Green Day - American Idiot

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:04 pm

Seeing as to how Green Day happens to be one of my guilty pleasures (I don't care what the "punk underground" says, Dookie is a classic), does anybody here recommend getting this album?

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Orion · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:12 pm

Dead Machine wrote:

No.

Stefan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:12 pm

December Flower · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:37 pm

T.I.E. wrote:

yes

Anonymous · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:28 pm

Orion wrote:

Dead Machine wrote:

No.

Ness · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:36 pm

God NO!!

This is striaght pop crap. They have no punk left in them. They are just for teeny bopper sheep. DO NOT waist your money.

Fingon · **Joined:** Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 pm **Posts:** 3207

for a pretty commercial anti USA(it's been done, guys) punk album it's quite amusing but still not worth buying. And the September ends songs makes me puke my guts out :evil:

Skartasis · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:28 pm

Fingon wrote:

for a pretty commercial anti USA(it's been done, guys) punk album it's quite amusing but still not worth buying. And the September ends songs makes me puke my guts out :evil:

put the video has like soldiers and shit

valefor · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:47 pm

If you want to hear Punk, buy some Discharge or U.K. Subs or Circle Jerks or Rudimentary Peni or Black Flag or Raw Power or
Dr. Know or Scum Army ... if you want to hear pop buy Green Day or Blink 182.
V.

valefor · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:51 pm

metalNESS wrote:

God NO!!

This is striaght pop crap. They have no punk left in them. They are just for teeny bopper sheep. DO NOT waist your money.

Darlings of MTV / VH1, 'nuff said.
You ain't gonna see any old Discharge on MTV, thats for damn sure.
V.

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:23 pm

valefor wrote:

If you want to hear Punk, buy some Discharge or U.K. Subs or Circle Jerks or Rudimentary Peni or Black Flag or Raw Power or
Dr. Know or Scum Army ... if you want to hear pop buy Green Day or Blink 182.
V.

I agree that Black Flag is excellent. The song TV Party is a definite classic. Though for the record, I think Bad Religion is my favorite punk band overall. They had about five minutes of fame with Stranger Than Fiction (ironically my favorite album by them) before ending up back in the underground after their style of music was declared "obsolete" by the masses.

And yes, I know Green Day are MTV darlings. But hey, they certainly beat the pants off almost anything else MTV plays these days (save for may be Queens Of The Stone Age).

Stefan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:31 pm

American Idiot is a good album... lots of Kinks/Who influences... so sure it's not Punk Rock any more (was it ever anyway ?) but it's good classic rock, better than 99,99% of what can be seen on MTV

:twisted:

valefor · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:40 pm

Seinfeld26 wrote:

valefor wrote:

If you want to hear Punk, buy some Discharge or U.K. Subs or Circle Jerks or Rudimentary Peni or Black Flag or Raw Power or
Dr. Know or Scum Army ... if you want to hear pop buy Green Day or Blink 182.
V.

I agree that Black Flag is excellent. The song TV Party is a definite classic. Though for the record, I think Bad Religion is my favorite punk band overall. They had about five minutes of fame with Stranger Than Fiction (ironically my favorite album by them) before ending up back in the underground after their style of music was declared "obsolete" by the masses.

And yes, I know Green Day are MTV darlings. But hey, they certainly beat the pants off almost anything else MTV plays these days (save for may be Queens Of The Stone Age).

I like punk; the energy, the attitude, and the inherently minimalistic hooks; hey, I am not knocking Green Day: they are good at what they do, I just always thought it was funny that they were ever really considered punk, along wuth Rancid, Blink 182, et al.
It can't be said enough: MTV blows.
V.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:07 pm

Husker wrote:

Orion wrote:

Dead Machine wrote:

No.

lizardtail · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:52 pm

You should, man; I heard that Green Day were the best band on the planet..

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:18 am

lizardtail wrote:

You should, man; I heard that Green Day were the best band on the planet..

Well, he has a point. :lol:

SnakeShan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:17 am

This album is OK Ok.. Not as good as their old stuffs
Dookie is their best.. Now they have gone pretty commercial

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:12 pm

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

lizardtail wrote:

You should, man; I heard that Green Day were the best band on the planet..

Well, he has a point. :lol:

Well, you know, if all the bands on the planet were reduced to the bands played frequently on MTV, Green Day would definitely rank up there. So there is some truth to that statement. :twisted:

Stefan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:18 pm

Seinfeld26 wrote:

Legacy Of The Night wrote:

lizardtail wrote:

You should, man; I heard that Green Day were the best band on the planet..

Well, he has a point. :lol:

Well, you know, if all the bands on the planet were reduced to the bands played frequently on MTV, Green Day would definitely rank up there. So there is some truth to that statement. :twisted:

I heard that Green Day were the best band on the MTV planet... :twisted:

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