Unpopular Green Day Opinions

[JOE THE X-KID]

They really need to stop playing Longview on every single concert. The song is used to much, and gets more boring every time I hear it.

If any song is overplayed it's King for a day

[The Grouch is Tracy]

If any song is overplayed it's King for a day

Totally agree.

[Cath]

It's not. Only thing faster live is "Walking Contradiction".

no most of them are played faster. just watch videos it's easy to notice.

I thought I read somewhere that billie said 99 revolutions was one of the bests things he had written - but I may be mistaken.

he said this in the rolling stones interview

[Bastard of 1969]

no most of them are played faster. just watch videos it's easy to notice.

H...how?

[Anaïs.]

Changing course from the Trilogy theme for a while—I think 21st Century Breakdown does nearly as good a job as American Idiot of capturing the vibe and emotions of the era it was recorded in. Yes, it's all over the place and doesn't really seem to have a goal or focus of any kind, but think about it for a sec. The album is an uncanny prediction of movements like Occupy Wall Street that railed against "the system" but had no set goals, no rules, no agenda common to all participants. No one in Occupy knew what it was fighting exactly, and so it morphed into everyone fighting for his own personal cause. Hence, on 21st Century Breakdown, we get vague, repetitious railing against "authority" ("Know Your Enemy", which I still half-believe was intentionally shoddy lyrically), and all-over-the-place protest songs that swing from anti-violence to anti-religion to anti-corporate America. As I said, it's obviously a precursor to Occupy rather than a tribute to it, as it was written two years before the protests began, but that just makes it all the more uncanny in its accuracy. It also serves as a cautionary tale—unlike Occupy, Christian's movement turns violent ("Horseshoes and Hand Grenades", "American Eulogy") and ends up enbroiling America in anarchy. Mixed in with this are good old-fashioned love songs ("Last Night on Earth") and social commentary ("Static Age") that serve as vignettes of life continuing to go on even as chaos unfolds around it. I still maintain that American Idiot is the better album—it's a more personal story, the political songs are harder-hitting because they're used sparingly, and Billie's vocals aren't annoyingly overproduced, and the fact that it isn't all over the place like its follow-up means it's easier to relate to. But 21CB is still fantastic at capturing the zeitgeist of an era, and I believe that, in retrospect, critics will rank it with Dookie, Warning, Nimrod, and American Idiot as among the band's best work.

[MaraGreenDay]

Missing You and Fell For You are great songs with very good lyrics. The lyrics (and the music) reminds me of Buzzcocks or Undertones. Sure they are not like poems of Charles Bukowski but that wasn't the goal from the beginning. Simple songs that try to show the erotic desperation and the need to have beside you the person you love, with elements of sarcasm and eternal youth. I love these songs for what they are.

Where have you been?

Lol, agree with you, in every worth

[WhiteTim]

Missing You is a great song

Dookie is way way overrated

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

Unpopular opinion (as far as I know) :

I don't like Holiday live. Sure, in person I can tolerate it, but I still don't really like it. Not to say I don't like the song; lyrically and musically, it's great, but I don't like the arrangement of it. I'm not very musically inclined, so I apologize if I'm wrong, but it feels like they up the tempo and I don't like it that way at all. Billie sings it much faster live than on the album...which really turns me off to it.

Every other song live is fine, but Holiday just disappoints me sometimes.

I just came here to say that I think that Holiday is their best live song and that I like more live than studio version, then I saw this So yeah we disagree

[TheGrouch33]

I don't get why everyone is saying that the trilogy is better than 1039SOSH and Kerplunk. I think that those are two of Green Days most relatable, and influential albums.

yes, but they feel like simpletons! and in my opinion the most influential Green Day album is Dookie...and not only because its sold a lot o records.

[Cath]

H...how?

example know your enemy is clearly faster than the studio version, especially in the chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Nwu3il1ds

[Guest Trotsky]

Missing You is a great song

Dookie is way way overrated

Yeah, Missing You is a great song but Dookie is not overrated...Actually is one of the best albums of the 90's.

Where have you been?

Lol, agree with you, in every worth

I just got here.

Haha, I am glad that our views are shared.

[fromdecimateddreams]

Missing You is a great song

Dookie is way way overrated

I agree that Missing You is great. I don't really understand all the hate towards it, I mean, the lyrics aren't that bad, like people make them out to be.

And as for Dookie... while I absolutely adore that album, I have to agree a little bit on that one, too. It is definitely one of the best albums of the 90s and beyond, I'm not saying it's bad, but I don't think it's really... groundbreaking or anything. I almost feel like a lot of people just say it's amazing because other people do. I mean, it's great. But I don't think it's the best thing to come out of the 90s, and honestly, it doesn't even rank in my top five favourite GD albums.

I dunno, that's just me.

[WhiteTim]

Yeah, Missing You is a great song but Dookie is not overrated...Actually is one of the best albums of the 90's.

