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I swear I could listen to the bass of When I Come Around for hours I've never paid as much attention to it as I am on my headphones right now and I'm swooning so much. Mike Dirnt appreciation post.

Yeah it's sappy, but it still made me melt when I heard him sing it live

I've posted this before, so sorry for the re-post but it was such an amazing story that I can't help sharing it again. I had tried to meet up with them again on the latest tour but our plans were derailed due to scheduling issues (still got to see two shows, but no backstage)...but I am really going to try for it again on the next leg of the US tour just to thank them for the amazing experience summarized below: I went to their show in Albany with my wife shortly after we were married in '09. Our wedding song was Last Night on Earth, and I like to think we were the first ever since the wedding was only a week after 21CB came out! We got to our hotel early (around 3pm) and decided to take a stroll and get some Starbucks. As luck would have it, we ran into Jason right outside Starbucks. The guy was cool as hell, we walked and talked about all kinds of awesome stuff (GD, PHGP, Network) and also mentioned that LNOE was our wedding song and we'd love to hear it. His reply was basically "that's so awesome, but we never play it live, so I'm not sure we can- I'll ask the guys". Well, we finished talking as he was coming up to their hotel, and their tour buses were right out front. He told us we could ask the rest of the guys if we wanted to hang tight by the buses. So naturally, we weren't going anywhere! Tre came out a few minutes later with a playstation strapped to his back. Standard Tre. I was almost numb from shock since I had been a hard core fan since Dookie came out. We both immediately went over and made the same request, which he seemed to enjoy, and then we wandered around with him for about five minutes while he tried to find the right bus. Just the three of us, talking the whole time. I couldn't believe it, he even gave me a whacky handshake when he finally found the right bus and went in. Mike was out a minute later. He also talked to us for a couple minutes but was more subdued. Bill Schneider was with him and enjoyed my random PHGP compliment. We repeated the request and he said he'd put in a good word. He seemed tired but was very friendly and a gentleman. During all of this, Adrienne was hanging around with the kids- I also found this cool but we didn't talk to them, just thought it would be a bit much and weird! Glad we acted like normal people and didn't bug the family! Lastly, Billie came out with his newsboy cap and sunglasses, with his tour security guy (I forget his name, but he's at all the shows) next to him. My wife ran up to him but the security guy motioned to stay back- we definitely weren't going to be able to wander around and have a long conversation with him like Tre. So, from 10 ft. away, I blurted out that LNOE was our wedding song and we'd love a dedication. He was cheerful and said "cool, I'll play it for you guys!". We were floored and thanked him- he was very friendly but that was the extent of it as his security guy basically escorted him right onto the bus. They put on an absolute monster of a show and we had great seats- right off the stage next to Mike above the floor- and we had almost forgot about the request. Then, the acoustic segment before the encore started, and instead of doing the typical acoustic medley, Billie played an incredible, heartfelt, full version of LNOE. My wife and I shed a few tears during the performance for sure. It was amazing, one of those moments that you will never forget. To this day we're both very touched by the moment, if I ever have a chance to speak with them again I'm going to thank them profusely (and probably embarrass myself while doing so, but that's ok!).

Completely disagree, it's contrived and weak and just a bit crap.

I like Brutal Love. I'm in the minority j guess but I don't care.

I prefer a root canal to WIT.

Yeah, I would excuse a bad song if he played it in front of me but I don't think I'll ever voluntarily listen to a recording of WIT. Most of their songs are better live imo.

That motherfucker has a way of doing that tbh he could probably sing Ass and Titties and make me swoon.

Why don't they play Murder City live anymore? Eargasm. That'd be pure ear sex tbh.

Seriously. They have a new album to promote and a new single, yet they keep filtering questions about that cheeto faced douche. It's kind of annoying. I get they're vocal, but how many times do they have to say they don't approve of Trump?

Found this pic on tumblr - supposedly from today (at Hit Radio Berlin?) Cool pic of Billie:

Agreed and I would love to hear stay the night with revrad production, just imagine those beefy guitars

I don't think you are the minority

That video is so great! I had to re-watch it again now and noticed that they already had the burning RevRad radio in it.

Idk, can't speak for anyone else but I'd be happy if they were an unknown band - they would play intimate shows and I'd spare the hassle buying tickets. Besides it would be way cooler to be a fan of a great unknown band than of a top 40 artist. I wish them nothing but success, however, I would be happy if they were out of the public eye - which they pretty much are in my social group anyway. None of my friends know about revrad. oww

I know, I was just wondering if people wouldn't feel as strongly if it was at least on the same album as 1000 Hours I don't hate that song either, though. Is that an unpopular opinion too? Not sure but I know Billie doesn't like it

i like 'when it's time' as well, but i prefer the live version. i think maybe it would have sounded better if it was just an acoustic song? who knows.. but i like it. haha.

