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St.jimmy is the Devil on his shoulder saying, “Hey boy, come on.”

When I was younger I thought Billie said in warning "Whore shut up and be a victim of authority"

In France too the radio is very mean to Green Day. I remember hearing a few weeks ago 21 Guns in a store, and I was listening to it on my headphones at the same time. I put off my headphones when I approached the checkout, and I was like "how can it be? Billie's delicious voice I hear out loud in the air? and I was just listening to that song..." I really thought I had some sort of double hearing hallucination before I realized it was on the radio. People must have wondered why I looked like : Anyways, it was the 2nd time I was hearing a Green Day song somewhere outside of home in... well, at least one year I'm paying attention...

I fucking love Warning the song (& the album but that's another story). Guess underrated isn't the right word but I feel like I never see any love for it? On the surface it appears kind of anonymous but the beat and guitar riff have such a solid, awesome groove I'm sure if I listened to it 24/7 I'd get so much shit done (<<-- poor substitute for a "super energised half dancing half being productive" emoji). And I love the vocals throughout but especially the way Billie spits lines like "don't you talk to strangers" and "question everything" and I forgot how good he looks in the video

I wonder if there is a difference between Drunk Rev and St. Jimmy. They are both fictional characters but one could argue that St. Jimmy is Billie’s “real” alter ego. That red guy on his shoulder that makes him so devishliy awesome. Hmmmm, something to not think about.

I feel like Governator had to originally be a Network song. It sounds so much like them.

I get it. Everyone likes drunk Rev. It was a party no doubt. Just because he can’t do it anymore doesn’t mean you can’t admit those were good times (even he would probably admit that). I don’t smoke anymore but I look back on times I did as good times. (And that first one is super hot. Had to watch that about a dozen times, but wrong thread)

Don Hills was hopefully the last time fans get this Billie (during the opening of AI Broadway) at a small club in NYC. (About 1.5 years before the Twentieth Century Breakdown of one BJA).

Warning is SUCH good song, and the lyrics are amazing. The whole album deserves way more love.

I never thought about that but you're totally right. It's like, Network with American Idiot mixing

Waiting is one of my favourite Green Day songs. It pissed me off that it received very little airplay during the time it was released as a single.

Troubled times is my favorite song off of rev rad. I love the entire record. Outlaws is the only song I can skip.

Both shows I went too, the crowd was really into both SB and FN. SB still chokes me up everytime I hear it.

A record store in my hometown put the Dookie picture disc on display today:

Warning: "May impair your ability to operate my shittery" instead of "machinery" ... EVERY TIME

@Kuromignonne that one is great because I love how closely he watches after they dive to make sure they’re okay. He gets people of all different comfort levels and he’s always so encouraging.

An actual unpopular opinion: I love it!

Only need a pic of Tre getting his teeth done now and we have the full set lol - actually never particularly noticed Tre's teeth. Maybe they are getting all pretty for rest of tour.

This video has become one of my very favorites, pretty much because of Billie's vocals from 5:16 to 5:37 and at 6:19. You can see what I like there, higher variations to the song's original vocals. Billie's voice is just It's pretty incredible, because Insomniac is the last album I got into, and I got into it pretty fast and well; I don't know its GD album rank for me now (I had said before it was my 2nd least favorite; if ever it would still be the case, well I really do love each and every album of the boys' then ), in any case, my love for this album has grown a lot, and it's notably thanks to live performances like this one, as well as some of Stuart And The Ave., Brain Stew, and Geek Stink Breath for instance (the two latter I had discovered in first). I'm notably thinking of the following live performances for these 3 songs: And Geek Stink Breath 1:05:37 :

Unpopular opinion. I'm not crazy about Know Your Enemy.

It's funny, Warning is like the 3rd most played Green Day song at my local radio station, after BOBD and American Idiot. Not that they play GD a lot in general, but those seem to be on the list. Warning is cool. The version on Rock Band is even cooler though, it's like they added an extra guitar or something! Edit: I was looking for the version have on my phone but ended up finding a few different mixes of instrumentals - love this one! The bass

New chompers

Those pictures from Aragon Ballroom last year are gold

No St. Jimmy is the manifestation of listening to that little devil. that’s what I would think anyway. But drunk Rev as @pacejunkie punk said is the actual Billie version of that guy. Are they the same? Just a thought. I say yes. Of course when we say drunk Rev, I mean the hopped on speed, alcohol, the short MDMA phase, and other things that you should never even think of. Live while you’re young but don’t ruin your adulthood.

I think the RR singles are starting to wear out on me tbh. Bang Bang was one of my favourites, now not soo much. RevRad and Still Breathing were a bit quicker to wear out. I'm not sure if this is an unpopular opinion

I thought that too!!

Lol I never even had that issue it’s just my favorite misheard lyric hahaha

It was the first result googling ‘minority lyrics’. Just a lyric site, but one wonders where that came from in the first place - I mean I can’t distinguish either way what he’s saying. Maybe I should go listen to some live performances 🤔

This is really unpopular and I hate feeling this way but I was watching Hills right now and I wish I could still get fucked up and go to shows and have Billie acting a fool like that again but I’ll never get that fucked up again, and god willing either will Billie, but I still miss it so much. Weak thought moment as I watched. Thats next level partying.

