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Apparently most music critics do not share the same opinions as music fans (big surprise, huh?). While Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Usher are topping list after list chronicling the last ten years, Rolling Stone conducted a Reader’s Poll of the Best of the Decade, and the message is loud and clear: their readers like Green Day. A lot.
The Oakland-born pop-punk band nabbed Best Album of the Decade for political rock opera (turned stage musical) American Idiot, Best Single of the Decade for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” (”American Idiot” also came in at #13) and Best Artist of the Decade, beating out the likes of Radiohead (#2), Jay-Z (#10) and Beyoncé (#20). If you believe there’s much overlap between Rolling Stone’s readership and Recording Academy membership (hey, it’s possible), then you may take this opportunity to chew over whether Billie Joe & Co. have a solid shot winning all three Grammys they’re nominated for. (Besides, you can imagine how hungry Rolling Stone is to get people to chew over things.)
Check out the rest of the lists at Rolling Stone. And celebrate GD’s triumph of the Noughties by watching the RS Reader’s Choice Single of the Decade, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” for ole time’s sake.
How could you not love them? Greatest band on earth and they totally deserve all the success they have and more.
Yes you’re right they really deserve it and Boulevard of Broken Dreams is my favorite song from them!
There are many albums that are great, including Green Day’s current album, 21st Century Breakdown. But this one is so much more than just the wonderful music, the pushing of boundaries, and the lyrics that speak to so many, so powerfully, at a time it was most needed. I think that Green Day is probably the most honest I have come across in half a century, and more. They speak for all the people that think they are alone, from young pre-teens all the way up to those of us in our 50’s, 60’s, 70’s. They sing of the mundane, sex, love, growing up, loneliness, boredom, politics, grief, and the world around us. And they do it with a passion that treats everything as worth fighting for. Many of the albums you list, as well as others, are excellent, but very few have such scope and beauty as the work of Green Day.
I agree with everyone here. They are everything you could ask for from an artist.. but above all, they just make incredible music.
There my fave band, like, by alot. I love the new album 21st Century Breakdown. My favorite album from them is by far American Idiot. I have seen the musical and I LOVED it! It’s like Opera version of Rock! The actors were teriffic!
Green Day are incredibly good musically and on stage they’re an unstoppable force of nature – tight as hell, visually exciting and a unique blend of intimacy, spectacle and energy. Mike, Billie and Tré totally reward their fans and their audience all the time in many different ways and they deserve every award going.
For what I think of their lyrics, see Ellie B above who put it much better than I could. (For the record, I’m in my fifties and they’re my favourite band ever, including best concert ever).
Green Day have a special place in so many peoples hearts and minds, and generation after generation will feel the same, truly iconic, you mean so much x
Meh…they petered out after American Idiot. We waited almost 5 years for American Idiot 2 – um, I mean 21st Century Breakdown.
fuck rolling stone and fuck green day
BEST Band of the last decade!!!Thats a fact!
Green Day OWNS
GREEN DAY is the best band ever!!!!
well deserved, best band on earth. music has progressed, along with the band members themselves, ridiculously over the past 21 years. i have followed them every step of the way and will continue to do so well into the future. american idiot was an amazing concept album that took the world by storm, and will be one of those albums that are up there with the greats and talked about for decades to come. high hopes for 21st century breakdown, another amazing album, they really do deserve everything they get.
Green Day is the best. If you are gonna post some hater comment about how you hate Green Day, then fuck off. Keep that opinion to yourself.
Oh, I am so grateful for 21st Century Breakdown…it’s just so diverse and complex that I think it takes several listen-throughs before you completely wrap your head around it and fall in love with the whole thing, although it was love-at-first-listen for East Jesus Nowhere and Horseshoes and Handgrenades. Also, it’s great fun to find little links from 21st CB back to earlier Green Day records/songs (and even the Foxboro Hot Tubs!) I hope Green Day keeps making music for a long time.
Green Day is the best band in the entire world!
They absolutely deserved Best Single of the Decade, Best Album of the Decade, Best Artist of the Decade, and all of the other awards they’ve ever won throughout their career!
They’re honestly the band who’s done everything.
I LOVE Green Day <3
Oh and happy 37th birthday, Tré :)
“Green Day is the best. If you are gonna post some hater comment about how you hate Green Day, then fuck off. Keep that opinion to yourself.”
YAY FOR FREE SPEECH!!
Best band i have ever listened too.They are actually Genius they now how people like us feel and thats what thier music says
Ha,ha…. Cool,
@ Leskows: Don't chastise people for expressing dissenting opinions. IDK where you live, but in the Western world we value free speech.
They totally deserv it!!!