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Noel Gallagher is the unbeatable connoisseur of nonsense. He even lacks the skill that Bob Dylan is notorious for. Noel's nonsense doesn't even sound substantial. (I love Bob madly, but don't tell me some of his lyrics make sense. They don't. But still they're awesome. ) No matter what Oasis hit song you take the messsge is always the same. Seize the day, and expressed by horrible clichés like "wake up at dawn and ask her why, the dreamer dreams, she never dies, so wipe that tear away from your eye". Billie has always been better lyricist than that. (Champagne Supernova is cool enough song, but honestly.) As far as Billie goes, whilst especially on 21st Century Breakdown the meaning of some of the songs is a bit vague sometimes, there's always some meaning you can understand and capture, some uniting thought. So, no, if the Trilogy is excluded, I think Billie's never actually written pure nonsense. You may not always be able to tell the meaning of each individual line, but you can always tell the meaning of the song as a whole.

"ONE CARROT?! I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT ONE FUCKING CARROT LOOKS LIKE!"

I agree that most of them have a clear point they are stating. Whether one likes or hates Makeout Party one must admit its meaning is quite clear . But songs like Nuclear Family, Wild One, Baby Eyes, Dirty Rotten Bastards or the Forgotten sound nonsensical enough to me. You may be able to tell some vague sentiment, but how does it differ from Champagne Supernova then? By saying nonsense, by the way, I don't mean that the song necessarily has no lyrical point at all, but rather that it feels like half of the lyrics were written only because something has to be sung, so those lines or verses generally do not make sense, only fill the empty space. Again comparisons to Noel Gallagher (And Dylan, though comparing Bob to the lyrics on the Trilogy is very severe blasphemy) are justified. He too used to come up with one or two catchphrases and fill the rest with some random vague rambling.

I mostly agree with your post but the Trilogy's lyrics aren't nonsense either come on , might not be considered good lyrics by everyone but they are understandable/explainable (apart from maybe a couple of lines in Troublemaker that are partly nonsensical but still make sense in the context of the song as it's just deliberately silly word play done for comedic purposes). Compared to a lot of bands Green Day write pretty straightforward lyrics I'd say, from individual lines to the general meaning of the song it's very rare that the meaning isn't clear or reasonably easy to work out. I like that about them, they keep it real. I like some bands that have slightly harder to decipher lyrics as well, but yeah in that case they have to actually mean something and not just be difficult to work out because they're really nonsense haha.

I think it's fair enough. Yeah he's famous and that's how it is, but that doesn't mean it's not shit for him and that he shouldn't be annoyed or bothered by it, especially in private time. He's one of very few rock stars who's always polite to fans and rarely ever says no to a photo, so normally he does deal with it really well but he's bound to get sick of it sometimes - I would!

I wonder if the bunny is ever sober or if it's been in a state of constant inebriation since its birth.

True, but funnily enough, whilst Dos has the worst lyrics, its lyrics are also the most straightforward ones. So not actually nonsensical, just purely bad.

I think you captured Noel Gallagher perfectly. The entire trilogy is not bad, Dos is.

This is nice article. http://www.mndaily.com/blogs/ae-blog/2014/10/22/mainstream-punk-retrospective-green-day

Looks like some kind of book to me. It's this and is in Italian. It's called Uno Dos Tre: The Annotated Texts. Sounds like a great read.

Dunno mate I think someone's taking you for a ride honestly, don't see why a teenage boy would willingly converse with strangers about his dad?

And, seriously, if I lived near them and saw them out and about all the time, or even occasionally, I would definitely be taking pictures ALL THE TIME. (not obsessed with him!)

Haha - a sexy as hell rock star - sorry had to add that

Geez, Billie grow a pair. You live in the real world and are a "rock star." Deal with the fact that the world has changed and everyone (including you) have cameras on their phones and take pictures constantly. Sorry you don't like the fact that people take your picture when you're out and about with the family but guess what? You're famous. People like to take pictures of famous people doing normal things. Deal. /rant over And Heather, I don't think those pictures were Jakob's. Just that he made the comment on his fb about them.

