Green Day Band • Page 9

Ooooh. The first three songs, No Pride, Stuart, Brain Stew. All extremely catchy. Dookie is a super hooky album too but the hooks (and songs) haven't stuck with me as much. In fact, the only Dookie songs I actually love are Pulling Teeth and Basket Case.

 

The only one of those where I can remember the hook off the top of my head is "Brain Stew."

This is kind of shocking to me. I mean, just look at the Dookie tracklist. "Welcome to Paradise," "Longview," "When I Come Around," "She," "Basket Case." Those songs are undeniable. I think there's a reason that album landed so many songs on the radio and Insomniac struggled to do the same.

 

I think the first four you named are my four least favorite songs on the album, haha. I still think the album is great, but I don't love it the way I do some of their other material.

Seriously, though...Pulling Teeth is a highly underrated song.

 

You are weird. How can you not like those songs and like Green Day at all? Especially "When I Come Around"?

EDIT: Definitely agree about "Pulling Teeth" though. That song is great.

 

Although, I really like Dookie....Nimrod was a game changer for me. My favorite GD album.

 

Dookie will always be my favorite simply because it was the first CD I ever bought. I remember my friends and I listening to it non stop. I also remember watching the music videos to Basket Case, When I Come Around and Longview on MTV that summer in 1994. Good times.

 

Dookie was probably one of the first two or three albums I ever registered in full. I had my brother make me a cassette tape copy of it when I was like five.

 

Dookie and Smash are both responsible for getting me so into music, particularly punk rock and all of its iterations. Green Day got me into several of my other favorite bands, so I've always gravitated to them.

 

Even though Green Day have gone on to become this musical making behemoth and Offspring have gone on to be a band who are basically just known for making joke songs. Ignition, Smash and Ixnay will always be held in higher regard to me than anything Green Day have done. Kerplunk, Dookie and Insomniac all are right up there though.

 

I hope you didn't understand Longview lol

 

I certainly did not, but I'm still pretty shocked my mom was okay with me having that album. Maybe she never heard that song.

 

I remember skipping back to "She" sooooo much back when I first got that record

 

The longer songs are just boring to me. I don't dislike them, but they're just there. I've always thought the popular Dookie songs were the weakest.

 

I actually get how you can be bored by "Longview." I think that song goes on for a bit too long (pun intended). But "When I Come Around" is under three minutes, bro!

 

Is it really? Haha oops. It feels so much longer than that. I don't think they pull off the mid tempo song particularly successfully there. I don't know what it is about the song other than the melodies not really drawing me in.

 

I listened to 21CB during my long drive today. I dunno, it's a pretty alright album, but it's super long and unfocused. there are some things in the songwriting that just strike me as lazy, plus the story's still just about impossible for me to follow. That said, I do still enjoy it. The middle "act" is by far the best IMO.

 

That's crazy, ha. I think that's one of the best melodies in the discography, and the first I remember latching on to. I'd put it right up there with "Basket Case."

 

It's gotta be my least favorite melody on the album. That or Longview. I like the hooks in every other song waaaay more.

 

I think we have very different ideas of what constitutes a good hook.

 

I think it's too long in that I don't listen to it that often just because it's a lot to take in at once...but it doesn't really drag for me, and I don't know what I would cut, other than maybe "Christian's Inferno."

 

I'd cut Christian's Inferno, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, and 21 Guns easily. I don't really think it needs Know Your Enemy either. Cut those four songs and write a better closer, and the album improves dramatically.

 

"21 Guns" is fucking great and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Also love "Know Your Enemy." "Horseshoes" is a weaker track, but I wouldn't get rid of it. "See the Light" used to feel like a weak closer to me, but doesn't anymore.

 

How could you ever cut "21 Guns"? That song is stellar.

 

Ugh, 21 Guns is probably their worst huge single ever. It drags on so long and is just boring. I can't stand Horseshoes, hated it since day one. The chorus of See the Light kills it for me, don't like the repetition of the same melody four times and the lyrics are too cheesy/simplistic. Know Your Enemy is my favorite song of the four, but it obviously suffers a lot from repetition too.