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that scarf <3

I was able to get the House of Blues poster and the Green Day action figures

I'm watching the Chargers vs Vikings pre-season football game on FOX and they played "Bang Bang" heading into one of the commercial breaks.

Just Billie being awesome!

I don't know if someone posted this video but here is how spanish fans reacts to the early listening by Warner Music Spain.

It's truly amazing the lyrics people here from Billie. It's definitely part of the mystique and the reason that so many love him. People literally hear what they want to hear. LOL. Great stuff. SERIOUSLY?!?! LOL!!! Another classic one. So you thought the song was about a credit report for a jewish philanthropist??? This thread is a coffee table book. I've said it a million times and I'm saying it again. It's pure laughter.

Chart peak numbers don't always point to huge success. It depends on what other songs are out and how long it remains on the charts.

Finally got the 86 Spanish promo and I've preordered the Bang Bang single from Best Buy. Two more for the collection

Almost 4 million on Spotify! and they are still gaining almost 30k new listeners each day!

Florence Welch on Covering Green Day, Quitting Drinking It's hard to imagine, but you were really into skate punk. The first CD I ever bought was Green Day's Dookie. It was my first clue that there could be a whole identity around the music you liked. I had the shoes and the world's baggiest cords. The only thing I didn't have was a skateboard. You even recorded a complete cover of Green Day's Nimrod a few years ago. I was going to see punk bands, and [producer-artist] Dev Hynes and I bonded. We were talking about how we loved Nimrod, and we recorded it in his kitchen with just his guitar. It's out there on the Internet! Later, I met Billie Joe Armstrong, and he told me he liked it. My 13-year-old self's head was exploding somewhere in the past. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/florence-welch-talks-covering-green-day-quitting-drinking-20160511

Good riddance reached #2 and I am not sure about Hitchin. but it wasn't #1. Also, I wasn't doing first singles but all singles. A war that starts all wars. This is love or its all out war. Billie is going heavy metal on this line, love it!

Just saying...

I read that BANG BANG hit number one on the UK Rock charts and is climbing all 12 rock charts. This song is on course to become one of their biggest hits yet and is already at least their 11th most successful single, that's great!

Billie should come to this thread for inspiration

Just bought this patch today.

I have the Revolution Radio red vinyl and CD book preordered, along with the Bang Bang CD single from Best Buy. Didn't know there was a CD single for it until I saw @gmcloughlin's post above! I was excited to order that today

This is great! Consequence of Sound put Revolution Radio as the most anticipated album for fall: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/08/the-25-most-anticipated-albums-of-fall-2016/full-post/

OK, I played it. It says that the guy created it for his girlfriend. It is pretty stupid, but funny as hell too. When you lose, it pipes in with Billie and the "I've been around since 1988" line.

I thought that the song "Amanda" was about a transgender person. Kind of like "Lola". I thought some of the lyrics were. "Amanda, couldn't be a man? ". And " is this some kind of love, that only he would understand", and I thought that the lyrics "You're a different woman That's for certain I don't know a thing about" , and the playing with your mind bit were also alluding to this. Apparently i am very wrong. 😬

I hope it hasn't been posted yet. I found it recently. Kind of stupid game but I can't stop laughing. "Protect Billie Joe" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loustarrr.protectbillie

and don't forget ER. Hitchin a Ride got up to #5. Geek Stink Breathe #3. Brainstew/Jaded #3. So you're right, those are some of their biggest hits, just not #1s. She, Warning and Wake Me Up When September Ends, 21 Guns and Oh Love are the rest of their songs that were in the top 5 somewhere. I've got to say, Brainstew is my least favorite single by them. Also, while I love BANG BANG, at the moment Hitchin a Ride is waaaaaay better.

I have a few albums from HDTracks. https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php

I was thinking about this too. It is the first time I have ever heard this before. Back then everyone thought they should have won.

Tomorrow is the first day of classes and i'm making the walking around campus less painful while jamming out to this song.

People seriously think Green Day shouldn't have won that year? To each their own I guess, but I thought they deserved it.

I would love to know how B-sides and bonus tracks are selected for singles/albums. The Japan release of Dos had a live bonus track of Coming Clean which was interesting. I mean, Letterbomb (Live) has been a B-side before, but I seriously think they just throw a dart at all of their song titles and go with whatever one they hit.

I've just watched their performance of Hitchin a ride at Goat Island- the one where they shout at the boat behind them- and I'm crying with laughter

I just heard that too, and signed on to post this. Cool little surprise!

no, man You do not understand anything green day I think Andres' reply was very fitting.

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I'm stoked about the physical copy of Bang Bang even though I already own about ten different versions of Letterbomb live. I just love owning a physical copy!

