What other people in our lives think...

[Clockwise]

What does your family, friends, significant others, coworkers or acquaintances think of Green Day? What do they think of Rev Rad? This is the thread to discuss what the not super fans in our lives think of the band we love so dearly. 

 

i'll get the ball rolling. My family is really enjoying Rev Rad, in fact my sister is liking Green Day more than ever and is super excited to see them for the first time this March. Their favorite songs on the new album are Say Goodbye, Still Breathing, Youngblood, Troubled Times and Ordinary World. Of course I shove the music down their throats every chance that I get, so that helps. 

[Jesus of Seneca]

That I'm obsessed and insane.

 

If they've learned to like Green Day at all, it's because they've got no choice 

[Wretched & Divine]

My mum has always been supportive of my love for anything, and it is no different at all with Green Day. In fact, she is a pretty enthusiastic support in the sense that she has gone with me to see them live twice and she regularly asks me about them, and if she sees something in the news she'll report it back to me even though I always already know 

As for the intensity with which I love Green Day, I think some of my friends are a little thrown by it. It's insanity to some of them that I'm touring the country with them, for example, or that I have their lyrics inked into my skin forever. But, again, my mum is amazing and so supportive. And ultimately hers is the only opinion that really counts to me.

[Montclare]

One of my co-workers, who's 69 years old, loves them. She's liked them since the 90s, but I think her level of fandom has increased with my influence.   She calls Still Breathing her new favorite song and bought RevRad. She loves the  lyric videos for Say Goodbye and Troubled Times.

[Shahd]

Nobody around me likes them  So sad

I barely convinced my best friend to like few of their songs, but that's it.

[Emilie]

My dad and I got into Green Day together - he got a CD of theirs when I was ~4 years old and it became our thing to listen to them. He's not on the level of joining a forum like this, but you bet we're seeing both Green Day and the musical together this year  

[UNICORN VOMIT]

Hubby saw them in 2009 & loved the concert - he likes GD in general & thinks revrad has some good songs - hates SB with a passion.  His first memory of GD is the mud fight at Woodstock.  He actually understands as he acknowledges everybody needs a passion.  I have 2 tennis & GD. 👍

 

[M0n3y]

My dad is also a Green Day fan. He went to see them in '98 here in Belgium and it was the best show he had ever seen. I surprised him with Green Day tickets for their Amsterdam show on his birthday  You should have seen the look in his eyes, he was so happy about it  I have very few friends that also like Green Day, but I've always managed to find someone to go to a show with me. My brother is completely bored with Green Day, I may have OD'd him a wittle bit 

[Göta]

I got dad to see Green Day with me in Berlin back in 2012. He's still really proud of it, and he still always tells me if he's heard them on the radio, hehe.

I've also brought my friends to see them a couple of times, and they enjoyed it, but otherwise they don't care too much tbh. 

[Comrade]

Well back when they played at Wembley Stadium in 2009 I called my mum to tell her I bought a ticket and she replied 'yeah me too!' 

[herewegoagain]

My best friends know that I'm on a GD bender at the moment, and probably think it's just that, a phase, but I don't really care too much about "converting" anyone. This place fulfills my discussion/fangirling needs  One of them works in a record store and got me BIAB for christmas which was nice ("I am watching you on twitter y'know") - I do wish I'd gotten into RevRad from the release though because they might've had some cool promo stuff left over at the time.

Neither of my parents had heard of them at all when I unwrapped the cd, which isn't surprising considering their age and tastes. I'm thinking of getting my dad Foreverly for his next birthday, that's as close as they're gonna get to enjoying GD

I do think my big brother is sort of intrigued. He's into playing guitar and goes to a lot of gigs (mostly sort of dad rock bands), and he mentioned enjoying that WICA fan performance that went sort of viral, so if they do come back to Oslo this summer there's a chance I could bring him along, show that it's not only Bruce who can kill it live!

