Green Day

Released: November 9, 2012

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: Tré Cool Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong Rob Cavallo

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Smell your Technicolor in your eyes
Makes me sick with pleasure in my mind
Shake it like it's so enlightening, staring in the sun that's blinding
Like a bottle rocket in the sky

[Chorus]
Dressed to the nines like a black cat's eyes
You’re such a beautiful mess tonight
Wow, that dirty dress is so loud
Wow, that dirty dress is so loud, and it goes

[Verse 2]
Wearing a psychotic red alert
Your bouquet of flowers in the dirt
Radioactive and primal, nuclear and so delightful
Wearing Day-Glo where you know it hurts

[Chorus]
Dressed to the nines like a black cat's eyes
You’re such a beautiful mess tonight
Wow, that dirty dress is so loud
Wow, that dirty dress is so loud, and it goes

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Smell your Technicolor in your eyes
Makes me sick with pleasure in my mind
Shake it like it's so enlightening, staring in the sun that's blinding
Like a bottle rocket in the sky

[Chorus]
Dressed to the nines like a black cat's eyes
You’re such a beautiful mess tonight
Wow, that dirty dress is so loud
Wow, that dirty dress is so loud, and it goes

[Instrumental Outro]

Formed in East Bay, California in 1986 and still going strong today, Green Day is one of the biggest punk rock acts in the world. Along with other punk bands in California such as The Offspring, Sublime, Bad Religion and Rancid, they have been credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the U.S. in the 90s.

First starting in 1986 as Sweet Children, longtime friends Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar and lead vocalist) and Mike Dirnt (bass guitar) teamed up with John Kiffmeyer to produce their debut EP 1,000 Hours. They eventually dropped the name Sweet Children and called themselves Green Day due to the band members' fondness for cannabis (it even inspired a song featured on their first album) and for their second studio album Kerplunk they replaced Kiffmeyer with German-born drummer Tré Cool, who had been drumming since the age of 12 in a punk band, The Lookouts.

It was their 1994 record Dookie that sent the band to stardom and gave them mainstream success. Dookie, alongside their following albums Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) were certified double platinum. Eventually, the band started to fall in popularity with their 2000 record Warning which only reached gold.

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