Oh Green Day...

CTD10

how we have parted ways.....I grew up listening to Green Day. I bought Dookie in 1994 when I was 12 and really liked it a lot. Then I Loved Insomniac and Nimrod...still my two favorite albums by them to this day. Warning came out and again I really liked that. Then by that time the boys have lost some of their popularity. Friends would say to me " dude you still listen to green day" and I said fuck ya. Then American Idiot came out and they blew up all over again, and I did not mind the album, not their best work but ok. Then 5 years later they put out 21st Century Breakdown. I listened the night I bought it and was not that impressed. My girlfriend thought it was horrible and I told her to give it time. Well we gave it time and months later I can say I think this album is horrible..really bad. It does not even sound like the same band to me. Now don't get me wrong I still listen to their old stuff every now and then but I doubt I will ever buy another Green Day album again.

What are your thoughts on this new Green Day?

spell06

Never liked them, ever.

ZeMightyJedd

I think Green Day is still incredible. I saw them at an intimate club gig last year, and they blew me away. Pearl Jam might be my favorite band out there today, but Green Day is a very close 2nd.

As for their last album, I think the following songs are amazing (give them another listen, and play them loud):
Before the Lobotomy
Christian's Inferno
Murder City
Horseshoes & Handgrenades
See the Light

facepollution

I think it's a very well written record, however.........I've totally had enough of the whole rock opera thing. It worked well on American Idiot because it was very reflective of the shit that was going on in the world at the time (I know some disagree, but that's probably a different argument for a different day). But there was no reason to try and repeat that again. They would have been better off dropping the characters and overly long songs and just written a back to basics record.

So as much as I don't love the new stuff, I don't think it's badly written at all, and it sounded decent live when I saw them last year. I'm sure the next album will be the back to basics one I'm holding out for, a bit like Nimrod was after all the success of Dookie and the luke warm response Insomniac got.

dcfaithful

They've just never really done it for me. I find their tunes a little bit on the annoying side. :?

Break The Sky

I was in a Green Day cover band once. We called ourselves Arbor Day.

What'd I'd really like to do is form a Yellowcard cover band and have the drummer be Mexican, so we can call ourselves Greencard.

jamburger

I really thought this was going to be a thread on the musical opening up next month on Broadway. Or the now talked about movie adaptation of said musical to be produced by Tom Hanks.

Personally, I enjoyed Green Day for what they were in the '90s. Their new stuff, not so much.

Yellow Ledbelly

Dookie, for me, is one of the classic albums from my youth. I still enjjoy the hell out of it.
I actually grew to like American Idiot, which was the first GD album I had bought since the one after Dookie, quite a bit, but 21st Century Breakdown just doesn't do it for me at all....except Horseshoes and handgrenades....now THAT is how I l ike my Green Day.

So, I don't count myself as much of a fan at all but I do think seeing them live would be very entertaining

iamloco724

i was good up until american idiot with them..im willing to listen to a diff kind of sound from a band but then when the new album came out i felt like why are they trying so hard to duplicate that no need for the rock opera stuff no need for songs that sound like the last album same format its just enough and you can tell they have totallty changed in the way they are as well not to say people dont grow up but stay true to your roots..

no one can deny pearl jams sound has changed but they still stay true to there roots

CHANGEinWAVES

grew out of them in a few months.

peacegirl

was never a really big fan but did always like them...21st Century Breakdown is okay, I haven't listened to it much since getting it...but I did enjoy seeing them live last year

chelsea48

I took my son to see green day last year at o2 london and was dissappointed with the language, f word very often "get your f*^%$£g hands up" every other song. And got a lad of 14 on stage and asked him if he had had sex with a girl yet. my son is 12 and was asking me questions after the show. he does enjoy their music but that was off putting i think for his first gig. Kylie next time i hope

dcfaithful

chelsea48 wrote:

I took my son to see green day last year at o2 london and was dissappointed with the language, f word very often "get your f*^%$£g hands up" every other song. And got a lad of 14 on stage and asked him if he had had sex with a girl yet. my son is 12 and was asking me questions after the show. he does enjoy their music but that was off putting i think for his first gig. Kylie next time i hope

Billie Joe Armstrong actually got a 14 year old on stage and asked if he had had sex with a girl yet??

Ledbetterdays

I bought Dookie and then never listened to another album of theirs until the Greatest Hits and then liked American Idiot saw them live for the first time. Thought they were pretty good. Listened to the new album. Stopped liking them.

mfc2006

dcfaithful wrote:

They've just never really done it for me. I find their tunes a little bit on the annoying side. :?

exactly how i feel. there are a million other bands that i'd rather listen to. funny avatar, Dave!! haha

facepollution

dcfaithful wrote:

Billie Joe Armstrong actually got a 14 year old on stage and asked if he had had sex with a girl yet??

I was at the same show - all I can say is that he always asks that question to whoever he gets on stage for some reason. I've seen them a few times and he always does it, I'm sure he always follows it up with "well you have now!" or something, implying that being up on stage is like getting laid or something.....it did seem a tad inappropriate though.

