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People like Lazy Bones don't they? Pretty sure it's a (if not the) favourite from Dos, with it's more serious and very relatable lyrics.

Tre's missing testicle. Only one in existence.

Darth Praxus is a bland, forgettable GDCer.

i prefer this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JivwU-E_Jy4

Demoliscious is probally the closet Green Day will ever have to a live in studio album... Billie's been talking a live album for the last 10 years now and every album seems he backs out on it the trilogy was set up to sound like it was live

Exactly. Most people only look at it so favorably because of the crap it's mired in. "Well, Billie, you fed us shit for most of the album, but this is chocolate. It's cheap, sucky chocolate, but hey, at least it tastes like it's supposed to, kinda!"

apparently they had them at a surprise show in 2011: http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/85682-surprise-over-21s-green-day-show-aug-11th-the-tiki-bar-1700-placentia-costa-mesa-ca/page-81#entry4497138 also this belongs in green day chat or could be asked here: http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/96243-green-day-qa-thread/

A more subtle example is No One Knows by QOTSA, but I think that's just really loose rather than out of time, strictly speaking. You should listen to Anarchy In The UK and concentrate on the drums there - when they recorded it, Paul Cook was so out of time that they only had a few bars at a time to work with, and you can hear very clearly where they've looped sections as the cymbals' ringing abruptly cuts every few bars.

Hey, I never claimed Ringo was an all-star drummer. Okay, that gives me a better idea, thanks. Oh, wait "Amazing Journey" by The Who! There *is* one I remember.

This is from the SoundOnSound interview with Neill King, who engineered Dookie: "It's not that Tré wasn't a good drummer, but in terms of his performances we wanted the best of the best. In line with the Who directive, we wanted to let him sound exciting, but back in the early‑'90s you couldn't get a record played on the radio if it wasn't in time, even a rock & roll record. So, although we wanted him to do all of his wild fills and crazy drumming, we couldn't just let him go. He'd drift in and out of time, which is terrific live, but which was unacceptable on radio at that time. We were still under the tyranny of the click track. We'd therefore let him play, but we would take a fantastic tom fill that he did and insert that into one of his better bed tracks." Full thing here.

I dont like Demolicious. A wee bit better production does not correct the fact those songs were badly/lazily written in the first place.

I first seen Billie talk about a live studio album in the early 2000 a lil after Warning then he brought it up again during the AI era again in 21st era then the trilogy era either he just all talks or maybe they attempt it and don't like the results

I think he actually did sing most of the trilogy with a mouthful of gum. Remember the bit in Cuatro where he and Lady Cobra are recording "Nightlife"?

What photos of him with a drink? Besides the PBR he sprayed at FBHT, I haven't seen anything. Just curious.

I Hope that the next album isn't a opera or has any kind of a story line, rather I would just prefer a studio live album. By this I mean all the songs recording in one take with minimal mixing. Assuming they do another studio album that is

Might not be different technically but it does sound different to me. I can't think of another song/songs I'd pair it with or put it in a group with.

That interview was done very shortly after he finished up with rehab. Maybe afterward he felt like he could handle the occasional drink and realize his own limits. Ultimately, he's a grown man and is capable of making his own decisions. He doesn't owe it to any of us to never have another drink. He stopped the drug use he had in the 90's without any fans needing to persuade him or for anyone to feel pity for him. Drugs and alcohol affect people very differently. As Hermione said, some people decide they'll never drink again, some people can still drink without it becoming the problem it was before.

Apparently around 2003 or so Tre had a knee operation which involved a small chip of bone being removed, which was given to him by the doctors afterwards. So he decided to hold a haiku writing contest on greenday.com and give away the chip of bone as the prize . And some fan won it. I don't know if anyone knows what the winning haiku was or any additional info? Edit: Too slow

Here's the news post about it from June 2003. http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/4215/

Yeah, that's not a promise to anyone though. He may well have meant it was his last drink before he got help with not drinking to excess and any time he feels like drinking to excess or for the wrong reasons he can think of that. Or not drinking at all might have been a temporary plan only to last for a certain amount of time which has passed now, or his plan might have changed. His business really, whatever works for him.

