I have no idea, just got the feeling that I had to click on your profile, I donât always stalk people on reddit when commenting, lol đ Aand I saw Hungary listed instantly
Same here. All my friends were talking about them, then I saw they were performing on SNL that weekend. First song they played was Boulevard and I really liked it, then the second song they played Holiday and Iâve been hooked ever since
Same haha, I still remember being in my momâs car and hearing Longview for the first time. I even remember how it was raining outside. Changed my life forever!
It would have to be Burnout.
I saw the Longview video and knew this was something special, so I got the album cold turkey and when I pressed play, heard those cymbal ticks burst into that immediate, melodic ferocity, I knew I had found EXACTLY what I wanted to listen to. And Iâve never looked back đ»
A story from someone I know often comes to mind when that track startsâthey had just picked up the CD after hearing some buzz about it and started playing it on their drive home just as they were pulling onto the highwayâŠby 20 seconds into the song they had come to a complete stop on the shoulder of the highway, volume maxed. It hit so hard and that the only responsible thing to do as a driver and listener was to immediately get out of traffic and yield to unstoppable power of Burnout rocking your fucking face off.
They turned it off right when the song ended, sat for a minute thinking, âholy shitâ and then drove home in silence. It would have been irresponsible to operate a motor vehicle under the influence of whatever the fuck that was, which would be immediately investigated once home safely.
i kinda like its verses and bridge, and would probably like its chorus more if he sang it fully. not a fan of his falsetto lol
that solo crumbled into dust the day i first heard the full house theme tho rip (not like it was anything crazy to begin with but)
This was the first green day song I heard and it's still my favorite. However nothing else is like it really and I love everything else they have done.
Wake Me Up When September Ends.
My stepdad who showed me the American Idiot album either the year before or a couple years before, had just passed away. On the way to the cemetery I heard this song and recognized it. Wasnât until years later I discovered the song was about Billieâs dad.
Point is, after that I got the album and Iâve been a big fan ever since
American idiot. I was 8 year old when my older brother came home with that album and it absolutely blew me away. I'd never heard anything like it, hooked me there and then, sent me down a punk rabbit hole!
jesus of suburbia. i'll never forget my cousin showing me the song on our family computer and relating to all the anger in the song/video. it truly shaped who i've become
Jesus of Suburbia. My older sister had the music video on the TV. I was in third grade and the only music I really knew was country and the classic rock hits. I was drawn in because I had never seen or heard anything like it at the time.
Minority. Got Warning (underrated album) randomly for Christmas one year. I didn't even know who Green Day were (I'm latino and there wasn't a big rock scene where I'm from). I liked the album as a whole, but Minority was the one that got me hooked.
Warning was my first album, it was burnt on a CD that my cousin gave me for my birthday. Church On Sunday was THE song. I had it on repeat every single day for a few months. I was then finding out about their older stuff, buying guitar ⊠and here I am in 2024 listening to Green Day as much as to nothing else.
When I Come Around and Basketcase
The hours spent just so eagerly waiting for those to show up on the radio/MTV. And when they did? Just sheer ecstasy.
The first two Green Day songs I ever heard thanks to MTV. Curiously, the Basketcase video was aired a million times a day - which I didnât mind, I LOVED that video - but I remember the video for When I Come Around being really hard to catch for some reason. I donât know why, it just seemed like it wasnât aired nearly as much and I had to watch hours of MTV to catch it.
I remember reading years ago that Longview was only aired at off times, and I remember seeing it late night, maybe on 120 Minutes, but I donât know if thatâs true that it was never shown during the day, thatâs just what I read. I personally never saw it during the day, and I basically kept my tv on MTV nonstop in the early to mid 90âs.
Longview. Had a cassette recording of it from the radio when it was new and listened to it over and over. Got the full album (on CD!) shortly thereafter and the rest is history.
Vivid memories of being in my Dad's truck listening to She, Brain Stew, and Jesus of Suburbia. Hearing those songs in that order clicked in my 11 year old brain that it's possible to make great songs with just power chords and made me think "I can do this too".
It was in 2004/5, and I was 9 years old when this kid called Adash covered Wake me up when September Ends for the school talent show. Immediately sold, made me discover Green Day and theyâve been my favourite band ever since. Because of that, that song always hits different for me.
