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The quicker it is the better, because then it's not as long.

99 Revolutions is much better in Demolicious form.

Disagree about Ashley. The lack of the bridge verse used in the studio version really kills the demo. It's pretty boring and repetitive, actually.

Based on the conversations and arguments in this thread, you guys might find this entertaining. http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/how-much-of-a-music-nerd-are-you

personally i'd have spurned the dogs and waited for his cat to come out for an autograph, but that's just me.

guuuuuuuuuuuurl one of the members who posts in that thread (sporadically) bought billie's address, iirc, and went to california to take pictures in front of his gates with his dogs soooo..........

I'm sorry but the line "you led me to the well but wouldn't let me drink, swallowing my pride and I never even got a taste" is brilliant and the guitar and bass harmonies are unlike anything they've done

How I love this jacket ♥ I always thought it meant something more like "This seat's taken, go sit somewhere else "

i just go wherever the jokes take me, man.

If I asked you again, would you tell me the same?

Make my babies! I like your top 5.

Saw a car with a number plate beginning with BJ and ending with XX today and thought of our man's instagram. Also there's a new barber shop called "Adie's Barber Shop" in my town lol.

The original intro gives a different feel to the song. I don't know which one I prefer. Honestly, that song is really underrated.

Post above not included, let's end the talk about the fangirls thread and stick to unpopular Green Day opinions please. I like the album version more because it's more energetic and less repetitive, and just sounds better overall. But I do really like the sinister mood in the demo as well, the way he slurs the "You led me to the well..." part is great. Glad we have both!

''✓ Insisted that a demo version of a song was better than the finished studio version? ''

That's the tambourine that's throwing the drums off lmao

Sex, Drugs & Violence and Missing You are also very noticeable. I think the drums on most of the songs are what struck me right away. They sound very unnatural on the studio versions now. I know nothing about the technicalities of producing music, but I know something isn't right.

I love his face like: come and sit next to me...

kidding

Yes but at least we have our own thread and have no shame

the fangirl confession thread is a scary scary place

I think my life would be richer if I hadn't just clicked that like from curiosity. I'm off to gouge out my own eyes now.

Green Day number 1 on Rolling Stone's 1994: The 40 Best Records From Mainstream Alternative's Greatest Year If Pearl Jam were too epic was for you, Nirvana too oblique, if your suburban teen inertia sprang from tedium not trauma — well, these nagging brats were here to spill hair dye on your living room carpet. Tré Cool's stop-start drum swats, Mike Dirnt's back-talk bass melodies, Billie Joe Armstong's nuanced machine-gun chording — each element in these 15 simple little tunes (save the goof bonus track) had a twitchy precision that'd get a fancier band called "arty." The noodling bass line for "Longview" may be Mingus compared to the heavy-thumbed pulse Dee Dee Ramone bequeathed to punk's low-end, but it's also every bit as aimless as a song about jerking off in front of the TV demands. "Basketcase" belittles its own stoner panic, "When I Come Around" is a punchy shrug of lovers' squabble, and the fierce sweep of "Welcome to Paradise" hints at the rock operas to come once they grew up to become a fancier, even artier band. Keith Harris http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/1994-the-40-best-records-from-mainstream-alternatives-greatest-year-20140417

Had this done yesterday - so happy with it. Finding it difficult to get a decent pic of it though!

Anyone who says they don't like eyeliner Billie is obviously blind.

I guess this is the best place to post this. I talked to Lady Cobra on the phone yesterday. My question I asked was how much she wrote of Nightlife and how much Billie wrote. She said it was mostly her, which was to be expected, but it's a cool thing to actually know. I mean, for all we knew before, Billie could've written most of her parts.

That's a good point, which is a real shame because it kind of weakens it as an album, even though most of the songs on it are fantastic.

Jeff Matika ‏@jeffmatika 9 kwi FYI - The drawings didn't really work out that well. #thejeffmatikashow #GreenDay Jeff Matika ‏@jeffmatika 9 kwi May not show up until we make DVDs. Outtakes? #bePatient #thejeffmatikashow #GreenDay Jeff Matika ‏@jeffmatika 9 kwi 4 or 5 great ones. Some of these WILL surface!! #thejeffmatikashow #GreenDay DVD? I'm not native speaker, so I can easily misunderstand something, but is it means that they want to release TJMS on DVD?