Crucial Track for January 27, 2026

"Basket Case" by Green Day

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What artist or band changed your music taste forever? Pick your favorite song of theirs.

It sounds cliche as hell I know, but I grew up in the middle of nowhere with my parents' classic rock and the country station that was all my radio picked up. The first time I heard Green Day's Basket Case on MTV changed my brain chemistry at thirteen. Say what you want about the mainstreaming of punk/pop-punk, but that was a fucking gateway drug.