Word: trio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of Green Day ever tour Singapore, they'll all probably end up as candidates for caning. The punk trio's new CD, Dookie, is immature ("I'm not growing up, I'm/ just burning out," run the lyrics to Burnout, the opening song), rude ("I don't know you/ But, I think I hate you," the band sings on Chump) and violently threatening in a he-was-such-a-nice-boy-before- he-shot-the-senior-class kind of way (Having a Blast goes, "I'm taking all you down with me/ Explosives duct taped to my spine...
...members of Green Day -- Billie Joe, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool -- are in their early 20s. Billie Joe, who writes almost all the trio's lyrics, grew up in Berkeley, California (his given name is Billie Joe Armstrong). His father, a jazz musician, died when Billie Joe was 10; his mother is a waitress, and he is the youngest of six. "Mom gradually got less strict with each kid," admits Billie Joe, and that evolution in parenting style may help explain the anarchic themes in his lyrics and his carefree approach to music in general. "I still...
...trio almost single-handedly led the Crimsonto two victories the following weekend atDartmouth and Vermont, eliciting this responsefrom Head Coach Ron Tomassoni; "Thank God for theNeilsen line...
...Spike Lee heard one of his albums and asked him to compose the music for School Daze. Blanchard went on to score Lee's next four films and followed those in 1992 with music for Malcolm X, written for a 55-piece orchestra, a big band and a jazz trio--all at different times varying and elaborating a single, stately theme to capture the turbulent flow of Malcolm's life...
With that, attention suddenly turned to the trio of holdouts whose decision would determine the fate of the bill. One voted in favor of it. Another against. And then Douglas Applegate, an Ohio Democrat who had exceeded the 15- minute time limit for electronic voting, paced up to the House clerk and filled out a ballot by hand. It was colored green, signifying "Yes." The measure had passed...