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Congratulations on not being one of the painfully musically illiterate people who hear a band play triplets for a bar and assume it sounds that way because there's something wrong with the CD.

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

I think Longview is one of Green Day's best and most unique songs.

I think Stuart and the Ave is first just because the combination of incredible melody, bassline, and lyrics is just irresistible. Jaded isn't quite as melodic. I do have to say that Walking Contradiction is a stroke of genius. It essentially addressed the elephant in the room (elephant being: How can Billie act how he does and write lyrics like he does when he's got a kid and a wife). It's a classic problem with rockstars and Walking Contradiction does a damn good job of being relatable

Odd signatures...

I don't think it's strange, it's just another way of changing things up in the last chorus.

Well, obviously it's a song about Billie's menopausal symptoms.

Oh, in the last chorus? No, I don't think I ever thought it was faulty.

I think it is, too..

I love it! Which is why they thought it was a good idea, clearly.

What Makes You Beautiful fired One Direction into the mainstream, is that a good song? Your use of invalider makes your argument invaliderer

No I do not know, it's the most fabulousest bassline Mike has ever written and is by far their most fun song to play. Anyway, aren't you a Longview sympathiser? Your argument is invalid.

Please stop being an ass. Please. Please. Please. Please. I like you well enough when you're not being one, so please don't be one.

...my little green friend. Holy shit, that was actually something Lucas thought was a good line to put in that movie. *headdesk*

You say that like it was an accident. I've waited so long for this moment, and I'm not even joking.

"Turn to page...shit, there isn't a page 394 in this thread yet."

inb4 shitstorm happens There will be no foolish wandwaving or silly incantations in this thread. You have been (pre)warned.

Jeff Matika continually tweeting about that girl that called him rude, hours after it happened, is coming across as very childish to me. He strikes me as a bit of a dick sometimes.

I had a feeling, hence my immediately resorting to a spammy ad hominem. But seriously, you suck.

Insomniac is alright. Definite good points and definite bad points. It's not that I dislike it, but it's not as much of a favourite as the other ones are. As for Breakdown, it's tricky to explain; objectively it's one of their best works. It contains some fantastic songs, has excellent production, and hits the spot in so many different ways, but I think it's a little too sprawling and gargantuan. There are some songs that could easily be cut, even if they are good songs. If it were 13-14 songs in length, it would easily be up there with AI.

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.

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.

Bunny ears

Strange how they only did it right at the end though? I wish green day would have a song where they go nuts with time signatures, not just slowing down or speeding up slightly

Am I the only one who always just thought it was part of the song?

#invaliderererererer times infinity.

Oh my god that bit annoys me every fucking time. Why did they think that was a good idea?!

Like that defective copy of Church On Sunday everyone got?

Really? For me it's always a surprise when the chorus comes in on the studio version because it's always way louder than I was anticipating. *shrugs* Maybe I got a defective copy. #invalidererererer

It's a well-constructed radio hit. But seriously, fuck One Direction. As I've said before, it's jarring and different, but the bassline gives it such a great groove and the lyrics are quite unique. So your argument's invalidererer.

Take it to PMs people, no one cares.

Then why are you so keen to see Ceadog leave? The fact that that page actually mentions Snape right away is so fucking serendipitous I can't even.

YOU TASTELESS BASTARD :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm not sure what I would be jealous of. And no, Middle Ages scrappy beards are not my style. There's no "game." I just feel like you hate everything the band does, and maybe you don't belong on this forum. Of course everyone can have their own opinions, but you're such a broken record at this point. It gets really really annoying.

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

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 certainly have. But funnily enough, I don't remember ever seeing this one before either! Looks like Billie's got leather or latex pants. Hahaha!