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Green Day- Whats you opinion?

post #1 of 24
1/1/09 at 1:03pm
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Just curious what everyone thought of them. I've been a fan since early on although they're best album is still Warning. I also really like they're side projects The Network and Foxboro Hot Tubs.
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post #2 of 24
1/1/09 at 1:23pm
Loved Dookie, thought they lost their way afterward trying to recreate that success, then hit an absolute grand slam with American Idiot.
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post #3 of 24
1/1/09 at 1:41pm
They're one of those bands who have been an unavoidable soundtrack through critical portions of my adolescence (see also Blink 182), sometimes to the point of frustration/mockery ("Good Riddance" is so cliche that the joke about it playing at a memorial/graduation/whatever is now also cliche), but I can't entirely hate them. "Basket Case" is one of those songs that I can tell you where I was and who I was with the first time I heard it, etc., etc. I thought American Idiot was pretty great the first time I heard it, but I haven't listened to it in years. I liked the mashup that was released better.
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post #4 of 24
1/1/09 at 1:53pm
They really have zero impact on me; pretty much the definition of a "just there" band as far as I'm concerned.
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post #5 of 24
1/1/09 at 1:54pm
Like RathBandu, Green Day songs have forced themselves into crucial parts of my life. But unlike Blink 182 or Sum 41 (or Skullfuckery 101) I never minded them to form much of an opinion. I get why one would appreciate their tunes, though one usually grows out of them by the end of an adolescent growth spurt. If that's not the case, send a Buzzcocks album (Singles Going Steady?) their way. Should take care of it.
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post #6 of 24
1/1/09 at 2:50pm
My friend and I were just making fun of this band.

After telling same said friend an antedote about a mother eating shit-and preferring it to be green-we had a new catchprhase: "She like it green."

Well, "Longview" was playing on the Sirius station and I said, "This band likes it green..."

And a contribution from my friend:

"...ALL DAY!!"

We laughed like there was no tomorrow.

That said: I wish Network was the popular band and that Green Day was the weird side project. I enjoy Network infinitely more.
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post #7 of 24
1/1/09 at 4:04pm
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I've heard that criticism many times that Green Day the band you like as an adolescent and then you grow out of them. I've always thought it seemed pretty patronizing and snobbish especially as I liked just as much as I ever did.


Also I think the more adventurous side of Nimrod and Warning showed they never really tried to recreate Dookie's success. If they wanted to do that they could have just done Dookie 2 which they didnt. I really like American Idiot but Warning is far better.


Also why do Sum 41 and Blink always get thrown in the mix. Green Day has been always will be far better than them or My Chemical Romance or all the new pop rock bands that do nothing for me.
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post #8 of 24
1/1/09 at 9:35pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Loved Dookie, thought they lost their way afterward trying to recreate that success, then hit an absolute grand slam with American Idiot.
My thoughts precisely. Loved the shit out of Dookie, one of the 'albums of my youth' I listened to so much I wore the cd out. Was in a few bands as a younger man, and there was nothing more fun than doing Basket Case or Longview.

This lead to properly exploring the world of punk rock and me realising how not-punk these three guys were so I lost all interest and considered them a spent force to rival their old competitors The Offspring (whos first two albums I also loved)...

...then came American Idiot and it was like these three guys who's only punk complaints up to that stage had been about too much masturbation and teenage boredom, suddenly found something real and political to get angry about. It was like they finally decided to say something, and I fell in love all over again ten years later.

That album's fucking brilliant in my opinion, it takes all their catchiest pop-punk sensibilities and actually marries it to a political message - I honestly never thought Billy Joe Armstrong had it in him.

