Is there something wrong with me?

Hi, my name is SteveStrummer, I'm 46 years old and I like listening to Green Day .....


And not just to embarrass my kids.


Most of their albums can be found in my record collection.


Is there something wrong with me?

yes

ORIGINAL: jamesg1213

Now go and buy a 'Best of Stiff Little Fingers' album and stop being so silly.

He he - great advice mate!

Unfortunately I have most of (especially) their early stuff on LP and (remastered) CD - Inflammable Material would be in my top 20 fave albums of all time and Nobody's Heroes wouldn't be far away either!

You knew that though...

Didn't you!!

D'Oh!!

Hook, line and sinker.

I still like Green Day all the same

Green day...never heard of them...

But alot of stuff I listen to embarrasses my kids....too bad...

My daughters have turned me on to some really good stuff..... I put it on my Ipod....... and I have introduced them to some older stuff that they like too.

I've got a few years on you, Steve, and I like Green Day too. And POTUSA(at least their first album. Kitty, Little blue dune buggy, hey that's some fun stuff). I even like Filter, and that guy is whacked.
But I've also spent some delightful evenings treating my daughter to Ambrosia, early Journey, Jan Luc Ponte', Uriah Heep.
It's all good. I think we are all about a quarter bubble off anyway.

Green Day is one of the younger bands in recent years that caught my ear the first time I heard them a few years back. They had that 'something special'.

I was watching Chris Isaak's musical interview TV show this past week. He was interviewing Glenn Campbell. Glenn ended the show with a performance of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" along with Chris' band. A bit of a surprise, and a great song.

Steve, Listen to what your ears like nohing wrong in that.

ORIGINAL: rsp@odyssey.net

American Idiot is a great record in my opinion, and I'm older than you Steve. I like alot of Green Days stuff. I never got to play any of their stuff back in my performing days, but I did play Good Riddance (I hope you had the time of your life) at my Fathers funeral about 5 years ago. My aunt requested the song without knowing the actual title, and she is a saint of a woman, so I played and sang it at his gravesite with just the family around. We had a portrait of Dad sitting on his mothers tombstone, and as I finished the last chord, a breeze came up on what had been a calm day, and blew his portrait on to the ground. Everyone was absolutely frozen in place for about 5 long seconds. I finally looked down at the portrait, and said "I knew I'd get you to a gig eventually". To this day, I get a nice warm feeling whenever I hear that song on the radio.

Randy

Wow Randy thats a great story, made me wish I'd taken a guitar to my folks funeral's. Maybe I'll take it next time I go to visit and clean their headstone. Mum always liked my music, Dad was kind but didn't understand it - Thanks

Some of Green Days stuff is good - my kids used to listen to it. However, I do object to them being called a "punk" band. If this is punk, our culture is already down the tubes.

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ORIGINAL: Fog

ORIGINAL: The Kiosk Project
That reminds me, I must renew my S-Club-7 fanclub membership........

reminda me of years ago when I was with a girlfriend, one of their videos was on tv.. and my girlfriend at the time (who turned out to be a mentalist). asked me which one if I had to date one would I go out with..

obviously... most people would say Rachel Stevens

but me.. I chose the other one.. *looks up her name*
Tina Barrett

you know a band isn't cool if my dad knows who they are... and he knew all the BS manufactored bands in the charts back then. Although he thought Simon Cowell was a music maker and they spend 5 minutes knocking out the tunes.. I kinda explained that wasnt' the case.

Mentalist huh? That is really cool.
Could she see the future? Or could she bend things using only her mind?

i cant wiat till im 50 years old and listening to green day, Rock on and rock hard

Well I get a kick from the Blue Man Group.....I really like all colors.

Fog,

was she blonde? I seemed to date only psycho blondes. I finally got over it by marrying one. ;-) Keeps life interesting.

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Fog,

interesting to think how others see you. But the few times I've been privleged to to listen in to a girltalk I was amazed at how gross and sexist it was. As bad as any locker room - and only about as much kidding about the opposite sex. Pretty funny stuff.

As far as dark girls, the last two I dated before marriage were as messed up as any blonde. One, as my (male) roomate observed - "the harder you kick her away the more she comes back." I don't know what she saw in me - I don't even try to pretend I am up to the standards she saw in me. The other - she is a pretty sucessful actress (she makes a living in theater and TV, anyway). Smart as a whip but spacey as all hell. Her ability at cognitive dissonance was amazing. She kept sending me stuff about Afghan women suffering under the Taliban, then after the US went in just as quickly switched to the No War mass e-mailings. I don't really know (and suppose she didn't, either, for that matter) how one is supposed to get a medievel theocracy to change their treatment of women other than getting rid of them, but such a condrum didn't seem to bother her at all. And it didnt' do any good to point such out. I suppose I'm not one to talk and am as freakish in aspects to others, but we managed to stay friends (though I have to pay a wifegeld for it).

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