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On a huge Offspring kick right now and I was looking into watching the horror film they are named after.   Haven't tracked it down yet because it's tag line caught my attention.   "They were born to kill"   - reminds me of Baby Eyes by Green Day and I wonder if Billie was referencing that or it was a coincidence.    Baby baby eyes.  Baby baby I was born to..............................................................

kill. 

  

 

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Is it bad because of the whole "5 AI demos that may or may not have been given to us by the label"  i've been thinking a ton about that B-sides disk that John Ro posted a while ago?

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19 hours ago, CristhyneS said:

It was my birthday yesterday and I am not big on birthdays, but I must say this year I feel Green Day has unknowingly (and even unwillingly perhaps 😅) given me so many gifts: the AI demos leaked on Tuesday (hence the unwilling part), PHGP releasing a new album the day before my birthday, the AI anniversary box set next week even though the real anniversary is in September.

And now they announce solo dates for Europe, I could cry 🥹 It's a good time to be a Green Day fan

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On 10/20/2024 at 6:04 PM, That Dude said:

On a huge Offspring kick right now and I was looking into watching the horror film they are named after.   Haven't tracked it down yet because it's tag line caught my attention.   "They were born to kill"   - reminds me of Baby Eyes by Green Day and I wonder if Billie was referencing that or it was a coincidence.    Baby baby eyes.  Baby baby I was born to..............................................................

kill. 

  

 

Whoa whoa whoa....the Offspring are named after a horror movie?? It's just called The Offspring? I need to track this down too!

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4 hours ago, The Grohl said:

Whoa whoa whoa....the Offspring are named after a horror movie?? It's just called The Offspring? I need to track this down too!

Yes, but I can't find any way to watch it other than on VHS from ebay.  I think I have a VCR somewhere, but I'm going to poke around the internet a bit longer and see if I can find it to stream.  

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Has anyone else noticed this eBay seller in the US who seems to have multiple patches, guitar picks, etc from multiple shows? This must be why they sold out so quickly even though it was supposed to be one per person (at least in the UK)

This is just a few of them

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375738592704?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=w1okDaBiQyW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=WxbrlRlGTE-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=MORE

In the UK we were told there were only 390 of each patch made

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i find it funny how forgettable basket case is when it comes to most of the major live releases

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I'm going a bit nutty here! I ordered the AI anniversary set through GD's webstore and it shipped on Wednesday from the Netherlands, so I really thought I'd get it on time. But stupid DHL sent it from NL to the UK because why not, I guess. And then from the UK to France so it took a while to go through customs, but since Friday afternoon it's been 20 KM from Paris, so I thought maybe I'd get it yesterday, but I didn't... so hoping for Monday now. But it's been hard to avoid spoilers.

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On 10/27/2024 at 11:41 AM, Cris. said:

I'm going a bit nutty here! I ordered the AI anniversary set through GD's webstore and it shipped on Wednesday from the Netherlands, so I really thought I'd get it on time. But stupid DHL sent it from NL to the UK because why not, I guess. And then from the UK to France so it took a while to go through customs, but since Friday afternoon it's been 20 KM from Paris, so I thought maybe I'd get it yesterday, but I didn't... so hoping for Monday now. But it's been hard to avoid spoilers.

I have hinted about this for Xmas, so I haven't brought a copy yet. I still find myself sometimes reading about it, and I should really wait but.. 😆

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2 hours ago, Psycho Britney said:

I have hinted about this for Xmas, so I haven't brought a copy yet. I still find myself sometimes reading about it, and I should really wait but.. 😆

It's horrible! At the beginning I just couldn't enter the dedicated thread in here, but now it's bleeding into other threads too and I also cannot see Instagram stories for Green Day or Green Day fan sites :lol:

And I still haven't received it! got an update this morning that it was ready to go out for delivery, so I got my hopes up for this afternoon. But then in the afternoon I got the update that due "exceptional circumstances outside of their control" they couldn't deliver it today. How hard is it to ship something for Netherlands to Paris? They are just playing games with my heart. 😅

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Successfully brainwashed my 18 year old daughter: she’s a Swiftie with no interest in Green Day or punkrock as a whole. But after a weekend of AI stuff on repeat she complained today that Billie is now singing in her head all the time. YES!!!👍😅

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On 10/26/2024 at 5:02 PM, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Has anyone else noticed this eBay seller in the US who seems to have multiple patches, guitar picks, etc from multiple shows? This must be why they sold out so quickly even though it was supposed to be one per person (at least in the UK)

This is just a few of them

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375738592704?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=w1okDaBiQyW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=WxbrlRlGTE-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=MORE

In the UK we were told there were only 390 of each patch made

I don't know about other US shows, but for Chicago we had to order them online and there was no limit whatsoever to the amount you could get. I don't remember there being a limit on the city exclusive poster either. 

