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Sir Alex, sir Alex, show me your rolex Sir Alex, sir Alex, nobody can guess sir Alex, dear Alex, we were the best sir Alex's gone, boy, who'll be the next?

I think the song reflects the drunken thoughts of a horny person They don't have to make much sense - from the perspective of an inebriated deviant, the song captures that exact moment of "fuck it, I'm hammered. let's get nasty". I'm pretty sure most of us can relate to the kind of hazy infatuation that Makeout Party is recreating.

Yeah but he hasn't written about sex that often aside from on Dos. I don't know why it's so terrible for him to write about it quite a lot (although there's plenty of other subjects covered too) on one album, it's as "real" and as good a subject as any. He can write about everything, I'm glad he doesn't limit himself to one theme/style. Besides although he hasn't written about it as much as on Dos or made it a main theme on any other album he's still touched on the subject plenty of times before whether it's from a more romantic, more serious, or more silly angle, not to mention all the sexually suggestive schtick on stage and in interviews, so it's not like it's a totally new area for them. Don't really get why having it as more of a main lyrical focus puts people's backs up.

Bootleg Baba uvula who desensitize suffocate would not be on a GH cd lol (as great as those songs are they just wouldn't)

I think a lot of the singing kind of sounds similar too (eg "Fell in love with a girl...", "Well I met a girl named Lady Cobra..."), sounds like you could sing one song over the other quite easily.

I'll never know how Mike plays the bass part and sings the chorus of No One Knows at the same time. Absolute genius.

Musically it's pretty decent (IMO). The lyrics are some of the worst Billie's written but the music leaves the song somewhat salvageable.

I shall use that song tomorrow.

Found it at a used record store this morning. It's an old promo shirt. It says Green Day on the back.

Ranking things is never good, but yeah - while I was expecting both Insomniac and Nimrod and going nuts about them as a kid, the wait for Nimrod was so, so...special. And what came from it was a clear proof that Green Day can do pretty much anything, toy with genres and fuse them.

Rolling Stone, November 20th 2014

I think the "midlife crisis" aspect of it makes it a bit more substantial, rather than purely just fun songs about sex etc on their own (which I think it's fine to make a few of anyway) there's some more introspective and thoughtful songs like Lazy Bones and Amy in with them. In the context of the album it's about all kinds of midlife crisis issues with partying, drink and drugs, dark thoughts, resisting and giving into temptation and the consequences of it as well as just sex, I think those are real and legitimate issues to write about. I quite like that for a change though, it's always been clear they're capable of writing about it more overtly (from Tre's songs, side project songs like Right Hand-A-Rama, sexy antics during Hitchin A Ride or at Foxboro shows etc). Not saying I'd want all their songs to be that way but it seems fitting that they'd have added a few overtly sexual songs to their "proper" Green Day catalogue by now. Whether said songs are shite or not is a matter of opinion of course

Yeah, well sorry I couldn't pull that out of my ass on the spot

I blow my load everytime I see this picture

There you go.

from Joey's public twitter Happy thanksgiving from 3/5 of the fam

i'll bash your fucking head in.

I love it! It's one of the most generally fun angry songs they've done.

Everyone else here seems to hate that one, which is why I didn't mention it.

Horseshoes and Handgrenades?

East Jesus Nowhere? Viva la Gloria!? Viva la Gloria?? Peacemaker? American Eulogy? The Static Age? Before the Lobotomy?

GDC is not a country. It's an Internet wasteland.

one thing you like Justin Bieber??... feel free to answer

Anyway

Change the pitches of the songs and they match perfectly.

You live in Canada m8

Honestly, why are you spamming up every thread with posts like this instead of just repping things you agree with?

I agree. That said, I've always thought the political aspect of Breakdown has been blown out of proportion. I mean sure, it has references to politics (the title track, Know Your Enemy, American Eulogy) but on the whole I always thought it was just lazy journalism to call it a political album and just made it easier to market as a follow up to American Idiot.

Boo, to you too.