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gdgirl214 Aw, how sweet! Billie and AI cast. #bja #billiejoe #billiejoearmstrong #ilovegreenday #greenday #greendayobsession #rageandlove

There's a pretty good thread about lyrics here. As for your question, I actually answered this one myself a while back: Gloria "making her bed in salad days" refers to her not wanting to grow up, and mourning the fact that she's older now, hence "ashes to ashes of our youth." That's what I get from it, anyway.

LQ version if anyone's interested.

Yeah, he did for that one song. Will never forgive him for that, I was really excited for AI :­/

The original

I actually don't think it was as bad as everyone else does. I think it lacked the edginess it claimed it had. I thought there were some really interesting things about it. I'm not much of a musical man myself though

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The vocal style is completely different. They don't have to change the entire thing for it to be rearranged.

Is that really Tré

It was just called "Alright"

stage acting is a lot different from screen acting. everything is over the top and exaggerated and loud and dramatic. so yeah ""punk spirit"" is going to look ""forced"" just like everything else.

If they anounced that David Fincher or Mark Romaneck was directing I'd probably fangirl all over the place.

Last Night on Earth is hands down the best vocal they've ever done. The runs/falsettos are perfect plus Billie proved he could do it live. The lyrics aren't bad as love songs go. Especially when compared to When It's Time. Also, Tony Vincent's tone in the beginning of LNOE is fucking fantastic, they did well with that song in the musical. Even though I will agree that the "punk spirit" certainly seemed forced from a lot of the characters. Also, an AI movie is almost doomed to be awful, but I do believe it is POSSIBLE to have it work if they step away from the faux-punk attitude that exists in the musical and in the JOS music video. They would to need to make it really dark and cast it perfectly for it to work for me. Edit: basically what DookieLukie said above with regard to most singers.

That may be who's to blame, but that's kind of irrelevant when the result is the same.

Inferior when it comes to that style, yes. She could be the absolute best in the world at what she does, but is she a better singer of punk songs than Billie? Lol no.

Maybe for you.

Dude let the parents go lmao

If you just want upbeat then why not go for Platypus?

"So tell me when it's time to say I love you." If you've just got married I would have hoped it'd already happened

Oh my god that is the most romantic thing ever. Knowing you, I'd've thought it'd be Panic Song.

FALSE! He says "My beating heart belongs to you." In all seriousness, while the lyrics are undeniably simple to the point of charming naivete, the melody and the overall sweet slow-dance atmosphere save it.

I love Last Night On Earth. It's a fairly standard love song but I really don't think the lyrics are cheesy. They're just open, honest and simple. There's a difference.

I actually like The Static Age

I wish there wasn't a hey oh in the studio version of stay the night

last ride in is one of my favorite songs on Nimrod - Lil B

Wait, people really don't like The Static Age?

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

I'm not sure anyone has ever known any of the words to some of them, so it wouldn't really matter.

I want all of Insomniac but Billie doesn't even know the words to some of them.

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

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?

That's probably the most popular opinion in the history of GDC Welcome to the forum, by the way

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.

That is the correct answer - well 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.

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