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This is the actual number one Beatles song I want them to do, great minds think alike! It isn't the most interesting musically but I think it's cool because it's this real/realistic long distance love story, not sugar coated at all and just telling the honest story of Adrienne moving to be with Billie. I also like how in that way it's like a sequel to 2000 Light Years Away, even including the line "2000 miles away-ay" sung in the same style as an amusing reference to it. And I kind of enjoy how it's sung in such a punky/mumbled way that before I opened the booklet and read the lyrics I couldn't make out any of what he was saying until he got to "...westbound sign" . Those are the things that make it stand out to me, I find several other songs on the album more bland (86, Tight Wad Hill, No Pride). I don't think Insomniac is like Dookie at all. It's a product of where they were at that time, they were dealing with the pressures of their new found fame and of starting families and had been rejected by their old community, they were pissed off and wanted to prove they could make some basic, angry punk music. When the whole album is relentlessly that from start to finish then if that's not what you're into it's not going to be your favourite, kind of a love it or hate it thing I suppose. I would also like to hear them do a full cover of one of those songs, but I think the reason they tease with just a bit of them is because they originally only did it to take the piss out of the fact that Brain Stew has a slight metal sound. In older performances it's more obvious, they're like "this is our metal song!" and playfully mock themselves for having written it with a snippet of a metal cover, and I guess that even though they're not as sarcastic about everything now it carried over. Maybe they still feel like it would be pretentious or silly for them to play metal and show off guitar skills seriously and it stops them? But I hope not, now that they've expanded their musical range and will do more things in a serious/unsarcastic way I don't see why they couldn't do it, could even still make it a bit tongue in cheek doing it before Brain Stew if they wanted.

I used to doubt it because even though it's a plausible story (riding off a school stage on a unicycle and landing on it badly) they only ever talked about it in a fun/jokey context, and who knows if they were laughing just because it was a funny story, or because it was a joke they made up due to Tre having a high voice, or if the accident really happened but the lost testicle part was an exaggeration. But it's been mentioned in a lot of interviews, over a long period of time (I know of him mentioning it at least as early as 1997 and late as 2011, might also have before and after that but idk), and the story has always stayed totally consistent. And I've never seen them act "nudge nudge wink wink" about it as if they're hinting that it might not be true (like they have, for example, with the stolen Cigarettes and Valentines story). All these things make me think it's more likely to be true than not. That or they're very committed to not giving the joke away I don't know if anyone has an example of them telling the story in a particularly believable way? I guess that's the only way to judge it really.

Damn I think I have to remove @JJ1964 from my favorite users after seeing her messed up opinions on Insomniac sad day ?

There's no way to tell. My guess is that he is because he's the first choice of a star to cast so that people watch it.

It is most definitely plausible, as emenius said. Playtone does have an exclusive TV deal with HBO. But, who would a writer for the Hartford Courant be the one to break the news?? That seems odd to me. Also @emenius Most of the movies that HBO produces are for TV, but they will occasionally have a theatrical release. If this is true, I would assume a TV release.

Sounds plausible. Playtone, the film and television production company that has the rights for Americsn Idiot, have an exclusive television development deal with HBO. Would this mean a TV movie rather than a theatrical release though?

I wish that GD would finish the covers that they tease the audience with at concerts. I've watched a lot of 21CB-era concert clips and Billie usually just plays a few seconds of each. I LOVE the way that he sings Highway to Hell; I want to hear more! They only usually play the introduction of Iron Man, and then there's how Billie likes to hint at the chops that he has that are not displayed by GD songs. He's played small bits on Master of Puppets before and tapped for Eruption, so he's obviously at least a competent guitarist, unlike what GD critics like to insinuate. I want them to at least finish some of the live covers, just to prove to some of the keyboard warriors that he can.

He's so fit, sweet and "fun sized" , and I love the short sleeves and red and black striped socks: Very very handsome, but his Pants arent tight enough though, lol

I would love a quiet stage, Billie on a stool with an acoustic guitar and he plays While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Maybe enduring it would put an end to these discussions. That could be worth it. It must be made up. They have history of making things up.

...I'd really rather not see pictures proving or disproving Tré's testicle count.

Trust you to find such a fault

Is Billie Joe going to be St. Jimmy? He'd probably like to.

HBO'll make it huge like Game of Thrones.

Pics or it didn't happen.

That would suck if HBO is going to produce the film. I was really hoping for a theatrical release. But we will see what is true and what not.

I mean I cried ok no I didn't cry and you're not removed but damn how dare you not like Insomniac

No one is perfect, take it back.

I also happened to notice that Michael Ryan Pritchard bears an uncanny resemblance to Mike Dirnt!

Yes I love Walking contradiction and Geek Stink Breath. The video for Walking contradiction is my favorite Green Day video, ever, btw. It just captures them so well, their sense of humor and sense of individuality. I hope there's something like that for the new album. It seems like videos nowadays are all so serious.

It's coming from the fact that it's great

Yeah, I'd love to hear them cover Revolution, especially after hearing Billy Bragg's version where he plays in quite a similar style to Billie.

I agree. There is a video of Billie Joe singing a little piece of "Hey Jude" at a concert (on his back)

Yeah! It's the best song for starting a show, the perfect way to gradually get the crowd pumped up with the anticipation during the intro building up to the "bastards of 1969" bit. Wish they'd bring it back. Same Interesting selection! I'd love for them to tackle Bohemian Rhapsody . Last time I saw them live it was one of the songs played before the show started and the whole crowd sang it from start to finish, even just that was a lot of fun. Them actually covering it could be great and hilarious. I would personally like them to cover any Beatles song, or preferably do a Beatles cover album. Billie's voice is perfect for it.

I just got the Billy Joe baseball card on ebay for $1. That made my night.

Even though the name is misspelled I still want one