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my guess is actually wine. there's been a few photos already with him holding a beer. as i said when we saw the first one, even though he seemed interested in never drinking again, I think it's perfectly fine. He's an adult and can decide his own limits. He was clearly aware he had a serious problem when he mixed them with pills and then overdid it. Alcohol on its own is not a problem, and not every person who goes to rehab needs to stop drinking for life. It's all about being responsible and moderation.

American Idiot. There are far better songs on the album, but in terms of impact and summing up the general feel of the album, as well as the band's change of direction/sudden renewed focus, it was spot on and did exactly what it needed to.

My brother was (attempting) to sing Holiday this morning and sang, "Hear those sounds as they do cocaine" as opposed to 'Hear the sound of the falling rain." I thought my misheard lyrics were embarrassing...

I don't think so, have you ever seen her Mickey Mouse club performances? She can sing, or at least she could before her breakdown.

A young Britney Spears

Johnny Rotten lost all relevance when he started advertising butter. He was always a prick (and the only reason I don't like the Sex Pistols much), but now he's just a waster.

Thankfully Green Day rarely responds to any criticism. I'm sure it'd drive them all a bit nutty having to comment every time Johnny Rotten bitches.

Either AI or Basket Case, I'd say. Both of them are summaries of the entire feel of their albums, and they're great songs.

Define "strongest?" Biggest commercial success? Most lasting air time? Recognizability? Ability to sum up an album? Catchiness as a single track? Increasing album sales? Attracting new fans? There are way too many subjective ways to define what the "best" is, I'm afraid!

As far as singles that have done exactly what singles are supposed to do, nothing tops American Idiot (song) for me. It was such a statement, given the context of Green Day's career and the general paranoia of the nation at the time. Nobody expected GD to come out with something that hit so hard. Good Riddance would be a close second, mostly because it just kind of surprised people. Especially when you consider that it followed an album like Insomniac, the listeners were confused at first I'm sure.

People who don't listen to a song that's so magnificent as East Jesus Nowhere do not deserve any credit.

No.

You are tiresome. Dearly beloved are you listening? Don't know if you're my mum or my daughter's cousin Am I inbred or am I just deformed? The space that's in between being my own grandparents

I'm the son of two cousins inbredness is not a sin in yorkshire where I'm living in my speech pattern's incomprehensible my vocabulary is invincible the moors and tea were made for me and I'm where I wanna be And there's nothing wrong with me this is how I'm supposed to be Gonna meet you at Scarborough fair In the middle of nowhere! #JesusOfYorksire

I choose to hear it as "I cunt really care less," in which case it is couldn't in a Yorkshire accent.

After giving it a bit of thought, I think the reason why I tolerate (okay I'll be honest - enjoy) Baby Eyes but loathe The Forgotten - though I consider both to showcase nonsensical lyrics - is because Baby Eyes is upbeat. Maybe a pretty stupid reason, but I'm the type of person who's ready to forgive poor or nonsensical lyrics if the song can distract me from them. And that's where slow, dramatic songs like The Forgotten - where I tend to focus on what's being said - fail. If JoS didn't have any grammatical oddities it would be too perfect for this world and the balance of nature will be thrown into chaos out of the sheer awesomeness. So just consider that one line the thing which enables that song to exist without any ill effects in this universe. (I don't know what I'm talking about. Again.)

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 was waiting for my laundry and Last of the American Girls started playing on the TV, it was on You've Been Framed and used for clips of people falling off bikes I was all "Green Day!" and the guy sitting on the floor with a comic just looked at me gone out.

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

really unimportant and not green day technically but In Mother Mary i first heard "There's a garden in the bog there", then "There's a garden in the fog there". Now i know it's "There's a garden in the park there" but i cant stop hearing the lyrics i thought it was.

I'm never going to unhear this