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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

d'aww

^ Thanks.

I always thought it was a sarcastic comment

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Eve Michele ♡☀ ‏@iamcheerbear 6h you have not lived until you've seen @bjaofficial dance disco-style and shake dat ass.

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.

I didn't really care much for the American Idiot musical...

The musical versions of the songs are crap. Come at me, people

Phew... Just caught up on 15 pages and I'm too lazy to type my responses now, so I'll just express my opinions on your unpopular opinions with emoticons! Fixed it for ya. (I seriously love those two songs!)

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.

Billie's thing.

Babies

It was?! Just when I thought he couldn't get any more awesome.

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.

I agree, it's so emotionally understated yet epic. As much as I like not suffering through Jaded on the 99 Revs Tour, the segue between AWTW and St. Jimmy is just so good. That moment between the songs, where you know what's coming next, and you have an "Oh, SHIT" realization that you need to hold the fuck on tight, because shit's about to go down? I get it when I listen to the songs in my bedroom; I can only imagine how it would be on the floor (since I wasn't at my 21CB Tour show when they did)!

Good = / = successful The fuck?

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he looks so good in white shirts! *_* THIS ^^

I enjoy the repetitiveness of She's a Rebel.

Bernard O'Sullivan ‏@BernieOSullivan 7h Just been bowling and the #greenday tour party showed up. Very cool Marc Kantor ‏@marcpending 3h Had a bowling party with Green Day, Alkaline Trio, and Dillinger. Now time to drink all the alcohol in some Perth club. #GoodDayOff Kirsty O'Sullivan ‏@OSullivanKirsty 4h Just went bowling and had a fun time with the crew! Saw @GreenDay who were great guys! Thanks again for the drink! Hope you enjoyed Perth! 潘尿尿帮你讲 ‏@KR8AD 8h Green Day China Tour Is That REAL???Can't believe,Can't wait @BJAofficial @GreenDay ✘✘Alexander✘✘ ‏@alexanderwuque 3h Someone said @GreenDay would go to China to have concerts in June in 2014? Is it true?#GreenDay #BillieJoeArmstrong #TreCool #MikeDirnt Garage Guru dot CA ‏@GarageGuruDotCA Feb 28 Today on inside a celebrity's garage: @GreenDay's Billy Joe Armstrong's psychedelic man cave.

I kind of count Shenanigans as a real album even though it technically may not be. International obviously doesn't count though. I've got an opinion that may be unpopular: BIAB is hands down the best live recording of Green Day ever, there's moments on that album that are so raw and powerful yet others are so beautiful it gives me chills. And I think it's got the best recording of Good Riddance 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

As much as I adore JOS (I mean, I don't even need to go into all the reasons why it's outstanding, do I?) I can kind of understand why people might not like it. It's unquestionably massively overblown, so if you're not into that kind of thing then something like Sweet 16 is bound to appeal more. /uncharacteristically diplomatic post

So does that rogue apostrophe

*sigh* looks like I'm gonna have to defend Lazy Bones again *puts on fighting face* My thoughts on the song taken from the old thread: So there.

So apparently this is unpopular: I really like "Horseshoes and Handgrenades". Is it in the top five on 21CBD? Of course not (that's the title track, EJN, VLG?, RHS and The Static Age), but it has a great riff (even though it was ripped off from someone else, as Not Anyone has demonstrated), packs a pretty big punch, and apart from the computerized scream in the bridge has a pretty great vocal performance form BJA.

So here's an unpopular opinion: I like the countdown at the end of Nuclear Family.

Yes. I like non-failed formatting too

I have to disagree that it's cliched, though. It's so well executed thematically, lyrically and musically, and such an uncommon thing at the time of its release, I wouldn't consider it a cliche.