One year and two ‘sort-of’ albums later, Green Day released ‘Kerplunk’ to wit an early version of a little song was placed. Their first official debut studio album was a little something called ’39/Smooth’ which I think was still going through the teething process while the band were still finding their feet. They did release a little something before then but personally, I don’t count it as it was the VERY early days and they were called ‘Sweet Children’. Green Day, as a band have been going since the prehistoric age of 1990. However, I feel that to truly understand ‘Ordinary World’ and the mindset of its main character, we must all go on a history field trip and it starts in the 90’s.
And anything before that started with Nirvana. I’m not knocking these bands and also not denying that their songs feature heavily on a special playlist on my I-Pod, I’m just saying that in this great family tree of American Rock, sitting at the top is Green Day. Then they become Fallout Boy, Sum 41 and All Time Low. You see, people listen to Green Day and think, ‘Wow, this band is great! I want to be as successful and amazing and handsome as they are!’ Then those with the actual balls and talent to carry it through end up becoming Blink-182, The Offspring, and so on then fans of those bands listen to their music and think ‘Wow, these bands are great!’ Etc, etc, etc. If we’re all being honest with ourselves, Green Day have been the inspiration for over 20 years of American Rock bands. Green Day ARE one of, if not THE greatest rock bands of all time and that’s not a title I like to throw around like a Frisbee into a hippy circle. Green Day have gathered quite the ensemble since then, the longest runner being Jason White on rhythm guitar. There’s attractive frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong on lead vocals, lead guitar and lead songwriting equally attractive bassist, Mike Dirnt who also dobs in with a bit of songwriting and their powerfully erotic and only slightly quirky drummer, Tre Cool whose not above doing a bit of songwriting himself. I don’t need to tell you but just in case you’ve been living on the Moon, welcome back to Earth and the line-up of the good looking trio goes thus. Yes it’s Green Day, the band that every man wants to be in and woman wants to be on top of.
GREEN DAY ORDINARY WORLD MOVIE MOVIE
As all you clever clogs have established by now, this is a film review/autopsy site and there is simply no room for me to stand my favourite bands on a pedestal at the top of Mount Olympus and give them a bloody good drenching in my own saliva BUT the release of a movie starring the frontman from one of the greatest rock bands ever has given me pause for thought and enough time to set up that pedestal.
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