Doctor Demon Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 Back when I was younger, I would come over to my friend's house and play video games with him. He would play Dookie while we were playing games. I liked the songs, but I wasn't a fan just yet.Fast forward to 2007. I heard a Green Day song in a movie. I thought the song was kickass, so I went on iTunes, saw American Idiot, and bought it. I loved it, and found myself becoming more and more obsessed with Green Day with each listen. I went on to purchase Dookie, Kerplunk, Insomniac, and the rest, and by then I was super obsessed with them. I would research them in my spare time, and eventually I became the "Green Expert" at my school. They've been a huge inspiration to me.
LetItBeHappy Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 oh, those were dark times... I didn't listen to music at all, 'cause i didn't find ANYTHING that I could actually "feel like my own". But then a friend showed me Holiday, and it was like "oh, ok, I can listen to this"... And after a while, I learnt enough english to understand the freaking lyrics and I found out what a great songwritter Billie is... Also, my ear became better and I realized that Mike is really a GREAT bassplayer, and Tré is THE best punkrock drummer EVER, and they became my favorite group and, eventually, I ended up learning everything about them that would be my story (:
4whatsername8 Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 I remember loving the song 'Good Riddance' as a child. I didn't know it was Green Day back then, of course, so that doesn't count.I really got into Green Day when I was around 12 years old or something in January / February 2005. I was still watching Nickelodeon every morning before school; one day they took my favorite morning program off. I got pretty upset, so I resorted to MTV. And lo' and behold, the first music video I ever saw (on that station anyway) was Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I fell in love with it. Later, I bought American Idiot a month or so later. Me and my best friend at the time were addicted to it that summer (she grew out of her Green Day phase, though; I didn't). I would listen to American Idiot non-stop. Eventually, I gradually bought all of their albums and I joined fan-sites for Green Day like this one, bought T-shirts, became known as the 'green day girl' in my class, learned all about the band's biography ... yeah. Basically became a huge fan like all you other people on here! And I've been a big fan for around five-ish years now.Ok, thus concludes my boring tale of Green-Day addicted-ness!
JeanJeanie Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 A few days before my 15th birthday I was getting ready for school and listening to the self-titled Franz Ferdinand album (the only album I listened to at that time). I was screwing around with the boom box trying to get in all of my favorite songs before heading out to school when I noticed a really good song was playing on VH1. Looking at the screen I saw three guys running around in front of a green American flag and the more I watched and listened the more they terrified me. The drummer was obviously crazy. The bassist looked freaky. The singer was intense and singing frankly about America's problems -- a taboo subject for a 14-year-old girl in a strictly conservative Southern Baptist home. I was utterly amazed, terrified, facinated and in love.Green Day came up in the credits as the video ended and once at school I spent most of my first period computer class blowing off work to look up information on them. By 3rd period break I was a full fledged fan and for the rest of the week I saved my lunch money so that I could buy one of their albums -- Insomniac, which never left my portable CD player or my side for the next few months. Sadly, the other day I was putting that album in my car's CD player while I was leaning in through the window and my hand slipped causing me to jolt forward and the CD to snap in half. *tear shed for the fallen* I put the pieces in a box where I keep all of my most important things.
sharon mitchell Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 At the suggestion of a friend, I've started writing a book about how these guys have touched my life. It's going to take some time, but it's a labour of love and I shall enjoy every minute.
bjrules Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 My very first memory of Green Day is when I was about 4 or 5, my Mum and I were in the car and When I Come Around came on the radio and I remember saying "I like this song!". When I Come Around was my all time favorite song when I was little, but I didn't know that it was Green Day at the time.Then, when I was 9, I was at a birthday party and we had the American Idiot Album going the whole time, and I fell in love with it, and about a week later I went with my Mum to go out and buy it. I remember seeing www.greenday.com on the back of the CD case, so I went on that and I discovered that they had heaps of other records out too, and so I got International Superhits and Dookie about a month later and I fell in love with those, and I was listening to one of them and When I Come Around came on, and I was like "Hey, this was my favorite song when i was little!" and I think it was around that time that they really started to stick on me, I was always listening to them, and I soon got all of their other albums and I did so much research on the band and I was really fascinated by their story, so I think that was another reason that they stuck on me. I was also kind of interested in how they were singing about political things as well, and saying what they thought, even though I didn't really understand most of that back then.
Hermione Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 One thing that was strange about when I got into Green Day was that at the time, I'd only been listening to hip hop for years. I was totally immersed in it and obsessed with it, other types of music weren't even on my radar. I fell in love with Green Day so quickly and so completely, it was quite weird accepting that my favourite music act was a rock one. Going to the rock section in music shops didn't feel right . My favourite music other than Green Day is still rap, but it's just back then I never would've imagined liking a rock act so much.
