this has just been gnawing on my mind for a couple days.

a few days ago, i passed by a couple of people talking about how much they LOVED green day... however, when i asked if they knew about green day before their American Idiot song, they all said no. Most didnt even know that they had been around for many years before...

so, as a question to all Green Day fans, especially those who LOVE green day, how many of u knew/cared for the band 5 years ago? how many actually listened to dookie?

not meant as an insult to anyone

Yeh. I know.. it pisses me off.
I liked them a long time before I even knew of American Idiot the CD.
In fact, my favorite song of theirs is an old one.. "Longview"
I love their old stuff, and I truly am a fan.

Yeah, everyone's OBSESSED with Green Day just because of American Idiot. Ever since it hit MTV... (not that I don't like MTV)

I have 3 of their Cd's.. Dookie, American Idiot, and Insomnia. Soo yeah, I've known about them for a while.

No, I don't like Greenday. I don't like American Idiot. I don't get how poeple can. But that's my opinion.

i have been listening to them since i was... 9. i believe. the first song i heard from them was jaded. and i've listened to them ever since, but not so much.

I actually think the old Green Day is somewhat better than the new American Idiot kind.. but hey, isn't that most of artists dreams? To be famous and well-known?

let me name a few of their songs on my playlist right now..
-walking contradiction
-jaded
-brain stew
-longview
-misery
-waiting
-welcome to paradise
-poprocks and coke
-don't wanna know if you're lonely
-redundant
-she
-minority
-2000 Light Years Away

there's more but i don't feel like typing.. i like most of their songs.

i've loved them before american idiot.. ihate people who started liking them after it came up

I love green day and have been a fan for several years (not sure about the exact number) but my frist Green Day CD was Warning... I've listened to Dookie. I own it actually. I have Dookie, Nimrod, International Super Hits, Insomniac, Warning and American Idiot. I think I'm only missing one of their CDs... My favorite songs are Basket Case and Minority.

5 years ago?...why yes, I believe so.
Dookie?...I actually own the cd and maybe a burned Kerplunk cd somewhere in my collection.

HECK YEAH I HAVE. Dude I bet the majority of those people that claim to love Green Day don't even know that Dookie wasn't their first album.

hmm i thought they were new

Dookie is great It's so....it's like a breath of fresh air lol. i knew they first made their big hit like in 94 or 95, but when i was that age i didn't listen to green day. I really started listening to them a year ago...but i heard so much about them for years. american idiot is a good cd, i think it's one of their best ones

I know EXACTLY what you mean! I hate people who "love" Green Day but dont know sh*t about them!

I listend to Kerplunk all my life... well most of it anyway!

GREEN DAY ROCKS!

I don't understand why people have to prove that they're 'loyal fans' just cause they've been listening to to them for years, bashing on new fans. I understand if it's a group of stupid little girls that cant distinguish oen band member from another running around with notebooks scribbled with 'I LOVE BILLY JOE FROM GREENDAY', meanwhile they're spelling billie joe and green day wrong. That pisses me off as well. But honestly, what's so bad about someone who heard a single on the radio, liked it, bought it and love it? Isn't that what a musicians job is in the first place? Trying to write songs that people can enjoy and get into? It's hypocritical because I doubt all of you guys starting listening to them when they FIRST got together during the mid eighties. Everyone is the noobie at one point or another, and if new people are getting into Green Day now, or any other band for that matter, I say good for them.

I hope I'm noo coming off as mean or anything... Maybe I'm just bitter, but I was talking to my friend the other day and she was pissed off because this girl just started listening to her favorite band, and it bothered her that someone else knew about them. Wtf is up with that? This thread always comes up in a forum, no matter what kind of music you listen to, and it never ceases to amaze me about how possesive some people are towards something that isn't even theirs. There's nothing loyal about that.


Wow... long ass post... O_O.

hm
im only a semi fan.
i like just a few of their songs.
they're pretty cool
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I don't understand why people have to prove that they're 'loyal fans' just cause they've been listening to to them for years, bashing on new fans. I understand if it's a group of stupid little girls that cant distinguish oen band member from another running around with notebooks scribbled with 'I LOVE BILLY JOE FROM GREENDAY', meanwhile they're spelling billie joe and green day wrong. That pisses me off as well. But honestly, what's so bad about someone who heard a single on the radio, liked it, bought it and love it? Isn't that what a musicians job is in the first place? Trying to write songs that people can enjoy and get into? It's hypocritical because I doubt all of you guys starting listening to them when they FIRST got together during the mid eighties. Everyone is the noobie at one point or another, and if new people are getting into Green Day now, or any other band for that matter, I say good for them.