[Billie Hoe]

My dad is totally indifferent (honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even know the band's name if I asked him), my siblings are a bit annoyed and my mother is totally supportive and even kind of proud, even though she's not a Green Day fan herself. She likes their music, though not all of it, and even included them in the playlists for her and my dad's 50th birthday parties. Before I saw them for the first time in London, we had relatives over (my aunt, uncle and little cousin - she was 12 at that time) and my mum made everyone watch the entirety of Bullet in a Bible (yes, even that part - I hid behind the couch) and almost lovingly said "She's crazy"  She even wanted to come with me to the concert but she wasn't willing to wait hours in the queue so she explored the city instead. When Bang Bang premiered on the radio, she danced around the kitchen but followed with "it's not as good as their older stuff" (she likes the trilogy songs). 

Apart from that, I don't know anyone who likes Green Day remotely as much as I do. My best friend likes the song Peacemaker and would go on a concert with me if all she had to do for it was pay 50€ for a ticket. Her ex-boyfriend and ex-friend were very anti Green Day and said they were stupid and terrible (in my presence ). I have one friend who likes them a bit more but only because she was a fan during the AI era, I once borrowed her all of my albums and DVDs but she really doesn't seem to have any interest in them or their new album anymore. She seemed pretty disinterested when I told her they released a new record. 

A friend from college likes them ~casually~ (as in, likes their Facebook page) and the other one doesn't know anything about them but constantly tags me in anything related to Green Day she sees on the internet. A classmate of mine who I'm not friends with wears a Green Day shirt from the 99 Revolutions tour every now and then and seems to be a bit of a fan (he was like "holy shit" when he found out they were on tour via my twitter). Another classmate who I barely talk to once said to me that Green Day are the only band her and her boyfriend can agree to listen to in the car because their music tastes couldn't be any more different but Green Day always works.  

[Guest]

I know that my mother loves their entire discography. She listens to them on her way to work so she's a pretty big fan. I sometimes see my dad listen to their older stuff like Dookie or Insomniac. But that's it. I don't know if he loves them but I know he likes some of their stuff. My brother on the other hand can't stand them which is completely fine. He likes more hip hop and rap. I like some of his music but others I can't hang with. I don't really talk Green Day with them but they know that I like them. So yeah, that's pretty much it. 

[RedundantIdiot]

Since seeing GD last week on my own in Leeds, Dad has been saying that he wishes he'd gone with me. When I told him what songs were on the setlist, he recognised a few songs that he didn't realise were GD songs- such as Basketcase and Good Riddance - and that he remembers listening to those songs when they 1st came out. He also told me that there used to be a music channel on the TV around 2004/5 that used to play a load of rock songs, this is where he saw the videos to the likes of AI, BOBD and WMUWSE. I've been showing him footage of the concert on YouTube and he was really impressed. My Mum doesn't really know many GD songs but the ones she knows she likes. I don't know if she would enjoy one of their concerts as they might be a bit too loud for her.

[Chin for a Day]

Hubby thinks I'm on the verge of stalking.  However, he does like what he has heard from Rev Rad.  He thinks SB is their best song since Brain Stew (which he also likes).  I'm hoping once he sees them in concert he will be less critical.  Either way he puts up with my GD obsession with very little complaints, just as I put up with his loves, with very little complaints.  It truly is love to sit down and watch a 2 hour documentary on how DC3's won the war without complaining.  He owes me.

[Montclare]

1 hour ago, herewegoagain said:

Neither of my parents had heard of them at all when I unwrapped the cd, which isn't surprising considering their age and tastes. I'm thinking of getting my dad Foreverly for his next birthday, that's as close as they're gonna get to enjoying GD

 

That's what I got my Dad for Christmas last year, and he loves it. He loves the blend of their voices and wants them to make another album together.

[MaraGreenDay]

My mom likes them, she likes a lot of songs, Her favorite right now is Still Breathing. She always teases me about how Billie is so small and how young He always looks, but she thinks He's so cute, she even have pics of Him in Her phone lol. A few months ago I showed her when they were inducted in the RRHOF and she cried with me, she's been with me through all my years being a GD fan, I always tell her the latests news, shows her videos, especially if is something fun or cute, she's was there with me when Billie went to rehab, she saw how worried and sad I was and she was too, she even tells me how great is to see Billie right now looking all good, healthy and happy. She loves them, not as much as me lol, but she does. My dad is indifferent, He likes a few songs but that's it, but I love how the other day my dad asked me "how that other guy who plays the other guitar was, and how the bassist wife was" cause I told him they got cancer a few years ago, told him they were fine right now and He said "Oh good, thank God they're ok", so he doesn't show much interest, but he knows how important they are to his daughter. My brother is totally indifferent lol, He just doesn't care, He just knows that I love them so much haha. They were really supportive when I got my tattoos, cause they know my love for them so they didn't even question them. And they've always told me that they will do everything so I can be on first row when I can finally see them live (probably never lol). So yeah they know that I love them so much ( but probably not how much) and they support me 

