I still remember sitting in my friend’s room in 1994, listening to the new cassette he got of a band called Green Day. Dookie was unlike anything I had ever heard and I was immediately an ardent Green Day fan.
Insomniac came out a few years later: fucking rad. Nimrod dropped shortly after that: still into it. Warning dropped just after high school and I, no surprise, listened to it on the reg. Green Day was a constant from the beginning of middle school throughout high school. I spent much of my time listening to a range of snot-nosed brats and pissed-off rappers, each dropping songs that spoke to my distaste of institutional bullshit and injustice.
I admit, though, there was a decade (or two) where my musical tastes went a little sideways and I didn’t really listen to them much. But with Saviors, they are still chucking politically-charged anthems into the world, ready for some other dipshit middle schooler to have memories of socially conscious anthems burning into their brain.