I hope I'm noo coming off as mean or anything... Maybe I'm just bitter, but I was talking to my friend the other day and she was pissed off because this girl just started listening to her favorite band, and it bothered her that someone else knew about them. Wtf is up with that? This thread always comes up in a forum, no matter what kind of music you listen to, and it never ceases to amaze me about how possesive some people are towards something that isn't even theirs. There's nothing loyal about that.


Wow... long ass post... O_O.

Yeah, but those are the people that make them popular. The trend whores that follow everything because it's on MTV or it's on the radio. They don't truly appreciate the music - they do it because everyone else is. They're fed what the media provides them. To not even know that it's Green Day and Billie Joe makes me mad. It makes the true fans mad. That's why.

oh who the crap cares.
so you listened to them first. whoopie.
you know that you knew first, so let them be.

just cause someone starts listening to a band when their new cd comes out doesn't mean they don't really like the band.

I know that Green Day's been around for awhile, I listen to their songs before "American Idiot" ...
But what's wrong with the fact that there are some people that do like Green Day becuz of their song "American Idiot" ? It doesn't always mean becuz of the media just becuz the song actually makes a connection to them so they like it. Meh, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

... lol. sorry, that album was the one that was playing so i put it first. also, i am meaning this for the stupid little girls, not the awsome people here. Im talking about the dumb girls and guys that claim its their FAVORITE band in the world, when they really dont know much at all, the hypocrites

I suck. I only have International Super Hits. and I think Dookie..lemme so check...Oh, and I hav their new CD has well.

I know exactly what you mean. A lot of people are so crazy about them now just because 'American Idiot'. People are like, "Omg I <3 Green Day!!" and I'm talkin about those 12 years olds I mean, that's cool if you're a fan but don't claim that you are a die hard fan. I have been listening to em since....let's see, when "Hitchin a ride" came out which is on Nimrod & came out in..1997. So that's 8 years. I was hooked when I saw that video. Anyways, yeah. Those people annoy the pootie outta me.

Well does it really matter? ....

Well I kinda felt the same when people started to like Shinhwa when they just started to like them a month and they said they were their biggest idol.

I heard that in the past albums of Green Day, their albums wasn't that really good? Like they were bit too harsh? But my sister still loves them because of their new album and Billy Joe Armstrong sings very good and he's very nice????


I guess some people say I love Green day when they don't really mean it cause they just want some attention from the Green day fans? I don't know, but that's just my opinion

Wow! My first post.
Sadly I grew up listening to pop, being a part of the overprotective family that I am. Green Day was honestly my first favorite rock band. 7 years ago or so I liked a bunch of their songs that I didn't even know were theirs "Time of Your Life", "Basket Case", "Minority"... etc. Then when I bought their cds for the first time a little over 4 years ago, I was like, "OOOOH that's who sings that song!! This band is awesome". My first cd of theirs was Nimrod and now I own all except for Warning, which I shall get soon. Heh heh. Yeah I hafta admit, it was kinda annoying how they just all shot up in popularity from American Idiot. Sure, some of the concepts are really easy to understand and relate to... but still, you can't become a hardcore fan in 3 months.

yeah i was a fan back in their early days, but never a huge one. but yes i knew who they were and whatnot.

are you joking???



anyways, i grew up on greenday. my sister was a huge fan and alas, so am i! im not a fan of the american idiot CD actually. their old shit is just so much better

Look, green day came out before I was even born...lolz..so of course didnt get all of the cds. I was 5 when Dookie came out or sumthin...I'm only 12 now..lolz

I knew of them longer then 5 years ago

i knew of green day before their new album but im not like in love wid them... i do like their new album a lot though but seriously a lot of ppl are like obsessing over them now and they never even knew bout them before, i completely agree wid you. it kind of ticks me off but i really dont care that much bc its not lyke ive been a complete fan of them forever if i was, id be pissed.

why does it bother you that other people enjoy listening to the music you do?

if u truly love the band, why aren't u happy for them for acheieving comercial success? and surely if people are buying American idiot and loving it, then maybe they'll buy their other albums, and become 'true fans'

if it really bothers u, form a little coven, lock the bedroom door, give the true fans a pass word, throw dookie on the cd player and bitch your little hearts out.

sheesh

yeah i know what your saying. i was never/still not a huge fan of green day. i mean their songs are good but i don't love them but my friend is like a diehard fan and she's been listening to them since they first came out and i know that sometimes that it bothers her

i hate that
my favorite song is good riddance, and i don't think american idiot is half as good as that song, but retarded mtv had to go and make green day mainstream. screw you mtv!

