This band has decided to write one of the best cds of 2005! They just keep cranking out hit after hit off their American Idiot cd!!! It's nice to see a bit of fresh ideas in the music business!

I love their first 3 albums, everything else they did is to my opinion OK but not much more than that...

On their earlier work they sound like a young and enthousiastic band to me, on the more recent released they sound like a professional band that capably repeats the same old trick... They're still good at it, but the spirit is just different.

Quoted from apple_sauce

This band has decided to write one of the best cds of 2005! They just keep cranking out hit after hit off their American Idiot cd!!! It's nice to see a bit of fresh ideas in the music business!

Fresh ideas? Bands like the Buzzcocks and the Descendents did pretty much the same thing 25 years ago...

Oh, and American Idiot is from 2004, so it can't be one of the best CDs of 2005.

green days back on top, and suck at it

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

Bands like the Buzzcocks and the Descendents did pretty much the same thing 25 years ago...

Oooh, I absolutely LOVE the Buzzcocks!! Also, have a listen to Stiff Little Fingers they are VERY Green Day sounding

I like American Idiot, however it's been too... I dunno... hyped, for me to properly enjoy it. I tend to stay away from most things that are too mainstream. Not really a great thing to do, but...

Quoted from The_End

Oooh, I absolutely LOVE the Buzzcocks!! Also, have a listen to Stiff Little Fingers they are VERY Green Day sounding

I know, I already own a few SLF albums.

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

Fresh ideas? Bands like the Buzzcocks and the Descendents did pretty much the same thing 25 years ago...

Concept cd yes the "punk part" no the concept part! If you listen to this cd there are more hard rock songs on here then "punk" AS the band stated we just want to be a popular "Rock Band" not necessarly "punk".

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

Oh, and American Idiot is from 2004, so it can't be one of the best CDs of 2005.

Well having said that I guess you can "appreciate" the fact that the "2004" Cd is still going strong in "2005" and seems to be no stopping it!!!

AI is a great album. Nimrod and Dookie still are on top of my list tho

Quoted from apple_sauce

Well having said that I guess you can "appreciate" the fact that the "2004" Cd is still going strong in "2005" and seems to be no stopping it!!!

Yeah, and Pet Sounds and Sgt. Peppers are also still great albums in 2005...

Quoted from Mairi

I like American Idiot, however it's been too... I dunno... hyped, for me to properly enjoy it. I tend to stay away from most things that are too mainstream. Not really a great thing to do, but...

You're posting on a Beatle Forum  

Quoted from IndicaWalrus

You're posting on a Beatle Forum  

Is this not the " Other Bands" of interest section of the "Beatle's form"????

forget american idiot, radiohead's coming up with a new album!!

Quoted from apple_sauce

Is this not the " Other Bands" of interest section of the "Beatle's form"????

I think Indica's point is that the Beatles are mainstream.

I meant today's mainstream. Like the top forty.

Quoted from TurnMeOnDeadman

forget american idiot, radiohead's coming up with a new album!!

Okay, now THAT I'm interested in. I don't think Green Day is on the top of anything. If ever they were on the top, it was in the 90's. They're making a big mistake marketing this album the way they are. All the cell phone commercial ads and crap. It's making them seem very ordinary. I'm not crazy about American Idiot. I think they were going for some great new innovative thing claiming it to be a "Punk Opera." It didn't quite have the same impact on today's pop culture as Tommy did now did it?

Wow, they did cell phone commercials? Well I didn't know that. That's not very punk.

Not them personaly, but their stupid music from that album. Get the Green Day ring tone! Stun all your friends! Blah, blah, blah!

I don't like those cell phone commercials. They use songs to make it seem like artists are promoting their company. Rogers Wireless was giving out tickets to the Avril Lavigne concert and they were making it look like she was hawking for their company. Which she would never do. For any company. But anyways.

Quoted from Maccalvr

Okay, now THAT I'm interested in. I don't think Green Day is on the top of anything. If ever they were on the top, it was in the 90's. They're making a big mistake marketing this album the way they are. All the cell phone commercial ads and crap. It's making them seem very ordinary. I'm not crazy about American Idiot. I think they were going for some great new innovative thing claiming it to be a "Punk Opera." It didn't quite have the same impact on today's pop culture as Tommy did now did it?

