The Friday Canon: GREEN DAY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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.

[koganbot]

Offspring is so much more fucking better. Until they got worse.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hahaha EXACTLY. as long as getting worse = AFTER pretty fly ;)

[koganbot]

Definitely.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

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*

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

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.