Green Day

I saw these on thursday at nottingham arena and my god they are good! The support band was new found glory but I am not a fan of theirs at all. Who else likes Green Day? Have you seen them live and what did you think?

Oh, I saw Green Day back in 2002 when it was them and Blink-182 and JEW. It was a very good show. My favorite albums by Green Day are 39/Smooth, Kerplunk, Warning and American Idiot. Green Day has just had so many great singles too (e.g. Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around, Warning, Waiting, Hitchin' A Ride, Welcome to Paradise, Nice Guys Finish Last, Redundant, and so much more).

Green Day is a very good band that has evolved into something great IMO.

Even though I mostly listen to metal now I will always like Greenday. Dookie was the first album I bought of theirs but now all I have is their GH and will be getting American Idiot soon I like the new single Blvd. of broken dreams Good Stuff. I never got to see them live though.

I actualy like Green Day. I don't consider them a "punk" band anymore. They've slowly evolved into a creative band.

greenday is one of the best rock bands the USA has left, I never considered them punk, infact i pretty much hate punk music, their new album american idiot is great, my fav is Insomniac. it's funny because I used to hate them when dookie came out, cause it was the trendy group at school that year, and everyone wore those fucking t-shirts, esp. after they played a concert here.

Lets Gekiga In said:

Oh, I saw Green Day back in 2002 when it was them and Blink-182 and JEW. It was a very good show. My favorite albums by Green Day are 39/Smooth, Kerplunk, Warning and American Idiot. Green Day has just had so many great singles too (e.g. Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around, Warning, Waiting, Hitchin' A Ride, Welcome to Paradise, Nice Guys Finish Last, Redundant, and so much more).

Green Day is a very good band that has evolved into something great IMO.

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I saw thatn show and it was my first show that I have ever been to. Great band to see live

i remember buying the dookie cassete tape back in the day and i liked em since then. never gotten a chance to see em life or anything like that, but they're a solid band. one of the last good bands around this day and age.

I don't like Green Day.

But I'll be damned.... "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is a fucking great song.

Along the lines of "Time of your life."

Always been a fan of green day, I hope they tour over here in my town soon.

I saw them on thier "Greatest Hits" tour w/ Blink-182, Saves the Day, 2 Skinny Js, and Cold. They were good, not great. I think their latest album is one of their best, and Boulevard Of Broken Dreams is one of their best songs.

If he didn't try singing like he was British, they'd be ok.

My fave album is Warning I love Misery and Blood, Sex and Booze American Idiot is great as well. Great Band, Great Show

Hehe, I remember seeing Green Day in concert way back in the day, must have been around 92/93. They were playing in this little club in St. Pete, and like most little bands at the time (St. Pete had an amazing punk scene back in the day), there were about 5 of us in attendance. I remember being really impressed with them; however my friend said they were too poppy and were doomed to fail. Heh... that brings me back.

I later caught a show of there’s (again in St. Pete, Janus Landing actually, there is a bootleg of that show that was being sold in Japan) quite a few years later. The thing with Green Day is, no matter how big they got they were the same band. You can't really say Green Day ever sold out. Sure, the sound got more refined, but never once did they change their style just to sell records. Green Day, for the most part, sounds very similar today as they did in 92/93. They definitely were treated the harshest of the labeled "Sell-Out" bands especially of the Gilman street boys, but all and all I'd say they are the only pop-punk band of that era that is still producing music that is listenable.

nruva said:

Hehe, I remember seeing Green Day in concert way back in the day, must have been around 92/93. They were playing in this little club in St. Pete, and like most little bands at the time (St. Pete had an amazing punk scene back in the day), there were about 5 of us in attendance. I remember being really impressed with them; however my friend said they were too poppy and were doomed to fail. Heh... that brings me back.

I later caught a show of there’s (again in St. Pete, Janus Landing actually, there is a bootleg of that show that was being sold in Japan) quite a few years later. The thing with Green Day is, no matter how big they got they were the same band. You can't really say Green Day ever sold out. Sure, the sound got more refined, but never once did they change their style just to sell records. Green Day, for the most part, sounds very similar today as they did in 92/93. They definitely were treated the harshest of the labeled "Sell-Out" bands especially of the Gilman street boys, but all and all I'd say they are the only pop-punk band of that era that is still producing music that is listenable.

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Excellent post there dude, you are so knowlegeable on bands I find really awesome (Common Rider, Big Audio Dynamite, etc.). I actually have a picture of me right next to 924 Gilman Street, man it was so awesome being right there where Operation Ivy, Green Day, and The Lookouts all played, etc.

I remember Dookie came out in 92/93. First CD I ever bought and listened the hell out of it. Haven't listened to much of their stuff beyond Insomniac, but picked up American Idiot and I'm impressed. I dont' think they're much of a punk band anymore either. The only song that sounds like their punk days is the first song, American Idiot. They're more of a rock band now, but that's ok.

main gribe i have with greenday is the singer sounds the exactly the fuck same in every song they do.

even if i hear a song for the first time im like "this greenday?" b4 he has a chance to blub out the 2nd word.

GregN. said:

I remember Dookie came out in 92/93.

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Close, 1994.

I got into them when I was around 13 when Kerplunk came out and I had Dookie and Insomniac as well. By the time Nimrod came around though for one reason or another I lost interest in them and havent cared for them much since.

