Green Day

[Chris Misfit]

You'd think this'd be the last kinda thread I'd start, but here goes....

To me, and my friends in Ballymena, N.Ireland....Green Day were as essential to our youth as GnR, Metallica and Nirvana.

I dunno if this was the same for anyone else around my age, but I guess so, because Green Day were fucking huge in the mid nineties.

I'm not gonna rant on about how Dookie was the best pop-punk album ever made, because it wasn't. I'm probably going to seem totally Mr.Alternative, but I reckon their 1,039 and, more so, Kerplunk! albums are two of the greatest pop-punk albums ever made (apart from the awful Christie Road)!

I dunno what the attraction with Green Day was, how I heard them. They did play a town called Toome (near me) in 1991/1992, so it could have been word of mouth.

Anyway, I just started listening again to their first two full lengths a couple of months ago, and it really does bring back some great memories for me. I was very surprised the albums still worked.

So if we have any other Dookie era Green Day fans out there, lets converse, get naked, talk about ex-loves and masturbate.

I have many things to say on the subject, satisfy me.

"I wonder if you're sitting all alone, or is your boyfriend there?"

[R4tfink]

I remember listening to Basket Case and thinking cool.....back in the day.

Also someone who i respect very much and did love i suppose up until last week used to listen too "Time Of Your Life" an awful lot.

Saying that she made me buy The Offspring - Smash.

Due to the verse....

You Stupid dumb shit goddamn mutherfucker.


For pop punk though i love The Undertones!




E-Hogg

[Izzy]

That guys voice is the most annoying thing ever! It will be waiting for me in hell!!!!!!!!

[Chris Misfit]

Also someone who i respect very much and did love i suppose up until last week used to listen too "Time Of Your Life" an awful lot.

That's on Nimrod. Only decent songs on Nimrod are Take Back, Platypus and The Grouch.

Back to early Green Day.....

[R4tfink]

Sorry didnt realise the thread said Early Greenday.

I dont know any early Greenday and to be honest, im not bothered about the loss.

I know i like Basket Case and thats it...




E-Hogg

[D]

have u guys heard of the possible secret green day album being released? i dont have alot of details, i skimmed over an article on vh1news.com

something billy joe supposedly signed a new band *i cant remember their name* but they mysteriously sound like green day, ill dig up the article when i have some time and post a link to it.

never was a big fan of green day although the numerous cover bands i was in during my highschool days played to many of their songs to name *basketcase,when i come around, she, etc

[Gunner80]

Green Day's music stinks like Dookie.

[Aava]

Where the hell is my Dookie?
I can?t find it, maybe i?ve lent it to someone...

Anyway, Green Day brings lots of memories to me too! l My best friend was a huge fan of GD (or Billie Joes eyes  ) in the mid 90?s. Hmm..we spent crazy summer (by listening Green Day) before we started high school..

I have 5 Green Day cd?s;
39 Smooth (i like it too very much)
Insomniac
Nimrod.
Warning
And Dookie, but i can?t find it..

Dookie was my first GD cd and i have to admit that i bought it just because Basket Case and When I Come Around...

This thread really brings lots of memories and made me happy, thanks!  

[Chris Misfit]

Hey, long time no speak.

You should get Kerplunk!, it's their best in my opinion. You'd love it.

something billy joe supposedly signed a new band *i cant remember their name* but they mysteriously sound like green day,

Pinhead Gunpowder. Sound like a crap version of Green Day.

[Aava]

Hey, long time no speak.

I know! You?ve been too drunk, fuck sake..  

Kerplunk was their 2nd album, right? I?ll buy it as soon as i get some extra money. First i?ll have to get my stupid car fixed...

[Eazy E]

Motherfuckin' Green Day... holy shit, I can remember sneaking my sister's Dookie tape and listening to it @ night (I'd play Longview over n over cuz I wasn't allowed to listen to songs with swearing).  Everyone I knew loved Green Day... I think it hit me the most when I was at school once and asked an older kid what he was listening to... he looked at me really weird for a bit and just said "What the fuck do you think I'm listening to? Green Day."

I was a huge fan when they were popular, I got their other albums up to Insomniac... I had Nimrod burned, but I've lost that somewhere... no biggie.

I think I listened to 1,039 Smooth more than Kerplunk!... but Kerplunk was the CD that had the Operation Ivy cover on it right?? That was great.  I can remember reading that story in the CD sleeve of Kerplunk! over and over and over... I thought it was fuckin hilarious.  Chris or anyone remember this?? Milk in beer bottles?? Bones for the dog??

