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FBHT at SXSW on March 15, 2014: That smile!

Wha..? Their cover of Working Class Hero is the best cover they've done! Really made it different to the original by adding the drums and it sounds so passionate and beautiful! Honestly don't get how anyone could dislike it. I'm hoping Tom's in the minority , I haven't heard it talked badly of on here before.

If they were going to do an Unplugged-type thing, I'd like to see them do what Nirvana did and cover a lot of songs—with the exceptions of "About a Girl" and "Polly", the best songs on MTV Unplugged in New York are the Meat Puppets and Lead Belly covers rather than original Nirvana material. We know from "Working Class Hero" and the 21CB covers that Green Day can do really great cover recordings if they put their hearts into it. I'd also like it to either be in front of a live audience or to just be the live-in-the-studio album Billie's been blowing smoke about for God knows how many years—I do not want to give him a chance to fuck it up by overlaying really heavy vocal filters or some such shit.

foxy tonguy foxy belly. thanks to American Basket Case for these 2 man,that's hot.

4 HQ - FBHT at SXSW on March 14, 2014: (Click image for HQ.)

Words I Might Have Ate.

Yeah 80, One for the razorbacks etc.

They took the classic Springsteen-esque thing of putting serious lyrics to a jolly sounding melody and making it seem light hearted. It arguably makes it seem darker, in my opinion.

I think Westbound sign would work well acoustically

http://www.greendayvideos.com/news/2002.htm I hope it works... It's a news from August 12

I agree for the comparison with ''Come together''. But the trilogy lyrics are still crap Kidding, I really don't like some of the lyrics, too simple, cliché, boring... But some of them are also really good.

I think you've got to take into account the time. Now that stuff has all been said before and is cliched but then it wasn't. Class was a much bigger thing then especially over here. Implying that he was a working class "hero" was a bit egotistical but as far as what he was writing about I don't think it was exaggerated, a lot of people have faced and do face those things.

Yes, there's an entire thread for it. http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/96353-tre-says-hes-no-longer-going-to-use-instagram/

Tubbies SXSW performance mentioned in Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/48-best-things-we-saw-at-sxsw-2014-20140317/best-alter-ego-foxboro-hut-tubs-0849918

omg *thrust*

The solo. Fucking love the solo.

Agreed for many of their covers. But Working Class Hero isn't one of them. Doesn't sound anything like the original, the drums transform it and as well as just that they gave their own style to the whole thing.

At least half the songs sound really good acoustic, from my experience.

Kerplunk has some good acoustic songs.

The only thing I don't like about GD's Working Class Hero cover is that they tacked on the outro from the original Lennon track. Kind of brings down an otherwise decent song, in my opinion.

Bought a few things off eBay in the past couple of days: Oh Love EU single Kill the DJ UK promo 5x Uno Dos Tre stickers Awesome as Fuck acetate (new/sealed) 7" vinyl singles box set Theres a few more things that I want to buy too but I really need to stop spending my money!!

In melbourne

Lin-duhh!! ‏@sweetpunkerlinz Oct 14 PARTIED WITH THE GREEN DAY DUMMER THIS PAST WEEKEND. AWESOMEEEE

rain ‏@heyheyrain 6h Billie Joe Armstrong in first class on our flight home, just asked me if I checked out the @BURGERRECORDS show last night rain ‏@heyheyrain 7h If we go down, we go down with Green Day Henrik Bowadt ‏@HenrikBowadt 6h Leaving Austin on the same flight as Billie Joe. Perfect ending to SXSW 2014! WZBC ‏@wzbc 7h Just walked past Billie Joe Armstrong in the Austin airport. WZBC ‏@wzbc 7h @WrenneEvans haha yes so bizarre. He's wearing a sweet bandana Nik RIvers ‏@thenikrivers 6h Having a pre flight beer in Austin. Who's at the table next to us? Tré Cool of @GreenDay @AxeOntheAir almost creamed himself. #SXSW14 Kayla Merrill ‏@kayla_merrill Mar 16 Today Billie Joe Armstrong and his entourage sat down next to me at the airport. So there's that.

Mike's chest hair

An unplugged album with additional instruments such as pitched percussion, maybe a harp, violin, mandolin etc would work amazingly well for Jesus Of Suburbia, BOBD, Are We The Waiting, Give Me Novocaine, Extraordinary Girl, Homecoming, Whatsername, 21st Century Breakdown, Last Night On Earth, Peacemaker, Restless Heart Syndrome, 21 Guns, Brutal Love and, as Alanis proved, Basket Case. Sure, stuff like Insomniac and Nimrod wouldn't work at all, but they've done plenty of stuff in the last 10 years that would really lend itself well to an unplugged set. I'm surprised they haven't been asked to do one for MTV yet.

Definitely with the video (my favorite of theirs), but I think the lyrics are meant to be more sarcastic than humorous.

I agree they didn't sound great, but what I'm saying is that Billie Joe's acoustic encores/acoustic radio show were done with just him and those Insomniac, Dookie, and Kerplunk songs sounded fantastic without the full band. An acoustic album wouldn't include the whole band, just BJA, therefore that show at the school is irrelevant to the argument I think.

Just called the police, NSA, the FBI, and your mom. Enjoy life in prison scumbag.

Does anyone else think Walking Contradiction is too lighthearted for Insomniac

I will say the KALX unplugged session is my favorite Green Day bootleg ever.

Sbam.

That hat

Not really weird, but my little brother was pissed off that we were listening to Green Day "again" so he made me put the radio on and Green Day happened to be playing.

Well is the random thought of my little world.

Billie Joe and Norah 2004