What Did You First Think of Green Day

[Jenny95]

Mmmh....back in 2004/2005 I only heard a little bit of them but I was just too young to realize their awesomeness. so i just yeah knew them and liked blvd. of broken dreams and wmuwse. so with 12 I finally listened to blvd. again. intensly and suddenly fell in love with them. since then i admire them

Yeah I think something like that happened to me too maybe i just grew older or I just understood their lyrics better

[Metanoia]

Yeah I think something like that happened to me too maybe i just grew older or I just understood their lyrics better

yeah same here. i mean no offense there are those 11/10 year old green day fans but i have to admit that at that ago you cant really get everything the tell/write/sing.

[VivaLaRosalee]

the first song i heard was good riddence when i was really little, i didnt care for it since i was raised on avenged sevenfold and alice in chains. years later i heard wake me up and i hated it, the day after 21cb came out i heard 21 guns, and i've been obsessed ever since.

[keefe]

First Green Day I ever heard/ saw was the American Idiot music video, it was just badass and addicting.

[iwroteholdencaulfield!]

i actually liked them right away

[Wretched & Divine]

Prior to my friend begging me to go with her to see them in 2005, I... didn't actually know who they were I only turned 14 at the end of '05, so I guess I was too young to really have much interest in anything aside from Harry Potter and Britney Spears at the time

Anyway, I agreed to go and see them with her. But despite having about 5 months notice to get into them, I'll admit I didn't have any interest in investigating them much, so I pretty much went to their concert only know Good Riddance and the singles from American Idiot which I'd heard around on the radio and stuff.

Safe to say I was well and truly won over after I walked out of that stadium on December 14, 2005 Never looked back

[Ellenkc]

Found American Idiot playing on tv, it was the musical equivalent of someone throwing a brick at my face I wasn't into rock at all, so it was something completely new for me and I thought their attitude was brilliant. The fact they looked great in that video didn't hurt either

[JadedHaushinka]

I thought they were a nice band and I got into them pretty fast because I wasn't into music like that back them. Took me a month or so to become a fan. I've loved them ever since more and more.

[Margo 39 smooth]

when i heard american idiot i thought it was good but it didnt really click. but then i heard 21st century breakdown and i just was overwhelmed by it all. and now of course i thik they'r amazing.

[marta_gs]

so...the first time I heard Green Day... I was 14 when I heard Basket Case. (didn't even know who Green Day was, and also didn't know that song was from them). anyway, I immediately loved that song, I was so amused listened to it, you have no idea xD it was love at first listen the bad thing it was that I passed the next months wondering from who was that song then I knew Green Day with American Idiot, and some weeks later, I bought Dookie and txaraam Basket Case was there

[Dookie93]

I'm ashamed to write this, but at first I hated Green Day with every inch of me. Then one day I was watching VH1 Top 20 Countdown (this was in 2005), and Wake me up When September Ends came on. Instant love, I then went out and started buying all their albums and here I am now

[Maddy.]

I don't even remember. I think I heard American Idiot first and thought it was catchy so I downloaded the album and was pretty much blown away.~

[annimaria]

The first GD song I ever heard was American idiot, and I was just like 'ooohhh man, I need to hear more!' I found the album about 4 months later and they've been my favourite band ever since.

[Krusties]

I think the first song i ever heard by them was Blvd. of Broken Dreams, but I didn't know it was Green Day. I thought "wow, this is a pretty good song." Then I heard Wake Me Up When September Ends, and I knew it was them. I was like "This is Green Day?" Because I knew this girl who was really into them and I'd seen pictures, I had expected them to sound different, but I liked them, and eventually became obsessed.

[rocklover92]

The first song I ever heard was American Idiot. I didn't like it at all. But later I heard BOBD and I guess, I like them since then.

[Velocity]

I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams and thought "This is a really good song." After i found out whose song it was, I remember thinking "Green Day is a really weird name for a band but they're still pretty awesome."

[RockSeason]

@zefron__fan I directly loved them. My 1st song was Know Your Enemy (clip). I said: "I like rock?!? Oh, I have to listen their songs!" (This was last year.) I used to hate rock. Thanks to Green Day, I really love rock, right now.

[daughterofrage&love]

I was 13 when i first heard green day, Longview it was and i was hooked! A friend of mine at the time had Kerplunk, i was even more hooked, i became a HUGE HUGE fan after hearing AI. They are my heroes.

[GenerationZer0]

When I first heard Jesus of Suburbia on my sister's American Idiot CD I was like "This is really bad!" Then I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams a bit later and I loved it and I loved Green Day. I have taken her American Idiot CD now. I don't think she ever noticed/cared

[iloveyouisntenough]

Like many other people here, I didn't listen to music much before I started listening to Green Day, and when I first heard them, I didn't think much of it. I liked the songs I heard from them, but I didn't look into them right away.

Then as I listened to more of them slowly, I realized how much I liked their music. And that pretty much lead to me buying their albums, and so on.

[November's Storms]

I thought they were a good band, but I liked them just like I would any other band. I knew a few of their big songs and wouldn't change the radio if they were on. I never really loved them that much at first cos all the girls loved them and cos they wore eyeliner!

It was only after I discovered the story in American Idiot and fell in love with that album that I began to truly love them

[Holly]

I was twelve and I heard American Idiot at a party. I thought it was crazy rock music and totally different to anything else I'd ever heard (all I listened to then was rubbish like S Club 7 and Gareth Gates ) that one song had such an effect on me I never listened to any of my old CDs again and just got on the internet straight away and used my cassette recorder to record every song I could find until I could persuade my mum to buy me the album. Basically, they blew my mind.

[xpoprocks&kittycatsx]

My first reactions were when I first heard Blvd. of broken dreams when I was like 10, i thought it was good, but then when i saw the music video i actually thought Billie looked scary. once i got over that, i soon began to love them and now the mean so much to me that words cant express!!

[CoreyGregory]

My dad and brother listened to Green Day when I was young, so I think I just grew into it.

International Superhits was the first CD I ever bought...Now it's lost

[DistilledxSpirits]

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