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

claims

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

1. green day are more american (despite fake accent) than yall are able to appreciate.
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'.

Re: claims

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

that's more like the 'everyone' who had a copy of 'the chronic' than the 'everyone' who had a copy of 'nevermind'.