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I love this part of HLAHG I just have to post it here for my own fan girling. 😂😂 “fucking Billie Joe is so haut!” 😂

It's also an underrated piece of information that the back of young Perry's shirt says "Pizza King" This is a fangirl confession because only a fangirl would notice or care

I love this. Incest, mmmh, yummy! and the way he fidgets on the floor is just too much

On the subject of Billie being a happy troublemaker..

Honestly, I never noticed what the back of Perry's shirt says and now I want a replica for myself

When someone says their name is Gloria and you scream "GLOOOOORIA! VIVA LA GLOOOOORIA" in their face as they slowly back away.😝

omg, and the laughs/giggles 😍😍

I LOVE BILLIE'S CHUBBY CHEEKS!!! (I found some goodies of his cute lil cheeks) HE'S JUST GOT CUTE FACIAL FEATURES, I CAN'T HELP IT

For some reason I feel like Cigarettes and Valentines would just be kinda like Shenanigans and most people would just be disappointed.

@solongfromthestars at the risk of sounding about 12, I am so envious of anyone who saw these shows and to be so close too 😍😍😍👏👏👏

And so ridiculously pleased with himself 😂

I was thinking the same thing! Not sure if it would be best to get it printed or to buy a shirt, then buy the letters as patches and sew them on individually... serious problems here

^^^ I've always loved that pic of him. Kinda reminds me of the adverts with the Andrex puppy. He looks adorably mischievous.

Lmao what a video title

He's been onto us for so long

Article here from NME about Billie playing "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" for the first time: https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-joe-armstrong-writing-time-of-your-life-2419623 and another here from Rocksound TV: https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/green-day-billie-joe-armstrong-good-riddance-time-of-your-life From Far Out Magazine: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/billie-joe-armstrong-opens-up-about-iconic-green-day-song-good-riddance-time-of-your-life/ and Green Day get a mention in this article about Panic at the Disco for a rare airplay chart achievement: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8490035/panic-at-the-disco-high-hopes-no-1-pop-songs-chart Another here about the Green Day Packers! http://milwaukeerecord.com/music/green-day-music-and-football-focused-lyrics-come-together-in-green-day-packers/

You don't sound 12 at all. I remember feeling that way about the FBHT club shows and I never thought I'd get to see anything similar. I'm still naively hoping they'll come to the UK one day so I hope you can see them!

