Cool named his daughter Ramona. The Ramones also influenced musicians associated with other genres, such as heavy metal . Their influence on metal gave birth to

34365-401: The business as I do, then you can make the decisions.". By Johnny's decision, the group ended up signing a new contract with Radioactive Records at the end of that year, the Ramones were soon able to start on sessions for what would become Mondo Bizarro (1992), which saw them reunited with producer Ed Stasium. Anticipated as a "comeback" for the band after years of decline in popularity,

34602-496: The character of St. Jimmy. On March 10, 2013, Green Day began its 99 Revolutions Tour to support the trilogy. In June, Green Day broke Emirates Stadium attendance record with 60,000 tickets sold. The band played Dookie from start to finish on several dates on the tour's European leg, including during the Reading Festival 2013 headline show. Demolicious , a compilation album that contains alternate versions and demos of songs from ¡Uno! , ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! recorded during

34839-628: The development of California punk , including Greg Ginn of Black Flag , Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray of the Dead Kennedys , Mike Ness of Social Distortion , Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion , and members of the Descendents . Canada's first major punk scenes—in Toronto and in British Columbia 's Victoria and Vancouver—were also heavily influenced by the Ramones. In the late 1970s, many bands emerged with musical styles deeply indebted to

35076-437: The earliest and most influential released in the genre. The style's name originates from the 2008 "Easycore tour", which featured A Day to Remember , Four Year Strong and headliners New Found Glory, which itself was a pun based on the name of "hardcore punk". Neon pop-punk (also known as simply neon pop ) is a form of pop-punk that emphasizes synthesizers . Alternative Press writer Tyler Sharp wrote that while this wasn't

35313-539: The early 1990s prior to the 1994 mainstream explosion of pop punk. The band's self-titled album (1990) and Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (1992) both eventually were certified gold in the United States. In the wake of Nirvana and grunge breaking through in the early 1990s, California's Green Day and Bad Religion were both signed to major labels in 1993, and by 1994, pop-punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity, soon before grunge's popularity began to decline. Many punk rock and pop-punk bands originated from

35550-412: The early 2010s, with rock bands and guitar-centric music becoming rare on dance-focused pop radio. Some acts, such as New Found Glory , have seen concert attendance numbers decrease steadily. Devon Maloney of MTV wrote that "Pop punk and emo bands don't headline Coachella or Bonnaroo ; they rarely, if ever, are even billed on mainstream festival stages," and notes that it has similarly disappeared from

35787-406: The early to mid-2010s, playing some of their most popular albums in full. While some members of these bands have had mixed feelings about these performances, quite often these tours sell as well as or better than the first time around. Club promoters in the UK have created nights based around lasting appreciation of the genre. The Warped Tour still attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees each year;

36024-491: The energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs." Among the labels of the band by critics, members Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool have stated in interviews with Livewire and Kerrang! self-describing Green Day as just a punk rock band. While Armstrong is the band's primary songwriter, he looks to the other band members for organizational help. Billie Joe Armstrong has mentioned that some of his biggest influences are seminal hardcore punk bands Hüsker Dü and

36261-400: The episode " Rosebud ". Executive producer David Mirkin described the Ramones as "gigantic, obsessive Simpsons fans." Marky later called their appearance "a career highlight". In 1995, the Ramones released their fourteenth and final studio album ¡Adios Amigos! and announced that they would be disbanding the following year. Its sales were unremarkable, garnering it just two weeks on

36498-532: The fame-hungry psychosis of a mass shooter. The band released their second greatest hits compilation, God's Favorite Band , on November 17, 2017. It contains 20 of their hits, along with two new tracks: a different version of the Revolution Radio track "Ordinary World", featuring country singer Miranda Lambert , and a previously unreleased song titled "Back in the USA". On April 13, 2019, for Record Store Day ,

36735-496: The few records that changed pop forever." As described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine , "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades." Trouser Press 's Robbins and Isler similarly wrote that the Ramones "not only spearheaded the original new wave/punk movement, but also drew the blueprint for subsequent hardcore punk bands". Punk journalist Phil Strongman writes, "In purely musical terms,

36972-492: The first instance that "a band decided to put fuzzy keys over their chord progressions, but it was a time when that formula was perfected." Kika Chatterjee of Alternative Press added that the late 2000s "brought in glowing synths and poppy melodies that shifted the entire definition of [pop punk]", giving it the "neon" moniker. Sharp cited Forever the Sickest Kids ' debut album Underdog Alma Mater (2008) as "a big moment" for

