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Is it an unpopular opinion that I don't care who's doing the Kerrang tribute album and most of the people in its thread are acting like 13-year-olds? Like, seriously, it's gotten very juvenile over there. OMG DIS BAND SUX SO MUCH LOL WHAT A BOY BAND XDDDD

I have 2 theories on that. 1. His ears were too hot. 2. Sonny is going through the hair pulling stage and tiny fingers tangle too easily in the Floofzilla's mane.

The bands that are doing it are the face of modern pop punk. Try to talk to a Descendents fan about Fall Out Boy or Panic and see if they don't say the same things people are saying about these bands.

Love and Money is about life. It's got a dark approach, "Then you crack". I think Spastic Society is literally about society being spastic, since it mentions credit cards, prescriptions, and saccharin and all kinds of things that were big deals back in 2003 which, to me, is reminiscent of sort of the inner monologue of the public at the time. Some of the words in it sound completely out of left field, though, like candy cane and papercut. It might just be random.

It's an opinion I share. I understand the attitude of it being something of a sacred album to a lot of people, me included. But if you don't like the idea of a band you hate playing songs from it, just don't listen. And if it's problematic to you that bands you don't like are covering it, choose a different favourite album, preferably one that doesn't have such a legacy.

And he does have a pet worry rock.

With an english accent.

Taking everything Billie says literally is fun

Throwback Thursday: The First CDs We Bought Green Day will forever hold a steadfast place in my heart, as their critically acclaimed seventh studio album, American Idiot, was the first CD I ever declared as my own. After some hefty amounts of incessant coaxing toward my mother, I found myself indubitably adrift within the vast expanse of the records’ soaring, yet angst-laden vocal patterns and radio-ready punk-rock infused instrumentals. American Idiot had me enthralled; it had me consumed; it had me in love. I’ll never forget the way “Are We The Waiting” and “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” tugged at my preteen heartstrings, or how Tré Cool’s fills in the title track first inspired me to get behind a drum kit. While some may be hesitant or embarrassed to admit American Idiot helped kickstart their journey into music, it’s something I will never deny. —Tyler Sharp http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/throwback_thursday_the_first_cds_we_bought

I think I'm gonna like this Akshat Jain guy.

Was it really? With JAR and Governator and such I'd expect better.

What's wrong with Misery? I think it's one of the best songs on Warning and I love all the additional instrumentation. It was almost a sneak peak at 21CB in a sense.

She smashed the radio with the board of education Punk rock wasn't exactly radio-friendly when it first started. Turn up the static left of the state of the nation Before the skinheads showed up punk was primarily leftist. She's a rebel's forgotten son Punk was born out of a return-to-roots to rock music from the masturbation that is progressive, rock was considered "rebel" music for a while after it was born out of jazz. She is the first voice of the last ones in the line Punk wasn't made by or for the people in the upper classes, or "the first ones in line". Punk was very much the first time some people's voices were heard. She'll drag the lake to keep the vendetta alive To drag the lake means to attempt to find something you lost, as in how you'd drag a net across the bottom of a lake to find something important your dumbass dropped in there. Punk revival, bro, going strong in the underground since its father died. Bring in the head of the government The dog ate the document Somebody shot the President And no one knows where Maria went? "Real" punk died out pretty quickly, fockin new wave, man.... Maria, Maria, Maria, Where did you go? Where did punk go? Your breath lacks the conviction No more real punk. All these poseurs ain't got no conviction. x_X_tRuPuNx5eVr_X_x Drawing the line in the dirt And then suddenly... this is punk, this isn't punk, you're not a real punk if you like ______, etc. Shit's all metaphor, man. Maria's a personification.

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.

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