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Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2


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"Better thank your lucky stars!" that Waiting is around, because it is a very good song despite it being different from most of their stuff.

Waiting is so great, but Deadbeat Holiday or Castaway is my favourite song on that album.

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"Better thank your lucky stars!" that Waiting is around, because it is a very good song despite it being different from most of their stuff.

It's not bad, but it's a blatant Petula Clark ripoff and the vocals kind of annoy me.

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Is this him drumming??

If it is, nice. Still a different genre that calls for that intense style. But he definitely has more than what he showed on the trilogy.

More to the point is that him singing?

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It's not bad, but it's a blatant Petula Clark ripoff and the vocals kind of annoy me.

PROOF or it didn't happen.

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Warning is a better social/political album than 21st Century Breakdown.

I have to disagree.

On both albums there are some standout political tracks

21cb: American Eulogy, 21CB, EJN. (And to lesser extents 21 Guns and KYE).

Warning: Warning, Minority (And to lesser extents Macy's Day Parade and Fashion Victim)

And on both albums you could argue one or two other songs have political themes. Regardless, I think 21CB wins in the political realm because the themes are more prevalent throughout the album. Whereas Warning had a few tracks. And for as good as Minority is, American Eulogy, EJN and 21CB (song) outweigh it. Warning (song) is a weaker song but has some good ideas/lyrics. The big 3 on 21CB hit hard, using vicious yet poetic language.

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Warning is a fantastic album with some amazing songs - the title track, Misery, Castaway and Macy's Day Parade are all top notch. It has its letdowns (Waiting) but then so does Breakdown (hello Christian's Inferno). That said, Breakdown is clearly superior in terms of arrangements and vocals. I'd say the two albums are on a par lyrically and Warning is better in terms of bass and drums. So they're pretty evenly matched ultimately, but Breakdown feels like a more epic experience as a whole while Warning has some great standout tracks. I wish they'd taken the acoustic-punk vibe further.

This!

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More to the point is that him singing?

It definitely is, which is why I wondered if it was still him drumming :P

I was thrown by the whole damn thing tbh

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^ What Morrissey said, exactly what I was thinking (well not exactly) but kind of.

Honestly, why are you spamming up every thread with posts like this instead of just repping things you agree with?

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YouTube the song Downtown...

the only thing that sounds similar is the part where she sings the refrain.... the lyrics are totally different.

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^ think it's hard to compare 3 albums to one album.

Especially when Nimrod is far superior to every other album ever made on Reprise

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Isn't this a free country? I am just stating my opinion.

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Do you guys like 21CB more then Uno, Dos and Tre?

Oh hell yes

^ think it's hard to compare 3 albums to one album.

Especially when Nimrod is far superior to every other album ever made on Reprise

Not hard 21st is hands down better than the Trilogy

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^ think it's hard to compare 3 albums to one album.

Especially when Nimrod is far superior to every other album ever made on Reprise

Nimrod is better then all of their new stuff, I love their older stuff like Dookie Kerplunk and 39/smooth too :P

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Oh hell yes

Not hard 21st is hands down better than the Trilogy

I agree so much, wish I could like your comment more then once.

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the only thing that sounds similar is the part where she sings the refrain.... the lyrics are totally different.

As it's a very recognizable part of a very famous song that part is very noticeably similar though....so much so that Billie himself acknowledges it by singing "downtown..." :D (which is one of my favourite things about the song). I don't think it's a negative that it sounds the same, a lot of Warning is a deliberate tip of the hat to other styles, artists and individual songs. They did it openly, it's a tribute rather than a rip off.

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