I'm just going to leave this here "I can't go there. That's my last drink. Which is good-it's documented. Anytime I feel like drinking, I can think about it." Billie Joe Armstrong, (Rolling Stone, The Road Back From Hell pg 40 issue 1178 March 2013)

that's complete stupidity why any fan of his should criticise what he listens to. People take music far too seriously sometimes

How can anyone possible dislike it

Probably no longer exists. The chip of bone left over from a knee operation that he gave away to a fan in a haiku contest probably does though. Might genuinely be the rarest thing!

Well it is what can I say.

A thing that really bugs me about Oh Love: at around the 2:38 mark when he says "loose" there's some sort of glitch in the vocal that makes it sound really weird. And I notice it every time I listen to the song.

Are you saying if you really love a song but it's on an album full of filler it makes the song less good? Because I have Stay The Night on my general Green Day playlist and it stands up to the highlights of every other album.

I'm learning. Bit by bit.

Stay the Night is a bland, forgettable track.

I hate the term punk rock anyway. Nobody really agrees what it actually is Green Day is pop punk/arena rock

Your user name is "RealPunkRock", and you care about songs being catchy?

I still insist that Oh Love is the highlight of the album.

Lazy Bones is about how Billie once overslept and missed his plane to Brazil, causing an entire tour to be cancelled.

I don't mind the melody, but the lyrics...

Boooo off with ye head! Lol

Munchkin approves! As if needed any more reasons to love Billie.

I hate those people who hate Green Day because they don't like the trilogy or they hate Green Day because there trying new stuff (they always have)so they're not considered punk anymore or they just believe they sold out I just think people are pulling excuses out of their asses some people haven't even listened to them and decided they don't like them I don't care if everyone hates them ( I fucking love them ) it doesn't matter to me just come up with a better reason.

Seriously? That song is damn intergalactic and you know it.

You didn't! So thanks! haven't seen this one before

This is horrifying.

An unpopular opinion? This thread shouldn't exist. But while we're here spewing all sorts of opinions that have already been said in the first thread, I guess I'll give it a wack. 1. Rest is hands down the worst GD song, Nightlife at least has a cool bassline, and I actually don't mind the song. 2. I hate their Knowledge cover. 3. Welcome To Paradise on Kerplunk is better imo. I liked the less polished version. 4. Dookie is a masterpiece. Not unpopular, but whateva, I do what I want. I can play it from beginning to end. Having A Blast, Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around are my top GD songs. 5. Liquid Dookie would've been the better title. 6.When I said I could play Dookie from beginning to end, I lied. In the End isn't a bad song, but depresses me, and Emenius Sleepus should be on Insomniac. 7. Panic Song is probably my second favorite usage of bass besides Longview. 8. Nimrod was the last great GD record for me. NGFL, Hitchin A Ride, Scattered, Platypus, Take Back, Good Riddance. My lord!! 9. Warning is definitely my least favorite. 10. American Idiot, to me, isn't all that great. AI, JOS, BOBD, and Holiday are the standouts. Tad bit overrated if you ask me. 11. 21st Century Breakdown is my second least favorite GD album. Only song I still listen to is 21 Guns. 12. The trilogy hate here is unnecessary. Only complaint I can agree with is that many of the songs on Uno sound the same. All the other complaints, like the lyrics, are BS. 13. Stay The Night is better faster. 14. Stray Heart & Lazy Bones could've been a hit if marketed more. 15. Dirty Rotten Bastards suck. 16. Tre seems to get the most love, but I don't like it. If that's the direction they're going in, well I'll still listen, but I most likely won't like it. 17. People here still love GD and they always will, no matter how much they say they suck now.

I think American Idiot would be an even greater album if it didn't include She's A Rebel in it. I mean, i really love the song, but it just doesn't fit all the stuff going on in the album. If they put Favorite Son instead of She's A Rebel and put the song on the b-sides i think that would've made the album better. Personally speaking here.