It is overrated hell its not even GD top 5 albums

[@thelibrary]

I agree that Missing You is great. I don't really understand all the hate towards it, I mean, the lyrics aren't that bad, like people make them out to be.

I agree with you here; I happen to be a fan of the pre-chorus: "...I hit the street, I'm pounding the pavement looking..." I'm just a big fan of lyrics with double meanings. XD

[Guest Trotsky]

It is overrated hell its not even GD top 5 albums

It's my second favourite alboum.

[WhiteTim]

It's my second favourite alboum.

That's cool its just my opinion not trying to change your likings

[Guest Trotsky]

That's cool its just my opinion not trying to change your likings

Sure, these are our personal views.

[fromdecimateddreams]

I agree with you here; I happen to be a fan of the pre-chorus: "...I hit the street, I'm pounding the pavement looking..." I'm just a big fan of lyrics with double meanings. XD

Yeah, exactly!

A lot of the hate I see for it is the "I even looked under the bed" part, which I know isn't the most deep and eloquent thing he could have written, but the simplicity and "childishness" of it is kind of the point, I think. It shows a lot of desperation, like he's so caught up on finding this person that he resorted to such a petty thing like looking under the bed. I think it's a pretty good line, honestly. I think a lot of people fail to look into it. It's just a great song in general.

[@thelibrary]

Yeah, exactly!

A lot of the hate I see for it is the "I even looked under the bed" part, which I know isn't the most deep and eloquent thing he could have written, but the simplicity and "childishness" of it is kind of the point, I think. It shows a lot of desperation, like he's so caught up on finding this person that he resorted to such a petty thing like looking under the bed. I think it's a pretty good line, honestly. I think a lot of people fail to look into it. It's just a great song in general.

I agree completely! The entire theme of desperation even continues to the idea of him punching the walls and pounding the pavement, and I actually find the lyrics to be quite good at conveying the idea. I just really like the song. ^^

[munns6691]

"I even looked under the bed" is an outragous line and that is what makes it work. The whole point is he is acting outragious and foolish because he can't function properlly without her around. Bam!

[UNICORN VOMIT]

"I even looked under the bed" is an outragous line and that is what makes it work. The whole point is he is acting outragious and foolish because he can't function properlly without her around. Bam!

Which is the whole point of Tre.

[kilawatcongo]

dos > uno > tre. i love all of dos it's an amazing album not a single bad song on there.

Totally agree

[fromdecimateddreams]

Is it an unpopular opinion to really like the artwork of the trilogy era?

I dunno, I just really like it. It's nice and colorful (which is weird for me to like cause I normally prefer darker stuff) and I like the new logo and think the skulls are kind of cute.

Not sure if this in unpopular or not, but I haven't seen many people comment on the matter, so I thought it might be. idk.

[Cath]

Is it an unpopular opinion to really like the artwork of the trilogy era?

I dunno, I just really like it. It's nice and colorful (which is weird for me to like cause I normally prefer darker stuff) and I like the new logo and think the skulls are kind of cute.

Not sure if this in unpopular or not, but I haven't seen many people comment on the matter, so I thought it might be. idk.

yes i like them. it's more childish and fun but it represents the albums meaning. yes i'm happy with them and i like the colors.

[Z J]

Hear hear! I don't know what lyrics other people are listening to, they're far from meaningless.

They actually didn't say that. They were talking about the fact that they were at the very start of making a new album and how it was going, and they said they were at the stage of "going back to the basics" of making a new album. They didn't comment on what the album would sound like, they were just saying they were getting started with making it.

Unfortunately shortly afterwards there was some crappy article that twisted the quote to make it sound like they'd said they were going back to basics musically. And then because of that one article a load more came out based on it, and suddenly the idea that Green Day had said their new album would be back to basics and sound like Dookie was out there. And then when the albums came out a lot of people were disappointed that it didn't sound like Dookie, even though the band never promised any such thing, all because of that lying article.

I consider it my duty to spread this information , it's ridiculous that so many people mark the trilogy down all because of a misquote. We realized on GDC at the time but I guess that wasn't enough and people still think they said that.

Alright well regardless of me being misinformed, the the albums all certainly went in the direction of being stripped down. All of their shows are reflecting that as well. Notice the lack of explosives and fire. I don't mark the trilogy down because I read that quote. I mark it down because of lyrics like:

Sex, drugs & violence

English, math & science,

Safety in numbers

Give me, give me danger

Oh baby, baby eyes

Oh baby, baby I was born to... Kill!

Hey, you got yourself a pretty little mouth

I think I wanna rub it the wrong way

When you fall

You're gonna need a parachute

Or a used pair of shoes to go

And walk away

And throw all of 'missing you' in to that boat as well. I only cited that quote because someone said that you can't compare Green Day's albums to each other. That misquote is not why I mark down the trilogy. The trilogy does it to its self.

EDIT: The trilogy lyrics are weak compared to other Green Day material. Not necessarily overall.