Green Day Discography 1 - 10,000 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours

It's time for another full discography. However, this one will be controversial. This is my Green Day. Everything after American Idiot is a different band. I don't feel like i have to defend that statement. I don't dislike current Green Day, i just don't care about their last 3 albums. Maybe in 20 more years i will?

Dookie is there in spirit, my CD is currently hiding. Probably somewhere unpleasant.

Johnny Rotten thought Green Day were weasley little posers, but i think Public Image Ltd. was a terrible band, and the one Sex Pistols album isn't fun, even for me, the guy who can learn to like anything. Nobody's going to win that coin toss, 'cause listening to Lydon's opinions on anything is like desperately trying to forget that you said the opposite thing a year ago. Rotten says whatever thing will make the person he's talking to confused and upset, that's his character, he wants to be centrist compared to whichever bias you throw at him and he's counting on you not actually listening to him. He's just a walking attitude trying to get you to actually do what you yourself believe. Respectable, but annoying as hell.

So, Johnny Rotten can suck eggs. Here comes the ham. That's a Dr. Seuss joke.

Their first album is actually their first 3 EPs compiled into one album. It sounds like it was written by teenagers because it was written by teenagers. Keeping that in mind it's quite enjoyable. The songs get better with each album, but they thankfully stay completely emotionally juvenile throughout. The Ramones didn't want to grow up, and Green Day said us neither, poop jokes and sad break ups and sarcasm 'til we're 40 and start wearing eyliner like we're teenagers going through a Robert Smith phase. How can you not like these irascibly mopey little snot-rags as much as Letterman did?

2 - Kerplunk!

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