It’s something unpredictable but in the end it’s right, and I hope you had the time of your life. Such words will forever be associated with the rock band Green Day, at graduations and in movies, CDs from friends and dentist’s offices. Green Day’s 1997 hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” defines the band in its pre-2000s greatest, but the group is no one-hit wonder. Green Day has produced dozens of Billboard hits and has even obtained two Grammys, and the band is still going as strong as it was when its obscure name first graced the music scene back in 1991.Green Day, the post-grunge rock band that sometimes gets thrown into a category of punk revivalists, started as part of the northern California underground punk scene in the mid-1980s. Guitarist/vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt formed their first band when they were just 14 years old, and by 1989 they had picked up drummer Al Sobrante (who was later replaced by Tre Cool) and changed the band’s name to Green Day, and the rest is history.Green Day released its first album 1,039 I Smoothed Out Slappy Hour in 1989, but it was the band’s second release Kerplunk in 1992 that attracted major record labels and newfound fame. Signing with Reprise, Green Day released the album Dookie in 1994, which sold over ten million copies internationally and won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. A flood of hit albums followed Dookie, including the 1995 release Insomniac and 1997’s Nimrod. In 2000, the album Warning was released, and although Green Day’s next album American Idiot had a very different style than the previous sound America was used to, the 2004 album still topped the Billboard charts. Green Day has continued to crank out hits since 2004, with the band’s most recent album The Ultimate Film Review [Live] released in 2006.