LONGVIEW
“Longview” is the debut single by the American punk rock band Green Day on the band’s third album, Dookie. The song was the band’s first single to top the Modern Rock chart in the U.S. The music video for this song received heavy airplay on MTV and is largely credited for breaking Green Day into mainstream popularity. The song is named after the city of Longview, Washington, where it was first performed in 1992. In 1995, Green Day received four Grammy Award nominations, including Best Hard Rock Performance for “Longview”. The song was ranked at number 3 on the list of the Best Singles of 1994 by Rolling Stone. (More from Wikipedia)
Like most, I was introduced to Green Day with Dookie. I imagine that I found out about them through their music videos on MTV and/or VH1, as the rock-video era was winding down. As Wikipedia notes: “Dookie produced five hit singles for the band: ‘Longview’, ‘When I Come Around’, ‘Basket Case’, a re-recorded version of ‘Welcome to Paradise’, and the radio-only single ‘She’.” The whole album rocks though, not just the hits.
(June 2017)
