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Green Day is an American rock band formed in 1989 comprising three core members: Billie Joe Ar-
mstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums). Green Day is one of the important bands in the time of American Punk music Revival, their members were deeply affected by the classic bands in the Punk music period of 1970s,and concise and fluent melody made their music much easier to be pop. After Nirvana Dynasty collapsed in 1994 and when Punk music Revival and Alternative Pop/Rock music were in power, Green Day also jumped to become the mainstay of this agitation,one of the most popular rock bands after the 1990s, also one of the most influential bands in the time of American pop music Punk Revival.
In 1988, Billie Joe Armstrong, only a 14-year-old guitar and sin-
ger, together with his child companion bass Mike Dirnt, who was as old as he,formed their first band—Sweet Children in Northwest,California,US. Soon the band got its first drummer Al Sobrante who considerably helped the ba- nd's development by booking a lot of shows. In 1989 they released their first EP 1,000 Hours, which brought the band more fans, more gigs and eventually a record deal. They got signed to an independent label Lookout Records, which released their first two albums.
Right before the release of 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, their first album,Sweet Children changed their name to Green Day. Soon after the release another change came—Al Sobrante quit the band and was replaced by Tré Cool who became Green Day's permanent drummer. Green Day was becoming more and more popular and soon after the release of their second album Kerplunk in 1992, they were impressed by the major records and eventually signed a contract with Reprise Records.
In the spring of 1994 Green Day released their major label debut Dookie, which was a huge success. It eventually sold over 8 million in the US only and over 12 million internationally, which also brought them the 37th Grammy Awards—the best alternative music performance in 1994.The 1994 gig in Woodstock showed that Green Day were undoubtedly the most successful and loved band of the year.
Insomniac came out in 1995 and sold over 2 million copies by spring of the next year. However, none of its singles were as successful as the ones from Dookie and the album itself wasn't as big as its predecessor. Besides, the band cancelled the European tour claiming exhaustion.
But they lost no time and immediately started working on the new album. Nimrod came out in 1997 and was well received by both fans and critics. It sold 80,000 copies in the first week after the release, and is still considered one of the best albums ever released by the band. Nimrod wasn't a huge success in sales, but it gained a lot more respect towards the band than any of their previous albums. After the promotion of Nimrod was over, Green Day took a pause that lasted almost 2 years.
In 2004 Green Day released their major label 5th album American Idiot and in 2005 won seven out of eight nominations in that Grammy Awards, including "Best Video of the Year" Award, and none of punk bands once won this special honor before.
■Interview:
Q:Do you think about releasing a new album recently?
Billie:Yes, now everyday we discuss of new ideas together, and every day we record some audition tape. Although the overall concept of the new album has not been determined, presently we put down every possibility at first. Then we will carefully consider every idea, and develop the direction we most wanted into the content of the new album.
Q:Would you please talk about the expectation to your new future album?
Billie:We hope every work done for the new album is our painstaking effort crystal which we devoted ourselves into wholeheartedly and absolutely. We do not want to record casually 12 songs then hastily issue, this is too bored. What we want to do is not just an album, but ought to be a creative result with complete concept.
Q:It is said that you are ready to adapt American idiot into a movie, isn't it?
Billie:Yes,We have more ideas of this film per week, I am sure that this film version of American idiot must be filmed successfully.
绿日乐队是一支来自美国的摇滚乐队，成立于1989年。该乐队包括3名核心成员：比利·乔尔·阿姆斯特朗（主唱兼吉他手）、迈克·迪恩特（贝司手）和特雷·库尔（鼓手）。绿日乐队是90年代之后美国朋克音乐复兴时期的重要乐队之一，他们的成员深受70年代朋克音乐时期经典乐队的影响，朗朗上口的流畅旋律让他们的音乐更容易广为传唱。在1994年涅磐王朝解散之后，朋克音乐复兴与另类流行摇滚乐当道的时候，绿日乐队也一跃成为了这股风潮的中流砥柱，成为90年代以后最受欢迎的摇滚乐队之一，也是美国流行乐朋克复兴中最有影响的乐队之一。