GGreenDDay Posted August 10, 2009 Posted August 10, 2009 Green Day was actually the first band I really started listening to.. I first heard AI and BOBD and fell in love. Then after I bought American Idiot I got International superhits and since I liked all the songs in it a bought all their CD´s : ) Now I´m attached for life !
Sarahnade. Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 I grew up knowing Good Riddance and When I Come Around, but unaware of the band behind those songs.When I was 10, American Idiot had just come out and I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the radio. I became obsessed. I got the album for my 11th birthday, and I've been in love with the band ever since. BOBD is still my favorite song, too.I think they stuck with me for almost 6 years because of how great I think their music is. I have every album, and I think each one is unique and special. If I ever get sick of a certain song or something, I can always put in another GD album because I think they are differernt from each other...yet the same, if that makes any sense.I also love Billie, Mike, and Tre as people. I only know them through interviews and stuff, but I find them to be endlessly entertaining, funny, smart, and talented people. And they aren't arrogant like most bands out nowadays.Basically, I think they stuck with me because they are good people that make amazing music.
Anko Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 I grew up knowing Good Riddance and When I Come Around, but unaware of the band behind those songs.When I was 10, American Idiot had just come out and I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams on the radio. I became obsessed. I got the album for my 11th birthday, and I've been in love with the band ever since. BOBD is still my favorite song, too.I think they stuck with me for almost 6 years because of how great I think their music is. I have every album, and I think each one is unique and special. If I ever get sick of a certain song or something, I can always put in another GD album because I think they are differernt from each other...yet the same, if that makes any sense.I also love Billie, Mike, and Tre as people. I only know them through interviews and stuff, but I find them to be endlessly entertaining, funny, smart, and talented people. And they aren't arrogant like most bands out nowadays.Basically, I think they stuck with me because they are good people that make amazing music.The same goes for me too,though it was only Good Riddance and I was thirteen when I bought AI.I also feel weirdly connected to them too,even though I don't really know them except what I see on interviews and stuff.That may seem weird to some people but GD fans will get what I mean
JHyena86 Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Hmmm, earliest I remember of GD was hearing BoBD on the tv for a school news program thing. I didn't really notice much, but I thought it was catchy. Fast forward about 4 years to a Hard Rock Cafe. WMUWSE (live version) comes on the TV, and I'm like "wow, that's really catchy." I sorta knew the song from the radio, but I'm not really a radio person. And back then, I listened to more broadway and classical (no joke). My younger sister (who was, at this point, into 'popular' music) leant me her copy of AI, and I didn't like it much at first. I rarely listened to it. And then one day I got Holiday stuck in my head, and I listened to the album to get it out. And I fell in love with it. I don't know why. I think it had to do with being in Washington DC at the time (on a trip), and seeing all of the stuff they were talking about in AI all around me. Also, at the time, I was very depressed. I had never really fit in around where I live (dress strange, different political views, etc), and I couldn't figure out where I belonged. I ended up buying Warning while on the trip, and hearing Minority started to tell me something about myself. Some of my friends said I came back from the trip a punk because it was 'cool', but I think the album allowed my inner self (who had very punk ideals) to realize that it was ok to be different and not hide, like society tells us too. Green Day allowed me to understand it was alright being who I was, and if someone had a problem with that, that I could tell them to fuck off.So, for starters, Green Day helped me through a tough time, and allowed me to become myself. They also introduced me to punk, and to a group of people like myself. I think GD remain my favorite band though because of who they are. Billie, Mike, and Tre all are awsome people. They always make me smile. I love watching them play and reading interviews. I can connect to them. They are real, unlike so many celebrities out there. Unlike some bands, they really care about the fans, and therefore we care about them. Because of this, they 'stuck' to me, and I think they will always be there for me.
LetItBeHappy Posted August 19, 2009 Posted August 19, 2009 I remember loving the song 'Good Riddance' as a child. I didn't know it was Green Day back then, of course, so that doesn't count.I really got into Green Day when I was around 12 years old or something in January / February 2005. I was still watching Nickelodeon every morning before school; one day they took my favorite morning program off. I got pretty upset, so I resorted to MTV. And lo' and behold, the first music video I ever saw (on that station anyway) was Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I fell in love with it. Later, I bought American Idiot a month or so later. Me and my best friend at the time were addicted to it that summer (she grew out of her Green Day phase, though; I didn't). I would listen to American Idiot non-stop. Eventually, I gradually bought all of their albums and I joined fan-sites for Green Day like this one, bought T-shirts, became known as the 'green day girl' in my class, learned all about the band's biography ... yeah. Basically became a huge fan like all you other people on here! And I've been a big fan for around five-ish years now.Ok, thus concludes my boring tale of Green-Day addicted-ness!LOL, i'm "la chica green day" (the green day girl) over here for the same reasons xD
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