Random Green Day News

[Ross_19]

I don't know if this needs its own thread, but somebody just did a fantastic cover of Basket Case on Britain's Got Talent. Here...

 

[luketrebilliemike]

10 hours ago, Ross_19 said:

I don't know if this needs its own thread, but somebody just did a fantastic cover of Basket Case on Britain's Got Talent. Here...

 

I saw this and was gonna post it here too?? it was soooo good! I fan girled, I was shocked it was on BGT!

[desertrose]

Beautiful rendition of Basket Case!!

[Hermione]

The style isn't to my taste but still it's very well done! He has an excellent voice and it's also just great to see some Green Day performed on there. They had to leave out "I went to a whore" and cut out "stoned" and turn it into "oooooh" instead, haha.

[GenXIdiot]

Creative arrangement, and it makes you realize that Basketcase actually has a beautiful melody!

I wish the piano had been louder, though, the balance was off. More Piano!!!!

[Chin for a Day]

I posted in the other thread as well, but I thought the cover was great.  I loved the creative spin.  I thought it was 10,000 times better than Alanis Morrisettes cover. He really put alot of emotion into it.

[Hermione]

Now there's a thread let's keep discussion of it there:

 

[Chin for a Day]

This is really bizarre.  Billie is #21.  I noticed how they really emphasized his lack of chin.

http://loudwire.com/rockers-at-100-years-old/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4511503#photogallery-1=1

[Beerjeezus]

I don't dare click that link.

[Sanity Loan]

20 minutes ago, JJ1964 said:

This is really bizarre.  Billie is #21.  I noticed how they really emphasized his lack of chin.

http://loudwire.com/rockers-at-100-years-old/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4511503#photogallery-1=1

Not to mention they misspelled his name.

 

Also, Tré is in the Donald Trump hair list.

[GenXIdiot]

Besides, everyone knows that Billie Joe doesn't age like normal people. At 100 he'd look 50, maybe. 

[Chin for a Day]

10 minutes ago, GenXIdiot said:

Besides, everyone knows that Billie Joe doesn't age like normal people. At 100 he'd look 50, maybe. 

I don't know, I think he pretty much looks his age.  He is still gorgeous as hell and I love the fact that he can age gracefully.  He doesn't try to be something he isn't.   

[GenXIdiot]

Just now, JJ1964 said:

I don't know, I think he pretty much looks his age.  He is still gorgeous as hell and I love the fact that he can age gracefully.  He doesn't try to be something he isn't.   

I see what you mean, he is gorgeous as hell and aging gracefully. Very gracefully.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

4 hours ago, Jane Lannister said:

I don't dare click that link.

Unfortunately I did.

[desertrose]

RARE Marble Purple Billie Joe Armstrong GREEN DAY "SLAPPY EP" 7" 45 Vinyl Record

$175.00

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/182135912137?item=182135912137&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466&rmvSB=true

 

[Hermione]

23 hours ago, JJ1964 said:

This is really bizarre.  Billie is #21.  I noticed how they really emphasized his lack of chin.

http://loudwire.com/rockers-at-100-years-old/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_4511503#photogallery-1=1

 A bit over done, it's more like how they'd look as zombies.

[BJsTurtleSticker]

Anyone see the new world vs world demo on youtube?

World vs World 1991 demo 

 

[Ham Pascale]

18 minutes ago, BJsTurtleSticker said:

Anyone see the new world vs world demo on youtube?

World vs World 1991 demo 

 

 

[ollhjr]

I take these lists with a grain of salt, but Green Day is mentioned in the honorable/dishonorable mentions on this list.  Just take a look at the amount of dislikes to see how well this video is being received.  

 

 

 

[Second favourite son]

40 minutes ago, ollhjr said:

I take these lists with a grain of salt, but Green Day is mentioned in the honorable/dishonorable mentions on this list.  Just take a look at the amount of dislikes to see how well this video is being received. 

 

That whole list is rubbish, especially the 'lots of people are still buying their records, but they shouldn't make them anymore'...  Clearly people want new material if they're buying it   I do agree with the Rolling Stones though, they should just tour perpetually because that's what people want from them.

[Beerjeezus]

I talked about them with my guitar teacher a long time ago. I'm not sure if it was before or after the Trilogy was released. His opinion was that they should have stopped after AI. He didn't really give any reason except for that they wrung the concept dry and only keep milking the same stuff. 

