Just getting into Green Day?

[Yuck]

I remember it like it was yesterday and it was 2005. Before then I never listened to any music [ none at all i hated all music sad huh]

but one day I was rented Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and heard Holiday and thought Holy Crap this is amazing! I quickly asked my mom to buy me a few songs[ i was 13] and they were amazing as well.

I then finally American idiot a month and began my journey. A journey which stopped for a year when i gave up Green Daybecuase my sister became overly obessed. But after that i have been the biggest fan in my neighborhood and July 13 i finally meet them

[Billie's__Babe]

I got into green day when i first heard 21 Guns on the radio(i know!) I had heard BOBD but didn't know it was by green day. When I borrowed AI from the library, i downloaded it to my computer and saw BOBD and it looked familiar so i listened to it. Then I was so facinated by Green Day. My younger twin was more into green day and always talked about Billie to be exact. She was the one who found GDC and then I gradually joined in late October of this year. I've got some of my friends into green day but none are members, yet. though one of my friends keeps saying Billie's a gay sob..... :verymad:

[Smoothed Out]

I'm a new fan, well it'll be a year in March. :/ I first liked them years ago when I heard AI on the radio, but never new who they were or followed it up I just downloaded the song and kept it there. Then this year, when I first discovered my love for rock and Kerrang! I saw the KYE vid on K! and discovered that it was the same guys on AI. So I did some research, watched the making of WMUWSE vid downloaded that, watched live at Abbey Road downloaded 21 Guns and KYE. My Dad convinced me into buying 21st CB (I was always afraid I wouldn't like them all so I never bought cds, now I can't get enough of them ) Loved every single one, watched everything on GD week on Q, bought AI and ISH!, then Nimrod and Insomniac, Kerplunk and Warning, Bullet in a Bible and Dookie, SOSH and I got Insomniac for xmas. My love sort of gathered speed, until it was a complete blur or cds/dvds/merch which mingled all into one

Wow 9 months worth just like that-longest I've actually been into a band, it's completely changed my life and music is a part of me now. I've come into my own, instead of just listening to my Mum and Dad's music because I didn't know what I liked. I hope I get the chance to make it a life-long love, I'm just annoyed with myself that I didn't discover them earlier, I've missed so many good memories.

[Mrs. Nobody]

It's a while ago. I grew up with them with Dookie, and then Dad bought me AI saying that it was the same guys who released Dookie all those years ago.

Anyway, it's blurry. I just remember listening to AI in it's entirety one day, and was hooked ever since

[rfgz]

Well I'm a Green Day sympathisant since AI. It all started with accidentially listening to American Idiot on the radio. I thought "Man this song's great" and the next birthday or christmas (don't know anymore) I got the album American Idiot. I listened to it all day long never getting enough of it. That were my experiences for the time being because of making a big change in music liking: I became a Hip Hop spastic (I deeply regret this time now). But finally I found my way back to proper music thanks to a good friend. I came home from holidays with him and saw my American Idiot CD laying lonely in my shelf. I listened to it again and was again blown away. This was in the summer of 2008. Then I got more and more a proper fan of Green Day and bought more and more CDs. As you can see in my sig I nowadays am a real fan with nearly every album. The only thing thats missing to get the full fan status is going to a concert but I'm sure I'll go to one of the 2010 summer shows probably Wembley....

[greendayfan_0491]

I wasn't into music at all in 2004. Then I got Madden 05 for my birthday. The second I turned it on "American Idiot" played and I've loved them since. After that I bought International Superhits just cause I saw that it was like $10 and now I have every album on both CD and vinyl. Plus I have dookie on cassette too. They're my favorite band of all-time and by far my biggest influence musically and lyrically.

[ANJI]

I first heard American Idiot in 2004....but at that time I was into another band called Busted. I didnt like rock music and Green Day at all...and I also thought that I will never like a band like that. Ever since I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams, I fell in love with the song. I didn't know who or how big Green Day were then. I've heard all the albums and bought them...now they are my favourite band and love them a lot. I can't go a day without listening to them

[ProstheticHeads]

I remember getting into Green Day when I saw my cousins for my birthday in January 2005 and they had Muchmusic on...American Idiot's music video was playing and I really liked the song. So then i started searching them on yahoo music and stuff. But those were the days when I only liked the singles. But just several months ago i started getting into the non-singles from Green Day. I love em.

