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I love Brain Stew, it sounds so different to their other songs (and especially stands out on Insomniac where most of the songs sound very similar to each other) with the hint of metal, and just the slow structure of the verses with the "dun na, dun na, dun na" guitar gradually building up is really interesting. The lyrics are fantastic as well, I still remember seeing the first verse written on a school desk years before I got into Green Day and being impressed with the line "My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed". Also love it live, it's amusing how they've always poked fun at themselves for making a "metal" song by playing tongue in cheek metal covers to introduce it, the call and response with the guitar at the beginning is fun and the whole thing is a cool change of pace in the show. Never understood why it tends to be disliked so much, there's many more generic "typical Green Day" sounding songs that I'd call boring before a song that has so much more interesting stuff going on and sounds different to anything else they've done.

Are we all going to ignore the fact that Lady Nightlife seems to dislike the studio recording of When I Come Around?? But seriously fuck off When I Come Around is the best song on Dookie and it is one of the top 5 melodies they've written. The riff is also their best. And the lyrics are quite good for the most part.

Well, I like it, so nurrr.

How is Homecoming a mess?

I'm sure there are plenty of conversations you may find more stimulating elsewhere on the forum.

I hate Nightlife. Rap + Green Day = Just no.

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When I Come Around is always the absolute highlight live and I see no reason why they should ever drop it.

omq I can't :lol:

How can you have more Dookie than all of it?

Huh? Apart from the fact they only kept one Breakdown song in there and kept playing Dookie in full?

Brain Stew is boring full stop. If you don't like WICA, you're wrong.

When I Come Around is great but I don't think it's anything special as a live song (aside from the alternative lyrics Billie likes to sing ). But as Mike excellently describes with both words and actions at around the 2 minute mark here people seem to really like it for some reason http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTP7-4Mlk4 I agree

Definitely a slide. The last slide of the riff (which first appears at 1:20) is a dead giveaway, it's far to smooth to be fingers.

I just listened to Homecoming again for the first time in a while. It's still one of Green Day's best songs It's a tad out of place true, but so what? it sounds great and gives Tre a chance to sing.

I dont think Wake me up fits either then following that logic, probably the song that sounds nothing like the rest I still dont know hoy the lyrics relate to the rest of the story. I mean cmon Shes a rebel makes a great transition song from novacaine, also it has great lyrics and a upbeat sound that makes sense regarding the story that theyre trying to tell.

How about both guitar solo and sax? Get rid of those 6 million choruses at the end!

This isn't "new" 'cause it's super-pretty-old But I think it's cool and I don't know where else to post it. BRIT Awards 2005 Screens for Green Day's performance at the BRIT Awards 2005. Source: http://www.hellocharlie.com/work/view/green-day-brit-awards-2005

He's posted the results on the covers of a few albums before too.

The doggie in the back is super creepy

priceless

Perfect yes or clear?

Being married to Billie must be exhausting.... even FaceTiming with him Like, OK Billie, calm down and let's just have a normal conversation about how your day was....

From Billie's 40th birthday party in 2012. Photo from Natalie Nesser's photography website

Johnny Newcomb, one of the swings on this tour, had his final performance tonight. He'll be joining former Idiot alums Alyssa DiPalma and Michael Esper in Sting's new musical "The Last Ship" on Broadway!