Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2

[UNICORN VOMIT]

1 minute ago, Billie Joe Armstrong said:

You're not the only one. The candles are funny but I couldn't care less about the album 

tbh I would prefer a nice t-shirt

[Christian's Inferno!]

6 minutes ago, SHART said:

Am I the only one interested in the candles & am I the only one who has absolutely no interest in purchasing this album...

Yeah, outside of the new song I couldn't care less. The new OW doesn't really interest me either although I'll give it a listen. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised with that.

But I don't really get why anyone cares. I can literally just make a playlist on YouTube or Spotify with all these songs already. I mean, it'll be good for some casual "fans" that have only heard a few of their well known songs from AI

[herewegoagain]

18 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Really? I love Insomniac but I’d rather have GD’s diverse catalog over twelve albums of angry punk.  I love Rancid too but every album sounds the same. They’re not a hall of fame band that will be remembered because they’ve never evolved.

Haha, my comment was in jest. I agree 100% about the diversity, just having some Insomniac sound withdrawal. Maybe one or two more albums

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

2 minutes ago, SHART said:

tbh I would prefer a nice t-shirt

Nice t-shirt is a rare occurence in the gd world 

[UNICORN VOMIT]

Just now, Billie Joe Armstrong said:

Nice t-shirt is a rare occurence in the gd world 

Yeah sometimes I do the housework in my RevRad one hoping to get bleach on it

[pacejunkie punk]

5 minutes ago, herewegoagain said:

Haha, my comment was in jest. I agree 100% about the diversity, just having some Insomniac sound withdrawal. Maybe one or two more albums

Sometimes Insomniac is exactly the album I’m in the mood for and nothing else will do. I’m sure glad it exists.

[Chin for a Day]

51 minutes ago, SHART said:

Yeah sometimes I do the housework in my RevRad one hoping to get bleach on it

Well now you are quite the Debbie freakin' downer today. I love all my Rev Rad T-shirts!

I would get bleach on my Insomniac T-shirt, except wait! I don't own one of course.

I am interested in the album simply because I own everything else they have done and it completes the set. Plus the cover is one of the best covers they have ever done.    

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

1 hour ago, SHART said:

Yeah sometimes I do the housework in my RevRad one hoping to get bleach on it

Oh come on revrad tshirts are nice (except for the black one with the radio)

[Chin for a Day]

11 minutes ago, Billie Joe Armstrong said:

Oh come on revrad tshirts are nice (except for the black one with the radio)

I like the black one with the radio. 

[nick.]

I’m a bit nervous that Crush Management will be another’s nail in Green Day’s punk coffin. 

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1 hour ago, Billie Joe Armstrong said:

Oh come on revrad tshirts are nice (except for the black one with the radio)

That's the one Ive got & its too big as well.

[pacejunkie punk]

56 minutes ago, nick. said:

I’m a bit nervous that Crush Management will be another’s nail in Green Day’s punk coffin. 

How many nails would that make that exactly? 😉 You could argue their first nails were their melodies, love songs and harmonies.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

58 minutes ago, nick. said:

I’m a bit nervous that Crush Management will be another’s nail in Green Day’s punk coffin. 

I would love a GD coffin but Im gonna be cremated.

 

[Montclare]

19 minutes ago, SHART said:

I would love a GD coffin but Im gonna be cremated.

 

How about a Green Day urn?  If KISS can do caskets, Green Day can do urns.

And yeah, I just want the Billie candle and t-shirt.  I'll just buy the two new songs on Itunes.  Can't even remember the last time I bought a hard copy of an album.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

9 minutes ago, Montclare said:

How about a Green Day urn?  If KISS can do caskets, Green Day can do urns.

And yeah, I just want the Billie candle and t-shirt.  I'll just buy the two new songs on Itunes.  Can't even remember the last time I bought a hard copy of an album.

Yeah the KISS thing was where I was coming from.  GD should totally do an urn but Im actually having my ashes shot out of fireworks

Just realised I quite often talk about my death in this thread

[Hermione]

On 11/1/2017 at 5:17 AM, Jollyroger118 said:

I got one. If Back in the USA ends up being a Chuck Berry cover I will never fucking forgive them. I wish they would've just said if it was or not cause I wanna be really excited but I can't be. 