[Steven Samuels]

I know I have posted this story before but this seems a much more fitting place...

I had always been a GD fan since I was little (because of Good Riddance) but never really knew the band name. I was just happy to hear that song. Fast forward to after the 9/11 attacks (about two years) and the entire world was 'Patriotic" this and "Love your country" that, and being in 7th grade, I followed that fad. When I first heard "American Idiot" I hated it. I thought it was disgusting, disrespectful, and degrading. Which made me an outcast for most of that time.

Fast forward AGAIN to Bush's last year in office. I had grown a brain and realized Bush was a total idiot. During that year I had recieved "American Idiot" as a birthday present, but never really listened to it until a few months later when I was hospitalized and in ICU. I was actually pretty close to death, and had pretty much given up. One day my mom brought in the AI album and I listened to it for the first time all the way through and I could start really relating to it. I decided I wanted to keep listening to Green Day so the doctors used it as a bribe. "Do your breath exercises you'll get to hear a song.", "Eat all your meals and you can listen to the entire album to go to sleep too." I guess in a way Green Day saved my life. So after getting released, I started looking for more material to listen to and then bought 21st Century Breakdown on iTunes with a gift card. I'm ashamed to say I got they're discography through downloads, but I do plan on purchasing the discs because they are that good.

[.katie.]

I remember getting into Green Day when I was about 11. I had always loved the song American Idiot, and when I found out my friends sister had the album I started listening to it all and got really hooked. After that I started looking into them more, bought more of their cds and since then I've been a big fan

[Conspiracy.]

I also got into Green Day when I was 11. It was Christmas and my family was visiting my uncle's and all. I alredy knew about Green Day from the radio I also had heard WMUWSE and BOBD, but I still didn't like them much, I mean my poinion on them was like neutral. Anyway, that day I saw my cousin had some GD cd's and I thought mybe they're good, so I boroughed all of her cd's, which was AI, Dookie, Nimrod and Waiting. All I remenber was that I kept listening to American Idiot EVERY day. yeah, really every single day, when I got home I turned on the computer and listened to it. (Of course I listened to the other albums too, but I was really obsessed with AI. So I started doing some research about Green Day and buying all their albums after some time. That was the point when I started to love them with all my heart, because listening to the music makes me happy every day. GD also gave me much self confidence and showed me that's okay to be different.

They also helped me through some hard times, like the time when my father died - I was 12 - GD teached me to not give up and gave me lots of hope.

So in October I went to my very first GD concert it was amazing! I hope I'll stay a fan forever!

[Harinezumi]

I started to like them in 2009, so that makes me a total newbie. I didn't buy AI when it came out, because I was so against everything that was "popular" at the time. I truly am my own worst enemy. LOL.

(I didn't pay much attention to them when I was younger either. I thought they were just another annoying boy band or something. *facepalm* )

I can't believe that I almost didn't discover the best band in the world.

[GreenDaymaniac2000]

My brother brought home alot of cds when I was 11 and among them was American Idiot. I was in love with wake me up when september ends at this time so i took the cd away one day when I was angry and listened to the whole thing. songs like holiday and J.O.S jumped out at me and so did Are we the Waiting. At this time in my life I really needed something to comfort me and reamin stable no matter what and music filled that gap for me. I then got Dookie and B.I.A.B and never looked back!

[The Disappearing Boy]

christmas day was my 4th year anniversary

[Elissa.]

When American Idiot came out, I would always hear BOBD and WMUSE on the radio. I didn't know that they were by Green Day (I didn't even know who Green Day was). Then 21st Century Breakdown came out and I started listening to it (after falling in love with 21 Guns) and I realized that Green Day also sang lots of other songs that I've heard when I was younger (When I Come Around ) So I guess I'm a semi-new fan

[woahsilence]

I originally heard Green Day when my older sister played Dookie, i think i was around 7ish. I loved their music, but i stopped listening to them,and just forgot about them all together. Then when AI came out i remember hearing the singles, and i immediately became a fan of them. It wasn't till around 6th/7th grade that i relized it was the same band that i use to listen to. I love their music, but i prefer the older Green Day. But it's all good

[novacaine_kid]

It started with my Mother, she used to listen to them sometimes in the car when I was really young, too young to realise who it was playing, and too young to really care. Then I got a little older, started to develop a music taste, I remember Basket Case and When I Come Around being played alot on Virgin Radio and on MTV, I remember really liking those songs and asked my mum to get me a CD, so she went out and bought me Nimrod about a week after it came out. I was 10 years old. Fell in love with it instantly, and it grew from there. As I got older I got more and more into their music, saw them live, just really connected with their music and the songs took on whole new meanings as each year passed. I have never related to a band this much, so many songs have been the soundtrack to parts of my life that I will never forget.

