where were you when you heard your first GD song?

[valentinesandcigs]

my friend came to school one day with american idiot playing on his ipod and i listened to the entire album with him and i got hooked

then i bought dookie and it was a done deal

[cmrnmrphy]

I watched the american idiot video world premiere and i was like wtf?

[Tashidge]

I was 7, I remember that.

I think I was in the car on the way to my nan's house and Good Riddance came on the radio.

[idc]

i think i was at my best friends when i first saw the american idiot video on mtv. at this time i had my mp3-player just new, but it was sooo difficult to get this song! but at any time, i got it

could be i heard another song earlier, but i cant remember that, and i didn't know about green day up to that point.

this was my start to listen to music!

[Harinezumi]

I heard BOBD on the radio like 15 times a day at work (and recognized it as GD, which is probably what you mean by hearing them for the first time). The funny thing is, I can't even remember where I was working at that time. Might have been a theme park but I'm not sure. I think I was brainwashed. LOL.

[stich]

I've heard my first Green Day Song at my home as my family listen to it - it was At the Library.

It will be so strange that the day before Green Day played it at Birmingham show, my ex girlfriend broke up to me in a Library

[**She**]

I was lying in my bed, watching TV late in the evening. There was nothing good on so I switched through the channels and then stopped at a concert shown on MTV. That was Green Day! It was not only the music that blew me away all of a sudden but also the way they play a concert (you all know what I mean). I don't know which song was the first one because I did not know any of the names at that point but I could not take my eyes off of Billie Joe and had to watch the whole concert. After that I started to get as much information about them as possible. That concert was shown on TV after Warning was released and I still regret that I have not discovered them earlier because I feel that I missed a great time. But is was so cool (and expensive) to get so many albums, which are new to me, all at once

[VanessaGreen]

i was about 11 when i heard BOBD on the radio. i was with my mom though and she hated it, she kept trying to change the station and i was all "wait!! this is soooo awesome!!"

BOBD is still my favorite song

[saraHsunshine]

I was 5 in the car with my mommy and we were listening to the "current" radio station and "when I come around" came on. Of course being 5 I did not go out any buy all of their albums....that came later. When American Idiot was released I was in middle school and expanding my tastes - obviously I bought the album. You should have seen my face when I bought Dookie and heard "when I come around" for the first time.

[Ila Reto]

i was sitting on the floor in my room, listening to a burnt single of Holiday my friend made me.

[kazoo]

wow, i never thought this would get so many hits! thanks. hahah

[steinchen]

I remember I was at home and saw a clip on MTV

[drumstick]

In my room. On Christmas 2005. I got American Idiot and I didn't even know who is Green Day, I just said my mom to buy it because I didn't know what I want for Christmas and my friend told me they're good

So it was obviously American Idiot because it's first song on the record...

[Sanity Loan]

In 2004, I was sitting at my computer and listening to XM Radio and BOBD came on. I loved the song sooo much I downloaded it on iTunes right away and since then I have been obsessed!

[Equus1039]

I feel like I may have heard Basket Case as a child, but the first time I really heard Green Day was (don't laugh) when I saw a Kids Bop commercial and they sang BOBD. I liked it, but didn't bother trying to find out the original artist, something I deeply regret.

A few years later, probably late '07 or early '08, my brother showed me the American Idiot music video. I was doing something else at the time so I wasn't really interested in watching it. But later on I decided I wanted to see it again, and I liked the song. I looked on Youtube to find other Green Day songs, and when I found out that they sang BOBD, I was hooked.

[Rebel07]

I was at my best friends house and we were watching TV and we had stayed up really late and she passed out and I was watching music videos on VH1 and the video for American Idiot came on and it blew my mind. I was only about 13 at the time and about 2 weeks later my mom took me to Best Buy and I bought AI and after I got burned out on it, I looked up the rest of their stuff and the rest is history

PS. everyone totally thought it was just a phase but they were so wrong.

[bass boy]

i was watching cartoons and on came an advertisement for American Idiot and l liked the sound, so i started to watch Much Music and then Holiday came on.

[Vespertine]

I was at my friend's home. She started listening to Basket Case and I fell in love.

[Brandon R.]

See that little black circle?

I was standing on that corner when I heard my first GD song. It was "Jesus of Suburbia".

[The Daughter of Rage and Love]

In the car, listening to the radio.

[Asya]

i was watching a music video channel at home. It was BOBD, i fell in love with that song and with the band at once.

[jm_xd]

i think i was at the car listening to radio. the song was basket case.

[stephhh nicole]

well the 1st song i heard was good riddance when i was way young, but i didnt know it was by them at the time lol..

then i heard hitchin a ride one day and loved them, and found out later they sing good riddance haha

[greendaytodeathandback]

i cant remember the first time, but the earliest time i remember was when i was in my house watching top of the pops and Green Day came on and sang boulavard and that was it. i was totally sucked into obsession...

[GreenDay4LifeChick]

I was in my car I just got my license and I was driving to school. I will never 4get it. I never heard anything on the radio like them b4.