Yeah, Outlaws is probably my least favourite RevRad song too. I'm just glad I'm finally seeing some love for Troubled Times.

I'd prefer hearing my second least favorite song (which I haven't thought of yet) right after my second favorite than right after my third least favorite. At a pinch, even it it contravenes to the sacrosanct principle of "staying in the present", I'd let my mind drift to the previous song and randomly come back to the one that's going. Actually, that's pretty much how I started to hear differently some songs that I was convinced not to like / to feel indifferent about, and after that moment I got to like them more and more. A bunch of songs off Nimrod for instance (the ones with a more punkish sound, for I did not know a thing about punk before coming into GD, and the love of the core punk sound was not spontaneous for me; nevertheless, it's there and strong now. One of the great things with GD is that this love can totally come in a gradual and natural way), many songs off Insomniac more recently. Even Say Goodbye on RevRad. I was listening to the whole album, when SG started I just thought of Revolution Radio, and all of a sudden I came back and really heard the song. Now I sometimes want to hear that song and not another.

Just got my Dookie picture disc. I love it! And I pre-ordered Nimrod 20th anniversary vinyl

I thought that was the lyric too. I always sang it that way and I swear I saw it written that way somewhere. Probably on one of those lyric sites. I don't think they are always right anyway.

I always thought it was "you and your aside." Minority is one of those songs that I literally only know the chorus and that's it, even though I've heard it at least 100 times.

Both songs release a lot of power, I would say in a very different / complementary way. I could sum it up by saying, as FN does feel impressively strong, SB feels impressively vulnerable. To me, it's the contrary, the high notes being hard to hit for Billie during Still Breathing completely serve the conveying of emotion, as they are one integral part of the great vulnerability he shows in the song. The way he relies so hardly on the audience for singing with him several of the high notes - "still" - is another essential part of it too. I totally lose it with that song

I had a revelation today that has me shook I always thought the Minority lyric was “free for all, fuck em all, you are your own sight”. But I saw a tumblr post that has it as “you’re on your own side” which I had NO IDEA was the real lyric. The meanings are the same I guess but omg. (I’m assuming that’s the real lyric anyway! I can’t really make out what Billie is really saying either way.)

Only time will tell what happens to Forever Now. As for the American idiot songs they always play, I personally have no problem with any of them, on the contrary. While I would be willing to sacrifice anything on the setlist to keep Still Breathing and Forever Now, I can totally figure that the AI songs would be the last to be sacrificed. I measure the importance of that album for the band. I do find, like you, there's some kind of enigma around Still Breathing but not the way as you. I don't think it's that easily a general crowd pleasure. What makes you tell that Billie doesn't love playing it live? It's hard to sing, I'd even say that for the singing part it's the hardest song they have played during one complete tour so far, but he puts such a great deal of himself into it, in a unique way that makes it a very special moment for the audience. And so I think Still Breathing is a far better song when played live, guess it's the right place to post that! The way I see it, that last statement of yours in subjective as well Moreover, I don't think my personal favorites blur my vision in some notable way. As I said, watching the two songs live made them become my favorites. That's not related to the audience's reaction to them - the first show I went to in France on last February was my first concert and I remember, in that huge arena deprived of any screen, hating every human being that was surrounding me and threatening to make me fall and die . So I didn't mind about other people's reaction to each song, especially when most of the the songs I wasn't able to sing along or didn't even know at all for some - I only partially knew RevRad, AI and Dookie. I did notice different reactions from SB all the way to JOS, but that didn't necessarily match with mine or with my feelings. I was voiceless and all chill during SB and FN, completely blown away, and then I woke up with American Idiot, and during Jesus Of Suburbia I was yelling harder than people around me. Once again, that sure doesn't always happen like that, French audiences are not like others, and for what I could experience twice, Green Day French audiences are edgy. I've never seen, in any video, so many people crowdsurfing as during Still Breathing on my second show in France, on June. I hated them! were songs I immediately loved on the album, and that has kept increasing since. Forever Now, Still Breathing, Say Goodbye and Bang Bang took me more time than the others, and took me seeing them live (except for SG, one day I just started loving it while still waiting for an improbable live version of it ). Somewhere Now, Outlaws and Too Dumb To Die immediately had a huge love and they are (in that order) behind Troubled Times which is my #3 track on the album, and followed by Bang Bang and then RevRad and the ones remaining. If I didn't lose you, you know everything now

To add to my irritation at Last Ride In, today I was listening to GD on shuffle, rocking out to Stuart and the Ave, then LRI comes on afterwards and completely ruins the mood.

Still Breathing right at the start. In the background.

Pay attention to the cracked streets AND THE BROKEN GNOMES

I was recently listening to Bang Bang when I realized the lyrics are not "I can't sing live and it's on my radio" they're actually "broadcasting live and it's on my radio"

I agree but please consider New York City parrrk in Kill The DJ

Counts as revealing these days, doesn't it? Also, the new tattoo

1000 Hours at the end the harmonies are " strong " but i hear "home" any one else ?

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