Why did Green Day stick on you?

[Chad is Rad]

I love you.

[finksgirl]

Their music has kind of always been there for me, y'know? One of my earliest memories is being 4 in the back of a Mustang, listening to Basket Case on the radio.

But the point where it went from, this is one really awesome band to the love of my life was probably Hurricane Katrina. When my family were evacuating their music was all I listened to the entire way to Houston and it just became a security blanket for me. They were comforting and familiar. They really give you a sense of hope, y'know? Like everything will be alright as long as you've got faith in yourself. They taught me to be comfortable with myself, that I can overcome anything.

One of the only times I think I truly cried was watching them play The Saints Are Coming at the first Saints home game post Katrina. It just overwhelmed me. Not only were the guys that wrote the music that got me through here playing but they were making a difference, helping people out. They're just the greatest people on the face of the earth. And even sweeter than I imagined when I met them. I just can't thank them enough. And it seems like everyday I love them more, not less.

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[Guest]

i really dont know..

i remember seeing the when i come around video on fuse when i was like...11 and i hated it.

and then when i was in seventh grade i watched the making of the american idiot video and thought they were really funny

so i started liking them? haha

[rinu]

i dont know the reason when i heard BOBD first on the radio i think it was best song i've ever heard

[tq6993]

well i had heard basket case sometime arund 2000 i was maybe 8 years old idk. i liked it but never thought anymore of it. i heard american idiot and liked it. i heard WMEWSE but i always thought that the three songs weere all different bands. then i looked up WMUWSE and found the rest of their stuff! but that is how i discovered them. i liked them becuase they were catchy, not to hard and not to soft or melodic (sp?) and they were just good jams! i could also relate to what the songs were about (well not at 8 years old, but i can now) especially Longview. i dare any one of you to visit St. Joseph, Missouri!

[whatsmyname_jimmy]

My sis had bought the nimrod cd for my brithday [she though tit looked rather cool, and came to the conclusion that an 8 year old would think that too xD] And to be honest, i kinda through the cd out of sight, i didnt even lsiten to it. Then i found it when i was 12, when i was in more difficult times, and i played the CD, and i loved it because it wasnt like any music i had heard before, so, i bought other albums and thus, i became a bug fan

[waiting09]

I first started getting into them when I was driving to work one day and heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the radio and instantly loved the song so I made a note of the lyrics so I could look it up later. After that I found a few other songs I liked of theirs then decided to see if they matched my measure on performing live, so I looked up a video of them performing BOBD live and the second they started and I heard how amazing they were live I was hooked.

[Serpent72]

I was having problems a few years ago, and I got into AI, and I felt as though, somehow, I could relate to it. I then got into their other stuff, and into music in general. I'm a metal freak now, but Green Day is still awesome, and one of my favorite bands.

[Angela.]

It all started for me about 5 years ago. I saw a girl wearing a Green Day hoodie, and I had no idea who Green Day was. So I went online and looked them up. The first song I ever listened to from them was a live version of Extraordinary Girl on AOL, and I instantly fell in love. The lyrics were what drew me in. I could relate to them so easily. And after listening to some more songs, I realized that this band had amazing lyrics, and that this was the first band that I had ever been able to relate to so easily. And the rest, they say, is history...

[Juan]

because I put glue on the back of Nimrod

[Seedless_Reject]

I think it was the fact that here was a band who had lyrics that i could relate to and who had members with lives that i could to relate to in the fact that they had a hard life full of hardtimes and they were able to live through it.. I grew up in a family where my mother was a workaholic to support the family and my father was an alcoholic, which meant that I had to basically raise my little brother. I also have a few health issues (panic attacks and other issues that tend to send me to the doctors every week, nothing severe though). The family and my health issues seems eaiser to deal with ever since Green Day Entered my life when I was at about the age of 10. And although more hardtimes keep coming, with dad having cancer and going into remission (he quit drinking). I know I can trust green day and their powerful music.

[WrenchNinja]

I heard When I Come Around all the time as a child because my brother owned Dookie. A few years later, I start hearing about the band again. I was older now and started buying the CDs. I loved it. They weren't some annoying, fake band. The music actually meant something to me and I just felt an attachment to them.

[metalhead#87]

A couple years ago I went over to a friends house and he was like "Green Day is the shit." He tells me to check out the songs American Idiot and Holiday. So the next day I go on napster, search Green Day, and put on holiday. As soon as the drums come in on the intro, they were pretty much my favorite band. I went over and picked up american idiot from a local bookstore and have been a fan since.

[Green Day Nerd]

mostly because billie joe is a great songwriter. and i can relate to most of their songs. and they are just really damn good

[GreenDayzStar27]

Dookie came out when I was 8 years old and my older brother bought the CD. I always heard him playing it in his room and when we would take family trips. I didn't own my own copy of the album though because my parents thought I was too young to own a walkman or discman so I couldnt listen to the CD. My brother used to make me pay him $1, $2, or $3 if I wanted to listen to a song and the price depended on how good the song was. I used to save all my money just so I could pay my brother to listen to the CD. It probably would've been much cheaper for me to buy my own discman

[amy_runs]

because I put glue on the back of Nimrod

I put glue on Insomniac

[Alex.]

because they piss people off.