I kind of drifted off them for awhile in later years... I knew Time of your Life and stuff like that, but didn't like them as much as I did before... then I went to the Warped Tour where they played with Nofx and everything... I wasn't all that excited, but they came out playing Welcome to Paradise, and I fuckin went nuts, all the stuff I remembered about Green Day came flooding back.  I knew all the words to these songs that I'd forgotten about.

Since then I went to see them one more time, they put on one fuckin HELL of a SHOW.  The concert was out of town so being the smartasses that me and my friends are, we rented a fuckin limo and got completely hammered in the back of it on the way over... GREAT CONCERT.  They pull people up on stage to play guitar and stuff, and really get involved and everything.

Anyways, I'm a fan, but it comes and goes, I actually haven't listened to them in a LONG time (maybe a year), but I'm about to pop a CD in right now. Thanks.  

[Chris Misfit]

I can remember reading that story in the CD sleeve of Kerplunk! over and over and over... I thought it was fuckin hilarious.  Chris or anyone remember this?? Milk in beer bottles?? Bones for the dog??

"I asked their drummer if I could get an autograph, he said to ask his manager. And when I asked to see his manager, he started unzipping his pants!"

Yeah, it's a funny as hell story.


I've seen them live once, about two years ago....apart from the Operation Ivy cover and Welcome To Paradise, they didn't play anything off their first two records, which was a shame!

[Chris Misfit]

