Green Day confusion

[flanneljammies]

So, I got the most recent Guitar Center catalog in the mail yesterday. Green Day are on the cover hamming it up with a birthday cake and a bass... My four-year-old looks at and exclaims: "Look, it's the Wiggles." I busted up.

[wayne kerr]

That's effing priceless!



Sis

[andrew embassy]

I didn't even know Green Day existed past about 95. Is this their reunion tour?

[wayne kerr]

I didn't even know Green Day existed past about 95. Is this their reunion tour?

Hope I die before I get oldest!

Sis

[greenmeansjoe]

Actually, I just read somewhere that they're about to release a "punk concept record." Seven-minute songs. Overarching themes. The whole shebang.

I'm not shitting you.

Joe

[wayne kerr]

Awwww... let 'em have their hot topic.

Sis

[xSALx]

Unfortunately, Green Day has two great albums, Dookie and Nimrod, so I wouldn't talkt too much shit. But their last two albums have been total crap. No one even knew when Shenanigans came out. But I wouldn't mind listening to this punk concept album thing, it actually sounds kind of cool. But NOFX did something like it with "The Decline". 25 minute long song, pretty good actually. But the whole concept album thing comes from Billy Joe Armstrong's love of the Who.

[jamoo]

Anyone who starts a song with "Do you have the time to listen to me whine" in a copped British punk accent isn't worth anything. One or the other are survivable but both...

Greenday are scat.

[fuckface]

i heard 'american idiot ' -their new single- on the radio and it sounds just like any other green day.........

not that i expected it to be different

poop

[concubine]

Anyone who starts a song with "Do you have the time to listen to me whine" in a copped British punk accent isn't worth anything. One or the other are survivable but both...

Greenday are scat.

Ha! Couldn't agree more. I like to call them, and the slew of nth generation "punk" bands that came up around the same time, kiddie punk. I guess mall punk works too.

[OneZero]

I'm not a Green Day fan, But I feel I need to stand up for them a bit.

Nobody can argue they sold a shit load of records ripping off all our favorite bands from the 70s & 80's but these guys I will say have really earned their place.

Way back in the late 80's when these kids were really just kids, they could be always found in any given town in California any night of the week putting on a awesome show, usually for free, rocking the house for a bunch of their friends.
If you ever got to see them before MTV got a hold of them you might admitt they put on a really tight show.

just my flame starting rant.

P.S. I thought they got their look from the Wiggles. Now thats an awesome band. Saw 'em at the collusium in Oakland this year. Wow is all i can say.

[I'm Painting Again]

I'm not a Green Day fan, But I feel I need to stand up for them a bit.

Nobody can argue they sold a shit load of records ripping off all our favorite bands from the 70s & 80's but these guys I will say have really earned their place.

Way back in the late 80's when these kids were really just kids, they could be always found in any given town in California any night of the week putting on a awesome show, usually for free, rocking the house for a bunch of their friends.
If you ever got to see them before MTV got a hold of them you might admitt they put on a really tight show.

just my flame starting rant.




P.S. I thought they got their look from the Wiggles. Now thats an awesome band. Saw 'em at the collusium in Oakland this year. Wow is all i can say.

i agree..

i thought it was stupid when my friend stopped liking them when they hit the big time..though i do like the early years and dont care too much for the music after they got big..

[littlebrothersclothes]

I was doing a college radio show at the time they were still on Lookout! (Kerplunk-era), and it was obvious that they were going to be huge, because they were (by far) the number-one requested band by adolescent females. (Number-one by adolescent males: Slayer, dude!)

Doug

[bedbug]

Anyone else find it lame that the 'Day took the name of their B-Sides collection, Shenanigans, from the name of an EP by another Lookout Records band, Squirtgun?

[Shabbadoo]

Anyone who starts a song with "Do you have the time to listen to me whine" in a copped British punk accent isn't worth anything.

that guy needs to blow his nose.

And I don't have the time to listen to him whine.

The Wiggles though, that's hilarious!

Kiddie rock is good, but toddler rock is where the big money is anymore... You just have to keep going for a younger audience.