I saw the video of Boulevard of Broken Dreams on TV and liked it very much, too!
I liked all songs (weren't so many) I've heard of Green Day
over the years - but never bought a CD.
But I'm curious, so I'll try some day.
i'm a youngster (turning 21 on saturday), and i grew up with this music. i've liked their music but never enough to buy any album of theirs. there's other much better stuff i want to spend my money on, but yes, the "american idiot" album got great reviews and is regarded as one of their best. green day sort of mobilized the punk pop music in the early '90s, way before that kind of music became as big as it is now, and i can't stand it. i'm into a lot of heavier stuff, especially marilyn manson. just like dylan said, there is a time and a place for everything, and when i was in junior high i could relate very much to marilyn manson. i too felt his music could tell the story of my life (even though i was quite younger than i am now--and i'm still young!), but i've heard that green day has a few 9-minute tracks on that album, i guess including a song called "jesus of suburbia," (which is kind of a rip-off of bowie's "buddha of suburbia") and that is something no other artist in that genre has done before. in fact, they have said themselves that they somewhat dislike what the pop punk scene is like right now. but it's funny because a lot of the bands that have made it big on mtv playing that kind of music cite green day to be a big influence on them. i find it kind of funny because green day was around when i was a kid, and i find it kind of sad that some really big moneymaking young bands cite this '90s group as a major influence. just seems like there's something wrong with that. but anyway... they've been around so long already that they have a best-of called "international superhits!" i suggest for any starters to get that, just to hear an overview of some really good songs of theirs. otherwise, their biggest albums were probably "dookie" and "nimrod."
You own a Charles Manson album? That's different. Very different. I know that people's collections hold a variety of musical tastes, yet, I find it hard to see Leonard and Manson together, cheek to jowl on someone's shelf. Give's me the brrrr's.
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~ The smell of perfume in the air, bits of beauty everywhere ~ Leonard Cohen.
well i'm not so sure anything of his came out until sometime after the murders, obviously. the quality of the recordings are terrible, like some velvet underground demos. it's hard to find the lyrics for some of the songs, but there's some pretty good songs on there, if performed and played correctly and in a way that's easier on the ears, y'know. some of them are a bit creepy, but only remind me of stuff like the beatles' "tomorrow never knows" or "revolution 9." y'know, he was obviously a very big beatles fan. hahaha. but anyway... some of his songs sound like nursery rhymes ("mechanical man," "garbage dump"), but have this interesting layer underneath. take this part from "mechanical man" for instance: "i had a little monkey/i sent him to the country/and i fed him on gingerbread/along came a choo-choo/and knocked my monkey koo-koo/and now my monkey's dead." i guess if you took it at face value you could easily be afraid. hahaha. he spoke like that a lot, not just in his music, and i think that's what freaked people out. i mean... a lot of people like phil spector and the songs he wrote and what he did for rock and roll, but he shot that lady! and he was crazy! so... i don't see a BIG difference, although, there is obviously SOME difference. hahaha.
well i'm not so sure anything of his came out until sometime after the murders, obviously. the quality of the recordings are terrible, like some velvet underground demos. it's hard to find the lyrics for some of the songs, but there's some pretty good songs on there, if performed and played correctly and in a way that's easier on the ears, y'know. some of them are a bit creepy, but only remind me of stuff like the beatles' "tomorrow never knows" or "revolution 9." y'know, he was obviously a very big beatles fan. hahaha. but anyway... some of his songs sound like nursery rhymes ("mechanical man," "garbage dump"), but have this interesting layer underneath. take this part from "mechanical man" for instance: "i had a little monkey/i sent him to the country/and i fed him on gingerbread/along came a choo-choo/and knocked my monkey koo-koo/and now my monkey's dead." i guess if you took it at face value you could easily be afraid. hahaha. he spoke like that a lot, not just in his music, and i think that's what freaked people out. i mean... a lot of people like phil spector and the songs he wrote and what he did for rock and roll, but he shot that lady! and he was crazy! so... i don't see a BIG difference, although, there is obviously SOME difference. hahaha.