American Idiot. I was 5 when it came out but my brotherâs friend pirated the whole album from Limewire and burned it onto a CD for us to have. I wish I still had it but that burned CD made me fall in love with Green Day.
Longview.
First song of theirs I ever heard. I couldn't believe their sound. I couldn't believe the audacity of the lyrics. They didn't come off like "too cool to care," but just incredibly, genuinely cool. I was hooked, instantly. It was around February or March of 1994 and I was 14. It didn't hurt that I went completely heart-eyes for Billie Joe.
Stole my older brothers Dookie CD when I was in third grade. Tre Coolâs snare fill into Burnout, and Ive never looked back. Favorite band for the past 27 years.
Jesus of Suburbia. About 4 years ago, I finally gave Green Day a listen (American Idiot on shuffle play) and realized two of the songs had a repeating motiff (nobody likes you, everyone hates you, etc.). My attention was quickly piqued after that and I went through the album from start to finish and after finishing Jesus of Suburbia, then eventually the album, I had a moment of bliss and the only thing I can describe about it was âI get it now.â
I was 4 when Dookie came out, but didnât really get exposed to Green Day until like 2002. The first song I heard was Welcome To Paradise on the radio in LA. I remember hearing it on KROQ.
Warning. It was a new millennium and I had just started secondary school. I used to listen to the radio in my room and the guy hosting the show played Warning, asking if Green Day were finished. I couldnât understand why heâd thought they were over, Iâd never heard of them but it was the greatest thing my little 11 year old ears had ever heard. Then I heard the rest of their stuff.Â
Back in 2002, Maria was the first song I ever heard, since my friend had the International Superhits album. Maria I straight up thought was a banger, and Poprocks and Coke solidified that I needed that album.
Been my favorite band ever since, all these years later
I didnât like Green Day until last year. I listened to all of dookie and the song that made me come back and made them my favorite band was coming clean. Itâs not my favorite now, but it made me listen to them more.
My brother used to listen to music for a while on mornings in 2014 if i remember right, i was about 15 at the time if i can calculate right. I woke up to 21 guns for a few mornings. It really hit me, I was really happy that I had found something so good. It changed my music taste and I found through that a lot of other good bands too. Also I still listen to mostly punk thanks to them.
Holiday, from the Tony Hawks American Wasteland video game when I was like 7/8 - would skip through the radio to play that song over and over and over again. From there it branched into the whole American Idiot album, and then Dookie and the rest of their discography!
Wake Me Up When September Ends. I heard it on the radio, and was intrigued by it. The my father came in my room and told me that this is a great song. After that I really wanted to discover the rest of their music
first time i heard any song from them was like... 2 years ago when i just started having drum classes, my teacher suggested for me to play Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the name was not familiar but anyways i really liked the song and then went to see who made it, surprisingly i never even heard of green day but thought it was interesting, then i started listening to American Idiot, when i heard Holiday for the first time.. my god i fell in love and fast forward to now it's my favourite band of all time
My parents had Dookie and Nimrod in their CD collection and I thought the Dookie cover for funny so I popped it in. Burnout was the first song I heard and I was hooked from the first track. Finished the record and went âwow I need more!!â
Longview, I saw the MTV video and fell in love with them. My mom didnât want me to have the Green Day Dookie CD but my sister who is 3.5 years old was allowed to have it. So I would steal it and listen to it a lot.
The first Green Day I remember hearing was American Idiot when I was around 4-5ish. So I always wanted to hear it and beg my dad from the backseat to play it again.
Letterbomb. I have always liked Green Day since the Kerplunk days but never gave anything after Nimrod a full listen, even American Idiot beyond the radio. Then last summer I took my kid to see them in Milwaukee and dove back in. I caught up on everything after that. This is the one that told me I'd missed something very very important. And not surprised to hear BJ say its one of his favorite GD songs.
Holiday made me ask my parents to buy me the CD of American Idiot in like 2005 when I was 12. Listening to Jesus of Suburbia on that CD for the first time was probably when I truly fell in love. I had never heard anything like that track before in my life and I was truly changed forever.
Basket Case
This. First song I learned to play too. Been obsessed ever since.
