i think i ended up getting dookie for christmas '94 (in my stocking, which now that i think about it, is a very funny joke by my parents), so by the time october '95 rolled around i was like "fuck i gotta buy another green day album now???"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
I had a few friends totally into that Gilman Street scene. One of them had not one, not two, but three Green Day tattoos ... before "Dookie" came out. That's kinda like getting a Raffi tattoo right before he released "Singable Songs for the Very Young."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Anyway, I was never into them, but I did see them play a small club show right when "American Idiot" came out. They played the whole album and introduced the expanded band, then played a long greatest hits set, and I thought, huh, I guess they do have a lot of great hits. It was a really good show.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
One of them had not one, not two, but three Green Day tattoos ... before "Dookie" came out.
lol i think this is so rad
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
I sort of feel like this is the most effortless Green Day since Warning, I kinda dig it if I'm being honest.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
xpost lol though I suppose there was good reason to believe that Green Day's ceiling was being as big as Op Ivy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
I'm still regretting my three pre-Schubert Dip EMF tattoos
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
i think i ended up getting dookie for christmas '94 (in my stocking, which now that i think about it, is a very funny joke by my parents), so by the time october '95 rolled around i was like "fuck i gotta buy another green day album now???"― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Hah, me too. Well, my (French who lived in the US) grandparents brought it with them as a gift. Apparently they'd gone into a shop and asked the clerk what a 14 y/o boy would want. I'd seen Green Day doing 'Welcome To Paradise' as a live stream on Top Of The Pops only weeks ago and had been enthralled. I don't think I'd ever seen actual rock music being performed in that particular way and I thought it was incredible.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:18 (four years ago) link
21st century breakdown is the best green day album though― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 1:26 AM (seventeen hours ago)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 1:26 AM (seventeen hours ago)
i don't care at all about green day beyond thinking the dookie singles are pretty good but i really wanna know what could possibly be the justification for this
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:31 (four years ago) link
haven't heard the album but I'm gonna just be humoured by the idea it's a pvmic
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
If I was going to challops a best Green Day album I'd go for Warning. It hit a sweetspot being more mature than the jacking off/sniffing glue era but without being as dull as everything that came after.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
― ufo, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 2:31 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
strongest melodies of their career, all in a row. my previous fav was warning
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
also, idk, i think the “american idiot but MORE” gambit works, the songs are all really tight and propulsive and full of surprises, even the ballads (there’s nothing as turgid and unendurable as “wake me up when september ends” for instance), and it helps that the singles from it weren’t turned into wallpaper by radio overplay. the “story” is incomprehensible and pointless but i connect way more with its apocalyptic vibe than american idiot’s “anti-bush record that is secretly a breakup album” thing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJf2PPbJeQ
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
Kerplunk! is a great record but it seems the pre Dookie stuff doesn't count as part of their discography
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
(there’s nothing as turgid and unendurable as “wake me up when september ends” for instance)
This song invades my head every time I'm outside and it starts raining (here comes the rain again/falling from the stars) and I just wish someone would put me out of my misery.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
I don't feel like this is challops in the least, that's such a great record.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
it's fair to say Green Day album cover art has been on a steep and steady decline since Dookie (which has fantastic cover art). 21st CB has one of the worst album covers of all time.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Not sure if we included 'International Superhits' in the Great Millennial Colour Drought' thread
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Warning is like their Huevos or Lodger, just out there on its own, a great record that's been slept on.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:15 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
imo the insomniac art is their best, wish they had stuck with that collage style
the 21st century breakdown art is godawful but the trilogy is even worse. and father of all motherfuckers is somehow even worse than that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
otm, Insomniac is such a great cover, with Dookie a close second.
I think Father of All is saved from being the worst by how it, almost literally, shits on the cover for one of their more iconic, Broadway show spawning albuns.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
i mean i sort of appreciate it for that reason but it's still horrible to look at
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
oh, absolutely horrible to look at, but beats the 2012 trilogy even so.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
i remember seeing an array of posters of the uno! cover in brooklyn and thinking "i am never listening to that album"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
i am revisiting the trilogy for some reason, idk, i guess i like sorta masochistic projects. anyway this is sooooooooooooo embarrassing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDX0kmzC3J4
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
a song with that title shouldn't be rocking *less* than recent U2 guitar hero sings or a perturbed Coldplay performance.
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
*guitar hero singles
it helps that the singles from it weren’t turned into wallpaper by radio overplay
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
weird that so much recent Green Day reminds me of Northern European rock acts - the Hives, even a bit of Ghost
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
isn't that just due to them sucking too
― j., Thursday, 13 February 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
been spending more time with the new one. this is definitely the best green day song in a decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCReEFO-5M
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
I heard "Meet Me On the Roof" in the wild yesterday while I was out getting lunch, didn't sound bad.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAmulKjcHoo
i take back what i said almost four years ago, THIS is the best green day song in more than a decade
― ivy., Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:37 (nine months ago) link
I’m… actually kinda enjoying a new Green Day song/video, didn’t see that coming
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:40 (nine months ago) link
I wonder how Billie Joe felt making this video
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:48 (nine months ago) link
didn't know they still had it in em
― Left, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:10 (nine months ago) link
nothing revolutionary but compares favourably with blink's attempts to reconcile pop punk with middle age (green day's too for that matter)
the drugs and alcohol are always a worry but i can't really throw stones on that front
― Left, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:19 (nine months ago) link
Why don't their faces age at all ever
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:28 (nine months ago) link
botox
― Left, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:34 (nine months ago) link
i think billie joe is visibly aging into dave foley
― ivy., Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
"hey, finally something that's not a little derivative..."
"WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE"
"... ok, nevermind.
― pplains, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:51 (nine months ago) link
(And I love Green Day. Kids in the Hall too.)
― pplains, Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:52 (nine months ago) link
Sharing this mostly because I wanna know what Ivy thinks
https://www.stereogum.com/2247936/green-day-albums-worst-to-best/lists/counting-down/?fbclid=IwAR2LHSbA84OYQmWtXOVbzqIIHkrtw9Vbu4DBlQAsRIY1UGA6lHiXKkT-KSg
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:24 (eight months ago) link
21st century breakdown is way too fucking low
― ivy., Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:26 (eight months ago) link
Absolutely unimpeachable top three though, glad to see someone rightly rate Warning and Insomniac over Dookie.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:32 (eight months ago) link
Insomniac is the right answer. It’s the only album of theirs I bother with in full tbh, though Dookie and Warning are great too
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:34 (eight months ago) link
for me it goes nimrod / american idiot / 21st century breakdown / warning / insomniac / dookie (cont.)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:36 (eight months ago) link
Kerplunk! is the peak, I listened to most of Warning recent to figure out a song that was stuck in the recesses of my brain and it’s pretty monotonous. Better than everything that came after but worse than Kerplunk to Insomniac.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:37 (eight months ago) link
Warning is one of my favourite sounding albums. Pretty perfect production.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:43 (eight months ago) link