Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Anonymous
Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicRock and Pop · 1 decade ago

Anyone else think Green Day sucks now?

Anyone else think Green Day sucks now?

Once, they were punk and bad-***.

But with this sob-story crap like 'Wake Me When September Ends' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' starts showing up on their records, I suspect a change.

Does anyone think they're an emo band now, or have at least lost their punk-edge.

Scenester, perhaps?

After all, when Green Day is unoffensive enough to be played on 'family friendly' radio stations and in retail stores...it ain't punk anymore!

21 Answers

Relevance
  • Favorite Answer

    Loved them in the 90's, dookie was one of the greatest albums of all time. Bullet in A Bible wasn't TOO bad, some of the songs were ok. But I can't stand the new stuff.

  • vock
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Green Day Sucks

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't.

    They totally don't suck now.

    They grew up. Everyone has to at some point.

    And really. You said, "When Green Day is unoffensive enough to be played on 'family friendly' radio stations and in retail stores...it ain't punk anymore!"?????

    WAL-MART STOPPED SELLING 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT IT HAS TOO BAD OF A MEANING. Lost their punk-edge? I don't think so.

    "Sob-story crap showing up on their records like BOBD and WMUWSE"???? Wake Me Up When September Ends is about Billie Joe's dead father. How would you like it if your father died and you were sad so you wrote a song about it and some kid started bashing you because it "wasn't punk enough"???

    Really.

    Green Day doesn't suck.

    They're just doing what they think is best for them, and if you were a real Green Day fan, you'd like ALL of Green Day's songs and albums, both old and new.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I'm not a big fan of that genre so I can't judge it, but I like "Wake me up".. when their last album came out they became pretty popular and there were several hits. But they're mostly a highly publicized band, just like Nickelback. The only punk song I can remember liking is "God Save the Queen" by Sex Pistols. Good song.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 1 decade ago

    Of course their older songs were better, but as they get older, the music has to change. Songs like 'Longview' (about masturbation) tends to be the subject of songs when musicians are young, but not when they are in their mid-thirties. The same thing happens with all bands all start off young. Their music has to mature at some stage, and this is Green Days'. The music is still good, however, their best, classic songs are those on 'International Superhits'.

    If you don't like the music, don't listen to it, nobody is forcing you to.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I liked both Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends. And just because their music is available in retail stores doesn't make them any less punk because last time I checked punk did not equal saying "f*** this b****" in every other lyric.

    If you want that, I suggest you go to the Rap section of your local music shop.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    your confused dude..

    were in the world is it wrong to write a song about your fathers death.....

    wake me up when september ends is a bad *** song. . .the guitar and drams in that song are just so amazing

    a punk song doesn't have to have a hole bunch of bad words in it, it just has to rock hard!!!!

    I love every single one of Green days songs no matter what, that's what a fan is a person who will stick by there band no matter what, through thick and thin!!!!!

    Green Day doesn't need a fan like you....go like a different band!!!!

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I miss Brain Stew, Burnout, Basket Case, and even Minority... Now we have the emo "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and "Oh Love".

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    woooow

    Wake Me Up When September Ends was about Billie's dad who died when he was 10

    you should just go die in a hole

    green day are THE BEST BAND EVER

    AND THE BEST BAND THERE EVER WILL BE

    GO SCREW YOURSELF YOU NIMROD

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I really only like Dookie. Other then that, they've never been good. Billie Joe Armstrong is a douche.

    LOL at the girl below me.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.