green day ulks!

"Dookie" is quite good, but i don't like "American Idiot" so much.

sid vicious wrote: green day is a punk poseur band and punk haters i hate you so screw you cause i am a punk and i bet they could play better than you oh yeah im also in a punk band for punk likers we just started it im drums we have bag pipes too

Quit the caffeine

I actually quite like their songs; they're DEFINITELY not as bad as Simple Plan. I've a sneaking suspicion that a wealthy amount of people who "hate" Greenday are teenagers who spend all of their time trying to be an "anti-conformist."

Snow Dog wrote: I like Green Day, I think that they are ok.

No they're not Admit it, Snowy, they suck some major ass

 

I love how VH1 and MTV start plugging American Idiot as the first "punk-rock opera". It's disgusting, it really is. They are terrible, they have no musical talent, they are uglier than Steve Howe after he's been run through a meat slicer, but for some reason, people buy this sh*t!

Here, check out these two sites:

http://www.geocities.com/gdaysucks/GreenDaySucks.html

and

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-11931/gd.htm

 

There ok because they hate bush and arren't afraid to say it. That takes guts, even if they are talentless wrecks.

The Miracle wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: Poxx,I have tried and tried and tried to introduce her to some good music.She is exposed to so much prog it's not funny.She just doesn't like it.I did get her into the Beatles though.BTW,Are you insinuating I have crappy taste in music?I like Yes,Genesis,ELP,KC,Rush,Spock's Beard,Neal Morse,The Flower Kings..etc.That's crappy music??????? That's okay. Most younger kids are into simpler and lighter music. Usually that music isnt good at all, but that's just how it goes. Another problem is than nobody wants to promote the good music, what is promoted is the bad music. The tremendous amount of all this pop-punk merchandise just freaks me out

My girlfriend daughter is 13 but she has a pretty independent mind and doesn't care what the popular kids are listening to or if it's on MTV or not.  She used to like Green Day, but now prefers stuff like Damnation by Opeth and Symphony X.

Kids prefer rap and hiphop, and according to her and her friend kids today actually think rock music is boring and is what old people listen to.  Interesting that you mentioned kids prefer lighter music these days.  I guess teens just aren't cool anymore

Another problem is that kids just can't take any song lasting over 5 minutes, no patience whatsoever, and that's a big hurdle to overcome to get them into prog.

I'll probably be laughed at for this, but my first "band" was in fact Green Day. To this day I listen to all prog rock, prog-metal, and....Green Day. I can't really explain my fascination with them, though. Sentimental value, perhaps? I do believe that "American Idiot" is a 5-star CD, but in the world of punk, as opposed to the world of prog, which it could barely garner 2 stars. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. Being a teenager, I do like to listen to the occasional music that I can easily relate to. And i WAS into Green Day before they hit super-stardom recently, and though I don't exactly embrace their newfound position, I still support them 100% and am actually attending my 3rd concert of theirs in September. Every now and then, I find Green Day to be a nice change from prog, the complete oppostie in most ways (altough American Idiot does contain two 9 minute "epics" with 5 sub-sections each ). And as far as Billiie Joe goes, well I love the guy. If you ever have seen him in concert, he's not the big a dude, rather short and skinny actually (like me!) and he has so much freakin' energy that it is near impossible not to have a good time, and I really enjoy that quality in a performer; again, something you will rarely ever get in prog rock concerts nowadays.

So, yeah, I'm a fan, but a proggie at heart I remain

Green day sucks

To get people slightly younger than me into Prog, play them Dream Theater!