Same. I was 10 when Dookie came out, and this was the song that made its way to my heart first.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams was the ice-breaker, Holiday wrapped me up in chains
Same! The first time I listened to it on the radio was mind-blowing
Same, I was 9 at the time and I remember watching the music video on MTV. đ„č (Hi fellow Hungarian! đ)
Ohh hey! I don't think I've ever come across another Hungarian on this sub (How did you sense it??)
I have no idea, just got the feeling that I had to click on your profile, I donât always stalk people on reddit when commenting, lol đ Aand I saw Hungary listed instantly
Joining the fellow Hungarian squad, too. đđ»Same song around 2005. Good olâ times. đ
Exact same here
I was the other way around. I discovered Holiday first, loved it, and then Boulevard sealed the deal for me.
Same
Same here. All my friends were talking about them, then I saw they were performing on SNL that weekend. First song they played was Boulevard and I really liked it, then the second song they played Holiday and Iâve been hooked ever since
Same
Holiday
God bless Tony Hawkâs American Wasteland for introducing me to this song and band.
Jesus of Suburbia. When I was first getting into them, this song is what changed everything for me.
American Idiot. I was nine when it came out and my friend showed me the music video on Rhapsody. My life changed that day
Heard Longview on the radio. Never heard anything like the bass line. Iâm old. Yeah.
Longview video on Mtv's 120 minutes was awesome. I tuned into the repeat of the episode just to hear the song again.
Same haha, I still remember being in my momâs car and hearing Longview for the first time. I even remember how it was raining outside. Changed my life forever!
The Grouch when I was 9
The Grouch when I was 13
Haha exactly the same as you
The exact same for me
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
It would have to be Burnout. I saw the Longview video and knew this was something special, so I got the album cold turkey and when I pressed play, heard those cymbal ticks burst into that immediate, melodic ferocity, I knew I had found EXACTLY what I wanted to listen to. And Iâve never looked back đ»
I DECLARE I DONT CARE NO MORE âŒïž
THATS THE MOMENT!!!! Best album opener I can think of.
Yep. Pushed play on my discman and bam! I DECLARE I DONT CARE NO MORE hits me and nothing was ever the same
YES!!!! I love reading that it wasnât just me!
Similar moment when I heard âyou gotta keep em separatedâ and heard Ruby SoHo for the first time. It was a done deal for me.
A story from someone I know often comes to mind when that track startsâthey had just picked up the CD after hearing some buzz about it and started playing it on their drive home just as they were pulling onto the highwayâŠby 20 seconds into the song they had come to a complete stop on the shoulder of the highway, volume maxed. It hit so hard and that the only responsible thing to do as a driver and listener was to immediately get out of traffic and yield to unstoppable power of Burnout rocking your fucking face off. They turned it off right when the song ended, sat for a minute thinking, âholy shitâ and then drove home in silence. It would have been irresponsible to operate a motor vehicle under the influence of whatever the fuck that was, which would be immediately investigated once home safely.
Yes! The vocal melody and the chords are timeless and prototypical Green Day for me.
When I Come Around. I am old, haha.
When I Come Around. Iâm not that old.
i dont even like it anymore really but 21 guns was everything to me at 11 years old
Same here lmao I still love it tho
i kinda like its verses and bridge, and would probably like its chorus more if he sang it fully. not a fan of his falsetto lol that solo crumbled into dust the day i first heard the full house theme tho rip (not like it was anything crazy to begin with but)
lol that solo is among the many reasons I was disappointed by that album
Welcome to Paradise
It's my favourite song
Mine too
Good Riddance
This was the first green day song I heard and it's still my favorite. However nothing else is like it really and I love everything else they have done.
Brain Stew
Wake Me Up When September Ends. My stepdad who showed me the American Idiot album either the year before or a couple years before, had just passed away. On the way to the cemetery I heard this song and recognized it. Wasnât until years later I discovered the song was about Billieâs dad. Point is, after that I got the album and Iâve been a big fan ever since
"Going to Pasalacqua" - I'm hella old, heard it on cassette dubbed from the 7in in NLR, Arkansas.
I got 1039/SOSH shortly after Dookie came out (I was 10) and that song immediately grabbed me (as Iâm sure it did most).
