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I thought i'd be positive and list what i think are some great lyrics from the trilogy: Stay The Night- "Well you're so sick and tired of feeling so alone, i don't understand the point if you have to go home. So wont you stay and count the circles round my eyes and we can count stars until the sun begins to rise" Kill The DJ- "Your thoughts are so unholy in the holiest of holes, onward Christian soldiers filled with jive and mind control" Loss Of Control- " Hanging out all by myself, atleast i make good company" "Im gonna hide in the shadows because ive really got nothing to say, we never had anything in common and i never liked you anyway" Lazy Bones- "I'm too tired to be bored i'm too bored to be tired and the silence is so deafening its like picking at a sore" Ashley- "You use to dangle my heart with your puppet strings, you dangled your desires right infront of my face, you led me to the well but wouldn't let me drink, swallowing my pride and i never even got the taste" Brutal Love- "Turn out the lights, close your eyes. Turn up the silence the heartache of your life, dance forever under the lights, this brutal love" X kid- You're not so young, but you're still dumb. And you're numb to your old glory but now its gone" 99 Revolutions- "A common cause and call to arms for the health of our daughters and our sons" There's more but im too tired to think right now.

I don't keep up with what's going on in here. Is someone else a tiny gay baby? because I will fight them to retain my title as Supreme Ultimate Tiny Gay Baby Champion. it's very important to me.

True, debating opinion makes the thread fun. But when debating when using only opinions is futile. A real debate is only won by using factual information. I think I just forgot what thread I was in. Now back to debating opinion. Fell for you is one of the most fun songs on the Trilogy. It is upbeat, nonsensical and fun. Part of its appeal is just the thought of sleepless Billie bored to tears and flying paper airplanes all night. I envision Adrienne waking up in the morning and finding 500 paper airplanes on her floor.

Well yeah, but American Idiot is a totally different album with lyrics telling an epic story. Uno Dos and Tre are more lighthearted and have a more varied mix of songs so good one liners are more what you'd expect. I really enjoy the snappy/humorous one liners on there, there's (understandably) less of them on American Idiot and 21st CB so nice to see them.

that's not even fucking grammatically correct man, come on, try harder.

Matter of opinion of course but I think plenty of the songs have good lyrics as a whole as well as just good one liners, there's a lot that have simple/repetitive choruses but the verses hold up well imo.

There's an un-watermarked HQ version in GDA's Gallery here.

I've taken a big liking to it recently; the chorus isn't great, but I really like the verses (i s2g that's like the trilogys thing).

good tbh i have no interest in having people think i'm nice. fuck that.

I can't appreciate the technical range of Billie's 21CB vocals very well because they sound like they were recorded through a tin can. Worst part of an otherwise exceptionally well-produced album. Being considered a bad person by you is rather a badge of honor in most cases tbf.

don't add me to any sort of list you creep.

But it sounds much more smarteth.

You keep using that suffix. I don't think you know what it means.

I like to think of it that way too. Plus rhyming "parachute" and "pair of shoes" is just genius in itself

Ah young knave, I voluptuously disagree with thou's assessment of said combination of musical notes. Walketh Awayeth hath be a abhorrent tune and said line makes not a lick of sensibility, but thou lineth that we speaketh of is quite clever and tickles my fancy and intellect.

I don't think he has written about paper airplanes before, but if you are referring to writing about insomnia, it is true. Brain Stew is a better song than Fell For You, but Fell For You makes me smile more.

I don't think it's a particularly good line. Rather unintentionally amusing in it's straightforwardness (or bluntness). And I like to think Billie meant it as a joke or a tongue-in-cheek intentionally simple pun.

I disagree (and I'm largely in the pro-Trilogy camp) - I like all of Uno, but I think all the songs you listed are the better ones off it (except Fell For You, I'm not such a fan of that one). I'm afraid I have to completely disagree on that one, I've always thought that's one of the worst lines he's ever written.

If there wasn't debate about opinion this thread really wouldn't serve any sort of purpose.

Not in that order: American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Homecoming Letterbomb Knowledge Holiday Viva La Gloria (Little Girl) Viva La Gloria Peacemaker East Jesus Nowhere Minority J.A.R. Welcome to Paradise One for the Razorbacks Burnout Longview Basket Case She Jaded Walking Contradiction Nice Guys Finish Last Hitchin' A Ride The Grouch Platypus (Ì Hate You) Uptight Deadbeat Holiday Ha Ha You're Dead Good Riddance When I Come Around Let Yourself Go Carpe Diem 99 Revolutions... That's not even half of he list

Well if you listen to some lyrics you're either going to like them or not, it's interesting to hear differing opinions on them but can't really change whether someone enjoys them

But my point is that the one-liners from any other album are probably even of better quality, and they're not even the best part of those albums. On the trilogy, it's a bunch of decent one-liners surrounded by fillers like "Let yourself go! Let yourself go!" and "99 revolutions tonight! 99 revolutions tonight!"

It's easy to pick out one-liners, but when you view the lyrics as a complete package, they pale in comparison to an album like American Idiot, which was spot-on in terms of lyrical and recording quality. Even albums like Insomniac or Dookie, which were written almost 20 years prior, are much better.

DRB: Chop me a line of my best friend's ashes. Walk Away: something about a parachute or use a pair of shoes and walk away. I really like this wordplay.

I must try this.

I find loss of control so boring on the album but gotta say live at soundwave it was a lot of fun.

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I've got all their and the side bands' stuff on shuffle and it just went from I Am An Elephant to Saint Jimmy to All The Time and it's bloody awesome.

A girl in front of me paying for her parking was wearing the same 99 Revolutions tour shirt that I was. Made my day really.

^ Beautiful :wub:

Today I was at the gym, wearing one of my many GD T-shirts. A guy at the gym asked me if I was a fan. Not sure how many people wear a T-shirt of a band they are not a fan of, but I politely said yes anyway. He tells me a story of when he was on vacation in Belize. He met a guy there and they became friendly. The guy told him that he used to be the drummer in the band Green Day but he quit before they became famous. He met John Kiffmeyer on vacation. I had to tell him that he didn't exactly quit.