Green Day: C or D?

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Has this thread been done before? If it has let me know. Anyway:

I was just listening to Dookie for the first time in a LONG while, and I was surprised at how well it holds up. I don't really care for any of Green Day's other albums, but that one is a really well- written and crafted pop album. I can understand why alot of people hate them, especially with all the crappy imitators that have sprung up in their wake (and still continue to do so), but I can't deny the songs on Dookie. Anyway, your opinions? I'm sure you've got a ton.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

that album changeed my life dude!!!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked Dookie as well as the poppier parts of the album before it. Insomniac was totally horrible and boring. Then they had that acoustic hit which was good until it got overplayed TO DEATH at every college graduation and prom since.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Nimrod is awesome.

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I came to them later - when Dookie came out I had just skipped from Phil Collins and top-40/R&Bish stuff to every little leftist's heroes the Dead Kennedys, and probably hated Green Day for selling out, etc.

Classic classic classic, except for the two inbetween Dookie and Warning that are just kind of meh. The Lookout compilation is underrated, with some great teenage pop-punk ("16," "Going to Pasalacqua," "At The Library").

Favorite GD songs - "She" and "80"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

my mum didnt let me and nellie go to the green day concert :(

― minna (minna), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything they ever recorded is good. Some of it is very good.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Great drumming, I always thought

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 8 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Warning's not too shabby either, especially "Hold On" and "Waiting".

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 8 January 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

In a time when liking Green Day isn't very cool, I still really like them. Dookie was my first ever CD. Not a bad choice at all. I always defend myself by saying Green Day is one of the most influential bands in a long, long while. After Nirvana and Pearl Jam (just for the amount of clone bands), I'd put Green day #3.

I saw a commercial where they said Blink 182 started pop punk...If you're going to lie, at least say it was Green Day.

― Adam Flybot, Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, great drumming, great tunes. Classic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Dookie and everything preceding it: classic.
Everything else: shite.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a common train of thought, isn't it? I liked Insomniac a lot when it came out, and were I to do a Golden Hour of Green Day or somesuch would probably stick three or four from that on it. After that it gets a bit ropey mind, with the exception of Hitchin' A Ride, which I rather like.

And the two-hour live show that they seemingly feel compelled to do as a "big rock band" is really stretching it.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I love "Going to Pasalaqua" or however it's spelled. The one from "1039 smoothed out slappy hours" (or whatever [a lot of kids used to call it "39/smooth" but that sounds so hipster]) that goes "you and I together, hand in hand we run away..."

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to know this weird guy named Tom who played his Kerplunk! cassette every time we got in the car to go somewhere, so my first impression of Green Day was "if Tom likes it, I can probably do better." Dookie came out a little while after that, and I was a little biased. It eventually won me over, though. By the time they released Insomniac, I was crazy for them (and it's still my favorite, although it seems I'm in the minority here).

Lookout! years: alright, but juvenile
Dookie/Insomniac years: classic
Nimrod thru present: alright, but played-out

Cancelling a show in 1995 I drive 2 hours to see: dud

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, "Waiting" off that last album was effing great.

as a child of the grunge era, for a long time I actively disliked Green Day and their peppy, snotty lot. but in time I've come to appreciate them...one of these days I might have to pick up Dookie or that International Superhits comp.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Dookie reminded me of how much I love music.
Every thing they released after reminded me of how much I hate hype.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-11931/images/kidbilli.jpg

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks like his hair is going to eat him.

Dookie's allright, but most of their later stuff bores me (except maybe "Walking Contradiction"). Good Charlotte is way better (At least in the studio - fuck if I know if they can actually play live).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say classic.. I was at a graduation party for a friend last summer and she has some teenage sisters. they were completely rocking the mall punk scene (good charlotte, etc.) but during the night's festivities they kept putting on dookie. so i figure, you know, the kids are alright..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I might even take the Offspring's best over Green Day's best (though Green Day's worst is infinitely superior to that damn "Defy You" song).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Time of Your Life was a good prom/graduation song.

Green Day I tried not to like, then loved.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The hype and played-out post-Dookie comments confuse me. I don't even know if they went platinum last time, and barely got radio play compared to the newer punk-pop singles (or the other crap that passes for rock radio).

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Offspring are excellent to drive around wrecklessly to.

― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

dookie and insomniac are relentless and peerless. i dont love "brain stew", but otherwise, i think i love every song from green day 94-95.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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