This song is from their rock opera, or concept album, American Idiot. Each song is part of an interesting story about a protagonist who goes through struggles as he navigates the modern world, while also having a tragic romantic aspect. It's best to listen to the entire album in order because songs lead into each other and the pacing of different songs helps set the tone. In fact, one of the songs is an actual soliloquy like in classic plays. The album was actually made into a Broadway play.
Yeah but he cant just listen to all of them in separate video bc mkst of the magic is in listening them all 1 by one. He needs to do a BIG reaction to the WHOLE album at once. Its great. And yeah not all of the song have music videos, but its not a problem, a lot of playlists out there.
Wake Me Up When September Ends is another great one. I think it was on this same album. It gets meme'd to hell and back in September and early October, but the song itself is about loss and mourning and is simply awesome.
Green Day formed 1987 and blink-182 1992, but Green Day had earlier success blink-182 got more popular as the '90s went on. Green Day 75 million sold and blink 50 MIL
If that's the case, then that's 100% completely your fault. You need to look yourself in the mirror and say I need to grow the fuck up and stop acting like a kid! Sorry you don't have shit to do in your life. That you can just sit around and mope all day. Some people have to fucking handle their business and dont have tome for kid games
So these guys have come a long way and have some really big hearts. I remember going to a concert of theirs in Philadelphia maybe 10-15 years ago when this record came out. There was a young girl (maybe 10-12 years old) who had just learned to play guitar. One of the songs she was really good was one of theirs. She had a sign saying that & the singer happened to see her holding the sign. He invited her up on stage and asked her if she would play the song while he sang. He asked her to use his guitar and she did a great job. At the end he told her how great she was and he was proud of her. She started crying and he hugged her. Then after that he looked at her and said “Hey…you wanna keep that guitar?”. All 3 of the guys signed it for her. Great group of guys.
I don't know if this is what set it off or whatever, but at almost every concert they bring a kid on stage, teach them like 3 chords, have them play a song with them (or a part of a song) and then let them keep the guitar. They still do it to this day.
Green Day's biggest hit I think was Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) which is an anthem. You must have heard that one somewhere. I'm hit or miss with them but can appreciate the talent.
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Is about how for many people, the reality of life does not live up to their expectations and dreams, leading to a sense of disappointment and sadness. To emphasize, the lyrics describe a person who is walking alone down this boulevard, feeling lost and disconnected from the world around them.
a lot of big bands have many "sounds" Green Day was very Punk in the 90's then grew and molded their sound into what it is today. Also bands like Rise Against have very punk sounds, but they also have slower acoustic songs. Shows versatility and why these bands are considered Greats. Hell look at some of Slipknot songs.
One of the reasons I love Green Day so much is because as a band, they do varied sounds so well punk rock to ballads. Also, the Billy Joe (the lead singer) collaborated with Nora Jones to produce a cover album of the Everly Brothers (Foreverly - it's amazing). He has range and that's always awesome to encounter. I do think that Green Day lyrics can get very deep,and this one absolutely is an example of it. Awesome reaction, BP!
In 2005 Green Day won a Grammy for best rock album (American idiot). In 2006, Boulevard of Broken Dreams won a Grammy for best recording of the year. In total they have 5 Grammys, and hundreds of other awards. In the period 2005-2006 they kicked the ass of artists like coldplay, the killers, kanye west, snoop dog, shakira, gwen stefani. They have sold 80 million records. In 2010 they did a musical of American Idiot on Broadway that won a Grammy and Tony Awards. In 2025 they will play for the first time in South Africa together with The offspring. Green day has been a very consistent band and is definitely bigger than Blink (I love them too). In 2015 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Ringo star and other legends. I love green day.
Love me some Greenday. Wake me up when September ends and 21 Guns are must listens. Our lady peace 4am and Perfect are incredible songs❤ Peace out ✌️ ☮️
Need to listen to the whole album. Its a story of the main characters ups and downs. From protest, holidays, break ups etc. Whatshername was my favourite
They won a Grammy for best rock album, I don't remember what year. I avoided them cuz they seemed too out there for me., but I bought their cd on a whim and understood why it got a Grammy. I'm 58 and it's still one of my favorite cds.
Green Day has always just been "Green Day" I personally consider them almost their own sound/ geanra. They've been doing it since the 90's and still killing it.
This is a sort of anthem to Gen X who were now into adulthood. I heard Green Day when they released their first album, and i just entered high school. The American Idiot album is a compilation of how we grew up, how we felt in adulthood, and what my generation felt at the time it was released. It's a masterpiece. You should listen to 21 Guns. We were deep in the Iraq/Afghanistan war at that time.
BP I am so glad you loved this song, it is one of their best. Instrumentation is amazing and really stands out for me in this track. This is definitely one you crank up when you are alone in the car and sing/shout along with it💜
I've felt like a failure before but BP you are bringing an pleasant experience to me every time that I join you. I enjoin my spirit with you and all of the joys that I seek. We love you bro.
