When did you first listen to Green Day and what song?

[novacaine_kid]

I'm not 100% sure on this one as I was quite young at the time. But the earliest memory I have of Green Day is hearing When I Come Around on the Radio in the car on the way to school. I didn't fully get into them until Nimrod was out though.

[Hermione]

Would've been seeing the Basket Case video on MTV at my best friend's house at some point around the time it came out, when I was about 8.

I always liked that video and on the few occasions I saw it in the years after it came out, I was always absolutely fascinated with Billie's face, I couldn't take my eyes off it . I never gave the band any more thought though and didn't become a fan until a decade later, by which time I'd forgotten all about the lead singer's fascinating face or what he even looked like.

[Angela.]

I'll never forget it. I was in 6th grade. It was around October of 2006, and I heard a live version of Extraordinary Girl from AOL after school in my room. I fell in love at the sound of the first guitar note.

That was actually the first time I had heard of Green Day and knew that it was them. The first time I actually heard and GD song and wasn't under the knowledge that it was them was when I was in 5th grade. I heard Good Riddance played at our 5th Grade graduation party on a Powerpoint slideshow.

[Laura!]

May 2005, my friends had BOBD on repeat and after hearing it about 10 times I loved it, I came home searched and listened to more Green Day then begged my friend to burn me American Idiot and I instantly fell in love.

I went from loving 70's rock to Green Day in one day.

[AndrewW91]

I remember back when I was a child I liked the singles from Dookie, they played them on the radio all the time. Though, I know it wasn't around the exact time Dookie came out, it had to be like 98 or 99. Then I liked Good Riddance, and then Minority and Warning. They played those songs all the time.

I stopped listening to rock music for about 2 years of my life, and then I got back into it when I was a freshman in high school. I was a dumbass back then, and I "hated Green Day". Ugh, I hate talking about this. I guess I was just saying that because not a lot of people liked them, but I secretly liked Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. One day, my mom bought me a Green Day shirt. I told her I didn't like Green Day all that much, but I still wore it because I'm not an inconsiderate brat. I decided I would give them a try by listening to more of their songs, and I came across Coming Clean, and I instantly fell in love. So Coming Clean is the song that got me into them, and it remains my favorite song of all time (along with Macy's Day Parade. Yes, I have 2 songs in my number one slot). My brain pretty much exploded when Billie played Macy's Day Parade at the concert I went to. At that time, I was thinking that nothing could be better than this. Then he went from Macy's Day Parade to Coming Clean! I was in tears. God, I love that song soooo much! It had a much bigger impact on me for other reasons, but thats a whole different story.

[sassafrasroots_]

I first really started listening to them in 2001/2002, my dad borrowed international superhits! of one of his friends at work. I remember being in the car listeing to poprocks & coke. We'd had some of there CD's for a while though but hadn't really well and truly listened to them 'till then though.

I also rememer spending the whole of year 9 playing wake me up when spetember ends in music on the keyboards needless to say thats the only time i payed attention in music and i was the only one to learn it the whole way through properly

[Ally]

When i first heard them and knew who they were it was American Idiot on Kerrang TV in september 04 (this wasn't even when i got into green day i didn't get into them until January 05). But i had seen them before that but didnt know who they were and didn't even like them then...i remember that being Minority on MTV but i only remember it cos it was when we first got Sky TV and i remember seeing the parade thing so that would have been around 2000 ish

[davegrohllover]

Right after i bought Dookie.

[Last American Girl]

"Time Of Your Life" when I was about 7 or 8. Awesome.

[Tiffx]

I heard BOBD on the radio when I was 14. I have heard Good Riddance before that but never knew who Green Day were until 04.

[Yellow Felony]

Basket Case - Heard it in my dad's pickup when I was six... Got into Green Day when Warning came out and the big thing than was Minority.

[Gaby80]

Yes, "Basket case" , saw it on tv in 1994, when I was 14 years old, went to record shop next day to buy "Dookie", which was my first punkrecord ever.

the rest is history, hehe

[Mrs.Kerplunk]

Very first time American Idiot on TV but i skipped to another chanel

Then the 2nd time I watched it til the end .. and yea ..loved it. Thats 6 years ago btw (:

[PasalacquaBomb]

I think it was BOBD or AI. I liked all singles of American Idiot but I was very young and Green Day was just, yknow, a band. Then at the beginning of the year, my school-neighbour asked me to burn him the American Idiot album cause he was GD fan but just had 3 songs (lol). I burned him and then I got back into Green Day. Then 21st Century Breakdown came out and yea ... I liked it. Now, I've got every album and many bootlets and DVDs. Am I freak? YES!

[green-day1972]

on 14th October 2004 it was American Idiot's music video on TV. It was one month before my tenth birthday.

But I saw Austin Powers when I was 8 and there is Espionage inside. (but I didn't know that was Green Day)

[GoodRiddanceGE]

That woud be Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. I´ve heard it on the radio when I was about 13 years old. I bought the American Idiot album shortly after it and immediately fell in love with the band. So in the following I bought all their albums they´d recorded before.

[PasalacquaBomb]

But I saw Austin Powers when I was 8 and there is Espionage inside. (but I didn't know that was Green Day)

I think nobody knows this is from GD before he buys Shenanigans

[Salmonator.]

Walking Contradiction, but Holiday was when I feel in love.

[leacalifornia]

I believe it was Brain Stew/Jaded on the radio in 2004 or 2003...

man that was a loooong time ago......

[xjernpqvrnbfv]

the first song i heard was American Idiot. I saw the video on MTV(at this time they still played music!), and I loved it, but I always forgot the name of it. Then BOBD came out, and I bought the American Idiot album. but i'm pretty sure I've heard When I Come Around before. dunno.

I wish MTV would still play music -.-

[Nova-Caine]

Christie Road this morning that song has been in my head for days now, amazing, thought provoking and beautiful <3

[saraHsunshine]

When I Come Around in my mom's van when I was five we were jammin hahah

[Katarina.]

When I Come Around when I was watching tv somewhere in 2004

[Peacemakerpunkgirl]

When I come Around in 2003 maybe, I was 12... my mom said I listened Green Day in her womb - but I don't think so

[bjrules]

American Idiot back in March '05. I've loved them ever since