Is "Green Day" just a half-A**ed version of the "Ramones"?
550187
You Insulted The Ramones Bub! Green Day is Corporate Power Pop and they've been stealing riffs from other "real" Punk bands for years! Green Day are posers and never should be considered Punk or even remotely compared to The Ramones!!
612508
I listen to the Green Day.  I'm a little more fond of their older albums, though.  American Idiot is good, don't get me wrong...I just like the classics...I guess.
962439
Regarding the term 'poseur'...Here's a hint. The more sophisticated crowd avoids using the term 'poseur'.  F.y.i., I'm not slamming you for saying 'poseur', though.\n\nGreenday may not be the Ramones, but, hey, for a modern band, they have stuck around for a long time (a decade, at least?) and that's an achievement in itself. Also, they continue to make music that's way better than what most modern rock bands make. How many bands today make hugely successful songs like Basket Case - and still continue to make quality albums like American Idiot?\n\nFor advice, I'd take the words (I don't know the source, but I heard the words a long time ago) of veteran band, Depeche Mode...'We make music for ourselves and hope that others like it.' \n\nAs for critics…Screw the critics. Look at Prince. He has as many critics as he has fans - yet he stays true to his music and image. Now he is a highly accomplished multi-talented musician.
1041333
Yes, schools today teach a class on Sh*tty Music Appreciation 101 as a prerequisite of graduation.  Why the hell is Greenday still around?  I hated them in 10th grade and they suck worse than ever 12 years later.
1059191
Yeah but it's not the people from green day who run it.
157379
Categorizing music from today's culture seems to become harder and harder with the release of each album.  We hear terms like "Country Rock, Adult Alternative, and Gangster Rap."  Every time you place a label on an album or artist someone else comes up with another label.\n\nAs for Green Day, given the two options you posted I would have to say Alternative Rock is the best fit.  Punk rock tends to have less vocals and strains more on the bands skills.  Alternative music consists of more rhythmic vocals and tunes.\n\nHope that helps.
52524
Greenday was my favorite band in the mid-90s or so, but I still like the current music. Of course it's not exactly the same style. Bands have to be allowed to evolve however they feel. I think the only way they can be seen as posers is that they have kept a some of their old habits which they have outgrown.
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I'd have to say Operation Ivy by a long shot for me, but it depends on your preferences. Operation Ivy is almost an acquired taste and most people love them (me) or just don't care for them. They have a much faster harder hitting sound, whereas Green Day is more like pop punk (and although most pseudo-punks will think I mean that as an insult but I don't, it's just a different genre, and not always a bad one). Green Day's older music was good but not Operation Ivy good. Although I admit I'm a little prejudiced because I love Operation Ivy so much.
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so do you hate green day because they are fake punk? or because they generally are just boring and overrated?\n\nbecause im confused, on how you can dislike a band for some people calling them punk when in your opinion, they arent. maybe you would find it easier to like them if you just listened to the music instead of comparing them to what some people lable them as.\n\ni dont like green day, their new stuff it incredibly repetative, not original in the least and quite frankly very boring to listen to. they are (imo) very overrated and clog up peoples minds to thinking that there is no band better than them when there are so many bands which deserve the credit instead.
393515
nooo but that would be sooo cool!!! i love greenday!!\nthey rock!!!!
347456
YEAH! lol THEY'RE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah green day is my FAVORITE band...my friends tell me that I'm obsessed with them
357219
I love Green Day 2. Some ppl on here a fucking stupid arent they?(and yes FOB is a bad excuse for a band.)
203690
I like Green Day.  I don't think they are Royalty, but I do love their music.
133623
green day is an awesome band, but they were better a while back!  one of the reasons american idiot was produced was b- cause when warning was out CD sells dropped so low! b4 warning was out there other CD's were awesome, but american idiot just doesn't have the same feel that cd's like dookie... nimrod... and all the other good green day cd's that there are! but i like american idiot 2!everything on it is pretty good! :)
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GREEN DAY!!!!!! Ok, now for the "because" part: Punk rock is an awesome music genre and Green Day is one of the founding fathers of it. Ok, maybe not but Green Day gave punk rock its status in the world. From the classics from Nimrod and Dookie to the overly played hits from American Idiot, Green Day excells in their music, period.
116461
Green Day is the damn best band ever exist.
1164485
This is sad but I am 44 years old and I really like GreenDay. I liked them when they first came out.they are the 70s punk band of the 2000s. Their songs have alot of meaning if you listen to them.