This is really classed as alternative rock. They were very punky in their early days, but many bands that started out angry and punky grew up and became more deep, melodic, and complex. Manic Street Preachers, The Stranglers and The Jam from the 70s are other bands who changed their punky sound as they grew.
I absolutely agree. BP I Would immediately categorize this song as alternative rock. Alternative was a big category that I think you tend to skip over. Yes I became a huge Green Day fan with their album Dookie which I would have categorized as punk,in high school and remain through the others. You’re right that it could apply to many situations and today as well but I am mediately had the thought of how things were in the 90s. A lot of music beginning with grunge and evolving into alternative really spoke about some sort of existential search for meaning in life. Just because they achieved stardom doesn’t mean they were fulfilled. How many successful band members turned to drugs, alcohol and died young due to suicide and overdoses and in Hollywood as well? Many bands and songs were singing with angst in a romantic sense and also a search that there must be more to life. To me I found that empty space was really missing my face and a God who knew every part of me and loved me. Thank God because would I still be here without it? That was what the more was. You had stone temple pilots, beck, smashing pumpkins, etc. don’t be afraid of the word die BP. We all will die. It’s only our earthly death and you know we are eternal beings with life after! The word in American Pie is used as the boys were being drafted to war that seemed like certain death…. Hence this will be the day that I die. Great job. I’m with you on here all the way. Just a few years older. I get you. ❤✌️
I love this song! I watched the replay of their Rock n Roll Hall of Fame induction performance, and they blew the roof off and had everyone on their feet! What a great band!! 💯💯💯💯
Boulevard of broken dreams is one of their more well-known sings, but I wouldn’t personally put it in my top 20 Green Day songs tbh. Great to see you react to them tho!
The 94 Woodstock performance by Green Day was one of the best live Performances I’ve ever seen in my life. Not personally but on MTV and it’s on TH-cam now. A must watch
The word I think you are looking for is catharsis. - A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit. That's what "sad" songs like this do for me.
Greek tragic theatre depended on catharsis, that was the formula for how tragedy was used to let the air out of all the conflicts and contradictions in society. Catharsis births resolution of those contradictions. If you look at classic Hollywood films, from the so-called Golden Age, the narratives would expose societal contradictions, but by the ending, the world was whole again. This was accomplished in every genre: the westerns, comedies, melodramas, cops and gangsters flicks, even the musicals It's been said that Hollywood held the culture together during the Great Depression. Had people not had access to cheap films and catharsis, there might've been a revolution insteadi
I’ve always related to this song during the low periods of my life even with my family around me. When you are depressed you feel alone at least I always do. I love this song. Great reaction!! 😊
I have a lot to say about Green Day….followed their music from early on and have seen them a few times in concert. They’re in the rock/punk rock genre for me. They really made it❤ huge when American Idiot album came out. It topped charts, multiple Grammy awards etc. There’s a bunch of great songs on this album. It definitely had an angst vibe to it, disgruntled youth and everyone is fake and systems of power are working against us… kind of feel. It’s considered a Rock Opera and I believe there’s a stage musical adaptation. This is a really good band! Well worth listening to more!
I saw Green Day live at Lalapalooza at the time their Dookie album was new. One of the best live shows. They interacted with the crowd often, total fun. Try reacting to the Dookie album.
Green Day was huge when I was pregnant for my daughter in 93. Fast forward to 05, she's playing guitar, and Green Day is her favorite band. I surprise her with tickets to the American Idiot tour and Green Day starts inviting people from the crowd to come on stage to play with them. We're too far back, so we're bummed they'll never see her, but he pulls this 9yr old kid from the crowd. Now Billy Joe plays his guitar real low so they just couldn't strap this kid in so he could actually play it. Billy Joe ends up picking someone else, but when the song's over, he pulls the little guy back on stage and gives him his guitar. Then, as we're leaving and walking to our car, we end up right behind the kid they pulled up on stage to play drums. He couldn't have been older than 19 and I'd swear that kid wasn't walking. He was freakin' floating! One of the best concerts I've ever been to... ever!
Great Reaction! Green Day is one of those bands that transcends their original fan base and is appreciated by not only younger people, but also by many Boomers (many of us who became familiar with their music when our kids insisted on listening to them when we chauffeured them around!) Here is what you have to keep in mind about ANY of the songs on the "American Idiot" album, as others have mentioned, the WHOLE album Is ONE STORY. So each song is part of that story and if you don't listen to all of them and in the right order, you are not going to fully understand where the song is coming from. Every song is great and can be appreciated on its own as a great song.But if you really want to REALLY "get it" you really need to listen to each song (with the lyrics because otherwise you will miss things). Also there are not videos for all the songs but try to watch the videos of the songs that do! If you should decide to react to the entire album I would love to see you do so with Don Wanna Be, or another of your friends. As always I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction and I look forward to seeing more!
he says I call it home... where he walks alone is OAKLAND CALIFORNIA. people always hear the negative about Oakland, mainly from mainstream news. there are different parts to the city. I'm wondering if he lived in the Oakland hills or down where the warehouses are..but, with his income, it's gotta be the hills.