39/smooth - Always reminds me of being young in high school and trying to win over a girl, or trying to be less of an outcast

Kerplunk - Brings back memories of first loves and shutting myself away in my room and being left alone with too many thoughts running around in my head.

Dookie - The anthem to my life from the age of about 15-17

Insomniac - A very special album to me. Reminds me of a time that changed the person I was forever. Doesn't evoke good memories, but helped me come to terms with them.

Nimrod - The first album I owned and will always be my favourite GD album.

Warning - I often listen to this album when I'm feeling kinda down, cheers me up and gives me a little inspiration. Always felt it was a terribly underrated release.

American Idiot - A great CD to play when I'm pissed off with life.

21CB - Certain songs from this album reflect the person I am today and the stuff I deal with these days. A great album to chill to and to have a good drink to as well.

Some Bsides as well can fit in to any of these categories. I just love the fact I can assign each album to a pivotal part of my life. I cannot do that with any other band, and I doubt I ever will be able to again.

I know it sounds corny, but I really don't know what I would have done without their music over the years.

[Jamaican Me Crazy!]

When I was around 3 or 4, I remember seeing certain parts of the music video Basket Case, but later on didn't remember what it sounded like (just remembered those images). Then, when I was 10, my family was driving home from my grandma's house at night and this radio station played their version of I Fought the Law, which was the first time that I've heard of them. Soon after, I went to Tower Records to only find out later that it was actually a cover song that they did. But the official time that I became a huge fan was when I was 12 and heard American Idiot on the radio. Shortly after I saw the music video for American Idiot, I then went out and bought the American Idiot album. It has been 5 years already and I'm still a fan of theirs.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

I already told this a thousand times, no doubt at least once, probably twice in this thread, but I'm taking any chance to tell it again =D

I was doing my homework and had radio on, then I heard this beautiful song. It was stuck in my head for a day or 2, 3, and I decided to look the song up. Fortunately, because I didn't know much of the song's lyrics, it had a very obvious name and I looked it up on Youtube. Apparently it was by this band called Green Day, which didn't really ring any bells. I looked up more of their songs, liked a lot of them. I just looked up songs only at first, and then started to look for sites on that band I'd grown so fond of in such a short time. I also borrowed the albums our library had (Warning, Nimrod and BIAB) and listened/watched them, and liked it too (although the first time I listened Warning and Nimrod it was in school during all kinds of classes, so I didn't like really listen to the music. I was mostly checking my iPod's screen if the song that was playing was Platypus, because I liked the name so much ). When I only knew Green Day's songs, no more information and not even half of their discography I already really liked them (and was completely in love with a couple songs, mostly with the song that first got my interest), but it wasn't until I joined GDC that I started to become a big (I'm tempted to say 'true', but I hate to use that term in this situation) fan, relating to their songs and looking more deeply into them (as far as I could at the moment, my English was so much shittier at the time) and becoming attached to the band. I joined GDC only about a month and a half after I discovered the band, so my love for the band gradually grew and now I'm here, passionate about a band that's brought me so many good things (GDC a big example - thank you all, guys!). And in a short time. I still can't believe it's been only a year and a couple of months. (watch out, I'm gonna be overdramatic now!) And going to my first Green Day concert this October was amazing. Billie played that amazing song, the one I heard while unsuspectingly doing homework, unaware of what was about to happen and change my life, on my request, while it had only been played once before this tour, months before. Since then it's been played at every concert since, minus two, and the last line of Green Day's last concert of the decade were those six words.

