Unpopular Green Day Opinions

[DookieLukie]

Wait a second, are you honestly telling me that one of the biggest hits Green Day ever had WASN'T about him smelling good?! My whole world just turned upside.

I propose we take a trip to Cali and have words with him. Get him to do a tape of how to pronounce all his stupid song titles.

Of course a girl would think BOBD is about him liking how he smells. These fangirls.

[Guest]

Of course a girl would think BOBD is about him liking how he smells. These fangirls.

Also, wonderful sexism there mate. Top notch.

[Spike]

Never knew you were such a funny guy.

[walking_c0ntradicti0n]

and now the war of pictures begins...

[Certified Nimrod]

it probably would work better in one of those really short and fast songs like In the End and Not My Problem (but that song's by Joint Aktion)

Those are pretty much the same songs lol. I love Daniel's work, but sometimes the similarities drive me crazy.

[HolyHandGrenade]

Going to Pasalacqua tho

dat Castaway tho

@ 2:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VhVEMIlLF0

[Z J]

I think DRB sounds good, but the lyrics just make you fucking wonder.

I think Basket Case is great. Very influential on pop-punk and it was the anthem of the year it seemed. It has a great melody/hook and the lyrics can feel very relatable at times. Live it is boring NOW but back in Billie's twitchy days that song was awesome live.

I also disagree with the notion that GD just repeats what they do over and over again. Yes if you feel like boiling down the music to time signatures and chord progressions then you're going to find they repeat themselves quite a fucking bit. But honestly before the trilogy, every single album was different. From Dookie to Insomniac you saw an increase in tempo, bass-led songs, and angrier lyrics. Insomniac to Nimrod there is a world of changes, with the addition of more acoustics, horns, and some instrumental bits. From Nimrod to Warning there was the obvious shift to more political themes, as well as an increase in harmonica and sax. Warning to AI saw them go full on stadium rock. AI to 21cb saw them add piano and they made a wealth of other changes, like an increase in the focus on vocal precision (both in pronunciation and actual note hitting).

Is it just me or is pop-punk just the most repetitive fucking genre ever? I don't even consider GD to be a part of that genre anymore. Honestly every song I hear in that category from new bands sounds like a Simple Plan rip off. And Simple plan fucking sucks too. GD really started this genre but there has yet to be a band that has been able to create more than a handful of great songs. That's what sets GD apart. These bands rely on melody and they forget that GD's success wasn't on melody alone but in harmonies and bass lines. Modern pop-punk has not heard of bass. At least from what I hear. Sad

[Anaïs.]

Of course a girl would think BOBD is about him liking how he smells. These fangirls.

Do you never fucking learn?

[Mar]

There seems to be this insane core of the fanbase that worships it, and then there's everyone else who's decidedly "meh" about it.

Yeah, it's not awful, but it's epic for the sake of being epic, which is what makes a lot of it totally unnecessary. I felt so out-of-place for not praying for it every single night during the tour

[Asa.]

I love the Kill the DJ video, if it wasn't for that fuckin motorcycle scene at the beginning.

[Jollyroger118]

I know they use similar chord structures a lot and whatnot but my ears can hardly tell when I'm listening to them lol

[Guest]

I'm so unsophisticated in my music-listening that I barely know what a chord is

[DookieLukie]

Lol I love this

[JOE THE X-KID]

I think DRB sounds good, but the lyrics just make you fucking wonder.

I think Basket Case is great. Very influential on pop-punk and it was the anthem of the year it seemed. It has a great melody/hook and the lyrics can feel very relatable at times. Live it is boring NOW but back in Billie's twitchy days that song was awesome live.

I also disagree with the notion that GD just repeats what they do over and over again. Yes if you feel like boiling down the music to time signatures and chord progressions then you're going to find they repeat themselves quite a fucking bit. But honestly before the trilogy, every single album was different. From Dookie to Insomniac you saw an increase in tempo, bass-led songs, and angrier lyrics. Insomniac to Nimrod there is a world of changes, with the addition of more acoustics, horns, and some instrumental bits. From Nimrod to Warning there was the obvious shift to more political themes, as well as an increase in harmonica and sax. Warning to AI saw them go full on stadium rock. AI to 21cb saw them add piano and they made a wealth of other changes, like an increase in the focus on vocal precision (both in pronunciation and actual note hitting).

