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Uhhh erm yes I mean who doesn't need to know their enemy raw ham? Kidding

There's that smile again.

Don't worry, Green Day's average is much better than most other people's best! Insomniac's never been my favourite album, but it's by no means their worst. I'll have to give it a listen again at some point. Reported for posting an unpopular opinion in the unpopular opinions thread.

c'mon the best has to be Panic Song

The way I see it, that album is so stacked (like AI) that it can still be a strong track even though it iis considered to be in the bottom half of the album quality wise. I think Stuart and The Ave is atop Insomniac far and away.

Green day was ranked number four on rolling stone on bands that should get into the rock and roll hall of fame for the next five years

It's pointless a song being relevant when they write it if it takes them so long to release it that no one cares anymore.

Love, love, love that song. I think the song definitely has an ability to connect with women more than men, given the female character. In my opinion, especially since he's a dude, Billie's really good at third-person storytelling from a woman's perspective, i.e. She, Maria, Extraordinary Girl, etc., and I never realized until now that's probably why I connect with those songs so much, despite them being considered "weaker" songs by some men.

Oh, totally, "Panic Song" is far and away its best song objectively; "Jaded" is just my favorite.

True Barber Products ‏@TrueBarberProd Billy joe Armstrong NEVER goes on tour without his #layriteoriginal often imitated NEVER duplicated #acceptnofakes 2:16 PM - 5 Jun 2013

Oh I agree, the song should have been released as a single closer to the time of the movement. But I think that 99 Revs, like Holiday and AI before it (not that it can hold a candle to those two, but the commonality is there ), contains themes that still hold weight beyond the context of the era it was intended for.

Basically, this is the best thread on the forum

Bunny

Pomade.

He's said that before, though--it's not like he's pulling things out of thin air just to spite you. INSOMNIAC IS NOT AVERAGE

Always have something negative to say about everything Green Day...

That's a close second for me, but—Unpopular Opinion time—my favorite song from that album has to be "Jaded". Really, it's its being coupled to "Brain Stew" that makes it so great. The metaphor a previous poster made is apt: playing "Brain Stew" and then skipping "Jaded" is like having sex without the orgasm. You spend all of "Brain Stew" getting used to the slow bump-and-grind tempo, it stretches out longer and longer, and then, just when you're about to get sick of it—BUM-BADA-BADUM-BUMBUM-BADA—the new guitar riff gives you just barely enough warning to recognize that the something different is about to happen before the full guitar, bass, and drums hit your ears like an assault. And the lyrics are brilliant—"I'm taking one step sideways, leading with my crutch/Got a fucked-up equilibrium/Count down from nine to five, hooray we're gonna die!/Blessed into our extinction" is one of my favorite lyrics Billie's ever done.

NEVVVVVERRRRR

Bunny ears

You're probably right, it's just hard to separate the two given that everyone knows that's what it's meant to be about, y'know?

I think the song's content/theme and Billie's statements on the matter are of the kind that hold a place in a class war that very much is still present in the US, OWS movement be damned.

I love that line!

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It's a wonderful place, you can continually disagree with each other but everyone keeps playing nice!

Jwhitetimn?

On a side note, it kinda blows my mind that this thread is already at 65 pages. How strange that the Unpopular Opinions thread is the most popular GD-related thread on this site.

Westbound Sign is brilliant. Silence.

I agree that they're the weakest songs on their respective albums, but I don't think there's anything wrong with them per se. Especially with She's A Rebel and Extraordinary Girl, they're nothing amazing in themselves but in the context of the story they work really well and do just what they need to.

Then our sacrifice has not been in vain.

Oh wow. #KONY2012

Well at least it didn't do the same thing as 99 Revolutions and bring the whole thing back up months after it stopped being relevant

And you don't think that's intentional?

Hermione wins every argument.

I think really it's only a "rip off" if they copy something and try to pass it off as totally their own/wouldn't admit to it. Then there's sampling where they copy and give credit (as on Brutal Love), and paying homage where they deliberately and openly make it sound similar as a tribute and compliment to the song/artist (as they do may times on Warning, for example the verses of Waiting sound just like Downtown and Billie even sings the word "downtown" to acknowledge it), and just coincidences where it happens to be the same chords or have some other small similarity just by chance. I don't think Green Day's really ever done anything that fits into that first "rip off" category, only the other stuff and there's nothing wrong with any of that.

Jason White would be proud

You all are probably tired of these by now, but I'm pretty sure I haven't posted these before - at least not in HQ. 4 HQ - FBHT at SXSW on March 15, 2014: (Click images for HQ.)

FBHT at SXSW on March 14, 2014:

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Ryan Kailath ‏@ryankailath Mar 16 in line next to Billie Joe Armstrong at AUS. I guess he too could afford the $10 pre-screen upgrade #onepercent MC Lars ‏@mclars Mar 17 Mike Dirnt from Green Day was sitting next to me on my flight home from Texas.

Stark Sands at 3:45 talks about how he picked out and designed the Tunny tattoos and how they were actually really personal to him