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ne green day fans?
imapiratearg:
Personally, I think New Found Glory are extremely boring. Green Day's new stuff is pretty boring, too. I liked it better when they wrote songs about smoking pot and masturbation. Dookie is my favorite album.
Catacombs:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 20 Feb 2008, 11:23 ---
As for a good live band... well guys, I ask you.
At your gig, did he...
- Make 'King For A Day' last for about eight minutes, incredibly tediously, ditto for 'Hitchin' A Ride'?
- Spray the audience with a super-soaker?
- Get kids onstage to play in the band and give one of them a guitar?
- Wear a crown?
- Have a man in a rabbit costume come out and screw around before the gig?
- In a hideously ironic moment, say, 'whatever bastard is in power always stay true to yourself and be an individual'?
Yeah. All that happened at mine. And at all the ones I've asked anyone else about too.
The last tour wasn't a punk rock show. Sure, it was competent. But there was a time when Green Day were an out of control live band and each show was different and it was fun. Now it's a charade.
I look on, incredibly intrigued, at what they are going to come up with to follow that album and tour... their Final Cut to their Wall, if you will.
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All that happened in New Jersey when i saw them. It was a ton of fun. I think it was good too because it was just a few months after American Idiot came out and all that shit didn't go to Billy Joe's head yet. They played for at least two hours, and most of it was pre-American Idiot. Sugarcult & New Found Glory opened, both sucked.
ImRonBurgundy?:
Dillinger Four opened for them in Japan. Dillinger Four also denied Avril Lavigne a free backstage pass at one of their shows.
thedavo:
i saw them in glasgow in 2005, and it's one of the best shows i've ever been to. i know it was staged and theatrical, but i don't care, was worth the 600 mile round trip to see them. new found glory opened that one aswell, they were ok, nothing amazing.
they're one of the few bands from my early teens that i still listen to, my favourite album is probably nimrod, due to the variety of it and it's got some great songs. american idiot is pretty good, but as quite a few people have already said, overplayed.
a pack of wolves:
I still spin Insomniac now and again, but I generally don't listen to Green Day much at all these days. It's not that I don't still like them but rather that since they were the first punk band I ever had an album by and I completely fell in love with punk all their songs that I like are so ingrained that I don't need to play them much at all. I wouldn't bother seeing them live either, but that's because I just don't enjoy massive gigs enough to warrant the cost.
I never really liked their material on Lookout all that much though, I actually thought they became a better band once they made the move to a major. Green Day just seemed to work better when they were slicker, much as I do love other more ramshackle pop punk bands. They lost me after Warning though, I thought it an alright record and I wouldn't have liked them to have kept replicating the music they made in their twenties as they aged but it just wasn't doing it for me anymore.
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