If you want more of them going fast and more punk rock, check out "Basket Case". For more of the slower stuff, you could check out "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
It was kind of funny to me when you started talking about 2020. I have been saying that if you take the Green Day song Holiday and replace the word holiday with "Lockdown" then you got 2020. (at least my experience of 2020) LOL. If you haven't heard Holiday you should check out that one too.
Green Day has so many iconic songs. I like this one but it was never my favorite Green Day song. Their first album, which came out on CD, had a hidden track at the end (a lot of rock bands put a hidden track on their cds, basically there was a minute or so of silence on the last numbered track and then the hidden track played so you either had to listen to the last track to get to that hidden one or try to ffw your cd enough to skip to the hidden track without missing where it started.) Anyway, the hidden track was called "I Was All By Myself" and if you listen to it the lyrics are wild! 😂
Like Blink they were one of the hardest-working bands out there. Getting a band to commit to that kind of work is near impossible. They didn't need the industry, the industry needed them. This genre was the power pop revolution that became popular across a wide spectrum.
Saw them at Rod Laver Arena, melbourne, took my son who had never been to a concert……no bull💩, We had an absolute ball, he had never seen speakers that size, it was unreal seeing his face when the music started, he sang, danced, and there were fans there from ages 10 - 80. Great night out 👏👏💋👍
Hey there was that around 2017? We saw them in Auckland. I was a 45 year old woman, screaming and dancing and singing, I felt so alive. It was amazing 💜
@@mammuchan8923 no it was 2010. And ACDC were also touring, i grew up with ACDC in Melbourne, saw them so much, so chose greenday instead. Wasnt disappointed. And there were signs everywhere for us oldies, lol, directions, maps and ppl guiding others, it was well controlled x but, i do regret not seeing ACDC
I got my first boombox Xmas of '94 and 3 CDs as gifts. A Ren and Stimpy CD, Bryan Adams and Green Day's "dookie". Not huge Green Day fan, but they've put out some great songs over the years!
Green Day and The Offspring coming to South Africa next year! Got tickets already! Gonna rock my 59-year old body so hard I won't be able to get out of bed for the next week!
One reason I relate to this song is, as an autistic adult, it captures the isolation many of us experience (we often have a hard time making close friends, etc).
One of my favorites!!! I don't care if everybody argues with me they are punk rock not pop rock punk rock. They were one of the first punk rock bands. Billy Joel Armstrong has said they are punk rock many times. I am in love with this band and this album is my absolute favorite
It's been years since I've fully heard this song I think. Thanks for bringing it back up BP! I think they float between sub-genres like Sum 41 or so many others. The can be punk, then pop punk, etc...
Green Day is AMAZING 😍 Check out American Idiot (very applicable to current time), Brain Stew/Jaded, Basket Case, When I Come Around, When September Ends.
First Punk concert I went to was Greenday headlining and BLINK 182 opening. In Denver at FiddlersGreen .Greenday was way popluar first with the punk scene I WANNA SAY early 90's then BLINK came up IN LATE 90'S. Don't quote me thats from what I recollect from my young years. However Greenday started off way more punk rock however this song is from their later album so it is definitely more mainstream diguestable kinda more mature.
I swear this song is part of a 12-15 minute song that I used to play on repeat on my CD player as a teenager working full time with 3 younger siblings and an alcoholic single parent devastating our childhood (other parent too by not being there obviously). I know the whole CD could be listened to as a whole song, but there's definitely a song in there that's that length and was so cathartic for me. This CD, linkin park and a few others saved my life.
These guys are like pop punk, very much "alternative rock". Go listen to Rancid, I think everyone knows "Ruby Soho" but also "Fall Back Down" and "Time Bomb" or rap punk group Transplants (same singer) "Diamonds and Guns" and "Gangsters and Thugs"
I love their songs, the best one to me is "Self Esteem". OMG, we had haaaaaaarrrd parties with that one!!! 😊🎉🍻🥂 If you are interested in more rock/punk: I know you have already been reacting to German bands such as Rammstein and AMK. Are you ready for something different? Then you should check out the grandmother of German punk, Nina Hagen!!! She came from East to West Berlin in 1976. She is a classical trained singer and her voice is amazing. She is totally nuts, different and just great. You might like "TV Glotzer" (Live 1978). She is 69 now but still rocking. Just recently she released a Cover of the Rammstein song "Seemann".👍 I know that "you should react to this, you should react to that" can be pretty annoying sometimes. But she is really worth it! I always enjoy your reactions - sending lots of love from Germany ❤
BP, I understand that the American pie lyrics reference was probably just an example but if you think about it saying until the day that I live is worse than the actual lyrics bc it means you aren't living which is a really dark place. Saying until the day that I die, means full throttle living it up bc eventually it will end but you can be happy until it does and be at peace with it. Not giving you a hard time, just some critical thinking on my part. Makes me think of George Carlin and the way we BS ourselves by saying older instead of just being old bc it sounds like it'll last a bit longer. That soft language concept. Have a good one!