37209-546: The first single, " Bang Bang ", from the group's album Revolution Radio , which was released on October 7, 2016. The band went on a world tour supporting the album . In November 2016, the band performed at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles and made a political statement about the then-recent US election of Donald Trump by chanting "No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA" during their rendition of "Bang Bang". Aaron Burgess at Alternative Press observed, "It's

37446-405: The first time in years Green Day haven't had all the answers. But as a statement on how it feels to fight, it's the closest to the truth they've ever gotten." Gwilym Mumford of The Guardian stated "[after their last few albums] the band have decided to get back to basics: Revolution Radio is their most focused work in years. Lead single "Bang Bang" sets the tone, with a caustic consideration of

37683-834: The following English artists as representative of the "new wave of pop punk synthesis" that occurred in the late 1970s: Elvis Costello and the Attractions , the Police , the Jam , Billy Idol , Joe Jackson , the Pretenders , UB40 , Madness , the Specials , the English Beat . Likewise, among American acts, Friedlander references Talking Heads , Blondie , the B-52s , the Motels , and Pere Ubu . Heller said that

37920-490: The former's song " Another State of Mind " from their 1983 debut release, Mommy's Little Monster as a bonus track for 21st Century Breakdown . Outside of their punk influences, Green Day have also cited hard rock bands the Kinks , the Who , and Cheap Trick . In August 1996, Billie Joe Armstrong told Guitar World he "can remember a few different instances" of when he first discovered punk rock: "There were these two guys who introduced me to things like D.O.A. and

38157-411: The fruits of their labor; a performance at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976, with The Stranglers supporting the Flamin' Groovies , organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success. T. Rex leader Marc Bolan was in attendance at the Roundhouse show and was invited on stage. Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and

38394-556: The full albums of Dookie , American Idiot , and 21st Century Breakdown as well as select songs from the rest of Green Day's discography. During the second leg of the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour the band members stated that they were writing new material. In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, Armstrong spoke about the possible new album: "We did some demos in Berlin, some in Stockholm, some just outside of Glasgow and some in Amsterdam. We wanted get [the songs] down in some early form." The band members also stated that

38631-399: The genre around this time. Notably, TikToker Jxdn began releasing pop-punk music in February 2020, while LilHuddy did the same the following year. This led Polygon to term this new wave of artists "TikTokcore". Spin writer Al Shipley described pop-punk and its new association with hip hop as 2020's "commercial juggernaut". Our Culture Mag cited KennyHoopla as a "key player in

38868-558: The genre's best year for a decade." Kerrang! said the album "ripped up the pop punk blueprint" pushing the genre to "new peaks of invention, both lyrically and musically." The Story So Far 's What You Don't See (2013) "cemented their place at the top table of nu pop punk". In early 2014, Welsh band Neck Deep released their debut album Wishful Thinking , which Rock Sound later called it "the greatest UK pop punk record of all time ." During this period, Man Overboard 's "Defend Pop Punk" shirt design, which featured an AK-47 , became

39105-438: The genre, had two number one albums— Save Rock and Roll and Paramore —side by side on the Billboard 200 . Fall Out Boy along with other pop-punk bands that peaked during the mid-2000s began experimenting with the more pop side of pop punk, in order to maintain their relevancy and keep the interest of their fanbase while gaining the appeal of the newer generations that may not like their traditional sound or relate as much to

39342-438: The genre, the song was nominated at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards , and was certified platinum within a year. On July 12, 2019, Cold Hart and Yawns of the influential emo rap collective GothBoiClique , released the pop-punk album Good Morning Cruel World, and on September 18, 2019, emo rapper Lil Tracy released the pop-punk song "Beautiful Nightmare". An October 2019 article by Mic cited emo rap as bringing an interest to

39579-415: The genre. The punk rock music community often perceived pop-punk to be, according to Iain Ellis of PopMatters , "too soft, too fake, too derivative, and too corporate". In a 2003 interview, Buzzcocks guitarist Steve Diggle would suggest that punk had become a "huge umbrella", stating, "And fair play to bands like Green Day and stuff, you know, they've been inspired when they were really young by us and

