Cultural impact: Blink vs Green Day

[JG Da GOAT]

37 minutes ago, Jan's Plan said:

I mean Time Of Your Life was on Nimrod..

And I bet you loved What Went Wrong, blink’s sub par weak ass version of this song?

[Jan Mortensen]

8 minutes ago, Diddy Faplord said:

And I bet you loved What Went Wrong, blink’s sub par weak ass version of this song?

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[JG Da GOAT]

1 hour ago, Jan's Plan said:

Is this a blink board or..?

Apparently it’s a Paramore board 

[JG Da GOAT]

1 minute ago, Jan's Plan said:

Here:

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You’re an idiot. Blink is more Emo than Green Day you tool 

[Champ182]

10 hours ago, bobbo11290 said:

Spoiler

It’s kinda more complex than it seems on the surface imo. Green Day had more time together, put out more albums, and thus did well for themselves. But from where I stand, and from my experience, blink really did more to inspire bands sonically than I’ve ever seen Green Day do. Green Day was more of just a popular thing (twice admittedly) that happened, but blink inspired the sound of several bands (for better or worse) that followed. Sure, Green Day opened doors for blink to have a place in the market, but I’ve seldom see a lot of the popular bands that followed claim to have been musically inspired by Green Day like they claim they’ve been inspired by enema era blink.

It’s weird though, because I think American Idiot was both the best and worst thing that ever happened to Green Day. At the time, it was huge, and got them out of a rough commercial  slump for sure. But in retrospect I think it’s aged terribly for a whole lot of people.
 

For example at bars with general crowds that have touch tunes, it’s usually your typical top 40 stuff that gets played. But every once in a while, someone will put on some nostalgic stuff containing both Green Day and Blink. When something like Basket Case, Good Riddance, and/or Holiday will pop on, nobody cares. Nobody moves. Nobody sings along. But then a few minutes later what’s my age again, damnit, I miss you, and/or All the small things pops up and that same crowd will eccentrically sing every fucking word in unison. It’s jarring. And it’s happened at several bars I’ve been to over the years. Sure that’s just my experience in just little ol Buffalo, NY, but it sure as shit wasn’t just a one off fluke.

With American Idiot, it was the right thing at the right time, but it feels like a lot of what made it popular then makes it seem so contrived in hindsight today. Them adhering to the “cool kid” guy liner and studded belt look that was everywhere in ‘04. The Bush bashing that was on the rage in a crazy election year that made it widen it’s demographic at the time. But it kinda pigeon holed them into a certain outlook from the general public, and what was cool then just seems so lame now. A lot of it just feels a bit phony now. 
 

Make of that what you will, but I grew up to both of them at the peak of their popularity, and the people I grew up with seem to get a much more nostalgic jolt with blink than they ever do with Green Day. Even now, a blink concert is basically a high school reunion with literally every clique attending. Blink and Green Day both played near me in 2017 and literally everyone was at the blink show while no one I knew, literally not one person, was like “hey, who’s going to Green Day?” on Facebook. Again, make of that what you will.

 

This is spot on with my experience too. Like I said in my post about it, it's probably very generational and I can also speak for just my own experiences too, but it does really seem like maybe more people loved Green Day at specific times which give them the edge in numbers and sales, but more people hold Blink with them forever which gives them the edge in lasting influence.

Again, just talking about millennials and how I've personally seen musical influence from both bands live on in the past couple decades. In terms of Dookie changing everything in 1994 + American Idiot being everywhere 10 years later, Green Day takes the cake in numbers and changing the game overall.

[Jan Mortensen]

10 minutes ago, Diddy Faplord said:

Apparently it’s a Paramore board 

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[JG Da GOAT]

17 minutes ago, Jan's Plan said:

*Oasis

For the record I don’t think you’re a tool. And I also voted for blink edging out GD in this poll. I’ve just seen some very opinionated reasons against GD which have been silly 

[Nasa]

i get that we all love blink, but preferring their music to Green Day's doesn't make them more influential, hahaha.

[JG Da GOAT]

1 minute ago, Nasa said:

i get that we all love blink, but preferring their music to Green Day's doesn't make them more influential, hahaha.

Winner winner chicken dinner. Amazing how many people can’t look at anything objectively. 

[BlinkFloyd]

3 hours ago, Jan's Plan said:

Greenday = Teenage girl emo music, occasional hit

Blink = Cooler kids, down to earth adults, many hits

 

Pretty simple

Sorry dude but this is ridiculous.  I love blink way more than Green Day but the number of hits is not even comparable.  Green Day is in the top 3 with Foo Fighters and RHCP for the most #1 alternative rock songs all-time (they might even be number one now).  They have around 13 or so...blink has three.  Add in all their other hits and how they've also been able to cross over to the mainstream rock charts (the radio stations that claim to play real rock), and it's clear - Green Day destroys blink in this area. 

[daveyjones]

12 hours ago, bobbo11290 said:

But then a few minutes later what’s my age again, damnit, I miss you, and/or All the small things pops up and that same crowd will eccentrically sing every fucking word in unison.

one good song out of three shitty ones ain't bad

[daveyjones]

4 hours ago, Jan's Plan said:

Greenday = Teenage girl emo music, occasional hit

Blink = Cooler kids, down to earth adults, many hits

i know you're tolling hard, but i'll play along. i don't know what planet you're living on. but we live on earth. and on planet earth, warning—arguably the band's worst album—was a top twenty hit in no less than eight countries.

[daveyjones]

1 hour ago, Nasa said:

i get that we all love blink, but preferring their music to Green Day's doesn't make them more influential, hahaha.

nice. that's about it. i prefer blink. but the people who write rock history—the hall of fame, the critics, the RIAA, the grammys, the billboard charts—will always hold green day over blink, and with good reason. the facts are on their side.

[Speedo]

1 hour ago, daveyjones said:

i know you're tolling hard, but i'll play along. i don't know what planet you're living on. but we live on earth. and on planet earth, warning—arguably the band's worst album—was a top twenty hit in no less than eight countries.

Warning was great!

[daveyjones]

2 minutes ago, Speedo said:

Warning was great!

i'm sure it has its fans, senior @Speedo among them! but it is consistently ranked at the bottom, both critically (tepid) and in sales (lackluster).

[Speedo]

7 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

i'm sure it has its fans, senior @Speedo among them! but it is consistently ranked at the bottom, both critically (tepid) and in sales (lackluster).

Those people are wrong!

[daveyjones]

6 minutes ago, Speedo said:

Those people are wrong!

yea and blink matters MORE than green day anyways because of my hot topic mall goth snowflake tears! of COURSE blink is more influential, why do you think i have a good charlotte tattoo???

[Speedo]

8 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

yea and blink matters MORE than green day anyways because of my hot topic mall goth snowflake tears! of COURSE blink is more influential, why do you think i have a good charlotte tattoo???

Because you were a drunk slut in college?

[daveyjones]

1 minute ago, Speedo said:

Because you were a drunk slut in college?

always fun to troll with you @Speedo

[Nasa]

I love Warning!