The Offspring or Green Day

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

The first two mainstream 'radio' punk bands in North America. Both are great and they had major influence in the music industry.

Who do you like better?

 

[Senor Catface]

Rancid

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

I'm a huge Punkrock guy. My first band was Pennywise followed by the likes of Millencolin, Bad Religion, Rancid and The Offspring (so there goes my vote).

Never liked Green Day but my Bass guitar teacher thought it would be cool to learn Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. Song is bad, band is bad, album Dookie is ok though.

 

[brentashton]

Offspring










John Denver
The Carpenters

Green Day

 

[McDNicks17]

Green Day is one of those bands that always makes me wonder how they got popular.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

I saw Green Day in concert with my oldest son back when he was in his early teens and a big fan of theirs, was a really good show. Like more Green Day songs than Offspring songs so I have to give it to Green Day but their newer stuff sucks.

Anyone here remember Edmonton punk band SNFU?

 

[GOilers88]

Dookie was an excellent album, and Nimrod was okay too.

But they don't come close to The Offspring.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

I love The Offspring's music and I could just never get into Green Day. I don't mind some of their songs but just not enough to spend money on their albums or individual songs.

Now if the poll was The Offspring or Blink-182, I couldn't pick one over the other.

 

[brentashton]

I saw Green Day in concert with my oldest son back when he was in his early teens and a big fan of theirs, was a really good show. Like more Green Day songs than Offspring songs so I have to give it to Green Day but their newer stuff sucks.

Anyone here remember Edmonton punk band SNFU?

Oh ya, Chi Pig (May he RIP). That was a band that was too big for Edmonton and should have been worldwide famous, but for some reason didn’t get the worldwide distribution that they needed. I think the genre of their music at the time may have held them back, which is unfortunate. I saw them at the UofA in a cabaret setting in the early 80s. They were definitely something about Edmonton that helps define the city as a great place that can compete with anyplace for worlds best.

edit - didn’t mean any disrespect to Green Day or their fans with my “ranking” but I think my kids who used to listen to that one big album of theirs turned me off.I’m obviously still dealing with PTSD from it.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Oh ya, Chi Pig (May he RIP). That was a band that was too big for Edmonton and should have been worldwide famous, but for some reason didn’t get the worldwide distribution that they needed. I think the genre of their music at the time may have held them back, which is unfortunate. I saw them at the UofA in a cabaret setting in the early 80s. They were definitely something about Edmonton that helps define the city as a great place that can compete with anyplace for worlds best.

edit - didn’t mean any disrespect to Green Day or their fans with my “ranking” but I think my kids who used to listen to that one big album of theirs turned me off.I’m obviously still dealing with PTSD from it.

Ya I was friends in high school with the Belke’s, Mark and Brent. They were funny guys especially Mark.

 

[brentashton]

Ya I was friends in high school with the Belke’s, Mark and Brent. They were funny guys especially Mark.

That’s cool.

 

[Drivesaitl]

The first two mainstream 'radio' punk bands in North America. Both are great and they had major influence in the music industry.

Who do you like better?

The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols.

Green Day is one of those bands that always makes me wonder how they got popular.

Said basically anybody that happened to ever like punk before Green day.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols.




Said basically anybody that happened to ever like punk before Green day.

The Clash and Ramones

Anyone hear of the band called Death? Now credited with being the first ever punk band. Great documentary about them and their first and only album is worth a fortune if you can ever find one.

 

[Oilhawks]

I saw Green Day in concert with my oldest son back when he was in his early teens and a big fan of theirs, was a really good show. Like more Green Day songs than Offspring songs so I have to give it to Green Day but their newer stuff sucks.

Anyone here remember Edmonton punk band SNFU?

‘Painful Reminder’ deserved to be as popular as any Green Day or The Offspring hit, IMO.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Huge Green Day fan.

My aunt left her tape of Dookie and my house back in 1994 when I was 8 and they quickly became my favourite band. in high school I was mocked because I liked them then they released American Idiot and everyone who made mocked me for liking Green Day were listening to them. The year after graduation BLVD was all over the radio and I was a happy little idiot. I have a Gibson Les Paul Jr because of Billie Joe and an SG because he used them during the warning era.

Rancid

the cool kid hipster answer. the remnants of Operation Ivy. The biggest influence on Green Day. I like how Tim and Billie are friends and have been since the 80s and how Green Day still playing Knowledge at every concert.

Green Day is one of those bands that always makes me wonder how they got popular.

welcome to ( paradise) my ignore list!!!!!

 

[Senor Catface]

the cool kid hipster answer. the remnants of Operation Ivy. The biggest influence on Green Day. I like how Tim and Billie are friends and have been since the 80s and how Green Day still playing Knowledge at every concert.

 

[Drivesaitl]

The Clash and Ramones

Anyone hear of the band called Death? Now credited with being the first ever punk band. Great documentary about them and their first and only album is worth a fortune if you can ever find one.

