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Basket Case (song)
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| Single by Green Day from the album Dookie |
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| Released | 1994/1995 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 1993 | ||||
| Genre | Pop punk | ||||
| Length | 3:01 | ||||
| Label | Reprise | ||||
| Writer | Green Day Billie Joe Armstrong |
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| Producer | Green Day Jerry Finn |
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"Basket Case" is a song by Green Day from their 1994 hit album Dookie. After the single was released in January 1995, the song ended up being a huge hit. The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder, he thought he was going crazy.[1] The music video, featuring the band members in a mental institution, received heavy airplay on MTV.[citation needed] This song and its music video helped propel Dookie to become a major success among most mainstream rock listeners.[citation needed] Dookie went on to become a multi-platinum album featuring this song as well as hit singles "Longview", "When I Come Around", "Welcome to Paradise" and "She".
In 1995, Green Day was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for "Basket Case".
In 2006, on Mike Davies and Zane Lowe's Lock Up Special on BBC Radio 1, the listeners voted "Basket Case" the Greatest Punk Song of All Time.[citation needed]
The song can also be found on their 2001 greatest hits compilation International Superhits!. The music video can be found on their International Supervideos! DVD. A live version is also found on Bullet in a Bible, a live album of Green Day performing at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in 2005.
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This was the third music video by Green Day, and it was directed by Mark Kohr. The video was shot in an actual mental institution, at the request of the band members. The mental institution had since been abandoned, but most of the structure remained in a broken-down state. The band members found deep scratches in the walls and dental molds scattered around. The music video was actually shot in black and white and the color was added in later, contributing to the surreal effect of the video. The video was nominated for multiple MTV Video Music Awards in 1995: Video of the Year, Best Group Video, Best Hard Rock Video, Best Alternative Video, Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Viewer's Choice Award.[2] The music video also had a mash-up on MTV with Nelly's Country Grammar called "Country Basket".
- The song was covered by The Moog Cookbook, Avril Lavigne (for her Try To Shut Me Up Tour), Dilana, Elysium, Freefaller, Rex Goudie (for his "Look Closer Tour") and the Japanese punk rock band Nicotine. The Offspring also covered the first 39 seconds of the song, seemingly for fun. Another cover was by the Stanford Harmonics collegiate a capella group, who played the song entirely on pitch pipes- the only instrument used in a capella. Puffy AmiYumi also covered the song as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their new album Splurge. Nana Kitade has also covered the song on her album, I scream
- Later on, "Weird Al" Yankovic used "Basket Case" as the closing song in the polka medley "The Alternative Polka", from Bad Hair Day.
- Dale Oliver from Total Nonstop Action Wrestling made a ripoff of this song for Phi Delta Slam.
- Fall Out Boy covered the song live.
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- At the "Edit Gametypes" menu on the multiplayer of Halo: Combat Evolved, there is a line from "Basket Case".
- The music video has been "reviewed" on Beavis and Butthead.
- The line "am I just paranoid/ or am I just stoned?" is edited to remove "stoned" in the radio version of the song.
CD1
- "Basket Case" (3:01)
- "On The Wagon" (non-LP track) (2:48)
- "Tired Of Waiting For You" (non-LP Track, Kinks cover) (2:30)
- "409 In Your Coffeemaker" (unmixed) - (2:49)
- not the same as 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours version
CD2
- "Basket Case" (3:01)
- "Longview" (live) (3:30)
- "Burnout" (live) (2:11)
- "2,000 Light Years Away" (live) (2:49)
- (live tracks recorded March 11, 1994 at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, Florida)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1994 | Modern Rock Tracks (US) | No. 1 |
| 1995 | Official Norwegian Singles Chart | No. 2 |
| 1994 | Official Sweden Singles Chart | No. 3 |
| 1994 | Official UK Singles Chart | No. 6 |
| 1994 | Mainstream Rock Tracks (US) | No. 9 |
| 1995 | Official Irish Singles Chart | No. 11 |
| 1994 | Top 40 Mainstream (US) | No. 16 |
| 1995 | Official German Singles Chart | No. 18 |
- Nana Kitade's abum I scream.
- Puffy AmiYumi's album Splurge.
- List of songs about mental illness
- ^ Billie Joe Armstrong Interview on VH1. VH1. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
- ^ Rock on the Net: MTV Video Music Award History
| Preceded by "Einstein on the Beach (For An Eggman)" by Counting Crows |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single August 20, 1994 - September 17, 1994 |
Succeeded by "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M. |