The Friday Canon: GREEN DAY
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It's the Peter Pans of Punk! They've had 20 UK Top 40 singles, and you get to pick your favourite SIX out of this lot:
[Poll #1055183]
Blondie: (link)
1. Heart Of Glass
2. Atomic
3. Hanging On The Telephone
4. Rapture
5. Call Me
6. Denis
7. Picture This
8. Sunday Girl
=9. Maria
=9. The Tide Is High
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Date: 2007-09-14 11:34 am (UTC)I was so, so unutterably disappointed in Venus Williams when she admitted to liking them. I always thought she was the cooler Williams sister but was totally wrong. Serena hangs out with Brandy and Paris Hilton, Venus...likes Green Day.
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Date: 2007-09-14 11:36 am (UTC)However I like to think that without Green Day there would be no Busted. They allowed teenage guitar bands to have a sense of humour!
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Date: 2007-09-14 01:42 pm (UTC)They have one good album, which came out when I was 15 and obviously sounded like the greatest record ever made at the time because it was mostly about being sulky and wanking, and everything else is rubbish. Especially when they went 'political'.
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Date: 2007-09-14 01:24 pm (UTC)1. Offspring beef. I don't think the two bands ever had anything remotely resembling beef but at my school, aged thirteen, you were one or the other and I was the other.
2. Ubiquity
3. Despite it's severe case of #2, 'Basketcase' is probably one of my favourite songs
4. Billie Joe's voice
5. People expecting me to like American Idiot because I am politicised
6. People who think owning American Idiot makes them political genii
I am aware only one of the six pertains to Green Day themselves but sometimes things are too situationalised to take objectively, innit.
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Date: 2007-09-14 08:05 pm (UTC)2. they owe much of their importance to their moment in history and their special status as unifiers of different social groups (of teenagers and college students, at the time of their breakthrough). i think jess harvell said somewhere, if no one else did, that 'everyone' in our generation had a copy of 'dookie'.
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