It is When It's Time you are talking about, isn't it? I agree it is sappy.

It's sappy but I don't think it's contrived. He wrote it when he was 19 and lovesick. If he wrote it now it would be different but I think at the time it was heartfelt, like with other early love songs I find it's the honest and unashamed baring of his sappy feelings that gives it its charm. It's interesting to hear one of those songs sung by an older Billie with high quality production too. I don't think it's one of their best tracks but I think it's a good love song, more like the original/prequel to Last Night On Earth than an inferior one.

Okat I'll rephrase that, it's one of my favourites. it makes me pretty emotional when I listen to it and I think it's a genuine, heartfelt love song. I know billie adores adrienne and it's sweet. but hey I'm a sappy guy.

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This is the only sentence I can write down after another boring day of school. That blackboard, once full of numbers, now has a meaning.

Some pics from Sunday..

It's early days again with the thread - just wait. 😏

Too Dumb to Die. 27 times in a row. ENCORE: Misery American Idiot King for a Day.

You know how sometimes when you hear a song you have an immediate reaction? You either love it, hate it, or feel kind of indifferent. Of course there are various degrees of those feelings. For me, Brutal Love is just a song - it's not one that I hate, but I definitely don't love it either. It's not a song that made me think "wow, I love this" the first time I heard it. The lyrics are intriguing, but I just don't really like the way it sounds very much. Something about it kind of reminds me of something you might hear on an oldies radio station, like the 50s kind of oldies. I don't skip it, but it doesn't grab my attention and make me stop and listen or turn up the volume. It's just not a favorite of mine.

As much as I hate Kill the DJ because it's so repetative and dumb lyrics, I really like the video. Agreed. I love JOS and WMUWSE songs but hate both videos. They're just aweful!

As simple as it is, I love the Nuclear Family video. It got me really excited for the Trilogy, and the song itself is still up there with some of their best stuff.

The Stray Heart video's cool though! One of the best GD videos this century imo, even with the downside of the band not being in it.

Meh I think the Oh Love video was just badly executed. It was supposed to be more like they were characters, rockstars and models hanging out together and fancying each other and being outrageous, all about feeling lust to represent the song. But it's not pulled off well at all and just looks like the band as themselves posing with models awkwardly. I think if it had been done more over the top/directed and acted better so it was obvious they were playing characters it could've worked. Wasn't offended by the idea of it, rockstars lusting after models because they're models and models lusting after rockstars because they're rockstars seems a fairly even thing. Also on the plus side Billie is hot in it

Said it 100 times - worst thing they are done - but I love the song When BJ pulls his shirt to the side & says flesh in Brutal Love is probably one of my favourite things to watch - fangirl moment

Brutal Love is probably my favorite song of theirs, and possibly my favorite song, period. There's something so visceral about it. Brilliantly written and so emotionally performed.

I loved Brutal Love followed by Good Riddance at Brixton in 2013, couldn't get a more perfect ending! Can't complain too much about it being gone since I've already got to see it but it would be great if they brought it back.

Brutal Love is a masterpiece. First time I actually cried at a GD show in 2013 at Rock am Ring when they played it. For me, it's the perfect closer, because I love to see the whole band on stage for the last song. It's not that I don't like Good Riddance, but Brutal Love is so full of energy and emotion and way better in my opinion. It makes me sad that it's never been a single, it would be an awesome radio anthem. I really wish they will put it back on the setlist one day.

Brutal Love is undeniably great.

I don't actually know which songs people like from the Trilogy, since I tend to just see quite generalised hate for it collectively. Brutal Love is one of my favourite Green Day songs, but I really prefer the live version at Reading. Billie's voice is so beautiful when he carries that note in that performance 😍

The Forgotten is a very pretty song. I love the idea of Billie behind a piano. I think it may get a bad rep because it is so different than anything they have ever done and it was in Twilight.

Last Night On Earth is wonderful , their best straight-up love song I'd say. Redundant has to be mentioned in this conversation though! Beats Church On Sunday as their best "realistic" love song for me. My favourite teenage love song of theirs is The One I Want, which I feel is criminally underrated and also has my favourite guitar solo (just gets to me emotionally somehow). I think that must be an unpopular opinion. I will always love and defend The Forgotten . Beautiful way to end Uno Dos Tre and I love that they really went for it with the strings and piano.

I think it's super cheesy, but I like it anyway.

