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I love this song, was the first song I heard them, she is very special to me.

my story to know the green day was kind of like this:

I downloaded the mp3 trapt, linkin park and oasis, and by chance downloaded Boulevardof Broken Dream by chance, heard the music addicted.

American Idiot is the best album

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this was the song that first got me into green day, with good riddance being a fave song of mine when i was 9-10 years old, (not knowing the song was by green day at the time) the last 30 seconds of the song was just so awesome when i first heard it, got me to listen to the song over and over again. Then i bought the American idiot album and then getting all the rest of the albums and since then, i cannot get enough of my favourite band :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :clap:

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The total and complete "wall of noise" at the end, where it just sounds like it's spiraling down to it's ending... is just amazing. It's what it would sound like if the world was falling down around you. It completely surrounds you and sucks you in like a vortex. It sends chills through my body. When i am not in an episode of depression, it reminds me of what it feels like. And when i am in an episode- it is therapeutic.

This just perfectly describes that part of the song.

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I've always loved the bass in this. Rolling and slow. Eventually you get led into that sort of state of mind.

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The end of the song is, in my opinion, Green Day's best ending musically. To play on guitar makes you feel so amazing!!!

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The first Green Day song I ever fell in love with :lol: I remember for almost 2 years ago where I was listening to it all the time, and then decided to buy some more Green Day songs. GOD how it chanced my life <3

l love to walk alone (on a lonely road :P) and listen to this song. Specially in the dark. It just get I feeling I can't describe.

Also what I really love with this song, is that everybody can relate to it. Everybody has been in that point where you feel all alone. At least I have

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I really love this song. It was the song that got me really into American Idiot and made me a bigger fan of the band. Before I heard this song, I only listened to Dookie and Insomniac so I was excited to hear something different. Classic GD song, one of the best. Noel Gallager is also a big bitch.

Yes,he is.

About the song now,it's melaholy at its best.

It really describes us Greeks as we are now.

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I can remember first hearing it... I was looking for Avril Lavigne songs on youtube (i was young and was in a i love avril lavigne phase) and BOBD came up as a suggestion, i looked at the video and from that moment i was totaly hooked to Green Day (the lyrics blew me away)

I think that it's a song that lots of people can relate to as everyone was once felt lost and insecure

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i like that one , it always come to my mind when i'm walking alone on the street ! it describes any peron cause i think most of people have that time when you feel lonely , nobody is looking at you , everyone is gone and like you're walking in a boulevard of broken dreams in an unknown path ! happy it's the song of the week cause a has a really huge impact on my llife :wub:

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As much as I hate to say anything negative about Green Day's music, I have to be honest here. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is one of my least favorite Green Day songs. I don't know if it's because it's so overplayed on the radio, or if it's because it's just so fucking depressing and maudlin. Either way, I've never liked this song and it doesn't speak to me and I can't relate to it at all, and like someone said earlier, I can't imagine what BJA was going through (if anything) at the time he wrote it, but I'm glad he got through to the other side.

There I said it. Hope lightening doesn't strike. :help:

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This was the song that opened my eyes to the wonderful world of Green Day. And in that sense it will always hold a very special place in my heart, not because of a deep emotional connection with the lyrics but because it's the one song that changed my life, in the way that it introduced me to this band. I still say that pressing 'play' on my mp3 player that early June afternoon six years ago is the most significant thing I ever did, because it started me down the path to where I am today. It was the first time I actually LISTENED to a Green Day song (and I'd only known about them for a couple of weeks prior to that because that's when my brother started listening to them), and something in it - Billie's voice, the guitars, the overall sound of it - just grabbed hold of me and then never let me go. I was only 13 at the time, and it wasn't the lyrics or the meaning of the song that caught my attention in the beginning, it was this VOICE that just.. fascinated me. I can't really explain it. But something in my mind just clicked in that moment, and I now realize that at that point I already knew I had found 'my' band, 'my' voice - something I later came to describe as Green Day being the soulmate to my ears, haha. Because that's what it felt like, and still does. And so from then I went on to discover more and more songs, starting with the whole of the American Idiot album, and for every new song I heard and learned to love I realized more and more that this was a band I could relate to on so many different levels, and that later would come to mean the world to me - but still I will always remember that it all started with this one song, this one voice.. just this music.

As for connecting to the actual theme of the song, I never felt closer to it in a literal sense than when I was walking alone in the New York evening, after my third time of seeing the musical based on the album that changed my life, but for the last time with Billie Joe in the role of St. Jimmy (on October 3rd 2010); and as the light rain mixed with my tears as I knew I'd come to the end of my wonderful year in the world of Green Day, I still had this song sounding in my head, comforting me, making me realize I would never truly walk alone as long as I had it with me.

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I actually used to absolutly reject this song and the whole American Idiot album. I mean I loved it, but when I was in 8th grade everyone "loved" Green Day, and American Idiot was really popular. I had been a Green Day fan for a while so hearing Good Riddance being called "Time of Your Life", or that American Idiot was their only album, and just all sorts of stupid shit like that. I got so fed up with these stupid people that I just went around telling people I hated them, and that I would never like them (even though its obviously a lie). So I still hate saying that American Idiot is one of my favorite albums, or that I do love BOBD ((all though I do get tired of it easily since it was played so much).

But this is a great song. "I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind" Is my favorite line of the song. I guess because I've kind of battled wth different parts of my personality before. It just really means something to me.

