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I'd just liek to toss my two cents out there as I used to be a big GD fan... i actually saw them on their american idiot tour (hey, everyone's gotta have that one big arena rock show, right?), which was about my last bout of enjoying them. I gave all their cds to my lil bro because i got into them around middle school, about the time warning came out.. and I really liked the cd, it being on eof my first and not knowing how badly they copped off 'picturebook' for the title track. I gave my bro these cds a good long while ago and don't think I've listened to any of them in a couple of years... i remember trying and failing.
I'd also like to say I've considered a fairly punk-persona-person :: Around the same time I ws listening to green day I was also buying dead kennedys, black flag, ramones, clash, nofx(a touch of more recent bands-but also childish and appealing to a high schooler), etc. And while I eventually figured GD were pretty damn commercial at times, and by american idiot were being marketed in such a way to appeal to all that good charollette shit ("You've heard good charollette rock the punx! Now watch the masters take control -complete with black eye liner-) and I thought it was thoroughly lame. But that crappy costume scheme aside I could still enjoy american idiot. By this time I think was a junior or senior- I'd come along way from finding a tape of dookie in an old tape player in the 7th grade and still got my kicks. But I'd soon capsize into either some kind of elitist cunt or just got bored- i think it was both. SOon bands like green day and weezer (whom i loved a lot) just didn't do it for me anymore- i took to sonic youth and the velvet underground, and such. It wasn;t that I no longer deemed GD cool, it just got broing after so many countless listenes.
In recent times I've been rekindling love for music that I had pushed away at younger days. LIke led zeppelin and such who'd i'd gotten tire dof and thought were overrated (still maybe, but good). I also fell out of punk at one point and sold a lot of cds (how i let myself get rid of fresh fruit for rotting vegetables still bothers me) and it's by far one of the most exhilirating things to still be able to enjoy my own little slice of anti-establishment-- even if i am some suburban white-kid pacifist who's never been to too many actual punk shows and has a deep seeded love for 5 minte guitar solos and jazz. HEy, who says you have to listen to punk (solely) to be a punk? I don't. Can you be a punk and listen to green day? Yea, just don't go out of your way to let anyone know.
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