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I think so! I'm always amazed by how little I notice what songs are being played during a show. I'll be there and think for a second "hang on what song is this and what song did they just play?" and then stop caring again, you just get so caught up in the atmosphere. Songs that have special on stage traditions and stuff attached to them (eg King For A Day or Longview) will get my attention and stick in my memory more but when they're just ripping through songs they go by in a blur. I'm glad to have setlist fm to remind me.

Had lots of driving to do yesterday so had Dookie playing - decided to flick onto the radio & When I Come Around was playing

I draw those parallels too! But I pair some of them up differently. I think of it as 21st Century Breakdown and Jesus of Suburbia Know Your Enemy and American Idiot Viva La Gloria and She's a Rebel Before the Lobotomy/Restless Heart Syndrome and Give Me Novacaine Christian's Inferno/Horseshoes and Handgrenades and St Jimmy East Jesus Nowhere and Holiday Last of the American Girls and Extraordinary Girl 21 Guns and Boulevard of Broken Dreams (and now you mention it WMUWSE fits too) American Eulogy and Homecoming and I didn't think of Static Age and Letterbomb before but I will now. I don't find there to be much of a story to 21st CB but the Christian and Gloria characters and those songs certainly have their similarities to the JoS and Whatsername characters/AI songs.

I wholeheartedly agree. This is another post that should probably go into Unpopular Green Day Opinions but... 21 Guns > Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Because beard.