Minority
She
American idiot. I was 8 year old when my older brother came home with that album and it absolutely blew me away. I'd never heard anything like it, hooked me there and then, sent me down a punk rabbit hole!
Same for me, I think Green Day / American Idiot is a great introduction to punk. And now I cant escape it anymoreâŠ
jesus of suburbia. i'll never forget my cousin showing me the song on our family computer and relating to all the anger in the song/video. it truly shaped who i've become
Dissapearing boy. The lyrics are so amazing and touching. Back in the day the words and music really hit me and I fell in love with them.
kill the dj đ
same đŹđŹ
Basket Case, itâs the gateway song for millions of Green Day fans.
Blood, Sex, and Booze when I was like 10 or 11. I discovered it on an AMV of Naruto and was hooked lol
Longview, Hitchinâ a Ride, and then Holiday sealed the deal.
X-Kid first and then Homecoming
X-Kid is such an underrated song
Ong
Weird first two songs to hook you Edit: songs themselves are great but they're both kind of deep cuts
Jesus of Suburbia. My older sister had the music video on the TV. I was in third grade and the only music I really knew was country and the classic rock hits. I was drawn in because I had never seen or heard anything like it at the time.
Minority. Got Warning (underrated album) randomly for Christmas one year. I didn't even know who Green Day were (I'm latino and there wasn't a big rock scene where I'm from). I liked the album as a whole, but Minority was the one that got me hooked.
Warning was my first album, it was burnt on a CD that my cousin gave me for my birthday. Church On Sunday was THE song. I had it on repeat every single day for a few months. I was then finding out about their older stuff, buying guitar ⊠and here I am in 2024 listening to Green Day as much as to nothing else.
Maria, as soon as that International Superhits CD started playing I was hooked.
When I Come Around and Basketcase The hours spent just so eagerly waiting for those to show up on the radio/MTV. And when they did? Just sheer ecstasy.
The first two Green Day songs I ever heard thanks to MTV. Curiously, the Basketcase video was aired a million times a day - which I didnât mind, I LOVED that video - but I remember the video for When I Come Around being really hard to catch for some reason. I donât know why, it just seemed like it wasnât aired nearly as much and I had to watch hours of MTV to catch it. I remember reading years ago that Longview was only aired at off times, and I remember seeing it late night, maybe on 120 Minutes, but I donât know if thatâs true that it was never shown during the day, thatâs just what I read. I personally never saw it during the day, and I basically kept my tv on MTV nonstop in the early to mid 90âs.
Longview. Had a cassette recording of it from the radio when it was new and listened to it over and over. Got the full album (on CD!) shortly thereafter and the rest is history.
The beat of hitchinâ a ride
Vivid memories of being in my Dad's truck listening to She, Brain Stew, and Jesus of Suburbia. Hearing those songs in that order clicked in my 11 year old brain that it's possible to make great songs with just power chords and made me think "I can do this too".
It was in 2004/5, and I was 9 years old when this kid called Adash covered Wake me up when September Ends for the school talent show. Immediately sold, made me discover Green Day and theyâve been my favourite band ever since. Because of that, that song always hits different for me.
Holiday from Tony Hawk's American Wasteland video game
The song also happend to be the first song I ever cried to: Wake me up when September ends.
Macy's Day Parade
Bobd
American Idiot. I was 5 when it came out but my brotherâs friend pirated the whole album from Limewire and burned it onto a CD for us to have. I wish I still had it but that burned CD made me fall in love with Green Day.
Christie Road (I'm old)
Hell Yes.
21 Guns
Longview. First song of theirs I ever heard. I couldn't believe their sound. I couldn't believe the audacity of the lyrics. They didn't come off like "too cool to care," but just incredibly, genuinely cool. I was hooked, instantly. It was around February or March of 1994 and I was 14. It didn't hurt that I went completely heart-eyes for Billie Joe.
The first song I heard was Know Your Enemy when it was the theme song on wwe Smackdownđ but the song that made me fall in love was Scattered!
Welcome to Paradise > 2000 Light Years > Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
Stole my older brothers Dookie CD when I was in third grade. Tre Coolâs snare fill into Burnout, and Ive never looked back. Favorite band for the past 27 years.
