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Learning power chords was one of the greatest days of my guitar playing career 🤣 it just unlocks so much

That was one of the first songs I learned power chords to a few years ago, heh. One of my fav's, too

I Was A Teenage Teenager is really hitting right now. It was one of my favorites when Father Of All was released.

Sure! (Sorry just saw this comment haha)

That's so cool!! Don't worry, everyone has recorded thunder once or twice haha. I have hehe can't wait to listen!

Any more news about the movie premiere?

I'm sorry to hear you're sick! I am actually sick, too. You are not alone . Get well soon!

I’ve made some more but they aren’t Green Day and I haven’t posted them yet! I made a super moody version of Karma Police by Radiohead and included actual thunder noises I was able to capture at my apartment 🤣 I’ll post it soon! Also I plan on making a cover of Redundant soon. Thank you for your interest!

Sadly I've been kinda sick (earlier this year I couldn't go to the Japan shows because of dangerously high blood pressure and just haven't been right since). Also been trying to stay off the internet too. Starting to feel a little more human the last couple of weeks. Hope you're keeping well.

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Damn, those cards sell fast. Whatever. I think I am one of those people who look at something and likes it but never buys it . I talk myself out of stuff pretty fast.

the floof....... *quivers*...... it's...gone glad grouch is back!

Is there something happening today? I am wondering because there is an unusual amount of people on today

workin on any new covers @Robbie1039? I haven't been really keeping up to date with you haha, so I am just wondering .

I'll always stand up for Ordinary World. It's in my top 15 GD songs. Like @Tre's Busted Drumkitsaid, it's like an exhale. If they ended on Forever Now, you still have a bunch of adrenaline running through you. Ordinary World allows you to breathe while letting the album come to an end. It's a fitting end to the album.

I know this is kind of off topic, but what's new @Rumpelstiltskin2000 ? I haven't chatted with you in a while hehe.

I have hundreds of magazines still to be photographed or scanned. I'd say a few really old ones but don't remember what's in them any more as they've been boxed up for about 13 years. If I do find it down the line will post but it could be a while

one of the best albums in rock history :>. yeah, rev rad definately isn't up there, but is still a great album

Unfortunately I haven't found any trace of that. But I hope we can get it at some point I wasn't collecting images/photos of magazine clippings before, so I only really have my own archive and some random pictures on my hard drive (but still none fitting your descriptions).

same hehe. It's a nightly routine before I go to sleep lol

Np, I was very confused lol. Context on The Black Parade: I first heard the whole thing in 2015-ish. It’s one of those albums that before I heard it, “Welcome to the Black Parade” was a running joke about emo culture for me. After hearing the whole album, it’s one of the best songs ever. I don’t think the album is quite up to AI or The Wall standards, but it is an underrated all-time great. Yep, “Still Breathing” was originally written for 5 seconds of Summer. Billie Joe decided to rework it into a song for Rev Rad, and it fit perfectly. “Are you scared to death to live?”, is, imo, the best lyric in any Green Day song, full stop. I think Rev Rad is the type of lyrically and musically the type of album that really benefits from a slower closer. “Forever Now” is an amazing song, but it’s a crazy, hectic, all over the map number. Kind of like “American Eulogy” in a lot of ways. Ending the album with it would have felt kind of abrupt to me. Live, it works great when you know there’s an encore on the way. On the album, it needs that slower ballad after it.

I think Ordinary World is ok but I think it’s an effective calmer and closer after all the frantic madness that went before. Don’t think the album would be degraded without it.

Correct. Forever Now, and especially that last part (😮‍💨), is simply amazing and a very strong closer. I like Ordinary World, and to "break off" the theme/sound compared to the rest of the album is imo a nice way to end the record. Didn't know that so many in here didn't like that song, but hey, some people like Nightlife, and who are we to judge 😅

Did I read somewhere once that Still Breathing was written by BJA with someone else in mind but then decided to make it a Green Day song? It's for sure a pretty "safe" album, but I don't think you can blame them given they expressed regret over the Trilogy being prolific for the sake of it and the production on those albums being wide of the mark. I think it has some of BJA's strongest vocal performances. Forever Now is an all time HEATER and I have a big soft spot for Outlaws - the bridge in that song is one of the band's best. However Ordinary World is barely listenable. Strong contender for their worst ever song and drags the entire album down a few points just by existing. It would be a much better album listening experience if it ended on Forever Now which would've been their second-best album closer after Whatsername.

YES!!!!!😍 And almost short sleeves….