I didn't realise Last Night On Earth wasn't universally loved until I started talking to some people here I think it's their best love song. Is that an unpopular opinion? You'll break my heart if you say yes

Really surprised at the Haushinka hate.

Comparing how hard Green Day works vs. how hard Taylor Swift works is not measurable in any way. I'm a fan of Taylor and think she's a great songwriter. She has fantastic vision for her tours and for her image, and I loved 1989 (that's what I did during Green Day's hiatus, yes). But to be totally honest? A lot of the songs on that album sound similar to one another. It's a sonically cohesive album that I love, but the ambition doesn't lie in the content, per se. It's not particularly diverse or new. Actually, it has some of her weakest lyrics to date. But she reinvents her image with every new era. That's where she's utterly brilliant. But she's a pop star. Green Day is a rock band, and their image doesn't rely on such seismic shifts from era to era. Their innovation needs to come from a different place. The trilogy, for the most part, felt superficial and weak to me—not much sounded new, and the lyrics weren't particularly insightful or personal (with some exceptions). Even so, I don't doubt a lot of work went into it—the sheer number of songs takes a lot of effort to write and record and split between albums. But then there's RevRad, which I view as Green Day's most honest and personal album to date. There is immense bravery in being honest—stripping away the characters and concepts and just being yourself for the first time in more than a decade. From a writer's perspective, the hardest thing in the world is opening up in such a raw way and sharing that with readers/listeners. Writing a rock opera is, no doubt, a gigantic undertaking musically and lyrically. But there is a different kind of strength and persistence needed to write in the most genuine way possible. This is a version of Green Day I've never seen before this year. To publicly fight personal battles and live to proudly tell the tale takes a hell of a lot of work. I understand you don't care for this album, but it's actually not possible to objectively state how hard they work compared to other artists. Because that covers so many bases—how much they tour, how much effort goes into writing/recording, the creativity of the theme of the album, etc. It's not possible to define so simply. For me? I'll take heart and honesty over cold ambition any day.

RevRad might be my favorite Green Day album and I didn't realize it was so highly debated and contested until poking my head in here. Then again, unlike most Green Day fans, I don't really give a shit about whether the lyrics are considered "meaningful" or not. I don't know half of the lyrics to RevRad and I don't really care. Tre's nailing it on drums and it's catchy and actually feels like a rock album again. And the lyrics that I do know don't seem as shitty to me as they seem to appear to other people. Not everything is a great American rock opera protesting the rise of corporate consumerism and fascist political climates. If RevRad was released by any other somewhat well known rock band, people would be losing their minds over it. It's not the new Bible and it's not supposed to be. It's music and it's fun.

I couldn't disagree more. I prefer every single trilogy album and RevRad over 21st, and I think it would be a huge mistake if GD was still making BIG OPERA ROCK albuns. I mean, 21CB sound so forced at times, like the band was trying too hard and taking itself too seriously. I do admire the ambition, but I also think that what was a natural choice in AI, in 21CB was more like an obligation. Something like "we become so big, now we can't do just an normal album anymore". I really think that for green day, making the trilogy with a back to basics/experimental vein, must have been such a relief. No wonder they write 37 songs, and made 3 albuns. I think that was a sign of everything that must have been so suffocate in them, when they were writting only big opera rock/concept albuns. I guess with revrad they got more relaxed, and feel more free to just write an album, with no big concepts or so many songs. Another thing is the quality issue. I really like the trilogy and I also enjoy revrad even if I prefer the trilogy over it. And I agree with you guys that those albuns are not the greatest green day. But so what? They're good music for me, they still have quality, they still sound like the band that I love. I don't know, I think sometimes people expect too much of the band. Or expect something that they want (albuns like AI or 21CB), when the band wants to do different stuff. Green Day has been around for more than 25 years, the guys are in their mid 40s now. Who can make masterpieces forever? Maybe their new work are not so great as what they made in the 90s or early 2000s, but it still enjoyable for me. It stills good. And the most important: I don't think they're trying less. I don't think there's effort lacking. I think that they put everything they had, they made the best they could, when they were writing the trilogy and revrad. Whether if that was enough or not for the fans, its up to each one's opinion.

I have to disagree. There's no song on that album which my ears wouldn't like to hear. And here's my shiny unpopular opinion: I even love Last Ride In on that record

I have one that I posted here back when it happened in 2008 or 2009 but I can't find the post anymore. Luckily I kept the post in a notepad along with the pictures from that day, however my English writing skills back then were far worse than they are now so.. heads up on that heh I bolded up the parts I remember so vividly and were frankly the highlights of the night, it could also serve as a short version for the tl:dr crowd. Pictures: Tre, White, Freeze, setlist and trophies.

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