ext_88055 ([identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2007-09-14 12:26 pm
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The Friday Canon: GREEN DAY



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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[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Things wot annoy me about Green Day:
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.

OH

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually the most annoying thing about them is that the first two minutes of 'Jesus of Suburbia' are FVCKING AMAZING. Then they totally screw it up.

[identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't realise there was any Offspring/Green Day beef! If chaps at my school liked one, they generally liked the other too. Even the hardcore metaller kids liked Green Day.
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[personal profile] koganbot 2007-09-14 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Offspring is so much more fucking better. Until they got worse.

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha EXACTLY. as long as getting worse = AFTER pretty fly ;)
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[personal profile] koganbot 2007-09-14 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely.

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It faintly distressed me a few years ago when Green Day managed to bring out American Idiot and The Offspring produced 'Can't Repeat'. *facecarpet*

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure it went anywhere other than my school. The Offspring were me and my best friends' favourite band and Green Day were some kids in the other half of the year's favourites and somehow it ended up as 'my punk band is better than yours' playground arguments. It's something about the fact 'Americana' came out about the same time as the one with 'Warning' on it, I think, it seemed to have lodged in our brains as making them mutually exclusive.
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