[desertrose]

Ranking: Every Alternative Rock No. 1 Hit From Worst to Best

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/ranking-every-alternative-rock-hit-from-worst-to-best/

 

261. Green Day – “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”

Date Reaching Number One: 12/11/04

“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” was one of American Idiot’s biggest hits in a crowded field of them, topping the charts for 16 weeks. And the massive groundswell of goodwill for that album as both Green Day’s comeback in a fashion and for its ambitions were enough to obscure the fact that “Boulevard” is also a straight-up power ballad, with all the maudlin keys and sentiments such a description would suggest. –Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

224. Green Day – “Know Your Enemy”

Date Reaching Number One: 5/9/09

Green Day’s first single off 21st Century Breakdown topped three Billboard Charts – Rock Songs, Alternative Songs, and Mainstream Rock Tracks – upon its release in 2009. “Know Your Enemy” tread the same anti-establishment road as career-reviving rock opera American Idiot with less rage and urgency, but was a respectable return to the mainstream nonetheless. –Karen Gwee

157. Green Day – “J.A.R.”

Date Reaching Number One: 8/26/95

A hold over from the Dookie sessions, “J.A.R.” was officially released as a contribution to the soundtrack of the 1995 coming-of-age flick Angus. It’s classic mid-’90s Green Day, which by itself was enough to land it atop the modern rock charts in August 1995. Still, file this one in the “if you’ve heard one Green Day song, you’ve heard them all” category. –Ryan Bray

116. Green Day – “Holiday”

Date Reaching Number One: 5/7/05

Billie Joe Armstrong railed against Bush on “Holiday”, but over a decade later, the song’s anthemic breakdown perfectly matches the shit that’s perpetually coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth. (Ahem, “Bombs away is your punishment/ Pulverize the Eiffel Towers/ Who criticize your government!”) American Idiot was Green Day’s opus, and “Holiday” was the record’s third #1 single that continued to deliver the band’s brash political message. –Killian Young

103. Green Day – “Minority”

Date Reaching Number One: 9/30/00

Acoustic guitar and harmonica may not have been in the original recipe for Green Day’s brand of brash pop-punk, but they certainly did their part in helping “Minority” remain at #1 on the alternative charts for five consecutive weeks. Green Day’s lead single from Warning helped usher in a new sound for the band, one that would ultimately lead to many more trips up the charts. –Zack Ruskin

95. Green Day – “American Idiot”

Date Reaching Number One: 9/25/04

It’s no surprise that Green Day’s direct shot at the Bush administration and mass media would be a hit. After all, it was released just before the start of Bush’s second term amid a wave of paranoia and political stupidity. Stripped of social commentary, this track is still blazing. In fact, I’d slap this punk pop protest back up at number one today if I could. –Danielle Janota

65. Green Day – “Basket Case”

Date Reaching Number One: 8/20/94

Dookie, Green Day’s breakthrough third album and major label debut, doesn’t have a dud on it, but “Basket Case” is perhaps its most lasting gift. A song based on lead man Billie Joe Armstrong’s struggles with anxiety, the pop-punk track was snot-nosed disillusionment at its finest. Listeners agreed, as “Basket Case” spent 24 weeks on the alternative charts and became one of three Dookie singles to peak at #1. –Zack Ruskin

50. Green Day – “Longview”

Date Reaching Number One: 6/11/94

Part of the whole music fandom thing as a teen is looking at bands on stage or in videos and wishing you were them. But when you saw Billie Joe Armstrong sitting on that puke-plaid couch in the video for “Longview”, practically in a coma from the type of teenage boredom that no amount of pot or masturbation can cure, it was like looking into a rather unfortunate, dissatisfying mirror. In that way, Green Day felt painfully relatable, which somehow managed to make those shitty days just a little bit better. To this day, when I hear those opening drums and bass, I want to bite my lip, close my eyes, drive over to my parents’ house, and gut the couch in their basement. –Matt Melis

17. Green Day – “When I Come Around”

Date Reaching Number One: 1/7/95

Green Day didn’t take long into their radio career to prove that they are more than a pop-punk band, with “When I Come Around” showcasing the trio’s ability to craft a timeless rock song as suitable for VH1 as for MTV. That would wind up being a touchstone of the group’s career, offering up songs like “Good Riddance” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” to balance their more aggressive output. And it paid off on “When I Come Around”, which became the band’s biggest hit off their breakthrough Dookie, even landing in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. –Philip Cosores

[desertrose]

 

Green Day albums ranked

http://loudwire.com/green-day-albums-ranked/

Do you have the time to listen to me whine about where Green Day‘s albums should be ranked from 11 to one? But in all seriousness, when a band has a career as creatively fruitful and commercially successful as Green Day’s, it’s no easy chore coming up with these rankings.