39816-430: The good stuff unfolds and gains meaning as you listen without sacrificing any of its electric, haywire immediacy. And Green Day are as good as this stuff gets." The singles released from Insomniac were " Geek Stink Breath ", " Stuck with Me ", " Brain Stew/Jaded ", and " Walking Contradiction ". Though the album did not approach the success of Dookie , it sold three million copies in the United States. The album earned

40053-539: The groundwork for the pop-punk style that emerged in the 1990s. They and some of the other leading bands in Southern California's hardcore punk scene emphasized a more melodic approach than was typical of their peers. According to Myers, Bad Religion "layered their pissed off, politicized sound with the smoothest of harmonies". Myers added that another band, the Descendents , "wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys-inspired songs about girls and food and being young(ish)". Their positive yet sarcastic approach began to separate them from

40290-408: The group was recording a live album of the tour, featuring the previously unreleased song "Cigarettes and Valentines". In October 2010, Dirnt was interviewed by Radio W, mentioning that the group had completed the writing process of the ninth studio album. In the interview, Dirnt also mentioned that a new live album would "most likely" be released. The live CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray titled Awesome as Fuck

40527-534: The group were to play facing the audience, to stand with the bass slung low between spread legs, and to walk forward to the front of stage at the same time as he did. Johnny was not a fan of guitarists who performed facing their drummer, amplifier, or other band members. The Ramones' art and visual imagery complemented the themes of their music and performance. The members adopted a uniform look of long hair, leather jackets , T-shirts, torn jeans, and sneakers . This fashion emphasized minimalism —a powerful influence on

40764-413: The group's first live shows in about three years. Green Day went on a world tour that started in North America in July 2009 and continued around the world throughout the rest of 2009 and early 2010. The album won Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010. As of December 2010, 21st Century Breakdown has sold 1,005,000 copies in the US. Wal-Mart refused to carry

41001-569: The influence from hardcore punk as being prominent during this period. On the Wonder Years' The Upsides (2010), vocalist Dan Campbell sung about "His early twenties soul-searching and tales of strife" which "resonated with a [new] generation, inspiring countless imitators in the process." This pushed Campbell to "the forefront of a new wave", and the album influenced a new wave of pop-punk bands. Rock Sound included The Wonder Years' The Greatest Generation on their best albums of 2013 list, calling it "the defining album of what may well have been

41238-417: The journey of the fictitious " Jesus of Suburbia ". The album depicts modern American life under the control of an idiot ruler who lets people be misinformed by the media and a "redneck agenda". It gives different angles on an everyman, modern icons, and leaders. Released two months before U.S. President George W. Bush was reelected, the album became protest art. The album went on to sell 6 million copies in

41475-431: The last few years of your career. Those Epitaph guys grew up listening to you. They will do anything to give you the business success you never had. Your manager will do the same thing he always has. He's going to throw his stuff out there. You're going to break through without anyone's support and you're going to face the rest of your career the way it's been up until now.", but Johnny replied: "When you have as many years in

41712-418: The late 1980s and early 1990s, pop-punk bands such as Green Day, the Queers , The Mr. T Experience and Screeching Weasel emerged from the record label Lookout! Records with a sound indebted to Buzzcocks, the Ramones, and the Undertones. In August 1992, early 1990s California punk rock and pop-punk was noticed by the magazine Spin when the magazine published a story called "California Screamin ' ", which

41949-420: The lineups of both the Lollapalooza festival and Woodstock '94 , where at the latter the group started an infamous mud fight. During the concert, a security guard mistook bassist Mike Dirnt for a stage-invading fan and punched out some of his teeth. Viewed by millions by pay-per-view television, the Woodstock 1994 performance further aided Green Day's growing publicity and recognition. In 1995, Dookie won

42186-416: The logo using plastic stick-on letters. Where the presidential emblem read "Seal of the President of the United States" clockwise in the border around the eagle, Vega placed the pseudonyms of the band members: Johnny , Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy. Over the years the names in the border would change as the band's line-up fluctuated. "It's the American presidential seal—anyone can use it," said Marky Ramone of

42423-461: The logo's ubiquity. "We share the royalties on the t-shirt and on the merchandise. A lot of the kids wearing that shirt might not even have heard of the Ramones' music. I guess if you have the shirt, your curiosity might bring you to buy the music. Whatever, it is a strange phenomenon." The Ramones had a broad and lasting influence on the development of popular music . Music historian Jon Savage writes of their debut album that "it remains one of

