Blink-182 vs. Green Day: Who is better?

[Saint Frankenstein]

So who do you prefer? Who is the better pop-punk band?

I say Blink-182. They were the first punk band I got into when Enema of the State first came out and helped me get into many other bands and skate culture when I was a kid. Tom Delonge is still one of my heroes and biggest crushes after all these years. Lol. I did listen to Green Day when I was younger but haven't since American Idiot. But I can still listen to Blink-182 and enjoy their songs just as much as I did when I first heard them. Green Day never had that impact on me. (Sorry, East Bay! ) I say Blink-182 has the stronger melodies, for sure.

 

[psychoslice]

My first punk band was the Sex Pistols, but I do like Blink also.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Neither are my favourite bands, but I owned and listed to albums.
I'm going with Green Day, since I think Dookie was more impactful than anything Blink 182 did (at least for me personally)

 

[Iti oj]

i love me some blink but green day is my generations classic rock!

 

[Iti oj]

also green day is the best band live i ever did see

 

[Iti oj]

however i do love me some blink *goes and listetns to easy target*

 

[leibowde84]

So who do you prefer? Who is the better pop-punk band?

I say Blink-182. They were the first punk band I got into when Enema of the State first came out and helped me get into many other bands and skate culture when I was a kid. Tom Delonge is still one of my heroes and biggest crushes after all these years. Lol. I did listen to Green Day when I was younger but haven't since American Idiot. But I can still listen to Blink-182 and enjoy their songs just as much as I did when I first heard them. Green Day never had that impact on me. (Sorry, East Bay! ) I say Blink-182 has the stronger melodies, for sure.

Green Day, but only up until 1999. After that, they were both pretty unimpressive.

 

[SomeRandom]

Naww, both were pretty big in my childhood. I love Blink but gotta go with Green Day. They were usually the more rebellious ones, whereas Blink were usually the more silly fun ones.

 

[Yerda]

It was alway Green Day for me.

 

[gnomon]

My first punk band was The Who.

After that Misfits and Skinny Puppy......

But I do prefer Green Day over Blink.....to me Blink was nothing more than modern pop from the get go and never evolved their sound........it was nothing more shock showmanship...

 

[dawny0826]

So who do you prefer? Who is the better pop-punk band?

I say Blink-182. They were the first punk band I got into when Enema of the State first came out and helped me get into many other bands and skate culture when I was a kid. Tom Delonge is still one of my heroes and biggest crushes after all these years. Lol. I did listen to Green Day when I was younger but haven't since American Idiot. But I can still listen to Blink-182 and enjoy their songs just as much as I did when I first heard them. Green Day never had that impact on me. (Sorry, East Bay! ) I say Blink-182 has the stronger melodies, for sure.

I'm with you. Loved Green Day pre-American Idiot. Blink 182 is more fun.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

to me Blink was nothing more than modern pop from the get go and never evolved their sound........it was nothing more shock showmanship...

Um, what? There's a HUGE difference in sound between Carousel (hell, take it back all the way to the beginning with Buddha) and Neighborhoods. You'd have to be deaf to think otherwise. For the last 15 years or so, Blink has been very interested in experimenting with different sounds and writing about more serious topics. They've written about suicide, family and social breakdown and other things. Warning was the most experimental Green Day and that's kind of a blip in their catalog.

 

[gnomon]

Um, what? There's a HUGE difference in sound between Carousel (hell, take it back all the way to the beginning with Buddha) and Neighborhoods. You'd have to be deaf to think otherwise. For the last 15 years or so, Blink has been very interested in experimenting with different sounds and writing about more serious topics. They've written about suicide, family and social breakdown and other things. Warning was the most experimental Green Day and that's kind of a blip in their catalog.

I have to take your word for that and bow to your better judgment.

In other words......I apparently lack the proper knowledge to make a judgment.

It's time to hit the Youtubes and check out those songs.......

Thank you SF.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I have to take your word for that and bow to your better judgment.

In other words......I apparently lack the proper knowledge to make a judgment.

It's time to hit the Youtubes and check out those songs.......

Thank you SF.

Lol. It's cool.

 

[gnomon]

Okay......I tried.....this is coming from someone who is a Tool and Blind Melon fanatic....

I have to go with Blink......because I listened to Carousel and the sound is more punk than Green Day's later ventures.......

But still.........here is why I had a hard time......

Or......

Punk music had changed.......I remember listening to Blink and Green Day as pop bands at a Stone Mountain light music festival in the 1990's. The Misfits or even more adequately The Who were punk music against established industry sounds in my time. It was the bands such as Skinny Puppy later that redefined punk. Taking the synth explosion and industrial and turning it into what the corporate engineered Sex Pistols wished they could be defined by the Clash or the Misfits.

edit: But I do like the Blink videos you referenced over the Green Day songs that became popular.

edit: Just chalk it up to me getting old. "In my time our punk music was blah blah............"........laughs all around.

 

[Glaurung]

If I had to pick, Greenday. Mostly for Nimrod.