Miqui_Dee Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I guess I'm an AI era fan. My best friend would always be playing Dookie when I went over to her house before AI came out and I was kinda into them then. Then AI came out and that's when everything just exploded. I got AI in physical form as a birthday present, and shortly bought Insomniac. I had heard Dookie already, I had heard International Superhits. I heard all of their stuff sort of mixed together at my friend's place. It took me a while to actually physically buy all their CDs. I discovered GDC through that friend. She must've been a member for about a month or so, I can't even remember her screen name on here. But it was a very quick road to obsession, I can tell you that. The two of us were just absolutely crazy about Green Day. She had posters all over her walls of anything Green Day related, we planned trips to Oakland and Berkeley, we'd watch the new videos and performances together... it was awesome. We saw them in concert in November 2004, shortly after AI came out, and that was what did it for me, I knew I would always be hooked on Green Day.
KeRpLuNkXxX Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 My incredible adventure started back in 2005 (I was 13), when I listened to BOBD (yes listened 'cuz I didn't bother to watch ) on VH1 and I felt in love with the song, there was something about it that I loved, it was so different from everything I've heard before (since I was a pussy when it came to music, luckily I changed! ). It took me like a month to buy the CD and less than an hour to fall in love with them. Then my dad happened to discovered the existance of Dookie in the middle of his billion CD's so I listened to it, then got ISH as a b-day present. Then bought BIAB the day it came out. I then received Insomniac, Nimrod and Shenanigans as Xmas presents. Then I bought Kerplunk and my best friend gave me 1039/SOSH. Since then I've loved this band, I started looking for the guys and discovered Billie was extremely beautiful (wich was like a plus to the whole greatness of the band) I remeber looking for info and anything realted to them on the internet, then I found GDA and my ife changed! Seriously, if it wasn't for this page I wouldn't know as half as I know about them lol. It took me a while to get into GDC, mainly 'cus I'm kind of stupid for the computer and I didn't know how it worked, but when since I joined I've became even more obsessed with Green Day I don't think this is only a phase in my life... My parents used to believe that but then told me that if I was able to survive 5 years waiting for the new album then I was a true fan It was a good experience, specially the part where you listen to the old CD's for the first time... that's why waiting for 21st Century Breakdown was so odd for me, but at the same time it was great to have a place too share my excitement (GDC) with people who love them as much as I do.Excuse my bad English.
*Megan* Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I am a Warning girl, back in the day. Shit, I was 10! It was the song "Waiting" that got me hooked. My big brother was always a Green Day freak before that and he liked all that other noisy punk stuff. Once I was listening to Warning constantly, he showed me Dookie and Kerplunk etc. We baught AI together in 2004 :My usual playlist is mostly jazz- so Green Day is my secret addiction
nicicky Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I really got into Green Day when we had to perform Time Of Your Life for a school graduation thing in 2002. I'd heard them before, but never paid any attention until then.I got Nimrod first, then Warning, then the rest eventually.
bjrules Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I'm an AI fan. Basically I went to a birthday party in March '05 and the guy who's party it was had the AI album playing the whole time and I loved it, so I found out what it was called and got it like a week later. Then I got International Superhits and Dookie on the same day and loved those as well and I soon got all the other albums and the rest is history. Green Day were pretty much the first band I really got into and to this day there still my favorite band.
Moz Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I just got into green day about a month ago (wow it seems much longer) - my friend played me 'she's a rebel' and then i spent that entire night listening to green day songs and watching concerts on youtube. The next day I went out and bought '21st century breakdown' and 'american idiot', and later that week i got the 'international superhits' album. Since then i've got nearly all the albums they've made, and GD's become my LIFE...
