Posted on 02/13/2005 8:34:18 PM PST by CitizenHelper
In true punk rock fashion, Green Day tested the censors at the Grammy Awards on Sunday _ and the censors were ready. The Bay Area rockers, on a career high with their "American Idiot" album, added a shot of rock 'n' roll adrenaline by performing the title cut. The disc won the Grammy for best rock album.
The song includes a prominent obscenity in one of the lyrics, but the censors were plainly prepared and neatly excised the word. They couldn't delete, however, singer Billie Joe Armstrong's pointed political reference to not wanting to be part of a redneck agenda.
Green Day was energetic and confident, a band that's grown up but hasn't left its punk roots behind: witness the smoothly practiced leap and landing from the riser by drummer Tre Cool. And Armstrong was a live wire.
By the way, what's up with trios that expand to quartets onstage but pretend the other member doesn't exist? At least the camera operators didn't completely ignore the mysterious fourth member on guitar.
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Green day SUCKS!!
Is there going to be a Valentine's Day Thread?
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Are these the guys trying to sound like a Billy Bragg playing rock and roll?
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I'm no censorship fan. That said, Green Day is extremely offensive to my ears - because their "music" really sucks, and because Billy Joe sings worse than me with his pathetic whine.
I'm just wondering, and it has nothing to do with greenday, if there will be a Valentine's Day thread.
They sound like turds....
I have no idea.
They rock as much as MTV is "cool".....
Bump...Not only do they Suck they are not Punk they are POP.
Does anybody care about the grammys or the oscars awards? I have never watched either one. I don't listen to the award winners or watch their movies, except Lord of the Rings, they got it right last year. I didn't watch it because it won. These awards are only for the winners, the rest of America doesn't care about any of it. Only the contestents watch this drivel. I can't stand to watch these stupid idiots nominate themselves and watch themselves get the awards. F@ck um. Note to award sponsors, quit sponsoring them, nobody watches or cares. Besides, they usually get it wrong, nobody watches the winners usually.
Since when is punk roots defined as "the smoothly practiced leap"? Whatta load of crap!
"Does anybody care about the grammys or the oscars awards?"
Never heard of them....
If the censors couldn't keep that one off the air, it's not a problem. Mainly because the American agenda is rolling along with or without Billie Joe.
Billie Joe can join us if he wants, but if he doesn't, it's fine. We won without him and his west coast weaklings, and we'll continue to win even if he and his west coast weaklings resist us.
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