[thenextsexpistol_mak]

well... the story goes back to 04, i didnt like rock music or any music at all, and rock? that was just noise... no one in my family likes music anyways, so

it was my bros birthday party and at that time he was into being popular and being cool, you know so if his friends liked Hillary Duff he would go and buy every single thing related to her, anyways, somebody gave him a cd from this rock band(puah!!!) and my brother was like ''i love it''

when the party ended he putted the cd and heard complete 2 or3 times, he pasted the poster that came with the cd on his room and spent like a week saying how amazing it was. i didnt like it, i didnt even bother on hearing it, it was noizie, this...

like boy band backstreetboys three member trend :down:

it was aggresive and i thought the leader of the group was called jimmy...

I DIDNT KNOW SHIT AT THE TIME, so, you know, hes my bro and bothering your bro is always very fun, so i took it as a hobbie to hate that band, my bro ther ended up losing interest on them and on hillary duff and he decided to be a priest.

IN 07 i believe, i was into the environment and i was starting to realized just how FUCKED UP every thing was, there were this guys who would bring a speaker to school everyday and one day somebody brought this cd , they put it up and i was reading a book and suddenly it loudly starts DONT WANNA BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT, wait a second , my brother usd to like that, and i think ''dont want a nation under the new media...''

It was angry, and i was angry, and i still am, and i never was the kinda girl that fitted to well or who had anything to do with anything and i realized this guys knew...

... so i get home and i take my bros cd: Green day, ok.... i put it in my walkman (my bro still doesnt know i 'borrowed' his cd) and i heard it complete , carefully reading the lyrics from the booklet...(hey, the guy is not called jimmy, its Billie Joe!!!) and i didnt just like it ....

For about 2 weeks i would go everywhere with the walkman and the cd, i learned every word, i went to youtube and i saw all the music videos, i headed to google and learnt everything there was to learn about green day, i bought the other cds and i picked up a guitar, at that time, it was green day, green day and all the other bands? nah, green day is the only good one..

Now i like other bands, and not just that, i cant function well if i dont listen to music, i play guitar and this year im going to enter the conservatory ( the national school of music from my country), i play the drums... and i listen to green day, its still my favourite band , im a green day nerd: i have every song theyve ever recorded on my ipod (but the simpsons theme song, I CANT listen to the simpsons cause they remind my of my dad)... oh, and know my brother is the one who hates rock bands and i have the time of my life telling him its his fault cause he gave my first gd cd!!!!!!!!!

now i know: is not jimmy, is not billy joe, is not william joseph, ITS BILLIE JOE for gods sake!

[thenextsexpistol_mak]

i love what i used to hate

[GreenDayChannel08]

Well, for me it was when I heard At The Library off of their first album. From then, I've been a hopeless Green Day fanatic

[Foxboron]

So you basically commited the worst possible heresy in all of music kind? Seriously dude, that's not cool. Gangster rap is a quick shot to the head, but country... burning at the stake.

Let us all now know that green day have 1 song that closly realeted to country!

though its about dominated love slave... that likes to get...dirty?!

[fatmanjo]

I was 10 or 11, and on a bus with the rest of my class (can't remember where I was going...swimming? Who cares) and everyone around me just kept singing "don't wanna be an American idiot" at random times- just that one line over and over again. I get pissed off and go "What the hell is that?" Some random guy says "Green Days". 2 minutes later the song comes on and I loved it. They were the one band I could relate to, and eventually my obsession with Green Day put everyone else in my class off them- more Green day for me

[Astrid.]

Because they're sticky bastards

[Guest DxD]

The main reason why they've stuck with/on me?

I sometimes affiliate them to my life you know....

It's like, someone dedicated their music to you.

Don't you have the same feeling? I went trough some crazy shit in American Idiot period... Lost amazing girl, ran away from everything life faced me with, but still I've learned to turn back, to deal with the things and face my fears. Now, I'm standing on a crossroad of life, wanna know some answers. Question my beliefs, question the whole world.... I think I'll love 21st Century, since I think I had my breakdown...

(I know it sounds stupid, but I believe in that)

The day I grow up, I'll suicide...

[besthingintown05]

I first saw Green Day on the front of SPIN magazine. My friend handed it to me and told me to read the article - she thought I would like them. My first reaction was that they were just some fugly band, but a few days later, I was looking through music videos online when a video popped up and they were playing American Idiot on AOL. I was curious, went out and bought Dookie (AI wasnt out for another couple weeks) and that was it. Green Day has been my crutch ever since. I got through a very long depression listening to them, and now I guess they just stuck.