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Old Green Day Albums
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I saw their old albums like dookie and imsomniac in asdas for a fiver each, Iv'e got American idiot and International superhits is it worth getting the forementioned cds?
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1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is ace too, its not rare though, i got mine from hmv, and you can get it off Amazon for £8 (cheaper if you use the marketplace for new ones (which i recommend)).
there are sooooo many ace tracks that aren't on superhits, it is well worth buying the albums
boo. Nimrod is only alright. And they only go downhill from there.
Liar, liar bum's on fire
Newer stuff is still good too, in a different way (IN MY OPINION, nit pickers)
You do have a point. New stuff is decent. But not in my classic look on Green Day. Decent music, not decent green day if that makes sense
I don't like american idiot much, they did what the record company told them i think
Insomniac, tbh. It's the first Green Day CD I owned (as well as the first rock CD I owned, way back when), and I still fucking love it.
I still need to buy 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, and also Warning. Warning, purely because...er...live version of 86. (nothing to do with wanting all the albums...).
So the lyrics have changed from my girlfriend beats me to the government beats me. They may not be the next DK, but they certintaly aren't Sum41 or something equally as bad.
*goes to webster up "pish"
Edit: I have broadened my vocabulary today
Main Entry: pish
Pronunciation: 'pish
Function: interjection
-- used to express disdain or contempt
I think people who say "oh they didn't put out anything worth listening to since Nimrod" (and last time we had a GreenDay thread, plenty of them came out of the woodwork!) are missing the point as they try oh-so-hard to appear like they were on the bandwagon from day dot...a lot of them, anyway (I can accept that some people just don't like their newer work).
They've diversified a lot over the years and of course some people aren't going to like that, some people find change difficult to accept. But when they began they were turning out generic poppy "punk-rock" songs that had no potential to offend (or inspire young people - something I like about their newer material especially). Don't even get me started on their punky-boyband "look" back in the day.
Now they're putting out politically charged, socially in-touch songs (dare I say, "anthems"?) that have the potential to seriously offend people on the far right of U.S politics (always a good thing!) and those rabid patriots we [all?] know and loathe. How can you call that "shite?"
Agreed.
It's a bit of a sell-out just. I liked the whole pop-punk carefree thing about Greenday of old. Fair enough, these days they might be trying to get some message across but I don't buy it for a second. Marketing wise, they're genius, as they will make a fortune but music wise it just doesn't wash with me I'm afraid.
And I never claimed to be on some band wagon. I used to listen to them and have a few albums, but I'm not hardcore. They should have stuck to what they were admired for, but I understand that with their new 'attitude' they're gonna attract many new fans and therefore money. I don't think we can put the change down to diversifying their style or developing their music. They're Greenday, not Radiohead.
Kerplunk.
True... I suppose they lost than teenage attitude towards things.
Can you really be taken seriously singing about moving out of your parents house into a crummy neighborhood or that you dont know what it takes to be a man when your over the hill
Well... when you think what some sucessful bands sing about... It wouldn't supprise me.
I'm not even a big Greenday fan, yet I always find myself defending them. The things people come out with just piss me off.
As far as "sticking to what they're admired for", these supposedly admiring fans are the ones who swiftly lost interest after Nimrod dropped them because they were diversifying back then (or selling out, depending on your opinion). If I was a member of Greenday I wouldn't give a flying fuck about what those ex-fans wanted to see from my music; why not catch new fans with a new style of music? Are kids getting into punk/rock/pop/dance music in 2006 any different to those who were getting into music in any other year passed. It's the ultimate in snobbishness to think that if you're aiming for new fans you're aiming for the bigger buck, if you ask me.
Greenday and Radiohead aren't easily incomparable, at least in sense of musical diversification.
So that's your opinion on how a band should act? If I was in a band I would care about the fans that made me successful and would stay loyal to my roots and the reasons those fans liked me. It's fair enough to chase new fans but I wouldn't sell out in order to do so. I'm not their greatest fan either, so it doesn't bother me much. Thankfully none of the bands I've truly admired have ever sold out.
I personally think it's fair game to try and appeal to as many people as you can, and display your talent simultaneously. But obviously to others that translates to selling out on the people who initially were your fans and supported you.
I can completely understand what you're saying, though. Let's agree to disagree.
I do like American Idiot. Naturally its more polished than the earlier stuff because they've got the money to spend on better production but I still like it. However, it's not a patch on the old stuff.