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Billie Joe Armstrong also never Finished high school - Lil B

The whole musical was just a massive mistake.

When It's Time was written YYYYEEEAAARRRSSS before WMUWSE...

Billie also said 99 Revolutions is the best song he's ever written. I don't trust his opinion lol Also, I've seen the musical twice and I find it weird how everyone sings in a whiny manner. Were they instructed to do that as part of the characters? The only person who sang in their normal voice was Billie's nephew in the current tour (who btw looks like Warning Billie with blonde hair).

Winston Smith designed the cover art for Insomniac. Winston Smith is also the name of a cat in Stephen King's book Insomnia

"A circus dance that doesn't make a stench, but maybe I'm just Dai."

The musical version of Letterbomb is an absolute abomination. I love female vocals generally a lot more than male, but Letterbomb is absolutely shit in that respect. Maybe if someone like Pink or Brody Dalle did it it'd work, but the people that do it in the musical are totally inappropriate.

In Chump: Maybe it's just jellybeans mix it up with a violent mime.

yes me neither

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^ Thanks.

I always thought it was a sarcastic comment

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The screaming that Jason does on Let Yourself Go is just grating (especially live). It's just...screaming. Anyone can scream that awfully. Also, I absolutely love the riff on Shoplifter. You can really tell on Too Much Too Soon and Shoplifter what Billie's voice really sounded like during the AI era, the effects are far more subtle than they were on the rest of the album. I'm hoping State Of Shock is something similar to the C&V sound and not the trilogy.

Another One: Longview is the best Green Day song ever. Why? Because it has all the elements to be a great punk rock song-A decent riff, good drumming and an amazing bassline. Its one of those songs to which everybody could relate to. The lyrics are catchy and meaningful. Also, its been 3 years since I first heard it and I still can't get enough of it. You could dance to it, play an air guitar to it and even sleep to it. Many people consider Basket Case or some song from Nimrod, AI or Dookie to be their personal favourite but nobody can deny that they didn't have a thing for Longview at some point in their lives.

That man is not forty two, he is four.

OH MY GOD

I don't think they're crap but I do hate them . Just not my cup of tea. Doesn't mean they're bad though, it's cool they explored another style of music/performance even if it's one I don't care for. Well I'm crazy then! But I seem to remember quite a few people liked it at the time and don't recall anyone complaining then, so maybe not that crazy.

Billie Joe is a better singer then Mike, period. Mike has great upper range as he as shown on his backing vocals but simply "ooo-ing" is different from pronunciating words in that high a register. Also, he doesn't seem to be able to carry notes that are in middle ranges.

THANKS.

If you hear that you're crazy cause Jasons screams on that ssong SUCK. I mean I'm sorry but come on it sounds terrible. When Billie did it though in the video from Texas when he had his beard he sounded fucking great but Jason sounds horrible. And i think Mike's part in American Eulogy is great but not better than Homecoming and his random line in SD&V is weird.

I believe so. I can't remember where I read the interview, but he was saying that he went to a church for the first time in years and was just astounded by the hypocrisy of everything, so the general premise to the song came to him then. I don't think he wrote any of the lyrics, but it was his idea initially.

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I think that's exactly the point though. It's calling people out for doing all these things, but phrased to ridicule them. I've always taken it as "I'm an imbecile because I believe in Jesus," ie "Jesus made me that way." I think that's why Mike sings the line, because he's so anti-religion, with EJN being his idea, etc.

Boys behaving dirty.

I get that they're meant to be ironic or in some other way not serious, but they rub me the wrong way to such an extent that I still really dislike them. I internally cringe when I hear them.

I noticed that right off that bat too! But you beat me to posting about it. Arm.... *___*

I'm sure Jeff is no multi-millionaire the way the rest of the band is, but it seems so weird if he's actually being serious about 1. giving lessons and 2. charging an arbitrary "$30" for it.... not that he wouldn't be cool enough to offer lessons, and it makes sense not to do them for free, but it's just such a weird concept.

Are We the Waiting not being on the set list is quite possibly the worst set list decision they make consistently. The song is tailor-made for live shows. With its call and response + arena ballad sound. And the first two verses of lyrics are so incredible.

It's damn close between JOS and Homecoming. I couldn't possibly choose between them. The thing is, Homecoming feels long, sprawling and diverse, whereas JOS is just so well arranged it takes what should get boring after three minutes and stretches it out into a 9 minute epic that doesn't feel too long at all. I'd argue that Homecoming has the more epic feel, whereas JOS kind of feels a lot more natural. Homecoming seems to be a lot darker, like the evil twin of JOS, so to speak. The backing vocals in JOS are among the best I've ever heard, but Homecoming has leads from Mike and Tre. So it's neck and neck for me.

To me, JOS will always prevail over Homecoming because of the lyrics. The themes are universal. Homecoming is excellent but nothing can quite compare to JOS

Mike Dirnt.

Amanda is always fun to listen to. I love Billie's voice on "I couldn't be your maaAaAAAn" and the subsequent riffage

Billie Jow with Jim Adkins. Picture from today:

Totally agree. While AAF has an amazing setlist, there are five things that kill it for me compared to BIAB: 1. The mixing. BIAB just sounds more powerful, somehow. 2. Billie's voice. I like that it sounds more raw on BIAB, and even though we've had this conversation many times, I still think that the vocals on AAF sound fucked-with at places. 3. The fact that BIAB is all from one concert gives it a more consistent feel. 4. Comparing the DVDs, the outdoor setting of BIAB makes it feel much less claustrophobic than the arena in AAF. 5. Best versions of "Brain Stew" and "Minority" ever.

I was never in that. Not really, those are just facts. Well, maybe not the asshole part, that's my opinion, but lions do behave like that in the wild. Male who come into a new pride will kill the cubs of the lions who are already there to remove the competitors' genes from the population. They also may kill other predators in the area like leopards or hyenas and then just leave them. That may be a territorial reason or to reduce competition for prey, but still, not many other large predators will do that. Lions are different in that way (and it is almost always the males). Well, I never liked lions very much. They're not very catlike in my opinion and I don't think they're that pretty, but that's just me. I totally agree with you about Billie Joe is just Billie Joe thing, though! It absolutely makes sense! I always find myself thinking about that - how there's no one and nothing else like him and when I try to compare, it's just not possible, because he's Billie. btw, laly

russell_183 43 minutes ago #greenday #adelaide #soundwave

Whatsername is the best song on American Idiot.

Opening a concert with Panic Song would be swell