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Greenday - American Idiot
2004-10-12, 9:16 AM #1
Bought Greenday's new cd (american idiot) a week ago and I thinks its pretty good. Who else has it and what are your favorite songs by them?

My favorite songs from cd:

1 - American Idiot
6 - St. Jimmy
11 - Wake Me Up When September Ends

My other favorite songs by then:

Basket Case
When I Come Around
Good Riddance
2004-10-12, 10:02 AM #2
Brain Stew
Longview

The other songs....

i heard the new american idiot song, it doesn't sound like anything worth buying, i've already got 3 greenday albums that sound the same as one another.
2004-10-12, 10:24 AM #3
Longview
Burnout
Welcome to Paradise
2000 Light Years Away

Man this brings me back to Grade 5...
2004-10-12, 11:08 AM #4
Can't stand it.
2004-10-12, 4:36 PM #5
Longview's a pretty okay song, but over all I just find Greenday annoying.
2004-10-12, 4:51 PM #6
I haven't obtained it yet, but my favorites are all from Nimrod
1. Platapus (Ihateyou)
2. Good Riddance
3. Prostetic Head
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2004-10-12, 7:07 PM #7
I hear the album's brilliant. I might pick it up if I happen to be buying cds and there's nothing else I want.
It's not the side effects of cocaine, so then I'm thinking that it must be love
2004-10-12, 7:19 PM #8
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Originally posted by MaD CoW
Man this brings me back to Grade 5...


Heh me too, cept grade 10... I am sorta tempted, if only for that nostalgic feeling. Nimrod was great, at the time.
The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.
2004-10-12, 9:43 PM #9
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I hear that it's pretty mature, musically and lyrically.
It's not the side effects of cocaine, so then I'm thinking that it must be love
2004-10-12, 10:47 PM #10
I bought it, listened to it twice, and didn't like it. Then I read an article in the street press about it, and all of a sudden it made sense. Basically it's a punk rock opera - like a musical, with characters and a storyline (somewhat). When I listened to it again, I enjoyed it a lot more. It's good for me, because I'm the kinda guy that can be content to put on a cd, and just listen to it for an hour paying 100% attention to it - similar to how most people would watch a dvd.
2004-10-13, 1:19 PM #11
lol.. i almost got that CD for a dollar today at school. This one guy comes in class and said he was selling CD's for a dollar cause he found this case of CD's on the bus. I went over there to check it out, but someone just bought the American Idiot CD, and that was like the only good one in the case.
2004-10-13, 1:32 PM #12
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Originally posted by Septic Yogurt
i heard the new american idiot song, it doesn't sound like anything worth buying, i've already got 3 greenday albums that sound the same as one another.


Prezactly.
the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot - LC Tusken
2004-10-13, 1:53 PM #13
I'm with Vinny.
2004-10-13, 2:08 PM #14
Some excerpts from the AMG review:
Quote:
The story of St. Jimmy has an arc similar to Hüsker Dü's landmark punk-opera Zen Arcade, while the music has grandiose flourishes straight out of both Queen and Rocky Horror Picture Show (the '50s pastiche "Rock and Roll Girlfriend" is punk rock Meat Loaf), all tied together with a nervy urgency and a political passion reminiscent of the Clash, or all the anti-Reagan American hardcore bands of the '80s.


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There's a lot to absorb here, and cynics might dismiss it after one listen as a bit of a mess when it's really a rich, multi-faceted work, one that is bracing upon the first spin and grows in stature and becomes more addictive with each repeated play.


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In its musical muscle and sweeping, politically charged narrative, it's something of a masterpiece, and one of the few -- if not the only -- records of 2004 to convey what it feels like to live in the strange, bewildering America of the early 2000s.


Here's some excerpts from the Pitchfork review:

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In 1999, pop-punk exploded with the arrival of Blink-182's Enema of the State, and the brand gleefully deteriorated from there, bottoming out in the young and hopeless days of a dollar-store post-millennium, where the suburban trash culture that Billie Joe Armstrong once dismissively skewered has blended dangerously with a shifty political climate, causing volatile upheavals in blue collar comedy and bicameral nimrods. Now Green Day are back to pull the pin on the grenade.


