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I left one of the shows I went to earlier this year to avoid hearing 311. Luckily for me, the Offspring was playing first.
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Oh good I was gonna have to leave the site otherwise.
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I think they wanted to be or thought they were punk. The attitude wasnt there imo.
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I have heard them be compared to The Ramones.
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I kinda realized that the only reason i liked greenday in the first place was becuz of familiarity. Becuz mtv played basket case and when i come around all the time and while i admit they can make a catchy tune or 2. I dont replay any Greenday tune and i cant honestly say ive heard a song from them that really moves me. |
I don't mind them never considered them to be all that punk. I read the wonderful book, Gimme something better by Boulware and Tudor about the Bay Area punk scene and I came away liking them much more.
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I remember when Green Day hit the scene and thinking they wouldn't last long, lol. Not only did they stick around, but they've had quite an influence.
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I'd throw them into the pop-punk bin, but yeah I'd say they fit under the big expansive umbrella of punk. I don't see much supporting otherwise that doesn't boil down to "because reasons!" or personal distaste.
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Green Day is awesome, so many great albums and songs :beer:
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Elph: doesn't believe in nationalism unless it's punk.
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Yes they are pop punk but still punk.
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First EPs and singles combined into 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours plus Kerplunk phases, punk. Dookie, pop punk. Insomniac to Warning, lame pop punk. From then on, that thing right there. To me the punkest thing Green Day has ever done is this cover version for Husker Du's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge4Rx_nPCk |
Green Day is punk & Abba is too.
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They were definitely a punk band from 39/smooth thru Dookie.
They started to go alternative with Insomniac and by Nimrod I had stopped caring |
Pop punk which is a pretty feeble mutation IMHO, but it sells better and is fun so who can blame them.
Same with the mutation of the proper UK industrial sound into Industrial metal, nowhere near the same thing but they can make a living out of it. |
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Punk aesthetic but just slightly edgy pop rock at this point. Maybe their earlier stuff was pop punk, from that Gilman scene. But bands evolve, their sound changes over time. I don't think Green Day or any other band is trying to force themselves into any particular genre.
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GREEN DAY is just about as PUNK as my left boot
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