Zalex Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 My incredible adventure started back in 2005 (I was 13), when I listened to BOBD (yes listened 'cuz I didn't bother to watch ) on VH1 and I felt in love with the song, there was something about it that I loved, it was so different from everything I've heard before (since I was a pussy when it came to music, luckily I changed! ). It took me like a month to buy the CD and less than an hour to fall in love with them. Then my dad happened to discovered the existance of Dookie in the middle of his billion CD's so I listened to it, then got ISH as a b-day present. Then bought BIAB the day it came out. I then received Insomniac, Nimrod and Shenanigans as Xmas presents. Then I bought Kerplunk and my best friend gave me 1039/SOSH. Since then I've loved this band, I started looking for the guys and discovered Billie was extremely beautiful (wich was like a plus to the whole greatness of the band) I remeber looking for info and anything realted to them on the internet, then I found GDA and my ife changed! Seriously, if it wasn't for this page I wouldn't know as half as I know about them lol. It took me a while to get into GDC, mainly 'cus I'm kind of stupid for the computer and I didn't know how it worked, but when since I joined I've became even more obsessed with Green Day I don't think this is only a phase in my life... My parents used to believe that but then told me that if I was able to survive 5 years waiting for the new album then I was a true fan It was a good experience, specially the part where you listen to the old CD's for the first time... that's why waiting for 21st Century Breakdown was so odd for me, but at the same time it was great to have a place too share my excitement (GDC) with people who love them as much as I do.Excuse my bad English. Ha, my mom said it was a phase for me too! On my 18th birthday she asked me "arent you too old for green day now?" I just looked at her and laughed. 5 years almost and she still doesnt get it!
Whatserekim Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 My dad got me American idiot for my birthday and a Green day shirt when I was 11.When I was still 10 we were in the car and I was singing along to Blv. Of broken Dreams and he asked me who it was and I guessed Green Day. Which is why I got the CD. I think he was sick of Eminem to be honest xDso there. Blame my dad [100th post ]
Astrid. Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I actually know them since Warning, but never payed attention. Even though I had the album So years later, at a 30 Seconds To Mars concert, while we were waiting for the pre-program they played BoBD. Everyone went nuts and I was like, ... But then I began to recognize 'the voice'. I asked my friend 'this is Green Day right?' . She said. Yes of course this is Green Day! Who else can get the crowd crazy, even though it's just a recording! I smiled. I knew it right! It's Green Day!!When I got home after the show I immediately started looking for the Warning album and got it in the player. Since that night I really fell in love with them. So I don't know in which category I can put myself in. My interest were open again after hearing BoBD at a show with 1000 crazy people, but I fell in love with the album Warning. I downloaded AI few days later.
The Disappearing Boy Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 i first heard the song american idiot ( i was 14 when i t came out). I remember about 04/05 time that i liked that song, as well as BOBD and WMUWSE, I knew they were by a band called Green Day and thats about it. Then about Christmas 05 i saw an HMV commercial for BIAB, i recognised ai, wmuwse, and bobd, plus i remember hearing other songs which i thought sounded good (now i recognise those songs to be are we the waiting, good riddance and king for a day).anywho, i asked for biab for christmas and i got it. I used to think that ai was their first cd, so when i heard the bit on biab 'we've been a band now for 16 years', i was a bit surprised. after a bit of research i discovered more about their past and their back catalogue (i remember that was about summer 06, the time i discovered gda and youtube - where i watched most of their videos- as well).I then discovered the american idiot album. i seem to remember seeing the tracklist to it on the internet somewhere, and the thing that caught my eye was homecoming, as it was another 9 minute song like JOS, that was one of the reasons i got the album. I remember falling in love with homecoming (and the rest of the album) then, and to this day, homecoming is still one of my favorite songs.I got nimrod and kerplunk for my 16th birthday, dookie and insomniac a few months later (probably autumn 06) and 1039, kerplunk, ISH and shenanigans the following spring.
Clayish Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Well, its a weird story. I wanted to buy AI, but my dad said no because of the parental advisory sticker. He said he owned Dookie, so i popped it in the player, and the first time I heard Longview I was hooked. I then finally convinced my dad to buy AI for me while we were on vacation in florida. I remeber it like it was yesterday. The first time I heard JOS my head exploded. Probably a year after, I bought Kerplunk!, Nimrod, and Insomniac. AI is easily my favorite album of all time, and it has gotten me through some rough time.
TheMinority Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I'm an AI era fan too. I had seen the Basket Case video before that but that doesn't count cause it didn't made me a fan or anything. The first thing I noticed was the American Idiot video though. I got the AI album as a christmas present up until then I had only listened to RHCP and bought a couple of Kerrangs. Well I fell in love with that album and listened to it constantly the other albums where bought just months apart after that. The following summer I spent almost my entire summer job salury on a concert with Green Day and merch and cds. Magazines and posters and so on... From there it was. Green Day got me to almost totally forget RHCP I mean I had listened to them for 4 years. And Green Day was more intense and well Green Day made me smarter and started to think more about politics. I write this at midnight so I might not do my story justice but here it is anyways...
