Green Day - Dookie Poll also C/D?

dud. buncha poseurs. i don't care how played out that sounds.

mxpx?

mxpx are soldiers of jesus iirc

but no i was talking bout the green day. carry on

I listened to this album so much when I was at school. It fit on one side of a C-90 - can't remember what was on the other side, maybe SFA? but yeah I will have to re-acquaint myself with some of the album tracks.
Voting WTP as it was the first time I heard GD and thought it was just amazing.

I'm sure this poll will reveal no shortage of unadventurous voters. Therefore I will vote non-single, which I would've done anyway.
It's just a matter of deciding which one, which might be kind of impossible...

Having a Blast vs Sassafras Roots vs Eminius Sleepus
Burnout and Chump are also really good.

"Pulling Teeth" really the only one on here I don't like
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I can appreciate this as I've only recently finally come around (lol) to enjoying this song after years of always skipping Track 6.

Although if "J.A.R." were somehow able to be included, this would've been a very easy decision.

it feels like their definitive move from goofy three-chord pop-punk to "songwriting" with bridges and stuff.

I dunno, I kinda hear some bridges n stuff on "39 Smooth."

I don't even mind them branching out a bit (Nimrod's a fun album IMO), I just have no desire to hear Billy Jo singing ballads. Ick.

Not to be confused with Greenery Day, the Japanese holiday.

kinda glad Green Day didn't drop nowadays, shudder to think of a slew of people cutely titling their blogs "Do you have the time...to listen to me BLOG?"

one of my fav memories of Green Day growing up were all my friends arguing over whether Billy Jo was british or not.

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, April 18, 2014 12:31 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Walking Contadiction", "Geek Stink Breath", "86"

― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, April 18, 2014 12:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The long intro to 'Panic Song' is one of my favourite Green Day moments ever. It's just such a shame they couldn't come up with a better song for the rest of it.

one of my favorite moments was watching MTV air a live Green Day concert and Billy Joe going "this next song is dedicated to....uhhh....uhhmmm...YOU! (points at audience member). The guy over there making all that noise! This is called....CHUMP"

kinda glad Green Day didn't drop nowadays, shudder to think of a slew of people cutely titling their blogs "Do you have the time...to listen to me BLOG?"

― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, April 19, 2014 1:36 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty sure i did this in 2003

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"panic song" rules! i always skip the intro (awesome tho) bc i love the second part so much! that descending chord progression under "the world is a sick machine breeding a mass of shit" is IMO their finest/peak moment, seriously

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"Having a Blast" is a dope song but those lyrics are so cringeworthy. but it's fun so who cares

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.

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

"Pay attention to the backstreets and the broken nose / Some call it socks, some call it niiiice"

my brother thought the lyric in "When I Come Around" was "sell doughnuts at my door"

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.

Always preferred the non-sweary version of 'Creep' by Radiohead.

my brother thought the lyric in "When I Come Around" was "sell doughnuts at my door"

― 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?"

Happy Birthday, Dookie!

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$200 worth of punk.

Had never really looked at the album cover in full before.

https://jamesostafford.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/green-day-dookie-large.jpg

just listened to Insomniac for the first time in forever ... it might be better?

blew them off the stage

nice

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.

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.

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

39 Smooth is the actual best.

I prefer Insomniac to Dookie, too. The intro to 'Panic Song' still gets the blood pumping!

the world is a sick machine breeding a mass of shit

Insomniac doesn't have the classic singles of Dookie but I agree it's a better listen from start to finish.

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

typical man, thinking he can do a woman's job better than her.
(jk obvs, would've made my week to have been there! )

Did Billie Joe actually relocate to the UK?

yes, purely to gain punk credibility.

(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

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).

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…”

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.

yes, purely to gain punk credibility.

― the manwich horror (Neanderthal),

he got sick of people asking why he sings in a British accent

Now we just need Sting to move ti Jamaica and we're sorted