Basically all of the 2000s (and some late 90s) bands don't fit in a single genre or sub-genre. But if you'd like to tag it, I think the one that best fit is the *"alternative rock"* one, but with a lot of additional notes. The 90s was a transitional period in which most of the bands were experimenting with a lot of different sub-genres, and the epitome of that was the early 2000s, and then after that we got the "core" style (emocore, metalcore, etc), and nowadays the predominance leans more towards the "alternative pop-rock" or "indie rock" (but we still have a lot of artists and bands that embrace other sub-genres). I guess that's one reason why rock music became less mainstream. We had eras where the metal, hardrock, rock & roll were pretty well defined, while nowadays you can hear rock in almost anything (even in average calvish pop music). But as you've already heard, there are a lot of good artists out there, but it just got harder to get noticed without sounding like a copycat, outdated or cringe.
Greenday is a great band. The first ever "pop-punk" band (no matter how much Billie Joe hates the term. ) My personal favorite album is Dookie. check out "When I Come Around".
@@PatrickBonaparte I personally feel like they have evolved so much it's had to catagorize them as a band. each album has a different feel. if we compare Dookie and Father of All, an uneducated argument could be made that the artists are different because the style is so diverse. I am happy saying that greenday is punk fluid 🤣
@donalucino7401 the term was coined back in 1977 to describe Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. But the genre itself came about with Bad Religion in 1979. The Ramones are, in essence, the first Pop-punk band. Their the ones that created the sound that most all current and past bands in the genre either try to imitate or are strongly influenced by both directly or indirectly
exploring this group first time - was too busy working in a hospital and didn’t have much time to listen to music tho it’s always been part of my life - now it is my life - I feel like this song 🎶 I walk alone but thankfully have God so not alone at all 😢 Lyme warrior 🦠💚🙏💚
I have just reacently come to the conclusion that i am not supposed to have anyone in my life cause if not then i am going to hurt everyone that's around me and this song is helping me to remind myself of that
I love Green Day so much. The are amazing live too. They bring kids up on stage to perform with them. Such good humans. That being said, my favorite song about our dystopian future and the commitment to carry on after the mess made by our current system of consumption is of course "Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance. Same general time period. DO NOT MISS Black Parade. It's an incredible video and audio masterpiece.
If you would like another song of boulevard of broken dreams try David Cassidy he did a song on boulevard of broken dreams it's not the same song as Green Day it's a little bit different❤❤❤❤
This song is from their rock opera, or concept album, American Idiot. Each song is part of an interesting story about a protagonist who goes through struggles as he navigates the modern world, while also having a tragic romantic aspect. It's best to listen to the entire album in order because songs lead into each other and the pacing of different songs helps set the tone. In fact, one of the songs is an actual soliloquy like in classic plays.
The album was actually made into a Broadway play.
One of the best albums - A classic!
I agree… best to listen to American Idiot, entire album, in order…. But if you don’t have time for all that… one of my favorite song is Basket Case.
Basket case is a legendary song, right up there with good riddance. Dookie and Nimrod are such good albums
Yeah but he cant just listen to all of them in separate video bc mkst of the magic is in listening them all 1 by one. He needs to do a BIG reaction to the WHOLE album at once. Its great. And yeah not all of the song have music videos, but its not a problem, a lot of playlists out there.
@@mepik15and follow up with 21st Century Breakdown
I’m 62 and I still love Green Day. I have American Idiot in my car right now and I play that shit LOUD!!!
Wake Me Up When September Ends is another great one. I think it was on this same album. It gets meme'd to hell and back in September and early October, but the song itself is about loss and mourning and is simply awesome.
Damn! Were they from the same album? In my head those two are a decade apart xD
It was sung at my 9 year old nephews funeral. He was a big fan. 18 years later i listen to american idiot to honour Daniel.
Wake Me Up makes me cry, the story behind it is so sad
Green Day formed 1987 and blink-182 1992, but Green Day had earlier success blink-182 got more popular as the '90s went on. Green Day 75 million sold and blink 50 MIL
To me it sums up depression. You can be surrounded by friends and family, and still feel like you're walking through life alone.
If that's the case, then that's 100% completely your fault. You need to look yourself in the mirror and say I need to grow the fuck up and stop acting like a kid! Sorry you don't have shit to do in your life. That you can just sit around and mope all day. Some people have to fucking handle their business and dont have tome for kid games
I know this feeling.
So these guys have come a long way and have some really big hearts.
I remember going to a concert of theirs in Philadelphia maybe 10-15 years ago when this record came out. There was a young girl (maybe 10-12 years old) who had just learned to play guitar. One of the songs she was really good was one of theirs. She had a sign saying that & the singer happened to see her holding the sign. He invited her up on stage and asked her if she would play the song while he sang. He asked her to use his guitar and she did a great job. At the end he told her how great she was and he was proud of her. She started crying and he hugged her. Then after that he looked at her and said “Hey…you wanna keep that guitar?”. All 3 of the guys signed it for her.
Great group of guys.
I don't know if this is what set it off or whatever, but at almost every concert they bring a kid on stage, teach them like 3 chords, have them play a song with them (or a part of a song) and then let them keep the guitar. They still do it to this day.
