Green Day: Great Band or Do They Suck?

They were one of the more entertaining concerts I have photographed.
They still seem to enjoy what they are doing and it shows in their performance. I like the music, but I don't get caught up in all the sell out freakout. If it makes me feel like playing air guitar I usually like it

Operation Ivy is ska? my world just flipped polarities. i think ska, i picture The Specials.

On a similar and sort of related to the subject note: I recently found my copy of the record from ciaran's aviator. Not really punk but not too bad, although I like shellac a little better personally.

d.e.f. said:

On a similar and sort of related to the subject note: I recently found my copy of the record from ciaran's aviator. Not really punk but not too bad, although I like shellac a little better personally.

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For those who may not be familiar with them, the album is Big Black, Songs About ****ing. Good album.

N8 said:

I always have enjoyed Suicidal Tendencies...

You just can't get anymore hardcore than:

I saw your mommy and your mommy's dead
I watched her as she bled
Well she had-Chewed-off toes on her chopped-off feet
Say what?-I took a picture 'cause I thought it was neat
That's cold-But the thing I like seeing the best
What's that-Was the rodents using her hair as a nest
Damn-I saw your mommy and your mommy's dead
I saw your mommy and your mommy's dead​

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I always thought this song was fvcked up. I know my mom thought it was when I was 14.

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one of the most overrated bands around right now

Green Day seeks some quiet after high-energy year
By Melinda Newman
Fri Dec 30, 8:14 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - After one of the highest-grossing tours of the past year and a hit album, "American Idiot," that has scored a second record-of-the-year Grammy nomination, Green Day hopes 2006 brings the sounds of silence.

One of the big winners at the December 6 Billboard Music Awards, the band headed to Australia after the awards show for two concerts before officially putting an end to the "American Idiot" era.

And, as Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong admits, parting can be such sweet sorrow. "It was a crazy year, but it's been the best year of our career," he says. "It's going to be kind of sad for it to end, but, you know, we don't have any regrets."

Finally coming off the road means the band can "get back to some of the other aspects of what we do," bassist Mike Dirnt says, "whether it's recording or just getting back into the creative process again."

Although Armstrong says discussions about the next album will begin in January, he says not to expect anything too soon.

"We'll start with silence, and that's how we'll be able to find the inspiration to find another record," he says.

Part of that inspiration comes from knowing when to stop touring. "A lot of people just keep going and going and going," Dirnt adds. It is important, he says, to know "when to call it quits for a while and go home and rejuvenate and detox and write another record."

Already, Armstrong says, individual ideas for new songs are germinating. "We always share everything that we're doing. Right now, it's a lot of writing for ourselves and it's staying right there for right now and then (we'll) start to put the puzzle together and then try to up the ante a little bit."

As the band members look back at 2005, Dirnt says the highlight, in a year filled with them, was their stadium shows. "It's just something that we worked really hard to get to, and the fact that we were able to do that is something to be proud of."

Green Day grossed $36.5 million from 76 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. Its tour landed at No. 10 in the year-end ranking of top treks.

I used to be indifferent to Green Day, but once their songs started getting played about 1000 times a day, I quickly grew to hate them passionately. At this point, I hope they die in a plane wreck with SOAD.