Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2

[Spike]

I don't even know why they'd want to play St Jimmy. The ending is good but before that it's pretty weak.

[Anaïs.]

I don't even know why they'd want to play St Jimmy. The ending is good but before that it's pretty weak.

...you're being sarcastic, right?

[grene cniht]

...you're being sarcastic, right?

I hope so. Can't think of many songs stronger than St. Jimmy.

[Spike]

...you're being sarcastic, right?

Not in the slightest. I dunno, I'm a sucker for melody and that one just doesn't appeal to me. It was my favourite song on AI when it first came out, but it wore thin faster than any other track on there.

[Todd]

Yeah, I don't care for St Jimmy. It's probably my least favorite song on American Idiot

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

I hope so. Can't think of many songs stronger than St. Jimmy.

St. Jimmy is strong because of how tight it's played on the album. When they play it live it goes a little too fast and it becomes sloppy, which takes a way a lot of the strength and power of the song. Becomes more of a generic fast guitar song, then.

[The Disappearing Boy]

St. Jimmy's great

[Sauli]

St Jimmys not my thing either, its not bad, but that kind of Green Day songs do not appeal to me. Too fast. Too derivative.

[DookieLukie]

St Jimmys not my thing either, its not bad, but that kind of Green Day songs do not appeal to me. Too fast. Too derivative.

Derivative of?

[grene cniht]

St. Jimmy is strong because of how tight it's played on the album. When they play it live it goes a little too fast and it becomes sloppy, which takes a way a lot of the strength and power of the song. Becomes more of a generic fast guitar song, then.

I completely agree.

[Sauli]

Derivative of?

To me it feels musically like a sequel to Jaded etc and is worse. Nearly as bad as Platypus. Both are quite cringeworthy IMO.

. Green Day just isn't good at that style. In my opinion.

[Anaïs.]

To me it feels musically like a sequel to Jaded etc and is worse. Nearly as bad as Platypus. Both are quite cringeworthy IMO.

. Green Day just isn't good at that style. In my opinion.

Platypus is amazing.

[Spike]

Platypus is amazing.

The cover by Florence Welch and Lightspeed Champion is probably the best thing that's ever happened in the history of the world.

[Sauli]

Platypus is amazing.

No it is not.

To me Green Days biggest appeal has always been melodies. Billie is truly gifted at coming up with great melodies. And when a Green Day song has not got a good melody, it cannot be gery good. Thats why personally I don't like songs like St. Jimmy, Take Back, Christians Inferno or yes, Platypus, that much.

[ifmemoryserves]

Explaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!

ok well it doesn't objectively suck, i just dislike it. could never get into it. not my groove. i really don't know how else to explain it lol i just dislike pretty much every aspect of it.

[Spike]

ok well it doesn't objectively suck, i just dislike it. could never get into it. not my groove. i really don't know how else to explain it lol i just dislike pretty much every aspect of it.

But Mr Whirly had a catastrophic incident. Can't you at least try to be nice to him?

[Purple Haze]

I'm not sure if this has been said before, but I think Jason White is an extremely bland guitarist. His solos live are a little bit like Keanu Reeves. Extremely wooden and with no personality.

[Spike]

I'm not sure if this has been said before, but I think Jason White is an extremely bland guitarist. His solos live are a little bit like Keanu Reeves. Extremely wooden and with no personality.

Doesn't he just play the studio versions? Until he became a full-time member he was probably told to do that. He did manage to make the American Idiot solo more interesting by adding one note, though.

[Purple Haze]

Doesn't he just play the studio versions? Until he became a full-time member he was probably told to do that. He did manage to make the American Idiot solo more interesting by adding one note, though.

I suppose, but I was meaning more the fact that he has no vibrato or anything interesting like that. It's like listening to a 12 year old who hasn't mastered vibrato cover the solo on youtube in a way.

[The Disappearing Boy]

If we're talking about interestingness/creativity on guitar, Billie ain't that much better either, to be fair ...

But yeah, Misery is great, and Platypus is only great if you're an angry teenager who needs a fast and 'hardcore' song - it's not got much else other than that.

[JOE THE X-KID]

I'm not sure if this has been said before, but I think Jason White is an extremely bland guitarist. His solos live are a little bit like Keanu Reeves. Extremely wooden and with no personality.

I agree, I like him but his playings pretty bad at times. Some of the bends he does are just out of key at times and he barely uses vibrato.

[Purple Haze]

I agree, I like him but his playings pretty bad at times. Some of the bends he does are just out of key at times and he barely uses vibrato.

He totally ruined the solo to "Let Yourself Go" at the show I was at. This opinion seems to be more popular than I thought

[Guest]

I thought that Jason White being boring and average was the most popular opinion on GDC. I even started a GDC meme about it.

[Certified Nimrod]

St. Jimmy is the song that made me want to play guitar. Oddly enough, I haven't even tried to learn it.

[Guest]

St. Jimmy is the song that made me want to play guitar. Oddly enough, I haven't even tried to learn it.

A. D. E.

You can now play it.