A Different Shade of Green: Tribute to Green Day

Various Artists (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 2003)
• Original Release Date: August 12, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Skunk Ape Records
• ASIN: B0000AVHCZ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #338,886 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WORST CD EVER!!!, June 28, 2006

A Kid's Review

This Green Day day disc makes me wanna hearl! This cd should be only be 2 $dollarz. It stinks! The only decent song is Worry Rock by Weezer, and that song gets a 2 star from me. I listened to samples on ITunes and immediatley though it was the worst cd I had ever! Save your money for MUSIC!

2.0 out of 5 stars Tribute Albums Never Work, July 29, 2006

By	Katie (Washington) - See all my reviews

They just don't. Anyway, this album is not very good at all. The production quality of it isn't good, and half these bands don't even have their own albums. There is good reason for this, a lot of these bands suck. Artists are allowed to take a certain amount of liberty when doing covers, but some of these go too far, especially when you don't seem to be signed to a label.

One of these is "Macy's Day Parade". The original version of this song is acoustic and is about three and a half minutes long. The cover on here, in my opinion, makes a mockery of it. They may have tried to make it different in a good way, but it doesn't work. "She" goes along the same lines as this as well.

The cover of "J.A.R" sounds like New Found Glory, but way more nasaly(I know, I didn't think it was possible either). Then there is "FOD". Another when they tried to make it different but fail to make it good. "Redundant" sounds nothing like the original; during the verses, the singer sounds like Trent Reznor on "Hurt", especially the opening one. Plus they changed up the guitars in a wierd way.

"Minority" is missing the harmonica, and the singer isn't a good singer. However, they did get the music the closest. "Going to Pasalacqua" is just sad. "Christie Road" sounds like an even worse version of Hoobastank. And, Weezer, if you're going to do a cover, you can't just change the words. If you don't want to swear, then choose a different song.
And don't listen to whoever said Avril Lavigne did a good cover of "Basket Case".

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars omg............., December 2, 2005

By	that one guy "from that one place" (Called NY) - See all my reviews

Okay, I don't even own this album, from playing the PREVIEWS, I don't want it. All of these covers are horrible. I am an almost die-hard Green Day fan and I must say all of these covers suck. I won't buy this, I will never buy this and I hope next time someone tries to cover and awesome band thats been together for almost 16 years, make it sound at least 100x better.