gnash Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 My story began when I was about 11 (now 18). A friend who was 2 years old had always been interested in rock music whereas I was rather worryingly leaning towards stuff like Ronan Keating (though I wasn't really that interested in any music) and he had played me a number of videos of stuff like Guns n' Roses and countless albums of classic rock but I wasn't really bothered. One day at my house he found out I had Sky, so he decided to take advantage of our hospitality and put Kerrang TV on. If I remember rightly the first song I was Last Resort by Papa Roach - far from my favourite song but it intrigued me and I began watching Kerrang a lot more. Over the next few months I was introduced to the videos for Basket Case (which quickly became a favourite), When I Come Around, Geek Stink Breath, Brain Stew/Jaded, Walking Contradiction, Redundant, Good Riddance (which I particularly loved), Waiting, Warning and Minority, and enjoyed them all, but I still never really took any interest in buying any music (of any kind). Eventually someone got me a copied version of International Superhits which I don't think I ever really bothered to listen to fully at the time (if I did, it will just have been background noise for most of the time). And then...In late 2004 (I think that's right) the video for American Idiot came out and I thought it was a pretty cool song, I didn't give a stuff about politics but gathered it was a slightly more intellectual song than the others I'd heard and also thought it sounded good, and I got hooked. Boulevard of Broken Dreams came out afterwards and by this time I was properly interested in Green Day. I got AI for Christmas and it was the first present I used, I played the first few tracks (till near the end of Holiday, I think) while playing a new video game and then it occurred to me how epically long JOS had been, so I started the album again from the beginning, laid on my bed completely absorbed in the lyrics book (the first time I'd ever been so interested in a specific piece of music). I got through the whole album (trying vaguely to sing along even though I hadn't heard the songs before - I've since found that this is a very effective way to quickly learn lyrics) and thought it was absolutely amazing, and I became totally obsessed with the album and the other videos on Kerrang. I saw the other videos for AI come out (before JOS) before being bought Nimrod for my birthday and remember thinking it sounded extremely youthful in comparison (which seems strange now, as, knowing all the past stuff, it was very clearly their most mature album to that point).I then got BIAB and loved it, and then got every other Green Day album on loan from someone I knew at school so I could copy them (I was surprised to find he had the full back catalogue including 1039/SOSH as he didn't strike me as a 'rock' type - also, I have yet to actually pay for these albums, but it is a priority once I get the money) and set about learning all of the songs. About a month before 21CB came out, I found the demo on Youtube and ripped the sound off it, which spurred me on to try and complete my collection of recordings by finding the B-sides and unreleased songs (which I also have yet to pay for *embarrassed* but I will do) which lead to me finding this site. I thought the demo of 21CB was good but not quite as strong as AI, and then heard Know Your Enemy when it came out and thought it was one of the worst songs I'd heard them do (it has grown on me a bit since, but if it didn't have the rest of the album to fall back on it would be very weak indeed - I still feel it was totally the wrong choice of single). I was paranoid that it was impossible to follow up AI with something as good and on first listen to the new album I didn't think they had, but now I believe 21CB is every bit as good. I think listening to AI through will always conjure up stronger images for me but 21CB is more personal and I understand the characters better. I also think that in most cases, I will prefer listening to AI all the way through but for a quick song or two I enjoy 21CB tracks more. The back catalogue, while mostly amazing, is now very much secondary to me - AI onwards is some of the most inspired songwriting I've ever come across.Christ I've typed a lot - sorry if I've put you to sleep!
Loeszie. Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I'm a member of this forum since yesterday, but I've liked Green Day longer xDI got to know some songs like 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and 'American Idiot' a few years ago, I guess in 2005 (wow, that's nearly 5 years ago even), when I was about 11. Over the years I have just liked some of their songs, but now I heared the new album was coming and they are coming to the Netherlands so I really wanted to go.And now I have tickets for the concert, even though I only know the songs from 21CBD and AI xDGotta take some more time in the holidays to download/buy some more songs. But I'm sure the concert is going to rock =D
Hermione Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 ^Welcome to the forum! I'm sure you are going to enjoy hearing all their other albums very much, you have so much Green Day wonderfulness to look forward to
Harriet Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I don't remember the first time I heard Green Day, but I remember when I found GDA!It was 2004, and i was 10. I was sat at the computer and my brother and sister were in the next room watching the music channels, and American Idiot came on. I loved the song already, so I ran into watch it, and when I got back to the computer, I googled Green Day. I found GDA and it was amazing! My brother bought AI for me, because my mum wouldn't (she thought there was too much sweraing) and he really regrets it now! I also remember listening to AI for the first time, because I didn't like any of it *gasp* apart from the singles and She's A Rebel. I remember thinking, wow that was a waste of money! Anyways, I got all of the albums eventually, I can't remember the order but I know I got Kerplunk last. Funny story, I had my personal CD player (lol) and I was listening to Insomniac, I must've been 11. I was listening to Stuart and the Ave. jumping around on my bed in my pyjamas, and I was singing along. I sang the part "But now it's all fucked up" and my sister ran to tell on me because i said a bad word. My mum yelled at me. It must've been one of the first times i ever said fuck. I love Green Day...