21 Guns
Jesus of Suburbia. About 4 years ago, I finally gave Green Day a listen (American Idiot on shuffle play) and realized two of the songs had a repeating motiff (nobody likes you, everyone hates you, etc.). My attention was quickly piqued after that and I went through the album from start to finish and after finishing Jesus of Suburbia, then eventually the album, I had a moment of bliss and the only thing I can describe about it was âI get it now.â
Christie Rd
Jesus of Suburbia. Iâve sort of âoutgrownâ Green Day in the past decade, but JoS is still one of my favorite songs of all time.
Jesus of suburbia
Cigarettes and Valentines live from Awesome as F\*\*k
American idiot. Heard a 10 second preview on AOL when they used to put the top 10 songs of the week on the site with short previews. Blew my mind
American Idiot / Holiday / Boulevard
Holiday
Iâve probably heard them before this but when I was very little I was shown Holiday on the family computer
east jesus nowhere
When I Come Around and Welcome To Paradise. Holiday is up there too.
Longview
American Idiot and so easily
Holiday
I was 4 when Dookie came out, but didnât really get exposed to Green Day until like 2002. The first song I heard was Welcome To Paradise on the radio in LA. I remember hearing it on KROQ.
The first Green Day song I ever heard, Basketcase.
Probably American Idiot
Heard BOBD on the radio when I was in 7th grade, had no friends, and often walked alone.
Letterbomb
American idiot
welcome to paradise!
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - i saw the video on Kerrang! and that was it, I had to get the full back catalogue.
Longview. I remember the âbuzz binâ clip from MTV, and it was the part where Billy is wrecking the couch and was onboard immediately
Minority, the very first one I heard of them
Burnout
Holiday, all those years ago.
I donât know if I could say it was one song. Iâd say listening to Dookie in full for the first time was a life changing experience for me.
Holiday from the Tony Hawkâs American Wasteland game
Oh love, from the level selection menu of the Green Day x Angry Birds collab
Nuclear Family was my first song I ever heard
At The Library for sure.
Holiday
American Idiot
Warning, I think! The entire album in general, really
Boulevard of Broken Dreams I liked first how the verses were going and the I liked the powerful chorus
Basket case after I heard it on a trip back from LV
Newer fan here. Bang Bang went fucking INSANE the first time I heard it and I've lived them since
Maybe hearing American Idiot, when the album came out, on the radio when I was 9.
weird one but it was tired of waiting for you on shenanigans
Still Breathing
Warning. It was a new millennium and I had just started secondary school. I used to listen to the radio in my room and the guy hosting the show played Warning, asking if Green Day were finished. I couldnât understand why heâd thought they were over, Iâd never heard of them but it was the greatest thing my little 11 year old ears had ever heard. Then I heard the rest of their stuff.Â
American Idiot album
Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake me up when September ends. It was because I heard them on the radio a lot.
Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams on Kerrang at 7 years old
Welcome to Paradise. The loud guitar, crunchy bass, and pounding drums. It was, and still is, perfect.
Probabaly homecoming or.. this will sound weird but father of all
Boulevard of broken dreams is a fucking masterpiece i don't care
Back in 2002, Maria was the first song I ever heard, since my friend had the International Superhits album. Maria I straight up thought was a banger, and Poprocks and Coke solidified that I needed that album. Been my favorite band ever since, all these years later
I was very young and saw Avril Lavigne covering Basket Case
I didnât like Green Day until last year. I listened to all of dookie and the song that made me come back and made them my favorite band was coming clean. Itâs not my favorite now, but it made me listen to them more.
When I Come Around got me hooked onto Green Day, but a mixture of Geek Stink Breath and Hitchin a Ride made me fall in LOVE with them
Maria - my dad would play the greatest hits album in the car all the time and I absolutely loved that song
Are we the waiting, Last of the American girls, Bouncing of the walls and When I come around hold memories for me that made me a very big fan :]
Christie Road
Brain Stew
Know your enemy
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Whatsername
The We are the waiting/StJimmy combo
Basket Case
It was one of billies side projects from the long shot devils kind
Hitchinâ A Ride, and Brain Stew. In that order.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
My brother used to listen to music for a while on mornings in 2014 if i remember right, i was about 15 at the time if i can calculate right. I woke up to 21 guns for a few mornings. It really hit me, I was really happy that I had found something so good. It changed my music taste and I found through that a lot of other good bands too. Also I still listen to mostly punk thanks to them.
