The Friday OT: Green Day; American Idiot

Your author has fuzzy music memories and sharp music memories, just like everyone else. One of the sharp ones was listening to Dookie for the first time (in an apartment somewhere in Spain with rocking company) and falling in love with Green Day. Then a fuzzy one was buying and listening to Nimrod for the first time, because Green Day lost their edge for a while.

Then the sharpest Green Day memory of the lot, when this hit my eardrums and I fell in love with the band all over again..... IN THE FIRST FIVE SECONDS OF THE TRACK. It was, "ahhhhh, they're back!".

An utter blastout tune, so play it at eleven and we love love love Green Day forever and ever amen, oh yesssss.

UPDATE: Longtime reader and all-round good egg, TW writes in with this:

"I was a huge fan after the Slappy Hours release when I was a Lad. In roughly 90, before the Kerplunk release, I saw them play a small venue with about 100 people.  My buddies band even opened up for them!   I remember sitting in the hallway waiting for the show to start and a guy walks by with Annie Warbucks bleached blond hair, skin pale as the moon, wearing a ladies bright pink nighty.  Strange anywhere but especially in my small town; Tres Cool had entered the building.  To this day was the most fun show I have ever been to.  They snuck mud balls into the building and threw them into the "mosh pit" creating some chaos.  Billy Joe sang and performed the same then as he does now.  Other than becoming more refined, they really haven't changed their style of music or performance after 20+ years which proves they are timeless."