Green Day were very obviously influenced by UK bands - the Kinks and the Who especially, although I reckon the singer's accent is still firmly US-routed.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:54 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup. 'Warning' taking the riff from 'Picture Book', 'Walking Contradiction' taking the riff from 'Do It Again' etc.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
Longview is my favourite song about pounding off
― paolo, Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
Classic if you were a teenager in the nineties
― paolo, Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
"Having a Blast"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
"Pulling Teeth" really the only one on here I don't like
The live version of Chump on the b-side to WTP sounds like it was recorded at a kids' birthday party
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
basket case, one of the all time great pop songs
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
The Welcome To Paradise breakdown is so good.
Really hard to decide between all the singles on this.
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
I played this album a ton, but I can't think of how ANY of the non-single songs go, weirdly.
― Walter Galt, Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:12 PM (4 hours ago)
I'm having this problem right now, too. I know it was a long time ago but I'm a bit weirded out by how few of these I can bring to mind. Ah fuck it, Kerplunk was better anyway.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Thinking about their discography as a whole, the success of "Good Riddance" on Nimrod really saved Insomniac from New Jersey status.
― good and relaxing like akon dont matter (intheblanks), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Classic classic classic.... then again I was 11 and it was my first cassette tape. Still love this album and know every word.
"Basket Case" is the only one of the big singles that I don't like all that much any more - maybe because it points too much toward Green Day's bad stuff to come. "Welcome to Paradise" gets my vote.
― skip, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
I really loved this album cos i was in middle school when it came out. I think the day i found out about it, someone had a tape of it at school and they just gave it to me cos it wasn't there thing. I remember reading the lyrics while listening to it. I'm gonna have to re-listen (cos i haven't heard this in at LEAST 15 years) cos I didn't really have a clear favorite, it's such a consistently good album from start to finish. One of the first three songs has a really cool Who-like instrumental break in it I remember absolutely loving.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Hard to choose between "Longview" and "Basket Case", though I may very well give a vote to "In the End" (my first exposure to the album) if nobody else will.
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
BURNOUT
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 17 April 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Insomniac is FAR superior
voted "longview" without remembering that "basket case" was actually on here
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 17 April 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
having a blast
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 April 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
I have never heard this album, lol old. I have one of the singles on Lookout!
I do have respect for these guys, they seem fairly well-intentioned and they made Lookout a ton of money iirc
I will listen later & report back
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 April 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
'When masturbation's lost its fun, you're fucking nowhere'. As an awkward teenage boy I thought this line was super deep! Bless em. I revisited this a couple of years ago and it's really fun. For all its goofy stoner humour, there's a sweetness underlying it all. Perfect teenage music. My green vinyl copy of it was my pride and joy. For all that its a mainstream pop-punk record, next to horrid shiny stuff like Sum 41 and Blink 182 it sounds like Crass.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
First band I loved. Teenage me used to smugly tell everyone that Kerplunk! was far superior: my initiation into the joys of challopsing. Insomniac was a let-down and I had lost all interest by the time the next one came out.
― robocop ELF (seandalai), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:19 (ten years ago) link
Insomniac is p great but weighed down heavily by "Brain Stew"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
whichever one goes "i walk a lonely road, the only road that i have ever known"
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link
Ick. I dont f/w green day American Idiot era :(. Tho that album is half good
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:27 (ten years ago) link
Thinking back I have no idea what's on Insomniac besides "Brain Stew" and I'm not sure I even listened to it more than a couple of times - and this in the days of playing new purchases over and over and over.
― robocop ELF (seandalai), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
"Walking Contadiction", "Geek Stink Breath", "86"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
Brain Stew does weigh things down but that's kind of the point... love the transition to Jaded.
― skip, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link
lol i distinctly remember hearing that one for the first time while driving home at night and wondering if they were serious because it was so awful
anyway, basket case
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
some of us who aren't miserable fucks find it a little easier to enjoy things than you do
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Sad but true
― skip, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Daaaaam markers!
