The Green Day Fangirls' Confessions Thread

[stories and songs]

There was a period of time when I was a baby fangirl that I had the International Superhits booklet propped up on my nightstand so I could look at Billie every night before bed.  I listened to that album alllllll the time and was very attached to that booklet. Wasn’t even that cute of a photoshoot, haha.

This conversation has led me back to listening to Poprocks & Coke for the first time in forever and it made me so happy. It’s such a cute, happy little bop.

[jengd]

I actually wore out my International Superhits CD! Not listened to it in a while, must go back to it.

[The Grohl]

Oh man, this takes me back to when I was just getting into Green Day. I found both Dookie and ISH at Walmart and had them in the cart trying to figure out which one to get with my allowance. I think I picked ISH because it had a good amount of Dookie songs on there. I picked up Dookie later

[stories and songs]

International Superhits was a great one to get as a new fan who didn’t know where to start. I got into Green Day when my dad bought American Idiot. He played it in the car all the time. As an angsty pre-teen I was into heavier rock and wasn’t sure if I liked Green Day because they were comparatively upbeat. It took six months before they wore me down and I was like “fine, not only do I like Green Day but I think I have a bigger problem because I REALLY like their singer.”  

After that was when I got ISH and funny enough, Shenanigans, which I don’t think I had any idea was a compilation album, because I was 12 and probably didn’t even know what a compilation album was. Those were the two main CDs I listened to on my boombox in my early fangirl days. I absolutely LOVE Shenanigans, I have such a fondness for songs like Desensitized and You Lied and Scumbag. Another album I haven’t listened to in a minute that I’m now revisiting. I have so many strong memories attached to it that are being unearthed listening to it!

[CristhyneS]

The order in which I got the rest of their discography after becoming obsessed with AI was entirely dictated by the order in which I was able to find them in record stores. And it was pretty random too. I remember Shenanigans was one of the first I found, while Dookie took a lot longer and a lot more visiting. 1039 and Kerplunk were of course the last ones, with Kerplunk being the very last. I think I found 1039 in a record store in Venezuela if I remember correctly, while Kerplunk I only found during a visit to the US. Good times, I remember after I raided all the stores in my area and got all the "easy" ones, I started visiting record stores every where I went, or going to certain areas or shopping malls just to visit a record store there. And I'd get so excited whenever I found another album

[The Grohl]

Funnily enough Shenanigans was the hardest for me to find. I eventually found a copy of the disc and booklet only at the Salvation Army. But that's wasn't good enough so a few years later I picked up a proper copy at my local record store.