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"Recommend some Green Day"

Haven't heard any albums of them, starting to get into them. Can anyone recommend some decent tracks off various albums. Danke

Very_Metal wrote:
> *Highly Excitable* wrote:
> 'Tis another good point.
>
> But you would imagine the band get a decent say in the matter,
> wouldn't you?
>
> you'd IMAGINE so, but that's really part of the mystique of a job
> such as theirs. people assume it to be stress free, self dictated and
> lots of fun.
>
> it isn't. they're employees and they have people ot answer to the
> same as the rest of us. they just get paid lots more :D

Actually. Alot of bands don't. Where as bands like Greenday (*cough*sellouts*cough*), do make alot.

*Highly Excitable* wrote:
> 'Tis another good point.
>
> But you would imagine the band get a decent say in the matter,
> wouldn't you?

you'd IMAGINE so, but that's really part of the mystique of a job such as theirs. people assume it to be stress free, self dictated and lots of fun.

it isn't. they're employees and they have people ot answer to the same as the rest of us. they just get paid lots more :D

I have most of Green Day's past albums, they're all good, some more than others tho'. But yeah go for the older albums, highly recommended.

Basket case
Time of Your Life
Minority
Waiting
Warning
Brain Stew

They are my favourite Green Day songs.

'Tis another good point.

But you would imagine the band get a decent say in the matter, wouldn't you?

it's a good point about the top of the pops thing.
but you have you realise that even a band of green days level still have management and record labels to answer to. they may get a little more creative freedom for their albums, but it's ultimately about advances, returns and profits. if management says that you're going to play TOTP while you're in the UK, then by cracky that's what you're going to be doing.

Playing Top Of The Pops is though...

EDIT: Hehe, Metallica indeed.

*Highly Excitable* wrote:
> It's true.
>
> They're sellouts if I ever saw some :-(

*points at Metallica*

Emitime wrote:
> Well how many Greenday fans actually liked it?
>
> Not alot.

that's pure speculation.
some liked it, some didn't. some were already fans, some weren't.

> How many people who had never heard of Greenday before it was
> released,

there can't have been many people for whom "american idiot" was their first experience of Green Day.

>and now who DOESN'T know who they are?

good grief.
so by your rationale, selling out is when people have heard of you.
surely that's just the marketing/PR departments doing their jobs?

It's true.

They're sellouts if I ever saw some :-(