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34 minutes ago, The Grohl said:

I don't know about other US shows, but for Chicago we had to order them online and there was no limit whatsoever to the amount you could get. I don't remember there being a limit on the city exclusive poster either. 

I just think it sucks that this person is making thousands of dollars selling merch other people wanted at the shows but couldn't buy because it was sold out. Especially the UK patches. There were definitely only 390 of each of those but this person has multiple of them

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8 minutes ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

I just think it sucks that this person is making thousands of dollars selling merch other people wanted at the shows but couldn't buy because it was sold out. Especially the UK patches. There were definitely only 390 of each of those but this person has multiple of them

Scalpers being scalpers. 😤

I was looking for one from Charlotte to give to a friend from whom the name carries a lot of meaning and who also loves Green Day, and I found some but at 100$ which is absolutely ridiculous (I only thought about it after the show or I would have tried to find someone on the forums to get one for me, that I would have payed for of course).

Also, cannot wait to see some of those limited editions Dookie demastered items being sold for x10 or x100 their original price 🙄

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i started listening to green day 2 years ago, 2 years ago my life fell apart. 

a lot of their songs I target to those events/the past

I hate how I relate to just about everything 

like in September 2022 I lost my mom due to cps n wtvs

I now target wake me up when sept ends with that month. yes its about billies dad passing but it still fits

not as much now cuz my mom passed last November but I still target  that song.

some of the lyrics in letterbomb "its not over till you're underground, its not over before its too late. this city's burning, its not my burden'"

or

"She said, I can't take this place
I'm leaving it behind Well she said, I can't take this town I'm leaving you tonight"

I target to a specific past relationship 

same with whatsername, I target it at 2 people one being the person I target letterbomb to, the second being someone else.

i could go on but I'm annoying as hell soo

tchüss!

Ja, ich kann deutsch sprechen

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Well I continue to be in my Green Day isolation ward trying to avoid AI Anniversary spoilers while I am (still! 😤) waiting for my boxset. On the flip side of things, last Friday I finally got around to listening to the demos from the Nimrod 25th Anniversary  while waiting, and I am completely obsessed with Black Eyeliner. Every time I listen to it I replay it a few times, and then move on for a bit, but like half an hour later I'm like "god, I want to listen to it again!" so I go back.

What an absolutely beautiful song! It's just perfect, all of it, it's amazing! How did it not make it into the album?! I feel it would have been my favorite song in Nimrod, and there are a lot of good songs in Nimrod. At the same time though, I'm happy it didn't make it into the album because then we wouldn't have Church on Sunday, which I also adore. So things happening the way they did was perfect. But really, I just wonder why they decided not to put it in the album.

All those times I've said I went on a sabbatical from Green Day for ten years until last November, I wish someone had sat me down and made me listen to this immediately :lol: So if there's anyone out there who hasn't heard this song yet, this is that message for you. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to Black Eyeliner. You are welcome.

Ode to Black Eyeliner over (for now).

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19 minutes ago, solongfromthestars said:

I'm at a Sum 41 show and All the Time just played as part of the pre show playlist... and people were singing along! Doesn't surprise me that a Nimrod song is on the playlist because I know Deryck loves Nimrod, but I'm amazed people were singing. Haven't heard them singing anything else.

I'm honestly surprised all the time hasn't been pulled out since nimrod/pop disaster tour, it would be a really good crowd interaction song

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All the Time is one of my top 2 most underrated GD songs.

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American Idiot and Basket Case also played! Sum 41 have good taste. You know when some people seem more excited about Bohemian Rhapsody than Green Day? I was that person when American Idiot started. 😂

Regret to report that All the Time didn't win though... people sang much louder to Misery Business and All the Small Things.

Anyway, won't go on about it since it's not the right thread, but Sum 41 were amazing. I got the kind of bittersweet closure that people described on the Saviors Tour.

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1 hour ago, Montclare said:

All the Time is one of my top 2 most underrated GD songs.

What is the other song in your Top 2 most underrated GD songs?

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3 hours ago, Cris. said:

What is the other song in your Top 2 most underrated GD songs?

Misery.  I feel it's more appreciated here, but don't see much about it in other fan forums.

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since the conversation has shifted over to our top underrated songs, i may as well share my top 10
1. No One Knows (heh.)
2. Stuck With Me/Dry Ice (Tie)
3. 80
4. Deadbeat Holiday
5. All The Time (this song is actually kinda growing on me, it used to be my least favorite from nimrod)
6. Reject
7. Coming Clean
8. Westbound Sign
9. Jackass
10. Worry Rock (unironically this song and Dry Ice were my TRUE non single introductions to green day)

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