12-23-2005, 06:07 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Blyth, UK - its a weird place but I was born and bred here so I've got to love it.
Posts: 44
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Originally Posted by rockandrose
"Green Day are a cartoon. They are The Simpsons of rock – a band you can safely let your kids watch even if it is a bit risque, because in the end it all boils down to repeated choruses of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie – oi, oi, oi", a few fireworks and a bit of jumping around in a paddock.
Perhaps that is a simplistic view, but then, pretty much everything Green Day do is simplistic.
They are a three-piece Californian pseudo-punk band with a handful of chords and a similar amount of gestures about youth and, just lately, about the way their country, the US, is going about its business."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.a...55E2702,00.html
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Good point. Some of their music is just noise and pointless lyrics, "I am St. Jimmy!" wtf is happening there?
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