42660-408: The lower end of the Billboard chart. The band spent late 1995 on what was promoted as a farewell tour. However, they accepted an offer to appear in the sixth Lollapalooza festival, which toured around the United States during the following summer. After the Lollapalooza tour's conclusion, the Ramones played their final show on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood . A recording of the concert

42897-523: The more serious hardcore scene. The Descendents' 1982 debut LP Milo Goes to College provided the template for the United States' take on the more melodic strains of first wave punk. Many pop-punk bands, including Blink-182 , cite the Descendents as a major influence. Descendents paved the way for future pop-punk bands with themes of hating parents, struggling to find a romantic partner, and social alienation. Horror punk band The Misfits also influenced pop-punk with their 1982 album Walk Among Us , which

43134-411: The only song showing three different drummers: Rogers on recording, Marky on album credits and Richie on video clip. Subterranean Jungle peaked at number 83 in the United States—it would be the last album by the band to crack the Billboard Top 100. In 2002, Rhino Records released a new version of it with seven bonus tracks. After the release of Subterranean Jungle , Marky was fired from

43371-437: The pop-punk song " 11 Minutes " featuring Travis Barker . The song was certified gold in the United States, peaked at number one on the Billboard Bubbling under Top 100 chart and was performed at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards . On June 7, 2019, Machine Gun Kelly , who had been established as a rapper for over a decade, released the pop-punk song " I Think I'm Okay " featuring Yungblud and Travis Barker. His first release in

43608-422: The pop-punk term was an oxymoron : "You're either punk or you're not." Writing in Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Guide to Power Pop (2007), actor Robbie Rist felt that much of the genre merely consisted of pop bands who "add the 'punk' moniker so the kids will think they are pissing off their parents." Even during its formative phase in 1978, pop-punk wasn't simply a lighter, more palatable version of punk. It

43845-488: The position of drummer. While auditioning prospective replacements, Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to perform the group's music better than anyone else, and he joined the band as Tommy Ramone. The Ramones played before an audience for the first time on March 30, 1974, at Performance Studios. The songs they played were very fast and very short; most clocked in at under two minutes. Around this time,

44082-421: The press. The only magazines that featured pop-punk bands were niche publications such as Alternative Press and the occasional teen magazine, while influential pop-punk magazine AMP ceased publication in 2013. The decline in mainstream popularity for the genre, coupled with the closure of many mid-size venues associated with it, resulted in many venues and labels returning to the DIY ethic that helped spawn

44319-438: The pseudonym Paul Ramon during his Silver Beetles days. Dee Dee convinced the other members to take on the name and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones. Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively. A friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick (later their tour manager), helped to arrange rehearsal time for them at Manhattan's Performance Studios, where he worked. Johnny's former bandmate Erdelyi

44556-405: The punk movement. By 2012, pop-punk bands that had achieved minimal mainstream success had seen a return to grassroots form, considered "the micro-operation style that yielded the results that caught the mainstream's attention in the first place." Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory wrote in an op-ed for Alternative Press entitled "Why Pop-Punk's Not Dead—And Why It Still Matters Today": "This isn't

44793-534: The punk themes of the 1970s. Their popularity provoked conversations about the state of the genre; Maloney opined that these records could not be viewed as pop-punk. In the early 2010s, a new wave of pop-punk groups emerged, fronted by the Wonder Years , State Champs , Neck Deep , Real Friends and Knuckle Puck . Dave Beech of Clash noted that these groups were "[d]arker and more mature" than those previously, taking influence "and occasional indifference" from 1990s emo . Music commentator Finn McKenty also cited

45030-417: The punk-metal "fusion" genre of thrash . Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett , one of the originators of thrash guitar, has described the importance of Johnny's rapid-fire guitar playing style to his own musical development. Motörhead lead singer Lemmy , a friend of the Ramones since the late 1970s, mixed the band's "Go Home Ann" in 1985. The members of Motörhead later composed the song " R.A.M.O.N.E.S. " as

45267-452: The record initiated "a new wave of pop punk". He added, "At any given time in the late '90s/early 2000s, it was not uncommon to see Blink-182 and Sum 41 on MTV. You couldn't escape it. Pop punk was in , and it became the undisputed mainstream choice." Lamb described second-wave pop-punk bands, led by Blink-182, as having "a radio friendly sheen to their music, but still maintaining much of the speed and attitude of classic punk rock". Enema of

