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I just rediscovered the covers of Like a Rolling Stone and A Quick One While He's Away form the 21CB sessions, and then it struck me: This is the sound I want their next album to have. Huge, crunchy and magnificently over-produced guitars. Loved it!

I guess Billie Joe died this week http://en.mediamass.net/people/billie-joe-armstrong/deathhoax.html

But really, Stop When The Red Lights Flash is a perfect fast song.

Exactly this. That is one of the reasons I love this band. They are wonderful live and so close to the original tracks. Not all bands can pull that off and its amazing!

Anytime I've showed one of my friends a live Green Day performance they always mention how they're one of the few bands who sound almost as good as the album.

It's one of my favorites. I still love this version of East Jesus Nowhere. Even though it seems a little stale because it's network TV and audience isn't even shown, they still play the song really well. I also love Letterman, so his comments at the end make me all warm and fuzzy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olCb_4CMe1Y

I love this performance of Letterbomb. Especially the bow at the end. Billie makes that guitar his bitch in last 45 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Jk0WPfPfA

I really don't care for St. Jimmy live. I think when it's played so fast it loses its power.

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I think Billie's voice was particularly strong in AAF. There's one part in Jesus of Suburbia, where he sings higher at the end of the last time he sings 'no one really seems to care.' Pretty much gives me goosebumps everytime.

Yeah... sure, except that Keith Richards is about 30 years older and looks like a corpse.

agreed

I'm honestly not seeing the comparison. Maybe I've just seen enough shitty Green Day videos to realize that the range of his vocals can vary enough that it doesn't even stick with me. Watching live videos from the last tour the thought never really crossed my mind "this sounds so much worse than the last tour". In my mind I think he sounded better during the AI tour. I'm 80% sure that's nostalgia for my first concerts though.

Haha, no, I've just been thinking about our discussion on this subject recently and I've decided you're wrong. I have to disagree that first hand experience is misleading, because that's what happened - it is the experience. If anything, watching something back is misleading, for better or worse. When a band play live they're doing it for the audience that's there, which is kind of all that matters. It's like when people complain about the setlists getting stale because they watch crappy footage of every single show on YouTube and look up what they played on Setlist.fm - totally irrelevant. If it sounds good to those in attendance, that's the important thing. I think it should be taken into account that playing live you get one chance to get it right. When you're doing 30 songs over the course of two hours, plus interacting with the audience and running around the whole time, you're not gonna sound as good as you do in the studio, when you can spend as long as you want getting the best possible take, and probably only do a song or two a day. Live stuff never has the primary function of being watched back, it's meant to be a good experience for those there at the time. So unless you're saying you thought he sucked at Brixton, your argument is invalid. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I don't even necessarily disagree with you, you're just being overly critical and should give him a break

Alright Ceadog, I know we agree on a lot of things, but I honestly do think you're talking out of your colon here. Every time the topic comes up you wheel out the same couple of examples, despite the fact there are dozens of examples of him sounding fantastic. I've watched Reading in full and admittedly it's patchy, but it's not consistently awful, as you seem to think. He sounded fucking amazing at Brixton, the only time I've seen the band live since 2010, and personally I think first hand experience counts for more than a recording. And since you were there too you're not allowed to disagree, so there.

I haven't listened anything from Green Day besides the trilogy since ¡Uno! came out, and now Foreverly and i feel like i don't need the other albums right now, i'm so in love with the trilogy