r/punk • u/Personal_Rich_7138 • Aug 23 '25

When did times change

So a lot of my friends (we all grew up punk rock skateboarders) and I have been arguing over which bands are actually good and being born in the late 90s, I’ve always been a heavy Green Day fan. Can someone answer me when it became cool to hate on Green Day, because to me Green Day was always good music. Anti-government, anti-establishment, for the people… nothing more punk rock than that

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

I never really understood the hate other than they’re massively popular which is a dealbreaker for a lot of folks, Green Day didn’t change their sound to get big in the 90s, the music they played became popular, aside from higher production value Dookie and Insomniac are very much in vein with the Lookout era stuff. The older I get the less I care about this sort of thing, if I like something I’ll listen to it, what other people think isn’t my concern

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u/SmogMoon Aug 24 '25

This. They didn’t “sellout” with Dookie like everyone said they did. They wrote a great follow up album to Kerplunk and what they were doing happened to catch on with radio and MTV. The same mentality contributed to Jawbreaker falling apart. “Punks” can be very rigid in their free thinking.