What Did You First Think of Green Day

[Comrade]

I first heard Minority (or maybe even Good Riddance way back when) and liked it, but I wasn't really into music back then.

[*Megan*]

The first time I remember listening to them and knowing it was them was back when Warning was in the charts, and I was about 8/9.

I never actually bought the album untill a few years later, when i was say 12. So yeah, i was a Warning girl and got into them in about 2002 Then followed them with AI and 21CB

[finksgirl]

The first time I heard them I was like 4 or 5 and Basket Case was on the radio. It was the first time I rode in a Mustang and I was already excited and then this song came on and I loved it. I was bouncing around and stuff.

But the first time I heard them and knew their name I was 10. I snuck into my moms room and dug through her boyfriends cd collection and found Dookie. The name was familiar and I loved the artwork so I took it into my room and put it on and I loved it and started remembering all these songs I listened to as a kid on the radio. It was an instant love.

[Renjini]

i remember when i was in around third grade, my brother who was then like 12 was listening to american idiot, holiday, boulevard of broken dreams, and wake me up when september ends. i liked those songs, i sand along to them, not knowing who it was by, then like a week later i watch the music video for i think holiday or BOBD and billie joe freaked the shit out of me. i had nightmares. i mean i was like 8 or 9 and this was like the first time i ever saw a guy in so much eyeliner, i thought he was like some creeper or something. about a year later i liked them a little and then in 6th i rekindled my love and became obsessed. so my first impression was i loved them and then i became creeped out by a man in eyeliner.

[green day is]

I loved them the second I heard them ^-^

[Charlieks]

he first time i heard Green Day (knowing it was Green Day) It was American Idiot and I was like oh wow this is a pretty cool song. And when I saw the video i was like omg that singer is so hot heh.

When my sis finally got BIAB and I was listening to it and i heard all the older songs it was like omg thats Green Day???? I LOVE these songs I remember listening to them and loving them the whole time I was growing up!!!

[boosho]

Oh i just remembered that when i first heard Green Day i thought they were Irish...

[jm_xd]

i first heard american idiot (or maybe basket case), i liked it a lot, but i didn't start listening to them right after hearing AI. I listened to American idiot, holiday, boulevard of broken dreams etc. and then my friend recommended other songs to me and then i fell in love =) haha

[disappearing_boy_39]

I first experienced Green Day on the Beavis and Butthead show. It was roughly 1995 and I was around 11. I wasn't even really into music too much despite the fact that my father was a professional drummer and I grew up attending many small shows.

Anyway, the video on Beavis and Butthead was Basket Case and at first I thought they sounded funny. I remember comparing them to The Beatles because I thought Billie Joe at a British accent (I remember a lot of people thinking this for some reason). Anyway, I was somewhat apathetic but I remember over the next few days I couldn't get the song outta my head. I was hooked! Within the next few months I had all the albums and was a huge fan. And then I first saw them in concert during the Insomniac Tour.

Getting into Green Day turned me into the music fanatic and musician I am today.

[Haushinka!]

Well, I remember when I was about 6 - I don't know, i'm not sure exactly what age - but, me & my family would blast Basket Case & jam to it every time it would come on in the car on the radio! Ha, but obviously I wasn't into music then as I am now. I loved Boulevard of Broken Dreams and American Idiot when they first came out. Also, this guy I had a major crush on was really into Green Day, so I figured I should get into them too!

So that's what I did. I went on AOL Radio and found out they had a whole music station of their music. I spent days, literally days listening to all of their songs, every single one, even the b-sides & unreleased music. I remember thinking King for a Day was the best song ever, & I thought 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was amazing! ; ) I fell in love with every single song! I officially became a fan. Green Day is definitely the first band i've ever really loved. I never get tired of their music.

I then found GDA, and did my research and found out all kinds of things about Green Day. I've been a fan ever since! Sadly, I still haven't been able to see them in concert, though. After buying Bullet in a Bible and watching how totally amazing they are live, I am still to this day, completely jealous of everybody that has seen them peform. Hopefully my dream can come true this August in Dallas!; ) <3

[Anette Leone]

The first time I had contact with Green Day was watching to the video Warning. I thought "the guys are ugly but the song is good!"

[21 guns for you]

I first heard time of your life when i was about 8 and at first i didnt like it but as soon as i got into high school i would play it all the time and i went out and bought warning then i bought all of there albums

[GreenxDayxRockxMyxSocks]

I remember when i was about 9 i was watching festival highlights and i saw them on stage with Green Day written above them. I was like what kinda name is that for a band, what does it mean. Its Gay lol oh how i was so wrong

[Rock Tie]

i remember the first i watched american idiot video i wasn't know even what they're saying but i was like OMG this is so cool this the real music . and in the first i thought billie looks weird =)

[Holly Ann]

I basically fell in love with Billie in the AI era and had a taste for the music from then on.

But I became an OBSESSIVE fan when I hear Know Your Enemy on Kerrang! when they first released it last year and my dad got me 21CB album.

[greendaygal89]

i remeber hear basket case and minority just before AI came out and i was just like wooooh these are amazing *googles* and found that AI was coming out, brought it and GD has changed my life in ways that words would never descirbe!!

[Tragedy 2000 Miles Away]

I was about 4 when I first heard Green Day. My aunt was pretty into them I remember. I think they honestly scared me, but I was four. And then I heard them a year and a half ago, when I was 12, my best friend found her parent's old Dookie album and we listened to it together. I fell in love with their music from the start. And then I realized that I knew pretty much all of their hits. And that's where it began...

[Rock-man]

it was sometime back in the nineties, friend of mine had a c-cassette called Kerplunk!

and the first song on that tape was (as everybody here knows) 2000 light years away.

I was blown away, copied that cassette on the spot. Still have it somewhere.

[ForgottenForest]

When I first heard about Green Day, I was still in elementary school. I remember thinking Billie was weird. When my friends and I first saw American Idiot, we loved it, but my friend's mom turned off the TV because it "wasn't appropriate".

[Haniik]

First song I heard was an American Idiot. I was like what is that? Sound really good

[lawrahday]

hmm well i heard minority and was like yeah its okay but i wasn't into music, i was still pretty young. anyways i heard american idiot and hated it before even listening to the full song, god i was shallow. i loved shakira and britney spears like crazy . thank god my brother gave me dookie and yeah since then i've been hooked.

[Carnation]

From what I remember, I really didn't think much. At the time for me, they were just another band that had some songs here and there that I liked, but I admit that I actually didn't like them. (I wasn't into them too much because when I was younger I had a love for techno)... but I guess it was like or 'rebirth' or something when my friend let me watch her BIAB dvd.

I was like, "Ohhh, this is Green Day, huh?" I thought they were so epic.

[SetOnOverdrive]

I hate to sound corny and all but it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. I knew from that moment on that my life was in music!

[Abbie]

I'm not sure but i think the first song I heard was wmuwse... Not played by GD but covered by students from school... I really liked it though.

[1039slappygirl]

I thought they were just 3 random guys playing the same Blink-182 used to play under an odd misterious name

I was so stupid and naive then