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Rather than preach, it digs out the fuse buried under mountains of 7-Eleven styrofoam trash, the cultural livewire that's grown cold in the shadow of strip-mall economics. Armstrong's characters are just misunderstood and disaffected individuals, told to get lost by a nation of fair and balanced sitcom watchers.


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But then there's "She's a Rebel", a simplistically perfect anthem of the sort the band's vapid followers (or their handlers) would likely muck up with string sections.


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Music in 2004 is full of well-meaning but pan-flashing sloganeers whose tirades against the government-- whether right or wrong-- are ultimately flat, with an overarching sense that what they're saying comes packaged with a spoil date of November '04. Though they do fling their share of surface insults, Green Day frequently look deeper here, not just railing against the political climate, but also striving to show how that climate has negatively impacted American culture.
It's not the side effects of cocaine, so then I'm thinking that it must be love
2004-10-13, 4:45 PM #15
Flashback to 1994 when Dookie came out. When I Come Around was so popular here in the Bay Area that Green Day was getting air time on the RAP statiions here.

I haven't heard all of the album yet, but it's been getting amazing reviews.
Pissed Off?
2004-10-13, 6:45 PM #16
Pfff... Dookie... :p All of those songs got way overplayed. Kerplunk was a much better album.
2004-10-13, 8:46 PM #17
I'm with Vin, and gothix
Flipsides crackers are the best crackers to have ever existed
2004-10-14, 7:14 AM #18
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Originally posted by Arkon11
I'm with Vin, and gothix
2004-10-14, 9:36 AM #19
I like a few of their songs. I heard "blvd. of broken dreams," off American Idiot, yesterday. One of those cliche topics, but I like it.
Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....
2004-10-14, 4:10 PM #20
well, if some of you like that kind of music. I friend (well more like an aquantence (sp) ) burned me a Best of Bad Religion CD. Most of the songs on there kinda suck, like 3/4s mabey even 4/5's, but some of them are real gems.
Flipsides crackers are the best crackers to have ever existed
2004-10-14, 5:32 PM #21
I dunno. I haven't listened to this CD, but the first single "American Idiot" kind of annoyed the hell out of me. There's just so much of this pop-punk and emo and The Killers crap now that it has lost all meaning. However, I respect that Green Day has tried something new (I think) with the whole punk opera concept and I won't judge the rest of the album based on how much the first single has pissed the hell out of me. I am also supremely irritated by the whole major scale power chord progression that seems to be the only thing these tie-wearing, Avril Lavigne-inspiring freakshows seem to be capable of.
"When it's time for this planet to die, you'll understand that you know absolutely nothing." — Bugenhagen
2004-10-14, 9:27 PM #22
I should point out that Green Day shouldn't be lumped in with that group, Tonberry. They have a similar style of music, but GD is much better and more original.

Also, Husker Du is a punk band and they did a concept album 20 years ago called Zen Arcade.
It's not the side effects of cocaine, so then I'm thinking that it must be love
2004-10-14, 10:24 PM #23
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Originally posted by Master Tonberry
I dunno. I haven't listened to this CD, but the first single "American Idiot" kind of annoyed the hell out of me. There's just so much of this pop-punk and emo and The Killers crap now that it has lost all meaning. However, I respect that Green Day has tried something new (I think) with the whole punk opera concept and I won't judge the rest of the album based on how much the first single has pissed the hell out of me. I am also supremely irritated by the whole major scale power chord progression that seems to be the only thing these tie-wearing, Avril Lavigne-inspiring freakshows seem to be capable of.


I despise, with a passion, the kind of music you are talking about. However, Green Day is not like them. They seem like they are, but they really aren't. I've heard this CD, and it's good. The rest of the CD is a very different mood than the first single. My favorite off of this CD is "Wake Me Up When September Ends".
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah? Well, **** you!'
... I thought I had won."
2004-10-14, 11:16 PM #24
Quote:
I am also supremely irritated by the whole major scale power chord progression that seems to be the only thing these tie-wearing, Avril Lavigne-inspiring freakshows seem to be capable of.


