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A Little Boy Named Train is your 5th favourite ever Green Day song? I'm pretty sure that's blasphemy, and you may also have just triggered the genocide the thread title promises

Wild One and Lazy Bones are pretty fucking great.

East Jesus Nowhere rules all. Last Night On Earth is very sweet, probably their best love song. Christian's Inferno is fabulous. Great trio of contrasting songs.

"Well, both these songs are sung by Billie, so I guess I have to put Governator in"

Can't remember if I already posted this or not. Or maybe I'm just so used to seeing that gif of him bumping her w/his fist.

I know I've said it a number of times in a number of threads, but I'll say it again since there are a number of new satanists trilogy supporters in the thread. The trilogy was not a failure because it wasn't a rock opera. It was a failure because of a number of things. It was supposed to be a throwback to before GD did concept albums, but it seems they forgot what made them good before AI and that was: Harmonies Bass lines witty/creative lyrics that related to people easily The trilogy has: Poor vocal production Poor guitar production Few memorable basslines Little to no harmonizing Cliched and flat out not creative lyrics Not many memorable vocal efforts from Billie

I don't see it as the atrocity that people say it is. Could it have been better? For sure. Could it have been worse? Much, much worse. There are just too many songs, too many ideas going on at once, but there are some brilliant moments.

If you don't like it, leave the thread. You know from the name there are going to be opinions you disagree with. In this case, DRB is perfectly relevant to the discussion of basslines, and if Ceadog hates it it's his perfect right to express that. He doesn't constantly complain about everything--see the Biffy thread. Your constant complaining about his complaining is far more "lame" that the initial negativity itself.

For as awful as the lyrics are, and how mindlessly put together the structure of the song is, Dirty Rotten Bastards is quite a lot of fun to listen to. If I'm showing the trilogy to someone who doesn't like Green Day (Ok Ok I know how dumb and counterintuitive that sounds ) DRB might be the first song I show people. That or Nuclear Family maybe.

Better consistency = / = better album. Nimrod. is way more all over the place than, say, 39/Smooth, but I don't think anyone would say the latter is a better album. Yeah, Uno especially falls victim to that. How the hell are any of the songs supposed to give off the vibe of "Getting ready for the party"? Half of it ("Troublemaker", "Kill the DJ", etc.) belongs on Dos if we're saying that's "the party album", and songs like "Rusty James" belong on Tre if that one's the hangover. And on Tre, "Dirty Rotten Bastards" most definitely belongs on Dos going by partying. Like I said earlier, the only successful theme-depiction in the entire Trilogy is the duo of "Wow! That's Loud" and "Amy", and it's notable that Dos, which is the closest of the trio to espousing its said theme, is also the worst of the three. 5. Basket Case 4. Hitchin' a Ride 3. Castaway 2. East Jesus Nowhere 1. Jesus of Suburbia

This looks like a typed out wet fart noise.

Speaking of bass lines, how awesome is Mikes bass in Castaway? Awesome as fuck.

I need to listen to that more. I remember thinking that it was pretty damn good for a b-sides album. I wouldn't say it's amazing, but it's a little more inventive than AI and Breakdown. Look at Nightlife and DRB for a start. The bass fills in Nuclear Family and the bass in Stay the Night is cool. There are probably more examples. * Complicated. The bass bridge in Holiday isn't complicated, but it's pretty damn good.

his reflection

How can the song that gave us the title of this sacred thread be shit? It does kill the mood set by Last Night On Earth quite spectacularly, but it's still a good song in itself, for the lyrical content if nothing else.

#breakthesystem

I once saw a compilation of Jurassic Park material with Make Me Smile by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel dubbed over the top. Fuckin' priceless.

well the harmonizing isn't Mike and Billie it's just Billie's voice and Billie's voice again.

I just don't see what makes it compelling. He's supposed to become the biggest badass in history because he left his mother and his girlfriend died? And he doesn't, because even when he puts the suit on he's still a complete bitch. I could go on at length, but I won't because we don't want to derail this thread yet again.

I have it permanently saved for whenever I need it.

Yeah, Zack has basically just said all that needs to be said about why the Trilogy fails.

The Trilogy failed from the moment they said they were gonna make a record like Dookie, and then dropped Uno.

/Trilogy argument

Holy shit. I bow to the master. But you have such good taste!

I agree, the trilogy is brilliant. There are 2 songs I hate (Troublemaker, Nightlife) but I can honestly say I thoroughly enjoy every other song on all 3 albums. It's just good fun. People seem to think that everything they make has to try to one up American Idiot and that's bullshit.

Wait wait wait..someone said East Jesus Nowhere was shit. WHAT? It's like one of the best tracks they've ever done. Ill say it again too. The trilogy is brilliant. Yes you're reading this correct, the trilogy is brilliant

Are you f*cking serious!? I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree

Fair enough. We'll agree to disagree then

Billie and her share the same water, the youth water.

I think it was written around Nimrod era... Here's a part of interview with band from 1997 and they're talking about DUI. http://www.greendayvideos.com/mp3/Green_Day-Discuss_DUI.mp3

Fucked if I know. They're both angry, but they're about completely different subjects, and EJN is in a different key, is far more ferocious, and is much more a pounding march. That argument is like saying that "My Generation" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" are the same song. And so much of 21CB is political anyway that you really can't call EJN out as the "token protest song".

Oh of course , good find though!

That's also similar! But I think The Beatles were first , and more likely to have inspired Green Day especially considering there's even a kind of quote from another Beatles song in there which Billie acknowledged (sending his wife texts signed off with "all my lovin'" led to the line "sending all my love to you"). Probably both got inspired by the Beatles.

Hey, if anyone's interested in finding craploads more photos of Billie Joe, Mike and Tré, you should check out my Billie Joe Armstrong board on pinterest, just search up GDpunx on pinterest and look through my page, I've got over 3,800 pics of BJ & co. Just to let you know, I'm not trying to advertise my board to get more followers or anything like that, I just thought people would like to know it there was a place where they could find tons of great pics

Haha. But in all seriousness, the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrW7dlDHH28

For me it's: 1. JOS (ya creative I know) 2. Castaway 3. Good Riddance 4. J.A.R. 5. Holiday with honorable mentions including Homecoming, Stuart And The Ave, 80 and others. Dude I have like a top 40-50 set on a playlist. I change it once in a while* *all the fuckin time

I need to stop attempting to convert you and just reconcile myself to the fact that you're going to Trilogy hell.

I AM NOT EVEN HUMAN ANYMORE I JUST BECAME A PUDDLE OF GOO OH MY GOD THIS MAN IS SO FUCKING GORGEOUS IT ISN'T HUMAN HIS HAIR IS SO WOW I CANT EVEN COMPREHEND THOS RIGHT NOW. LITERALLY SCREAMING JUST. :WUB:

The selfie with a girl who rocked the Soundwave with Knowledge... His face is priceless.

I can't

Someone liking "Know Your Enemy" over 17 other obscure and high quality album tracks is the opposite of pretentious, it's pathetically mainstream.

At first Billie's hair was cute now it's just really weird

Michaela Elliott ‏@kayla258b Feb 6 @BJAofficial met your nephew last night at the Elmira show of Broadway Idiot He looks so much like you! Amazing show