Hermione Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 do you know where i can see all the results? is there a thread? thanks Yep! What we did was we voted for the favourite song on each album over several weeks and then put the winners against each other. Here's the final voting thread, if you look at the poll you can see the winner from each album and how many votes it got in the final. Please be trolling... You would say that, DookieLukie
DookieLukie Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Yep! What we did was we voted for the favourite song on each album over several weeks and then put the winners against each other. Here's the final voting thread, if you look at the poll you can see the winner from each album and how many votes it got in the final. You would say that, DookieLukie Lol. I did it for the clever rhyme. But Dookie has so much rich history and power, and its influence was very much more than 21CB. Dookie was something new...a new take on music that had been long underground.
Hermione Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Lol. I did it for the clever rhyme. But Dookie has so much rich history and power, and its influence was very much more than 21CB. Dookie was something new...a new take on music that had been long underground. Yeah if we were talking about the most groundbreaking then Dookie would take the crown. But as far as what any one person thinks their best album is I think it just comes down to personal taste. Dookie sounds better to some people's ears and 21st CB sounds better to others.
musso_kn Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Lol. I did it for the clever rhyme. But Dookie has so much rich history and power, and its influence was very much more than 21CB. Dookie was something new... a new take on music that had been long underground Only in America. People keep talking about punk being this underground thing, but truth is first wave homegrown punk bands were hugely popular in the UK in the seventies and eighties. Green Day only 'brought punk into the mainstream' in the States, so, in my understanding, Dookie isn't at all phenomenal in that respect.
iScottie Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Apparently only "young" people can like American Idiot. Story time. I was just out and about mailing some packages and I decided to stop into Walmart for a couple Blu-rays and some Triscuits. After spending about 10 minutes wandering around for a decent register to go to, I decided to return to the Entertainment area and check out there. I was second in-line as an old man who was renewing his cell phone minutes was ahead of me. When it was my turn, the guy started ringing me out. I got the obligatory, "are you over 17?" question because I was purchasing an R-rated movie. After a couple minutes, the guy looks at my shirt and says, "oh Green Day?" I'm like "yh, great band". So after another second or so he asks me, "what's your favorite album?" I was like uhh...probably American Idiot. He hesitates a couple of seconds and with a snotty chuckle thing says, "oh, that's because you're young" and then he went on to explain how he listened to them since the nineties. I'm like, "I saw them three times" and walked away. Suck on that pecker head. Can't stand people like that. Plus I'm 21 and I get carded still and it pisses me off. >_< Side story: We went to the package store a few days before the 4th to get some shit and I was pushing the carriage around, so when we get to the register, the guy ringing us out practically has a heart attack and gives us this REALLY long dissertation on how young people can't be pushing the cart. My mom was like, he's 21 and then he was like "I need some I.D." and then I showed it and then he yelled because I didn't take it out when it was rather obvious by my fucking birth date written right on it.
DookieLukie Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Only in America. People keep talking about punk being this underground thing, but truth is first wave homegrown punk bands were hugely popular in the UK in the seventies and eighties. Green Day only 'brought punk into the mainstream' in the States, so, in my understanding, Dookie isn't at all phenomenal in that respect. Well yes. When I refer to influence I speak of the country in which the album came from. Obviously albums have different amounts of influence in different places. Since Dookie is an American album, I was referring to American influence.
Guest Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Apparently only "young" people can like American Idiot. True story: I was pushing 20 when AI came out, and it's still one of my favorite albums.
fromdecimateddreams Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Yeah, I hate the popular assumption that the people who love American Idiot must be the "young and naive" ones. AI is my favourite album, and whenever I express that people are like "oh, you only like their new stuff" or "do you even know their stuff from the 90s?" and then it's funny cause the people saying that are usually the ones who think Dookie was their first album.
belinda jane Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Yeah, I hate the popular assumption that the people who love American Idiot must be the "young and naive" ones. AI is my favourite album, and whenever I express that people are like "oh, you only like their new stuff" or "do you even know their stuff from the 90s?" and then it's funny cause the people saying that are usually the ones who think Dookie was their first album. those people probably haven't even tried to listen to AI properly and have just skimmed through it, thinking that it's nothing like their old stuff and more "poppy" or whatever.
¡Juliana Homicide! Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 I really think the guys should re-record their first two albums. I can't fully appreciate some of the songs because of the low quality recordings.
belinda jane Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 I really think the guys should re-record their first two albums. I can't fully appreciate some of the songs because of the low quality recordings. i honestly don't think it'd be the same if they re-recorded those two albums. i mean, obviously they wouldn't be the same. but i mean, they wouldn't have the same feel.
fromdecimateddreams Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Yeah, I feel lie re-recording them would be kinda weird. I can see maybe enhancing the qualities of the albums and re-releasing better quality versions, but I think re-recording them might take away some of the magic, so to speak. Hearing Billie sing songs like At the Library or Dry Ice at the age he is now versus like 18 would be a little odd, I think. It wouldn't have the same impact.
belinda jane Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 reprise did re-release it though, didn't they? i think they did in 2008.
