What Did You First Think of Green Day

[Emilie]

I remember loving them from the start, first song I heard was either Maria or Good Riddance and I was about four years old.

Though when I first heard Billie's voice I imagined him as this tall brown-eyed man with sandy-blonde hair.

I was shocked the first time I saw a picture of him.

[son]

i saw the american idiot video on fuse (rip) and said "wow, these indian dudes rock!"

little did i know, they werent indian. the tv's color was fucked up, causing everything to look darker and making them look brown-er. then i realized it was green day, the same band i was forced upon by me madre in 97

[BUBBA7012]

My dad enjoyed good riddance and he used to listen to play it in the car a lot and I thought, Band my dad likes they must suck XD

But a couple years later in like late 2004 I heard american idiot on the radio and it was like a religious experience for me.

[Schlappy]

i had heard green day before and loved them but i remember the first time i saw what they looked like was in the longview video and i remember being scared! i thought they all look freaky and frightening. haha how wrong i was

I remember when I saw Billie Joe for the first time (in the American Idiot music video) I thought he was kinda scary-looking.

I mean i knew the band before that, but until that point I'd never bothered to find out what they looked like, as strange as that is.

But anyway I saw him in that and I remember thinking "Oh.. my... god... he's so freaky." haha

haha thats what i thought too! only the first video i saw was longveiw and they look creepier in that one

[jmax21]

I was 11 yrs old and saw the music video for American Idiot and asked my mom to get it for me when she went out. I was blown away by the CD, it was on a constant loop in my stereo. I begged my mom to get the rest of the CD's as time went on, and I suddenly became so devoted. Their music helped me through a rough time in my life, so it was so overwhelming to have that beautiful rush & release that made me realize, that it was okay to be who I wanted to be and not follow the crowd.

[BringMoreKnives]

I first saw them on the cover of Rolling Stone in 2005 when i was 7. My mom had subscribed to that magazine and when we got it in the mail, she set it on the kitchen table. I had never seen a band that wore eyeliner before, so i was like "WTF?" ...Okay, i didn't really say that, i was 7 But i kept staring at the cover for weeks until i finally decided to read the article on them. Loved them ever since.

[ethanzh]

When i was 6 i rember playing on itunes and finding american idiot and that was my first song

[iLozza!]

I remember hearing them on my brother's ipod thinking "this is catchy... i like this... who is this band?" and then I looked them up on youtube and totally fell in love with them ahah.