GreenDayisAmazing Posted October 14, 2012 Posted October 14, 2012 Happy Birthday Nimrod! I love the whole album, but some of my favorites are Prosthetic Head, King for a Day(it's the best live,) of course Good Riddance, Nice Guys Finish Last and Hitchin' a Ride too!
Insomniac1984 Posted October 14, 2012 Posted October 14, 2012 My favorite Green Day album by far!! Happy B-day!! I remembered when I bought it, it was when I started the first day of my last year at high school in 2001!! Good B-sides and live track in this era!!
Josh100_3 Posted October 14, 2012 Posted October 14, 2012 Probably because its a hardcore song and most GD fans don't like hardcore punk. I would have thought most Green Day fans would love hardcore punk
WhiteTim Posted October 14, 2012 Author Posted October 14, 2012 Still probably my favorite from them, either this or Dookie. Probably because its a hardcore song and most GD fans don't like hardcore punk. I like hardcore just fine just dont like take back
¡Ricky! Posted October 14, 2012 Posted October 14, 2012 I love all the songs from Nimrod, but my favourites are Worry Rock, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) and Redundant!
porksoda Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Nimrod was my first favorite Green Day record, and although it isn't anymore, it's still in the top 5. I have never been a fan of some of the more fan-favorite tracks from the album, like Scattered and ToYL, but there still are some really awesome tracks like Nice Guys, Take Back, and Worry Rock. And I think some of Green Day's best b-sides come from this era.
Guest Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 I bought it the day it came out at Tower Records, and my mom bought the cassette tape (because she's cool like that). It's still my all time favorite GD album 15 years later. Scattered and The Grouch are untouchable.
scottpilgrim10 Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Happy Birthday Nimrod! I love Nimrod. It's right behind Dookie and AI. It has a ton of great songs. Love: Scattered, Worry Rock, Good Riddance, Redundant and, Reject
TheBasketcase Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Uptight and Worry Rock Take the cake for me!
Jet Taman Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 This came out my senior year of college. Perfect timing... Nice guys finish last was my personal motto in college and happened to be the the first track on the CD. "Future just ain't what it used to be"...perfect line for me as 4 years ago I was ready to marry my high school sweetheart and move to Florida. After a good time in college, this was no longer the plan... As the song said, my relationship was getting "redundant" I probably "woke up on the wrong side of the floor" 100 times in various rooms around campus. As I was randomly hooking up with girls and had "another notch scratched on my belt" and the randomness definitely made me "peak out on reaching new lows". And of course, the epitome of finality of graduating from college...."Time of Your Life" was on this CD. I am very connected to this album and it's definitely one of my favorites of all time. By the way, don't think I'm a scumbag or anything for randomly hooking up with girls. I was 20-21 years old, it was college, it was good times. I'm much better behaved now
Farah Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Nimrod, my love. I'm not sure if to define it my favourite album out of all. There's just something about it. Scattered has to be one of my first favourite picks out of all. But yeah can't choose one song only, in the end I love all of them.
Milo Goes To Pasalacqua Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Remember buying it on the way to the beach one summer day in 2007, i think. It was a stupendously sunny day - something almost unheard of in Ireland now that i summers have turn to shit and basically it is just warmer and wetter. So natch, i cherish the memory. Sun in the sky, blue skies with only some wispy feathers of clouds in sight, llight breeze, long road trip and then rays, sand and the ocean waiting for when we got down. Good times. Listening to it in the car on the way for the first time, I. Fell. In. Love. Last Ride In seemed to be the kind of surf tune that should be playing in the background at the beach as each wave came rolling in. The whole album sometimes reminds me of a journey too. I think it is the kind of record that sounds better over time so you appreciate it more. Though i can only say that after listening that after listening to it for about 5 years since i got the whole back catologue once i discovered GD through AI. Hell, i would have been just about to turn freaking 3 years old when it came out. The only song on the album i do not love is Jinx, which i am just indifferent about. A lot of people say it is very fillery and they are probably right, but tbh i never notice it any time i listen to it myself. Favorite track? It changes over time. For the longest time it was Good Riddance. Then Prosthetic Head. Then King For a Day. Then Scattered for a very long time. And now Haushinka is my obsession. Love the opening, "Haushinka is a girl with a peculiar name." I always considered Nimrod to be GD's London Calling. Yeah yeah, i know, how dare i compare a GD album to London Calling but meh, i did it. The tone of those two albums seem to me to be very similar, and both show a band reaching maturity and being reflective. Furthermore, London Calling was meant to be a departure and a musical mixing pot of all the different styles that influenced the Clash. What was Nimrod if not this? It is their most varied album. I've heard Redundant described as power pop, All The Time as GD meets AC/DC, Last Ride In as an intsrumental and surf rock, King For a Day as ska, Good Riddance is GD stripped down, Platypus and Take Back probably pass for hardcore... I could go on. Thematically, in pace and in tone it is the most varied also. Undoubtedly my favorite Green Day album, second favorite of all time, very damn near my all-time-favorite. Just behind (surprise surprise!) London Calling.
Drankolz Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 I only discovered Green Day with American Idiot, so I guess i bought Nimrod in 2007 or something like that. Instant love. The sound is just so good, the guitar, the bass, the drums, the vocals... and the songs are great. Thats what Green Day are to me. I like every song on the album, but I'll occasionally skip King for a Day and Time of Your Life, just because I've heard them so often, they're in almost every live recording since 1997...
Guest MadeInRatCity Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Still probably my favorite from them, either this or Dookie. Probably because its a hardcore song and most GD fans don't like hardcore punk. And most hardcore punk fans don't like green day. Oh! It's like They hate us we hate them We can't win no way.
St3veHimself Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Nimrod is my favorite album! Every track is amazing on it!
Homero Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 It's not one of my favourites albums but it's really good and everytime I listen to it I think "I should like this more". But I don't know, it has a lot of songs. My favorites are: Worry Rock (lyrics are great and have you heard the cover of Weezer? Awesome) Nice Guys Finish Last Redundant I used to play A LOT to The Grouch on my bass some years ago. And also, I think "Last Ride In" and "Take Back" are the "weird" songs on this record (like Misery for example)
Guest MadeInRatCity Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 This album would've been perfect if they had filtered the songs. It should be somewhere around 30 mins.
Todd Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 I didn't celebrate Warning's b-day because I had just listened to warning in its entirety the day before, and I didn't celebrate nimrod because of the same reason. I have to check the calendar next time before I listen to an entire album!
Femme Gauche Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 I didn't celebrate Warning's b-day because I had just listened to warning in its entirety the day before, and I didn't celebrate nimrod because of the same reason. I have to check the calendar next time before I listen to an entire album! can't listen two days ina row, eh? This album has 18 tracks but still comes in at (much) less than an hour. Packs a punch in the timespan, though!
Todd Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 can't listen two days ina row, eh? This album has 18 tracks but still comes in at (much) less than an hour. Packs a punch in the timespan, though! I'm celebrating a different way. I didn't practice, so don't be too harsh ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjkSs7ATqCE
Todd Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Scattered, Worry Rock, Uptight, Last Ride In, Jinx, Haushinka, Good Riddance, Prosthetic Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZbJviDK2M
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