& it hasn't been washed since

Seems like everybody is equally creepy in this.

Which was pretty much his reaction when he visited GDC.

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

I'm 83 and I still don't use iTunes. Oh wait, that's '83, not 83...

it's just fucking weird to see Matt (and also Josh) next to Billie.... when Matt was still in Dead Commercial I wrote with him on youtube a bit and some while after that they got a shout out by Emily's Army... a very long time later Matt and me got in touch again on facebook and that was this or last year, idk, but only a few weeks later he posted pics of himself ad Josh standing in front of Jingletown records and not much later the boys announced their album was produced by Billie (and i think Joey was their connection)...i almost fell of my chair when i saw that picture!! and i felt so happy for them and even though this isn't me standing next to Billie it just felt fucking surreal! ...i still need that album, though

This thread has been the best learning experience of my life.? No, seriously though

I know that I'll think of more later but I used to think that "Know Your Enemy" said " Do you know your enemy, know your enemy, the color of the enemy, ohhaa." (And I was just like,"wow that's racist")

Me too! And I like those lyrics as well so being in high school isn't a requirement

My 7 year old nephew heard Welcome To Paradise and started singing along. Thanks to Billie's pronunciation of "paradise", he thought he was singing "pair o' dice" . Forever going to hear this now.

I was listening to Insomniac and Nimrod lately and can't help but think how Billie actually pronounces some words rather...I don't know how to say it, oddly, I guess? I mean, when he's not slurring them. And not exactly Green Day, but I'm pretty sure people have already commented how "I walk alone" in BoBD sounds too much like "I wore cologne," especially when Billie is singing it. Kind of funny though because there's this Pinhead Gunpowder song where the lyrics are exactly that. "I WORE COLOGNE! I WORE COLOGNE!"

I have a corgi (a herding dog) and a hound.....and I always imagine that the hound is doing just that very thing.

I noticed that in Stop When The Red Lights Flash, "I'm not the hurting kind" sounds like "I'm not the herding kind". Now imagining a dog being asked what kind of dog it is and replying "I'm not the herding kind" when listening to that line.

I used to sing: "and I'm sick and tired of" instead of "on a steady diet of" in JoS

Omg - I do that too and am SO amazed our way is not the right lyric!! *rolls eyes, shakes head, grins*

Okay, I know this sounds really stupid, but when I was three years old, I remember my mom playing "When I Come Around" in the car... And we driving past a friends house, and I knew that the lady that lived there was named Lauretta. For some reason, that just got in my head, and I thought that the song went "Here I come, Lauretta" instead of "When I come around"... Of course I eventually learned the right lyrics, but looking back on it, it's kinda funny.

It's actually "vain", might just be you misspelled it but the two words do have different meanings.

Oh..... So that's what it says......

I thought that "Thinking out loud and acting in vein" in Walking Alone was "Thinking Back Now, How on earth did it fade?"

The biggest fail was when I listened to Nuclear Family for the first time. I heard "I just want some action, so give me Mike Dirnt" instead of "give me my turn". Omfg

At the end of Hitchin' a Ride, is it "don't know where to go" or "don't know where I'm going"? I've tried looking this up, but that part of the lyrics are never written out for some reason. My mom also heard the N word in St. Jimmy at the Edgar Allan Poe part. I was never sure why until now. Haha.

"I am a son of a bitch, a nigger and a hoe" - st jimmy "Jimmy always thought, but something went wrong" - homecoming "Dickhead, are you down with me? Explosive ducks taped to my spine" - having a blast "The future's in my liver ooohh" - uptight "I'm down in the playbill again" - missing you "Sleazing in my backyard with a tankard" when I come around I have very bad hearing omg

I always thought he was shouting something in Arabic; I think because earlier in the album "Peacemaker" has a distinctly Middle Eastern vibe, and because the "G-L" sounds vaguely like "jihad".