45504-535: The remake by the Rivieras. Rocket to Russia was the band's highest-charting album to date, reaching number 49 on the Billboard  200 . In Rolling Stone , critic Dave Marsh called it "the best American rock & roll of the year". The album also featured the first Ramones single to enter the Billboard charts (albeit only as high as number 81): " Sheena Is a Punk Rocker ". The follow-up single, "Rockaway Beach", reached number 66—the highest any Ramones single would ever reach in America. On December 31, 1977,

45741-427: The rest of the band. In September, Marky, now clean and sober, returned to the band. In December 1988, the Ramones recorded material for their eleventh studio album, and what was originally intended to be a "comeback" for the band, Brain Drain was co-produced by Beauvoir, Rey, and Bill Laswell . However, the bass parts were done by Daniel Rey and the Dictators ' Andy Shernoff . Dee Dee Ramone would only record

45978-472: The result: With just four chords and one manic tempo, New York 's Ramones blasted open the clogged arteries of mid-'70s rock, reanimating the music. Their genius was to recapture the short/simple aesthetic from which pop had strayed, adding a caustic sense of trash-culture humor and minimalist rhythm guitar sound. As leaders in the punk rock scene, the Ramones' music is strongly identified with that label. It has been noted that their recordings also helped

46215-502: The rise of the "Drive-Thru Records Era", where a number of bands that were signed to independent record labels gained mainstream attention, namely those on Drive-Thru Records . This included bands such as New Found Glory , Allister , Fenix TX , the Early November , Something Corporate , the Starting Line , Midtown , Hellogoodbye , Rx Bandits and the Movielife . A 2017 article by Upset Magazine called New Found Glory "pop punk's most consistent and influential bands for 20 years" and

46452-406: The same vein as the Ramones. He also continued to write songs for the Ramones, but never rejoined the band. The band fulfilled their contract with Sire Records in 1991 after being on the label for over a decade and a half, ending with the release of Loco Live . After leaving Sire Records, Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion offered to sign the band to his label Epitaph Records , even traveling to

46689-429: The second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi . Leave Home met with even less chart success than Ramones , though it did include "Pinhead", which became one of the band's signature songs with its chanted refrain of "Gabba gabba hey!" Leave Home also included a fast-paced cover of the oldie " California Sun ", written by Henry Glover & Morris Levy, and originally recorded by Joe Jones, though the Ramones based their version on

46926-405: The show. The final shows of the 2005 world tour were in Sydney and Melbourne , Australia, on December 14 and 17, respectively. On August 1, 2005, Green Day announced it had rescinded the master rights to its pre- Dookie material from Lookout! Records, citing a continuing breach of contract regarding unpaid royalties, a complaint shared with other Lookout! bands. On January 10, 2006, the band

47163-449: The span of the group's career. In February 2011 the group was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award . Drummers Tommy, Marky, and Richie attended the ceremony. Marky declared, "This is amazing. I never expected this. I'm sure Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee would never have expected this." Richie noted that it was the first time ever that all three drummers were under the same roof, and mused that he couldn't "help thinking that [Joey]

47400-444: The studio sessions of these albums, was released on April 19, 2014, for Record Store Day . It also contains a previously unreleased song called "State of Shock" and an acoustic version of "Stay the Night", from ¡Uno! . Green Day performed their first concert in a year on April 16, 2015. The group first played a set as Sweet Children with John Kiffmeyer , followed by a set as Green Day. On April 18, 2015, Green Day were inducted into

47637-437: The subgenre pop-punk to develop. Some have described certain Ramones songs as power pop . Starting in the 1980s, the band sometimes veered into hardcore punk territory, as can be heard on albums such as Too Tough to Die . On stage, the band adopted a focused approach directly intended to increase the audience's concert experience. Johnny 's instructions to C. J. when preparing for his first live performances with

47874-428: The success of "hugely popular" 2000s bands such as Fall Out Boy, Paramore , and My Chemical Romance, "the line between pop punk and emo look[ed] close to nonexistent." Several pop-punk bands took different musical directions in the late 2000s, with Panic! at the Disco crafting the Beatles-inspired, baroque-styled record Pretty. Odd. (2008) and Fall Out Boy experimenting with glam rock, blues rock and R&B on Folie

