10 Classic Albums That Came Out Of Nowhere

10. Dookie - Green Day

As the '90s started to really get rolling, the rock landscape didn't have time to concern itself with having fun or anything. No, this was the era of grunge, where everything was either about the harmful use of drugs or the internal depression that many go through as a teenager.

Once Kurt Cobain died, though, the transition into the pleasant melodies of Green Day was like night and day when compared to grunge.

From a sonic perspective, this felt like the polar opposite of grunge music, with the same loud guitars but with a snot-nosed twist that made everything a lot more palatable for the teenage demographic.

As much as this might have been considered an industry plant, Billie Joe Armstrong's 'little punk band that could' weren't really supposed to hit the ground running like this at all, being just a bunch of kids from the California Bay Area who decided to roll the dice with a major label.

Even the first few weeks of Dookie weren't that great either, with word of mouth traveling super-slow before the age of cell phones. When people actually got ahold of things though, it became just the ticket to help us move on from the revolution that had largely been brought to an end with Cobain's passing.

Grunge was now the past; the future was coming on through a couple of chords and lip piercings.