Green Day Billie Joe freaks out at the I Heart Radio Music Festival

NathanPrior said:

Garrymanilow said:

NathanPrior said:

They've moved away from the political side since 2009, opinion = invalid

Doesn't change the fact the political stuff was silly now does it. Doesn't change the fact I liked them until they did it. Silly lad

But doesn't everyone do that at one point? U2 are still doing it (bunch of c*nts they are), Morrisey is still a major twat for doing it.

I'm not a fan of those either, but I just always enjoyed Green Day for the fun and the silliness. Simple songs, simple themes, simple pleasures

clearly an act- it's them trying to get back into the spotlight for being punk. For the record I was a big fan but they changed after Dookie

Met them years ago on the Dookie tour (I was bar manager at one of the (tiny) venues they were playing literally weeks before they exploded). They were really nice guys - no bullshit primadonna crap at all. This is just a publicity stunt.

Leroy Ambrose said:

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NathanPrior said:

Karim_myBagheri said:

I bet I know who their biggest fan is....

It just annoys me when people don't back up their so called "facts"

I've been listening to Green Day since literally before you were born Nathan. EA is right - they haven't made a good album since Nimrod and Insomniac. So, actually, longer than ten years. The two albums after that had four or five good songs on them, since then they have been laughably poor.

I'd agree with that. Warning had its moments but as a whole album it was disappointing. I found American Idiot mostly embarrassing

What an utter Twat

I like em, nothing like a good tantrum to sell a few records though

kentaddick said:

After the mediocre American Idiot I tuned out to Green Day. Just think they've become everything they were against when they started, just 3 middle aged men wearing make up and playing mediocre new songs along with their old hits.

Sad that he has a problem, but haven't rated them for a while.

Can't argue with that. Pretty much the same for me..........

Did anyone else feel like they were watching WWE?

colthe3rd said:

JaShea99 said:

Great example of why I'm so glad we finally seem to have moved on from the whole indie/rock/whatever you wanna call it THIS YEAR craze that seems to have dominated the mainstream music industry for the last decade. Absolute moron.

As opposed to the terrible electronic music that is being churned out at the moment?

What is electronic music?

Needs a good slap.

Algarveaddick said:

Still, rather hear him ranting than usher perform.

agree with that ... I think he had a good point

Draizetrain said:

Cringeworthy. The multi-millionaire middle aged rock star throwing a hissy fit to show `the kids' how he stands with them in their collective fight against `the man'.
I imagine 10 minutes later as he sat in the back of his limo chatting to his accountant he'd forgotten all about it.

Green Day = For many years now musically irrelevent, tedious, bloated, corporate America, money making machine....it happens to a lot of 'em.

Summed up perfectly

I get the impression that a lot of people have turned against them simply because of the change of direction since American Idiot. I wonder how the critical acclaim would have fared if it was their first album? They've churned out a lot of hits since then.

I'm not a massive fan, they're OK - Gotta give them credit for reinventing themselves though. A lot of bands get stick for doing that sort of thing, but everybody grows out of different styles of songwriting.