Hey Responsibility! Over Here!

Well today's July 4th and I went to the Giants game today with my family for my grandpa's birthday. I was disgusted by all of the commercialism and greed of all of the big companies and things (maybe I'm reading "Our Band Could Be Your Life" too much. Most of my ideals are starting to be shaped by punk rock). About halfway through the game my sister wanted a Drumstick (which cost $6!!!!) and naturally I had get out of my seat and go fetch it for her. Anyway, high point of the day; really cute girl working at the ice cream stand (and I mean really cute. Asian too, I think). I was so distracted that when I left, she had to remind me to get my change. Kinda embarrassing. Long story short; #1. I would have rather spend money to go to a concert instead of a corporate ballpark. #2. I like it when a cute girl has their ponytail hang through the back hole of a baseball cap, you know what I mean? Ummm yeah... nevermind.

Anyway, grandparents live in the Bay Area, home of bands like Creedence Clearwater Revivial, Grateful Dead... and Green Day. Also hated advertising and business today. So I listened to Green Day's two pre-major label albums. As some of you may know, Kerplunk is what I consider to be their best album (and one of my favorite albums too, along the likes of In Utero, Tim, Pinkerton, ect). Kerplunk contains awesome tunes like "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield" (my favorite Green Day song!), "Christie Road" (also the title thing for this blog) "2000 Light Years Away" (supposedly written after Billie kissed his future wife Adrienne for the first time , great song), and even a joke, "Dominated Love Slave," a cowboy-style song about a guy who likes to be ummm, dominated by his girlfriend.

Green Day's first album 39:Smooth does not get enough credit though. When packaged with the EPs 1000 Hours and Slappy it becomes 1039:Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, a great assortment of poppy indie rock songs (still not really punk, but still good, even though there's a lot of filler). There's "At The Library" (or in my case, "At The Ice Cream Stand" haha. You'll understand when you hear the lyrics), "Disappearing Boy" (very underrated), "409 In Your Coffee Maker" (from Slappy. It was also rerecorded for Dookie with "Welcome To Paradise" from Kerplunk, but 409 didn't make the cut. Too bad. It's a great song that deserved it. Video above), and "Only Of You" (from 1000 Hours. It has one of my favorite verse melodies of all time. The premise is also very relatable). And here's another thing I found. It's kinda hilarious. Anyway, long story short; #1. Kerplunk is great. #2. 1039:Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is severely underrated and is also one of Green Day's best. But Kerplunk is better.