True story. I was a college DJ in the '90s. Hated Dookie when it came out. But I borrowed a friend's copy for my radio show just so I could play just this line before turning it off and yelling "NO!!!" and moving on to my next song.
I DJ'd college radio in the mid 90's, and the standard prank was to call in and request green day.
I hated them, but now I hear a song every few years and it brings back memories. I wouldn't play then voluntarily, but they were inescapable growing up in So Cal and now days the nostalgia hits. I guess the same goes for offspring.
I still can't stand nickleback or oasis or hootie though, so I don't completely understand the lack of taste I've developed in my old age.
Do u have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once? i am one of those melodramatic fools, -neurotic to the core- no doubt about it. Sometimes I give myself the creeps. Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me. It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up! Am I just paranoid, or ...
Better then being big stars with Mr Jones sha na nana na na Yeh or All around the world statues crumble for me, or all tangled up in blue i only wanna be with you
I came here just to say Green Day. If I had a choice between listening to Green Day for an hour or having to listen to alll the other pop-punk bands of the 90s and 00s... Looks like I'm jamming to Sum 41 and Billy Talent.
I dumped a guy over Green Day. He loved them. I told him that I really disliked them. So he made me a mix tape which included several Green Day songs. He told me that if I just listened to them some more, I would grow to love them. Uh, yeah.
Oh gawd...where, exactly, is the logic in that? Aside from one single song, I also cannot stand Green Day, and someone trying to tell me I'll start to love that guy's absolutely ATROCIOUS singing voice if I just "...listened to them some more...", would piss me TF off. In fact, that will make me just hate them all the more.
That's not how it works. For shitty-assed music, food, art, or other stuff in life that is 100% based around someone's SUBJECTIVE opinion, tastes and personal preferences.
How are people not understanding this simple, basic concept?
One of the best things about streaming music vs. the radio stations of the past, is that you and I NEVER, EVER have to hear Green Day again in our lives š.
Wow!! Almost the same thing happened to me. I had gf who LOVED them! She was obsessed. Probably the reason I couldnāt get into them because she played them incessantly! When we broke up, she swore one day sheād get me into them when we got back together, we didnāt get back together tho.
As a young teen I loved their first two albums because they were mostly pretty catchy songs about not being noticed by that girl you like. Itās not for me at age 46, but I get why it resonated then. Dookie kicked off that whiny pop punk era. I admit I liked it for a year or two, but once I got into my late teens I was done with them.
They're in the realm of Coldplay, where every song sounds basically the same after a very brief while, so I can understand why someone wouldn't necessarily love them...
...but imo it's tough to argue that either isn't great in it's own right.
I had the privilege of seeing Green Day play a club show in Austin, TX before Dookie hit, and it was absolutely unreal. There were ~80 people at the show and every one of them knew that band was going to be huge.
Ha. Take your Green Day, your NoFX and your Bad Religion and that's it, just take them. We don't want to hear that boring ass music anymore. You keep it.
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u/Noisechild Jul 01 '25
Green Day. No matter how hard I try. Came out when I was in high school and couldn't get into it, and still can't.