I hate to rain on your parade, but there's not going to be a whole lot of music left to you if you can't stand I-IV-V...I'm not for or against this album because I haven't heard it, but I just think that's a really lame reason to dislike a particular style of music.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2004-10-15, 11:15 AM #25
I haven't listened to it yet

Closing time, when i come around and basketcase are the best songs they've had
nope.
2004-10-15, 1:11 PM #26
Dude, the major scale isn't the last scale on earth...
"When it's time for this planet to die, you'll understand that you know absolutely nothing." — Bugenhagen
2004-10-15, 4:16 PM #27
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Originally posted by Septic Yogurt

i heard the new american idiot song, it doesn't sound like anything worth buying, i've already got 3 greenday albums that sound the same as one another.


I stand corrected, I just heard another track from the album played live on jools holland and it was really good, not much like their previous stuff.
2004-10-17, 3:05 PM #28
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Originally posted by Boco
I haven't listened to it yet

Closing time, when i come around and basketcase are the best songs they've had


Closing Time was by Semisonic, not Green Day, IIRC.
2004-10-17, 5:13 PM #29
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Originally posted by Master Tonberry
Dude, the major scale isn't the last scale on earth...


No, but it's the one that 99% of western music comes from.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2004-10-17, 5:30 PM #30
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Originally posted by MaD CoW
Closing Time was by Semisonic, not Green Day, IIRC.


Two different songs with the same title, I believe.
"I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying 'Yeah? Well, **** you!'
... I thought I had won."
2004-10-17, 5:31 PM #31
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Originally posted by MaD CoW
Closing Time was by Semisonic, not Green Day, IIRC.


You sure? according to the songs i have in my music it was greenday...
nope.
2004-10-17, 5:41 PM #32
Oops. I just checked the lyrics, it's the same song as the Semisonic one. I wonder who did it first, considering that one of the two groups originally wrote the song.
2004-10-17, 7:33 PM #33
Okay....I officially HATE this band. They're just too annoying; it's like they're trying to revive the "90's rock sound" or whatever. Damn.:mad:
2004-10-17, 8:08 PM #34
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Originally posted by Tracer
I hate to rain on your parade, but there's not going to be a whole lot of music left to you if you can't stand I-IV-V...I'm not for or against this album because I haven't heard it, but I just think that's a really lame reason to dislike a particular style of music.

Quote:
No, but it's the one that 99% of western music comes from.


Right, because Western music is the only music on earth...
"When it's time for this planet to die, you'll understand that you know absolutely nothing." — Bugenhagen
2004-10-17, 8:46 PM #35
Never made that claim. World music is cool, but I still stand by the idea that ripping on a band because of the chord progressions they play (of all things) is stupid.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2004-10-17, 10:15 PM #36
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Originally posted by Delphian
Okay....I officially HATE this band. They're just too annoying; it's like they're trying to revive the "90's rock sound" or whatever. Damn.:mad:


Haha... they are the 90s rock sound. :p
2004-10-18, 5:03 AM #37
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Originally posted by Wuss
Haha... they are the 90s rock sound. :p


I was gonna say that! :p


Hating a band because of their style or the sound they're trying to achieve is just stupid. Why is everyone so closed minded about music? It's like every other guys wants only the genres he likes to exist and everything else should be banned or something.

I don't listen to metal, or most rap, but that doesn't mean I hate those genres. I'm glad they exist, and I'm glad there's people who like them. Then, I'll just go listen to something else. It's not like you're being forced to listen to them, so why hate a band?

It's like all those people who go "OMQ BRITNEY SPEARS NEEDS TO DIE!!!"

Wait... she needs to die because she makes music you don't like? Way to go, Jabba the Hutt!
The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
2004-10-18, 5:34 AM #38
Precisely, mr. Flex.

Never heard of Greenday, though.
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2004-10-18, 10:33 AM #39
I asked FastGamerr to go to the Green Day concert
He said he never heard of them
How cool is that!
So I went to his room
And read his diiiiiiiary.

I'm sorry. :(
2004-10-18, 11:03 AM #40
take out one of the "to"s and the "go", then it fits :)
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