How do you feel about Green Day?

With about 8 albums and 3 EPs, Green Day has become one of the world's most known Punk Rock bands. But I'd like to know about you guys.
How do you view Green Day? Personally, I really like Billie Joe Armstrong's singing voice and Tré Cool's drumming style. Mike Dirnt is also very good at base and I sure as heck wouldn't mind learning bass from him.

Green Day is one of my guilty pleasures.

I don't think they're all that special playing-wise, but Billie Joe's vocals are pretty neat. I've not yet heard their new album yet, something I'm going to change soon.

I wasn't keen on their earlier stuff, but I thought American Idiot was pretty good. I kind of got burnt out on it, though; the new album feels like more of the same and it hasn't really grabbed me. I'm really impressed with how they've grown as a band, though; they're trying to do something a bit different from the norm and it seems to be working pretty well for them.

Oh, lucky me. I was just looking for a thread to post this in.

Top Green Day songs:
1. Give Me Novacaine
2. Waiting
3. When I Come Around
4. Welcome to Paradise
5. Brain Stew
6. Warning
7. Jesus of Suburbia
8. Whatsername
9. Restless Heart Syndrome
10. Last Night On Earth
11. Hitchin' A Ride
12. She's A Rebel
13. Are We The waiting
14. Longview
15. Poprocks And Coke

What do I think of Green Day? Well, I'm probably the biggest Green Day fanboy on this site. Easily my favorite band.

Albums I'd put something like this,

1. American Idiot
2. 21st Century Breakdown
3. Stop Drop And Roll!!!
4. Dookie
5. Warning
6. Nimrod
7. Insomniac
8. Kerplunk
9. 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours

Punk rock? Don't make me laugh.

Green Day is up there as one of my top three favorite bands. Quite an amazing band once you actually listen to them. Thankfully, folks like Andy and Alex convinced me to take a look at them (love ya babes).

I don't think I can name a favorite song yet, but Alex's list would pretty much be what I'd put there. They're a really solid band, and they've been going up in quality.

Dookie was a pretty amusing and somewhat decent record. After that however, they started to decline in quality. I dont like it when bands modify their sound to sell records.

Originally Posted by Florina Belmont

Dookie was a pretty amusing and somewhat decent record. After that however, they started to decline in quality. I dont like it when bands modify their sound to sell records.

It's called evolving as a group of musicians.

Miles Davis' second quintet evolved as musicians. Green Day is changing their music to sell records. There's a very important distinction.

That's the thing, though, you don't go down the concept-album, long-song route if you want to sell records. It's exactly what you're not supposed to do. It really impresses me that they've pulled it off.

I only really like Time of your life (Good Riddence). Brilliant song.

I respect the band because they really contributed to and helped kick-start the pop-punk genre I love so much, but I've never been much of a fan. Like, I dig Dookie and whatnot well enough, but its not a record I've listened to in ages, and really have no desire to like I often do with records and bands I had stopped listening to. Just not that big a fan of their sound, I guess.

I'm also really not a fan of their material as of late. I was somewhat curious to hear their new album, but am not willing to drop any coin on it. Especially after I bought American Idiot and didn't really enjoy it at all.

Originally Posted by VictorZamora

With about 8 albums and 3 EPs, Green Day has become one of the world's most known Punk Rock bands. But I'd like to know about you guys.
How do you view Green Day? Personally, I really like Billie Joe Armstrong's singing voice and Tré Cool's drumming style. Mike Dirnt is also very good at base and I sure as heck wouldn't mind learning bass from him.

I still enjoy the older albums but when they sold out and made American Idiot, I couldn't stand them. Their style changed too much for my tastes. However, don't take what I'm saying the wrong way. I still enjoy listening to their Dookie album every now and then. =]

I think Green Day is a great band, I don't really like their American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown albums, they're okay. My favorite album is probably the Dookie album. But I respect them for making a change in their music to be able to sell them.

Originally Posted by CookieConjurer

Miles Davis' second quintet evolved as musicians. Green Day is changing their music to sell records. There's a very important distinction.

American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown still sound like 100% Green Day to me. The band really evolved from Dookie (1994) to Warning (2000). They went from snotty pop punk to more acoustic pop, with much more musical experimentation. Green Day had been steadily moving towards that style since Dookie, and record sales were going down consistently. Obviously, that's changing their sound for record sales.

As for American Idiot, not really. Apparently, they had an album they weren't totally happy with almost completely finished, but the master tapes were stolen from the studio, so they restarted from the beginning and did a concept album. Which is where American Idiot comes in.

I don't like Green Day that much. They're songs are just way outside of my musical tastes. Time of Your Life was alright, but I veiw pretty much every other song of theirs as garbage.

Originally Posted by John Henry Eden

I don't like Green Day that much. They're songs are just way outside of my musical tastes. Time of Your Life was alright, but I veiw pretty much every other song of theirs as garbage.

Have you just heard their singles? What kind of music do you like? It's possible I could think of one of their songs you'd enjoy.

I don't get the sell-out comments about Green Day.

Selling-out, in the context of changing sound or compromising integrity, generally means a band imitates and sound popular or several popular acts (at the time of recording at least, because what is popular in the mainstream or even within different music scenes, is pretty fluid) in order to appeal to the mainstream, to a wider audience.

American Idiot wasn't really imitating or impersonating anything out at the time. Sure, it was influenced a lot by different acts, but it wasn't anything that seemed to come out of left-field or seemed altogether too close to some other band or bands.

To me it just comes off as progression, not some drastic change in a bid to sell records...because they already were selling records. Every record they put out since Dookie in 1994 cracked the top ten at its peak.

Originally Posted by Alex

Have you just heard their singles? What kind of music do you like? It's possible I could think of one of their songs you'd enjoy.

It's nothing against Green Day themslelves, they're just part of a genre that I don't really like. My musical tastes are based in the old Big Band and Swing music. Punk-pop music just leaves a bad taste in my mouth whenever I listen to it.

Also, nolan, you should try listening to Warning (the album), I think that would be more up your alley, for some reason.

Have you ever listened to Waiting or Warning?