Also I don't wanna quote the whole post above me but to say the trilogy lyrics are just as good as 21st CB is absolute insanity 

But we've already known there's a high possibility of it being a cover since the day they announced it, so why be disappointed? They don't owe us anything so I'll take a cover and enjoy it or be pleasantly surprised if it's a new song.  

I don't really know what people expect from a greatest hits. The album itself isn't really made for us, it's for people less familiar with the band who don't already own all their songs. The cool merch and a cover/new song and new version of a song are for us if we want them. People seem to think we're being short changed somehow and I'm not sure why.

[Thatsername]

On 31.10.2017 at 4:52 PM, AlissaGoesRAWR said:

It's funny to hear everyone talk about how much better Green Day is than blink-182 because in my experience, when you bring up blink-182 in casual conversation with people my age, people typically are much more receptive to blink-182 than Green Day. I feel like being a blink-182 fan is much more "acceptable" and the band is more "mainstream," though that doesn't necessarily mean they're objectively better or long-lasting... that's just my anecdotal experience as a fan of both bands.

That being said, most people who have more positive reactions to blink-182 are probably unaware they're even still a band.  

That's my experience too. This year I was at a festival where both Green Day and Blink played and I was there with people all in their 30s. They had never seen GD live, but were mocking them all the time and were totally hyped for Blink. It really pissed me off. But after the shows they had to admit that Blink totally sucked live and GD's show was kicking ass. So I think many people base their opinions on stupid prejudices like GD, and GD alone, killed punk and that shit. But most people change their minds once they've seen the boys live.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

11 hours ago, SHART said:

That's the one Ive got & its too big as well.

My condolences 

11 hours ago, SHART said:

I would love a GD coffin but Im gonna be cremated.

I'd buy a GD coffin and sleep in it every night 

[The Bellie]

1 hour ago, Billie Joe Armstrong said:

I'd buy a GD coffin and sleep in it every night 

Excellent!  

[Christian's Inferno!]

4 hours ago, Thatsername said:

That's my experience too. This year I was at a festival where both Green Day and Blink played and I was there with people all in their 30s. They had never seen GD live, but were mocking them all the time and were totally hyped for Blink. It really pissed me off. But after the shows they had to admit that Blink totally sucked live and GD's show was kicking ass. So I think many people base their opinions on stupid prejudices like GD, and GD alone, killed punk and that shit. But most people change their minds once they've seen the boys live.

Yeah one of the problems I have with Blink is they don't sound good live... Like ever

[MillenniumFan]

I think the only time they ever sounded half way decent was around the turn of the millennium, but even there it’s slightly sloppy at best... 

[Second favourite son]

2 hours ago, MillenniumFan said:

I think the only time they ever sounded half way decent was around the turn of the millennium, but even there it’s slightly sloppy at best... 

I thought you were talking about Green Day for a second, and was about to vociferously express my disagreement.

[MillenniumFan]

Haha, no: Green Day's live performances have been absolutely on point ever since the Warning tour. Yes, they were always really really good (honestly even some of their shittiest concerts and there are only few, sound better than most, if not all of Blink 182's live gigs), but around Warning/AI is when they got a lot more precise, expanded their horizon and gradually shifted from being a small punk band trio to being (at least for a while) the world's largest (live) band. They still have that sound to this day. I guess from a performance point of view you could argue they hit their peak somewhere between 2005-2010, but they're still really damn good today. Blink 182 isn't and never were (neither are many other pop punk bands; I guess the best other live band in the genre would be Billy Talent, imo at least).

 

[Jollyroger118]

I saw green day once in 2001 then multiple times during AI and 21st and I think the 21st your was their best shows ever. They should really bring back acoustic encores at one of the shows I was at Billie played the judges daughter and I was also at the show where they played cigarettes and valentines which was really cool

[MillenniumFan]

I want 21CB style setlists to return. Imo they were more balanced and interesting and they regularly changed it up at least a tiny bit.