[kingcoffee]

Green Day fucking suck. One of the worst bands to ever grace the punk rock scene. Annoying vocals, simple chord progressions, asshole attitude. Green Day has it all.

[acousticrock87]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB4WNSABtUA

Thurston hanging out with Tre Cool. Not that it should matter what Sonic Youth thinks of them...

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Green Day. I think they're generally an obnoxious and talent-deficient band. But if anyone thinks they can make some kind of autonomous ruling on it, they're wrong. Most people like them. So they're doing something right.

As for the poll, I picked Minority because it's the most nostalgiac for me.

[alyasa]

Green Day is a pop band. Like Westlife, which I can appreciate, or Fall Out Boy, which I do not. Pop bands are not 'sucky' by default.

[touch me i'm sick]

their old stuff was decent. their new stuff is shit.

i've seen em live. i'll admit it was a fun show

[GeneticKiss]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Those two should naturally appear in a line of thought together, because without Nirvana becoming hot shit & selling big numbers, the Green Day machine would have never been borne into the marketplace. And yeah, Green Day are like a non-threatening (with the soul sucked out) version of Nirvana in many ways. When one considers all the bands that the success of Green Day have spawned, it's a bit like a lot of '50s rock with the endless parade of seemingly neutered safe-for-your-daughter performers.

I had never thought of it quite like that, but yeah, it is kinda like how Pat Boone came out as a "safer" version of Elvis...

The difference, though is that while Green Day's success hinged on that of Nirvana (even Billy Joe Armstrong basically came out and said that when they were on Behind The Music), the band themselves were not manufactured...they were totally DIY in the beginning and I think they deserve and least a little bit of cred for that.

I picked "Basket Case", becuz it reminds me of how I knew this one kid in junior high who was always singing their songs...I would have picked "Welcome To Paradise", but I didn't see it on there, or "Geek Stink Breath", or "Brain Stew" if it had "Jaded" attached to it...

[GeneticKiss]

Originally Posted by Pookie

Like it or not, there's a whole group of people (the vast majority in fact) that just like music because it sounds nice.

We're the exception.

Not quite. I listen to SY becuz I think they sound nice, but it just seems not everyone agrees.

[Cantankerous]

it is appropriate that they have a song titled "redundant"

and that's all i'm going to say.

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by jon boy

one of the worst bands to exist ever.

Agreed.

[LittlePuppetBoy]

Originally Posted by Glice

I don't quite understand the disgust people feel towards GD. They're rubbish or passable, depending on my mood, but people (especially SY fans) seem to single them out for hatred. Surely there are more deserving targets of the ill-directed venom of people here?

Yes. All those overly commercial pop punk/Hot Topic bands that were inspired by Green Day. Nothing but a bunch of posers.

[Ripchord]

When all of my friends listened to Good Charlotte, I listened to Green Day. This was before American Idiot. Probably 2003. I haven't listened to them since but something tells me i won't like them even though i thought they were great when i was 11. It's like tween-punk. It's the step after Hilary Duff and before The Distillers. Which isn't really all that big.

[Ripchord]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB4WNSABtUA

Thurston hanging out with Tre Cool.

Actually he got the wrong name, because that is the bassist Mike (he tried to correct him when he wasn't paying attention), Tre is the drummer.

[acousticrock87]

You're right. I knew it was the bassist but I don't know their names, so I took his word for it.