Green Day's biggest hit I think was Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) which is an anthem. You must have heard that one somewhere. I'm hit or miss with them but can appreciate the talent.
My class played it at our graduation in 1997. Still love that song.
No this was their biggest hit.
Greenday has so many great song you should do basket case 21 Guns wake me up when September ends still breahing bang bang
🇬🇧 "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day is one fabulous song. 🎼
This was sung acoustically at my 9 year old nephews funeral back on 06. He loved greenday
Still one of my favourite bands at 70 yrs old!
Love Green Day, and they have so many good songs! The one I think u would like the most is Wake me up when September ends!
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Is about how for many people, the reality of life does not live up to their expectations and dreams, leading to a sense of disappointment and sadness. To emphasize, the lyrics describe a person who is walking alone down this boulevard, feeling lost and disconnected from the world around them.
a lot of big bands have many "sounds" Green Day was very Punk in the 90's then grew and molded their sound into what it is today. Also bands like Rise Against have very punk sounds, but they also have slower acoustic songs. Shows versatility and why these bands are considered Greats. Hell look at some of Slipknot songs.
Love them! My son loved Alt Rock and they were my favorite! I like “Good Riddance” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Wake Me Up When September Comes ...tremendous song!
Green Day has so many great songs. Hard for me to pick one. They did start out back in the day as a punk band.
American Idiot is still one of my favourite albums. Stood the test of time for sure ❤️🔥❤️🔥 glad you reacted to it ty BP
One of the reasons I love Green Day so much is because as a band, they do varied sounds so well punk rock to ballads. Also, the Billy Joe (the lead singer) collaborated with Nora Jones to produce a cover album of the Everly Brothers (Foreverly - it's amazing). He has range and that's always awesome to encounter.
I do think that Green Day lyrics can get very deep,and this one absolutely is an example of it.
Awesome reaction, BP!
In 2005 Green Day won a Grammy for best rock album (American idiot). In 2006, Boulevard of Broken Dreams won a Grammy for best recording of the year. In total they have 5 Grammys, and hundreds of other awards. In the period 2005-2006 they kicked the ass of artists like coldplay, the killers, kanye west, snoop dog, shakira, gwen stefani. They have sold 80 million records. In 2010 they did a musical of American Idiot on Broadway that won a Grammy and Tony Awards. In 2025 they will play for the first time in South Africa together with The offspring. Green day has been a very consistent band and is definitely bigger than Blink (I love them too). In 2015 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Ringo star and other legends. I love green day.
Love me some Greenday. Wake me up when September ends and 21 Guns are must listens. Our lady peace 4am and Perfect are incredible songs❤ Peace out ✌️ ☮️
21 Guns just SHREDS me. It's so beautiful and heartbreaking.
Longing for all that makes you human. This is why I listen to all genres and many artists. Music speaks loud for some of us!
Need to listen to the whole album. Its a story of the main characters ups and downs. From protest, holidays, break ups etc. Whatshername was my favourite
They won a Grammy for best rock album, I don't remember what year. I avoided them cuz they seemed too out there for me., but I bought their cd on a whim and understood why it got a Grammy. I'm 58 and it's still one of my favorite cds.
Green Day has always just been "Green Day" I personally consider them almost their own sound/ geanra. They've been doing it since the 90's and still killing it.
late 80s
"WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMEBER ENDS" song/video is a must to check out by Green Day.
This is a sort of anthem to Gen X who were now into adulthood. I heard Green Day when they released their first album, and i just entered high school. The American Idiot album is a compilation of how we grew up, how we felt in adulthood, and what my generation felt at the time it was released. It's a masterpiece. You should listen to 21 Guns. We were deep in the Iraq/Afghanistan war at that time.
BP I am so glad you loved this song, it is one of their best. Instrumentation is amazing and really stands out for me in this track. This is definitely one you crank up when you are alone in the car and sing/shout along with it💜
I've felt like a failure before but BP you are bringing an pleasant experience to me every time that I join you. I enjoin my spirit with you and all of the joys that I seek. We love you bro.
Music is therapy - it helps process a lot of difficult emotions. Listen, Feel it and Leave it
LOVE Green Day! And yes, they r punk rock, but just like other bands, they have layers, so they’re not always doing the same thing 😉
This is really classed as alternative rock. They were very punky in their early days, but many bands that started out angry and punky grew up and became more deep, melodic, and complex. Manic Street Preachers, The Stranglers and The Jam from the 70s are other bands who changed their punky sound as they grew.
All still phenominal artists, at least IMHO.
