Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2

[The Disappearing Boy]

It's just the emotion of it. It's on a level with Wake Me Up in that respect. I really like the bass line, and I really like the combination of the bassline, second guitar and drums in the second verse. For me, it's a very well put together song, and easily in my top 10 Green Day list.

[Anaïs.]

It's just the emotion of it. It's on a level with Wake Me Up in that respect.

I'd gotten into a discussion about "Wow! That's Loud" in another thread, so when I saw this post I thought for a second that's the song you were talking about. My jaw just about dropped. "What the fuck is wrong with him?!"

Also, I'd like to throw in that emotion doesn't make something good. And to back me up I have every poem posted to the Internet by a teenager ever.

[Guest]

Yeah, I think a lot of Lazy Bones' appeal is to do with emotion. It sticks out as an important song for this era for its connections to Billie's struggle with addiction, but even without that meaning, the lyrics are general enough to apply to many situations. People connect to it. Plus, there's no obvious flaw to pick on like so many of the other trilogy tracks.

Except the tambourine solo.

[The Disappearing Boy]

I'd gotten into a discussion about "Wow! That's Loud" in another thread, so when I saw this post I thought for a second that's the song you were talking about. My jaw just about dropped. "What the fuck is wrong with him?!"

Also, I'd like to throw in that emotion doesn't make something good. And to back me up I have every poem posted to the Internet by a teenager ever.

Yeah, Wow! that's loud is a pretty terrible song, apart from the solo, which is a shame coz the name made me think it'd be interesting.

Emotion is what draws me to it, so to me it makes it good, but then the definition of good is obviously subjective. But yeah, Cat said it better!

[Spike]

But Sum 41 is fucking terrible so who cares

[Certified Nimrod]

I might even be able to handle the skulls if the albums were any good, but as is I'd be embarrassed to wear any Trilogy merch out in public due to its promoting albums that are shit (which is why when a well-meaning friend bought me a Trilogy shirt for Christmas—well, not bought, stole from Hot Topic —I was relieved that it was inadvertently a woman's shirt and thus didn't fit me).

Friends don't let friends steal things.

My favourite misspelled shirt story was when I went to see Manic Street Preachers on their Send Away The Tigers tour. A guy on the street after the gig was selling Send Away The Lions merch.

I saw Metallica at Bader Field in Atlantic City and there was a guy selling shirts that said "Badger Field."

And the prices were RIDIC. I know that merch, particularly merch sold at concerts, is expensive, but $40 was a new low (or high) for taking advantage of sentimental fans, especially when there were so many official shirts being sold at places like Hot Topic, Walmart, etc.

Walmart?

3.) Billie is fat

We have very different definitions of fat.

I was gonna say this last night but I ran out of posts.

Poor Ceadog

Wow, that's loud (Although it may sound a bit too overplayed to me)

What do you mean?

[GreenDayBass]

What do you mean?

I mean I play it so often that I get kind of tired of it, but it's good enough to me still to be listed in my list.

[Certified Nimrod]

I mean I play it so often that I get kind of tired of it, but it's good enough to me still to be listed in my list.

Ah, I see. I hardly ever listen to the songs that I've learned on guitar unless I'm playing along.

[Anaïs.]

Friends don't let friends steal things.

I didn't know she had until she gave the bloody thing to me.

[Certified Nimrod]

I didn't know she had until she gave the bloody thing to me.

Be a True Friend: Call the Cops.

[DookieLukie]

I liked Lazy Bones a lot when that Angry Birds snippet came out. Didn't really like it again until the Billie rehab incident, and that were purely because of the circumstances.

Yeah, Wow! that's loud is a pretty terrible song, apart from the solo, which is a shame coz the name made me think it'd be interesting.

Emotion is what draws me to it, so to me it makes it good, but then the definition of good is obviously subjective. But yeah, Cat said it better!

I like Wow! That's Loud. I don't think it's amazing but it feels really natural. Like a jam session or something.

[Spike]

I liked Lazy Bones a lot when that Angry Birds snippet came out. Didn't really like it again until the Billie rehab incident, and that were purely because of the circumstances.

Didn't it come out while Billie was already in rehab?

[The Disappearing Boy]

I liked Lazy Bones a lot when that Angry Birds snippet came out. Didn't really like it again until the Billie rehab incident, and that were purely because of the circumstances.

I like Wow! That's Loud. I don't think it's amazing but it feels really natural. Like a jam session or something.

That's what annoys me about it really. That ending just seems to drag on and on and doesn't really add anything. I just want them to get on with it and finish it. Mind you, the next song is Amy, so maybe not

[DookieLukie]

Didn't it come out while Billie was already in rehab?

Yeah but we got the song much before that from Angry Birds.

[Spike]

Yeah but we got the song much before that from Angry Birds.

Oh ok. I really wasn't paying attention around that time, I was too busy with my degree. I didn't even get the Trilogy until a month or so after Tre came out.

[Z J]

2 good songs.

[Spike]

2 3 good songs albums (the three before Dave left and they lost the thing that set them apart from other supposedly similar bands).

[localinsomniac]

I mean I play it so often that I get kind of tired of it, but it's good enough to me still to be listed in my list.

That's probably the greatest thing about the trilogy: most of us haven't given ourselves the chance to overplay any of the songs!

[Andrew]

I can safely say that the vast majority of trilogy songs are at no risk of being overplayed in this house.

I don't think I've even listened to the whole thing since the day of the emirates show

[The Disappearing Boy]

I actually listened to the Trilogy in full just recently (for the first time in over a year). I've no idea what came over me.

[Anaïs.]

A few weeks ago I listened to all of Tre on a whim. Save that and some of the Dookiefied Guitars versions, I haven't listened to anything Trilogy for months.

[The Disappearing Boy]

I listen to the good songs, particularly x-kid and brutal love on a fairly regular basis, but yeah, that's about it.

[Jirachi]

I have all of the trilogy on my mp3 player and i only listen to Kill the DJ, Oh Love, Let Yourself Go, Lazy Bones, Nuclear Family, X-Kid, and Little Boy named Train really. I only listen to the rest when they come up when im bored and have shuffle on.

[Gwen Stacy]

I think we can call not liking the Trilogy a popular opinion at this point.

[Pat1308]

Okay, about the Trilogy. I agree that as it is, the Trilogy is really a mixed bag. I personally feel it would have been better if either they (1) released a single, tight album or two instead of three, or (2) if they really want to do a trilogy, not release them all at once but let a slightly longer period of time pass through before releasing the other albums - I think that a space of only two months between ¡Uno! and ¡Dos! and ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! (their original plan) is too short a period of time. Yes, I know that Green Day are trying to do something no one has ever done before, but I think the result really just made it clear why no one ever dared to do it. I daresay Billie got carried away.

Another thing. I also think that the Trilogy being a connected trilogy is also part of the problem. When considered as a whole, the Trilogy is this mix of good, so-so, and (to put it in a charitable way) could've-been-better songs - with the so-so and the 'needs-improvement' songs being more numerous than the ones that are actually decent (IMHO). However I think we won't be bitching about it too much as we do now if each of the three albums are individual releases that can be considered on their own terms; for example, ¡Uno! simply being ¡Uno! and not the first of three albums.