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Best/Worst of VMA Performances: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20302134_20627757,00.html?stitched#21209874 Green Day, ''Let Yourself Go'' Leave it to the sole punk band on the bill to paint an X on the ground and call it a stage. Playing a loud-fast bruiser from their forthcoming album ¡Uno!, Green Day kept it classic: no neon pyramids,no dancing lips, just the best bad attitude of the night. (''Who wants to be on TV?'' sneered Billie Joe. ''Let's go!'') Extra points for wearing that Pussy Riot t-shirt, backup guy. B+ "backup guy"

just watched a documentary about Green Day on History channel here in Italy..60 minutes, from Look for love to the Musical..Larry Livermore was there.. it was called just "Green Day" ..

I think that 8th Avenue Serenade is one of the best songs on the Trilogy...

I don't get at all why people get annoyed by the word "bleed" in Drama Queen. I mean, it's something that naturally happens, and I think most of Green Day fans are open-minded enough not to care about it. It could even mean something very different, like "she's old enough to suffer" or "she's old enough to be offended". It just doesn't bother me at all, help me to figure out what gets to you so much please.

He's not really though, he just alludes to the fact that she's old enough to have periods/bleed as a metaphor for the fact that she's old enough to be exploited/"bled" by her family/record company/media/society etc, as a young female celebrity. It's not like it's a graphic description of menstrual bleeding. And the song is supposed to be creepy anyway, young women being pushed into the limelight too young and exploited even by their own families is creepy. People are silly about periods, apparently even one vague reference to them as a metaphor is a problem. I'm surprised there isn't more complaining about Red Tide, which is actually about periods/PMS.

The only thing I love more than Jason White getting attention for things is Jason White ANONYMOUSLY getting attention for things... it's just funnier that way, and probably what he wants anyway

There is such a thing as "bad production" when the vocal effects are too loud. They tried to do a "live-sounding" album and it sounds totally unnatural.

I think the "daddy's little bundle of joy" line is just as creepy, the whole chorus is. If it was meant literally and sincerely, like he was talking about a daughter or something, then it would totally make me cringe. But since it's meant to depict something creepy (young women being exploited) it's appropriate that it's creepy, so it doesn't.

There is no such thing as "bad production" on the trilogy, it's just that they decided to go with different sound nothing wrong with that. The production fits the songs.

The guitars are too low and clean, the bass doesn't cut through enough, the vocal filters are too high and the snare is a bit weak.

Agreed, if only it had better production.

You're missing out then! I think I've listened to it more than any Green Day album, it's great.

There's just something inherently creepy about a 40 year old man singing about a girl's first period I guess.

I don't see how the count of his testicles has anything to do with anything to be honest

Green Day is ranked 14th for their 2005 performance of Boulevard of Broken Dreams for Rolling Stone's list of the 20 Best Opening Performances at the VMA's. They are also the photo that is on the front page that represents this article. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-mtv-vmas-opening-performances-20140822/green-day-2005-20140822

All the hype from the acoustic performances on the 21CB tour. The intrigue when it got moved from Dos to Tre. All the excitement for that lovely acoustic love song. Then one period joke killed the whole thing.

Tre has quite an interesting interpretation of Poprocks and Coke: "That's like a good song to make out with your boyfriend to, or your girlfriend, whatever. Who ever you like to make out with. It's a good song to get all bubbly, tickly, naked...it's a nice song." So he didn't see creepiness in it anyway

"Billie used Lick! It's super effective! Mike was paralyzed!" I'm sorry, I had to do that. XD

Spotted this in the July 2002 issue of Q