It's May 21, 2024, 06:40:44 AM
Yeah, Greenday are good. They're not punk though, they're masters of pop music, I think they recognize this themselves. Every single they've released has been pretty good, when Dookie came out I was just starting to get into music, and it was a very good CD. My favorite song of theirs is "Basket Case". Very well written, classic rock song.
"Do you have the time...To Listen To Me Whine?About nothing, and everything a lad wants?
Yeah, It probably is, I can't hardly understand the guy, lol.Anyways, Punk is more about rebellion, and basically doing things to piss people off, and fighting the power, and all that bullshit. It's translation into music generally consists of saying a lot of uncouth things, and making as much noise as possible, then daring anybody to say anything about it, because you're rebellious, and you don't give a fuck what they say about it, and blah blah blah tired bullshit from teenagers.Green Day is punk in the sense that they like to be loud and obnoxious, but it's a calculated punk. They also make sure to have great melodies that people can sing along to, and to not so much talk about themselves as to talk about universal things they imagine others in their position (or, their position before they became famous)... it's all well sang, and basically you can't knock any holes in their music, like you can so easily with punk. You can look at a punk song and say "ergh, that's just simplistic bullshit and the guys yelling whatever the fuck he wants to into a microphone"... but with Greenday, while they're punk, they're not stupid enough to sacrifice being GOOD for it. Pop's not a bad word, they're just pop-punk, they have punk sensibilities, but they want very much to be popular, and know damn good and well that their music isn't obnoxious, it's infectuous. There's nothing wrong with that, they are what they are, and they do what they do very well. I wouldn't want them to be any different, I think they're very honest about who they are.