This the topic where you are free to loathe, despise, be indifferent to or (if you've bad taste like me) like Green Day. ;)

I think I heard Minority first. Gradually after that I picked up on song after song, finding they all give the same 'who gives a :censored: feeling' which is ideal on all days. My favourite GD songs are any which are fast, noisy and have that sneering voice, in other words most of them. Turn on the Green Day machine, I'm happy to listen anything by them, except Boulevard of Broken Dreams. :P

go on, rant! :whistle:

My brother adores them, as does the entire population of wanna-be "cool" people and wanna-be "punk" people that are in the local public middle school and high school systems.

I, on the other hand, despise them with every inch of my soul.

The end.

Don't give a :censored: about wanna be cool or punk or anything like that... I just enjoy a bit of Green Day's music from time to time.

Anytime I feel like " :censored: 'em all", I play some, perfect music for such things. :evil:

As you notice from the word 'accidentally' I didn't intend to like them (not that I was prejudiced). The punkcool but me off a bit when I first heard of them.

I like them muchly. But I got into them around Dookie time when they rawked.

I don't like their newer "moody boy band" style stuff, but otherwise they are very cool. And they rock live.

They are okay, I like their old stuff...but they are overrated

-Banana

Oh jeez. Should I rant now or later?

:censored: it. I absolutely abhor polished "Hollywood Punk", and Green Day are a prime example. Every sneer, every attitude taken not even from the Sex Pistols, but from the Billy Idol Book Of Plastic Punk.

Now, when Dookie came out, I had been aware of Basket Case for about 18 months, from some demo tape I got on a magazine. I thought, despite my feelings towards it, that it showed promise. The promise never materialised.

I suppose I will look back nostalgically on Green Day, when something ten times as bad comes along.

However, as a footnote, I was given a copy of their latest album last year. They've evidently been listening to The Who. Now that does show promise.

I take your point. for me Green Day are just the right side of that line, with the Offspring just the wrong side unfortunately.

But I would argue that it's not possible to be punk by being punk anymore(?!) Anyone who acts like a punk band of the seventies has missed the point of the punk spirit, and I don't see a radical new movement picking up the ball. While I await with baited breath, there's nothing out there that I know of that's truly properly innovative.

Even bands like NOFX (please don't call them plastic punk...) only play music in that same style - they're not really embracing the anarchic element in their music making style. But for me that doesn't mean I don't enjoy listening to them.

Just my two pence worth...

I heard The Offspring for the first time recently, Can't Repeat

They reminded me slightly of Greenday, but didn't have the same rawksome insane quality. in short, tolerable but not fascinating -_-

I punked my way through the 70's and beyond. Green Day was a resurgence of punk when the Seattle grunge scene dominated the airwaves. I welcomed it for sure. They have come a long way since the early 90's. I think their music is more mature now. My how have they've grown! Punk today is far different from the "anarchy in the UK" type punk I remember.

Old Green Day (Dookie, Nimrod) = Good

Newer Green Day (American Idiot..whatever the album before that was) = It's getting old. I'm tired of it.

Though, I have to say, they were the ones who started that sound. All the pop/punk posers all wanna steal their sound.

Bleurgh, I loathe Green Day.

I'm surrounded by people who love them.

if you actually like green day for the music, then I don't hate you

if you're like my little brother and only listen to them because your friends are, I encourage you to take a pineapple up the tiny brown back door

I actually got American Idiot a few weeks back... didn't listen to it until last Saturday!

I just like Green Day... sorta.

I think it's funny how people who really like green day are ashamed and how people who don't really like it brag about how they like it.

humans are silly