48111-682: The unreleased "Elevator Operator". Joey Ramone commented, "Richie's very talented and he's very diverse ... He really strengthened the band a hundred percent because he sings backing tracks, he sings lead, and he sings with Dee Dee's stuff. In the past, it was always just me singing for the most part." Richie was also the only drummer to be the sole composer of Ramones songs including their hit " Somebody Put Something in My Drink " as well as "Smash You", "Humankind", "I'm Not Jesus", "I Know Better Now" and "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice". Joey Ramone supported Richie's songwriting contributions: "I encouraged Richie to write songs. I figured it would make him feel more

48348-411: The upcoming album and tour, and played several songs, including the recent single "Look Ma, No Brains", " Basket Case ", and "American Idiot"; this time, Armstrong left space to let the subway crowd sing out the song's revised line "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda." The album, and a music video for "Bobby Sox", were both released simultaneously on January 19, 2024. A music video for "Corvette Summer"

48585-461: The videos of the songs " Longview ", " Basket Case ", and " When I Come Around ", all of which reached the number one position on the Modern Rock Tracks charts. The album went on to sell over 10 million copies in the US. At a performance on September 9, 1994, at Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston, mayhem broke out during the band's set (cut short to seven songs), and by the end of the rampage, 100 people were injured and 45 arrested. The band also joined

48822-411: The writing was done by Dee Dee. The Ramones album was produced by Sire's Craig Leon , with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $ 6,400 and released in April. The now iconic front cover photograph of the band was taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine. Punk , which was largely responsible for codifying the term for the scene emerging around CBGB, ran

49059-488: The year's end and spawned several radio singles that received extensive MTV rotation, three of which peaked at number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Green Day's enormous commercial success paved the way for other North American pop-punk bands in the following decade. In 1999, Dookie was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Offspring also achieved mainstream success in 1994 with their album Smash being certified 6× platinum by

49296-423: Was a forerunner to later pop-punk music with the album's vocal harmonies and pop-inspired melodies. The Misfits' gothic image inspired later pop-punk bands like Alkaline Trio and My Chemical Romance . Marginal Man was a Washington D.C. hardcore punk band who mixed hardcore punk with melodic chord progressions and clean, melodic singing, being influenced by power pop, jangle pop and new wave music . During

49533-447: Was announced that Pete Davidson would portray Ramone in the upcoming Netflix biopic I Slept with Joey Ramone which is based on the 2009 memoir of the same name written by Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh . Leigh will serve as an executive producer with a script written by Davidson and director Jason Orley. Tension between Joey and Johnny colored much of the Ramones' career. The pair were politically antagonistic, with Joey being

49770-438: Was around this time that bassist Sean Hughes also left the band, causing Dirnt to switch from guitar to bass. Armstrong cites the band Operation Ivy (which featured Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman , who would later contact Armstrong to fill in as a possible second guitarist for their band Rancid ) as a major influence and a group that inspired him to form a band. In 1988, Larry Livermore , owner of Lookout! Records , saw

50007-441: Was available in the United States only as an import, it was played widely on American college radio. The song was written, primarily by Joey, in protest of Ronald Reagan 's visit to a German military cemetery, which included graves of Waffen SS soldiers. Retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", the song appeared on the band's ninth studio album, Animal Boy (1986). Produced by Jean Beauvoir , formerly

50244-424: Was awarded People's Choice Award for favorite musical group or band. Green Day engaged in many other smaller projects in the time following the success of American Idiot . In 2008, the group released a garage-rock-inspired album under the name Foxboro Hot Tubs titled Stop Drop and Roll!!! The Foxboro Hot Tubs went on a mini tour during the same year to promote the record, hitting tiny Bay Area venues such as

50481-566: Was based on not having any rules has probably been one of the strictest fucking rule books in the world." Music critic for Treblezine Jeff Terich argued that the debate regarded the ethics of "pop-punk" is redundant, saying that there is "no discussion of the genre that doesn't eventually devolve into the black-mold-like growth of Disney-approved mallrats, but the irony of it is that all punk is pop. The Ramones? Pop. The Clash? Pop. And The Buzzcocks? Damn right they're pop." Ramones The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in