Grunge Rock > Punk Rock
I absolutely agree. BP I Would immediately categorize this song as alternative rock. Alternative was a big category that I think you tend to skip over. Yes I became a huge Green Day fan with their album Dookie which I would have categorized as punk,in high school and remain through the others. You’re right that it could apply to many situations and today as well but I am mediately had the thought of how things were in the 90s. A lot of music beginning with grunge and evolving into alternative really spoke about some sort of existential search for meaning in life. Just because they achieved stardom doesn’t mean they were fulfilled. How many successful band members turned to drugs, alcohol and died young due to suicide and overdoses and in Hollywood as well? Many bands and songs were singing with angst in a romantic sense and also a search that there must be more to life. To me I found that empty space was really missing my face and a God who knew every part of me and loved me. Thank God because would I still be here without it? That was what the more was. You had stone temple pilots, beck, smashing pumpkins, etc. don’t be afraid of the word die BP. We all will die. It’s only our earthly death and you know we are eternal beings with life after! The word in American Pie is used as the boys were being drafted to war that seemed like certain death…. Hence this will be the day that I die. Great job. I’m with you on here all the way. Just a few years older. I get you. ❤✌️
I love this song! I watched the replay of their Rock n Roll Hall of Fame induction performance, and they blew the roof off and had everyone on their feet! What a great band!! 💯💯💯💯
"Read between the lines," is the key phrase in this song.
Damn, I thought I related to this song back when it came out. Now it's like it was written for me.
✌️&❤️
This one was played to death on the radio
every other song
Boulevard of broken dreams is one of their more well-known sings, but I wouldn’t personally put it in my top 20 Green Day songs tbh. Great to see you react to them tho!
Green Day is amazing, So excited for this journey.
Bay Area band from Oakland ca. I love them so much!!
Walking contradiction is one of my favorite Green Day songs. Highly underrated. Maybe check it out.
You should react to tje WHOLE album its a good ass story. Love it, and it is considered as one of the greatest albums of all time. ❤
The 94 Woodstock performance by Green Day was one of the best live Performances I’ve ever seen in my life. Not personally but on MTV and it’s on TH-cam now. A must watch
The word I think you are looking for is catharsis. - A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit. That's what "sad" songs like this do for me.
Haven’t heard that word catharsis in a bit and made me think of AFI - Clove Smoke Catharsis
Greek tragic theatre depended on catharsis, that was the formula for how tragedy was used to let the air out of all the conflicts and contradictions in society. Catharsis births resolution of those contradictions. If you look at classic Hollywood films, from the so-called Golden Age, the narratives would expose societal contradictions, but by the ending, the world was whole again.
This was accomplished in every genre: the westerns, comedies, melodramas, cops and gangsters flicks, even the musicals It's been said that Hollywood held the culture together during the Great Depression. Had people not had access to cheap films and catharsis, there might've been a revolution insteadi
There's an incredible version of this performed at Reading festival you should check out
I’ve always related to this song during the low periods of my life even with my family around me. When you are depressed you feel alone at least I always do. I love this song. Great reaction!! 😊
I have a lot to say about Green Day….followed their music from early on and have seen them a few times in concert. They’re in the rock/punk rock genre for me. They really made it❤ huge when American Idiot album came out. It topped charts, multiple Grammy awards etc.
There’s a bunch of great songs on this album. It definitely had an angst vibe to it, disgruntled youth and everyone is fake and systems of power are working against us… kind of feel. It’s considered a Rock Opera and I believe there’s a stage musical adaptation.
This is a really good band! Well worth listening to more!
I saw Green Day live at Lalapalooza at the time their Dookie album was new. One of the best live shows. They interacted with the crowd often, total fun. Try reacting to the Dookie album.
Green Day was huge when I was pregnant for my daughter in 93. Fast forward to 05, she's playing guitar, and Green Day is her favorite band. I surprise her with tickets to the American Idiot tour and Green Day starts inviting people from the crowd to come on stage to play with them. We're too far back, so we're bummed they'll never see her, but he pulls this 9yr old kid from the crowd. Now Billy Joe plays his guitar real low so they just couldn't strap this kid in so he could actually play it. Billy Joe ends up picking someone else, but when the song's over, he pulls the little guy back on stage and gives him his guitar. Then, as we're leaving and walking to our car, we end up right behind the kid they pulled up on stage to play drums. He couldn't have been older than 19 and I'd swear that kid wasn't walking. He was freakin' floating! One of the best concerts I've ever been to... ever!
Great Reaction! Green Day is one of those bands that transcends their original fan base and is appreciated by not only younger people, but also by many Boomers (many of us who became familiar with their music when our kids insisted on listening to them when we chauffeured them around!) Here is what you have to keep in mind about ANY of the songs on the "American Idiot" album, as others have mentioned, the WHOLE album Is ONE STORY. So each song is part of that story and if you don't listen to all of them and in the right order, you are not going to fully understand where the song is coming from. Every song is great and can be appreciated on its own as a great song.But if you really want to REALLY "get it" you really need to listen to each song (with the lyrics because otherwise you will miss things). Also there are not videos for all the songs but try to watch the videos of the songs that do! If you should decide to react to the entire album I would love to see you do so with Don Wanna Be, or another of your friends. As always I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction and I look forward to seeing more!
A masterpiece! So nostalgic.
he says I call it home...
where he walks alone is OAKLAND CALIFORNIA.
people always hear the negative about Oakland, mainly from mainstream news. there are different parts to the city. I'm wondering if he lived in the Oakland hills or down where the warehouses are..but, with his income, it's gotta be the hills.
