GREEN DAY SINGLES POLL

still "Basket Case" but found myself humming "Macy's Day Parade" the other night.

Ya know, it's still "Longview" for me. Love that bass line and the way the song fades out at the end.

And it still reminds me of that giddy wtf feeling I had when I first saw Lookout's Green Day on motherfucking MTV.

Will anything not from "Dookie" get a vote?

I love "Basket Case" and "She" equally, but I can't hear "Basket Case" without mentally mashing it up with the identical "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" so "She" wins the tiebreaker.

Went with "Basket Case," but didn't they have singles before Dookie?

"Basket Case" because I am obv.

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" still a war crime.

when i come around

Went for "When I Come Around" just ahead of "Welcome to Paradise"

"Longview" (always a favorite) for me.

I thought 2,000 Light Years Away got released as a single years after its initial release? maybe it was radio-only?

that woulda got my vote.

I like "When I Come Around" now a lot more than I did when it came out, but I still went with "Basket Case."

curious to see if the poll-jokesters go with "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams," "Good Riddance" or something more left field.

I would pay somebody gladly 5,000 dollars if "Good Riddance" was whisked away from existence.

It's not just the terribly cliched lyrics, most of it isn't even the song's fault (although I don't like the tune either). But it's the goddamn high schools who chose it as their graduation anthems, obviously not understanding what the song was about (Billy Jo claims it's a break-up song!)

I always see behind-the-scene clips of Seinfeld's last episode in my head whenever I hear that song.

their Working Class Hero cover was actually kinda nice.

"She", for the bass alone; was going to do a Dookie poll but this will do instead.

'She' wasn't a UK single was it? I don't remember a few of these being singles.

I thought Geek Stink Breath was the shit when it came out, like best thing they'd ever done. I guess Basketcase is the keeper w/ benefit of hindsight

voted for my favorite post-Dookie single, "Waiting," but I like "Welcome To Paradise" and "She" and "Basket Case" too. their "Simpsons Theme" really sucked.

"She"

Went with "Geek Stink Breath"

Basket Case is the best unashamedly commercial bratty punk pop song ever written, so that wins.

I've always been curious whether the songs on Dookie were written for a major label release or if they already had a bunch of songs stored up when they got signed. Welcome To Paradise obv wasn't cuz it was on Kerplunk as well

not voting. Offspring are better.

"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" by a landslide for me. I mean, "Basket Case" was surely catchy and all that, but with "Boulevard..." the showed they were able to do more musically sophisticated stuff than fast'n'furious punk.

And then, I have voted for the least punky Green Day single and the least punky Offspring single. :)

I voted for Brain Stew because it is BY FAR my favorite Green Day song. The only Green Day song I really love. That AC/DC riff certainly helps.

i want to vote for half of these. dookie = my GOLDEN YOUTH

the whole concept of this poll is fucked.

"Holiday"

Good Riddance > Basketcase > Holiday > Welcome to Paradise > Minority

i totally loved 'geek stink breath'. not sure if i still do though

were you also prom queen xp

voted for basket case, but couldve just as easy been JAR, geek stink breath, BS/jaded (although unlike scott, mostly for jaded), or longview. green day was the absolute best thing about middle school for me.

Longview, ahead of When I Come Around and Welcome To Paradise

xxp

Me?

..........................WELCOME TO PARADISE.

I voted for Brain Stew because it is BY FAR my favorite Green Day song. The only Green Day song I really love. That AC/DC Chicago "25 or 6 to 4" riff certainly helps.

Corrected that for ya.

yeah I was kinda o_O at the idea of that being a AC/DC riff. but then I hate that song.

i staffed a summer camp in 1998 and some middle school kids performed brain stew at the week-end talent show. so rad.

Gotta rep for "Warning," even though I may actually be slightly fonder of the Dookie-era stuff. Sure it's a Kinks ripoff, and yeah the rest of the album is sub-par but, man, what a peach of a hook.

What other songs besides "Brain Stew", "25 or 6 to 4", and Papa Roach's "Last Resort" have that A-G-F-E chord progression? Gotta be like hundreds.

I love the idea that "Boulevard" is somehow "musically sophisticated." If anything, it's probably easier to play than the "fast 'n' furious punk" since it's slower.

I voted "Holiday." I like "Basket Case" but the "I'm just stoned" line really kind of bugs me, like they gave up on trying to be funny or rhyme. "When I Come Around" and "Wake Me Up" are good too.

I barely remember any these.

...but I'll go with "Welcome To Paradise."

"yeah I was kinda o_O at the idea of that being a AC/DC riff. but then I hate that song."

i think it was more the riff + drum beat that made me think they were going for an ersatz back in black kinda thing. i'd never even thought of that chicago riff! now it's seems really obvious. i gave them an a for effort for that song. i've held on to that greatest hits promo i got years ago just to hear that song every once in a while. and i always thought it was a shame that it devolved into one of their lame punkers. comparing it to ac/dc isn't really fair though. it would be like the worst ac/dc song of all time. kudos to whoever produced that song though! it sounds great loud.

I love the idea that "Boulevard" is somehow "musically sophisticated." If anything, it's probably easier to play than the "fast 'n' furious punk" since it's slower.

It was more difficult to compose: 1. It has more chords than most punk songs do and 2) a slower tempo makes it harder to get away with a song that doesn't have a great tune.

Good work

These all suck.

No winner.
All really really bad, but whichever one it was that sounded even more like The Levellers than usual is the worst.

I could MAYBE do an OPV from this list but jesus christ picking one is impossible. I think a lot of the post-Dookie stuff is great! "Warning," "Hitchin' A Ride," "Brain Stew," all solid. "2,000 Light Years Away" if present would win though. I guess it has to go to "Welcome To Paradise" for capturing absolutely everything great about them at their peak.

haven't heard any of these songs in 5-6 years.

"Walking Contradiction"

Cool how "Welcome to Paradise" is scoring so big, being that a version of it was released in the pre-major-label days.

"When I Come Around" for "I'm a LOSER and a USER so I don't need no ACCUSER"

"BOBD" was good the 1st 4 times I heard it, and was never nearly as good again afterwards.

I will probably be the only one to vote for J.A.R. I enjoy "Welcome To Paradise," but it's far from my fav single from such a great singles band (up until American Idiot).

"redundant" cuz it's my favorite single from my favorite green day album, and "basket case" doesn't need another vote.

what a boring band.
i might even go with 'boulevard of broken dreams'
i find 'dookie' a tolerable enough record to listen to, but it's just a string of songs that all sound virtually identical to each other.
and then they coughed out a bunch of other records that have sounded so bland i've barely paid attention to them

Welcome to peeeeer-a-dize

J.A.R.

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^^^I like this tune

Nice Tunes Finish Last

Macy's Day Parade deserved a nod too

not that I can tell what the heck he's on about, but its gotta nice vibe

By far way too few votes for the "American Idiot" singles. The only truly good Green Day album.

^^ RONG

I've never heard "Jesus of Suburbia" but that might be the worst song title in the history of snotty song titles.

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lol

its weird but i actually didnt know the names of any of the dookie singles until reading them on here just now

that album cover reminds me of the human centipede

Good tunes once in a while, these dudes.

Stuck With Me is ridiculously underrated

along with the rest of Insomniac

'Stuck With Me' is great, but would have voted for 'Welcome to Paradise'

By far way too few votes for the "American Idiot" singles. The only truly good Green Day album.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, December 14, 2007 3:16 AM (eleven years ago)

lol this fuckin guy

honouring the fire without fail since nineteen ninety whenever

it's a entirely defensible position

an*

(as in im an American idiot)