NME Reader, Matt Peaty, says that I Fought The Law cover is a crime against Music

[Guest]

The Clash, The Ramones, Social Distortion, Husker Du... Green Day have yet to make a cover of a classic punk tune that wasn't a by the numbers copy paste of the original.

[WhiteTim]

I loved that they covered The Clash - I like when they cover old punk tunes....bring on the Ramones....they made it their own... or Operation Ivy

Inn a way they haven't covered The Clash as The Clash was covering The Crickets...

[Spike]

The Clash, The Ramones, Social Distortion, Husker Du... Green Day have yet to make a cover of a classic punk tune that wasn't a by the numbers copy paste of the original.

Knowledge? The fact the album version is shit is irrelevant.

[Guest]

Knowledge? The fact the album version is shit is irrelevant.

I'd hardly call it classic. Not compared to those 4 anyway.

[Spike]

I'd hardly call it classic. Not compared to those 4 anyway.

Fair point. In any case, only that and Shout are any different from the originals.

[Guest]

Fair point. In any case, only that and Shout are any different from the originals.

My Generation

But then again that's two chords you can't exactly do much with it when you're a snotty punk band.

[The Disappearing Boy]

Do you the NME?

Do you know your NME?

Well gotta hate the NME .......

...... Sorrr....rrrry

Better than the originl Know Your Enemy.

Also Working Class Hero is a mix between the original and Green Day's influence.

[Spike]

My Generation

But then again that's two chords you can't exactly do much with it when you're a snotty punk band.

The only difference in My Generation is that Mike couldn't do Entwhistle's fills at that point

[Flyingdonutz]

And Train Kept a Rollin by Aerosmith is a crime against music. They sold out. Unlike the Yardbirds. [sarcasmface]

The only reason this is on here is because the Clash covered it the most popularly and apparently that means they have some kind of ownership rights to the song and Green Day are such corporate dick sucking sellouts that they can't cover it without getting shit.

And even if their version did suck (which i dont think it does) I think that makes up for it tenfold.

[green day is]

You guys are such dickfarters. This is article is so tongue-in-cheek the author's probably bored a hole straight through. Not to mention that it's pulled directly from readers' opinions. It's so fucking obvious that they just went through the comments/suggestions/wherever they got these and picked the most ridiculous ones, but all you guys are thinking about is how they insulted Green Day.

BTW I don't read NME so any presupposed notions you guys seem to have are irrelevant to me, especially considering that it's from the readers.

[Guest]

You guys are such dickfarters. This is article is so tongue-in-cheek the author's probably bored a hole straight through. Not to mention that it's pulled directly from readers' opinions. It's so fucking obvious that they just went through the comments/suggestions/wherever they got these and picked the most ridiculous ones, but all you guys are thinking about is how they insulted Green Day.

BTW I don't read NME so any presupposed notions you guys seem to have are irrelevant to me, especially considering that it's from the readers.

I actually somewhat agree with the statement in the article, but the fact that they consider this "journalism" is just another in a long line of ludicrous moves from NME that basically makes them a joke.

[green day is]

I actually somewhat agree with the statement in the article, but the fact that they consider this "journalism" is just another in a long line of ludicrous moves from NME that basically makes them a joke.

I doubt that they consider this particular article to be journalism. I don't read NME, so I don't know about any others, but there's absolutely no way that this article is genuine. Especially considering that, again, these are all from readers. It's right there in the title. The article is out of place on the site, considering it really should be about genuine music news and reviews and all, but other than that there isn't much of a problem with it.

[Idlewild.]

"lol hating pop music makes us look edgy xDDD" is all I got from that article.

[Guest]

I doubt that they consider this particular article to be journalism. I don't read NME, so I don't know about any others, but there's absolutely no way that this article is genuine. Especially considering that, again, these are all from readers. It's right there in the title. The article is out of place on the site, considering it really should be about genuine music news and reviews and all, but other than that there isn't much of a problem with it.

To be fair, NME is the publication that stated Green Day's opening song at Reading was The Clash's Hey Ho Let's Go, quoted Billie Joe as saying he's been around since 1998, said The All American Rejects released Move Along in 2008, claimed that Bowling For Soup have an album called Punk 101, and thinks that Bust A Move is by an artist called Young DMC.

So there's that.

Tom basically covered a lot of the dodgy shit that they've published in "journalistic articles", if they can even be called that. NME is basically a bad joke on here now. This doesn't really help.

[jacknovella]

That's bullshit.

There's nothing more that needs to be said about it.

[Flyingdonutz]

You guys are such dickfarters. This is article is so tongue-in-cheek the author's probably bored a hole straight through. Not to mention that it's pulled directly from readers' opinions. It's so fucking obvious that they just went through the comments/suggestions/wherever they got these and picked the most ridiculous ones, but all you guys are thinking about is how they insulted Green Day.

BTW I don't read NME so any presupposed notions you guys seem to have are irrelevant to me, especially considering that it's from the readers.

"dickfarters" LOL

[porksoda]

The British's opinion on music is terrible, just terrible.

Also, NME.

[The Grohl]

So it's a bad cover because they didn't really change up the song much to make it their own? That's what most cover songs are. It's not the best out there, but it's always been one of my favorites.