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.
Wasn't that a David Lee Roth move?
Furthermore, the Grammys have been diluted by other music-related award ceremonies. You have the country music awards, MTV music awards, Soul Train music awards, Billboard, and the infamous Source awards.
Green Day blows..Nothing there at all..No talent , no message , nothing new or creative , crap players ...whats left ?
Speak for yourself. Millions of Americans and other Earthlings watched.
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Speak for yourself. Millions of Americans and other Earthlings watched.
I did. Are you sure you are from Earth?
The current single "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" is in very heavy rotation on my iPod!
Pop quiz. What city does Green Day hail from?
Grown up bands would not name an album "American Idiot"
I have never heard a thing that they have done and, for sure, I will avoid them in the future
Don't know what all the hullaballoo is over Green Day. They don't do anything that wasn't done better by the Clash, the Jam and a whole lot of other bands back in 1979. I thought they sounded pretty good on the Grammys, but that was mostly because they were surrounded by some of the most godawful crap that anybody ever tried to foist off on the gullible public as music. It's no wonder so many Grammys went to Ray Charles: even dead, he has more musical talent than most of these fashion models, poseurs and refugees from street gangs.
I just finished studying the guitar chords for the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
Simple song, but it rocks.
Ugh, Green day's new album sounds like their trying to be hoobastank. My friend has it, and I'd rather dig my eyes out with a spork than listen to "Jesus of suburbia" drag on forever one more time.
San Fagsisco.
The Gay Area.
Sick Fransisko.
NOPE....Bezerkley!
Ain't that the truth.
Furthermore, the Grammys have been diluted by other music-related award ceremonies. You have the country music awards, MTV music awards, Soul Train music awards, Billboard, and the infamous Source awards.
Yea, the only thing we listen/watch is the Country Music Awards, my husband may watch some of it, I hear it when he swithes the channel, I'm usually on FreeRepublic.
Same difference. :-)
Doesn't CBS or the Grammys producers have any protocol people? If they did, would they know or care about these things?
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