I still can't believe it! Me, Laurie L., the plainest, most boring girl at Pinole Valley High School, the girl that all the boys bark at when I walk by, the girl whose mother wouldn't even let her go to a New Kids On The Block concert because "there's often a bad element at those rock concerts, dear," I got to go on a four day tour with my total heartthrobs, Green Day!!!!
        Little did I know that when I entered that "Win a Dream Date With Green Day" contest in Tiger Beat magazine (my lame-o brother calls it Puberty Beat, but what does he know, he's probably a homo anyway) that I, out of millions of Green Day fans in America, would get picked!
        The day the letter arrived was the happiest day of my life. But before I could get too excited, I realized I had a biiiig problem..my parents!! I knew they'd never let me go off with a rock band for even one night, let alone four days!
        So for once I decided not to put up with their crap. I wasn't sure what to do, so at school the next day I went around to all the weirdoes and asked them what would they do? See, I figure people who have blue mohawks and only come to school when they feel like it and make those gross magazines with naked pictures in them must have figured a way to handle their parents.
        So I went to this Eggplant (boy, I feel sorry for him, his parents must have really hated him to name him something like that) and he looked at me like, "You really want to go on tour with Green Day?"
        And I said, "Oh yeah, I'd die to go on tour with Green Day."
        He looked at me kind of funny and said, "Yeah, but would you kill?" I thought he was joking, but I wasn't sure. Then I looked at his beady little eyes piercing deep into my soul and I knew he wasn't. I thought, hmm, what the hell, you only go around once, might as well go for it, blah, blah, blah...
        So I said, all kind of hoarse and everything, "Yeah, I guess I would." And he said, "Then the one you should talk to is Claude."
        Omigod!!! Even I had heard of Claude. He's so evil that he's practically-satanic!!! He dropped out of school in eighth grade and all he ever does is take drugs and read weird books and molest little girls. I was always afraid to even look at him.
        But I'd gone too far to stop now. After school instead of going home I went to Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley where all the scummy people hang out, and sure enough, there was Claude. He looked all perverted and he was smoking cigarettes and all these girls were standing around him like they wanted him to do bad stuff to them. But they got out of the way when they saw me coming, and Claude wasn't mean or dirty or anything. He was actually kind of nice.
        He said, "My friend Eggplant tells me you have a problem."
        I said, "Two problems, actually. Two really big ones."
        "Parents, huh? This ought to take care of them."
        He handed me a brown bottle full of pills.
        "How many of them should I take?" I asked him.
        He laughed, kind of heh-heh like. "No, you don't take them, they do. Your parents."
        "Oh no," I said, "my parents wouldn't take drugs. They're Christian Scientists."
        "You look like a smart little girl. I'll bet you can figure something out." And you know what? I did.
        That night I offered to help my mother with dinner. Then, when she wasn't looking, I emptied all of the capsules into the mashed potatoes. Then I said I didn't feel like eating, and went upstairs and listened to my Green Day records five or six times.
After a while I stuck my head out the door.
        "Yuck!" I heard my father saying. "These are the worst mashed potatoes I ever tasted in my life!" "Then cook your own goddam dinner, you lazy scumbag, I'm not your slave." I was surprised, my mother didn't usually swear.
        My dad said, "I'm not going to eat these, they taste like shit."
But my mother yelled at him, "You eat those potatoes or I'll dump them over your head and shove the bowl up your ass."
        "Shhh" he said, "Laurie will hear you."
        "She's asleep the stupid bitch. I swear, I don't know how my daughter could be such an idiot. I bet the babies got switched at the hospital."
        "Now, now, she's just a bit slow."
        "Yeah, I wonder who she got it from. Are you going to eat those potatoes?"
        My dad always does what mom tells him. I even heard him scraping the bowl. After a while I heard a clunk and a crash and then the whole dining room table fell over. I went downstairs and they were both flopped out on the floor, like totally dead. It was pretty weird.
I realized that I had better do something before my brother came home, because I didn't have enough pills to get rid of him, too. Luckily we have a brand new garbage disposal, so I took a butcher knife and cut mom and dad into pieces and put them down the garbage. It took a long time, and it was kind of messy, but I kept singing my favorite Green Day songs, and it made the work easier.
        The only trouble was, the bones wouldn't go down the garbage disposal, and now I was getting nervous, because my brother would be home any minute now. Then I got an idea. I gathered up all the bones and carried them out in the back yard and threw them over the fence to our neighbor's pit bull. He was so happy, he didn't even bark at me.
        Then my brother came home. "Where's mom and dad?" he asked.
        "Uh, they went away. To, uh, Utah!"
        "Utah! Why the hell would they go there?"
        "Uh, I think they decided to become Mormons or something."
        He looked at me kind of weird and went upstairs to look at his porno pictures. I went in my room and started packing my bags.
        The next morning, I was at the airport. My own private jet waiting for me there, and you know what, it was all painted green, and on the side of it said "Welcome Aboard Laurie L., Green Day Tour '90."
        So I went on the plane, and I was the only passenger! And all of the stewardesses just waited on me! And we listened to Green Day records all the way to Arizona, where the tour was going to start.
        When I got there, there was a limo, a green limo, of course, waiting for me, and this guy in a top hat opened the door for me, and when I got in the back seat, there they were! All three of them, Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre!!! I was so excited I didn't even know where to sit, I mean, I didn't know which one I wanted to sit next to first.
        So I sat between Billie Joe and Tre and they both started talking to me, and I didn't know which one I liked best cause they were both so nice, but then I decided I liked Billie Joe better because Tre kept singing these rap songs that had a lot of bad words in them. In fact I was surprised that that they let him be in the band since I didn't think that Green Day ever said swear words. Well, they did on that one song, "Knowledge," but that's only because it was written by that other band, Operation Ivy, who I heard were a bunch of punk rockers.
        Then we went to a show at this place called "Hippycore" and there were all these people with long hair standing around eating vegetables and stuff. It was kind of icky. But the worst   thing was when I found out that some other bands were going to play, too.
        I got really mad and said, "Why can't Green Day just play for three hours. Why do you have to have these other stupid bands?"
        Everybody told me to be quiet, that the other bands were good, too. But they weren't. I mean they weren't Green Day. They didn't have any songs I could sing along to. So I kept yelling, "BOOOOO! You're terrible! We want Green Day!!" until some punker girl told me to shut up or she would rearrange my face with her bottle opener.
        I wondered if she was just trying to be friendly, then I decided she wasn't, so I went outside to wait for my heroes. But when they finally played, it was worth everything. Billie sang every one of my favorite songs, and then, right in the middle of "Disappearing Boy," he stopped and said, "I'd like to dedicate this song to our special friend, Laurie L., who came down from Pinole to be with us today. She's so beautiful and nice, gosh, I know if I was my girlfriend, I'd never disappear again."
        That's when I fainted. When I woke up, the show was over and they were packing up the equipment.
        I said, "Billie Joe, did you really mean what you said on stage."
        And he looked at me all sincere, and said, "You know it, babe, but our love can never be, because I already belong to another. Besides, you're too young and innocent for the life of a rock and roll wife. Take my advice, go back to Pinole and finish high school, and some day you'll make some lucky man very, very happy." "But Billie, I'd do anything to be with you. I already did! I killed my parents just so I could be with you here tonight!!!"
        But he just laughed and said, "Really? Killed your parents, huh? That's pretty cool."
        Then we all got in the Green Day tour bus to drive to Los Angeles. I was pretty excited because I never was in Hollywood before. I had a map of all the movie stars' houses and everything.
        But we didn't see any movie stars, just a bunch of boys with big hairdos and women that Tre said were prostitutes. I never know whether to believe him or not, he's kinda mean, you know. I'm starting to think that he's my least favorite member of Green Day, because he kept singing that horrible Ice Cube song that goes "Bitch-killa, bitch-killa." Besides, when I asked him for his autograph, he said I had to talk to his agent, and when I asked who his agent was, he started to unzip his pants.
     

