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Band:Green Day DVD:Green Day - Under Review 1995-2000 : The Middle Years Released by:MVD Writer: The Vish Media: Myspace Click Album Cover To Buy Now

At this point in history, I think that everybody knows about San Francisco’s most successful punk band, Green Day, so I’m not going to go through a whole preamble about where they come from and how they got big or anything like that. Let’s just get down to it. “Green Day: Under Review 1995-2000: The Middle Years” is a documentary on just that, the middle years. Their middle albums between “Dookie” and “American Idiot”… the forgotten albums.

Obviously, “The Middle Years” means the albums between their mega-successful album, “Dookie”, and their newest mega-successful album, “American Idiot”. Their first two small label albums don’t count because they weren’t successful until after the success of the “Dookie” album. I was pretty excited to watch this documentary, because “The Middle Years” would mean that they were going to talk about my favorite Green Day album, “Insomniac”. The other albums that were the focal point of this documentary were “Nimrod” and “Warning”.

“The Middle Years” starts out touching on the astonishing and unexpected success of the “Dookie” album and how it affected the next few albums. The anger that fueled “Insomniac” because of the rejection from their friends in the San Francisco punk scene, the tiredness and boredom that inspired “Nimrod” and the unnoticed return to form of “Warning”. Lot’s of music “experts” give their views on everything from what they think the guys in Green Day were feeling and thinking through those years, and we all know what the “experts” know, and that would be JACK SHIT! The good thing, though, is that friends of the band that actually KNOW Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are also interviewed and give REAL insight into the band and actually have a good idea of what the guys in the band were actually thinking and going through. I got a lot more out of listening to what they had to say than I did the “experts”.

The only let-down with this documentary is how much time there is spent doting over how great the “American Idiot” album is. When you do a documentary on a certain era of a band, it’s not good to go on and on about what they have done afterward. Other than that, this is a pretty solid DVD for anybody who is a big Green Day fan, new and old. For newer fans, it gives a pretty good history of the band and for old fans, it’s a great way to reminisce about the 90’s. I’ll give this an 8 out of 10. Not bad at all.

Band:Green Day DVD:Green Day - Under Review 1995-2000 : The Middle Years Released by:MVD Writer: The Vish Media: Myspace Click Album Cover To Buy Now

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