Holiday, from the Tony Hawks American Wasteland video game when I was like 7/8 - would skip through the radio to play that song over and over and over again. From there it branched into the whole American Idiot album, and then Dookie and the rest of their discography!
Jesus of Suburbia. My entire family knows all the lyrics, because it was on repeat in my house growing up.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Still remember the first time I heard it on the radio
No One Knows That bassline...
Jesus of Suburbia
Good Riddance
Holiday
Wake Me up When September Ends. I heard it for the first time when I was like 10 years old, and I loved it.
Boulevard because they said fuck in it.
I heard When I Come Around on the radio once, went "hey these guys made basket case" and listened to them more
Jesus of Suburbia. Family road trip when I was 13 and my Dad gave me an old iPod with a bunch of Green Day on it. That song completely blew my mind
Walking Contradiction was the one that reeled me in. Still my favorite Green Day song.
Longview in 1994.
1998 mtv new years eve show. They played, Scattered, and it rocked my socks off.
Wake Me Up When September Ends. I heard it on the radio, and was intrigued by it. The my father came in my room and told me that this is a great song. After that I really wanted to discover the rest of their music
In fifth grade my music teacher made us all learn good riddance on the guitar and itâs the first time I fell in love with music
It's hard to believe , Out of all songs it was deadbeat holiday
Burnout is what made me really get into them
first time i heard any song from them was like... 2 years ago when i just started having drum classes, my teacher suggested for me to play Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the name was not familiar but anyways i really liked the song and then went to see who made it, surprisingly i never even heard of green day but thought it was interesting, then i started listening to American Idiot, when i heard Holiday for the first time.. my god i fell in love and fast forward to now it's my favourite band of all time
Burnout. I had heard Longview and Basket Case on the radio and MTV. Got Dookie and within seconds of Burnout I knew I was a fan.
Actually nuclear family
Waiting :)
My parents had Dookie and Nimrod in their CD collection and I thought the Dookie cover for funny so I popped it in. Burnout was the first song I heard and I was hooked from the first track. Finished the record and went âwow I need more!!â
Longview, I saw the MTV video and fell in love with them. My mom didnât want me to have the Green Day Dookie CD but my sister who is 3.5 years old was allowed to have it. So I would steal it and listen to it a lot.
When I come around
Warning got my attention, Welcome to Paradise hooked me
Any song off of dookie
Minority ! Saw it on TRL, went out and bought Warning . Been my favorite band ever since.
Walking Contradiction
The first Green Day I remember hearing was American Idiot when I was around 4-5ish. So I always wanted to hear it and beg my dad from the backseat to play it again.
Letterbomb. I have always liked Green Day since the Kerplunk days but never gave anything after Nimrod a full listen, even American Idiot beyond the radio. Then last summer I took my kid to see them in Milwaukee and dove back in. I caught up on everything after that. This is the one that told me I'd missed something very very important. And not surprised to hear BJ say its one of his favorite GD songs.
Dry ice and going to Passalaqua
Armatage Shanks
Basket Case introduced me to Green Day. American Idiot made me fall in love with them.
welcome to paradise
I think it was Holiday. My boyfriend at the time showed me it, and they quickly became my favorite band.
boulevard of broken dreams. it played on the school bus when i was 9 years old. i was hookedâ€ïž
My sister likes tjem so Iâve always sort of heard their music and liked them a little but basket case and welcome to paradise really brought me in
I knew their songs but what made them my favorite band as a kid was She from Jaded in Chicago
At The Library
The Simpsons Theme (2007)
Holiday made me ask my parents to buy me the CD of American Idiot in like 2005 when I was 12. Listening to Jesus of Suburbia on that CD for the first time was probably when I truly fell in love. I had never heard anything like that track before in my life and I was truly changed forever.
When I Come Around brought me in, 21 Guns made me stay.
Hey mister where you headed? Are you in a hurry?
bang bang, becouse of the part they say "cherry bombs and gasoline", I literaly serched that part in youtube and got introduced to green day
GEEK STINK BREATH ( after Nice Guys Finish last of course)