Shadowiegirl Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 Er, American Idiot made me get Dookie and Warning. your honesty is to be praised!! I was driving in my car over the mancunian way with a tape my boyfriend had given me at the time, "listen to me whine" came on and grabbed my attention and I spent the next 30 mins playing and rewinding the tape to the same song (yes 20 years ago everyone had tape players in their cars not cds) and that was it, totally addicted ever since. (course now I have moved on to the CD in the car)
ghostshipgirl Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 i remember being 3 or 4 and we were in my mom's pontiac and i remember she had when i come around playing and then i remember being 3 or 4 when i first saw the video for basket case... i feel in love with billie joe (and the fish... i was reallly into fish when i was little don't ask) and i remember being 6 and going to my freinds house for a slumber party and getting kicked out for singing longview...lol....my mom used to love green day but now she can barely stand them....
justcause Posted January 14, 2006 Author Posted January 14, 2006 ^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm just loving all these stories - right across the age-groups, they're great!! How Green Day are totally woven into the fabric of people's lives, and I think 'Dookie' is kind of a landmark. It's as relevant today as it was in'94, and it still rocks!
Dearly Beloved Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 I was just kidding about my story you know, I wasnt for real. I was poking fun at the fact that those people are long gone, just like Green Day's magic days.
dumbstruck27 Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 My brother introduced me to Green Day by making me listen to Dookie. When I look back now at the Dookie era of Green Day, it reminds me heaps of the lifestyle of my brothers and their friends, who were teenagers around that time.
sullenriot16 Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 My mom didn't know who they were back then. My sister did, and she hated them. She still does.
justcause Posted January 14, 2006 Author Posted January 14, 2006 I was just kidding about my story you know, I wasnt for real. I was poking fun at the fact that those people are long gone, just like Green Day's magic days. Well, at least I get to take my envy back! :laugh:
apocalipstick Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 The only person who I personally know who knew of them back in the day was my aunt..who went to Pinole Valley High. she'd seen Mike and Billie around a few times and finally saw them perform on Foreign Foods day. She thought their stuff was pretty good. Once I saw them on TV for the first time, she told me how she went to school with them. and i'm not shittin ya.
Jimmy's_Rebel Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 bought Dookie two months after American Idiot about a year ago. That was my first memory. I would have been uhm... seven years old when it actually came out i think....
Cruella2711 Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 I was 23 when Dookie came out. I saw Green Day on Top of the Pops doing Basket Case, Billie pogo-ing about all over the place, and I bought Dookie next day. Been a fan ever since, got Kerplunk & 1039/Smooth when they became available here in the UK. About two years after seeing them on TOTP, my boyfriend and I were about to move in together, and he had a copy of Dookie too, so it was obviously meant to be. We've now been married for five years and we still listen to Green Day together (he's 53 btw - GD love has no age barrier). Between us, we've got his daughter/my stepdaughter into them, to the point that she's played her copy of A.I. so much it's melted.
ykelly1 Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 I was 17 when Dookie came out, a senior in High School. I was into country music then, so I don't remember listening to it myself, but I do remember a bunch of kids wearing GD shirts, talking about seeing them, etc. It was like a HUGE explosion of punk music that year.
Doggins Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 when I was 12 or 13 I remember my best friend introduced me to Green Day... the first thing he showed me was the artwork on the Dookie cover, being so immature back then we found it hillarious....... (sigh) good times.....
i<3billie_joe Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 When I was little my oldest brother's friend would listen to Kerplunk and Dookie and then that got my dad into Green Day and back then i remeber hearing Dookie and then the other stuff later. But, the first time I bought one of Green Day's CDs was when American Idiot came out. And actually my mom likes Tre, not Billie Joe.
