[femme gauche]

Originally Posted by Anonymous

They are my FAVORITE band. I have grown up with them. <3
I like all of their albums, but I like Dookie and Nimrod days the best.
(Even though Paper Lanterns is my favorite song)
I actually had the pleasure of seeing them on their American Idiot tour, and it was THE best concert that I have ever seen.
Billie Joe puts on an AMAZING show.

That he does! I did not see them on that tour; I was just getting into them by the time they were touring, and had other conflicts which prevented me from being able to go. However, I did see them for their 21CB tour, and it was beyond amazing - my dad, who has been to his share of rock shows, said it was THE best show he'd ever seen. And he isn't easily impressed. I have heard that the 21CB shows are even better than the AI shows - and that the crowds were easier, too, without as many of the one-hit-wonder fans.

Originally Posted by Quiet Man Cometh

Dookie would be the first one I knew of. Darn, I thought I had that right. I meet people now and then who don't realize that Green Day was around before American Idiot.

It was a literature course that we studied the album in, as part of the sort of adolescent rebellious/teenage angst section. We were studying literary classics and how they have been manifested in cometmporary popular culture.

Aw, it's okay; it's a fairly easy mistake. When I first began to get into them, I thought it was their first album as well. I am fortunate enough to have older sisters whose tastes in the 90s were shared with me, so even though I did not get into them then, the seeds were planted and as I hit adolescence the bands of the 90s became important to me.

That's really cool! I love analyzing modern things in conjunction with other forms/manifestations of certain kinds of art. And it certainly makes students feel much more engaged with thigns they otherwise may not feel to be very relevant. I had an anthropology class in which the album was mentioned, although only in passing, with regard to the uses that art has served anthropologically through history - political being one of them.




As an aside, I have to say I am surprised to see a positive reaction, because I am used to seeing lukewarm and downright cold responses to this topic.