Green Day is Corporate Filth (578 hits)
Category: Sound & MusicRating: -1.6 on 27 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Matt Bachman <matthew-bachman.at.uiowa.edu> (View user info) at 2006-01-19 22:27:59 EST
GREEN DAY IS CORPORATE FILTH
B4 I get to my headline piece exerpt from a formitable punk blogger, I'd like to show you the categories of Green Day fans:
1) The Fags
2) The Liberals
3) The Liberal-Pop-Culture-Fags
4) The Hardcore I-Hate-God Fags
Mysteriously abscent are punks. Green Day still calls itself punk.
"Now, you probably know that I like Green Day. And I do. But Green Day Fans, as they call themselves, are morons. 80f the people who say that they like this band own no green day albums, stole an American Idiot button from a convenience store, downloaded 'American Idiot' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' (their two worst songs) off the internet after hearing them on the radio, and have the handle 'I dah bige5t grenday fan evahr! LOL! I <333stupidboyfriend/girlfriend. che iz mah hero.' The fourteen-year-old I'm describing always knows some 27-year-old with crazy hair who dresses all in black, lives in his parents' basement, and quotes Edgar Allan Poe and advocates gnosticism and socialism and a bunch of other things that all contradict each other and uses big words that they don't understand. Their psuedo-punk friends (There are two types of punks: psuedo-punks who listen to green day and sum 41, and stupidrodupasssyndrome-punks who listen to the sex pistols and rancid and spend their life writing on web logs about how much they hate psuedo-punks) are why they like Green Day, and then they ask their psuedo-philosophical/intellectual friend on the internet what American Idiot is about. They hear that it's anti-Bush, and so they hop on a political bandwagon, knowing nothing about pre-2002 Iraq politics, or The Patriot Act. After that, they watch half an hour of a Michael Moore movie and the back of a Michael Moore book, and the normal stupid teenager and Green Day fan is born.
This is when they find me on the Internet, add me to their list, and argue with me for ten minutes before going 'w-' when they don't understand big words like 'then' or 'the', and mock me because they, based on my vocabulary, assumed that I have a big Ego.
Getting rid of freedom of speech does not help this problem. In a free society, things like capitalism would be an absolute, and so would free speech, but things like foreign policy will always be up to an election. How do we prevent bands like REM from deciding whether it's okay to take a Nazi-like dictator out of power? Stop giving the owners of colleges a legal obligation to hire leftist professors, free the market, and while idiots will still be 'free' to advocate idiocy, they will have no financial potential to do so, because their natural inefficiency will lead to this.
Now, Bush is a moron, but not for defending his country, not for defending all our countries, and not for having an unrealistic and rather silly campaign against the French, who didnt go in simply because Saddam owed them money.
Bush is a moron because his lack of an ability to use English, and an Orwellian bill I call 'TPA'. Now, he's probably a smidgen better than Kerry or Gore would have been, but hell, I have a feeling I won't be the only one advocating Michael Badnarik come 2008, and no band told me to do that."
--Derek B. (Another uber user...I hope he doesn't mind me exerpting this)
---
The Status of Punk in this Day and Age:
WTF. I'm listening to this punk station and they're playing Green Day...I'll give them credit that it's some of their older stuff, but I still have some reasons why I think that they aren't that good...and why most of their fans just fucking suck:
1) I really used to be a fan...then they put out "American Idiot"--a clever move hoping to earn them $$. They should have called it "American Puppet."
2) All they are doing is trying to pander to the skepticism that has been following them around for years in real punk circles that they aren't really punk when they're making like 10 million dollars a goddamn cd.
3) Along with #1, how the fuck could you make so much money off of a cd based around how much your country sucks (overused line) and how much the president sucks (overused line...by retards) and he's 'holding you down' or something like that, and stand to look at yourself as a punk anymore?? GREEN DAY IS CORPORATE FILTH.
---
My Day:
Wow, today ever been one hell of a long day--I've started waking up at seven o'clock in the morning to eat before each day's eight-thirty class. And so, from very early on in the day, I am quite tired. I don't know if, or when, this is going to stop, but this does give a reason to why I didn't go to all of my classes last semester. I always thought I was just in one of my phases or something.
I went to all my classes today...well, all the classes that it was feasible for me to go to at least. See, to retake two courses over again and maintain pace with some of the rest of the pre-pharmacy student body, I had to double up in a matter of speaking. I had to OVERLAP lectures twice; I have both a Princ. of Chem. I and a Princ. of Chem. II lecture simultaneously, as is the case with Princ. of Biology I and Calculus for the Biological Sciences. Obviously, I'm not going to be able to go to all of these, and so I have decided to go to Princ. of Chem II and Princ. of Biology I at the expense of the other classes.
I hope that I can maintain a 4.0 this semester--it's been something that I'm certainly capable of, but I've always slacked at the first opportune moment and fucked it all up. Back when I was in Ankeny, I found out that my parents read this letter that I'm on academic probation, and I had to add to my "List of Reasons Why I Am a Failure." I can't decide on a major and keep that decision; I can't apply myself; My parents don't like that I smoke. And so on.