Well my opinion is that "bang bang"s Sound😉 Is the perfect consequence of their evolution aaaaaaaand I'm very happy

------------------------------- So.. I've been re-listening the Trilogy lately and god damn I have some genuinely serious questions for you guys. 1. Why all the hate on Wild One? Even people that enjoy the trilogy claim Wild One is very boring and too long, and as a big fan on Green Day's love songs (AKA Last Night On Earth, 80, Redundant) I absolutely love Wild One, and I find that soothing feeling LNOE brings in Wild One. 2. Why does everyone keep on saying the line "She's old enough to bleed now" on Drama Queen is about the girl being on her period? For fuck's sake. I think is more than obvious that Billie's referring to the girl being all grown up now and once she left her innocence and naïveté behind, she's gonna be able to feel pain and be hurt. 3. Am I the only one bothered that Nuclear Family has absolutely no meaning? I enjoy the song and think it's a fantastic opener for the trilogy, but holy shit. I think I can't think of a single Green Day song that has absolutely no meaning other than Nuclear Family, I guess the song comes across as soulless without a meaning behind it. 4. Why are people so negative about songs like Makeout Party and Fuck Time and the general theme of sex around ¡DOS! ?, like I can totally see myself being on my 40s and still being able to talk about sex just like my current self, I think people are just weirded out and it's very stupid. (Btw, Makeout Party is a BANGER, I don't get why some people dislike it). 5. Since Bang Bang got released, most people have been saying that is 10 x better than Oh Love as a lead single (I agree), but thanks to this I think people are appreciating even less the good song Oh Love truly is. I'm sure that if it weren't for Billie Joe's meltdown and Rehab situation, the trilogy would've been successful and (I bet my bollocks that) Oh Love would have been a Green Day classic just like Know Your Enemy or Holiday. 6. And finally... The Forgotten. I have never been nuts for this song, but now that I have listening to it more times, it really has growned on me. I believe it's a beautiful song and I think I know why most people (including me) dislike it or just didn't payed more attention to it..... Twilight.

It's great to read all these good comments and experiences you guys have with the trilogy, it's very reassuring.

Whilst I recognise that they weren't the band's strongest albums ever, I still love the trilogy. Uno is probably my favourite, there are some great tracks on there: Stay the Night, Kill the DJ, Fell for you, Angel Blue and Rusty James are awesome. I really like the fast paced nature of most of the songs on Dos, it think it's great when you just want something a bit loud, so SWTRLF, make out party, Ashley, Lady Cobra and Wow! that's loud are stand out tracks for me. The only track on Dos I really dislike Wild One, I just find it so boring. And as someone mentioned, Tre has some really great songs: 8th AvS, X-Kid, Little boy named train, Walkaway and DRB. I think these are fantastic tracks. I think I remember someone saying a while ago that Warning got a lot of stick when it first came out, but now people kind of look at it as a breath of fresh air compared to the serious nature of AI and 21CB that came after. I love that there's a lighter album in amongst everything else they've done. It explores a different sound to what I would consider typical Green Day, and I think it works great. I hope people will come to view the trilogy as that too, I think Uno in particular has the potential to fill that roll. I also deeply relate to a lot of Green Day's music. When I was 14 I just liked the sound, but as I've grown up I have found a lot of meaning in their lyrics and it's probably the main reason that I still listen to them so often. In life their are hard times, but there are also better times, so I like that there are a mix of serious and non serious albums. The album that I relate most to depends on my situation at the time. I don't think I'd like it if they put out deep and meaningful stuff all the time, sometimes you just need to kick back and have fun, and for me that's what the trilogy represents.

I've said this many times, but I do really, really like the trilogy. I'm not saying it's the best thing they've ever done, but there are some brilliant songs on it and I don't dislike the lower quality songs as much as some people do. I enjoy listening to it all together and think it can be interpreted as a story without forcing that - not that they're concept albums, but definitely a vague and perhaps unintentional story, as Billie said in Cuatro. I also genuinely believe that along with rehab, the hate bandwagon had an influence on peoples' opinions without them meaning it to. I know a few people who've said they liked it and then were put off it by the hate. Not saying that was the case with everyone, but I don't think we can deny it had an impact. Anyway, I'm glad Billie has been talking about it openly and honestly but without totally disowning it. It's a real shame that it ended up becoming forced after how excited they were at first, because I don't think it initially was, but I get how it ended up that way with his situation and them wanting to get the music out there. I know a lot of people will take his quote about it having no direction as brushing it all off as shit, but I don't think that is what he's saying - he's admitting it became that way so the process wasn't quite what it should have been, which I have a lot of respect for. I was happy he said that if he could go back he'd still do it and that there are great songs on there, because it'd be really sad if they felt nothing good came out of it at all. Regardless of its flaws and how it ended up going wrong, I think most of us can agree we got at least a few songs we love out of it, a great tour and that any mistakes they made won't happen again.

Just bought this.

I've had three vinyls come in in the last week, bought a whole bunch more, and pre-ordered the Revolution Radio vinyl.

In Bang Bang I thought "Shoot me up to entertain' was "Shoot me I'll do anything," then the line " I want to be a celebrity martyr" sounded like "I want to be a celebrity model."

In Bang Bang I keep hearing "viva la guerra" instead of "viva vendetta"

First misheard lyric of the new album! Congrats to you

"My wallet's fat and so is my Aunt" that literally will never change for me.

You are being very discriminatory. Fuck, Fucking Shit sounds like a pretty good band name too.

Last of the American Girls I thought is was rubber coat instead of overcoat. & I still sing for when I come around sleazin my backyard like a tom cat when I know its so dont get so uptight.