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Clearly, Billie is implying a gory sadomasochistic sexual intercourse. P.S./EDIT: I've now realized that this is clearly another proof that Billie Joe is a bloodthirsty vampire and the band Green Day is a front for him and his vampire cohorts. (I should really make a thread about this.)

i actually like the guitar tone on uno

Billie Joe clearly knows the importance of following the AP Stylebook.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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