And that was a really bad ending of my story but I just wanted to mention it because it makes me go all fuzzy. Oh and please don't think I'm bragging because I'm really not xD

September 8th 2008, 19:55. Wake Me Up When September Ends. <3

(funny thing about the date, I used to think it was October 16th, then a couple of months ago I found out it was probably September 14th, and only today I got myself to look a little further back in the playlist history of the radio and find out that it was the 8th (this time I looked back as far as would be reasonable and I'm fairly sure it's the 8th, because the playlist in the week after that also matches like it is in my memory)

The wry thing is that on the 5th of September, Holiday was played on that same radio show I listened to almost every day it was on, so it's quite possible that I heard that song but it didn't hook me or anything. Which bugs me a lot

[Vermillion]

The day I forst saw the video to Jesus of Suburbia my eyes were opened to Green Day, loved American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, booked myself a ticket to see them live and then started to get into their older stuff.

[champagne mami]

I got into Green Day around the summer of 2004.

My sister was constantly talking about them and how their new album "American Idiot" was coming out soon.

So, i looked them up, and the first song i listened to was Basket Case.

Ah, that song holds a special place in my heart <3

But, anyways, I loved Basket Case, and so i listened to the rest of Dookie.

And then went on to Warning and then before i knew it i had listened to all of their albums and i was patiently waiting

for American Idiot to come out.

Over the years, i started listening to other bands and slowly stoped listening to Green Day.

But the beginning of this year, I fell in love with them again and this time it's for good.

<3

[gusgd]

My cousin is like a huge rock fan.

One day, he showed me the American Idiot music video, and, then, it was too late. I couldn't help myself. haha

[Mar]

Well, I always knew who GD was thanks to Good Riddance, but I wasn't a fan until American Idiot. I loved The Killers, and I knew when AI beat Hot Fuss for Best Rock Album at the Grammys, I should finally get around to checking it out. It was love at first listen, I fell in love with the album, and it became one of my favorites. However, due to the overplayed nature of BOBD and WMUWSE, I kind of grew out of them for a few years.

I didn't even get 21CB until June, and I wasn't that excited about listening to it. However, I found out tickets for their show in Detroit were only $25 about a week before the show, and I could get a ride up there, so I decided to go, since, even though I hadn't gotten into 21CB at that time, I knew they were a great live band.

And I was blown away with how amazing they were. Absolutely floored. Googling them, I found GDC, and now I have spent the rest of this year being totally obsessed with them. Bring on 2010!

[MishG]

I 'discovered' Dookie and GD sometime in late 1994 when i was 19 and going thru my first 'alternative' stage when i was into metal, grunge, goth, alternative just after my dad passed away. I grew musically in another direction until i rediscovered rock about 10 years ago after returning from living in the UK for 2 years. And found GD again after I heard Bullet in a Bible and saw the DVD.

Out of all the albums 21st Century Breakdown has to be my FAVE, followed by American Idiot. I relate better to their later releases than to Dookie and Nimrod now. But I still love listening to their early stuff. GD is my 'happy' place - doesn't matter what mood i'm in - angry, upset, happy - listening to GD helps make everything ok.

It kinda spins me out when i see people at the age of 14 now into green day and finding in their music today, what us older fans found 15 years ago.

[MascaraTears]

the Holiday music video was actually the 1st music video ever that I really loved (still love it)... I was in 4th grade I guess, and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever but besides buying a couple AI singles, I didn't really get into them until 21CB was released. I bought it, listened to it, loved it. then I found out they were coming to Philly, and my friend who already loved GD and had seen them twice live said they were amazing live and I should go with her to see them.

I didn't want to be one of those people at a concert who only knows the bands newest CD and singles, so I became determined to get familiar with GD's whole catalogue in the 2 months until the concert. so I bought all their CDs going backwards from 21CB and absolutely fell in love with all of them, so by the time of the concert I was truly obsessed with GD. then the concert, which happened to also be my 1st concert ever, was mindblowing to say the least and that made me love them even more. Because of that concert, even if I tire of GD's music at some point many years from now (I highly doubt that will ever happen though ) they will always hold a very special place in my heart.

I joined GDC a couple days after the concert, because I was suffering from severe post-concert depression, haha. I needed to find a place where there were people who knew what I was feeling, and who shared the actual connection I felt to GD's music as opposed to just listening to their songs and thinking, "Hmm, catchy" like the majority of people I know. they are the only band I can think of that has a song for every emotion I can possibly think of, AND has intelligent, witty, talented, awesome band members. and my appreciation of them and their music has only grown