Going to do the same: I admit I don't see the link you make from "Don't let your ponytail get out of line" to "stop and pay attention to me" (to me it's more: you can stay in line if you want, not let anything get out of it, but I won't do that), but I do for the second part of the phrase. That makes sense too. He could also be mocking the subject's desire to stay in line. "I'm on the spectrum and the borderline, I got the shakes but I'm alright," I think he sings "alive" in the album version (which is another degree of concession, supposing he's fine only because he's alive, that being alive is enough) but I just heard a live version where he says "alright"... but it's just a small detail ^^ I definitely hear "alright" but "alive" would also work anyway. It's a more dramatic way of saying the same thing he'd be saying with "alright," like as you said, another degree of concession as if just being alive is enough. Do you hear "swagger" sometimes when he sings it live? supposing not only it won't hurt too much, but even more, he'll even feel even more assured if he's left. Now I'm thinking the whole song could be about being left alone while he thinks he's an edgy guy from the start but finally okay with that, and that being left alone won't make him get back in line / be normal. Just listened to this one where Jeff's mic is way too loud and he's definitely singing "stagger" But on the audio from the DC show it sounds like Billie could be singing "swagger." If that's right then I agree. He's embracing being "turned loose" and even taking pleasure in it. I hear "but it doesn't matter" being related to "with dumb tattoos" because he sings both lines so closely; so it would be a way to say "the dumb tattoos don't matter, the fact I have them and am a weirdo doesn't matter". He could also be saying that. I feel like either way though, he doesn't entirely believe what he's saying and it hurts him a bit that people think that, but maybe the whole song is him trying to embrace what he doesn't want to admit is hurting him. "I'll go down swinging for the final line," I really hear foul line, like in bowling the line where you don't hit any skittle, which makes sense with the "I'm not a rebel for my pride" as I hear it. I think my interpretation would pretty much be the same if it was "foul line." He'll "go out with a bang" so to speak, fighting for himself until the end even if he's unsuccessful. Very interesting! I still wonder whom Fell For You is meant for by the way. Funny because you made to link from TML to it and I made one to Loss of Control, which follows FFY in Uno. Is is the same person he fells for, and then sings about that he's the "April Fools who thought he fell in love with" in LOC? and now the same he speaks about in TML, finally marking a conclusion to it? I have two interpretations of that line in Loss of Control. He could indeed be saying "April fool's" to himself for falling for the person in Fell For You, as if he knows it can't end well and he's mocking himself. Referring back to that in Turn Me Loose would be a great conclusion. But I think in general the song is about people from the East Bay punk scene. If that's the case, then I interpret that line as him mocking those people (or even himself) for falling in love with the scene they betrayed. Or referring to failed relationships, which those people were insistent would last at the time and that's just giving him another reason to laugh at them. As for who Fell For You is about, I think all the trilogy and Longshot love songs are about the same person. It could be an "imaginary girlfriend" because I know he talked a lot about that when the trilogy came out and he even refers to that in Razor Baby. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this post. But no pressure at all because it's 4,500 words long I also wrote some trilogy song interpretations back in 2012 but I probably don't even agree with them anymore. I'll have to dig them up and rewrite them. With Fell For You it's interesting to consider how a variation of this quote, which Billie said at the closing night of the American Idiot musical, ended up in the lyric book: “Keep your fucking heart young, goddammit. Keep it fucking all comfy all the time. Don’t fucking stop, there’s a reason why that hand is holding the heart. It just keeps squeeze that motherfucker till it still bleeds every goddamn day.” Hope it's OK for us to be using coloured text here! I don't think this shade of green is too hard to read on the black or white themes. In other news when I was looking for live versions of Turn Me Loose I came across this and seeing me dancing on the front row (the black hair and bow in the bottom right) made me happy The Longshot was such a wonderful gift from Billie.

I saw this and thought of Green Day (didn't read the article!) https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/751977/arsenal-news-emirates-stadium-crime-rate-worst-in-london and we camped out for the show there! I also found out today that GD's "Know Your Enemy" was used in the trailer for the movie "Free Birds" (towards the end of the trailer): I also discovered that "Welcome to Paradise" and an instrumental version of "Holiday" were used in the "Surf's Up" movie. Here's "Welcome to Paradise":

When you actually know all about the Japanese Holiday ‘Greenery Day’

It was! They were such good times I still can't believe I was actually there. I have to admit I laughed at how Billie totally ignores that girl and then security pull her away Well for what it's worth I squealed inside when I saw your flag That was cute! At about 0:49 Billie is looking at it and I think if it annoyed him he'd have ignored it completely, like he does with that girl in San Francisco. As for the people behind, all the phones must have been equally (if not more) annoying.

That's pretty much everyone I know

Because we've already heard some songs which appeared as B-sides or on later albums, if not most of them.

When you are offended when someone doesn't get a Green Day reference (the audacity!)

I can agree that it probably would be more disappointing because we have all built it up in our minds to be a lot like AI in quality. (don't get me wrong, I love Shenanigans, but it pales in comparison to the overall quality of AI) and I feel like because we love the boys so much and we've heard so much good stuff from them that we would automatically assumed C&V would be some lost gem that is magically amazing. Of course I would still LOVE to hear it and I think it would be an awesome album, but I don't think it would be nearly as exciting as we all hope it would be!

