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I just want to know what people think...Green Day is still one of my favorites in the punk world (yes I like the new sound as well), but what do people consider them these days? Punk? Pop punk? Rock? I still find them as a root of the modern punk scene, something better than pop punk, but the better side of that...What do you all think?
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I would definitely say they are still punk fools....They created a groundbreaking genre.
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They have probably moved more toward pop than anything else... But I'm sure they are a huge inspiration for all true punk bands now.
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I wouldnt really consider them a "root." I think they have a lot of influence over a lot of the more poppish punk bands that are around now, but even Green Day owes a lot of that to the punk bands from the early 80's. Check out Rites of Spring, they are responsible for a lot of the current trends in popular punk/emo now.
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They are the Grandfathers of PUNK!
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Quote:They are the Grandfathers of PUNK! What about all the bands from the late 70's through the 80's?
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They created it but I'd have to say that Green Day has mastered the art and made it what it is today.
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A lot of those bands that created the gengre have a lot of influence over Green Day. I havent really listened to them all since Dookie though.
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SilentJudas wrote:They created it but I'd have to say that Green Day has mastered the art and made it what it is today. Green Day is good, but I would by no means call them a founder of punk...maybe a founder of a genre no one likes, called pop punk...but either way, Green Day is still good even though they are major label rock.
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They've always been shit but catchy as hell. I don't consider them punk. Not now not ever.
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Capello The Great wrote:They've always been shit but catchy as hell. I don't consider them punk. Not now not ever. Very true Capello, very true. I do like them, they are catchy, but pop punk might be the genre, nothing more.
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silentjudas... if someone is the "grandfather" that would imply that no one came before them... therefore, although green day happens to be my favorite band... they are not at ALL the grandfathers of punk. They have cited such punk acts including the sex pistols and the ramones as just a few of their influences... I think that green day are a definite part of the 20th and 21st centuries, but they are not the grandfathers...
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Don_Thrash wrote:SilentJudas wrote:They created it but I'd have to say that Green Day has mastered the art and made it what it is today. Green Day is good, but I would by no means call them a founder of punk...maybe a founder of a genre no one likes, called pop punk...but either way, Green Day is still good even though they are major label rock. doesn't everyone agree that the ramones created the punk genre? in regards to green day, i would say they are just a mature, pop-punk.
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Green Day may have been one of the founding fathers of punk, but it definitely lost it's footing when it released American Idiot.
I mean, if they want to express their political opinion, then by all means; but that doesn't mean you have to preach to your fans for an entire album.
I'll stick to Dookie.
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Green Day went downhill after their first album.
American Idiot... please.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams was possibly the WORST song 2005.
Fuck Green Day post 2002.
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I have to say Green Day is still Punk and always will be. hands down.
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well, they try to keep some roots, but I would say they have definitely strayed from their roots. The message however, is still punk
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The music has strayed from Punk but the guys are still punk and as you said, the message is still punk.
Did You Poison My Food? Forgive Me I've Paranoid Flu.
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Green Day's musical style has been known for many years and has gotten through a lot of hard times keeping their punk rock style in beat but to me I don't really like Green Day all that much but their older material isn't all that bad but just not one of my TOP faves...
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