I'm a very big Green Day fan w/ my favorites albums being Dookie, Nimrod, and Insomniac. Hell, I even have a GD patch on my bookbag and another one on my stick bag for percussion. All-time favorite song is Longview.

Green Day get server radio/tv overkill that really harms them why they're playing throwaway 3 minute wonders. I'll stick with Good Riddance, Bad Religion and Hot Water Music for those, but i can see why the kids love GreenDay.

im surprised how many bands get shit for being 'pop' and 'selling out' and i never hear it about greenday.

now, i dont really care that much, but its odd.

anyhow, i think gd is allright but after a while every song sounds the same.

the offspring get so much unwarranted shit for 'selling out'

Green days older shit wasnt bad, I havent heard the new so I cannot comment.

I wouldnt even consider them punk though, the only real punk music is fucking underground nyc and LA and new york dolls.

I think the pistols are over rated also, every motherfucker is a poser punk these days

there playing at my university in April and I couldnt give a shit.

not sonic said:

im surprised how many bands get shit for being 'pop' and 'selling out' and i never hear it about greenday.

now, i dont really care that much, but its odd.

anyhow, i think gd is allright but after a while every song sounds the same.

the offspring get so much unwarranted shit for 'selling out'

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Offspring was a mediocre band that jumped through the hoops to get radio play, the ideal definition of selling out. Same can be said for the likes of many of the punk revivalists of the early to mid 90s. I’m not saying Green Day is completely innocent, actually it was their (along with Rancid and the Offspring’s) success that drove much of the pop-punk revival and the droves of me-to kiddy punk bands. The main point to stress here is that every band mentioned in this thread (including the NY Dolls to a degree) is kind of hard to call straight up punk. I mean a lot of people will say the Pixies are punk, I see them as a Rock band, and probably more on the grunge/alternative side at that. It’s all pretty subjective, and especially with the elitist attitude that comes with most in the punk “underground.” I think it’s safe to say that Green Day left their mark, love them or hate them, and influenced (along with a small handful of other memorable pop-punk bands) a lot of what would become a very long staying rebirth in the punk music scene.

I should also point out that I always found the Offspring as kind of an enigma. Some of their real early stuff was brilliant, and Dexter has great taste in music… as Nitro released some real gems during the mid to late 90s. But, the addition of songs like “Pretty Fly for a White Guy.” And all of “Ixnay on the Hombre”, etc, etc… makes it hard to take them seriously.

i dunno, i dont really care about labels.

but i like a lot of the offspring because they have a lot of different sounds, and dexter seems to be a respectable guy.

sure theyre a me-too band, theyre name comes from the descendants

i dont care if theyre punk or pop or whatever, music is music, and i like it.

i also dont think a band should take itself too seriously, music is supposed to be fun, not the drama. thats why i love the aquabats as much as i do. you cant beat the aquabats

heh, i completely forgot about the selling out topic at hand:
from what ive read, everyone called them sellouts because of their move to a major label. they did this because epitaph was giving them a lot of shit, and telling them how to sound and what to play.

welll, whatever. i think splinter is a good cd, and it has a lot of new sounds for them, which are great.

not sonic said:

i dunno, i dont really care about labels.

but i like a lot of the offspring because they have a lot of different sounds, and dexter seems to be a respectable guy.

sure theyre a me-too band, theyre name comes from the descendants

i dont care if theyre punk or pop or whatever, music is music, and i like it.

i also dont think a band should take itself too seriously, music is supposed to be fun, not the drama. thats why i love the aquabats as much as i do. you cant beat the aquabats

heh, i completely forgot about the selling out topic at hand:
from what ive read, everyone called them sellouts because of their move to a major label. they did this because epitaph was giving them a lot of shit, and telling them how to sound and what to play.

welll, whatever. i think splinter is a good cd, and it has a lot of new sounds for them, which are great.

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Moving to a major label usually got a few yells of sell out, this is true, but remember that most true punk bands of old were actually on the majors... Virgin, Columbia, Epic, etc. So, it's hard to really use that as a factor of when a band has "sold out." Actually the terms use is terrible; the entire punk credo is if you play punk music you should live by punk morals... that are music is creation/destruction not capital and carriers. When I would write for different zines it was the lowest insult you could give to a punk band, heh, and at the time I have to say it was thrown around very loosely. For me a band "sold out" when they no longer do it for them, but to please the buying public. This is a text book definition of selling out and it can be applied to all artisans, not just musicians. When you jeopardize your own creativity in order to make your work more accessible or sellable, that is selling out.

As for taking music seriously, this was in reference to them as musicians, not as a critical think piece. When I said I have a hard time taking the Offspring seriously, I meant that they would flip flop and change from one poppy song to the next trying to score the next MTV/Radio hit, and they didn’t hide it. Sure, they cashed in nicely with this technique, but they alienated their true fan set. This was the ultimate sacrifice and usually was the beginning of the end for a mediocre band. Reason being, once you’ve pissed off your true fans to win over the mass-majority, you won’t be getting many of them back… and we all know how fickle the radio listening public is. One day you’re number one and the next you’re old hat. Bands like the Aquabats, Atom and His Package, F.Y.P, the Unicorns, etc are in a different class. They have built a fan set around fun/silly/absurd songs and lyrics. These bands can be taken very seriously, even if their material doesn’t seem as such.