Random Green Day Thoughts

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

I'm not a fan of this thread.
I wanted to start ''The Green Day Wives Fanboys' Confessions Thread'' like 2 years ago but @Hermione said no.

Well then @Hermione needs to get more accepting of diverse sexualities. 🤣

[The Grohl]

7 hours ago, Green Day In Seattle said:

Wait, you can skip things on vinyl records? Boy is that a game changer! No Excessive and annoying saxophone on Little Pieces of Truth for me!

Yeah, you have to meticulously find the groove for the next song and put the needle in the right place. You get used to it eventually.

11 hours ago, That Dude said:

I got a new record player tonight and you KNOW what the first record I had to play on it was.   

American Idiot (on red and white vinyl).  

I started with American Idiot, then was drawn to Extraordinary Girl.  From there I was hooked, skipping only Homecoming for some reason.  

I also listened to Foxboro Hot Tubs, and then Dos just to get a feel for the player.   Dos had way better sound quality than the others, I was surprised.   

I played a bit of Cheap Trick before calling it a night.   Got some other nerd business to take care of.  

I don't want to waste a ton of money buying music I already own, but I think Nimrod and Warning may be worth getting on vinyl.   I dunno.   Like I said, nerd stuff.  it's waiting on me.  

 

My tip is to buy your absolute favorite albums on vinyl even if you already own them on other formats. I save buying vinyl for exclusives, artists I really love and have active collections for, and albums that mean a lot to me.

[Hermione]

1 hour ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

I'm not a fan of this thread.
I wanted to start ''The Green Day Wives Fanboys' Confessions Thread'' like 2 years ago but @Hermione said no.

If the Green Day wives start a band it'll be allowed

[Little Boy Named Booze]

1 hour ago, Hermione said:

If the Green Day wives start a band it'll be allowed

You didn't heard about their new Christmas album?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Hermione said:

If the Green Day wives start a band it'll be allowed

This still feels very unfair to the gay and bisexual fans. 🤣

[That Dude]

10 hours ago, Green Day In Seattle said:

Wait, you can skip things on vinyl records? Boy is that a game changer! No Excessive and annoying saxophone on Little Pieces of Truth for me!

I just moved the needle over. But I believe there are record players that have a skip button now.   If you have an unlimited budget, there are some insane record players out there. 

I got a 110.00 player, but it has decent volume for blasting Green Day and Foxboro hot Tubs at high volume.

 

[DookieLukie]

2 hours ago, BillieMyLove said:

This still feels very unfair to the gay and bisexual fans. 🤣

Huh?

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, DookieLukie said:

Huh?

It's a joke. @Little Boy Named Booze and I have been talking about him wanting to start a fanboys thread and @Hermione not allowing it LOL. It's all in good fun.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

It would have been so much fun if Billie Joe was a conspiracy theorist or an anti-mask. I mean... I'm happy to know that Billie is smarter than that. But his instagram would have been pure joy post everyday.

[That Dude]

I have my copy of Kerrang! Green Day special issue and there are some interesting things I don't remember about 21st Century Breakdown.   

Please turn with me to page 118.   You guys brought your magazine to class, right?  

In 2008, the guys had 70 pieces of music!  It was after the Idiot touring stopped, and after them hitting a bump in the road as well.   They struggled to write, so they nailed drum head to the wall like a spinning pie graph, with different eras and genres like "death metal or 60s garage psychedelic".     

One really interesting tidbit was that "some jams were 10 minutes long".    Butch Vig edited those down into shorter songs.   Hmmm.  

The magazine criticizes "Christian's Inferno" for goofy lyrics.   Another hmmm.

 

Alright guys.  

 

 

[Slave To The Network]

Say Goodbye came on today while I had my GD music on shuffle and this song is even more topical than it was four years ago. Either Billie has the power of future sight or his song writing is just so good that it remains timeless. Or it means that our world has continued to be just as fucked up, if not even more so.

Did they ever perform this song live and if so, is there audio or video footage?

[That Dude]

6 hours ago, Green Day In Seattle said:

Say Goodbye came on today while I had my GD music on shuffle and this song is even more topical than it was four years ago. Either Billie has the power of future sight or his song writing is just so good that it remains timeless. Or it means that our world has continued to be just as fucked up, if not even more so.

Did they ever perform this song live and if so, is there audio or video footage?

I believe they only played a part of it during another song.  Better than nothing.

[WhiteTim]

10 minutes ago, That Dude said:

I believe they only played a part of it during another song.  Better than nothing.

