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The Offspring vs Green Day

  • The Offspring

    Votes: 10 50.0%

  • Green Day

    Votes: 10 50.0%
  • Total voters
    20
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SVTlover
Which of these bands do you think is best?

I've grown up listening to The Offspring and I've seen them live twice so my vote goes to them.

The reason I've put them up against Green Day is because they came from the same area but not been around for as long. And in the UK they are more popular which annoys me.
 
I'd take the Offspring, solely because of how awesome of an album "Smash" is.
 
Yup thats them.

Green Day all the way for me, much more listenable with more than 3 good songs.
 
I think Greendays older stuff is better than their more modern stuff. Take Basket Case and Minority two great songs but both from 1994.
 
Green Day, no question. The Offspring are a novelty act with a few decent songs. Green Day actually has some complexity to their songwriting, and they are extremely tight for a 3-piece.

Neither band is 'punk', by the way.
 
Not really comparable, but I pick The Offspring. But their older stuff is better. Can't really go wrong with a track titled "Kill the President" on their first album. :sly:
 
Speedster502
Take Basket Case and Minority two great songs but both from 1994.
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Minority was from 2000.

I'd take Green Day over the Offspring easily. My first recording ever was a Dookie tape and I still listen to everything they put out from 1000 Hours all the way to Foxboro Hot Tubs today. They've proven they can still put out good music, 20 years after they got together as a little number called Sweet Children.

People who trashtalk Green Day don't bother to listen to their entire albums or actually take a look at what they're producing. American Idiot was an absolutely amazing album when listened to from top to bottom in terms of songwriting, musicality and actual sound quality. I think their weakest albums are Warning and Shenanigans, but those still have a couple tracks that are pretty decent. My favorite is still 1,039/Smoohed Out Slappy Hours, which is an impressive tracklist for something thrown together by a bunch of 17 yearolds.
 
Duke
Green Day, no question. The Offspring are a novelty act with a few decent songs. Green Day actually has some complexity to their songwriting, and they are extremely tight for a 3-piece.

Neither band is 'punk', by the way.
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Yeah they're not punk compared to Avril Lavigne! I think I'd take older Green Day, but only if I had to. :\
 
The Offspring was my first rock band so I may be a little biased, but I've always liked The Offspring more than Green Day. I don't like their joke songs though, but All The Stuff from their s/t to Smash was all good, plus a few others such as Gone Away, Can't Get My Head Around You, and The Kids Aren't Alright.
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
Not really comparable, but I pick The Offspring. But their older stuff is better. Can't really go wrong with a track titled "Kill the President" on their first album. :sly:
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Ignition wasn't their first album, "The Offspring" was ;)

I'd take Offspring. I like both bands, and they've both had a history of brilliant tracks (as well as those that weren't singles so few people have heard).

It's complete tosh to suggest Offspring are "a novelty act". They're a band who have fun. Sure they've written songs that are distinctly piss-taking, ironic or childish but then I wouldn't say King For A Day, Dominated Love Slave, Blood Sex & Booze or a number of others by Green Day are exactly serious or 'deep' either.

Just as Green Day have come up with some introspective and thoughtful songs, Offspring have got pretty good at dark, sinister and foreboding lyrics. Not to mention that both bands write very 'clever' lyrics too.

My preference towards Offspring is from them being the first rock band I listened to probably 8 or 9 years ago now.

I'm bored of people complaining that the music isn't punk either. If they want to be punk then they are. The only people who moan they aren't are a bunch of fifty-something accountants who used to be punks back in the mid seventies and pine for the days when they didn't lead depressing existances.

Apart from anything else, music like this encorages people to go back and listen to the punk pioneers which broadens peoples' tastes, which can't be a bad thing. If they were 'pop' bands, where would the incentive be to go back and listen to the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, Dead Kennedys etc?
 
I like both bands but my vote goes for Green Day as I have seen them in concert and I personally think their songs are better. That and I drift to Green Day so my vote goes for them
 
I prefer The Offspring over Green Day mainly because they came first for me when discovering new music and grew to like what they'd done before finding Green Day, who I can't deny have put out some great stuff and I love their album Dookie but to me they didn't have enough to keep me listening and they completely lost me with American Idiot, there was nothing to keep me interested.
Even if people do say it has great songwriting etc I just found it to be an awful album, in my eyes they've become a generic commercial band to fit the image of today.
The Offspring however kept their sound relatively the same and every album had some great songs on it without changing too much for my liking.
 
Well it certainly isn't on The Offspring. Smash then? I can't remember, I somehow managed to lose all seven of their current studio albums (something tells me I lent them to my ex...).

Not only this, but I stand corrected. Kill The President IS on The Offspring, but not on the copy I had! Mine only had ten tracks and KTP is apparently number eleven, maybe the UK version is different?
 
Green Day straight up for me, although I don't like how they have changed since Dookie, which I must add is a superb album:tup:, I do like some of the Offsprings work, but I hardly ever listen to them.
 
homeforsummer
Well it certainly isn't on The Offspring. Smash then? I can't remember, I somehow managed to lose all seven of their current studio albums (something tells me I lent them to my ex...).

Not only this, but I stand corrected. Kill The President IS on The Offspring, but not on the copy I had! Mine only had ten tracks and KTP is apparently number eleven, maybe the UK version is different?
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Maybe they added it on the re-release or maybe they took it away. There probably was a bit of controversy with that song.
 

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