scottheisel Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Makes me feel old as fuck, but simultaneously young as fuck as I remember being 12 and having my mind totally blown when I first saw "Basket Case" on TV in the summer of 1994. Album totally changed my life. Share your stories. NoFxpunkguy, taylo234 and veggiecorecords 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 but was it worth what green day became? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 bought this on cassette during the summer of 94, changed my life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 but was it worth what green day became? Please, enlighten me: What did Green Day become? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefwahoo Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I love this album. It will forever remind me of being about 16 years old. Nirvana had already blazed this path in my life as far as learning about an underground band's history once they hit the mainstream and all that. But this was still pretty major. My friends were even more into it than me. I remember we kind of snuck up to Cleveland to see them without telling anyone because they were playing for free. We somehow ended up in the front row but off to the side of the stage. The band was right in front of us, poking their heads over the fence and taunting us and spitting at us and dumb shit like that. Collective Soul played and were pretty good, even though I wasn't really a fan. But then Green Day never played. I was bummed, my friends were irate. Some girls next to us had driven six hours from Chicago to see the show. One of them had a broken leg. I'm sure they had to be mad. On our way out, we heard something about it being cancelled due to too many people showing up but we couldn't tell from where we were. Although it was obviously very packed. There was also talk of there being a riot of some sort, but we also didn't see any evidence of that. Not a very interesting story but since you're in Cleveland these days, I figured I'd share it. Well, I'll be damned, I actually found a story about it. Green Day in Cleveland WMMS-FM's first free Buzzard-Palooza festival was held in July 1994, coinciding with the city's River Expo festival in The Flats district. The all-day concert was co-headlined by then-upstarts Collective Soul and Green Day, who drew a mob of attendees much larger than the venue's capacity of 5,000. "I was at that 'free' show that Green Day was supposed to play at Nautica in Cleveland ... turns out there was a riot outside (with) people trying to get in," says former Clevelander Deanna Turlo. "We never realized it while we were sitting there waiting." A mob of fans wishing to enter the venue was turned away, which incited a rock-and-bottle-throwing melee. Frustrated fans began pouring into the venue over the walls. Police entered Nautica in riot gear and pulled the plug just as Green Day took the stage. Two months later, the band made good at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls-for a scant $5 admission-and fans carried on their insurrection by destroying the venue's lawn. This time, however, the show carried on. http://voices.yahoo.com/notable-ohio-concerts-shut-down-nearly-so-law-5779154.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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veggiecorecords Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 This is the album that really got me hooked on music. I still remember walking around the elementary school playground and singing the lyrics to "having a blast" entirely from memory since I didn't have a "walkmen" at the time. I also remember my friends not being able to listen to this record, but my parents were pretty oblivious to the lyrics thankfully haha. Although I also remember putting the lyrics to "basket case" on my bedroom wall, and not realizing at the time what "Or am I just stoned" meant, haha good times! laralaurent and sacredheart 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc32137 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 My dad got it from Columbia House in '94. One day I put it on the stereo really loud (I was 7 at the time) and my mom heard Longview and freaked out. She banned me from listening to Green Day ever again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 where.... are their noses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 something something dookie something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyShackelford Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Is the guy with a cm punk avatar complaining about green day? laralaurent, scottheisel, taylo234 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesar11 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 $20 says they play riot fest and play this in its entirety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 This is the album that really got me hooked on music. I still remember walking around the elementary school playground and singing the lyrics to "having a blast" entirely from memory since I didn't have a "walkmen" at the time. I also remember my friends not being able to listen to this record, but my parents were pretty oblivious to the lyrics thankfully haha. Although I also remember putting the lyrics to "basket case" on my bedroom wall, and not realizing at the time what "Or am I just stoned" meant, haha good times! I wrote the lyrics from "Basket Case" inside my youth group study bible, and signed it a "William Joseph Armstrong" to somehow make it look more historical in case the youth pastor ever saw it. (I believe I also wrote the lyrics to the Presidents Of The United States of America's "Peaches" in the same bible. I was a weird kid.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 was? Now I'm a weird adult! How's your hairline doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troymess Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Feeling older today after reading through this. I remember being so excited buying this cassette when it came out. It was all I listened to for a good stretch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 Anyone else remember watching this MTV concert religiously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UntitledRecords Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 god, i feel old now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Now I'm a weird adult! How's your hairline doing? still widowpeakin' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Is the guy with a cm punk avatar complaining about green day? 1. that's my logo, not punk's 2. is there a dot i'm not connecting? 3. american idiot is the biggest pile of shit i've ever had to hear. fewer things in the history of music that i've lived through have been more infuriating than that time that green day and u2 were considered musical gods decades after they made any good music. 4. dookie does kick ass. no frontin' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GradedOnACurve Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I got this in 1994 for my 8th birthday. I wore this tape out. Huge gateway album for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyShackelford Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 1. that's my logo, not punk's 2. is there a dot i'm not connecting? 3. american idiot is the biggest pile of shit i've ever had to hear. fewer things in the history of music that i've lived through have been more infuriating than that time that green day and u2 were considered musical gods decades after they made any good music. 4. dookie does kick ass. no frontin' You have a logo? NoFxpunkguy and scottheisel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
problemchild Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 When I was 4 or 5 years old, I heard Welcome to Paradise on the radio (99.9 the Buzz!) and thought it was the coolest thing. Asked my dad for a blank cassette and would sit in my room waiting for another Green Day song to come on, ready to press record on my boombox. Eventually I saved up enough allowance money, had my dad bring me to the nearest Best Buy, and bought Dookie, "the one with Welcome to Paradise on it". Listened to that CD so many times. Then one day mom mother decided she wanted to check out what this new CD was that I was listening to so much, she listened and read the lyrics and threw the CD out because it "wasn't appropriate for me". So the next time my dad brought me to Best Buy, he bought me another copy and said to not tell mom what it was. All in all, first album I ever purchased with my own money and was able to call my own. Still have that original CD (well, the second one), plus two other copies (one with Ernie, one without) since it got scratched up bad from use and a cassette because I wanted to listen to it in the car (but not when mom was along for the ride of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinji Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 First band that I actually used my own time to listen to. My brother got Dookie in one of those "only a quarter for a CD!" scams (along with Toxicity and Iowa) and I loved it, so I immediately bought American Idiot, and here I am now. I also bought Poodle Hat by Weird Al in the same trip to the Best Buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunkrock Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Anyone else remember watching this MTV concert religiously? I remember seeing that on TV when it came out and taping it when I was around 10. I made a decision to watch it everyday after school for the rest of my life, that lasted a good two months. But also I was so excited to hear songs that weren't on Dookie I remember begging my mom to take me to the one music store in town to see if they had any other Green Day cds. She bought me Kerplunk and I listened to the shit out of that album! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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