They are a corporate band, everything about them smells "I'm selling a product" not "I'm making music or art".
40 year old millionaires with eye liner pissing out cliché lyrics about angst with American culture.
Plenty of underground "punk" bands of the past have spoken out against issues such as misogyny, corruption and racism. This band just screams out spoilt middle class whining idiocy.
I really don't like being a "hater" because it feels counter productive to me, but they make it really hard for me not to.
wow you sure are knowledgeble about punk
[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;38456186]yeah, what a rebellious and revolutionary message.
america is bad? hold the phone![/QUOTE]
It is "rebellious and revolutionary" if you've never heard it/thought about it before
Every thread about Green Day has the same argument.
OP forgot about the live albums, Awesome As Fuck is actually very well done, Who Wrote Holden Caulfield is pretty much my favorite song by them
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;38466802]Bad Religion wasn't even close to the first either, but that doesn't make them bad. Discrediting music because of shared topics is just stupid. They don't even sound similar. Bad Religion has a very hardcore, distorted, noisey sound (well, they did at that time period) while American Idiot-era Green Day has a MUCH more pop-punk sound.
[editline]15th November 2012[/editline]
Wait a minute, aren't you the alt of that perma'd asshole that ran the hardcore thread who refused to even consider listening to something, let alone with an open mind, if it wasn't pre-90's punk?[/QUOTE]
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I was just saying their message is not revolutionary and is far from "mind opening" or "life changing"
[editline]21st November 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mister B;38480849]It is "rebellious and revolutionary" if you've never heard it/thought about it before[/QUOTE]
I guess if you live in a cave that is possible
[editline]21st November 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;38471277]It's true, why the hell would you be proud to be a Redneck?[/QUOTE]
why not lol
I just noticed that the OP doesn't list Foxboro Hot tubs/The Network albums. I think they deserve to be mentioned, especially Foxboro Hot tubs as a lot of the songs from Uno Dos Tre started as songs for a new Hot tubs album.
[QUOTE=kapin_krunch;38538351]I just noticed that the OP doesn't list Foxboro Hot tubs/The Network albums. I think they deserve to be mentioned, especially Foxboro Hot tubs as a lot of the songs from Uno Dos Tre started as songs for a new Hot tubs album.[/QUOTE]
What about Pinhead Gunpowder
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;38543298]What about Pinhead Gunpowder[/QUOTE]
Good call.
It's corporate punk rock which is not really punk rock at all.
Not to mention, Green Day steals a ton of their music.
[video=youtube;-1htpb_xpWY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1htpb_xpWY&feature=player_embedded#![/video]
"American Idiot" guitar riff.
[video=youtube;WLiuMkGCOC4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiuMkGCOC4[/video]
"Brain Stew"
[video=youtube;UjDu3E5zDks]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDu3E5zDks[/video]
"Warning" pretty much note for note.
[video=youtube;K56soYl0U1w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56soYl0U1w[/video]
"St. Jimmy"?
[video=youtube;6hzrDeceEKc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc[/video]
And we all know that "Wonderwall' sounds so similar to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" that they just stuck those songs together and threw it on the radio.
^Because chords, patterns, tempos, and riffs, aren't often similar/the same, especially with punk/pop punk
Some of their best performances imo:
[video=youtube;phPgv9sPBgE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPgv9sPBgE[/video]
[video=youtube;XgumG6Oeg1w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgumG6Oeg1w[/video]
[video=youtube;gvk4otHWLaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvk4otHWLaQ[/video]
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;38557300]^Because chords, patterns, tempos, and riffs, aren't often similar/the same, especially with punk/pop punk[/QUOTE]
i.e. why this sucks. :v:
There's a difference between using the same notes in a row and ripping off the entire sound.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9B9lLmULE[/media]
american idiot
[editline]23rd November 2012[/editline]
the Dillinger four comparison is literally the same tempo lol
I loved them up to 21st century breakdown wich took me a few listens (more like 10-15) to appreciate it, got all their cd's except uno dos, and wont buy tre either. Too much pop souding for me, but their older stuff was good, but now i'm more into metal so green day went out the window. I still play some on guitar from time to time just to go back to the roots but thats about it.
[QUOTE=HoldenC;38560042]I loved them up to 21st century breakdown wich took me a few listens (more like 10-15) to appreciate it, got all their cd's except uno dos, and wont buy tre either. Too much pop souding for me, but their older stuff was good, but now i'm more into metal so green day went out the window. I still play some on guitar from time to time just to go back to the roots but thats about it.[/QUOTE]
Nice avatar. :v:
I can't listen to them without getting nostalgia from High School times. This for example:
[video=youtube;SA8v3B1SxR0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA8v3B1SxR0[/video]
[B]
EDIT: [/B]I used to love this video. :v:
[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;38442888]
when an album has an advert on TV that's when you know it's fucking awful[/QUOTE]
B..But Yield had a TV commercial (a rather strange and unnecessary one) and it is by no means an awful album (actually one of my favorite Pearl Jam albums)
[editline]1st December 2012[/editline]
[video=youtube;dzjOXidORYg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzjOXidORYg[/video]
compare and contrast that with
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP_4tObZbOg[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJcOZ0uZI2M[/media]
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