Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

[lieasleep]

listen to dookie, then stop because thats the only really good thing this band has ever done. this album is REAL boring.

[music_phantom13]

Originally Posted by lieasleep

listen to dookie, then stop because thats the only really good thing this band has ever done. this album is REAL boring.

Yeah I mean Green Day was good through Dookie, but I find it really sad that no one knows about they're older stuff. Is anyone alive other than me aware that Green Day used to be really good, back when they started? They've been around for 20 years, and released some great albums - 39/Smooth and Kerplunk. After this came Dookie, which is decent, but signaled their coming demise. Or one would think, if they were to listen to the music. Instead, they went from playing some good alternative punk stuff to playing **** and rocketed into stardom. Really quite depressing if you ask me. I hate that so many people talk **** about them without listening to their first 2 albums. I also hate that most of the people that like them are stupid little kids/teenagers that like their new stuff, which doesn't deserve a single sale. I like to go up to people with Green Day shirts/clothing/whatever other stuff they have and ask them about Kerplunk and 39/Smooth. Sadly, I have yet to find a single person that has heard of these albums . But that's the music industry isn't it? Good thing I have music banter to rant about these things and talk to people that have an actual sensible taste of music, or at least even think about what they like and why they like it.

[Antonio]

Originally Posted by music_phantom13

Yeah I mean Green Day was good through Dookie, but I find it really sad that no one knows about they're older stuff. Is anyone alive other than me aware that Green Day used to be really good, back when they started? They've been around for 20 years, and released some great albums - 39/Smooth and Kerplunk. After this came Dookie, which is decent, but signaled their coming demise. Or one would think, if they were to listen to the music. Instead, they went from playing some good alternative punk stuff to playing **** and rocketed into stardom. Really quite depressing if you ask me. I hate that so many people talk **** about them without listening to their first 2 albums. I also hate that most of the people that like them are stupid little kids/teenagers that like their new stuff, which doesn't deserve a single sale. I like to go up to people with Green Day shirts/clothing/whatever other stuff they have and ask them about Kerplunk and 39/Smooth. Sadly, I have yet to find a single person that has heard of these albums . But that's the music industry isn't it? Good thing I have music banter to rant about these things and talk to people that have an actual sensible taste of music, or at least even think about what they like and why they like it.

i agree that more people need to listen to 39/Smooth and Kerplunk, but i see all their albums as well done. tbh, i think Dookie is the least impressive of their work, i say Nimrod is where they really hit the mark. hell, even Warning had some really good moments, despite being a little more stripped down than their usual sound.

i don't think Green Day sold out or got worse as they went on, i just see it as them evolving and trying new things. yeah, that's gonna turn some people off of their sound, but hell, it's their music.

[pourmeanother]

Originally Posted by music_phantom13

Yeah I mean Green Day was good through Dookie, but I find it really sad that no one knows about they're older stuff. Is anyone alive other than me aware that Green Day used to be really good, back when they started? They've been around for 20 years, and released some great albums - 39/Smooth and Kerplunk. After this came Dookie, which is decent, but signaled their coming demise. Or one would think, if they were to listen to the music. Instead, they went from playing some good alternative punk stuff to playing **** and rocketed into stardom. Really quite depressing if you ask me. I hate that so many people talk **** about them without listening to their first 2 albums. I also hate that most of the people that like them are stupid little kids/teenagers that like their new stuff, which doesn't deserve a single sale. I like to go up to people with Green Day shirts/clothing/whatever other stuff they have and ask them about Kerplunk and 39/Smooth. Sadly, I have yet to find a single person that has heard of these albums . But that's the music industry isn't it? Good thing I have music banter to rant about these things and talk to people that have an actual sensible taste of music, or at least even think about what they like and why they like it.

Goddamn, this brings back memories. No more than 7 or 8 years old, sitting in the back seat of a minivan on a family road trip, asking my sister to borrow her Kerplunk! cassette, listening to it front to back multiple times... not really knowing- or caring- who the band was, just digging the music. Good ****.