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Green Day can be called the godfathers of pop punk. They have been around since the early 90's and have taken America and the world by storm with their snotty brand of rock and roll, pop, pop punk, emo, indie, alternative music. Learn all you need to know about how to become a Green Day Fan.

Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Things You’ll Need:

* Ears
* Fun loving personality

Step1
To be an ultimate Green Day Fan the first thing you must do is to become acquainted with their music. You can check out the Music of Green Day online at sites like mp3.com, myspace.com, amazon.com, and many other music websites. At all of these music websites you will be able to listen to Green Day mp3s, stream Green Day mp3s, download Green Day mp3s, and maybe even buy Green Day mp3s.

Step2
Once you have listened to some of the music of Green Day you should decide which album of Green Day is your favorite. The music of Green Day spans the musical spectrum of alternative, punk, pop, rock, indie, emo, and just plain rock and roll. The albums which Green Day has released include:
* 39/Smooth (1990)
* Kerplunk (1992)
* Dookie (1994)
* Insomniac (1995)
* Nimrod (1997)
* Warning (2000)
* American Idiot (2004)

Step3
Once you have decided on your favorite Green Day Album or CD you need to decide which is your favorite Green Day Song. Some of the hit songs from Green Day Include:
1. Maria
2. Poprocks And Coke
3. Longview
4. Welcome To Paradise
5. Basket Case
6. When I Come Around
7. She
8. JAR (Jason Andrew Relva)
9. Geek Stink Breath
10. Brain Stew
11. Jaded
12. Walking Contradiction
13. Stuck With Me
14. Hitchin' A Ride
15. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
16. Redundant
17. Nice Guys Finish Last
18. Minority
19. Warning

Step4
Once you have a favorite Green Day album and song you need to learn some Green Day Lyrics. You can either learn the lyrics by listening to Green Day Songs through your CD player or ipod or you can search for Green Day lyrics through websites such as megalyrics.com

Step5
Once you know your favorite Green Day lyrics you need to pick your favorite member of the band Green Day. The members in the band play guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. The members in Green Day are:
Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion)guitar).

Step6
After you know your favorite Green Day band member you need to get some Green Day merchandise. Green Day merchandise may include Green Day t-shirts, Green Day Posters, Green Day Patches, Green Day Downloads, Green Day Hats, Green Day CDs, Green Day lyrics, FGreen Day pictures, Green Day mp3s, Green Day images, Green Day bags, and any thing else to do with the music of Green Day. You can purchase Green Day merchandise from the official Green Day website or sites like amazon.com.

Step7
Next, you should do some more research on Green Day and read up on Green Day interviews, Green Day Discography, and Green Day articles. You can find information on Green Day on websites like Rollingstone.com and alternativepress.com.

Step8
The final step in becoming a Green Day fan is to see Green Day live, or attend a Green Day show at a Green Day Tour. You can buy Green Day Tickets at ticketmaster.com or usually at the venue where Green Day will be playing. Tickets for Green Day shows may be expensive and hard to come by, so make sure that you look for tickets far in advance of when Green Day will be in your town.

That was fucking lame. And when was it posted?? They simply listed the tracks from International Superhits for the hit Green Day songs and omitted everything from American Idiot. Idiot.

brilliant!

haha, that made me laugh!

hahah that was stupid

So if you haven't gone to a Green Day show you're not a real fan?

Well I'm screwed.

I was disappointed GDA didn't get a mention in step 7

I was going to say that actually.....where's GDA? lol!!

haha lol that's crazy...

That so dumb its funny

What a moronic thing to do.

Step 5 is awesome. It's very important to pick a favorite member indeed.

whoever made this needs to get a hobby : D

Boo hoo according to this I'm not a fan.

That was extremely moronic.
But I love how they just copied International Superhits!'s tracklisting for the Green Day hits thing.

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i fixed on step 7.....

So basically becoming a band music fan includes picking your favourite album, song and finally - a member. Pathetic. Seems like I'm stuck somewhere between step 2 and 3, because I can't choose my favourite song by them.

There shoud be another step between 7 and 8, which would be joining some Green Day message board, like GDC for example

that's exactly rightttt

this is really stupid, u shouldnt have to choose your fav song/album/member, u can like all the songs equally and the albums, it stiill makes u a fan of green day, also u dont need to see the band live to make you a fan either.

What a load of bum.

Step 3 needs to be updated..

Well, I'm clearly not a fan as I don't have a favourite album- it depends on my mood, and I don't really have a favourite Green Day member- I love them all equally!

For the song list, they didn't even include the last songs off of Superhits...

like macy's day parade.

emo!!!


What the fuck?!?!?!?!

Haha, what a load of crap. According to that thing, I am no fan. I don't have a favorite album or song, nor do I have a favorite band member. Emo... wtf??? Oh man, I just listened to Green Day, I'm so emo... lmao. The "author" just listed the songs off ISH and forgot to put "Waiting" and "Macy's Day Parade"... what a dingbat. Apparently he/she's not much of a Green Day fan either. lol.

Haha, I remember back in 6th grade I'd wear Green Day shirts and getting called emo literally about every day. Now it's cool to wear Green Day shirts. Lucky kids, not having to deal with that shit. Green Day is so far from emo.

i must have became a green day fan wrong- i didn't follow those steps at all.
maybe out of order or at the same time for some of those steps, but i've never chosen a favorite album or song. (and i did all this "research" before i knew more than 2 full songs! take that fucking list!) and learning lyrics was a gradual process as i kept discovering albums over the course of 2 and a half years. (oh my god...it's been 3 years now...*faints*)
but nah, i became a fan by specifically not following those damn steps.

the article itself though it pretty amusing because im going to print a few out and shove it in random people's lockers just to piss them off.

same here. and I guess I'm not a fan because I don't a have a favorite song.
I think, that step 4 should be, "join a wickedly cool green day fourm like GDC."

Damnit, I've never seen them live, I must not be a real fan.

This was uh, interesting? Nice, listing International Superhits for "some of their hit songs."

FAIL!

And BTW I'm missing step 8

You just need to do step one, and thats it.

Wow. What a piece of crap

awesome

WTF?? Green Day emo? No. Wrong you idiot.

They say pick one favourite GD song. That is inpossible. You can't just pick one.

At first I thought that was made as a joke but after looking at the comments I'm guessing it's not. Who would honestly waist their time making this?

Amazing, isn't it? That somebody could take something like musical tastes and break it down into steps

I would love to know which Green Day songs are indie/emo.

What loser compiled this useless bunch on information?
Honestly, how can anybody tell anyone how to be a 'real fan' or not?

LOL
Oh dear, it seems that I'm not worthy of being a "Green Day music fan". I haven't even picked a favourite album!
I might as well start over, because I haven't followed any of the steps in order

haha thats just ironic

that was hella stupid

I hope I'm not the only one who also got labled as an 'emo' for liking their music...

I'm a Green Day fan! For all this time I didn't have the answer.

Wow I guess im not a Green Day fan.
I don't have a favorite album, song, or person.
If that was a class I would have failed.
Lame.

okaaaaaay that was dumb!haha

Same here.

I'm a ral fan,I have done evrything!!