This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. I could lie right now and say that I got into punk through iconic acts such as The Clash , The Sex Pistols or Buzzcocks .
Truth be told, it was Green Day that introduced me to the genre. With the band currently celebrating the 30th anniversary of “ Dookie ”, with a headline performance this weekend at the Isle of Wight Festival - a dual celebration for “ American Idiot ” too - now seems an ideal time to dust off my CD copy of “Dookie”. Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter , sent on Wednesdays Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Harborough Mail, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Yes - believe it or not, I still have CDs. Ask any self-respecting person who grew up in a time when watching music videos involved watching the chart countdown before The Box and P-Rock were a thing and “downloading” a new single involved taping something off the radio, and they’ll mostly tell you somewhere deep in their attic they’ve their CD collection still..
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. and I would wager for the alternative sect that the collection will no doubt include at least one Green Day album. Be it “Dookie,” “International Superhits ” or their “comeback” album, “American Idiot.
” But for all of the heavier elements of the punk scene that I ended up becoming .