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I was 9 when this song was a massively popular hit. I listened to pop radio at the time and this was my favorite song. It made me feel so cool because I was listening to the same music as my 11 year old brother, who would play me and my twin American Idiot (album) and blink-182 CDs when my parents weren't around. They thought we were too young to listen to that music. Whenever I listened to American Idiot I always waited for BOBD because it was the only song I knew. I remember singing along to this song and saying the F word for the first time and feeling like an awful person hahah. 4 years later Green Day became my favorite band! Who would've guessed? :D

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This song will always have a special place in my heart because it got me into Green Day. :wub: I used to listen to it over and over again and got super excited every time I got to hear it on the radio. In my opinion, both the lyrics and music is just amazing.

I, however, listened to it a few days ago and realized I don't like it that much anymore. Though it still seems like such a fantastic song to me and every time I hear it, it brings back wonderful memories.

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This song will always be one of my favorites. I first heard it when I was eight and for the longest time it was my favorite song, sadly I didn't know who the band was.

Read between the lines of what's

Fucked up and everything's alright

My favorite part of the song :wub:

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This just perfectly describes that part of the song.

Thank you! And oh, i'm popular! For the first time in my life i'm popular!!! :dance:

I love the effect on the guitar in the song too. As a guitar player (uh, ex-player at this point, i've moved on to other artistic things i'm better at) i was never a fan of any fancy guitar effects besides distortion. I used to hear GD and Rancid talk about how they were just "plug in and go" kinds of bands, and i always kind of flew with that idea- the idea that less is more and that if you write a good song, it will hold up without fancy effects. But, i LOVE the effect on this song. (i believe it is Tremolo. That is what my BF is telling me.) We have a Pod in our musical collection (one of those red bean-shaped effects things) and i love playing this song with the effect on it. Makes me feel like a fucking rockstar!!!

And seriously, go get in your car (presumably a car with a moderate to good sound system) and put that song on and just crank it. It is amazing. The ending just shakes you to your soul. (i fucking hate the radio edits that cut the ending short. The ending is what it's all about.)

MAAAAANNN! Now i miss that lil' car! A green '97 Volkswagen Golf. it was the first car i ever bought entirely on my own with my own money. I drove it into the ground, sold it for $500 a couple years ago, and now it's STILL being driven into the ground! The girl who got it fixed it up and is still driving it! Fuck! I love the car i have now (subaru) but that lil VW was the SHIT. We had good times.

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I think this was the first song I heard :wub: It all started with a weird experience from the radio. I love it, but it wasn't this song what made me a fan, actually was Holiday...

My favorite part is when he sings "I walk this empty streets on the Boulevard of broken dreams..." and only the guitar in the background. I always enjoy seeing the photo gallery from BIAB only to hear the entire instrumental song ♥♥♥

And to me it never sounded even similar to that song from oasis... and it's not because I want to defend Green Day. It's just not the same!

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I love this song so much. It was one of the first Green Day songs I remember hearing. I heard it the first time on Disney Channel (censored) on a comercial and it had the single cover with the song playing in the backround. I always used to sing the lyric "My shadow's the only one that walks beside me, my shallow heart's the only thing that's beating" growing up, but never knowing what the song was (AI came out when I was about six). I heard it on Kidz Bop, also along with Wake Me Up When September Ends. When I got into Green Day a year or so ago, I heard this song when I first bought AI, and my first thought was "Damn, I spent a good part of my childhood singing this song and now it's finally coming back to me through my favorite band." It's also an amazing song live and the video is awesome :)...Holiday/BOBD has to be my favorite music video.

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See, i'm glad this wasn't the first green day song i'd ever heard. It's so far off from what their usual "thing" is. I love that they're really all over the place on the last two albums, it still sounds good and it just proves their ability as songwriters and musicians.

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Such an amazing song! Seriously over played when it first came out though. Anything that gets over played tends to get on my nerves. Even if it is Green Day. :whistle Variety is the spice of life.

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Oh god. Just call me provolone because it's about to get cheesy up in this bitch.

I remember being like 10 or something and this song came out, and I was hooked. Then my parents got me the American Idiot CD for my birthday, and well, it was all history from there. This song has so much meaning to me it's stupid. It's gotten me through the hardest times of my life so far, and it's what got me into Green Day in the first place. I'll never forget when I saw them live, just how many tears I shed while they played it. Everytime I listen to it, it brings me back to when I was younger and going through some nasty shit, and how I prevailed through it. I still get chills when I listen to it. I could easily listen to this song on repeat all day and never be sick of it. I don't even care it got overplayed or whatever, it's a damn great song.

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This song came out my senior year of high school and I remember sitting in the car with a couple friends when it came on the radio and we were discussing it and music in general. It was one of the few good times that year. We had moved to a new town right before my senior year and I felt pretty alone, even with the few friends I made, because I wasn't going to be graduating with all of my friends and I felt that I would be graduating from a school that wasn't really mine and that I hated. To this day I still hate that I graduated from there as I feel as if I didn't really have a school that I belonged to. Lets just say Green Day helped me out a lot that year.

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righly said it is about loneliness... i like to listen to it when i want to be out of everything and i always close my eyes just to be all alone with myself and this beautiful song.

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My entire family pretty much loves this song...I'll never forget on the 16th June 2010 at Lancashire CCC when it literally sounded as though every single person in the arena was singing for Billie, it was beyond amazing.

Although we didn't win the world cup as Billie predicted....pah as if

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I actually really can't remember when i heard the song for the first time, but what i love the most about the song are all the memories linked with it :) it helped me trough some hard times and it reminds me of the good times, and i think it's the green day song i'm most connected to :)

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