Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2

[Steven Seagull]

Uno has to be a close second as a whole album. All the songs are really great but it still can't beat Dookie.

[Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap]

For three track runs I would go the first three from Nimrod or last three from Warning. Waiting and Minority are two of their best singles and Macy's Day Parade is one of his best bits of songwriting. And Nimrod's opening is just them doing classic 10/10 pop punk song after song. I don't know what the site's consensus on Nice Guys Finish Last is but it was one of the songs that got me into them way back when.

Maybe an unpopular opinion is that if you took out When September Ends and did a three track run of Letterbomb, Homecoming, Whatsername, not only does the album considerably improve but those three would all be around about my top ten Green Day songs.

[Ryan]

Hey, you got yourself a pretty little mouth

I think I wanna rub it the wrong way

Do you wanna spin a bottle, play a game of chicken?

Well, it's a tongue twister till your lips are bleeding

Oh, anyhow, anywhere

Kiss me there, oh kiss me there

Oh, scream and shout, truth or dare

Kiss me there, oh kiss me there

Oh, you're so precious, you're a fucking delinquent

Well I got myself jonesin' and I need some fixin'

It's a makeout party on another dimension

And it's gonna get crowded with some bad intensions

Edit: azlyrics spelled "intentions" wrong, not me

Honestly, I don't know how anybody can look at those lyrics and think they are bad...particularly the bolded lines. It is lyrics like this and similar lyrics in Baby Eyes that fucking baffle me with how people can overlook them and view them as bad.

[Anaïs.]

Maybe an unpopular opinion is that if you took out When September Ends and did a three track run of Letterbomb, Homecoming, Whatsername, not only does the album considerably improve but those three would all be around about my top ten Green Day songs.

I think Wake Me Up works best in the context of the album if you interpret it to be about 9/11 instead of Billie ' s dad. It goes with the other non-story songs in the album then, and actually balances it out as having only the title track and Holiday be about non story political events makes the album a bit lopsided.

[Spike]

Baby Eyes, Lady Cobra, Nightlife

No, but in all honesty, and I remember people saying this a while back, the first 5 songs of UNO is probably the strongest opening of a Green Day album except AI.

I honestly think Nuclear Family and Stay The Night is the best two song opener apart from Dookie.

[Todd]

Baby Eyes, Lady Cobra, Nightlife

No, but in all honesty, and I remember people saying this a while back, the first 5 songs of UNO is probably the strongest opening of a Green Day album except AI.

YES

[The Disappearing Boy]

And Whatsername!

A great album-closer, but in a 3-song run, I would have to choose Letterbomb as I like its high octaneness.

[JOE THE X-KID]

I think Holiday is one of Green Days best songs

[Z J]

The Grouch, Redundant and Scattered is the best three song run on any Green Day album.

Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, BOBD is unrivaled.

[Spike]

Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, BOBD is unrivaled.

I think Holiday lets it down really. I do like it a lot but it's one of the weaker tracks on the album.

[Z J]

Uno has to be a close second as a whole album. All the songs are really great but it still can't beat Dookie.

Real fans know that Kerplunk is better than Dookie. Dookie's too mainstream IMHO

I think Holiday lets it down really. I do like it a lot but it's one of the weaker tracks on the album.

I don't care if you're in Britain I will find a way to hit you

Nah but really Holiday is the second best song on the album behind JOS. Holiday has this lyricism that's incredibly poetic and viscious at the same time, unequaled anywhere in their catalog or anyone's catalog in rock. No song has ever provided a better criticism of an era. On top of that, the riff is iconic. And the themes the song talks about are still relevant today.

[klytaemnestra]

I think Holiday lets it down really. I do like it a lot but it's one of the weaker tracks on the album.

[tony soprano voice] you're dead to me

[Spike]

Yeah but come on, saying Holiday is the worst song on an album is like saying someone is ugly compared to Eva Green.

[Z J]

Yeah but come on, saying Holiday is the worst song on an album is like saying someone is ugly compared to Eva Green

[Spike]

What?

holiday is perfect fuck off tomnomnom

she's a rebel always has been and always will be the worst song on ai duh

I never actually said it was bad! And you think scones are biscuits so whatevs.

[Guest]

holiday is perfect fuck off tomnomnom

she's a rebel always has been and always will be the worst song on ai duh

I just realized that your username changed and I approve so very, very much.

#gravy

[Z J]

What?

It was the closest emoji I could find for "/headdesk"

[Spike]

It was the closest emoji I could find for "/headdesk"

Now you're just being silly

[Z J]

Well in my defense I consider the premise that Holiday is anything less than top 3 on AI inherently silly.

So there.

[Bastard of 1969]

The Grouch, Redundant and Scattered is the best three song run on any Green Day album.

I couldn't agree more.

[Steven Seagull]

Real fans know that Kerplunk is better than Dookie. Dookie's too mainstream IMHO

weak troll -3/10 try again

[Spike]

weak troll -3/10 try again

[Sauli]

Mainstream or not, Kerplunk is at least equally as good as Dookie. Dookie has more fillers, even though it has more highs.

[Bastard of 1969]

Yeah but come on, saying Holiday is the worst song on an album is like saying someone is ugly compared to Eva Green.

Wat

[Guest]

Holiday isn't the weakest song on AI by a long shot (Extraordinary Girl, anyone?). If AI didn't exist and only Holiday did, I'd say it was one of their best songs. But, within the context of the album, there's something about the song that is a minor let-down to me and I can't figure out what it is.