Is it just me or is pop-punk just the most repetitive fucking genre ever? I don't even consider GD to be a part of that genre anymore. Honestly every song I hear in that category from new bands sounds like a Simple Plan rip off. And Simple plan fucking sucks too. GD really started this genre but there has yet to be a band that has been able to create more than a handful of great songs. That's what sets GD apart. These bands rely on melody and they forget that GD's success wasn't on melody alone but in harmonies and bass lines. Modern pop-punk has not heard of bass. At least from what I hear. Sad

This.

I love the Kill the DJ video, if it wasn't for that fuckin motorcycle scene at the beginning.

what?! That's the best part of the video!

[Asa.]

what?! That's the best part of the video!

it just seems so unrelated and unnecessary

[Anaïs.]

it just seems so unrelated and unnecessary

Fits with the rest of the Trilogy, then.

[JOE THE X-KID]

it just seems so unrelated and unnecessary

I guess but I think it's pretty badass

[cocoepops]

Of course a girl would think BOBD is about him liking how he smells. These fangirls.

Yes you caught me out I genuinely believed this well celebrated musician was singing about cologne. Thank god you specified that only a girl would believe this though, because you are right. Us females believe all songwriters sing about smelling good and looking hot and the occasional unicorn/fairy/make up. I also really appreciated being called a fangirl, which I can now confirm I am, due to being a fan....and a girl.

[Asa.]

Fits with the rest of the Trilogy, then.

No.

[Spike]

No.

I think it does given that the overriding theme of the Trilogy is that it makes no damn sense.

[Guest]

I think it does given that the overriding theme of the Trilogy is that it makes no damn sense.

[munns6691]

I actually don't think the Trilogy is as bad as people make it out to be. Most of the songs needed one more run through before finalizing it but a handleful of songs still came out fairly well.

Stay the Night

Rusty James

Loss of Control

Sweet 16

Lazy Bones

Brutal Love

Missing You

Are pretty good and

8th Ave. Serenade

X-kid

Let Yourself Go

Sex, Drugs and Violence

99 Revolutions

Amanda

Baby Eyes

Ashley

Stray Heart

Oh Love

Are pretty solid

[Guest]

I actually don't think the Trilogy is as bad as people make it out to be. Most of the songs needed one more run through before finalizing it but a handleful of songs still came out fairly well.

Rusty James - Who Wrote Holden Caulfield copy paste

Loss of Control - The Pretenders/Jawbreaker ripoff

Sweet 16 - vomit inducingly twee lyrics suited to some middle aged crooner in Vegas

Are pretty good and

8th Ave. Serenade - exactly the same intro riff as Stay The Night

Let Yourself Go - contains more swear words than the average Irishman's sentence, both impressive and unnecessarily crude

Sex, Drugs and Violence - "English Math and Science". Need I say more?

99 Revolutions - Stiff Little Fingers rip off

Amanda - boring

Baby Eyes - one of the laziest attempts at a song Billie's ever done

Ashley - same as Baby Eyes

Stray Heart - inferior Mother Mary

Are pretty solid

Few flaws thrown out there.

[Spike]

Few flaws thrown out there.

An angry song contains unnecessary swearing?! Holy shit. Nah, the issue with that song is the fact the guitars sound like crap.

[Guest]

An angry song contains unnecessary swearing?! Holy shit. Nah, the issue with that song is the fact the guitars sound like crap.

I don't mind when unnecessary swearing is done well (see: Platypus), but LYG just seems to be solely constructed of Billie trying to fit as many swear words around the innumerable "LET YOURSELF GO LET YOURSELF GO LET YOURSELF GOOOOOOOOOOOOO"s. It just sounds lazy and poorly written.