greendaytone Posted June 18, 2009 Author Posted June 18, 2009 My story began when I was about 11 (now 18). A friend who was 2 years old had always been interested in rock music whereas I was rather worryingly leaning towards stuff like Ronan Keating (though I wasn't really that interested in any music) and he had played me a number of videos of stuff like Guns n' Roses and countless albums of classic rock but I wasn't really bothered. One day at my house he found out I had Sky, so he decided to take advantage of our hospitality and put Kerrang TV on. If I remember rightly the first song I was Last Resort by Papa Roach - far from my favourite song but it intrigued me and I began watching Kerrang a lot more. Over the next few months I was introduced to the videos for Basket Case (which quickly became a favourite), When I Come Around, Geek Stink Breath, Brain Stew/Jaded, Walking Contradiction, Redundant, Good Riddance (which I particularly loved), Waiting, Warning and Minority, and enjoyed them all, but I still never really took any interest in buying any music (of any kind). Eventually someone got me a copied version of International Superhits which I don't think I ever really bothered to listen to fully at the time (if I did, it will just have been background noise for most of the time). And then...In late 2004 (I think that's right) the video for American Idiot came out and I thought it was a pretty cool song, I didn't give a stuff about politics but gathered it was a slightly more intellectual song than the others I'd heard and also thought it sounded good, and I got hooked. Boulevard of Broken Dreams came out afterwards and by this time I was properly interested in Green Day. I got AI for Christmas and it was the first present I used, I played the first few tracks (till near the end of Holiday, I think) while playing a new video game and then it occurred to me how epically long JOS had been, so I started the album again from the beginning, laid on my bed completely absorbed in the lyrics book (the first time I'd ever been so interested in a specific piece of music). I got through the whole album (trying vaguely to sing along even though I hadn't heard the songs before - I've since found that this is a very effective way to quickly learn lyrics) and thought it was absolutely amazing, and I became totally obsessed with the album and the other videos on Kerrang. I saw the other videos for AI come out (before JOS) before being bought Nimrod for my birthday and remember thinking it sounded extremely youthful in comparison (which seems strange now, as, knowing all the past stuff, it was very clearly their most mature album to that point).I then got BIAB and loved it, and then got every other Green Day album on loan from someone I knew at school so I could copy them (I was surprised to find he had the full back catalogue including 1039/SOSH as he didn't strike me as a 'rock' type - also, I have yet to actually pay for these albums, but it is a priority once I get the money) and set about learning all of the songs. About a month before 21CB came out, I found the demo on Youtube and ripped the sound off it, which spurred me on to try and complete my collection of recordings by finding the B-sides and unreleased songs (which I also have yet to pay for *embarrassed* but I will do) which lead to me finding this site. I thought the demo of 21CB was good but not quite as strong as AI, and then heard Know Your Enemy when it came out and thought it was one of the worst songs I'd heard them do (it has grown on me a bit since, but if it didn't have the rest of the album to fall back on it would be very weak indeed - I still feel it was totally the wrong choice of single). I was paranoid that it was impossible to follow up AI with something as good and on first listen to the new album I didn't think they had, but now I believe 21CB is every bit as good. I think listening to AI through will always conjure up stronger images for me but 21CB is more personal and I understand the characters better. I also think that in most cases, I will prefer listening to AI all the way through but for a quick song or two I enjoy 21CB tracks more. The back catalogue, while mostly amazing, is now very much secondary to me - AI onwards is some of the most inspired songwriting I've ever come across.Christ I've typed a lot - sorry if I've put you to sleep!Not at all, that was a great read! Really interesting to see how 'newer fans' find 'newer Green Day' more appealing to them. That's understandable because it's what you heard first/grown up with etc. Personally though, i love the older stuff. Hek, i love it all!But I'm sure the concert is going to rock =DOh, it sure will! I think it takes you to a whole new level once you see them live.