Keep up the outstanding work my friend 👍
A great song from a great album 🔥🔥🔥
Try Basket Case and Holiday if you want a little more punk rock from these boys. They’re my faves anyway.❤
If you want more of them going fast and more punk rock, check out "Basket Case". For more of the slower stuff, you could check out "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
It was kind of funny to me when you started talking about 2020. I have been saying that if you take the Green Day song Holiday and replace the word holiday with "Lockdown" then you got 2020. (at least my experience of 2020) LOL. If you haven't heard Holiday you should check out that one too.
GREAT MUSIC Green Day Amazing band 🤘🤘🤘
Some wise words by you at the end ... I am 59 and I just learned something very important. Thank you.
Green Day has so many iconic songs. I like this one but it was never my favorite Green Day song.
Their first album, which came out on CD, had a hidden track at the end (a lot of rock bands put a hidden track on their cds, basically there was a minute or so of silence on the last numbered track and then the hidden track played so you either had to listen to the last track to get to that hidden one or try to ffw your cd enough to skip to the hidden track without missing where it started.) Anyway, the hidden track was called "I Was All By Myself" and if you listen to it the lyrics are wild! 😂
That was on Dookie, and actually their 3rd album 👍
Like Blink they were one of the hardest-working bands out there. Getting a band to commit to that kind of work is near impossible. They didn't need the industry, the industry needed them. This genre was the power pop revolution that became popular across a wide spectrum.
Well said!!
my favorite Greenday song is Brutal love
To me it always meant a person trying too find thier way and feeling alone.
My son loved them he passed at age 17 in 06
this song was released shortly after my first child passed. It held me through many long nights.
Saw them at Rod Laver Arena, melbourne, took my son who had never been to a concert……no bull💩, We had an absolute ball, he had never seen speakers that size, it was unreal seeing his face when the music started, he sang, danced, and there were fans there from ages 10 - 80. Great night out 👏👏💋👍
Hey there was that around 2017? We saw them in Auckland. I was a 45 year old woman, screaming and dancing and singing, I felt so alive. It was amazing 💜
@@mammuchan8923 no it was 2010. And ACDC were also touring, i grew up with ACDC in Melbourne, saw them so much, so chose greenday instead. Wasnt disappointed. And there were signs everywhere for us oldies, lol, directions, maps and ppl guiding others, it was well controlled x but, i do regret not seeing ACDC
@@withrespectmostly4405 great stuff💜
"Holiday" by Green Day seems like it would be worth checking out
I got my first boombox Xmas of '94 and 3 CDs as gifts. A Ren and Stimpy CD, Bryan Adams and Green Day's "dookie". Not huge Green Day fan, but they've put out some great songs over the years!
One of my favorites.... got tickets to see Greenday with Smashing Pumpkins this September in Los Angeles. Super excited 😄
Green Day and The Offspring coming to South Africa next year! Got tickets already! Gonna rock my 59-year old body so hard I won't be able to get out of bed for the next week!
This was my life anthem in my 20s.
One reason I relate to this song is, as an autistic adult, it captures the isolation many of us experience (we often have a hard time making close friends, etc).
One of my favorites!!! I don't care if everybody argues with me they are punk rock not pop rock punk rock. They were one of the first punk rock bands. Billy Joel Armstrong has said they are punk rock many times. I am in love with this band and this album is my absolute favorite
Punk rock was around over ten years before green day formed but i feel ya. They're punk rock for sure
It's been years since I've fully heard this song I think. Thanks for bringing it back up BP! I think they float between sub-genres like Sum 41 or so many others. The can be punk, then pop punk, etc...
Green Day is AMAZING 😍
Check out American Idiot (very applicable to current time), Brain Stew/Jaded, Basket Case, When I Come Around, When September Ends.
Green Day is one of those bands that could be placed in or part of…depending on what song you’re listening to.
this song, and an AFI song were staple tracks on my many burned cd's which i'd get to play loud while doing the dishes as a teenager
You should listen to the whole album in order. They really created an alt rock masterpiece.
Great react you need to react at dilemma from green day
First Punk concert I went to was Greenday headlining and BLINK 182 opening. In Denver at FiddlersGreen .Greenday was way popluar first with the punk scene I WANNA SAY early 90's then BLINK came up IN LATE 90'S. Don't quote me thats from what I recollect from my young years. However Greenday started off way more punk rock however this song is from their later album so it is definitely more mainstream diguestable kinda more mature.
I saw GreenDay open for Van Hagar, before they were head liners. They rocked!!
I am 40 years old and I still love this punk rock band. I'm also talking to the younger generation this is not pop rock it's punk rock
I swear this song is part of a 12-15 minute song that I used to play on repeat on my CD player as a teenager working full time with 3 younger siblings and an alcoholic single parent devastating our childhood (other parent too by not being there obviously). I know the whole CD could be listened to as a whole song, but there's definitely a song in there that's that length and was so cathartic for me. This CD, linkin park and a few others saved my life.
Green Day is a rock, punk rock band. Their album American Idiot is really good.
