If the band was to announce themselves, they'd say "I'm Billie, he's Tre, and he's Mike, and together we are Green
Day." The band's name can refer to both the single entity ("Green Day has a new album") or the collective members of the group
("Green Day are passed out on my lawn"). In most situations the two meanings are interchangeable and either "is" or "are" would
be correct.
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Why are Green Day still popular?
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Posts: 18251 (05/23/09 3:53 PM) Registered user |
snowboarders only wrote: Zactly. And even those two songs are just midly good to begin with. And by "popular" I mean that I've been hearing them non stop on the radio for the past 15 years. |
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On occasion, rock & roll has been known to depart from the delicate American Idol sensibilites.
I say go Billy Joe! I'm still mulling 21st Century Breakdown, but here's my suspicion: These are the The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia combined, only with a single protagonist. Kind of like Faulkner would do with his Yoknapatawpha characters. On these, quit listening for hit singles. Listen to the full flow of the album. |
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Posts: 4461 (05/23/09 4:38 PM) Registered user |
Because even at their worst, they're still better than most of the crap out there that passes for music.
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Posts: 2410 (05/23/09 4:51 PM) |
Antithesys wrote:another addition to terrible-antithesys-opinions.txt |
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Posts: 12368 (05/23/09 5:01 PM)
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Still in anguish that Clay didn't win. |
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Posts: 2411 (05/23/09 5:17 PM) |
that green day, just not mainstream enough for me...
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Posts: 1860 (05/23/09 5:33 PM) |
I don't care for Green Day either. Oh Wyldawg. We are going to be so happy together. Just you wait and see. <3 <3 <3
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Us Kids Know |
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Piranhahaha wrote: Oh, Piranhahaha. |
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Posts: 4974 (05/23/09 7:55 PM) |
I liked bits of Kerplunk, but never enough to buy it. Never bothered listening to any of the Green Day albums after that one. Haven't ever been interested.
And please don't tell me anyone is surprised when Anti has an idiotic opinion about anything. |
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Posts: 18253 (05/23/09 10:24 PM) Registered user |
Pseudo Propaganda wrote: Well a lot of people hate Green day, it's merely coincidence, not a soulmate moment. |
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Posts: 32993 (05/23/09 10:43 PM) Registered user |
Green Day has grown to become a fantastic band. You don't have to enjoy them, but you have to recognize they're expanding their genre in ways nobody
else are doing. American Idiot is going to be in my top ten albums of the decade. I'm a little disappointed they went with the whole 'song cycle'
thing again with the new album but its growing on me.
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Posts: 2228 (05/23/09 11:38 PM) Registered user |
No - you're referring to the band which is singular despite a name that ends with a plural noun. I guess you can say "Are the Rolling Stones still touring?" for example if you want to sound more colloquial or something but as long as you're referring to a band (singular) and not a bunch of rocks (plural, see?) you're wrong, wrong, wrong. If the band was to announce themselves, they'd say "I'm Billie, he's Tre, and he's Mike, and together we are Green Day." The band's name can refer to both the single entity ("Green Day has a new album") or the collective members of the group ("Green Day are passed out on my lawn"). In most situations the two meanings are interchangeable and either "is" or "are" would be correct. |
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Posts: 1837 (05/24/09 8:04 AM) Registered user |
Hey, they're on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood today. What could be any cooler than that?
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Posts: 631 (05/24/09 8:08 AM) |
He's a dad?
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