always been a fan of this one.

Screeching Weasel!

Read closer. What they did was introduce a new sub-genre of music to the mainstream. Of course there was punk before Green Day and the mid 90s :rolleyes:, it just wasn't mainstream until they came along.

You know it's okay to like stuff that's popular right? It's not going to ruin your punk credibility.

Nah I'd disagree Suicidal Tendencies, Cro-Mags, Bad Religion (plus a bunch of late 80s Hardcore) had already enjoyed success within the mainstream music scene.
Punk's always dipped in and out of the mainstream look at The Clash or Sex Pistols you don't much more mainstream recognition than that.

I like heaps of popular stuff just not lame shit like you're into.

I don't really consider any of those bands to be mainstream at all. I guess by mainstream, I'm thinking pop. The Clash is probably the closest of those you named. But none were ever in the mainstream like Green Day. Dookie was freakin' huge. It sold like 11 million copies. London Calling sold around 2million.


Hahaha. That's pretty funny. We probably have some similar tastes, they just never seem to come up in discussion.

I think Nirvana are more responsible so the trend you're talking about. Green Day were basically signed along with a lot of bands to be the "next Nirvana".

Cro-Mags, really? I mean they're one of the more well known hardcore bands, but I wouldn't really consider them mainstream at all. gnarly band either way.

Not "mainstream" soundwise I was just getting at how they got real popular during the late 80s and heaps of people were listening to them. They broke thru to the mainstream was what I was meaning.

Nirvana changed the face of rock for sure. I'm sure every record label that signed any band after Nirvana was hoping they just signed the next Nirvana, but that's like saying the guy who signed Nirvana was just hoping he was signing the next Beatles or Michael Jackson. I get what you are saying, but think it's a very loose and vague interpretation.

I guess I feel like certain musicians and bands should have earned the respect of anyone calling themselves music lovers without taking their personal opinion of the band's music in to account. I think Green Day has worked their way in to that category over the past 2 decades and you disagree with my opinion. *shrug* That's cool.

yeah green day is pretty terrible.