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To be honest I hate the album version of The Forgotten even more having heard how awesome Alyssa's version is Also I refuse to accept Billie has ever written a line worse than "I like your BMX-cellent tits." It's not even clever, it's trying too hard to be punny (and you know it's fucking bad if I of all people think that) and is just crass and shit.

Song of the Century, 21st Century Breakdown, East Jesus Nowhere, Peacemaker, Restless Heart Syndrome, Viva la Gloria, Viva la Gloria?, American Eulogy, The Static Age, Working Class Hero, The Saints Are Coming, etc. beg to differ.

One of my favorite lyrics is "They found him in a Cadillac/bludgeoned with a baseball bat". The not-quite rhyme combined with the quadruple alliteration is fantastic.

Every time I try to make some sense out of your music taste you say something like that It further encourages me to propose the theory that the song is about drugs and has nothing to do with love. He's having cold turkey and growing desperate, runs around his house looking for cocaine.

I'm inclined to disagree - it doesn't get the same amount of shit as the other two because it's not as shit as the other two. Few things are, in fact.

I just love the part in Misery when Billie is like, "Hell hounds on your trail now once again BOY"

The number of past and present stories he has about pissing is way more than the average person has though. For one example during the 21st CB tour he told one about his wife informing him that he'd got up in the night half asleep and pissed in the closet and (might've been some artistic license with this part) "flushed" a hanger . There's countless others too, eg once on tour after a night of heavy drinking he dreamt that he'd pissed in his suitcase, then woke up in the morning and found urine in his suitcase. So I think in his case his real life experiences legitimize the line

Let's think positive. Billie was trying to write bad lyrics on purpose, and as far as we can tell, he succeeded splendidly. I actually like Missing You musically BTW, but that is no excuse for the relatively poor-ish lyrics.

I can't not read those lyrics in a non-erotic way. I'm too perverted.

I love how sometimes (just sometimes) this thread deviates from unpopular to popular opinions

I like that but "Mr Whirly had a catastrophic incident" is one of my favourite lines of all time, along with "magic man, egocentric plastic man" and "cold turkey's getting stale, tonight I'm eating crow."

Ehh, he's spent a fair amount of time getting drunk and being silly over the years, doesn't seem an out of character detail to me. True, I find it fun but that is a matter of opinion. It's just kind of cheesy, not sure why but sometimes when a rhyme is too obvious/simple it just sounds bad, as if they used one word and then thought "hmm what word can I shoehorn into the song to rhyme with that?" rather than it being chosen for more artistic reasons. Understandable when he was a younger and not as experienced as a songwriter and I love the song too, just has a cheesy rhyme that makes me laugh in it

That is true, The Forgotten is a pretty good vocal. But it stops at "pretty good" when it could have been Last Night On Earth level. I'm not saying we need as many great vocal moments, but some more interesting runs maybe and it's an infinitely better song.

I must say that "I even looked under the bed" is one of the worst lines Billie's ever written.

It still blows my mind how Billie went from writing incredible, powerful lyrics for the American Idiot album (and previous albums) to writing lyrics for the trilogy that are less than stellar compared to anything he wrote before. Of course, not every track will have amazing lyrics, but some of them are so disappointing and even off-putting. There is such a stark difference in quality, it's hard not to notice. I expected more from him is all. Speaking of Missing You, Im kinda surprised to read that many people don't like it. That was one of the few tracks I actually enjoyed when I first listened to the trilogy. I like the melody and to me, it has hints of Green Day's "signature" sound in it, but even so, the lyrics arent very good unfortunately.

I still think "I searched the moon, I lost my head, I even looked under the bed" sounds more atrocious. (BTW, what was Billie searching for under the bed again?) Clue: Billie didn't write those. It's Vampirese for 'Arise my vampire brothers, 'tis time to annihilate the human race.' (P.S. In Demolicious it sounds more like SAILOO-brglleargch.)

I think we can conclude that Billie needs to take a poetry class.

