[MUSIC] Green Day - Page 2

Krimsun Monkeh · December 3rd, 2007, 09:28 PM

I've listened to several of their songs. Some of my personal favorites are American Idiot, Blvd. of Broken Dreams, Holiday, etc. Overall they are a pretty decent band.

Daniel Faraday · December 3rd, 2007, 11:04 PM

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I've listened to several of their songs. Some of my personal favorites are American Idiot, Blvd. of Broken Dreams, Holiday, etc. Overall they are a pretty decent band.

Holiday's the only decent song on your list. The other two had the shit hyped out of them.

Minority, Jesus of Suburbia, Basket Case, Give me Novacaine, and Longview are my personal favorites.

And, really, I don't know why I like Green Day so much. I hated them when I was younger, they represented everything terrible in modern music to me. They still do, too. Despite that, I really do love their sound, even if it's simple, even if it's weak by the standards of everything else I listen to, there's just something about them. They're just so painfully charismatic, or something like that.

It's just totally impossible to describe.

~Dorian Gray

Massive Attack · December 4th, 2007, 05:15 PM

Jesus of Suburbia is the only song I like on American Idiot, though I like quite a few songs on Dookie.

Blue · December 6th, 2007, 01:20 PM

Green Day is pretty cool,I like 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends',they're my favourite ones.

Enchanted Rose · December 8th, 2007, 07:49 PM

I don't think the political slant that American Idiot had was convincing enough, whereas with the other albums, they seemed more of a credible punk rock band. To me, none of the members of Green Day genuinely seemed politicized enough to be preaching and pressing their views on others. And so, because of that, they seemed like sell-outs: using the theme political disillusionment to sell records, and ultimately make great deal of money.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up...were really crap, though I can't tell whether that was because I was subjected to listen to them literally hundreds of times, or not.
Jesus of Suburbia was really the highlight of the LP, and Whatsername, Holiday, St. Jimmy, and American Idiot were pretty good.
However, the rest of the album just seemed like fillers, without the coherence of Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming. What could have been rock opera, ended up being second rate. So again, not exactly their best record.

Agent007 · December 10th, 2007, 02:23 PM

One of my favorite Green Day songs is Walking Contradiction. That was a really cool song to listen to.