Quiz! Complete The Green Day Lyrics
With a new Green Day single, 'Bang Bang', set to be released on August 11th, Billie Joe and the boys are back, back, back.
Amazingly, the group first formed 30 years ago in 1986, and in their three decades they've masterminded snot-nosed punk classics (1994's 'Dookie'), a state-of-the-nation concept album (2004's 'American Idiot'), a side project (The Foxboro Hot Tubs) a stage musical (2010's American Idiot) and an ambitious trio of albums (2012's '¡Uno!', '¡Dos!', and '¡Tré!'). Oh, and they also had a starring cameo in The Simpsons Movie.
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/complete-the-lyrics-quiz-green-day
15 '90s Song Lyrics You Sang All The Time (Even Though You Had No Idea What They Meant)
7. "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" by Green Day
Every high school student in the '90s and early '00s played this song as a sign off to their friends during senior year, Bustle noted that the song was actually about getting dumped.
https://www.romper.com/p/15-90s-song-lyrics-you-sang-all-the-time-even-though-you-had-no-idea-what-they-meant-15451
Popular music and the loss of anger
“Every single era has had escapist music: In the 1950s, there was the pop that came after Little Richard,” says Billie Joe Armstrong, singer and songwriter of Green Day, arguably the last major rock band to turn fury and indignation into a top 10 album with 2004’s “American Idiot.”
"Music goes through these cycles, but this happens to be the longest cycle I remember without someone breaking through on a meaningful level."
“After the turbulent ’60s, you got ’70s schlock -- quiet and boring [music], lots of earth tones -- then punk came around. Music goes through these cycles, but this happens to be the longest cycle I remember without someone breaking through on a meaningful level; someone who really has something to say.”
“Ignoring it, that’s their statement,” says Armstrong, whose kids are now 18 and 21. “That’s their anger. You’re making me angry, so I’m turning my back on you. They’re done dealing with it all. They’re like, ‘I’m going to binge-watch zombies eating each other.’ ”
Adds Armstrong, “It’s come to the point where artists are backed into a corner where there’s really no other place for them to go. You look at what’s happening with the news, and everything that’s going on in the world, and it’s kind of like ‘The Walking Dead.’ it’s coming right at you. You better write something about it.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ms-music-anger-20160629-snap-story.html