Heres MC5 in 1970 blowin the hell out of that theory. A band that people actually knew at the time. Music biographers always be trying to find roots other than the obvious in some dusty record bin.

Back In The USA: How MC5 Invented Pop-Punk Ahead Of Schedule - Dig!

Fusing rebellious proto-punk with radio-friendly pop, MC5’s ‘Back In The USA’ album opened a world of aggressive catharsis for the mainstream.

www.thisisdig.com

MC5 are credited as the authors of protopunk a decade before punk started smoldering. MC5 started in 1964. Keeping in mind that to be credited with creating a musical or artistic movement means that your work has to be even known in order to do that. Death were basically rediscovered in around 2008 and they were actually a funk band before turning into a "rock sound" type band in 74.

By 1974 there are tons of tracks sounding like precursors to punk, heavy metal, etc at that time. Death were basically just copying a "garage rock" sound that was common at that time. They were just looking for a following, which at the time they never found.

Interestingly the whole aspect of the NY TImes piece is a demonstration of the reinventing of the past that has been so common in this millennium.

MC5 were headlining festivals 52yrs ago playing what was later termed punk. So that they were well known and of course had influence.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Heres MC5 in 1970 blowin the hell out of that theory. A band that people actually knew at the time. Music biographers always be trying to find roots other than the obvious in some dusty record bin.

Back In The USA: How MC5 Invented Pop-Punk Ahead Of Schedule - Dig!

Fusing rebellious proto-punk with radio-friendly pop, MC5’s ‘Back In The USA’ album opened a world of aggressive catharsis for the mainstream.

www.thisisdig.com

MC5 are credited as the authors of protopunk a decade before punk started smoldering. MC5 started in 1964.

Never heard of them.

 

[Dynamic]

Grew up as a Green Day fan in my teens but slowly grew out of them. I feel they are a band you like for a while then "graduate" up to stuff like the Offspring, NOFX, Bad Religion and stuff like that. That being said they do put on a great show and its one of those things you should probably do if you haven't already. They are not that young anymore.

As for the Offspring I ironically haven't seen them yet. Although they have constant rotation on my playlist, something about the arrangement and harmonies that draw me in.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Never heard of them.

Well, anybody that followed Punk knew about MC5. I listened to them in the 70's. Nobody at all except family members knew "Death". which is pretty much my point. You bought a wikipedied revisionist version of history which unfortunately is common today as Wiki and social media rewrite history to what they want it to be.

MC5 played mainly east circuits and emanated out of Detroit but were widely credited by no less than Bowie, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Metallica, Iggy Pop and the Stooges etc for helping make their sound.

MC5 were so kick ass live that they were stealing the thunder from such acts as Cream during a Cream farewell tour.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Well, anybody that followed Punk knew about MC5. I listened to them in the 70's. Nobody at all except family members knew "Death". which is pretty much my point. You bought a wikipedied revisionist version of history which unfortunately is common today as Wiki and social media rewrite history to what they want it to be.

MC5 played mainly east circuits and emanated out of Detroit but were widely credited by no less than Bowie, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Metallica, Iggy Pop and the Stooges for helping make their sound.

MC5 were so kick ass live that they were stealing the thunder from such acts as Cream during a Cream farewell tour.

No, I saw the documentary years ago which is what I posted.

Anyway I never said I was a huge punk fan, just making conversation about music.

I don’t know why you have to be so f***ing confrontational about it.

 

[Stoneman89]

Never heard of them.

And hope I don't again.

I saw Green Day in concert with my oldest son back when he was in his early teens and a big fan of theirs, was a really good show. Like more Green Day songs than Offspring songs so I have to give it to Green Day but their newer stuff sucks.

Anyone here remember Edmonton punk band SNFU?

I like them both, but I think I would defer to Green Day. Time of My Life remains an anthem for me, and a timeless classic.

 

[Drivesaitl]

No, I saw the documentary years ago which is what I posted.

Anyway I never said I was a huge punk fan, just making conversation about music.

I don’t know why you have to be so f***ing confrontational about it.

I wasn't.

My issue isn't with what you stated as much as the rewriting of history and miscrediting.

You furthered a claim which is mistaken. My issue isn't with you its the kind of tripe that the NY times and their ilk write, and often write in rewriting history.

Not sure what documentary it was but it was probably going at a similar revisionist angle. I think such claims get made by media just to get hits. The more unorthodox the claims the more the hits.

Like if the NY times said hockey was invented in upstate NY that would be controversial, and create a lot of reads and hits, but would be wrong, and thats basically what a lot of content providers do. Misinform for hits.

I just sought to counter the claim about punk music. A genre I followed quite a lot.

cheers

 

[RegDunlop]

Offspring
Green Day ok but Offspring more edgier. Some killer tunes for an old rocker like me

 

[Stoneman89]

And here I thought this thread and poll were about Green Day and The Offspring?
Pretty sure there's a music thread for conversation and opinions about everyone else's likes and dislikes with various other bands.