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“Basket Case”—Green Day

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Dookie - I'm a Teenager

Longview is named for the town in Washington state where Green Day debuted it. In terms of the appeal it might hold for a 16 year old knucklehead such as myself. The melodies, the hooks, the choruses are all vastly improved on Dookie versus Green Day's back catalog. It also helps that Longview has like 20 pound swear words that had to be aggressively bleeped out on the radio.

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