Missing You is one of the best on the Trilogy (better still on Demolicious), but seeing as most of the Trilogy is in the lower quartile of their stuff, that's not saying too much.

They really don't, though. Restless Heart Syndrome maybe, but I'd put Missing You above Breakdown and EJN, and the rest are way below. Play it backwards and it's a recipe for meth.

I love Whatsherename as a closing song. It's sad but beautiful and powerful all at the same time.

I think rhyming "crazy" with "crazy" in not just one but two verses of Android is worse anyway. And "crazy" with "lazy" in One For The Razorbacks and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?. And it's all on one album

The enormity and brilliance of Whatsername cancels out the thing or rhyming time with time, so it ain't an issue for me

He didn't do much. He was fun to look at though.

I remember listening to it on the train & hoping passengers couldn't hear wtf I was listening to. I had the music (no words) as my ring tone right when the trilogy came out but then I changed it to DRB.

I love fuck time. I can listen to it 4 times

I love your setlists lately - its like a full time profession for you

"That was supposed to be so secret, down low, hush hush, but Indie 103 blasted it and then KROQ started blasting it. Next thing you know, there's a thousand people at my front door, down the alley all the way to Orizaba Park. My neighbors were flipping out. I walked into my office and my surfboard was on top of my walk-in cooler. Billie Joe and Tre and Mike look at me like, 'Oh, is he going to be pissed?' Billie Joe said, 'Would it be cool if I surfed my way to the stage?' That was pretty much a brand new board at the time, so I was a little freaked, but when you have the opportunity to have a moment like that, it's pretty insane." http://www.laweekly.com/music/alexs-bar-celebrates-15-years-of-punk-rock-insanity-5347964

I might like it more if I didn't know he could do far better in terms of light-heartedness, like Blood, Sex & Booze for example. Also is it just me or is Misery an incredibly fun song, both lyrically and otherwise, despite its dark content? But most people grow back into it eventually

How sad. This takes a very small amount of his cuteness away. Very, very small I will fold my argument, you win.

It's meant to be crass though, it's deliberately crass and silly.

He does sound quite good on The Forgotten, so I can at least tolerate it.

I think it's garbage His vocal tone is subdued, soft, unengaging. The lyrics are so god damn by the numbers a computer could have generated them given the title. The bassline is a redeeming quality, as is the opening. The melody doesn't stick out by GD standards, and that was pretty much the song's last chance at being good. It is middle of the road by trilogy standards.

Especially when 21CB is between JOS and Missing You.

According to Metro Lyrics it s SAILOOOOO whatever the fuck that means. I will put up with any of the bad rhyming if he can just take Makeout Party back.

I got it from another collector here in Brazil

It is a recurring theme.

You and me both

Green Day needs to cover this song. Every time it comes on the radio I can't help but think of them. I mean come ON, it's like they're channeling the network with those ski masks I am still not so familiar with blog posts, but it does sound like something that everyone could get involved with :3

Does every thread lead back to hooking up with billie

It is so adorable that you always type f time. You are such a gentleman! But, we are all green day fans. I think billie has said fuck once or twice

The Voice USA I think - never saw any of billie's mentoring or any of it.

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Wednesday was the 10th anniversary of the first time I saw Green Day. I feel so very old.

They have the tremolo guitar part on a backing track so he needs a click track to stay perfectly in time with it.

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The semi-shirtless man is now an elected public official in the City of Berkeley. Not sure what became of the other guys. Photo by Murray Bowles.

Drop-dead hideous = Trilogy. This theory makes sense.

Sure, for example "Turn out the lights Close your eyes Turn up the silence The heartache of your life Dance forever Under the lights This brutal love" When I hear these words I think of how going to a concert can be a cathartic event for people. We temporarily block out reality (heartache of your life) and indulge in this relationship with the artist (brutal love). But it is often an unrequited love, because the artist doesn't know you specifically exist, really. Which explains the next verse: "Oh how you want it You're begging for it But you can't have it Even if you try It's in the clutches In the hands of This brutal love" And so on