where were you when you heard your first GD song?

[S_Foxtrot]

My sister bought 'Warning' when I was about seven and she constantly played it. My mum loved Minority in particular, but she thought the chorus was 'I want to be a Monaro Kid' (as in the car, the Holden Monaro). Having said that, I would've heard my first GD song in my sisters bedroom. So I knew about them back then, but it wasn't until I was about 11 and turned on the radio and heard BOBD that I was converted. I was blown away, like, 'WTF? There's a good song ... on THIS radio station?'

[Dookie93]

a couple years ago, I was in the car with my sister and Longview started playing on the radio, and she said "Didn't you ask me who Green Day was?" I did FYI!

And in late 2005 I was watching VH1, and the video for Wake Me Up When September Ends came on. After that I was hooked.

[tommy_huggs]

When I was 13. Watching highlights from woodstock 94 from that day. I remember seeing Billie with that shocking blue hair singing when I come around and thinking it was the most awesome thing I had ever seen or heard!

[Tre_Gina]

My older brother was into them in the dookie era and I heard him playing basket case and loved it so asked him who they were and borrowed the CD :-)

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[Minority_GD]

I was on holiday near the north sea.

It was raining all day long , so I was sitting in front of the TV when this short tv commercial changed my life

[AnnA™]

The first time I heard them, at least conciously, was in 2004 with Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I was in my room and it came on the radio. I used to listen to any crap that was popular when I was little, but I just had to hear Green Day once to know, in a weird way, that they were different and better than anything else I'd ever heard. And they still are. I had no idea that it was even possible to love a band that much. It wasn't until 2006 that I became completely obssessed though.

[Erica.]

I remember hearing Good Riddance on the radio in '98, but I didn't know it was Green Day. The first song I heard where I knew it was GD was late 2004 and my friend Sara played American Idiot for me after school.

[JadedGirl84]

I heard Longview for the first time in 1995 when I was about 11. I heard it on the radio and fell in love with it. I remember being really struck by the bass line and the drums. Oh so awesome. 15 years later, still love that song so much.

[GreenDay-girl]

When I was little, I listened to everything that was on the radio. But when I heard Green Day (I think it was Boulevard of Broken Dreams), I became completly obssesed with them. I still am and I know I will always be!!! There is no other band that i could possibly love that much Now I don't listen almost anything exept Green Day

[**kookai**]

.... at work opening up accounts

[Eeefaa.]

i'd just moved back from south africa and the only artists i'd ever heard of were the beatles, britney spears and maybe madonna... my dad sat me down to watch the christmas top ten for my musical education haha... Green Day were no.7 with American Idiot and that was the end of that!

[armatage]

I saw GD on tv 4 years ago for the first time. I was 4th grader and my brother and me both loved beavis and butthead to death. And so once I saw the episode called "spanish fly' where Basket Case was featured. I remember to getting to know that this band was Green Day only when I was 6th grader, i guess.

[poisonoak]

saw warning on tv around the same time when the album was out, didnt know much about green day but i remember thinking that i like the hat billie wore in the vid

[billie joe is GOD!]

erm. my cousins house. the whole of american idiot! i fell in love with greenday at the moment that i heard the first riff in american idiot. then i baught the whole of the back catalogue. and became an huge GD fan!

[Spark of Insanity]

It was when Good Riddance came out and I heard it everywhere and my friend had the CD so we gave it a listen. I might have heard Basketcase beforehand but I don't exactly remember a memory.

[gone2pasalacqua]

the first song I heard was Brainstew on the radio in the car.

[sampy]

In our livingroom, I saw TV commercial of American Idiot the album and same song was played in it. And here I am now, hardcore Green Day fan