American Idiot On Broadway--Green Day Killed Punk Rock? - Comments

whoa guys. i just got back on my journal. i didnt intend on fighting to happen. green day is my favorite band and im proud of them even if they did kill punk rock. they're still punk rock bands out there, green day grew up. i mean how old are they? 37 now? they gotta change their style. their new album is amazing to me and opened me up to them more because i stopped listening to them for a while. just please no more fighting? >.< <3

Missand
I totally agree with you.
Punk's like not caring about anything. And the music was fast, mostly upbeat, and 3 chords.

v True that. Green Day may have started out rather punk, but they're not now. Doesn't mean they've "sold out," though...they've changed. They've grown older, from some teenagers that went around in a tiny car, their instruments in their laps, to men in their late-thirties, with children and different ideas for the music they make, and different ways of going about making it. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Green Day themselves have admitted that they've changed, but they'll also argue the "selling out" opinion. I remember, whenever a "fan" would get up in their face about it at shows, Mike would just shrug and say "Do you want to talk about it?" And he'd go away with the fan and talk about it, and calm them down. I can dig it.

What new stuff are you meaning that could never be considered punk?

Punk used to be this thing where people didn't give a crap if you had two heads or were pink with purple spots. Now people have to sound a certain way, be a certain way to be considered punk?

Thats seriously wrong.

Sainthood.... What is selling out?

You've changed with time. You've grown up from a tiny kid, paying with dolls and such and going through the phases. Isn't that the same as selling out?

I hate punk rock fans. They're the ones who have killed punk rock- not the bands.

Just your everyday alternative rock

v What would you consider their new stuff than? Just asking.

*sigh* once again, they might have been punk back in the day, but the stuff they are coming out with now can in no way be considered punk

Really? They aren't punk anymore? Just cause they changed? They are the ones who brought punk back when it was dying. Am I the only one who knows anything about that?

hahahaha, Green Day may have been punk back in the day,
but they sure are not punk today.

Whether they killed punk or not, I have no opinion.

Anyways, they didn't kill punk they just did something that's never been done before and combined two completely different worlds.

sainthood. True, but I meant more like when Bush came in.

I think anyone who expects a band to be the same for over twenty years needs to realize no one is ever the same for twenty years and does the same thing for twenty years and then likes the same things for twenty years.

I mean, how boring.

JimmySullivan
Bands have been writing their opinions on politics for years. Ergo, Sex Pistols.

Green Day are not sellouts. Music in general has changed a lot. As they got older and grew up their music started to change a little. Green Day was and always will be punk. They have changed, but it was more of them maturing and talking about bigger things, than selling out, or something. They've always wrote about what they wanted. Green Day was the first band to really start writing about politics when things started getting bad, they did it when everyone else was afraid to, and I think that's pretty punk.

From what I've heard it sounds like an amazing musical I wish I could see it but I'm stuck all the way over in England.

Well, green day isn't punk rock anymore, so they can't really kill it =P. I think people should stop focusing on what Green Day used to be. They're not anymore, they changed, and that's cool. :]

Green Day did kill punk rock.
IMHO, anyways.

They were good, they sold out, got boring, killed punk rock.