As far as the language goes, well it's a rock concert and most singers swear on stage - plus Green Day have songs about wanking and stuff, what would you expect?! And at the end of the day I'm sure I had heard all of those words by that age at school anyway.

kenny olav

I thought Dookie was a fun record, and I thought they were OK until the song Good Riddance ("I hope you had the time of your life") came out. I didn't like what I heard from American Idiot except for the title track, which I kinda liked. But this new album is total bullshit. You're right, dude. They are a shell of what they used to be... which was a fun, sardonic, didn't-take-themselves-too-seriously, punk pop band with catchy, fast tunes.

dcfaithful

facepollution wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

Billie Joe Armstrong actually got a 14 year old on stage and asked if he had had sex with a girl yet??

I was at the same show - all I can say is that he always asks that question to whoever he gets on stage for some reason. I've seen them a few times and he always does it, I'm sure he always follows it up with "well you have now!" or something, implying that being up on stage is like getting laid or something.....it did seem a tad inappropriate though.

As far as the language goes, well it's a rock concert and most singers swear on stage - plus Green Day have songs about wanking and stuff, what would you expect?! And at the end of the day I'm sure I had heard all of those words by that age at school anyway.

Yeah, I have no problem with language....but saying something like to a 14 that in front of a huge crowd...you never know what people will think.

Drum Machine89

CTD10 wrote:

how we have parted ways.....I grew up listening to Green Day. I bought Dookie in 1994 when I was 12 and really liked it a lot. Then I Loved Insomniac and Nimrod...still my two favorite albums by them to this day. Warning came out and again I really liked that. Then by that time the boys have lost some of their popularity. Friends would say to me " dude you still listen to green day" and I said fuck ya. Then American Idiot came out and they blew up all over again, and I did not mind the album, not their best work but ok. Then 5 years later they put out 21st Century Breakdown. I listened the night I bought it and was not that impressed. My girlfriend thought it was horrible and I told her to give it time. Well we gave it time and months later I can say I think this album is horrible..really bad. It does not even sound like the same band to me. Now don't get me wrong I still listen to their old stuff every now and then but I doubt I will ever buy another Green Day album again.

What are your thoughts on this new Green Day?

yeah there new stuff is just horrible!!

just turned into another lame rock/pop band, sad they used to rock!!!

dcfaithful

mfc2006 wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

They've just never really done it for me. I find their tunes a little bit on the annoying side. :?

exactly how i feel. there are a million other bands that i'd rather listen to. funny avatar, Dave!! haha

Haha! Thanks man, you're the first to say anything about it. I just had to pay respects to one of my favorite South Park scenes....with my favorite character...Randy fuckin' Marsh.

eeriepadave

I have no problems with them, wasn't too impressed with 21st Century Breakdown. I liked American Idiot a lot. I enjoy their other albums as well. Pretty good live. Awesome how they invite people onstage to play with them. I saw them in '04 and they invited like 3 kids on stage to play did a good job. Billie gave his guitar to one of the kids after they played. Last time they played philly this one guy did a great job of playing Jesus Of Suburbia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZbKoJfymTQ

craigb

Big Drop wrote:

I was in a Green Day cover band once. We called ourselves Arbor Day.

What'd I'd really like to do is form a Yellowcard cover band and have the drummer be Mexican, so we can call ourselves Greencard.

boroff89

I actually love the new Green Day far more than any of the old stuff. American Idiot is in my top 5 albums from the last decade, and I think 21st Century Breakdown is nearly as good. It cracks me up to see the backlash against them, and it saddens me to hear fans who simply wanted them to make Dookie over and over again. How boring that would have been.

Evacuation Rules

I liked "21 Guns" the first time I heard it...

...when it was called "Telephone Line"

South of Seattle

boroff89 wrote:

I actually love the new Green Day far more than any of the old stuff. American Idiot is in my top 5 albums from the last decade, and I think 21st Century Breakdown is nearly as good. It cracks me up to see the backlash against them, and it saddens me to hear fans who simply wanted them to make Dookie over and over again. How boring that would have been.

I thought American Idiot was a great record. 21st Century Breakdown comes across as boring and lackluster album to me.

MysteryTrain

They put on a very good live show, but I could do without the huge sing-alongs and audience participation. 21st Century Breakdown is great, but it can't touch American Idiot. It'd be interesting to see what kind of record they make next. I hope they go back to basics.

Thoughts_Arrive

I love the old Green Day, always have always will.
Not saying the new albums are shit, just not the same but I can still listen to them.

Thoughts_Arrive

Big Drop wrote:

I was in a Green Day cover band once. We called ourselves Arbor Day.

What'd I'd really like to do is form a Yellowcard cover band and have the drummer be Mexican, so we can call ourselves Greencard.

Got a hard hard head

Dookie was great to play Tony Hawkes to on the PS......

"Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" is a great tune, shame commercial radio picked up on it.......

Well, I'm done!

Kloddz

I still quite like them; OK, the latest album is far from their best effort and not anything I listen to every day, but every band puts out a mediocre record now and then. But they put on a great live show - saw them last November in Zurich and they really rocked the place.

Ayedavanita

I took my eleven year old to see them in DC last summer because they've been his favorite band since he was 5. I don't listen to anything much other than Pearl Jam but I liked what I'd heard of Green Day. I really enjoyed the show, LOTS of language I agree but my son hears that from me and in middle school so I was ok with it. We had a good time and I got to take him to his first show so the memories are awesome! Too bad he's not a Pearl Jam fan, dang it!