You Can't Pretend We're Only Friends That Walk Away

[Jared Kaufman]

You can read an article here (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1491001/09152004/green_day.jhtml) on the importance of Green Day (http://www.greenday.com) to the punk scene today.

Submitted By Andrew

[bossman calling]

Longview was the funniest song ever when I was 13. That whole album was so taboo at the time, from the whacked out album cover, to the lyrics, the intensity...I think I've gone through 4 copies of that cd since, the first of which was taken away by my parents who thought it was "evil." I had already been exposed to a few 'punk' bands (The Offspring, The Ramones, Social Distortion and Bad Religion), but this one and Smash by the Offspring which came out later the same year definitely ignited a fire.

[thewk]

yes, i do think green day is very important to the scene,
that is unquestionable.
but the fact that it's mtv telling me the importantance of greenday?
fuck you in your fucking ass.

[worldstheory]

For Good Charlotte and peers like Simple Plan, New Found Glory, Sum 41 and Yellowcard, their first taste of Dookie was an introduction to the sneering, snotty, nihilistic world of punk rock, much like the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks and the self-titled debuts by the Ramones and the Clash were for the generation before them.I think it's funny how MTV fails to see the difference between pop-punk and punk rock.