BASKET CASE
“Basket Case” is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the seventh track and third single from their third studio album, Dookie (1994). The song spent five weeks at the top of Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. (More from Wikipedia)
One Friday recently, we had Good Morning America on as we usually do. They have their Friday Summer Concert Series each year; this May, Green Day was the inaugural act, and did that bring back some great memories. It was fun seeing them in their element so many years after their founding. Their performance of “Basket Case” was as good as I have ever heard it; also broadcast were “Know Your Enemy” and “Still Breathing”.
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)