True "Tommy" is a masterpiece from a band that mirrors Green day in that "Green Day" is associated with "punk moovement" and the "Who" had their own movement called "Mods"!

Quoted from Mairi

Wow, they did cell phone commercials? Well I didn't know that. That's not very punk.

"YOU" missed the whole point of the new Green Day as ststed by the lead singer they don't want to be the best "PUNK" band they want to be the best "BAND" going that's out there! Punk scene is only a small fraction of the music buying public! They now want it all!!!!!!!

'course, there are some high school bands that do nothing but cover Green Day. It doesn't take much to learn the American Idiot singles, really. Because they hadn't heard of the band until that album came out (much like The Who and Tommy in a way. ) . . .

I guess Green Day was trying to say something with American Idiot -- I haven't sat down and listened to the whole thing, just parts of the CD, but... the kids covering it generally have no idea what htey meant. And it's lame to cover "punk" if you don't get it. Like that. Yeah. Shutting up now.

PS: September's way over, someone should seriously wake them up now.

I was surprised at how successful that single was. To be honest, I thought St. Jimmy would've been more commercially successful.

God is every song from that damn CD gonna be a single??  and when does Radiohead plan to release?

I like their recent album the best. It's got more distinction. They are definitly improving. It beats the other stuff they are playing on the radio recently (or should I say overplaying) but then again they are overplayed a bit over here but they are the better out of the overplayed. If that made any since...

Quoted from Mairi

Wow, they did cell phone commercials? Well I didn't know that. That's not very punk.

I wonder who has the copyrights... They might not have had any say in it...

And wouldn't punk be doing whatever the hell you please?

I didn't heard Green Day until American Idiot. This album is really ROCKs!!! I'm listening to not much modern music and there is only two artists I like for the present Green Day and Franz Ferdinand. Now listening to Bullet in a Bible! I'll buy a DVD for sure!

Quoted from admin

Now listening to Bullet in a Bible! I'll buy a DVD for sure!

Bullet In A Bible is a CD + DVD package... Or did you download it?

And I still think any of the first three Green Day album EASILY kicks American Idiot's a**.

Yes, I downloaded it.
I have Dookie also, but A.I. like more.

Nimrod is my favorite GD album followed by Dookie and Kerplunk

^thats where its at.  those three are all i need.  screw when september ends

I think I like Insomniac best

Quoted from TurnMeOnDeadman

forget american idiot, radiohead's coming up with a new album!!

A sugarcoated Pink Floyd with less expierimentally courage and more pop-friendliness.

And relating to Green Day, American Idiot is NOT punk. Much to artsy. Holiday has a Watersian political metaphor sprayed throughout well Wake Me Up When September ends is a more folky, Dylanesque work, and American Idiot is an overt rip-off of The Clash. Then there's a progish ballad in Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, and St. Jimmy a McCartney-ish rocker, albeit "punked up".

Throughout their careers Green Day have compromised their brilliant musicianship by exploiting what a young generation percieves to be Punk. Although they are great, they claim to be something they are not so that high schoolers will continue to buy their records.

who cares if they're punk or not. It's about the music

Quoted from Bruno

who cares if they're punk or not. It's about the music

I agree. I've always sensed more of an Angus Young in Billie Joe than a Johnny Rotten.

Ummm, if a band has been abround for ten years and had how many platinum records, then that's the antithesis of punk, Not that I'm into the classification game anyway.

Quoted from Mairi

I think I like Insomniac best

Really? I was so dissapointed when it came out... It has my favorite Green Day song (Armatage Shanks), but apart from that I don't think it's really good...

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

Really? I was so dissapointed when it came out... It has my favorite Green Day song (Armatage Shanks), but apart from that I don't think it's really good...

My favorite Green Day song is easily Brain Stew. I'm on AderholXR so that's what I think of when I hear of it.

Quoted from Biscuit_Power

Really? I was so dissapointed when it came out... It has my favorite Green Day song (Armatage Shanks), but apart from that I don't think it's really good...