It is completely logical, but it strikes me that the lyrics and style of Green Day on this first album were so youthful.

The songs are energetic and a bit frantic but they sing about being nervous of the future, of making decisions for the first time, about self determination and making a way in the world.

This is only the second album (unless you count extended play singles) and it is the first album with Tré Cool. That said, it sounds very distinctively Green Day.

Also notable "Dominated Love Slave" is mockingly country, a bit remininscent of the less obviously mocking country song "Knowledge" from 1030/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.

I remember Nor Cal being much more country than I think people might expect.

I don't think I have heard Kerplunk! as much as I have heard other Green Day albums. Hearing the songs doesn't remind me of places and times the way their first album did.

That said, it will only be two albums for me today because I have some work to finish up and then a gig to get to tonight.

Back at it! Dookie, from 1994.

Right out of the gates with "Burnout". Amazing. I feel it. I am, in fact, not growing up. I'm just burning out and stepping in line to walk amongst the dead.

As are well all.

I can't think of another example of a band releasing a song on one album and then re-releasing it on the next album.

"Welcome to Paradise" is a pretty good song, so I can see why they want more people to hear it.

I love this album, and not just because I played it on repeat in my formative years. Clearly, a lot of people love it because it went double diamond (20 x platinum ... apparently. Sold 20 million+ copies worldwide.

Some silly lyrics, sure. But others are actually interesting takes on difficult topics.

Now, Insomniac from 1995. I don't remember it much which was probably a result of the media blackout. The songs all contain swear words, the music videos and album art hit pretty hard and the themes are much darker.

I think it might need more of my attention.

"Brain Stem" and "Jaded" are pretty familiar to me. I can see the logic of putting them together as a single for promotion because they are both pretty short (typical of punk songs) with Jaded just 1 minute 30 seconds.

But it is a real stylistic change within a "single song" which I see on later albums.

They played "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" at my high school graduation.

I kind of get it. The song is originally about a relationship breakup, so not the usual view of graduations as an achievement.

But a graduation is also an ending, a beginning, a big change.

Well, the livestream on YouTube (unrelated to this AlbumParty) is done, so now I'm listening to Warning, from 2000.

The sound is more acoustic, accessible, even ... folksy? But punk is about defying expectations and externally imposed boundaries so who says an acoustic guitar can't be punk?