How dare Green Day do the exact thing you would expect Green Day to do if you knew the first thing about Green Day!
I demand they go back to writing songs exclusively about masturbation and getting stoned!
Billie Joe never holds back.
“Get up here numbnuts, I’ll fight you right now”
dropkicks the pervert for molesting a fan
Holy shit
American Idiot’s commentary is rooted deep within the band. Minority is probably my favorite Green Day song… ‘She’ is a close second. The lyrics are incredible.
Reminds me of Jack Kirby, one of the creators of Captain America. He drew him punching out Hitler on the cover of #1. The US wasn’t in the war at the time and American Nazis were not rare, even in New York.
Some dudes came to his office building and offered to fight him (they called from the lobby). Unfortunately for them, Jack had grown up fighting in the streets of Depression era NYC. He agreed and by the time his elevator reached the lobby they had run away.
or punk rock
Wait… even all of those songs about Margaret Thatcher?!
Man Bill Hader and Fred Armisen can really pull off a chav accent!
It’s one of my favourite sketches, really captures the feel of a BBC music documentary.
songs about Margaret Thatcher
Based Chumbawamba, the EP in tribute of Thatcher was to be distributed on the day of her future passing, “and if you don’t like it you can use it as a coaster or something.”
It’s like when Paul Ryan said his favorite band was Rage and Tom Morello wrote an oped about it
It’s so fucking stupid. I’m not a big fan of either Green Day or RATM’s music (nothing wrong with it, it’s just not my thing), but I don’t live under a rock. I’ve actually heard of the existence of American Idiot because I’ve been a warm body in America since 1977.
When someone like me who would rather listen to 1930s and 40s music knows enough about Green Day to not even bat an eye hearing this, these people are just drooling imbeciles. But then everyone here already knew that.
Got some 30s and 40s recs?
Sure. Lately, I have been listening to the Mills Brothers and early Ella Fitzgerald when she sang with Chick Webb’s band.
Nice, not as familiar with the old trad pop stuff but I always like the early jazz
I love Ella Fitzgerald but I’m pretty new to her stuff. How do I find the stuff she did with Webb’a band? I’ve got Spotify and can download anything.
I don’t know about it streaming. I bought this CD boxed set when it came out a decade ago and ripped it to my computer. Maybe it’s on Spotify? Or maybe just look for a collection of Ella on Decca? Although she was with them until the 50s, I think.
Thanks. I didn’t find the record on Spotify so illl just download it from orpheus or soulseek. Thanks for the suggestion :)
When don’t they have a meltdown?
lol, fucking snowflakes getting upset over the tiniest of things.
American Idiot is the millennials’ Fortunate Son
Gosh, when did American Idiot become about politics? /S
What’s next? rage against the machine going woke?
Or Born In The USA.
A *meltdown” SLAM?! Such a rare type of slam!
Aww, did the “fuck your feelings” crowd get their little feelings hurt? Who are the snowflakes again?
There is no “me” in “your feelings”. So they will never get it.
There are plenty of reasons to hate green day. This is hardly one of them.
What are the other reasons?
It’s not really a Green Day thing, but there were some dodgy allegations regarding sexual assault from the main guy’s son, who is a drummer in another band.
- Their fans
- Some “alleged” stolen music
- I don’t like most of their music.
- Their fans
To be fair I can’t think of any fanbases I particularly like
They aren’t and never were very creative, also even way way back in like 2000 I felt that there trash the set thing looked like they were bored of the task.
But hey I still like them.
They aren’t and never were very creative
That seems a reason to be indifferent, not hate.
I’m not really a pop punk fan but you can’t deny Dookie is really creative
You know what? I am going to walk that back. I really don’t have enough music theory knowledge to back it up.
Cheers
Respect
Are there?
He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun But he don’t know what it means
That was Nirvana, you know, the band that Green Day wanted to be at the start.
You’re of the opinion that the Bay-area pop-punk band wanted to be like the PNW grunge band?
Kerplunk and Bleach sound nothing alike, I think I’m misunderstanding what you meant?
Ya, not even the same genre. If you don’t like the music just say that instead of comparing them to someone else that you do like
They didn’t even have the courage to say they don’t like Green Day (I’m not a huge fan myself), all they did was show their knowledge of music is paltry.
I don’t listen to Green Day, so I don’t know about any of their albums’ specifics. After Nirvana ended I saw Green Day first on a late night talk show, and they came out and played the same style of music that Nirvana made popular, with a similar stage presence and style. That’s when I assumed they wanted to be Nirvana.
Later they changed into modern Green Day that is completely different than what they were at the start.
What composed the “style of music” that you feel Nirvana made popular that Green Day was imitating? Music with guitars and distortion?
Specific chord structures and rhythms actually. If you knew much about guitar you could see the similarities in their early stuff and Nirvana’s popular songs. Overall the same punk-grunge style basically.
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Try finding a punk rock fan in the 90s who would argue that Green Day are punk. If you did, you’d find them surrounded by a group of other angry punks insisting otherwise.
They seem to have let off sometime after American Idiot was released, but there were long, heated discussions about this back then.