50718-483: Was certified 3× platinum. McFly's 2004 debut album Room on the 3rd Floor peaked at number one on the UK albums chart and was certified 2× platinum. As emo pop 's merger of pop-punk emo coalesced, the record label Fueled by Ramen became a center of the movement, releasing platinum selling albums from bands like Fall Out Boy , Panic! at the Disco and Paramore . Fall Out Boy's 2005 song " Sugar, We're Goin Down " received heavy airplay, climbing to number eight on

50955-419: Was even a member of the influential 2010s pop-punk band Tigers Jaw . This brought about a revived interest in the genre in popular culture, leading to a number notable artists beginning to release po- punk songs towards the end of the decade. Emo rapper Lil Aaron and pop singer Kim Petras released the pop-punk song "Anymore" on September 5, 2018. On 13 February 2019, Yungblud and pop singer Halsey released

51192-427: Was get on my bike and go forward." After signing with Reprise, the band began recording its major-label debut, Dookie . On September 3, 1993, Green Day played their last show at 924 Gilman under the pseudonym Blair Hess before being banned permanently because of their major label signing. Recorded in three weeks and released in February 1994, Dookie became a commercial success, helped by extensive MTV airplay for

51429-467: Was in part a reaction against the heavily produced, often bombastic music that dominated the pop charts in the 1970s. "We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard," Joey once explained. "In 1974 everything was tenth-generation Elton John , or overproduced, or just junk. Everything was long jams, long guitar solos  ... . We missed music like it used to be." Ira Robbins and Scott Isler of Trouser Press describe

51666-507: Was just as rebellious, only it rebelled against punk itself: its nihilism, its bad-boy pose, its mockery of melody, it's belittling of sentimentality, and above all, its self-seriousness. In a way, pop punk became its own kind of post-punk ... Rolling Stone , in an article about pop-punk, wrote that the term was a retroactive label for punk bands who had "always championed great songwriting alongside their anti-authoritarian stance. And punk's focus on speed, concision and three-chord simplicity

51903-483: Was just this wall of noise ... They looked so striking. These guys were not hippies. This was something completely new." The band swiftly became regulars at the club, playing there seventy-four times by the end of the year. After garnering considerable attention for their performances—which averaged about seventeen minutes from beginning to end—the group was signed to a recording contract in late 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records . Sire A&R man Craig Leon saw

52140-466: Was later released on video and CD as We're Outta Here! In addition to a reappearance by Dee Dee, the show featured several guests including Motörhead 's Lemmy , Pearl Jam 's Eddie Vedder , Soundgarden 's Chris Cornell and Ben Shepherd , and Rancid 's Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen . On July 20, 1999, Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, Marky, and C. J. appeared together at the Virgin Megastore in New York City for an autograph signing. This

52377-487: Was more critical, giving it 3/5 and saying, " Warning ... invites the question: Who wants to listen to songs of faith, hope and social commentary from what used to be snot core's biggest-selling band?" Though it produced the hit " Minority " and smaller hit " Warning ", some observers were coming to the conclusion that the band was losing relevance, and a decline in popularity followed. While all of Green Day's previous albums had reached at least triple platinum sales, Warning

52614-401: Was one of Dee Dee's last public appearances, as he was found dead on June 5, 2002, from a heroin overdose . On November 30, 2003, New York City unveiled a sign designating East 2nd Street at the corner of Bowery as Joey Ramone Place. The singer lived on East 2nd for a time, and the sign is near the former Bowery site of CBGB . The documentary film End of the Century: The Story of

52851-513: Was only certified gold. At the 2001 California Music Awards, Green Day won all eight of the awards for which it was nominated. The group won awards for Outstanding Album ( Warning ), Outstanding Punk Rock/Ska Album ( Warning ), Outstanding Group, Outstanding Male Vocalist, Outstanding Bassist, Outstanding Drummer, Outstanding Songwriter, and Outstanding Artist. The release of two compilation albums, International Superhits! and Shenanigans , followed Warning . International Superhits! had

53088-440: Was overlap between pop-punk and skate punk . Music journalist Ben Myers wrote that the two terms were synonymous. Rock writer Greg Shaw , who wrote extensively about power pop and took credit for codifying the genre in the 1970s, originally defined power pop itself as a hybrid style of punk and pop. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong , who described power pop as "the greatest music on Earth that no one likes", opined that

