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While browsing Apple Music and its curated playlists, "Bang Bang" is all over. - #6 in Hot Tracks (All Genres) - #7 in "Best of the Week" curated playlist (All Genres) - #1 in Hot Tracks (Alternative) - #1 in Hot Tracks (Rock) - #1 in "The A-List Alternative" curated playlist - #1 in "The A-List: Rock" curated playlist - #1 in "The A-List: Hard Rock" curated playlist

I kinda can't get over how good the lyric video is?! Like, take away the lyrics and it's an amazing music video. No pressure for the actual music video or anything.

There were some lines in the song that made me think directly of Adam Lanza. Daddy's Little Psycho and Mommy's little soldier. Adams father left years ago because he could not deal with Adam's problems or Adam's mother. Adam's mother was a prepper, which is a movement of people that think they need to prepare for a catastrophe. They stock pile food, arm themselves, learn to shoot, etc. Adam's mother taught him how to shoot to prepare him. Also, the I want to dance like I'm on the video. Before the Sandy Hook shooting, Adam used to go to the local movie theater, which has a small arcade. He used ot meet a friend there and they used to use this machine where you do dances to the video. A few months before the shooting, something happened with the friendship and Adam stopped going. I am guessing that it is based on certain circumstances around several mass shooters.

^ this is easily my new favourite picture I was going through my old Green Day folders recently and found lots of my old favourites...

http://blinkmybrain.tv/greenday-bang-bang Just clicked the Directed by link under Bang Bang lyrics video and was directed on this site. Looks funny with video taken to pieces. Billie, Mike and Tre kicking ass

Also Billie's vocals on Last Night on Earth are stunning.

The fact that no one in my real life can share the excitement about GD coming back is just frustrating. I just watched the bang bang lyrics video and got all hyper again, I can even feel my heart racing

I keeping singing the song over & over - I kinda feel guilty when I say hoorah hoorah - like I'm celebrating - GD what have you done😕

The other page of the interviewthingy can be seen here.

HE HAS A BEAUTIFUL MANLY CHIN

I don't know if this has been talked about yet, but I like this song's lyrics as a continuation of Having A Blast. Billie's focus with the gun issue seems to fall to the psychosis-- the hero complex of the people committing heinous gun crimes. He wrote from the perspective of the shooter (I know it was a bomb, but I digress) with Having A Blast. In Bang Bang he's a removed narrator addressing the character from Having A Blast using that biting sarcasm and irony that he does so well to paint the true insanity and futility of mass shooters. I don't know if he even thought of Having A Blast while writing Bang Bang, but the echoes speak to his focus on the issue

Bang Bang

Anyone interested in UK radio play can look here: http://comparemyradio.com/tracks/Green_Day/Bang_Bang Been steady, nothing big but 1 play per day on Radio 1 is interesting considering they dropped Green Day from playlists after the trilogy. Kerrang tend to shuffle their 'A-List' tracks every few weeks so I wouldn't be surprised if their plays skyrocket when it's on rotation.

I saw the iTunes Store in Ireland had an add at the top of their page too for Revolution Radio. This didn't happen with Uno Dos or Tre or 21st CB.

I have to disagree on Last Night on Earth, I think it is one of the most beautiful ballads they have ever done. Musically, I find it beautifully serene and calming. I find the lyrics heartfelt and mature. Where WIT's lyrics sound like they were by a 5th grader and musically pretty much the same. WMUWSE is pretty much the exact same song musically. I agree that most casual fans would not understand what the song is about if they didn't know the back story, which is one of the reasons I don't think the song works. I don't consider Misery a ballad. Usually ballads are of a romantic nature. It is a slower song. FYI, I love Misery.

The picture from the Rolling Stone scan is my new favorite.

you people are mixing up mall punk and pop punk. pop punk should be called "buzz pop", because when using a term like "pop punk", the real pop punk kids must constantly defend their bands by saying "it's pop punk, but not that shit on MTV." look at lookout records circa 1996-oh, forgot about the queers, screeching weasel, groovie ghoulies, riverdales..all that shit, didnt you? what would you classify that as? those bands are certainly NOT in the same boat as good charlotte and sum 41. i'm not even going to attempt to define "punk rock", because it's annoyingly controversial and no matter how hard you try, people are always going to have different definitions for it. whatever. however, "pop punk", to me, is just simple 3 chord songs pop songs, mostly ramones influenced, faster paced then most regular pop songs, about whatever. shit that doesnt matter. fun. girls. heartache. beer. whatever. its supposed to be fun. i hate when shit is all serious. this is lame. bye. michelle shirelle

I am exploding inside just thinking about what this is going to sound like live. Can't wait!

