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Post by Zos on May 3, 2021 9:55:47 GMT
Laughable plastic copy of "punk". I'm with Lydon on his views on the band. Mind you it's always those that take other's ideas, water it down and make it bland and acceptable to the masses that get rich. Punk's very own "Vanilla Ice"
Sorry, but I hear no correlation whatsoever to Vanilla Ice. There's so many changes in a single Green Day song, to deny them any respect as songwriters seems to be a stinky patriot call born of the usual nothing. Don't mean to be rude here, just my honest opinion regarding the musical topic at hand.
'Basket Case'
No, you miss my point, I meant that Vanilla Ice is to rap what Green Day are to Punk. A watered down acceptable version. Music to annoy your parents just a little bit. A safe middle class revolution. It wasn't supposed to be an attack on them, I am sure they are very skilled at what they do. I just find it depressing when originators of styles are left in poverty and obscurity largely whilst those that follow up with bland, acceptable to the masses versions inevitably become rich and famous.
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Post by petrolino on May 8, 2021 4:14:35 GMT
Sorry, but I hear no correlation whatsoever to Vanilla Ice. There's so many changes in a single Green Day song, to deny them any respect as songwriters seems to be a stinky patriot call born of the usual nothing. Don't mean to be rude here, just my honest opinion regarding the musical topic at hand.
'Basket Case'
No, you miss my point, I meant that Vanilla Ice is to rap what Green Day are to Punk. A watered down acceptable version. Music to annoy your parents just a little bit. A safe middle class revolution. It wasn't supposed to be an attack on them, I am sure they are very skilled at what they do. I just find it depressing when originators of styles are left in poverty and obscurity largely whilst those that follow up with bland, acceptable to the masses versions inevitably become rich and famous.
You're right. I just don't see where you're coming from. I honestly never met a single Green Day fan in all my years who listened to them to anger middle-class mummy-daddy, and that's the truth. Even goths I knew who liked hearing them in clubs. I think many people just thought they wrote great pop singles and had something about them.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on May 10, 2021 20:01:01 GMT
Grew up and subsequently grew out of them. I got Dookie on cassette Xmas 1994; saw them live on the American Idiot tour in 2005 and have a whole lot of good memories with their music between. I still have a massive amount of affection for their '90s work (and really, anything up to and including 21st Century Breakdown) but they've been in an endless rut for the last decade now. That last album of theirs is unlistenable and sounds like a midlife crisis put to tape.
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Post by petrolino on May 15, 2021 3:53:53 GMT
Belinda Carlisle's son is nicknamed Dookie. Surely no coincidence,.
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