I just want to say that I read most of the post in this thread and while not agreeing with most of you on what you think the greatest band ever was, will say this. I have listened to most of the bands listed and have found at least some of their songs to be either entertaining or enlightening. I don't know how we've gotten so hung up on green day, since they play about the most ridiculously simple of music, they aren't real punx, listen to nofx or rancid or black flag or tilt or bad religion. that's real punk, the issues back then where the same as are now. As for me I look for a bands compositional ability, energy and live show. I don't care if someone can go home and write the most intricate music on q-base if they can't even play a bongo drum. I used to like Phish untill they broke up, their music had this new element, this way of entrancing the crowd of up to 200,000 people. THat is a huge HUGE live show, and many of the fans happen to be music teachers or scholars, not some 13 year old girl who wants to have a greenday baby. Since Phish broke up I've taken it quite personally and now am pissed at them. So now I've found a band quite by accident that have just hit the bigtime, they came out of PHilly and their name is the DIsco Biscuits. These guys are machines I mean real fricken good. They play fast they play technical, they write songs that make you forget about everything. Their shows are incredible, they'll play for like four hours straight take a break come back play four more hours, till sunlight and then do two encores without any repeats and thousands of people are dancing and jumping around the whole time. The most crazy thing about them is that you can get all of their music and shows for free legally, I don't know how they do it, but their #$%@ spectacular. They are in it for the long haul too, so if you want to be cool I suggest checking these guys out. I know their name is strange, I thought they'd suck because of it but they'll blow you away!!!