Boston Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I remember seeing the American Idiot music video while getting ready for my first day of seventh grade. I thought that Green Day was some sort of new band. I don't remember if I liked it or not. A few months later, I met a girl who was really into Green Day. I got American Idiot for Easter 2005, and I was hooked. It didn't leave my CD player for months. I proceeded to collect all of the other albums, and I was in love. I discovered GDA through the same friend. She was browsing pictures, and I went home and looked through the site. That was probably the summer before 8th grade (2005). It wasn't until June 2006 that I joined the forum. After having some complications with logging in and whatnot, I finally became an active member around August of 2006. Many embarrassing threads/posts and awkward years later, here I am. An unhealthily-obsessed, 17-year-old GDCer.And I should mention that Green Day came just in time for my rebellious, angsty teen years. I don't know how I would have survived them without American Idiot, Dookie, and Nimrod.
gnash Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 Not at all, that was a great read! Really interesting to see how 'newer fans' find 'newer Green Day' more appealing to them. That's understandable because it's what you heard first/grown up with etc.Thanks I fully (well, probably not, but it feels like it) understand why older fans prefer the older stuff and newer fans the newer - it's not so much a commentary on how good the music is but how well it applies to you when you first hear it. Nowadays we take pop-punk for granted but it was not mainstream when Dookie came out and that's what made it so popular, and if I wasn't three years old back then I'd probably prefer it too. Although I think technically speaking the lyrics to the newer albums are massively superior (no offense intended to the older stuff - I still love it and it's better than most of the drivel released these days, even 1039/SOSH, which, being a teenager, I find more familiar than the rest of it), I get that the way the older stuff applied to its time will have had much the same effect on the older generation. I now know 21CB in its entirely but await the day when I can sing the whole thing without fluffing any of the words (soon...) and even more eagerly await the next chapter - shame it will be inevitably a long time coming.
thisisAB Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 As young of a fan I think I am, it feels like forever since grade 5. I was 10, going to be 11 shortly (so it was '05...), when I heard Green Day for the first time. So being 14, almost 15, I'm gonna be a fan for over 4 years (it doesn't sound like a lot, I know ). A few of my friends had American Idiot and since I got a CD player for the week long class trip in May we were going on, I listened to American Idiot. I heard Holiday I think first, but American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams within minutes. The music was just indescribable. It was plain awesomeness. That summer I bought American Idiot and it was the best thing ever; it was all I'd listen to (at a school dance we got to request songs and I wrote down the entire tracklist on the request paper, lol). Before hearing anything else I read up on Green Day on Wikipedia and stuff, so I knew a lot about them, even before I heard a lot of their music. Some time after buying American Idiot my uncle brough over his external hard rive with all his music on it. I browsed through it and I saved Hitchin' A Ride and When I Come Around on my computer. Those were officially the first sogns NOT off American Idiot that I heard, and they were again, indescribable, oh so awesome! I (illegally) downloaded ALL the songs off dookie almost right away (I just recently bought a hard copy of dookie, I know that's horrible!) and then did the same thigns with most of the singles off the other albums. I borrowed nimrod form a friend, btu knew most of the other songs by Green Day. One day in the airport I saw Kerplunk at a CD store but had no money so I sadly couldn't buy it. The next year (last summer) I was at the same place at the airport and saw both Keprlunk and 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours there! I immediately bought both of them and again was in love with the albums. The last album (before 21st Century Breakdown) I bought was Insomniac, and again it's a truly awesome album. I still haven't bought Warning or Shenanigans, but I have enough songs on my iPod to love them. I love each of their albums equally (even though some stand out above others) and I can't wait when (if!) Green Day come to Toronto on the second leg of their tour!