[Chris Misfit]

   So I screamed, and Billie and Mike told Tre to behave and he did after that, even though I said I thought that they should tie him up or something until the next show, but Mike said a lot of drummers are like that, their brains just get rattled around too much from all that pounding.
Then you know what? I saw Billie and Mike drinking out of beer bottles!! I was shocked, because they're not even 21, in fact they're only 18, so I asked them what was the big idea, but Billie took me aside and whispered, "Listen, you've got to keep this a secret, but there isn't really beer in these bottles."
        "There isn't," I asked.
        "No, it's really milk. Everybody in Green Day likes milk best of all, but the thing is, we drink it out of beer bottles because if we don't people will make fun of us and say we're sissies."
        Then I understood, and felt sorry for the boys. Peer pressure is such a terrible thing.
        At the show in Hollywood I even got to stay backstage and everything, but just when the boys were getting ready to play there was a knock on the dressing room.
        "It must be our deli tray," everyone said, but it wasn't, it was the police! Omigod!! I jumped in front of the officers and said, "Wait, don't arrest Green Day, it's not beer in those bottles, it's really milk!"
        He looked at me and said, "Is it now? And your name wouldn't happen to be Laurie, would it, little lady?"
        And I said, "That's my name, don't wear it out."
        "Then we'll have to ask you to come with us."
        "What do you mean," I screamed. "Are you crazy? Green Day is going to start playing any minute now!"
        But he said, "Sorry, it can't be helped," and they took me in the back of the police car and handcuffed me and everything, and then I thought, oh God, I wonder if this has anything to do with my parents?"
        Sure enough it did. That stupid pit bull dragged one of my dad's collarbones into the house and his owner found it and called the police. So I didn't get to see the rest of the tour, and I had to go to court and everything and now I'm in jail, and I might not get out until the year 2019.
        Oh well. Everyone's pretty nice here and they let me listen to my Green Day tapes. But they all ask me, was it worth it? Killing your parents just so you could go on tour with Green Day?
        And I just smile a deep, knowing smile, because I've seen and done things that they'll never experience, not if they live to be 100, and I say, "Of course it was. After all, everyone gets two parents, but there's only one Green Day."

[Eazy E]

LOL  

Thanks for posting that.... I haven't read that story in years.

I haven't heard all those old songs in a long time, I forget how half of em go.... My favs from Kerplunk were the first three songs, Dominated Love Slave (this song is CLASSIC), Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?, and the Who cover...

I need to find my old cassettes of that and Slappy Hours.  

[Chris Misfit]

Off 1,039 I'ds have to say the best song is the second song after the Op Ivy cover....



"Late last night I had a dream and she was in it again
She and I were in the sky, flying hand in hand
I woke up in a cold sweat wishing she was by my side
Praying that she'll try the chance left on my piece of pride"


Made for teenagers. Class.

Kerplunk! - One For The Razorbacks, 2000 Light Years Away. Sweet Children, One Of My Lies.

[Chris Misfit]

I have to say the single is rocking. Reminds me of 1994.

I've only got one other track from the new album, it sounds ok. They seem to be going back to the Kerplunk/Dookie style with this album.

I think it's gonna be a winner. Pity I'm not 12 anymore, eh?

Anyone else heard this? Or planning to buy it?

[Timothy]

I have only hear the single but It's pretty damn good, does seem that they are going back to their roots a bit . I'll definitely be buying this on the.

[Jaded]

i bought it today- i got the version with 'Too Much Too Soon' on it as well but i want the other one aswell. IT'S DEFINATLEY the best song out at the moment, DEFINATLEY. can't wait for the album next week!!!?

i was gonna start this thread bot ya beat me to it 

[Dave_Rose]

Yeah American Idiot such a cool track and it does remind me of Dookie to I will be getting the album soon