1988年，只有14岁的吉他手兼歌手比利·乔尔·阿姆斯特朗与同龄的儿时伙伴，贝司手迈克·迪恩特联手在美国加利福尼亚州西北部组建了他们的第一支乐队——蜜孩儿乐队。很快乐队找到了第一个鼓手阿尔·索伯兰特，他组织自己的乐队参加了不少的综艺节目，极大地促进了乐队的发展。1989年他们发行了第一张专辑《EP1000小时》，这使乐队赢得了更多的歌迷，同时也有了更多的工作，最终他们有了第一笔唱片交易。他们签约到了“当心”独立唱片公司，该唱片公司发行了他们前两张专辑。
就在发行他们的第一张专辑《1039摇滚时刻》之前，蜜孩儿乐队改名为绿日乐队。在这张专辑发行之后，乐队接着遭遇了另一变化——阿尔·索伯兰特离队，特雷·库尔替代了他的鼓手位置。他成了乐队的固定鼓手。绿日乐队开始变得越来越受欢迎，很快，在1992年，他们发行了第二张专辑《庞克开跑》，之后他们引起了主流唱片公司的关注，最终和“重奏”公司签约。
1994春天，绿日乐队发行了他们主流公司的首张专辑《道奇》，并且获得了巨大成功。《道奇》最终在美国地区就取得了超过800万张的销量，全球销量甚至超过1200万张，同时这张专辑也为他们带来了1994年度第37届格莱美最佳另类音乐表演奖。在1994年伍德斯托克音乐艺术节上，绿日乐队无疑成为了当年最成功和最受欢迎的乐队。
1995年绿日乐队发行了专辑《不眠症患者》，这张专辑发到1996年春天时，销量已经超过200多万张。但是，没有一首单曲和《道奇》中的单曲一样获得成功，其专辑影响力也无法和以前专辑相提并论。此外，乐队以疲惫为由取消了欧洲巡演。
但是他们没有浪费时间，立即开始投入到新专辑的录制工作中。1997年发行了专辑《猎迷》，并得到了众多歌迷和评论家的支持。发行第一周就卖出了8万张，而且该专辑仍然被认为是绿日乐队曾推出的最成功的专辑之一。虽然该专辑销售并不是太好，但是它却比以前任何一张专辑为乐队赢得的尊敬更多。之后，乐队休息了大约两年。
2004年绿日乐队发行了他们主流唱片公司的第五张专辑《美国白痴》，再次引起了轰动，并一举获得了那一届格莱美8项提名中的7项，其中包括“年度最佳唱片”奖，而此前从来没有任何一个朋克风格的乐队获过如此殊荣。
■访谈：
问：最近有没有考虑出新专辑的事情？
比利：是的。我们现在每天都在一起思考、讨论新的点子，每天都会录些小样，虽然新专辑的整体概念还没有确定，不过我们目前得先把每一种可行的方案先纪录下来，之后再细细斟酌每一种想法，好将最想施展的东西做出来，出一张新专辑。
问：能谈谈你们对未来新专辑的期望吗？
比利：我们希望为新专辑所做的每个努力都是我们百分百投入心血的结晶。我们并不想随便录12首歌然后就草草发行，这样太无聊了。我们要做的不只是一张专辑，而是一个有完整概念的创作结晶。
问：据说你们准备把《美国白痴》的内容改编成电影，是真的吗？
比利：是的，我们每星期都有更多关于这部电影的想法，我确信这部电影版的《美国白痴》一定能拍成。
※编辑：谭添夏
mstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums). Green Day is one of the important bands in the time of American Punk music Revival, their members were deeply affected by the classic bands in the Punk music period of 1970s,and concise and fluent melody made their music much easier to be pop. After Nirvana Dynasty collapsed in 1994 and when Punk music Revival and Alternative Pop/Rock music were in power, Green Day also jumped to become the mainstay of this agitation,one of the most popular rock bands after the 1990s, also one of the most influential bands in the time of American pop music Punk Revival.
In 1988, Billie Joe Armstrong, only a 14-year-old guitar and sin-
ger, together with his child companion bass Mike Dirnt, who was as old as he,formed their first band—Sweet Children in Northwest,California,US. Soon the band got its first drummer Al Sobrante who considerably helped the ba- nd's development by booking a lot of shows. In 1989 they released their first EP 1,000 Hours, which brought the band more fans, more gigs and eventually a record deal. They got signed to an independent label Lookout Records, which released their first two albums.
Right before the release of 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, their first album,Sweet Children changed their name to Green Day. Soon after the release another change came—Al Sobrante quit the band and was replaced by Tré Cool who became Green Day's permanent drummer. Green Day was becoming more and more popular and soon after the release of their second album Kerplunk in 1992, they were impressed by the major records and eventually signed a contract with Reprise Records.
In the spring of 1994 Green Day released their major label debut Dookie, which was a huge success. It eventually sold over 8 million in the US only and over 12 million internationally, which also brought them the 37th Grammy Awards—the best alternative music performance in 1994.The 1994 gig in Woodstock showed that Green Day were undoubtedly the most successful and loved band of the year.
Insomniac came out in 1995 and sold over 2 million copies by spring of the next year. However, none of its singles were as successful as the ones from Dookie and the album itself wasn't as big as its predecessor. Besides, the band cancelled the European tour claiming exhaustion.
But they lost no time and immediately started working on the new album. Nimrod came out in 1997 and was well received by both fans and critics. It sold 80,000 copies in the first week after the release, and is still considered one of the best albums ever released by the band. Nimrod wasn't a huge success in sales, but it gained a lot more respect towards the band than any of their previous albums. After the promotion of Nimrod was over, Green Day took a pause that lasted almost 2 years.
In 2004 Green Day released their major label 5th album American Idiot and in 2005 won seven out of eight nominations in that Grammy Awards, including "Best Video of the Year" Award, and none of punk bands once won this special honor before.
■Interview:
Q:Do you think about releasing a new album recently?