Interested to see whether their next step will be forwards or back actually.
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post #9 of 24
1/1/09 at 9:46pm
Nicely put, RD. I listen to American Idiot and I hear a fire in this band that wasn't in anything they had released previously. Argue about the quality of the songwriting and the musicianship, but these guys believed the hell out of what they laid down on that album.
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post #10 of 24
1/1/09 at 9:56pm
Exactly Richard, I mean, Jesus Of Suburbia is single-handedly more ambitious than anything else they've ever done. It's like Billy trying to do a punk-rock opera, his Bohemian Rhapsody (not saying it's of that level qualoty wise, but at the very least you have to admire them actually showing some fuckin ambition to do something different to whats come before - and its a great song, all ten minutes of it)
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post #11 of 24
1/1/09 at 11:02pm
Their early stuff was fun, then I lost interest around "Time of Your Life." Then they released Warning, which was fucking terrific, and American Idiot proved to be pretty neat in its own right.

...So I guess I've got nothin' against Green Day.
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post #12 of 24
1/1/09 at 11:07pm
I really dig these guys but I can't explain why. If someone like DaveB strolled in here and explained why they were bad for reasons X,Y, and Z, I couldn't argue with him. But I think Dookie is great, Insomniac and Nimrod are underrated, Warning's only value is its title track, and American Idiot is a tremendous comeback.

I would love to see some of their tracks on Rock Band. I think tracks like Holiday and Basket Case would be a blast to play.
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post #13 of 24
1/1/09 at 11:43pm
I'm stunned they haven't been on Rock Band yet - did they make it onto any versions of Guitar Hero?
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post #14 of 24
1/1/09 at 11:49pm
Still no sign of them in either game. I'm wondering what the damn hold up is.

For the longest time they were perfect background music, but from Nimrod onward, I actually began listening to them, and finding a lot to love.

Awesome music videos as well. The one for Warning is still on my favorite videos ever list.
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post #15 of 24
1/2/09 at 1:54am
To me they're second division, which isn't bad at all, but just not one of the premiere bands around. They don't blow me away or get my juices pumping enough for me to buy an album, but I'll definitely turn the radio up when one of their better songs comes on and sing along with them.
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post #16 of 24
1/2/09 at 2:18am
I've always been rather apathetic towards them until this year. I was chilling in my apartment (I was stoned out of my mind), and one of my roommates came in and started blaring them through his speakers, and started jumping around for like the next 45 minutes. I don't want to hear Green Day for a long fucking time, and neither do my neighbors.
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post #17 of 24
1/2/09 at 2:38am
And nobody has mentioned Kerplunk or the material that made up Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
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post #18 of 24
1/2/09 at 3:05am
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They're are so many things to like about warning. "church on sunday" and "castaway" are some of the best pop songs they've ever done and "Macy's Day Parade" is a really cool song. Love that album.
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post #19 of 24
1/2/09 at 3:14am
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Originally Posted by Alex Augustine View Post
And nobody has mentioned Kerplunk or the material that made up Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
Own them both actually and while I actually quite enjoy some of the tracks on them, they're more interesting as you see the building blocks that went into becoming Dookie imo.
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post #20 of 24
1/2/09 at 10:23am
They were maybe my favorite band in fourth grade. Then they became a band I always paid attention to but didn't really care about until the first time I heard Warning. Warning to me is a really underrated album.
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post #21 of 24
1/2/09 at 10:58am
My thoughts on them:

Fake British Accent.

My kids dig them though.
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post #22 of 24
1/2/09 at 9:15pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Augustine View Post
And nobody has mentioned Kerplunk or the material that made up Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.
I don't know about 'Kerplunk', but '...Slappy Hours' wasn't all that great.
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post #23 of 24
1/2/09 at 9:19pm
This post would have been an essay of at least 1000 words, before 2004. 'American Idiot' had the same effect on me that The Spirit is having on legions of Frank Miller fans.

'Nimrod' is easily their best album. It's great, so too are 'Dookie' and 'Insomniac.' 'Warning' is OK, but a lackluster Green Day album. Otherwise, it's all a bit patchy.
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post #24 of 24
1/6/09 at 9:30pm
They're pretty good. Damage is a great band like them too.
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