They both formed the same exact year, though, so I don’t know how one would be copying the other. If you actually know anything about guitar, you would know all modern rock music pretty much copies the Beatles. It’s why the chord structures and rythyms are similar in most popular rock and pop music.
I think it was all the singing with their mouths and their guitars with strings, what a bunch of biters
“I don’t actually know anything about music but I saw a talk show once in the 90s”
lol
Yeah he’s just an old dude that trolls, but he’s an actual troll, so it’s not like he’s doing it to be a dink for karma, he’s just really insufferable as a person. He migrated over from Reddit where he did the same thing there.
The amount of hours this guy has invested across Lemmy and Reddit is insane, so, at some point, you just have to respect the dedication and interact with him at your leisure. At least, that’s what I do.
Really, you must be very interested in my comments then. What’s my Reddit handle, since you know so much?
You must really not like all the things that I’m right about, have you seen a therapist about your cognitive dissonance problems?
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FYI Green Day plays and sounds like other bands. I went to a concert of theirs where they played like six different bands and sounded just like them. They are very skilled musicians.
Green day wanted to be Nirvana ? boy did they overshoot
I think Kurt Cobain was the only one doing any shooting.
He wasn’t attributing the song stanza to Green Day.
Just saying it was relevant to the context of the article.
Lol Green Day wanted to be Nirvana? Not a huge fan of either band really, and Green Day wasn’t exactly groundbreaking stuff, but it’s a completely different genre than Nirvana.
This is so easy to debunk with a simple search. Both bands formed the same exact year 1987. I dont think either band knew about each other until the 90s.
Dude get the fuck off of my nutsack. This is not an important topic to keep on about.
Lmao you sound mad. I’ll stay on whoever the fucks nutsack I want. Maybe don’t comment dumb things if you don’t want to be corrected.
OK well, you will not bother me again because you are now blocked, you dumbass dipshit.
I don’t think they landed far from the mark.
They gave it their best shot.
Tangential point but I do wonder how much of an effect Taylor Swift will have on voter turnout this year.
MAGA already tried to cancel her and failed when she encouraged people to vote. Imagine if she actually endorsed a candidate.
Imagine if she was a candidate
You know what… Why not? It’s no worse than MAGAts voting for Trump because “all the current politicians are corrupt, so let’s vote for a non politician” and Taylor has an arguably better business acumen than Trump. As far as I know, she hasn’t bankrupted any of her own businesses nor has she defrauded a charity bearing her name.
But I question her ability to make the difficult life or death decisions associated with the presidency. Armed conflict is a simple reality of the world today.
So who would be her running mate?
Maybe Tom Morello?
Dolly Parton could shave off a good number of southern votes from the Republicans, not even joking.
I love how saying “you should vote” is unacceptable to them now. They have no quiet parts anymore.
You don’t get famous by having opinions that matter unless you start with the money.
From the people that brought you, “I liked RATM before they got all political”
what’s that famous song of theirs?
ah, yes, that old chestnut…
or was it this one?
morello really gets around :P
Finally someone criticize fascist Trump. Our government, using it’s CIA hand did their part in silencing MAGA stupids on facebook, twitter and reddit. Good that we use artists to send a message too. /s
What are you on about?
Finally, someome has the balls to criticize Trump and his stupid followers…
IF YOU SUPPORT THE OTHER SIDE YOU ARE WRONG, FILTHY OTHERSIDER
It’s not the right time to be sober Now, the idiots have taken over Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer? Mensa membership conceding Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding? Watson, it’s really elementary Industrial revolution Has flipped the bitch on evolution The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized What a bummer The world keeps getting dumber Insensitivity is standard And faith is being fancied over reason Darwin’s rolling over in his coffin The fittest are surviving much less often Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it’s worsening Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it’s the rule And I’m startin’ to feel a lot like Charlton Heston Stranded on a primate planet Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground With generals and the armies that obeyed them Followers following fables Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred Majority rule, don’t work in mental institutions Sometimes, the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions What are we left with? A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists Who feel it’s their duty to populate the homeland Pass on traditions How to get ahead religions And prosperity via simpleton culture (ah-) The idiots are taking over The idiots are taking over
- Fat Mike
oh fun, a bunch of anti-democracy and pro-eugenics sentiments. cool.
One of many things that the right, left, and center can all agree on is (pro) eugenics.
Idiocracy, and this song, are so explicitly eugenicist and yet people who consider themselves “enlightened liberals”, or even “leftists”, choose not to see them as such.
They choose not to because to accept that obvious truth would mean that they have some things they need to work out too. That it’s not just MAGA supporters that are upholding white supremacy and ableism.
In the past 5 years I’ve come to terms with a lot of abhorrent things I used to believe, and a lot of harm that I’ve unknowingly caused in the past.
Learn better; Do better.
If you haven’t done hard introspection that has made you uncomfortable, especially if you’re an abled white person, then you’re probably not as enlightened of a person as you see yourself being.
Not sure why you’re pointing this at me talking about enlightened beings etc.
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Republicans are the reason for punk rock. Were they not around to fuck everything up, the punks wouldn’t have as much to sing about.
Cult of covfefe gets triggered? I’m all for it.
