GreenDayBillie Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I just LOVE this song!<3 and it means alot to me but these two sentences especially: But there's nothing wrong with me, This is how I'm supposed to be, I'm in a wheelchair y'know ;-) and there IS nothing wrong with me! This is how I fucking supposed to be!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
November's Storms Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 But there's nothing wrong with me, This is how I'm supposed to be, I'm in a wheelchair y'know ;-) and there IS nothing wrong with me! This is how I fucking supposed to be!! This is the perfect example of how the song is brilliant at reaching and touching a wide audience! Its meaning is so easy to relate to across so many subjects. Billie probably wrote this referring to his own (or Jesus of Suburbia's) personality, but you take it to have just as much meaning in your case. I love this song for that reason! Everyone finds their own special meaning behind it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accountdeleted1203 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I could write pages and pages on this song. I will try keep to a couple sentences. This song means so freaking much to me, every line has its individual meaning and I love every single word of it. My favorite part is I Don't Care because it describes exactly how I think. My favorite line is : "Hearts recycled but never saved, From the cradle to the grave" Sometimes this song means so much to me I cry, (as gay as that sounds) So, Jesus Of Suburbia <33333 really happy this song has been chosen FINALLY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Ok folks, in the assumption that this thread doesn't become The Song of Three Weeks here's one observation I overlooked earlier that I just have to get in under the wire. In Part II, City of The Damned, if you isolate the "additional instruments" track in Rock Band you can take a good listen to the piano and the acoustic guitar. Backing up the smooth, mellow sound and the bleak "it's all worthless, dead-end, and hopeless" lyrics, you will hear a slice of Pachelbel's Canon in D -- the classical piece that you'll often hear at weddings when the wedding party walks down the aisle. The "just a lie" reality is musically juxtaposed against the fantasy image (as represented by the snippet of Pachelbel) of what middle-class suburban life -- "the motto" -- is supposed to be all about....so here in the song, the lyrics stage the music and the music stages the lyrics, all ramming home the same "dudes, this is FUCKED" point. Here's a snippet: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22458040/GDC/JoSCityDeadMTExcerpt.mp3 How incredibly punk is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Not quite as punk as you finding it. I'd never noticed Pachelbel's Canon in there before! If you have Rock Band, I HIGHLY recommend isolating the tracks and listening to them separately. Whole lotta shakin' goin' on in them things and it'll take your enjoyment and fascination with the music to an entirely new level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayfabe Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Oh and! I love how Billie Joe sings 'this hurricane of fucking lies' with such spit. Yep. Ashamed to say that at first this song made me drink a lot more Coca Cola, purely because of the "steady diet of soda pop and ritalin" I got addicted to the stuff! Now I don't drink it at all for moral/health reasons, don't buy coca cola products kids! coca cola execution can i just say, i was thinking about my visit to the world of coca cola in my holiday last year, and how i came out pretty much thinking that the whole company shits rainbows and is made of happiness. so, the bigger warning is: don't go to the world of coca cola, kids. no matter how much free coke they bribe you with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayfabe Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Oh, bloody hell. It was funny around Christmas time, I realised how JOS related so much more to my brother than to me. land of make believe, and it don't believe in him. he didn't want to admit it, but he was under a lot of stress at that time. He had just graduated university with a third, and he basically thought of it as a failure. And then he tried to say that my mom didn't raise him right... poor conflicted boy it made a lot more sense back then, when i went in the room from the huge argument and jos came on itunes. made a lot more sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haushinka reject Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 For me Jesus Of Surburbia along with St. Jimmy and Letterbomb are the three best songs on American Idiot,truly epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
November's Storms Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I'm going to miss this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
November's Storms Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Just leave this one pinned forever, imo. JOS deserves it. It's Green Day's epic, and quite possibly their finest work. Or have a thread to discuss the AI storyline and song meanings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain peroxide Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 OH SHIT...IS THIS MY LIFE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spark in the night Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Or have a thread to discuss the AI storyline and song meanings I could talk about the AI storyline forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvgirlcl Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I could talk about the AI storyline forever This reminded me of when I went to GD's show last October with my best friend and her boyfriend, and me and her boyfriend talked/discussed about the AI storyline during the whole trip (which was about 2 hours)...so, yeah. I too could be forever talking about this. On another note, how can I isolate the tracks from Rock Band? Because after Bastard's finding, I'm tempted to do the same to the rest of AI (and 21CB too). And if I'm not wrong, I could have sworn that there was a thread to discuss the AI storyline...but I'm not sure where it is edit: American Idiot discussion thread Hasn't been active since October last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leisha-LUNA Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 This song means so much to me. I've always loved it, but it was never one of my favourites until the Europe Tour. Every line just knocked me right in the gut, cut right through me. The trip was the biggest thing I've ever done with my life, I had run away from all the problems at home, I'd worked ridiculously hard to make it to that tour, to be with those incredible people. And every night they played JoS, and my heart would catch in my throat and it was just perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayfabe Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I think we already had the "AI for album of the month!" discussion. But just in case we didn't, AI for album of the month please. AI album of the month? Oh my god. The Green Day Music subforum was a bit of a fail, but if this could happen omg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatsername..x Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Jesus Of Suburbia..where to start. Unquestionably my favourite song of all time. Whether I'm blissfully happy, depressed as hell or peed off to the max, listening to this song takes me into another world. I love how reading through this topic everyone relates to it in different ways, this song seems to mean alot to so many people and deserves all the credit it gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metanoia Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 I could talk about the AI storyline forever same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiona? Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 This song is EPIC. It's dramatic, emotional and just plain AMAZING on so many different levels. The lyrics are so powerful and contain so much meaning. It's almost like JOS is talking about leaving home as well as calling out to others in his same position: where life seems screwed up and there's no place to go when you feel victimized. I feel like whenever nothing is going my way and life just seems to suck, i listen to this song. It just sums up everything with the last few lines of the song: "I don't feel any shame I won't apologize When there ain't no where you can go Runnin' away from pain When you've been victimized Tales from another broken . . . You're leavin' home" I think that the most emotional part is at the end when Billie sings it live, "We've been victimized", because, right at that moment, when thousands of people are singing those lines back to him, they are feeling the same thing. It's almost as if all those fans are connecting with each other on an emotional level a that very moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowroteholdencaulfield? Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 It's like Billie said in BIAB, you don't have to say you love the song and it's not like "great, let's find a dance for this", it goes deeper than that. And it's freaking 9:08 minutes long!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofriendlyunitshifter Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 This song is too awesome for words. In other words, I'm too lazy to write an essay on why I love this song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beejeezee Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Jesus of Suburbia has to be one of the most intense, emotional, beautiful, and just amazing song's by Green Day. It has a great story line, and it's just a great song. In my opinion the best lyrics in the song are: I'm the son of rage and love The Jesus of Suburbia The bible of none of the above On a steady diet of Soda Pop and Ritalin No one ever died for my Sins in hell As far as I can tell At least the ones I've gotten away with And there's nothing wrong with me This is how I'm supposed to be In a land of make believe That don't believe in me Get my television fix Sitting on my crucifix The living room in my private womb While the Moms and brat's are away To fall in love and fall in debt To alcohol and cigarettes And Mary Jane To keep me insane Doing someone else's cocaine And there's nothing wrong with me This is how I'm supposed to be In a land of make believe That don't believe in me At the center of the earth In the parking lot Of the 7-11 were I was taught The motto was just a lie It says home is where your heart is But what a shame Cause everyone's heart Doesn't beat the same It's beating out of time City of the dead At the end of another lost highway Signs misleading to nowhere City of the damned Lost children with dirty faces today No one really seems to care I read the graffiti In the bathroom stall Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall And so it seemed to confess It didn't say much But it only confirmed that The center of the earth Is the end of the world And I could really care less City of the dead At the end of another lost highway Signs misleading to nowhere City of the damned Lost children with dirty faces today No one really seems to care I don't care if you don't I don't care if you don't I don't care if you don't care I don't careeeeeee..... Everyone's so full of shit Born and raised by hypocrites Hearts recycled but never saved From the cradle to the grave We are the kids of war and peace From Anaheim to the Middle East We are the stories and disciples of The Jesus of suburbia Land of make believe And it don't believe in me Land of make believe And I don't believe And I don't care! Dearly beloved are you listening? I can't remember a word that you were saying Are we demented or am I disturbed? The space that's in between insane and insecure Oh therapy, can you please fill a void? Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed Nobody's perfect and I stand accused For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse To live, and not to breathe Is to die, in tragedy To run, to run away To find, what you believe And I leave behind This hurricane of fucking lies I lost my faith to this This town that don't exist So I run, I run away To the lights of masochists And I, leave behind This hurricane of fucking lies And I, walked this line A million and one fucking times But not this time I don't feel any shame I wont apologize When there ain't nowhere you can go Running away from pain When you've been victimized Tales from another broken home You're leaving... You're leaving... You're leaving... Are you leaving home? Yep, the whole song. I don't think you really can pick one part as better over any other, or have one favorite lyric. At least I know I can't. I really wish I could write more about this amazing song but no words can describe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koolkev Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 I remember the first time I looked in the album booklet, for some reason it was months before I checked it out. I loved the way it was done, particularly for Jesus of Suburbia, it really helps understand the emotions and the plot. Yeah.... I read the musical one. OH! FORGOT TO MENTION I LOVE :wub: Tre's drum solo. I've tried playing it SO many times but can't figure it out. Still love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
November's Storms Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Yeah.... I read the musical one. OH! FORGOT TO MENTION I LOVE :wub: Tre's drum solo. I've tried playing it SO many times but can't figure it out. Still love it Yeah I know what you mean! For the drum solos of both Jesus of Suburbia and Burnout they are broken into 4 parts. In both songs for some reason it is the 3rd section that is my favourite! If it makes sense...listen and you'll know what i mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nmd Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Hands down my fav Green Day song it encapsulates so much emotion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrock09 Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 One of my favorite songs... I agree with what others said earlier in the thread, because I feel the same exact way. When I first heard JOS at the age of 14 it meant something completely different than it does to me now, (I'm 21 now). It still takes me on a roller coaster of emotions but its not the same ride as it was before.. if that makes any sense. And when the songs is performed live, if you look around at the people standing next to you or around you, they're all on some sort of an emotional ride themselves and sometimes, I can see that they're in the place I used to be. It's crazy when you think about it, but its a very honest song. .. that and Tre's drum solo just makes the entire song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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