Dannit Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 my brother was really into them, he's a lot older than me, and he went to the 1994 chicago show, the one that got filmed, and he went to a show on the insomniac tour in 1995 i think, and lallapalooza '94. anyways, he has the two cassests and cds of those two records, and he was really into them because during 1994-1995 he was 18-19 . . . i was only 5-6 and was rocking out to my mickey mouse travel tunes cassette . . . but once i got into them he told me all about his early experiences and stuff, with local clubs and the big green day shows
justcause Posted January 14, 2006 Author Posted January 14, 2006 The only person who I personally know who knew of them back in the day was my aunt..who went to Pinole Valley High. she'd seen Mike and Billie around a few times and finally saw them perform on Foreign Foods day. She thought their stuff was pretty good. Once I saw them on TV for the first time, she told me how she went to school with them. and i'm not shittin ya. Well, thanks so much, Pauli Vicious from the East Bay! Your story is great - so is the kid's who bought the cassette for 50 cents, that's like finding a diamond in a dumpster. Stories don't have to be exciting - authentic experience is all that matters.
ArmatageShanks39 Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 the story of green day is actually a rather depressing story. it would make a really good movie (like about their lives, but with a story), if it just left out american idiot. its kinda depressing how everyone left em though. i think people who diss em for signing to reprise are just retarded. i think anyone in their position wouldve done it.
...staples? Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 hmm...i bought nimrod first then bought everything esle and AI came last....the way its suposted to be and i remember when my dad would play longview on full blast on his stereo in 94...so my dad introduced me to them first
GDobsessed Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 dookie is my fav most likely bc all my fav songs are on there. i like the mood/tone of it all. the sound. yeshhhh
fashionvictim86 Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 I remember coming home from school (I was in 6th grade) and I crashed in front of the TV. I was flicking through channels when I came across MTV and they were playing music videos (something very rare nowadays)...Longview came on. I was just in awe. Before then all I ever heard was crap like, ohh NKOTB. haha. The next day, I went out and bought Dookie. I couldn't turn it off. It was like someone opened my eyes to my future of music.
justcause Posted January 16, 2006 Author Posted January 16, 2006 the story of green day is actually a rather depressing story. it would make a really good movie (like about their lives, but with a story), if it just left out american idiot. its kinda depressing how everyone left em though. i think people who diss em for signing to reprise are just retarded. i think anyone in their position wouldve done it. I agree - I think Green Day's own story would make a much better movie than American Idiot, and it would be easier to cast it and to get it right. We should start a campaign!
Lotus Eater Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 I remember listening to Dookie with my sister on her bed when she first bought it, and looking through the lyrics book and being amused by the bolded words and drawings...especially the one where there's a guy "looking daggers" at someone. I think. And I must have stared at that cover for hours... I think my earliest memory of Green Day was when that song "Flagpole Sitta" came out, and everyone thought it was Green Day (it's by Harvey Danger). I don't know why people couldn't tell it wasn't them. The vocals sound nothing alike.
mbk Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 People are upset now that AI got so big it doesn't feel like the old Green Day they knew, but Dookie was just about as big as AI and that happened when they were totally unknown! They went form being a little-known band to huge, and it was dizzying. I first heard them on Conan in Feb. 1994, and back then his show specialized in featuring new and little-known bands. Next thing you know they've sold over a million records and are plastered everywhere. I saw them at Lollapalooza in 1994. They were the first band on the main stage (which is the worst time slot, of course) because they were still relatively unknown when the tour was booked. They only played the second half of that tour. (In the first half, the band that had their slot was a Japanese noise band called The Boredoms. Ever heard of them? Didn't think so.) But by the time they actually played, in August of 1994, they had become huge.
409InYouCoffeemaker Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 I remember being in the car when my sister bought the dookie album, because my cousin introduced GD to her. She would always play it when I was around, so since i was 8 ive been hearing GD...the only albums i dont have are kerplunk and shenanigans. and International Superhits, but thats not really an album. Btw, for those who dont have 1,000 hours, 39/Smooth, or 1,039 smoothed out slappy hours better get it. Its a great album(s). Id recommend 1,039 smoothed out slappy hours because its the mix of both the other cds...and it might be a bit easier to find, not that its easy to find 1,039 smoothed out. But look around.
Shoot That Fucker Down Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 It was like my calling when I bought Dookie for a dime off of my next door neighbor when I was 12 years old, popped the cassette into my stereo out on the back porch and "burnout" played, I was sold.
BillieJoeOwnsYou Posted February 15, 2006 Posted February 15, 2006 My cousin gave me the tape when I was 7 for my birthday...That was when I first got into Green Day...I have been a Green Day Nut ever since then.
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