GREEN DAY - BBC Sessions 2xLP

Label: Warner

The BBC Sessions takes the listener back to a time when Green Day were a more fluid, and certainly a more interesting, live unit. Featuring four radio sessions recorded between the Dookie era of 1994 and the Warning tour of 2001 – and comprising stop-offs to promote the Insomniac and Nimrod albums – this thing of discreet wonder contains a number of gems that are likely to still be held dear by the more attentive members of the group’s audience.

Between 1994 to 2001, Green Day would visit the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in London four times and record live sessions for Radio 1’s “Evening Show” and its popular DJ Steve Lamacq. This compilation documents those sessions, and includes many of the band’s hits including “When I Come Around”, “Basket Case”, “Brain Stew/Jaded” and “Minority”. The BBC Sessions is a collection of impossibly fluent songs delivered in momentary fashion by one of America’s great bands. To hear them doing their thing without the clutter and fuss to which they have increasingly fallen prey is a wonderful thing.