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Misery's great

But it's one of the best songs they've ever done

Rock n Roll Girlfriend is above such earthly things as making sense. It's absolutely awesome and simply flat out rocks

I shall restore balance to the Force by defending Dos. Sure, the lyrics of much of the songs in there don't make any hell of a sense, but I've always imagined it as a mainly-instrumental album.

I know we all tease about Kerrang rehashing old Green Day stuff but I'm just happy at least one magazine is still talking about them. Makes them less forgotten even in this down time.

It'd have to be American Idiot for me too. I prefer Breakdown as an album but I just couldn't give up Give Me Novacaine, JOS or Whatsername.

I just recieved my copy of "Nobody Likes You" by Marc Spitz and it says that on that day Billie had to do paperwork regarding his community service for DUI conviction and Tre was in process of divorce, meeting with layers. Mike was left alone in the studio and came up with "nobody likes you" part, and East 12th St is about Billie doing his DUI paperwork cause apparently Oakland police office is there. And we all know about Tres' part. No idea if the whole thing about that particular day is true but it sounds like a nice story.

Billie's said he put that song at that point on the album so it's like a reflective moment for JOS, before the events of Homecoming. And I think the reason he sings "7 years has gone so fast" before "20 years has gone so fast" is so it's like he reflects on his father's death from when he was JOS's age (around 17) before reflecting on it from the age he was at the time (early 30s). JOS is basically him so I think it does tie into the story in those ways, even if loosely.

I love it to death, but it doesn't flow nearly as well as JoS--the seams between songs are much clearer--and Rock and Roll Girlfriend makes no goddam sense in the way it's just shoehorned in.

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My current theory is if you play Dos backwards it's just Mike sobbing and Tre whispering "So much cocaine. So. Much. Cocaine..."

Not only is the third act of 21CB by far its most consistently strong, 21 Guns is far from its worst song. It's really impossible for me to choose a favorite, but it's safe to say that "The Pedestrian", "Mother Mary", "Pieces of Truth", "Stop Drop and Roll" and "Sally" are my top five.

Yes, yes it is. The discussion is now over. Also, the song transitions work just as well in Homecoming as they do in JOS, for me. If not, a little better.

Pretty certain they've said Homecoming was first several times (as far as working on it in the studio anyway, I know Billie's also said he started writing Wake Me Up When September Ends at an earlier point). When speaking on the subject of how the album got started they always tell that story of Mike being alone in the studio and coming up with something like "Everyone left the studio, everyone left the studio but me" that turned into Nobody Likes You and then Billie and Tre turning up and writing their own little songs and joining them together. So I think even if Billie did start writing some lyrics etc for JOS before that the idea to have a long multi-part song and actually going ahead and starting to make a song for the album together started with Homecoming.

Nah 99 Revolutions is the best Green Day song ever

If you've listened to the first 30 seconds of it then you kind of have tbh.

And Mike came up with the name Sassafras Roots. Not sure how that's relevant, but whatever.

Which was pretty much his reaction when he visited GDC.

So he's really saying "So much Tomnomnom. So. Much. Tomnomnom..."

Someone else's cocaine?

So we end the most epic comeback record of all time with Jesus becoming a dirty old man? To be fair it's exactly what happened to Billie.

Except Alligator is a joke and Troublemaker is supposed to sound hip and cool

I wish they'd release the rehearsal recordings of AI The sound of the rehearsals in the making of doc sounds awesome

Cheers. Just looked it up on YouTube and yeah, that's loads better.

I hate the production on J.A.R. The drums are incredibly thin and it lacks so much of the power the AAF version has.

Don't really know what there is to dislike about Alligator, it's catchy, loads of fun and is based on a Kinks song and references a Bowie song so it's awesome. Plus the alligator head on a stick and snapping mouth dance move when they play it live . I enjoy it even more because my little nephew loves it, it's his favourite Green Day/Foxboro song. We recently made up some alternative "Crocodile" lyrics for it too

It'd have to be AI for me, for the variety of sounds in it. SD&R is great, but it's all quite similar. AI has, to quote a certain GDC legend, SO MUCH VARIETIES !!!

So many good songs on that record. I've always had a thing for 27th Ave Shuffle though.

It doesn't fit in and was never meant to. Unless you want to interpret it as a 9/11 tribute.

See, I think you can take that one in the same vein as the title track and Holiday--they don't directly pertain to the story, they just set the scene. The problem with Girlfriend is that it isn't doing any scene - setting and it appears smack dab in the middle of an otherwise thematically unified song.

Ah ok it's been a few years since I've paid attention to the AI recording process

its funny because you're wrong

Can you ban that person please that post is permaban worthy

I love Mike's voice. Sadly his potential was being wasted since Governator pretty much sucks as a song. One of his rare vocal spotlights and then a song like that

Let's not forget that Misery was a Billie/Mike/Tre collab and it's easily one of their best songs lyrically.

And he doesn't even get two pictures. Dammit, Lady Cobra.

No he's not, Foxboro are fronted by The Reverend Tinchy Stryder.

Graham you shameless rep-baiter That's ridiculously blatant response And also ridiculously great

All in all, the conclusion is that the best thing that could happen is if Mike wrote the lyrics for their next album instead of Billie the Horny.

Lately, I've had a newfound appreciation for Holiday, especially lyrically, with it's political undertones. And not to forget the fact that it's brilliant musically as well, and it just adds to the overall message of the song. My greatest wish for the future of Green Day is that it brings another song of this caliber.

¡¡¡So many new pictures of Gorgeous Tré are making me lose my head!!!! :runaround: And it awesome!!! :wub: