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Some more by photographer Scott McDermott:

Great find! (Tried to get it w/o watermarks but no luck. *cries*) It's by photographer Scott McDermott of "Billy Joe Armstrong" according to his site. Here it is in a larger size, as well as another photo:

boat is already floating

I think it's a great story, it's just a story better suited to, say, David Bowie than Green Day. Especially when you can't tell at all from the song what that story is.

To me 21st is by far a much better album than AI lyrically (and musically as well) but that's just my opinion But then I loved 21st instantly while it took me 7 years to get into all of AI

But the point is, as you said yourself, that it's ironic. If you're taking the piss out of repetitive music it's perfectly understandable to be repetitive in order to make the point. Anyway, obviously I'm no Trilogy-lover, but applying the "lack of lyrical intelligence" shtick to all three albums based on one song seems a bit unfair, especially when you've then pointed out why it's not even that dumb after all. And especially when that song has some of the best verses Billie has ever written. Not really, it's just based on a crappy story in the first place.

My problem with the Trilogy lyrics is the lack of intelligence. Example: Someone kill the DJ shoot the fucking DJ Someone kill the DJ shoot the fucking DJ Someone kill the DJ shoot the fucking DJ Now I get the intention behind that chorus - that a lot of modern music is boring, repetitive and contains gratuitous swearing. Nothing wrong with that message, but the issue is that Billie Joe of old would have written a witty, clever one-liner or verse, or chorus to convey that message, not the same (rubbish) line repeated three times. The thing is, this isn't the only time this happened on the Trilogy.

I was about to download a documentary about a "Baby Mammoth" (don't know - blind download) when I saw this screenshot as preview: You don't see a Siberian with a Green Day shirt (and pants only) every day^^ So I'm going to try to make a screenshot myself with a better pictures. It's so random

This sounds like we need the full strength of GDA to find this.

Further evidence of Billie being a bit of an egomaniac--he took an incredibly weird and interesting story and made it about him.

in the Nimrod booklet he's wearing it if you wanna compare

I know Billie used to wear a Ramones pick around his neck, but I don't know about a medal

I never thought I could have been more disappointed in the Trilogy after Breakdown. I was wrong.

Maybe they should've just gone Hedwig and the Angry Inch-style and made their follow-up to 21CB an epic rock opera all about Train and his genital travails, rather than the Trilogy. And then made it into a musical starring Neil Patrick Harris. Hey, I'd watch the shit out of it.

I want this tattooed on me.

The Dookie cover looks sweet with the Green text!!

So here's another screenshot, and it's still funny to see that dude in that situation

He didn't like cameras, even then.

No, No, No, Brutal Love is a Great song, both lyrically and instrumentally, just see the lyrics of that song

Yes but after AI the quality of their lyrics has been going constantly downhill. Anyway, on the Trilogy even the thoughtful stuff ain't that good in my opinion

It's definitely the best. Because the rest of the trilogy is like: "Hey! I like your BMW!"

I think that 'we all want to go to heaven but no-one wants to die' is one of the best lines of the Trilogy - and they didn't even write it

I think "Defy your judgment and demons and save your last goodbye" (from State Of Shock) are some of the best lines from the whole trilogy

Whatever floats your boat mate

combine both of them and we get PUNK - COUNTRYSIDE rushing to CITIES

We have GDC-ers writing for Huffington Post! Yay!

Green Day was featured in the new issue of Kerrang! GreenDay.com Kerrang! has a massive huge collection of their pics and they're always posting the same, don't they wanna share new ones? Damn! Alex was my favorite (and the cutest) from BMS, but what the hell, Billie cannot be compared with anyone !

Well, here's the waveform with the clipping highlighted in red: It's not as badly over-compressed as some stuff, but I just really don't think it does the song any favours. It's a fantastic song, but given that it leans so heavily on dynamic contrast they've done a great job of stripping any actual dynamic range out of the performance and in the end it just sounds artificial. As an audiophile I like to listen to my music through high quality headphones, but this song actually sounds worse through them because the guitars are so compressed that everything's just drowning in distortion caused by compression.

I just made this because my life is empty.