WORST Single By Green Day or the Offspring

Pretty Fly was just written mainly to appeal to middle schoolers methinks. and high schoolers--my high school freaking played the song every day on their morning news show.

I'll admit I laughed out loud during the intro to the song the first time I heard it but it didn't take long for me to realize that the chorus was really stupid

Of course it's kind of stupid, some of the rhymes they choose etc. But then they are great because so-called "wiggers" deserve all the mocking and dissing they can get.

is wiggerdom really that rampant in Norway?

'Time of Your Life' assaulted me again at a crappy Irish bar on Sunday, I suppose I was asking for just by being there, but I've never been subject to bad acoustic Offspring covers in theme bars...

But then they are great because so-called "wiggers" deserve all the mocking and dissing they can get.

Why?

BECAUSE WHITE PEOPEL SHOULD BE LISTENING TO YES!1!11

In what way? Granted I know you didn't say you liked the song necessarily, but Pretty Fly is a gimmick tune that was yes, funny on first listen, irritating by the third, and really has nothing going for it outside of its novelty. The melody is crap.

Green Day, I will admit to not being a fan of...however for the most part they write listenable pop-punk and at the very least when they got semi-gimmicky ("Hitchin' a Ride") it was listenable and entertaining.

The melody's fine IMO. Pretty generic riff, yes, but catchy.

I think Green Day are unlistenable and not entertaining even when they're not being gimmicky. "Basket Case" is the closest thing to a good tune they've released and it's even more cookie-cutter than "Pretty Fly."

I might also add that I heard Weird Al's parody of "Pretty Fly" before the original. I don't really focus on the lyrics.

to each his own I suppose. I wouldn't have even found Pretty Fly entertaining at all if not for the spoof of pop club music at the beginning.

this thread is bonkers

bonkers i tell you

bonkers!

Here comes the rain again falling from the stars

Of all the sins these bands are guilty of, Green Day's poor grasp of meteorology pisses me off the most.

It's just insane to me that these bands had so many singles and so much success. Why couldn't it have happened for Bad Religion in their heyday instead? Neither of these bands has written a tune that I find as engaging as anything off Suffer.

there's no "offspring's entire catalogue" option. though green day have made a run at them with recent albums, offspring are the kings of this castle. "self esteem" makes me wanna puke.

well Nate I do agree Bad Religion destroys them both (I love BR) but they had at least moderate success for a little while. not like either other group, but hey, Graffins words were too big for the middle schoolers!

I like green day. Even that one. But that one I don't really know as well.

I'm voting "Ob la di, ob la da" by The Osspringf.

BECAUSE WHITE PEOPEL SHOULD BE LISTENING TO YES!1!11

Black people should too.

I wouldn't have even found Pretty Fly entertaining at all if not for the spoof of pop club music at the beginning.

You are aware the beginning is sampled from Def Leppard, right?

Has to be "Why Don't You Get a Job?" Nothing in the Green Day catalogue even comes close.

That one was the BEST single by either until Green Day released "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams".

,,,for a white guy

You are aware the beginning is sampled from Def Leppard, right?

I don't mean the "very" beginning, I mean when it goes "give it to me baby, uh huh uh huh". That unter gleeben part, duh, I own Pyromania!

BECAUSE WHITE PEOPEL SHOULD BE LISTENING TO YES!1!11

Black people should too.

OMG WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER RACES UR RACIST RACIST RACISTSSDFAALJDKDA

alright now worst single by Weezer thread.

I belonged to one of those middle-school classes that had to sing "Time of Your Life" at graduation. Apparently, those who gave the song the "okay" did not know the "good riddance" part of the title. Totally obnoxious lump of turd, anyway. I like Green Day when they're singing about pot and masturbation. None of this violin shit.

I kinda wish "Special Delivery" were a single so I could vote for it. Since it's not, "Pretty Fly" wins/loses.

I didn't know that was Redman on "Original Prankster" until this thread. I'm not sure how to feel about this. Confused? Crushed?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Offspring blows this one away with 49 votes of hatred spread over eight songs, Green Day 19 votes over seven songs. The message is clear. My only question is, who voted for "Warning" and why? It's a pleasant little ditty with a nice hook that was barely ever played - so I'm curious what aspect of it could have aroused such loathing.

49 for Offspring and 18 for Green Day. My vote for the Saints was really a vote for U2. I didn't find Green Day's participation as bothersome.

Now he's getting a tattoo
Yeah he's getting ink done

truly the

Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down

of its time

ughhhhhhhhhhhh "yeah, he's Gettin' Ink Done" some of the worst delivery ever in a ubiquitous novelty hit

always heard it as "getting it done", although that's no better. song's pretty racist really.

yeah, it always had this vague air of "KNOW YOUR PLACE, WHITEY" that rubbed me the wrong way. Probably the cracker version of Ice Cube's "Stay True To The Game"

GD: Wake Me Up When September Ends

This is the worst one though.

Even though I'd take Green Day over Offspring any day of the week.

It's not just "know your place, Whitey" it's also "look at you trying to be all LOLblack and stuff. Why do you want to associate yourself with that stuff when you should be listening to rubbish pop punk music?".

Then again, it's a reflection of the attitude a lot of rock kids had around that time anyway - people throwing bottles of pish whenever a rapper or pop act dared to grace the stage at Reading etc..

man apparently i missed some really terrible offspring singles after "white guy."

Huh, always took it as a little more like "We, the Offspring and our fans (born largely after 1980 and well-accustomed to hip-hop) look down on this character as an outsider faker trying to pull it off." Not really better, mind you, but it never seemed like Holland and co looked down on black culture, just that they thought they were hipper to it than they probably were.

Then again, it's a reflection of the attitude a lot of rock kids had around that time anyway - people throwing bottles of pish whenever a rapper or pop act dared to grace the stage at Reading etc..

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i mean, also, in 1978 with DISCO SUCKS, and 1988 with RAP IS CRAP and 2003 with whatever shitty Victory Records band was trying to TAKE THE ROCK BACK

I mean, race politics aside, "Pretty Fly" was basically a rant against "posers," which is understandable, but it's not like their own scene wasn't just brimming with posers of all stripes.

Could have done the JNCO-era version of this if they wanted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKkOOQR7_o

2003 with whatever shitty Victory Records band was trying to TAKE THE ROCK BACK

This was a thing?

it was actually 2005/6, if i remember correctly, but there was a concerted effort by victory's pr people to get hawthorne heights to beat ne-yo to the number one spot.

yeah, i didn't remember the details, but thats what i was talking abt.

i can't remember if that was the same year pretty rickey spanked the shins, but it was a good time for pop r&b acts slapping down the dreams of indie bands.

The Kids Aren't Alright is a kool song

who the fuck voted basket case

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Man, it didn't get any votes or hate above, but man am I glad that "Gone Away" has basically disappeared from the radio landscape etc. If one good thing came out of the demise of alt-rock it was the purging of that particular kind of late-90s gritty loud dirge. In its moment it was played I think once every fifteen to twenty minutes and one could have easily believed that it would never ... go away.