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Oxford commas aren't punk

Hey everyone, I'd like to introduce a new guideline to help keep this thread nice and easy to read through. Which is: When posting an article please don't just post a link with no description of what it is. Make sure to always include a few words to describe what the article is about and why Green Day is mentioned in it. That way when people are browsing through the thread they can easily see which articles sound interesting and choose which ones to click on. I'll be adding this to the OP as well. Thanks!

But without the comma, it becomes Blood Sex and Booze instead of Blood and Sex and Booze. Then the question becomes what the hell is Blood Sex and it becomes some of Billie's nonsensical lyrics again.

Okay why did Green Day not use the oxford comma in "Sex, Drugs & Violence" and "Blood, Sex & Booze"? I am ashamed. Heartbroken. Crushed. Devastated. Distraught. Why, Green Day? Why?

This happened a while ago, but one time I heard someone next to day quietly singing "Basket Case". So then I started singing along with him. Needless to say, we're friends now.

I'll pay attention. I need to snap the flannel shirt photo before he slips it on just to try and see if Lady Cobra gets jealous! #evilplan

The flannel shirts are everything Be sure to note if he slips on the ring for the photo and then slips it back off afterwards #ringgate #conspiracy

thank god I thought I was the only one who never understood! It's not my fault hen?

Because Mr. Armstrong happens to be a HS dropout. This probably accounts for a certain degree of illiteracy.

you are just about on the money

OK Try 35

oh come on - thats a bit harsh bitch - thats still quite a few years away for me

A few years? Try 40

that was me - give or take a few years

bitch

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amy mordoff ღ ‏@AmyJaneee_ Jul 3 At the grocery store with Billy Joe Armstrong. johnny ocho-ugh ‏@johnnyxochoa Jun 17 Los Angeles, CA I just learned that my boss is friends with Billy Joe Armstrong and worked with him on the American Idiot broadway production. Huh.

So bought the book Nobody Likes You almost want to give up by introduction when it states a big ass lie that Green Day has outsold U2 U2 has over 150 million while at that time of publication GD had over 40 million how the fuck is 40 million more than 150 million if he can't even get that fact straight how am I to believe the rest of the book

The thing about "When I Come Around" that makes that song really cool is the sound and rhythm of the guitar. The composure of the music really works. Classic Billie Joe palm mutes, along with that Dookie Distortion that we all have come to love. All of Dookie is recorded using guitars and basses down tuned a half step so that makes the guitars sound allot cooler too. I have heard that song covered a hundred times by a hundred different artists, but I have yet to hear someone get the guitar part exactly right. It usually is just play straight with no palm mutes or pauses at the right intervals. Mike and Billie really play great together on that song. I agree with you that the lyrics aren't the strongest on the album nor is the chord structure. It's played, as far as finger placement on the fret board, in G Major but since the guitar is tuned down a half step, it's actually in F# Major. Most of the song repeats the chords: F# C# D#m B throughout the song, except for the chorus which is: G# B, G# B. That power-chord pattern is used in half of the songs ever written. Maybe, that's a stretch, but the band surely wasn't reaching very much when it came to that aspect of the song, but that can be said for most any Green Day song. After all, complexity is not why we listen to GD. We listen because their music sounds cool and is full of energy and emotion. That can't be measured in music theory. It just works.