Yes, you know that Dookie and American Idiot will be near the top of the rankings, as the two albums were both among rock history’s standout releases, attracting universal critical acclaim, monster album sales and generally propelling Green Day to the top of the music world regardless of genre.

But how do you rank the trio of post-Dookie albums that kept Green Day as rock radio mainstays, broadening their musical palette but also showing enough ties to the album that broke them to a massive fanbase? What of the two pre-Reprise era albums that helped put them on the musical radar of major labels? Are they the caliber of the discs that would come after? And what of the impact of the band’s work in their post-American Idiot world? Does 21st Century Breakdown hold up? Should Uno, Dos and Tre receive closer looks even though the band didn’t get to properly promote the album trilogy on tour as they had initially planned? It starts to get a little tricky.

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me. Sometimes I flip-flop on what should go at No. 3. It all keeps adding up. I think I’m cracking up. Am I just paranoid or should these Green Day album rankings be set in stone?

 

[desertrose]

Album Of The Day: 'Dookie' By Green Day
 

When punk changed for good.

 

Not one for the punk purists out there but nonetheless an exceptional album - no-one can deny that Green Day were a huge part of the 90s revival of punk rock, and major label debut 'Dookie' is their best example of that.

the artist.......

Green Day are Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool and Jason White. They formed in East Bay, California in 1986, releasing their first album '39/Smooth' in 1990. They're a controversial subject in the world of punk, but they've managed to acquire five Grammys in their career and have sold more than 75 million records globally.

 

The album...
Chock-full of catchy tunes and with all the rebellion of punk music but without the politics, 'Dookie' came along in 1994 via Reprise Records with some fresh ideas about punk rock. 

Why you need to hear it...
It's like your classic punk, but doesn't force you to care about political issues. Sometimes just rocking out to some loud, infectious tunes is just baggage, right?

The best song...
'Basket Case'. To this day it's one of their catchiest songs and pretty much epitomises the band's sound at their best, before their 'American Idiot' days. 

Where are they now?
Last year the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and claimed to be working on their twelfth studio album. We last saw them performing alongside Joan Jett at Tribeca Film Festival 2016.

 

http://www.contactmusic.com/green-day/news/album-of-the-day-dookie-by-green-day_5230564

Punk Venue Sparks Inclusivity Debate

924 Gilman was a jumping-off point for bands like Green Day, The Offspring and Operation Ivy in the ’80s and ’90s and continues to host punk and metal shows.

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=824783

[desertrose]

Clevleand: 100 of the hottest summer concerts

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/100_greatest_summer_concerts_i.html#0

Green Day Euclid Tavern 1992

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/100_greatest_summer_concerts_i.html#78

Green Day and Blink 182

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/100_greatest_summer_concerts_i.html#105

 

11 Perfect Dates In The '90s That Seem Weird Now

5. Driving To A "Sexy" Place To Sit In The Car And Listen To Dookie So Loud You Couldn't Even Talk

If one of you had a car in the '90s you'd use it to drive to a notorious make out spot, and play pop punk so loud you couldn't even talk to each other. So you'd just sit in the car kind of awkwardly nodding your head along. For some reason, this was awesome. 10/10 would not do now.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/161774-11-perfect-dates-in-the-90s-that-seem-weird-now

 

How Punk's Greatest Albums Perform On Streaming Services, Visualized

Sell-Outs (100 million streams and more)

Green Day’s Dookie and Enema of the State by Blink 182 largely fall under the ”pop punk” genre, which leans heavily on glossier production and catchy hooks, and depended more on radio play and music video rotation at the time of their release. This mainstream exposure, and the resulting widespread popularity, accounts for the albums’ enormous number of streams.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickdesantis/2016/04/28/how-punks-greatest-albums-perform-on-streaming-services-visualized/#3c5c5356559c