It's always a clusterfuck when people try to pinpoint a genre on Green Day.

Agreed - Peacemaker fits really well into that theme too, the "orgasmic" feeling of committing mayhem to satisfy some sort of personal vendetta.

I'm going to have a laugh if they get the tour and he lets the crowd sing that part.

Have you guys tried singing along the Hurrah - Bang Bang!, Hurrah -Bang Bang! While singing both parts? Me and my sister did that and we couldn't stop laughing. We speed up both parts and it ends up sounding hilarious. Totally the way I'm gonna sing it at a concert! hahah

Bang Bang Youtube video has over 1,000,000 views !

It's really not though. I feel like a lot of people try to play dumb with what that term means. It means music steeped in punk that has heavy elements of pop sensibilities ingrained within it. It tends to be more structured and accessible to the general public. Less hardcore. Don't know why people here always make such a big deal about it, or even the band itself. It borders on cringe-worthy at times how much people seem to care, yet claim they don't actually care.

All the slow songs like that are just incredibly "meh". Last Night On Earth is one of the worst songs they've done though, without a doubt. WMUWSE would be a good song if it wasn't incredibly overplayed. Wonder how many people actually know what it's about (obviously Green Day fans do, but I meant people who listen to them from a casual point of view), it just means so much to Billie, must be weird for a song like that to be incredibly popular from his point of view. In terms of songs in the same vein as that, could you count Misery as one? That's the most under-rated "slow-ish" song they've done. We'll never hear it live, crimnal haha

Yeah that sucks.

Hi everyone! I work with an orchestra that covers modern rock songs. We play stuff like Nirvana, RHCP, Arctic Monkeys, MCR, 30 stm, etc. The orchestra is called RockestraLive and we are from Russia. Here's a cover of BOBD, enjoy!

Pop punk has more focus on melody and softer themes mainly. The riffs are often crunchy and the harmonies are very poppy much like Green Day. They rely far heavier on the hook in pop punk than they do straight up punk. Punk is always fast, vocals are often less polished and the hooks aren't as radio friendly. To put it in Green Day context, the overarching sound of Dookie is pop punk, while Insomniac has far more punk underpinnings (while still returning to those pop hooks at times). Here's a pretty good template for what a pop punk song is outside of GD because I think most bands put a bit different of a spin on the genre and it usually sounds like:

I kinda expect that. The thought of thousands of fans screaming that part at once sounds pretty awesome

Okay i decided to make one. This must be so annoying for bands haha, so tough. Yeah just picked stuff I think would be absolutely amazing to hear live. Also assume the other new songs we don't know yet are in here. 1. Welcome to Paradise 2. Bang Bang 3.Stuart and the Ave. 4. Christie Road 5. East Jesus Nowhere 6. Longview 7. Oh Love 8. Paper Lanterns 9. Dominated Love Slave/All By Myself 10. Scattered 11. She 12, Armatage Shanks 13. Minority 14. Coming Clean 15. King For a Day (w.out shout) 16. Let Yourself Go 17. Burnout 18. Murder City 19. Basket Case 20. Church on Sunday 21. Whatsername 22. Waiting 23. WMUWSE 24. American Eulogy 25. American Idiot 26. JOS 27. Good Riddance

i keep thinking about the "WORLD WAR ZERO" part being shouted live. ahhhhh, gives me chills.

Cause he has a chin..... lol better stop the spam before Mar attacks

bad photoshop

Could have got rid of the zit on his chin then

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This moment at 3:48 when they transion to Basket Case and you can see happiness on Tre's and Billie's face and how proud they are will forever be my favorite Green Day moment.