beebee7gd Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 as well as many people, i also got into green day in the AI era. before that, i remember i really liked good riddance, but i had no idea who sang it. I also wasn't into punk music at all. i was listening to bands like korn, linkin park, papa roach, system of a down and stuff like that (you have to admit it, back in the day they were popular and pretty good, at least IMO). as far as i knew, punk was some old music genre that wasn't relevant anymore and bands like good charlotte and sum 41 did nothing but trying to be a punk band. i noticed green day on mtv with the American Idiot video and i thought: "who the fuck are these guys? Another pack of teenagers trying to be punk?". now when i recall it, i realize what a moron i was. then, after American Idiot, came BOBD and Holiday. Again, i disliked them even more. they were everywhere. whenever i saw the green car from the videos, i would have switched the channel. oh, and by the way, that's my way of reacting to anything new: hating it. stupid, isn't it?but then WMUWSE was released and, while i was busy doing something else, i couldn't change the channel. the result? the song touched me so deeply (for personal reasons, very similar to Billie's) that i fell in love with them. the next day or so, there was storytellers on VH1 and i was watching it just to hear WMUWSE. that way, i got to listen to the whole AI album. Afterwards, they showed the video for Basket Case. i was shocked. it said: "Dookie 1994". i was like WTF?? these guys must have been about 30 something years old and they looked like they were 20 (to be honest, i still think they looked pretty young, at least in American Idiot.) plus, they have been around for more than 10 years and i didn't have a clue about them??? that was just wrong!! after that, the internet became my best friend. each day i was discovering something new about my new found love , whether it was a song, a video, pictures and most important of all, GDA. It's not like i'm trying to flatter you guys ( which is GDA), because there's no need to do it. i mean, you already know you are a big part of Green Day (that's right, the band Green Day). without this site, i may have never become a GD fan.i'm terribly sorry if i bored the hell out of you, but i felt the need to share my story with someone and this seemed the perfect place.
greendaytone Posted June 20, 2009 Author Posted June 20, 2009 i'm terribly sorry if i bored the hell out of you, but i felt the need to share my story with someone and this seemed the perfect place.Not boring at all. That's another great story to read. I think it must be so great for people just getting in to Green Day to go back and discover all that has gone on before!
beebee7gd Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 Not boring at all. That's another great story to read. I think it must be so great for people just getting in to Green Day to go back and discover all that has gone on before!thank you very much! i tried to make my post enjoyable to read, even though it was very loooong. i used to feel guilty for not discovering them earlier in my life, but now i think the timing was perfect and that i have plenty of time to catch up.
Velocity Posted June 20, 2009 Posted June 20, 2009 I'm an American Idiot fan. I think the first Green Day song I heard was Boulevard of Broken Dreams, I think it was either December '04 or January '05. I heard it on the radio on the school bus, I really liked it right away. I didn't know what band it was, and when I first heard the name "Green Day" I remember thinking what a weird name for a band it was. Over the next couple months I became more and more obsessed but I couldn't buy the album until March 1 of that year because I didn't have the money for it. xD I remember majorly crushing on Billie, but that ended when I found out how old he was and the fact that he was married. I was so surprised, they all looked like they were in their early 20's, not their 30's. xD The next one I got was Dookie, which I got on April 10. Then I bought Nimrod in mid-May, and Insomniac a few days later. I remember watching the premiere of the WMUWSE video for the first time, and being really moved by it. The summer of '05 was probably one of the best I've had, I remember watching TRL on MTV every day and rooting for the Green Day videos, and trying to get all my friends into them. We would sit outside my friend's house, blasting music from his boombox while sitting on his front porch hanging out. I remember all of us were being really silly one day, and we decided to dance on top of his parents' car while listening to Holiday. His parents still don't know we did that I didn't get another album until late August, when my friend got me International Superhits! for my birthday. I remember my 14th birthday, it was the day that they won 8 or so awards at the MTV VMA's. That was such an amaziinnggg day. A few days later they played at Giants Stadium. Long story short, I didn't get to go to the show but my brother did even though he doesn't listen to Green Day. I'm still a little annoyed over that whole thing. Then I got Warning that autumn, and I got 1039 and Kerplunk last, that winter.It was weird though, it took me so long to visit any of the fan sites. I remember thinking that if I joined any of them, then I'd automatically become one of those "crazy obsessed stalker fans". I got over that after a while though, obviously. A lot of the things I know about Green Day, I found out through reading magazines and newspaper articles on them, and seeing TV specials on them. I hardly went on the internet at all back then, it's funny how much I rely on it now for GD news. Sorry this is so long, I just wanted to reminisce. That entire time in my life was so great.
greendaytone Posted June 20, 2009 Author Posted June 20, 2009 Sorry this is so long, I just wanted to reminisce. That entire time in my life was so great. Cool, so you're getting to see them for the first time in July then? I'm going to that show too!
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