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
haha i totally thought markers was being ironic
should have known better : /
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
"American Idiot" the song is probably the most successful mainstream protest song of the Bush era and has aged well. It got people who didn't quite agree with the message to sing along, almost as if they knew they would agree with it later, which they did on Bush, Iraq, terrorism, gay rights, etc... "Holiday" is also still listenable.
The rest of the album not so much...
― skip, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
thread now littered with broken dreams
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
Yea the title track is fantastic but the album is out of their wheelhouse imo
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
like a bypass or service road or roundabout
of broken dreams
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 April 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Lol
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
All my myself=eyerolly imo
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
all I need is their comp tbh
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 April 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
Basket Case has immediate appeal but I have heard it so much by now that it bores me. longview is the one that still has some of the magic left.
So objective vote would be basket case, longview would be the subjective one for me.
― Moka, Friday, 18 April 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
i loved this when it came out, then immediately went into hating them for years, now I've come back around. this is a great record. can't pick one track.
― akm, Friday, 18 April 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
"Longview" was the first Green Day song I got into, so it still tugs at the heartstrings a bit. I actually was not much of a Green Day fan when they came out tho - my taste in my teens was very particular and I liked very little, 'rock' wise. I came around to them in my 20s more or less.
for whatever reason I thought BJA was Australian when I first heard "Longview" and I was like YAY THE DONOVAN OF PUNK ROCK
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
"2,000 Light Years Away" tho still my fav GD song.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure that everyone only needs one Green Day album in their life and that is a) the one that came out when they were 14-15 and b) the objective best. So I am happy that the one that is genuinely objectively the best came out when I was 14.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:07 (ten years ago) link
this was a fun listen, "Longview", 'Basket Case" and "She" were the ones that really stood out to me
― sleeve, Friday, 18 April 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
During my freshman year in lolcollege (when this first came out), the guy in the room next to me that listened solely to hip-hop found it utterly hilarious that a band would name their album Dookie. So much so that he borrowed it from me to show his friends on another floor. Then, for the remainder of the year, every time he saw me in the hallway he would say, "still listening to Dookie?" then crack himself up all over again.
I will say classic, for sure. I pulled this out last summer and thought it stands up surprisingly well and I forgot how many of the non-singles I loved. Probably going to vote, "When I Come Around".
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 April 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Do you ever think back to another time?Does it bring you so down that you thought you lost your mind?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 18 April 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Then, for the remainder of the year, every time he saw me in the hallway he would say, "still listening to Dookie?" then crack himself up all over again.
haha
― marcos, Friday, 18 April 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
in high school i had a lot of friends who listened to nothing but hip-hop and they thought everything i listened to was hilarious
― marcos, Friday, 18 April 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
(never cared for green day past age 12 though)
yours or theirs?
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 April 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
"Having a Blast" is a dope song but those lyrics are so cringeworthy. but it's fun so who cares
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 28 April 2016 03:54 (seven years ago) link
i can't tell what most of the words are. it's one of those songs where i sing along to the phonetics, and i've been singing it that way for so long that i don't care to learn the words for real.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
one of BJA and Kurt Cobain's strengths were coming up with these amazing phonetic hooks that you didnt need to know the words to enjoy. they were better that way. for 10 years i thought the last verse of all apologies was "choking on the ashes of a renerade." and god knows i didnt know the chorus to geek stink breath when i was singing it at 9 years old
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 April 2016 05:17 (seven years ago) link
"Pay attention to the backstreets and the broken nose / Some call it socks, some call it niiiice"
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 28 April 2016 09:00 (seven years ago) link
my brother thought the lyric in "When I Come Around" was "sell doughnuts at my door"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 28 April 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
I had a friend when I was 15 who spouted all kinds of RONG info and I always believed it cos I was gullible and he told me that "Longview"'s radio version wasn't edited, that the band intended it to sound like that. so I thought Billy Jo was really saying "I'm sick of all the same old shh" and that he actually did that crazy squeak that obscured the word "fuckin" intentionally.
