Popular Post pacejunkie punk Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 3 hours ago, Joe. said: I'm really glad Billie's having fun with these. Hope it comes through on whatever he next writes. It has to. His mood heavily influences his songwriting and he’s pretty content and inspired right now (also judging by the fact that he’s writing a ton — at least six songs in the first month of quarantine alone all while doing these covers too). He said he was depressed when he wrote much of FOAM and I think that shows too not only in the dark themes but the songs may be short and underwritten but they don’t feel effortless. I’m very excited to hear the new stuff. 38 minutes ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said: Fun fact, the "original" song from Don Backy is actually also a "cover" of Keep away from other girls from Helen Shapiro (it was a common practice among Italian artists to make "Italian versions" of english songs, also heavily changing the lyrics and sometimes without paying copyright ). I love this! Fun fact. A cover of a cover. That’s pretty obscure. I wonder if this is going to get a bit of local Italian media attention and airplay. He could have a second hit on his hands with this one (in Italy at least). 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 25 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said: It has to. His mood heavily influences his songwriting and he’s pretty content and inspired right now (also judging by the fact that he’s writing a ton — at least six songs in the first month of quarantine alone all while doing these covers too). He said he was depressed when he wrote much of FOAM and I think that shows too not only in the dark themes but the songs may be short and underwritten but they don’t feel effortless. I’m very excited to hear the new stuff. I listened to FOAM after a while last night and it even surprised me a little by how dark it is. I’m curious what the quarantine songs are like. Maybe he snapped out of it and they’re nothing like FOAM, but if the covers are any indication, they’re very much like Longshot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dry_ice* Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Billie Joe singing in italian was a big birtday gift for me 😍 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pacejunkie punk Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 14 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said: I listened to FOAM after a while last night and it even surprised me a little by how dark it is. I’m curious what the quarantine songs are like. Maybe he snapped out of it and they’re nothing like FOAM, but if the covers are any indication, they’re very much like Longshot. When he’s free to write power pop everything sounds like Longshot and that’s not a bad thing. That’s really his signature sound. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Beerjeezus said: That’s interesting that translated covers were a thing in Italy too. I always though that was Eastern-bloc specific, since the originals weren’t allowed. I think in Italy was probably because no one spoke English at the time (well... not that it changed much after 50 years ) and in general songs that were hit abroad were not known at all in Italy. Well... talking about this have you ever heard “Mino dove vai”, the Italian version of Basket case? 😂😂😂 57 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said: I love this! Fun fact. A cover of a cover. That’s pretty obscure. I wonder if this is going to get a bit of local Italian media attention and airplay. He could have a second hit on his hands with this one (in Italy at least). A few Italian online newspapers are talking about it, it’s getting some attention as we are not really used to this, and it is so weird that he knows this song that most Italians completely ignore 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermione Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Billie singing in Italian is so sweet! Cool to hear he's done a decent job of pronouncing too. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 It’s quite fun cause in the first verse he pronounces “che” like “Che Guevara”, while “ch” is a hard c in Italian, but he pronounces it correctly from the second verse onwards 😄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 18 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said: When he’s free to write power pop everything sounds like Longshot and that’s not a bad thing. That’s really his signature sound. I love Longshot so that’s fine with me 19 minutes ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said: I think in Italy was probably because no one spoke English at the time (well... not that it changed much after 50 years ) and in general songs that were hit abroad were not known at all in Italy. Well... talking about this have you ever heard “Mino dove vai”, the Italian version of Basket case? 😂😂😂 A few Italian online newspapers are talking about it, it’s getting some attention as we are not really used to this, and is so weird that he knows this song that most Italians completely ignore Interesting so it wasn’t just us oh my god at this point I have a suspiction Billie’s omniscient when it comes to music 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Dude Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Having trouble finding lyrics in spanish OR english for this Amico song. Anybody else have the lyrics? Mondays and Wednesdays are awesome now. What about the rest of the week, Billie? What about the rest of the week? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, That Dude said: What about the rest of the week, Billie? What about the rest of the week? Turkish Tuesdays, French Fridays, Slovak Sundays 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Dude Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Just now, Beerjeezus said: Turkish Tuesdays, French Fridays, Slovak Sundays What about Today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, That Dude said: What about Today? today is český čtvrtek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 From Top of the Pops. This might be where Billie heard this from since his cover sounds a lot like this version. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DookieLukie Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 When did he say he wrote 6 songs in quarantine? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 17 minutes ago, DookieLukie said: When did he say he wrote 6 songs in quarantine? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kerrang.com/amp/billie-joe-armstrong-has-written-six-new-green-day-songs-while-in-quarantine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 This week’s songs might be the best so far. I’m binge-listening. btw, the Italian schlager version of Basket Case is still the best and the worst thing I’ve ever seen 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Boy Named Booze Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 11 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said: This week’s songs might be the best so far. I’m binge-listening. btw, the Italian schlager version of Basket Case is still the best and the worst thing I’ve ever seen ITWAN still my favorite but that Italian beat really stuck in my mind tho 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Beerjeezus said: This week’s songs might be the best so far. I’m binge-listening. Me too! I've been playing games on my computer tonight and playing the No Fun Mondays playlist on YouTube on an endless loop. The last two are definitely the best but I also love That Thing You Do and ITWAN. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted May 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2020 Don Backy, the singer of the original version of Amico noticed the cover and posted it on his FB page 😄 https://www.facebook.com/100004923010571/posts/1477997699040983/?d=n 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jengd Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Does he like it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted May 1, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2020 33 minutes ago, jengd said: Does he like it? Cannot say for sure but the reaction seems a pleasantly surprised one Pretty sure someone will interview him about it Edit: looks like he’s sharing the cover in a shit load of fun clubs (of himself) and various fb groups, so I guess he liked it 😂😂😂 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Dude Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I love that Billie is getting more obscure with each cover. Maybe I'll get online one day and he'll be singing a song I wrote! That would be insane. Has anyone heard this last one or even heard of the artist? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jengd Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Nope, new to me but I must have seen them on that TOTP video above 😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewe Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 If someone want MP3s check it out I'm uploading every cover in a MEGA folder as that's been released 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AnonymWarnerGermany Posted May 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2020 No Fun Mondays is not allowed to end before he covers Rome Falls 1 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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