"Sometimes I Wish a Mother Bear Will Find Me" Once you read that, you won't unhear it!
I actually teared up when you said "it takes strength to walk alone."
These guys are like pop punk, very much "alternative rock". Go listen to Rancid, I think everyone knows "Ruby Soho" but also "Fall Back Down" and "Time Bomb" or rap punk group Transplants (same singer) "Diamonds and Guns" and "Gangsters and Thugs"
I love their songs, the best one to me is "Self Esteem". OMG, we had haaaaaaarrrd parties with that one!!! 😊🎉🍻🥂
If you are interested in more rock/punk: I know you have already been reacting to German bands such as Rammstein and AMK. Are you ready for something different? Then you should check out the grandmother of German punk, Nina Hagen!!! She came from East to West Berlin in 1976. She is a classical trained singer and her voice is amazing. She is totally nuts, different and just great. You might like "TV Glotzer" (Live 1978). She is 69 now but still rocking. Just recently she released a Cover of the Rammstein song "Seemann".👍
I know that "you should react to this, you should react to that" can be pretty annoying sometimes. But she is really worth it!
I always enjoy your reactions - sending lots of love from Germany ❤
Jesus of suburbia has a lot of meaning for me love them all but this one more. Green day A for awesome.
Brain Stew is a great song by them. They are punk rock, but then they went prime time and became more pop punk.
BP, I understand that the American pie lyrics reference was probably just an example but if you think about it saying until the day that I live is worse than the actual lyrics bc it means you aren't living which is a really dark place. Saying until the day that I die, means full throttle living it up bc eventually it will end but you can be happy until it does and be at peace with it. Not giving you a hard time, just some critical thinking on my part. Makes me think of George Carlin and the way we BS ourselves by saying older instead of just being old bc it sounds like it'll last a bit longer. That soft language concept. Have a good one!
Basically all of the 2000s (and some late 90s) bands don't fit in a single genre or sub-genre. But if you'd like to tag it, I think the one that best fit is the *"alternative rock"* one, but with a lot of additional notes.
The 90s was a transitional period in which most of the bands were experimenting with a lot of different sub-genres, and the epitome of that was the early 2000s, and then after that we got the "core" style (emocore, metalcore, etc), and nowadays the predominance leans more towards the "alternative pop-rock" or "indie rock" (but we still have a lot of artists and bands that embrace other sub-genres).
I guess that's one reason why rock music became less mainstream. We had eras where the metal, hardrock, rock & roll were pretty well defined, while nowadays you can hear rock in almost anything (even in average calvish pop music).
But as you've already heard, there are a lot of good artists out there, but it just got harder to get noticed without sounding like a copycat, outdated or cringe.
Greenday is a great band. The first ever "pop-punk" band (no matter how much Billie Joe hates the term. ) My personal favorite album is Dookie. check out "When I Come Around".
The Ramones are the very first Pop-Punk band. Almost 2 decades before Green Day was formed when Billy Joe Armstrong was only 2.
I always felt they were more new school punk than pop punk.
@@ravenhawke5 haha though i agree with you, the term was coined in reference to greenday
@@PatrickBonaparte I personally feel like they have evolved so much it's had to catagorize them as a band. each album has a different feel. if we compare Dookie and Father of All, an uneducated argument could be made that the artists are different because the style is so diverse. I am happy saying that greenday is punk fluid 🤣
@donalucino7401 the term was coined back in 1977 to describe Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. But the genre itself came about with Bad Religion in 1979. The Ramones are, in essence, the first Pop-punk band. Their the ones that created the sound that most all current and past bands in the genre either try to imitate or are strongly influenced by both directly or indirectly
Wake me up when September ends
exploring this group first time - was too busy working in a hospital and didn’t have much time to listen to music tho it’s always been part of my life - now it is my life - I feel like this song 🎶 I walk alone but thankfully have God so not alone at all 😢 Lyme warrior 🦠💚🙏💚
Name comes from famous picture of all night corner bar/ cafe with Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, and Elvis Presley
PAINTING IS CALLED NIGHTHAWKS
Yes...alone in your mental state..for whatever reason..great how you deciphered it...
I have just reacently come to the conclusion that i am not supposed to have anyone in my life cause if not then i am going to hurt everyone that's around me and this song is helping me to remind myself of that
i can relate to that, you manifest your own energy. you gotta make that shit happen!
Also, Hollywood Blvd, his home where so many broken dreams live.
Green Day - Basket Case
Green Day - She
Green Day - When I Come Around
Green Day - Longview
Green Day - Brain Stew / Jaded
I love Green Day so much. The are amazing live too. They bring kids up on stage to perform with them. Such good humans. That being said, my favorite song about our dystopian future and the commitment to carry on after the mess made by our current system of consumption is of course "Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance. Same general time period. DO NOT MISS Black Parade. It's an incredible video and audio masterpiece.
If you would like another song of boulevard of broken dreams try David Cassidy he did a song on boulevard of broken dreams it's not the same song as Green Day it's a little bit different❤❤❤❤
Was around when Seinfeld was on. The closing song on last episode was Good Ridence was the song.