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

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

It does annoy me that this band are lauded, sell loads, are/were v popular with American and British teenagers because it feels so anti-progressive...but at least they made some sort of political comment on 'American Idiot'. I liked 'Longview' quite a bit at the time tho (Billy Bob or whatever his name is watching Roobarb & Custard on TV in the video :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The whole 'political' thing is a strange beast. On the one hand you have dumb rock bands trying to gain some credibility through a few well-placed lyrics to compensate for their lack of musical experimentation. On the other hand, if you just want to say something and you just happen to be in a band, what better way of getting your message across? Dudes are far more likely to pay attention to your latest song than some press conference about world peace etc.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I don't know if GD's statements about Iraq really go beyond 'sigh, isn't this a shame' but it just seemed to be them and the Dixie Chicks making any kind of statement about it at all as mainstream artists over there - unless i've forgotten someone equally big. that was a bit frustrating.