10 Punk Bands That Released 5 Great Albums In A Row

10. Green Day

The most famous punk band of the past 30 years, Green Day turned snotty guitar music into stadium filling tunes and acted as inspiration for a generation of pop-punk bands.

For Green Day it all started with their breakout album Dookie in 1994. Three years after the release of their indie rager Kerplunk, the band broke through with incredible success and reignited a mainstream love for punk music. Through hits like Basket Case and Longview, Dookie not only remains a genre classic but an all-time musical great.

Following this was 1995's Insomniac, a misunderstood album that saw the band fight against everything that initially made them popular, going heavier and darker. Then came the transformative Nimrod (1997) which led to Warning (2000), two albums that documented the band’s coming of age as they battled managing a burgeoning family life with the pressures of selling arenas.

Finally, four years after Warning came American Idiot (2004), the punk rock opera that nobody could have possibly expected and nobody has quite been able to top. The band broke every rule imparted on punk bands and wrote with grandiosity and incredible scope, just like how Dookie spearheaded a revolution, American Idiot ushered in the new wave of the genre.