I hate that too. Some people now are even saying that Green Day hasn't really been that popular until their American Idiot cd, which is NOT true. Some people dont' even know that that cd has a meaning to it. People only listen to these things because they hear it someplace else or whatnot. Which I think is stupid. peopel should start listening to the meaning of some songs and stop saying "Oh wow. I love this song" just because some people you know like it. MTV has made some people realize the light instead of listening to Hillary Duff, but other than that, yea. They ruined it. People like that are just jumping on the bandwagon.

I knew a girl who only liked whatever liked. Whatever shoes I wore, whatever music I liked, whatever my hair style was, she'd copy me. So when I heard of Green Day the first song I heard was She. She immediately liked it too. It got so annoying.

I only like their one song Blvd of Broken Dreams. I aint a fan, I just really like that song

well i've never heard of dorkie but i ahev liekd them before american idiot.

YAY FOR HITCHIN A RIDE! i love that song. and basket case, and brain stew!

Yah Its like Wtf.. I loive green day as much as the next its like do you no Any other cd's of theres i mean if you havent lisoned to Brain Stew .. Your not really a true fan .. But thats just me..
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Bad memoreys raceing though my brain, Braceing my self to face another horable day, Where will my place be tomorrow if not today, Trying to get to one pace to another, All hope is lost , Faith is gone, This fullish felling is comeing back to me..

i like green day, but not really a fan, its on my fav list

I love Longview. It's also one of my favorite songs. That and Welcome to Paradise.

I've been a Green Day fan for a long time. Personally I think American Idiot is the worst song on American Idiot, but it's still great.

I am a MASSIVE Green Day fan! I have,American Idiot, Insomniac, Superhits, Nimrod albums.. my favourite song by them is probably Prosthetic Head.. but I also love, Good Riddence, She, JAR, Minority, King for a Day, Scattered, The Grouch, Jinx, stuck with me, Brainstew.. hell, I love everything they've ever written and performed!
I saw them live at Birmingham NIA last Sunday. An awesome gig, and how hot was BIllie Joe looking?! He's just ... the sexiest man ever!

I really like them =]]

yeah i listened to them since i was like in 4th grade and now im in 8th. I didnt start to listen to them just now like those people do listening to american idiot.
i seriously think their oldm usic is much better dookie was sucha better cd i have that one and superhits

I totally agree...enough said...*sighs*. I listened to there old songs on there old albums..they were AWESOME...the old shit was good...

Yeah I'm a fan of them I thought their old songs were better too.

i guess I'm a true fan i have international superhits and dookie. and no ofense but i hate there new cd especially that song.. Boulevard sounds like crap. When i 1st heard it i was like.."is that really greenday". now all these people claim they like greenday ever since american idiot came out. longview and basketcase were so good.. and now boulevard of broken dreams > wtf

yeah I know dude, Greenday does totally rocked, I listened to dookie, Ive listened to all their albums, though the only one I have is international superhits, I download. But I am still a huge fan. I used to listen to Crap and hip hop whatever the hell its called. about 4 years ago, then my friend made me listen to greenday, and Ive been a rocker ever since. You may call me a poser but I dont give a shit. (not trying to be rude just used to being called a poser when p[eople found out I used to be like that) People think that people cant change. anyway, why is it that almost every band the old shit is better? green day, old shits better, GC olds better, blink 182.....ext....See ya dude!

Since my friend is a Greenday mania, i pratically know ALL their songs. I knew them way before american idiot though. Warning, dookie, nimrod, insomnia, kerplunk.. all great (:

OMG I KNOW THAT PISSES ME OFF SOOOOOO MUCH!
the BEST song is longview. i LOVE that song. =) go REAL greenday fans ! i totally agree that the boulevard of broken dreams is crap. i own dookie and i love it (:

Yeah I've really liked Green Day since Nimrod, but I'll admit I only became friggin all for them right when American Idiot came out.

I first started listening to Green Day when I was in 7th grade and I'm a junior in college .. so yea, a long time. But, I'm not a hard core fan. I don't have all their albums, but I do have dookie and nimrod. I didn't know dookie wasn't their first, but that isn't affecting me as a fan. I like their new album, but honeslty, it's more pop than punk like their other albums.




Green Day has been on MTV before american idiot, so don't just blame it all on mtv for the teeny boppers. Green Day SENDS their videos TO mtv to be aired, mtv just doesn't miracelously have them without green days permission.