Yep during Holiday on the Howard Stern show 

[The Grohl]

15 hours ago, That Dude said:

I have my copy of Kerrang! Green Day special issue and there are some interesting things I don't remember about 21st Century Breakdown.   

Please turn with me to page 118.   You guys brought your magazine to class, right?  

In 2008, the guys had 70 pieces of music!  It was after the Idiot touring stopped, and after them hitting a bump in the road as well.   They struggled to write, so they nailed drum head to the wall like a spinning pie graph, with different eras and genres like "death metal or 60s garage psychedelic".     

One really interesting tidbit was that "some jams were 10 minutes long".    Butch Vig edited those down into shorter songs.   Hmmm.  

The magazine criticizes "Christian's Inferno" for goofy lyrics.   Another hmmm.

 

Alright guys.  

 

 

*raises hand* I left my copy at home. Can someone share their copy with me? Also, will this be on the test?

[Squashie]

46 minutes ago, The Grohl said:

*raises hand* I left my copy at home. Can someone share their copy with me? Also, will this be on the test?

^^accurate

[That Dude]

1 hour ago, The Grohl said:

*raises hand* I left my copy at home. Can someone share their copy with me? Also, will this be on the test?

Your classmates are going to hate you like a platypus. 

I hadn't thought about giving a test until you mentioned it.  Now I am preparing the most difficult Green Day Quiz in history.  

The questions will be so obscure that nobody on here will pass. 

I am NOT grading on a curve either.  

*example question:  

During the 32nd show of the 2nd year of touring for Amercan Idiot, what color was the 486th strand of hair on Tre Cool's head.

[Squashie]

47 minutes ago, That Dude said:

 

*example question:  

During the 32nd show of the 2nd year of touring for Amercan Idiot, what color was the 486th strand of hair on Tre Cool's head.

This sounds like the intro scene of the umbrella academy.

also, I totally read it in the UA narrators voice 

[The Grohl]

1 hour ago, That Dude said:

Your classmates are going to hate you like a platypus. 

I hadn't thought about giving a test until you mentioned it.  Now I am preparing the most difficult Green Day Quiz in history.  

The questions will be so obscure that nobody on here will pass. 

I am NOT grading on a curve either.  

*example question:  

During the 32nd show of the 2nd year of touring for Amercan Idiot, what color was the 486th strand of hair on Tre Cool's head.

What a strange coincidence that I can't take the test because I feel sick *cough cough* 

[Squashie]

1 minute ago, The Grohl said:

What a strange coincidence that I can't take the test because I feel sick *cough cough* 

I'm in quarantine 😉

[Slave To The Network]

18 hours ago, That Dude said:

I believe they only played a part of it during another song.  Better than nothing.

 

18 hours ago, WhiteTim said:

Yep during Holiday on the Howard Stern show 

Thought so. Why is it always the best songs that they never play live? 😔

[jengd]

I know it’s still a bit early, but I can’t find a 2021 GD calendar anywhere 😭😭😭

[Squashie]

Listening to Brutal Love from reading 2013 and good god the goosebumps  ❤️ 

the scream gets me every damn time. 

[MarriedtoMikeDirnt]

5 minutes ago, Squashie said:

Listening to Brutal Love from reading 2013 and good god the goosebumps  ❤️ 

the scream gets me every damn time. 

I love that song so much. It makes me so emotional, but I can't tell what the emotion is. It's like sadness and nostalgia, but it's neither.

[Hermione]

11 years ago tonight, from 1am to 3am after playing a 3 hour Green Day arena show across town right before, my favourite show ever took place  

And I'll never get over that they have a professionally shot video of the whole show and we'll never see it  

[That Dude]

On 10/30/2020 at 10:27 PM, Squashie said:

Listening to Brutal Love from reading 2013 and good god the goosebumps  ❤️ 

the scream gets me every damn time. 

WHOA!  That's a good scream.     Trilogy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6 hours ago, Hermione said:

11 years ago tonight, from 1am to 3am after playing a 3 hour Green Day arena show across town right before, my favourite show ever took place  

And I'll never get over that they have a professionally shot video of the whole show and we'll never see it  

I can still remember hearing these Foxboro tunes for the first time.  I think it was on Myspace and there were a handful of them.   It was unclear at the time if it was Green Day or someone else.     

 I see that I joined GDA the day before the album was available for download, wow.    I joined not for Green Day but for the Tubbies, haha!  I was probably trying to find an early download of the album and just so happened to join the most awesome Green Day community ever.