Billie:Yes, now everyday we discuss of new ideas together, and every day we record some audition tape. Although the overall concept of the new album has not been determined, presently we put down every possibility at first. Then we will carefully consider every idea, and develop the direction we most wanted into the content of the new album.
Q:Would you please talk about the expectation to your new future album?
Billie:We hope every work done for the new album is our painstaking effort crystal which we devoted ourselves into wholeheartedly and absolutely. We do not want to record casually 12 songs then hastily issue, this is too bored. What we want to do is not just an album, but ought to be a creative result with complete concept.
Q:It is said that you are ready to adapt American idiot into a movie, isn't it?
Billie:Yes,We have more ideas of this film per week, I am sure that this film version of American idiot must be filmed successfully.
绿日乐队是一支来自美国的摇滚乐队，成立于1989年。该乐队包括3名核心成员：比利·乔尔·阿姆斯特朗（主唱兼吉他手）、迈克·迪恩特（贝司手）和特雷·库尔（鼓手）。绿日乐队是90年代之后美国朋克音乐复兴时期的重要乐队之一，他们的成员深受70年代朋克音乐时期经典乐队的影响，朗朗上口的流畅旋律让他们的音乐更容易广为传唱。在1994年涅磐王朝解散之后，朋克音乐复兴与另类流行摇滚乐当道的时候，绿日乐队也一跃成为了这股风潮的中流砥柱，成为90年代以后最受欢迎的摇滚乐队之一，也是美国流行乐朋克复兴中最有影响的乐队之一。
1988年，只有14岁的吉他手兼歌手比利·乔尔·阿姆斯特朗与同龄的儿时伙伴，贝司手迈克·迪恩特联手在美国加利福尼亚州西北部组建了他们的第一支乐队——蜜孩儿乐队。很快乐队找到了第一个鼓手阿尔·索伯兰特，他组织自己的乐队参加了不少的综艺节目，极大地促进了乐队的发展。1989年他们发行了第一张专辑《EP1000小时》，这使乐队赢得了更多的歌迷，同时也有了更多的工作，最终他们有了第一笔唱片交易。他们签约到了“当心”独立唱片公司，该唱片公司发行了他们前两张专辑。
就在发行他们的第一张专辑《1039摇滚时刻》之前，蜜孩儿乐队改名为绿日乐队。在这张专辑发行之后，乐队接着遭遇了另一变化——阿尔·索伯兰特离队，特雷·库尔替代了他的鼓手位置。他成了乐队的固定鼓手。绿日乐队开始变得越来越受欢迎，很快，在1992年，他们发行了第二张专辑《庞克开跑》，之后他们引起了主流唱片公司的关注，最终和“重奏”公司签约。
1994春天，绿日乐队发行了他们主流公司的首张专辑《道奇》，并且获得了巨大成功。《道奇》最终在美国地区就取得了超过800万张的销量，全球销量甚至超过1200万张，同时这张专辑也为他们带来了1994年度第37届格莱美最佳另类音乐表演奖。在1994年伍德斯托克音乐艺术节上，绿日乐队无疑成为了当年最成功和最受欢迎的乐队。
1995年绿日乐队发行了专辑《不眠症患者》，这张专辑发到1996年春天时，销量已经超过200多万张。但是，没有一首单曲和《道奇》中的单曲一样获得成功，其专辑影响力也无法和以前专辑相提并论。此外，乐队以疲惫为由取消了欧洲巡演。
但是他们没有浪费时间，立即开始投入到新专辑的录制工作中。1997年发行了专辑《猎迷》，并得到了众多歌迷和评论家的支持。发行第一周就卖出了8万张，而且该专辑仍然被认为是绿日乐队曾推出的最成功的专辑之一。虽然该专辑销售并不是太好，但是它却比以前任何一张专辑为乐队赢得的尊敬更多。之后，乐队休息了大约两年。
2004年绿日乐队发行了他们主流唱片公司的第五张专辑《美国白痴》，再次引起了轰动，并一举获得了那一届格莱美8项提名中的7项，其中包括“年度最佳唱片”奖，而此前从来没有任何一个朋克风格的乐队获过如此殊荣。
■访谈：
问：最近有没有考虑出新专辑的事情？
比利：是的。我们现在每天都在一起思考、讨论新的点子，每天都会录些小样，虽然新专辑的整体概念还没有确定，不过我们目前得先把每一种可行的方案先纪录下来，之后再细细斟酌每一种想法，好将最想施展的东西做出来，出一张新专辑。
问：能谈谈你们对未来新专辑的期望吗？
比利：我们希望为新专辑所做的每个努力都是我们百分百投入心血的结晶。我们并不想随便录12首歌然后就草草发行，这样太无聊了。我们要做的不只是一张专辑，而是一个有完整概念的创作结晶。
问：据说你们准备把《美国白痴》的内容改编成电影，是真的吗？
比利：是的，我们每星期都有更多关于这部电影的想法，我确信这部电影版的《美国白痴》一定能拍成。
※编辑：谭添夏