I felt so lied to when I went into Blockbuster Music and listened to the unedited thing.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 28 April 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
Always preferred the non-sweary version of 'Creep' by Radiohead.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
― Neanderthal, Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:03 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha, so did my friend Scott! The first time we heard it he was like, "Donuts on my door? What?"
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
Happy Birthday, Dookie!
― alpine static, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.jimdunlop.com/images/jimdunlop/products/en_us/thumb/11025000001.MAIN.jpg
$200 worth of punk.
― peace, man, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
Had never really looked at the album cover in full before.
https://jamesostafford.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/green-day-dookie-large.jpg
― peace, man, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
just listened to Insomniac for the first time in forever ... it might be better?
― alpine static, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
blew them off the stage
nice
― j., Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:04 (five years ago) link
i had a big poster of the cover art on my bedroom wall, when i was 6 years old. loved the shit out of this album back then.
but, yeah, insomniac was better. had better singles too.
― BringTheAuBonPain, Sunday, 3 February 2019 06:43 (five years ago) link
Insomniac IS better - it's more consistent, feels much more like an album than Dookie where the singles stick out and there's more variety, but nothing beats the pummeling 33 minute screed of Insomniac.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 February 2019 06:58 (five years ago) link
Serena Williams being a Green Day stan has always been one of the most endearing things about her
25 years ago my life changed... for the better. Thanks @GreenDay @billiejoe @trecool @MikeDirnt pic.twitter.com/3ATEc4J4tJ— Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) February 2, 2019
― Roz, Sunday, 3 February 2019 07:34 (five years ago) link
39 Smooth is the actual best.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 3 February 2019 08:02 (five years ago) link
I prefer Insomniac to Dookie, too. The intro to 'Panic Song' still gets the blood pumping!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
the world is a sick machine breeding a mass of shit
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
Insomniac doesn't have the classic singles of Dookie but I agree it's a better listen from start to finish.
― skip, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
London dive bar cover band launches into "Basket Case" and lo and behold, guess who is in the audience and jumps onstage to sing lead:
https://www.tiktok.com/@greenday/video/7232793292373577006
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 01:08 (eleven months ago) link
typical man, thinking he can do a woman's job better than her. (jk obvs, would've made my week to have been there! )
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 12:06 (eleven months ago) link
Did Billie Joe actually relocate to the UK?
― beamish13, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:15 (eleven months ago) link
yes, purely to gain punk credibility.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:16 (eleven months ago) link
(actually it was because of Roe v Wade and him being fed up w/ America)
sorry not Roe v Wade itself, but the overturning of it
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:17 (eleven months ago) link
It's weird how so many left-leaning people I know have done the opposite, moving to Florida and especially Texas (Austin specifically), and they hate the new laws they've enacted (against abortion, gun control, transgender rights, education, etc).
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:12 (eleven months ago) link
I mean, I suppose it’s a theoretically productive thing to do from a voter standpoint; but to paraphrase Lucille Bluth, “I’d rather be dead in California…”
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
Theoretically, but here's how it played out: U.S. conducts a rushed census in 2020 (thanks to the pandemic and Trump, it doesn't go that well, but it's held anyway). Texas has a lot more people now, so they get more Congressional reps (while states like NY get less reps). But wait, the majority of Texas is still really conservative, and with gerrymandering sealing the deal, that means a bigger right-wing influence in Congress.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:47 (eleven months ago) link
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal),
he got sick of people asking why he sings in a British accent
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:01 (eleven months ago) link
Now we just need Sting to move ti Jamaica and we're sorted
xxp I was thinking more with regard to the state laws they were complaining about, but yeah interesting point…How does a rock star like Billy Joe move to the UK? Does he go back and forth (for visa purposes)… or do you qualify for UK citizenship if you can prove you were sufficiently influenced by the Clash?
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
yeah no, wealthy people seldom have immigration issues (unless you're a russian oligarch or political fugitive).
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:25 (eleven months ago) link