Vintage ’90s

17 Apr, 2009

The ’90s Playlist: “When I Come Around” by Green Day

Posted by: The 90s Guy In: Music

Let me get one thing straight: I hate Green Day.

#1. They named their album Dookie, because they got diarrhea a lot. Classy, guys.
#2. They act like they are counterculture punk rockers, but they are just corporate-sponsored tools like any other popular band.
#3. They then turned themselves into self-righteous, “listen to me because I’m famous” crapbags to sell records with American Idiot and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”. Then they filmed their accompanying live DVD in Europe. Way to take a stand, guys.
#4. Dudes don’t wear eyeliner. They just don’t. Don’t care who you are.

Anyway, for some reason I find myself singing “When I Come Around” today while I’m working, so I felt it was appropriate to include it in our homage to the ’90s.

In the aforementioned grossly-titled 1994 album, “When I Come Around” was their hottest radio hit. It topped the Rock charts and cracked the Top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100. Anyway, here it is. Now I’m going to go dream of punching Billy Joe Armstrong in the face repeatedly. What a tool.

Green Day - When I Come Around
Found at skreemr.com

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2 Responses to "The ’90s Playlist: “When I Come Around” by Green Day"

1 | Tim

April 19th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

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The irony of this: when I finally came on to read this today(Sunday) there is an ad link for SodaHead.com (the name alone does not want me to click on the link) and it has a picture of Green Day vs Jonas Brothers with the question Who’s Hotter?

2 | grouchpunk08

May 21st, 2009 at 8:29 pm

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Being a Green Day fan, I hear a lot of people saying they hate Green Day, and when I ask them why, they have absolutely no excuse to, they are just jumping on band wagons with the other people. But you have reasons why you don’t like Green Day, and I respect your post. And I’d have to agree, ‘when i come around’ is a damn good song.

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