porieux

I have no hate for Green Day, but they wouldn't be in my top 10,000. Actually you could probably even add a zero or two to the end of that number.

auto

Let's not get ridiculous. Even knowing of them puts them in anyone's top hundred thousand.

I would say top 500. Honestly, their albums don't have much replay value for me past Insomniac. That is my favorite of their records. I liked AI but lost it and never bothered to replace it. I bought their newest and didn't care for it at all for some reason.

Hokeyboy

I would rather listen to Green Day than watch hardcore gay porn. But if I had to, I'd prefer to do both simultaneously.

dhmac

In 409,738th place.

hapgilmore

You know what, I've always and will always love that song. I remember hearing it the day Nimrod was released and thinking "this is really strange for a Green Day song", yet I loved it then and I love it now. It is a timeless ballad to me. I do wish that Green Day would have left the acoustic ballad side of them alone afterwards, however, as Wake Me Up When September Ends ranks as one of my least favorite songs of theirs. But to be fair, I do enjoy 21 Guns.

porieux

No, it doesn't. Sounds like you are way underestimating the amount of great music out there.

Tscott

In college I had a roommate who would play only Jimmy Buffett, Hank Williams, Counting Crows and Green Day's Dookie. I hated Green Day. Couldn't stand them. Would never like them.

Then as the years went by, I bought and found I could appreciate American Idiot. It's not close to being one of my favorite albums, but I get the appeal and see why others might really like it. I've also gotten International Superhits, their best of CD, and now have a select group songs I like off of there.

They're nowhere close to my top 100 bands, but I've grown to think they might be ok in small doses.

hapgilmore

Green Day = #1 band all time...there, I said it.

hapgilmore

everybody hating on them, I'd really like to know what bands you consider great (aside from the obvious, beatles, zeppelin, pink floyd, rolling stones, etc...)

Tscott

I like all the obvious you listed, except for The Rolling Stones- they just aren't my thing. And I like Siouxsie and the Banshees, They Might Be Giants, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Miles Davis, and countless female singer/songwriters like Tori Amos, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Kirstin Hersh, Juliana Hatfield, etc.

Of course, those are all my personal preferences and I personally wouldn't get too bent out of shape if someone online said they'd never place They Might Be Giants in their top 500 list of best bands.

Hokeyboy

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

auto

covenant

See, the problem is there's over a hundred obviously great bands just like the ones you listed who are better than Green Day. Which easily would drive them from any top 100 list. And this coming from someone who have been listening to them since Dookie, including the side projects.

inri222

chino77

finally lemmy posts something that isnt a lie.

Dan

Kerplunk and Insomniac are my favourite albums. I owned all of the proper albums excluding the newest one (Greatest Hits and B-sides albums don't count as "proper" IMO). They MIGHT be in my top 100, but only because I can't name 100 bands off the top of my head. They probably rank somewhere below Nirvana, but (way) above Radiohead.

UAIOE

This.

Hokeyboy

Status Quo >>> Green Day

Fist of Doom

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7Keys

I started out hating them when they hit with Basket Case. Then they started to grow on me. Then they became too pretentious and I was back to hating them.

Now, I like some random songs from pre-Dookie, Dookie, and Insomniac but that's about it.

auto

Yes, they're clearly better than Radiohead.

Dan

Bieber's better than Radiohead, man. It's not a tough accomplishment.

edit: okay, I take back the Bieber comment. That was harsh. Everything else stands.

Sean O'Hara

You want a long list of bands that are better than Green Day? Okay. This is in no particular order and off the top of my head, free association style starting at the birth of rock:

Fats Domino
Chubby Checker
B.B. King
Chuck Berry
Howlin Wolf
Elvis
Buddy Holly
Gene Vincent
Link Wray
The Sonics
The Velvet Underground
The MC5
Television
The Stooges
Patti Smith
Holly Beth Vincent
The Ramones
The Clash
Rancid
Black '47
The Pogues
Kirsty MacColl
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Loreena McKennitt
Rickie Lee Jones
Alison Moyet
The Human League
Love and Rockets
The Bauhaus
Sisters of Mercy
Nine Inch Nails
Brian Eno
Brian Ferry
Roxy Music
David Bowie
The Dresdent Dolls
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Jolie Holland
Kathleen Edwards
Whiskey Town
The Jayhawks
Old Crow Medicine Show
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Kills
The White Stripes
Loretta Lynn
Johnny Cash
Robert Johnson
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Abby Lincoln
Max Roach
Clifford Brown
Mededski Martin & Wood
The Bad Plus
The Bird and the Bee
Pink Martini
The Pipettes
The Postmarks
She & Him
April March
Keren Ann
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Air
M83
Yelle
Amelie les Crayons
Jeanne Cherhal
Pauline Croze
Olivia Ruiz
Celeste Carballo
La 5a Estacion
Volumen Cero
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Pink Floyd
Mike Oldfield
Vangelis
Jon Anderson
Yes
And motherfucking Rush who deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

And you know, I didn't even get to some of my favorite genres like dream pop, noise pop, noise core, and trip hop.

hapgilmore

This is all opinion anyways so it doesn't matter, but did you know Billie Joe was asked to join Rancid before Green Day hit it big? He turned them down, and it was obviously a great decision, because Rancid was irrelevant then and they are now. Suggesting they are better than Green Day is laughable. Just wanted to point that out.

yodavigoda

Of course personal opinions will vary, not everyone has the same taste in music. I like Green Day, but I'm okay with that fact that many others don't. What I don't really like is when people seem to dismiss a band on principle alone. I think Green Day has suffered a lot of backlash because they were a huge part of the mainstreaming of punk in the early '90s. The punk scene has always been dominated by a "punker than thou" attitude, where the biggest crimes seem to be selling out and becoming popular. A band that is popular with guys on the high school football team can't possibly be considered punk. I don't really think the labels matter anyway. Is Green Day considered punk, or pop punk, or just pop? I don't care. Green Day is no Fugazi/Minutemen/Clash/whatever, but that's doesn't mean I can't listen to all of these bands and enjoy them on their own merits.