These are so awesome from when Billie was St Jimmy on Broadway:

I don't read instagram comments. And they most likely don't either (and so their kids) I agree the daddy thing is creepy when it's meant sexually.

I hate the trend to call celebrities mom or dad. It's totally creepy. Everyone from South America calls Lana Del Rey mom on Instagram...like wtf? Tre made a joke once saying "your new dad" (or something like that) so now everyone calls him dad on his Instagram which is funny, but like... Enough

When it's time isn't the best standalone song, but I thought it was excellent in the musical. Really well staged, really well sung, very emotional. I bought the recording hoping to get the same feeling the song in the show gave me, and I just haven't got it. Considering going to the musical again just because of that song. At any given time they may not be my current favourite band (right now they are though), but they're definitely my favourite band of all time and it's hard to see that changing.

Yeah, much as I love them they're no longer my absolute favourite and I don't mind that, they'll always be among them but not at the top anymore.

I don't feel guilty. They'll always have a special place in my heart. I don't have to listen to their noise to love them. Same goes for other bands I used to listen to intensively.

Has anyone else noticed Billies pouts?

You asked for it

Ok, a personal comment on the lyrics, sorry if it's too long but I have these thoughts I need to share them. I understand why you'll skip this, don't worry . So, I honestly believe this is one of the best Billie's work so far, and I'll try to explain why. I think the best Green Day's tracks, from a lyrics point of view, are those that are capable to create a connection with world and the time where they're born, and I believe every Green Day album has at least some of these songs. From the 90's records, immersed in that decade, apparently idyllic, light hearted but still drowned by contradictions and rage, passing by Warning and that pre-9/11 intake of conscience. And arriving to the 00's albums, with the mass hysteria, the fear, the homologation, with people understanding that the dream sold during the previous twenty years was mostly an unfulfilled and unfulfillable promise. In my opinion even the Trilogy somehow follows this path, and not thanks to the only political track, but indeed for the desire of escape from reality, the desire of something that is gone and will never come back, and that eventually brings you down, which I think surrounds the three records. Now, this is just one song, I know, but I think that until now, in this decade, we missed a track capable to create this kind of real connection with the contemporarity surrounding us. Listening to the song over and over again, reading that lyrics, at some certain point I got chills. Because I understand again what Billie is talking about, through that fictional mind, and is something scary, beautiful and deep at the same time. Something that for a US guy and of course even for Billie is directly connected with the sad mass shooting tradition that affects your country. For a 24 years old boy from Europe is inevitably related to the season of terror that is surrounding us since years. Listening to that song it's for me impossible to don't think about the Bataclan, Nice, Charlie Ebdo and sadly so on and so on. I study strategy and security issues and believe me, during the umpteenth reproduction of Bang Bang I stopped the song and I thought "Fuck, he's describing the sick mind of those assholes, from their point of view, better than most of these genii on TV". Until now I've not been able to think and rationalize this events, the time that is surrounding me, through music, dancing, singing, moshing. Thanks to this song now I can do that, and it's beautiful. And it's again that almost unique Billie's ability, that he owns since 39/Smooth: to write songs charged with social meanings and still be able to let them interiorize by crowds with very different backgrounds. Yes, I fucking love this song.

Must admit I'm pleasantly surprised. Really like the sound of this one! Got the good old teen in me jumping. Mmm.

That chart isn't very accurate at the beginning, but Raj played drums for their first show at Rod's Hickory Pit, Sean was Billie and Mike's high school best friend and when the guys would jam he played bass while Mike played guitar. When Mike switched to playing bass, Sean was out he was a roadie with them after that. Dave wasn't really "in" Green Day, but he jammed with Billie and helped write 2000 Light Years Away. His credits appear on the ID tags for the CD if you pop it in. For the actual shows though, the Hickory Pit was Billie, Mike, and Raj. The second was in Davis with Billie, Mike, and John. Aaron Cometbus filled in here and there when John couldn't play. There isn't a set in stone line where John left and Tre joined. John had Tre fill in for him sometimes, and they alternated for a few months based on John's availability. But finally in January of 91, Billie, Mike, and John agreed that they couldn't go on like that and John agreed to quit the band.

hairiest back contest Would laugh so hard at people shitting themselves cause I... ME, got a vinyl