Tubbie Head Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 I've said it before but an acoustified re-recording of Kerplunk would be a dream of mine
fromdecimateddreams Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 reprise did re-release it though, didn't they? i think they did in 2008. Did they? Wait. Yeah, they did, I just looked it up. My bad. I think it was only 1039/SOSH though, and not Kerplunk. But I could be mistaken.
Spoopy Doo Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Is ¡Dos! being my favorite of the trilogy an unpopular opinion or not? It seems almost even. :|
MaraGreenDay Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Is ¡Dos! being my favorite of the trilogy an unpopular opinion or not? It seems almost even. :| I don't think so, but it's my favorite too!
belinda jane Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Did they? Wait. Yeah, they did, I just looked it up. My bad. I think it was only 1039/SOSH though, and not Kerplunk. But I could be mistaken. probably i always thought it was both. i need clarification!
fromdecimateddreams Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 probably i always thought it was both. i need clarification! Okay, I did a little more searching and it looks like it was both 1039 and Kerplunk, but Kerplunk was in 2007 while 1039 was in 2008. I think. This site could be a little... it doesn't look too official so idk. Damn I really need to brush up on my obscure GD knowledge
belinda jane Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Okay, I did a little more searching and it looks like it was both 1039 and Kerplunk, but Kerplunk was in 2007 while 1039 was in 2008. I think. This site could be a little... it doesn't look too official so idk. Damn I really need to brush up on my obscure GD knowledge hahaha yeah i thought it was both. it's okay, i only knew because GDA posted it and i actually purchased the 1039 re-released
fromdecimateddreams Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 hahaha yeah i thought it was both. it's okay, i only knew because GDA posted it and i actually purchased the 1039 re-released Is it worth purchasing, do you think? I might consider getting it if the recordings are pretty decently enhanced.
belinda jane Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Is it worth purchasing, do you think? I might consider getting it if the recordings are pretty decently enhanced. the one i have sounds pretty good. i used to skip the songs cause of the shabby quality, but it sounds pretty good. maybe download it before purchasing to see if you like the sound?
OhNo Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Is ¡Dos! being my favorite of the trilogy an unpopular opinion or not? It seems almost even. :| Doubt it's unpopular. I fucking love Dos. It's the one of the only Green Day albums I can listen to from front to back, with out skipping any songs. ( Well, I would've preferred Wild One being 1:00-1:30 minutes shorter, but it's still a very good song). I'm starting to really dislike Tre. To me, it's one great song (X-Kid) and two very good songs (DRB, Missing You). Everything else just sounds like filler or overall underwhelming music.
Eva Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 One time I was at Guitar Center and I was wearing a shirt that had the 21st Century Breakdown album artwork on it. The cashier looked at me and was like, "Ugh. Green Day, huh? You know they were so much better in the 90s. They were actually kind of punk rock. I bet you wouldn't know about that though, huh kid? You're a bit too young for that scene." As a response, I glared at him and went on a fucking huge rant about the beginnings of punk rock, and how it all started out with MC5 and Iggy Pop and how Joey Ramone saw Iggy on TV one year and thought, "Hey man, that's pretty cool" and decided to form a band with his brother's friend John. I also decided to educate him on the differences between the early punk scene in NYC and the scene in London and how it influenced and created the scene in California in the 1980s, which really kicked off when the Dead Kennedys come on the scene. And then I told him about the punk scene in California in the 1980s, and how it influenced the grunge scene in the northwest in the late 80s/early 90s, and led to bands like Nirvana. Then, I told him about the new wave of punk bands from California in the mid-90s, like Green Day, The Offspring, etc., and how the death of Cobain and end of Nirvana pretty much gave them their shot at fame. The guy apologized profusely and gave me a discount. Bottom line: Don't tell me I don't know my shit. I will kick your ass and make you buy me things. Fuckers.
Anaïs. Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 I much prefer a lot of the lyrics on the demo version of "21st Century Breakdown" to the finished song. The version I'd have liked best is mostly demo lyrics fused with some of the official lyrics. For example, in "Act II" of the song, here's what I would've liked to see: My name is "No One", your long lost son, Born on the 4th of July, Raised in the bygones of heroes and cons Who left me for dead or alive. There is a war that's inside my head That questions the results and lies. I'm breaking my back till I'm better off dead When enough ain't enough to survive I've swallowed my pride and I've choked on my faith, I've given my heart and my soul, I am an engine, a worker, a pawn— It's all that I have to show. I'm taking a loan on my sanity for the redemption of my soul, Well, I am exempt from this tragedy And the 20th century fall.
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