Green Day
 

My favorite band - and I know there have to be other Trispheans who love them as well! Maybe not as much as me... a bit obsessed, meself... but at least enough to come in here and say sommat!

I like them. They aren't my favourites in the whole universe but they do sound distinct to me (maybe just because I recognize them) and I always get a not-quite nostalic feeling from then since they were one of the popular bands when I was in school. I'm more familiar with their first album than anything else though I gave away my copy some time ago. We studied "American Idiot" in one of my college courses. That was amusing. :)

They are my FAVORITE band. I have grown up with them. <3
I like all of their albums, but I like Dookie and Nimrod days the best.
(Even though Paper Lanterns is my favorite song)
I actually had the pleasure of seeing them on their American Idiot tour, and it was THE best concert that I have ever seen.
Billie Joe puts on an AMAZING show.

Dookie would be the first one I knew of. Darn, I thought I had that right. I meet people now and then who don't realize that Green Day was around before American Idiot.

It was a literature course that we studied the album in, as part of the sort of adolescent rebellious/teenage angst section. We were studying literary classics and how they have been manifested in cometmporary popular culture.

That he does! I did not see them on that tour; I was just getting into them by the time they were touring, and had other conflicts which prevented me from being able to go. However, I did see them for their 21CB tour, and it was beyond amazing - my dad, who has been to his share of rock shows, said it was THE best show he'd ever seen. And he isn't easily impressed. I have heard that the 21CB shows are even better than the AI shows - and that the crowds were easier, too, without as many of the one-hit-wonder fans.

Aw, it's okay; it's a fairly easy mistake. When I first began to get into them, I thought it was their first album as well. I am fortunate enough to have older sisters whose tastes in the 90s were shared with me, so even though I did not get into them then, the seeds were planted and as I hit adolescence the bands of the 90s became important to me.

That's really cool! I love analyzing modern things in conjunction with other forms/manifestations of certain kinds of art. And it certainly makes students feel much more engaged with thigns they otherwise may not feel to be very relevant. I had an anthropology class in which the album was mentioned, although only in passing, with regard to the uses that art has served anthropologically through history - political being one of them.




As an aside, I have to say I am surprised to see a positive reaction, because I am used to seeing lukewarm and downright cold responses to this topic.

To Green Day? I'm not sure how popular they are as a whole but some of their songs are definately up there. One song from Dookie always sticks around with me, though it's not "When I come Around," it's another.

"Sometimes I give myself the creeps.
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up..."

That one. I think it's Dookie anyway. I sometime get Green Day crossed with Live on occasion because both artists were popular at the same time. The soundtrack around my grade 7 was pretty much Green Day, Live, Silver Chair, Moist, and Bush X.

Green Day is pretty distinctive though, most of the time. I could tell who it was singing when I first heard songs from American Idiot even though I hadn't heard them in years.

EDIT: Basketcase? Is that the right song?

I honestly can't stand them or any of their music. >.>

I was listening to Holiday when I smashed a light and nearly killed
my finger. Haven't listened to them sense.
I do like them, though. They have nice music. ouo

I had no idea there was a musical. I want to go see! Sort of. More to see what one would do with it than to hear the songs. I'm curious. :)

When I Come Around (GD) and Lay Me Down (Live) are the titles I always get mixed up but as soon as I recall the actual song I figure it out quickly enough. I like Live and Green Day about the same, they both have songs that I like and songs I don't like but I think Green Day has a few more. Of course, the only Live CD I've heard is Throwing Copper and that was some time ago, plus the one song Dolphin's Cry so I've heard more of Green Day. My tastes have largely shifted to metal and rock now but I still like some of the old stuff ;). Not an alternative junky anymore.

I loved Green Day as a younger teenager. They were my favorite band and I still know all the words to most songs. it's been a while, though, so I could probably sing along to the music but not remember everything off the top of my head.

My favorite albums are the first two and Warning. I only liked a couple songs from Nimrod. Dookie was a decent album as well. But I just really like the sound of the earlier ones a lot better. I actually didn't like American Idiot very much, and I don't like 21st Century Breakdown at all.

Foxboro Hottubs, their side project, is really interesting though.

My musical tastes have shifted a lot closer to indie and folk, though, so I don't listen to them much anymore.

Yeah, I still listen to them when they shuffle onto my iPod - especially the earlier music, which I do still enjoy. I just don't actively say, "I want to listen to Green Day right now" like I do with other artists. I appreciate and will listen to most genres of music, and I gravitate closer towards certain styles which change gradually over time.

I like some things from Green Day. She's a Rebel might be my favorite song by them. :)

Yay. A Green Day forum here too. :3 Hey Femme. ^_^

I used to be totally obsessed over them as well , when I was about fourteen I guess ... wow , that's already six years ago o.O
I haven't been listening to them much ever since , but I still like their songs every once in a while :)

I think the new stuff is horrible though . :(

wow, it's been years since they were cool in the circles i hung out in as a kid hahaha i have not thought about them in a long time

Eh, I like them alright, but over time, I'mm finding myself drifting away from English music (in general) to Japanese.

I used to love them. I still like them now though.

It isn't that hard. There are music videos with subs. And even then it doesn't matter, you can still feel the emotion behind it. Some music out there feels so fake, Japanese music doesn't yet so....there you go.

Interesting cause all the Japanese music I've heard does seem rather fake XD. But I like to be able to sing along, feeling and knowing the lyrics, and I don't speak Japanese. English is my language and it is the language of any popular-style (songs, on an album, by an artist who tours - any genre) music that I tend to like. Anyway there is such a wealth of good stuff that already interests me.

Ironically I have a live album of Green Day playing in Japan... actually, two. Since one is an audio from the 90s and one is a DVD from the most recent tour.

EDIT: Also I don't watch music, I listen to it XD.

Are you just listening to the happy bubbly pop-techno stuff? (Which I will admit, once in awhile...I do listen to it >> <<). But in general I'm listening to some sort of Rock and whatever you want to consider Gackt.

Well, I'm on youtube with my music so I'm watching it too XD I get visual and audio XD

I don't like youtube for music, unless it is a specific video of a specific thing, but in general I listen to music without any corresponding visuals. I don't doubt that there is some excellent music which happens to be in japanese, but I personally don't have any particular interest to draw me from my mother tongue. At any rate even if I listen to and like some music in another language I remain limited in my understanding of it. While lyrics aren't everything, they're certainly something, especially in the music I most strongly favor. The thing which first drew me to loving Green Day and which coontinues to reaffirm that love. That isn't to say that Billie Joe is necessarily the greatest poet of his age, but his lyrics have reached me personally in a multitude of ways.

I just feel that most music in English has gotten flat-at least the stuff I hear on the radio. It's all the same thing over and over again. So I kind of branched off into Japanese and a bit of German music -shrugs-

And I hate most of the rap music now on the radio....so I've got to listen to something else.

i like them but dont listen to them often.

Aw, well I love them. I have been perpetually excited every time my thoughts had a free moment for the past... let's say month. Moreso the past week or two.

are they your only obsession?

No, but the most present at the moment.
Especially given that tomorrow (one minute from now...?) their second single will be released; and then on Wednesday the first music video. Next month the first of the three albums.

you sound ecstatic.

You haven't seen anything. When not surrounded by fellow superfans I try to hold it in. But this is a Green Day thread, so... XD.

oh jeez hun dont hold it in you may explode

Nah I got a best friend to geek out with. And we are currently distracting one another.

Do you have any albums? Or songs, or however you think when it comes to music...