Members of Green Day lambast Bush

The Herald Tribune ^ | September 29, 2004 | AP

[Reactionary]

I'm sure "American Idiot" will make a big splash with idiots everywhere.

[Freakazoid]

Bunch o' maroons. I pray for their souls.

[mountaineer]

BFD.

[Right Wing Professor]

Has-beens.

[Mr. Mojo]

"It was a little hipper to be apathetic (back then)," says singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong

So if it were "hip" to support Bush would he be on that bandwagon too? Deep thinker here.

[ER_in_OC,CA]

Add that "American Idiot" by Green Day is on the Madden 2005 game soundtrack. So if you are your kids are playing the game, they're hearing it.

Catchy tune. In the game setup you can take the song off the playlist.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Maybe they should change their band name to "American Idiots" instead...

[Terabitten]

Drummer Tre Cool added that it's important for those in the public eye to make their opinions known.

No, you dumb sh*t. It's important for musicians in the public eye to make a decent album for once. Even Frank Zappa said "shut up and play yer guitar."

[cjshapi]

And we would care about what they think or say why?

[Pete]

Didn't Pete Townshend pretty much already do this almost 40 years ago?

[MikefromOhio]

Anyone completely and totally surprised about this, please run full speed into your nearest cement and/or brick wall...


Green Day has a couple of good songs on previous albums, however, who gives a Sh!t about their politics?

[chimera]

Drummer Tre Cool added that it's important for those in the public eye to make their opinions known.

I say it's a good thing, too. When buttwipes like these come out, it just drives more of the mainstream to the conservative side. Bring it on, punk boys.

[GSWarrior]

We're probably the best Green Day-type band there is out there,"

Odd quote, considering that Green Day is probably the best Buzzcocks-type band there is out there.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Drummer Tre Cool added that it's important for those in the public eye to make their opinions known."

Why? and who says?

I think Laura Ingram said it best with "shut-up and sing"...

[conservativo]

I think so, too. They picked the perfect target audience.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah - I take a lot of political advice from apathetic, drugged-out musicians hoping for a little notoriety to sell their latest "work." But jeez, guys, the "rock opera" thing went out with Quadrophenia. Thank God.

[Mr.Atos]

Well, well, well... the American Idiots speak!

My personal tribute to the embicils can be read here.

American Idiot…

Paying homage to the posterboy of boorish insult (Elton John), I will answer the sophmoric angst of a naked generation of the absurdly alternative as expressed through a contemporary troop of contrived zeros, by dedicating a previously recorded argument to their green-necked bigotry and feckless stupidity... ( My Sandmen )

[Low-Carb Bartender]

... tanks going into Baghdad with splashes of Viagra commercials in between. I was just so confused about what was going on.


Poor baby. Put down the doob and pick up a paper instead.

[conservativo]

If you don't care about a post, don't read it, for god's sake.