Green Day landed three spots on Rolling Stone Readers' Poll "Top 10 Best Pop-Punk Albums of All Time", with Dookie, nimrod., and American Idiot.
Check out the full list over at Rolling Stone.com, which includes other artists such as Jimmy Eat Work, Blink 182, The Offspring, and Generation X.
If the Ramones set the groundwork for what pop-punk would become, Green Day made it a radio reality. The band's third album, 1994's Dookie, served as their major label debut and a launch point for the more absurd, childish rock of the post-grunge Nineties. Their slacker rebellion found a refreshing annex between the speed and grit of early punk with pop accessibility, making songs about masturbation and therapy weirdly anthemic.
Check out the full list over at Rolling Stone.com, which includes other artists such as Jimmy Eat Work, Blink 182, The Offspring, and Generation X.