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See, by dance song, I initially thought they meant ‘dance’ as in the genre. Not just a song you can dance to :P

I dance to plenty of GD songs already....

Phew! I thought might of been being a bit too out there :P

That's what I assumed too... Does seem a bit out there, but honestly, nothing surprises me anymore with these guys.

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See, by dance song, I initially thought they meant ‘dance’ as in the genre. Not just a song you can dance to :P

Mother Mary is 4/4 rockabilly (or should I say, rockaBillie?) plain and simple. It crosses over into Brian Setzer and Shakin' Stevens territory as easily as its punk core fits into classic Green Day. It's more than just a song you can dance to, it's a song you can actually jive to.

That's what I assumed too... Does seem a bit out there, but honestly, nothing surprises me anymore with these guys.

Over time -- particularly through their deep cuts and B-sides -- I've come to learn that Green Day can pound the living shit out of any musical style they want to take a shot at. Yeah, their core is punk but they've done bluegrass, country, ballads, metal, 60's pop, and classic rock spanning from Dylan to AC/DC and Isley Brothers to The Who. Hell, with D.U.I. they've even successfully pulled off POLKA for God's sake. :) They wanna take a stab at a Lady Gaga, No Doubt, or (groan) even Black Eyed Peas -style dance track, odds are *real* good that they'll nail it.

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About Billie not reading music---yes, you'd think he'd have picked it up at some point, and I guarantee you he learned how to read music when he was a 5-year-old taking piano lessons. He probably knew it at some point and I feel like he mentioned at one point re-learning how to read music. As someone who did the whole school band thing for about 5 years and then dropped it, I can tell you that 6 years later, I have forgotten how to read music, but it would probably only take a few days to figure it out again. That wouldn't help me become a songwriter though, and I'm sure Billie has felt it's really not necessary. You gotta just get intimate with your instrument ;)

This. I was caught off-guard the first time Billie mentioned not being able to read music, simply because I knew there was no way he never learned as a child. But that lasted all of a minute before the rest of my common sense caught up with me :lol: And the fact that he was looking at an orchestral score at the time.....It'd be like taking someone who hasn't had a math course in years and asking them do do advanced calculus :P

I don't think "dance party" means synth beats and auto-tuned vocals.

Honestly, reading that stuff about "Kill The DJ" is giving me flashbacks to 2008 when Gerard Way was talking about how their new album (the one that eventually got scrapped in favor of Danger Days) would have a song on it called "Death Before Disco" that was an "anti-party party song" :lol: . Of course, "Death Before Disco" actually did manage to get salvaged from the scrapped album and reincarnated on Danger Days as "Party Poison", and there is, truthfully, nary a synth in sight ;) (on that track, at least).

Besides, even if Green Day did synth it up, it'd just sound like The Network ;) So everybody wins.

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When I play the song from UNO in my head, it morphs in to The Clash's "This is Radio Clash". So to me it sounds kinda like The Clash.

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yeah, but what's on the front cover? 'cause the magazines are always late in Sweden, so i dont know which it is

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