53325-438: Was released in 1983. According to Trouser Press , it brought the band "back to where they once belonged: junky '60s pop adjusted for current tastes", which among other things meant "easing off the breakneck rhythm that was once Ramones dogma." Billy Rogers, who had performed with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers , played drums on the album's second single, a cover of the Chambers Brothers ' " Time Has Come Today ", becoming

53562-475: Was released in 2009 and achieved the band's best chart performance. It was followed by a trilogy of albums, ¡Uno! , ¡Dos! , and ¡Tré! , released in September, November, and December 2012, respectively. The trilogy did not perform as well as expected commercially, in comparison to their previous albums, largely due to a lack of promotion and Armstrong entering rehab. They were followed by Revolution Radio (2016), which became their third to debut at No. 1 on

53799-399: Was released on January 19, 2024. The second single, "Look Ma, No Brains!", was released on November 2, 2023. A third single, " Dilemma ", was announced on December 4, 2023, and released three days later on December 7, 2023. On New Year's Eve, Green Day performed " American Idiot " on the television special Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve . Armstrong replaced the line "I'm not a part of

54036-414: Was released on July 23, 2024. Green Day's sound is described as "often hard-driving and aggressive", and is often compared to first wave American and British punk rock bands such as the Ramones , Sex Pistols , the Clash , the Dickies , and Buzzcocks . The band is primarily known for its heavy use of power chords combined with "strong pop melodic sensibility". Several publications have characterized

54273-472: Was released on March 22, 2011. During the end of 2011, the band played several secret shows (under the name Foxboro Hot Tubs ) whose setlists consisted almost entirely of previously unheard songs. Green Day entered the studio and began recording new material in February 2012, later announcing a trilogy of albums titled ¡Uno! , ¡Dos! , and ¡Tré! which would be released in fall 2012. The trilogy featured longtime touring guitarist Jason White joining

54510-421: Was set to become their manager. Soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play his bass guitar simultaneously; with Erdelyi's encouragement, Joey became the band's new lead singer. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!" Joey soon similarly realized that he could not sing and play drums simultaneously and left

54747-406: Was signed to Armstrong's record label Adeline Records with little fanfare and information. After the band, who concealed their identities with masks and costumes, released an album called Money Money 2020 , it was rumored that The Network was a Green Day side project, due to similarities in the bands' sounds. However, these rumors were never addressed by the band or Adeline Records, except for

54984-422: Was slang in the Bay Area , where the band originated, for spending a day doing nothing but smoking marijuana. Armstrong once admitted in 2001 that he considered it to be "the worst band name in the world". Lookout! released Green Day's debut studio album, 39/Smooth in early 1990. Green Day recorded two extended plays later that year, Slappy and Sweet Children , the latter of which included older songs

55221-428: Was sober by this point) was present for the world tour for Brain Drain and played his last show with the Ramones on July 5, 1989, at One Step Beyond in Santa Clara . He was replaced by Christopher Joseph Ward ( C. J. Ramone ), who performed with the band until it disbanded. Dee Dee initially pursued a brief career as a rapper under the name Dee Dee King. He quickly returned to punk rock and formed several bands, in much

55458-430: Was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the [Great Seal]'s arrows. The scroll in the eagle's beak originally read "Look out below", but this was soon changed to "Hey ho let's go" after the opening lyrics of the band's first single, " Blitzkrieg Bop ". The arrowheads on the shield came from a design on a polyester shirt Vega had bought. "Ramones" was spelled out in block capitals above

55695-428: Was the last occasion on which the original four members of the group appeared together. Joey, who had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995, died of the illness on April 15, 2001, in New York. Tommy, Richie and C. J. were the only former bandmates to attend his funeral. Joey and Marky, who had been involved in a feud, buried the hatchet and made up on live radio on the Howard Stern Show in 1999. Joey and Richie had

55932-438: Was to be completed with their friend Richie Stern on bass. However, after only a few rehearsals it became clear that Richie Stern could not play bass, so the group parted ways with him and became a trio, with Colvin switching from guitar to bass in addition to singing while Cummings became the only guitarist. Colvin was the first to adopt the name "Ramone", calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartney 's use of

56169-414: Was traditional in the genre. Popular groups in the style at the time included All Time Low , the Maine , the Cab , Metro Station , Boys Like Girls , Cobra Starship and Forever the Sickest Kids . Metro Station's 2007 single " Shake It " peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 6 on the UK Singles Chart. All Time Low's 2008 single " Dear Maria, Count Me In " is certified double platinum in

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