I completely get that and like @solongfromthestars has already said I felt like that about the small shows before 21st Century Breakdown was released and the FBHT shows that I had absolutely no chance of ever being able to attend. I really hope you get the opportunity to see something like that one day

Posting here to first off say that I'm in total agreement with the warnings that Alissa has given. Also, I've hidden the more recent posts talking about Jeff and his personal life. It's not a conversation that's a healthy part of this community. People are not perfect, but no one here knows the full story, and it's not our job to look into it.

Warning points have been distributed. Everyone seriously needs to chill out. It's OK to disagree with somebody's opinion on a topic, but picking fights and posting personal attacks about other members can't continue or we're going to have to shut down this conversation altogether. That type of behavior is unnecessary and against forum rules. It's messy, everyone gets defensive and it derails any productive conversation. If you have an issue with a user, it's best to either move the conversation to a private message to work it out or contact a moderator if you think the member is violating forum rules. I consulted with two other team members about this, too, just so you're all aware. I think we were pretty lenient in letting the Jeff/Kalie stuff be discussed this much anyway -- it's a personal situation, most of the posts about it have been deleted or are on now-private accounts, and the only real "news" coverage of it was a single blog. Often such topics are avoided on here. I felt it was OK to continue discussing it when it first came up because the conversation seemed mature and productive. Let's keep it that way.

Not convinced that’s Billie, am I the only one?

That's what I've always thought/known/heard the song to be about and I believe Haushinka was her name. Billie tweeted about it way back:

😂😂😂😂

"Mike looks like a stripper now"

It was unreal. I hope you'll get to experience that He's looking and sounding so great this was right before the Observatory where we met! Lol at the girl around 2:00 who's brought on the stage, awkwardly moves towards Billie and then is roughly taken away from him by the security guy Speaking of seeing yourself in vids, I'm still feeling awkward about this vid, I'm afraid to have annoyed people behind me and Billie as well what do you think?

That was fucking hilarious! I needed that today. Thank you, Billie!

Now this is what dreams are made of

Had a dream where villians had come from the future and therefore had more advanced technology than us. The villians kidnapped Billie and a bunch of other celebrities and used their advanced technology to manipulate racist ideologies into the celebs. When the government finally rescued Billie, me and a few others were given the task of trying to help him get back to his old self. We managed to work most of the racist beliefs out of him, but he just wasn't the same.

First photo RedundantIdiot posted is the ulimate lesbian look.

@RedundantIdiot that pic of him in Amsterdam is one of my favourites ever, he looks fantastic in it 😍😍 thank you. all these pics are great, love him in silhouette mad though that seems 💕💕

They're such cool silhouette photos

I am so in love with this picture right now! Maybe it's because I just had a dream involving this version of Billie, but damn! I've always been absolutely floored by this look. ❤️ The shades, the hair, the clothes, the eyes, the pose - everything is just perfect! And just look into these eyes! It's like you can see straight into his soul.

He's such a floofy boi! I have honestly never seen anyone who has hair as amazing as Billie's. There's something special about him. He's the fucking best! I love him so much! Even when his hair isn't particularly long, it's still ridiculously fluffy!

Replying to you in green in the quote:

I really like some of the photos from the Foreverly era too:

I have a crush on badly dyed blond Perry Miller

Yeah that's possible that all of them had some input. On another note I'm still getting emails from the Black Cat in Washington where The Longshot played and every time it makes me happy thinking about the show

he's the most important member of green day, is who he is

Good call, that they have at least some input and Billie helped them to shape them into the record. I like this idea, it would be a good interview question for Billie or one of the boys. If true, it would also makes sense of something I had thought, which is that there feels like a mismatch between some lines. I couldn't explain this well so hadn't commented previously, and still can't, it's just a feeling!

Yeah I remember hearing about John having a set and that most of the mixes are the same. No unreleased songs or anything else found on his tapes. It's just weird how they're out there. And neither HD tracks nor Acoustic Sounds, have managed to get ahold of them for a 24/96 flac release. Same with 1039. Must be a label and licensing problem.....