User Reviews
Submitted by olivia_tremor_control (user info) at 2006-01-20 22:45:12 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
i dont even like green day, but grow up
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-01-20 00:15:18 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by HawthorneHeights (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:53:38 (#)
Ranking: 1
I agree, Green Day sucks about as much dick as a Vietnamese hooker on Thursdays. What really gets to me is that their is only X amount of three chord songs you can come out with... ironically Green Day has about X + 58.
Green Day sucks.....
Faggots.
--------
HAHAHAHAHHA...does your mom know you're on the computer this late?
-----------
author - stop fucking posting
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2006-01-20 00:08:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
You mean Billy has a kid?
wtf, man...
What's happens to a kid when he grows up with a dad that wears eyeliner?
Submitted by HawthorneHeights (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:53:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I agree, Green Day sucks about as much dick as a Vietnamese hooker on Thursdays. What really gets to me is that their is only X amount of three chord songs you can come out with... ironically Green Day has about X + 58.
Green Day sucks.....
Faggots.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:47:25 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Holy fuck batman. This may be the most poorly written thing on the internet!
TEST  TEST
Submitted by AlexorGM (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:44:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
green day sucks now
they didn't used to
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:42:52 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:37:36 (#)
Ranking: -2
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:37:58 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Oh son of a bitch this motherfucker's from Iowa.
I hope you're an out-of-state student so my state can glean as much off of your stupidity as possible.
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:37:36 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:33:28 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
hahaha
That's usually my line, Snark.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:27:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Do I have to put up those tool lyrics yet again?
Hooker with a Penis.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:16:26 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I sat upon the throne tonight
And rocked both back and forth
Forcing out the turtle head
That recently had poked
From out my hairy asshole
Seeking freedom from within
And as I caught my musk and scent
I couldn't help but grin
Then I heard a plop and felt
My bowels force loose the log
Down I looked and shuddered
Taken back by what I saw
Yes, I saw my baby born
Of shit and corn and beef
But it had one other thing
That brought me no relief
There on its torpedo tip
I saw your wretched face
So I flushed you down at once
And put you in your place
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:09:27 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Skimmed your post.
You sound like just as big a turd as the 14-year-olds listening to Green Day now who have no concept of what they did back in the 80s and early 90s. Granted they'll never be anything more than a Clash-wannabe, but hey, if they want to sell out and make millions of dollars and fuck exotic women that's their business. Can you say you'd do differently?
If you could put out the best punk album in the world, with no one to buy it, would you really waste the effort?
Submitted by RobertHand (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:08:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
The only reason I didn't bust out laughing is because this is the fifth or sixth time I've read something exactly like this so far this year.
Submitted by MrCoffee (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:07:50 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
B4 = -2 DIE
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:02:19 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I should point out the -2 is entirely directed at the post itself, not the Green Day bashing. I've seen posts attacking things I like that were done well. This is definitely not one of those instances.
Submitted by GuinnessSince1759 (user info) at 2006-01-19 23:00:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I don't really care about Greend Day's music. But I went to the same school as Billy's kid so fuck you. Your just some hater probably from Iowa or something. Good day.
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:56:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I love Green Day.
I love Bad Religion.
I love Descendents.
I like some Clash.
Sex Pistols blow.
I love Ramones.
I like some underground punk bands you never heard of and you like some underground punk bands I never heard of. Fuck all of this "you're not punk/I'm anti-establishment" bullshit. Who really cares? Honestly. Do you really have to live a "punk rock" bohemian lifestyle to enjoy it? Fuck that, I'll stick to my cubicle job while I listen to Green Day and Misfits back to back.
If you've gotten a band's CD without buying it directly from the band members, chances are they've "sold out" by definition, even if they're part of an indie label. And for the record, the basic structure of Green Day songs hasn't changed all that much from 39/Smooth to American Idiot (except for Warning, the experimental-ish album). What has changed is the sound quality, production of the CD's. It comes with better studios that bigger labels give their bands access to. I'll take it.
I could go on with this incoherent rant, but I feel retarded enough for having read a post that sounds like it was written by a 13-year-old "punk" kid that tries to get money from me on the street.
Submitted by Jacobt26 (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:44:33 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
B4 I get to my headline piece exerpt from a formitable punk blogger, I'd like to show you the categories of Green Day fans:
_________________________________________________________________________________________
B4.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another -2 for this.
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:42:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Welcome to uber.
now fuck off.
Submitted by CrazyHorse (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:42:12 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Wow....uh...You seem to have a problem with Green Day....
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:41:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Wow. Just when I think there couldn't possibly be another post about the pros and/or cons of Green Day, someone proves me wrong.
I'm a bit of a rock snob, yet I don't have very strong feelings about Green Day either way. Odd, that.
Submitted by Jacobt26 (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:40:13 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Green Day sucks, this post sucks, you suck.
Submitted by Tubabuhst_01 (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:38:59 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You suck at life, I suggest you quit.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:35:29 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:31:21 (#)
Ranking: -2
i hate greenday.
i hate you just as much.
-2DIE.
bitch.
-----------------------------------------------
I couldnt have said it better myself
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:34:18 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:31:21 (#)
Ranking: -2
i hate greenday.
i hate you just as much.
-2DIE.
bitch.
________________
pretty much nailed it.
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-01-19 22:31:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
i hate greenday.
i hate you just as much.
-2DIE.
bitch.