[jengd]

My husband is a bit like me in that he liked the music and was happy to go and see them live, but was also stunned by what a great show they put on the first time we saw them.  We are both keen music fans and have gone to lots of shows over the years, we have very wide ranging tastes, but he's always happy to go and see GD.  He's not nuts like me, and I try to be very calm and play it down round everybody really. A lot of our friends don't get it and look at me likeI'm a little crazy, then husband always steps in and says, no you need to see these guys live, they are fantastic.  Their Glasgow show in 2009 was only about my sons second or third show ever, and he loved it, -BJ got him in the chest win the hose - and happily goes to see them but his tastes have moved on since then don't think he listens to them.  Some of my friends like and listen to them, some not.  My colleagues think I'm mad but love it.  A very close friend wanted me to go and see Donnie Osmond with her recently and I went, and I got so much ribbing at work, it really blew my reputation that I was going to Donnie! Husband and I were in California a couple of years ago, drove across the Oakland bridge and I was beside myself, could happily have spent days stalking them but I was good, stayed calm and we stuck to the plan - without the GD tour!  When I run at the gym, I use a programme so I'm running in San Francisco, and he regularly asked me if I saw "my boys" and I always say, no, not today,  sad lol 😂 

[Grinch]

Since I came to my current high school, I feel that I've actually influenced a lot on other friends and even teachers. Green Day was just another band but now I have like 4 friends who have most of their albums and even got my English teacher into their newer stuff like Warning and Revolution Radio instead of only Dookie / Nimrod. My band teacher is a huge fan too. When my friend wrote an arrangement of Jesus of Suburbia as sheet music for band, the whole class learned it. Same thing is currently happening with Reel Big Fish 

[Brun]

My best friend loves Green Day, she liked them already but when I played her more stuff she loved them, she loves Rev radio and her favourites songs on it are still breathing and Youngblood, my mum also loves Green Day because of me too, she even paid for my ticket to go and see them last Sunday in Leeds with my uncle!

[Cunt]

My dads quote on Billie "The little bastard grows on you doesn't he?" 

[DeJennsitized]

Anyone who knows me knows I love this band a lot. My mum is used to it, doesn't actively love them but knows some songs and basic info about them (because I used to not shut up about them, lol.) My friends are all aware, as is a UK actor whose career I follow  I've met him loads and he must stalk me on twitter sometimes because when one time he announced he was choreographing a piece set to WMUWSE, I tweeted to say how excited I was to see it and he replied "I thought you might be!" LMAO.

Green Day music is something I bond with my sister over. She is 20 and has special needs but loves Green Day, because I play her it and she sings along  

[Overjoyyed]

My family really like American Idiot and the hits off 21CB. I come from a family of music lovers so they understand my obsession. 

I'm missing IRL Green Day friends though! 

[BucksCoEric]

When i began listening to green day shortly after american idiot can out when i was 9, i bought the album and my mom listened to some of the songs on it and absolutely hated it. I remember her looking at me and telling me what "horrible lyrics" they had. Not horrible as in poorly written but horrible as in she basically thought they were bad people trying to be a bad influence on the listeners. I'm not sure what my dad thought, though i know he doesn't like them now. My brother hated them too and thought they were immature and people trying to be cool. He actually one day took my american idiot cd and scratched it up so i couldn't listen to it anymore. I remember he even made a home movie with his friend that was supposed to mock skateboarders who make those really cheesy skate videos(though it was honestly pretty funny). But he purposely used st jimmy as the soundtrack for it because he wanted to use "a song that sounded real bratty." In middle school and high school a lot of kids knew me as that kid who loved green day and i took a lot of crap for it. Even though the other asshole kids would bring up green day to mock me more than i ever brought the band up in normal conversation. 

[End Of The World]

Me: Mum, can I go to see GD live in Milan?

Mum: Who?

This is all you need to know.