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I never said it wasn't a great song...? I said that it's a song that slowly lets the air out of the balloon, and if you really process everything going on in "Homecoming", that's exactly what it's there for. Years after the events of "Letterbomb" and "Homecoming" (in particular) tear the JOS to shreds mentally, emotionally and physically, it's a quiet moment of reflection on what might have been and why it's not. It's the coda. That's not a bad thing at all. The best album ever written (The Wall) has "Outside the Wall" after the massive, climactic "The Trial" brings the album's narrative crashing down. Literally, if you've ever seen it performed live. The Black Parade has "Blood" hidden after "Famous Last Words"...and it still doesn't answer the question of whether The Patient lived or died. Queen stuck the short, quiet, introspective acoustic "Is This the World We Created?" at the end of The Works, right after the massive guitar explosion that is "Hammer to Fall". There are all kinds of other examples out there of a band putting a quieter ballad after the massive big finish song on their album, allowing a few minutes for...well...for the air to escape the balloon. If the song before it carries enough weight to earn that type of coda, it works beautifully. Green Day is one of the best at doing that.

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When it's Labor Day and Forever Now gets stuck in your head

Bang bang needs to be the opener in concerts that song rocks live I wish they didn’t drop it

Howdy friends! There's a particular magazine scan I'm looking for I need some help sourcing. It's from November 15th 1994 in Denver, Colorado (linked below for reference). It's a snap of Billie with his striped "Mark" shirt on and blonde hair. For the life of me, I can't recall the magazine it came out of but it was a full page image. I had it saved years ago, but lost it to time. Any help is appreciated, thank you! Tour date in question: Billie at the show:

Floof, dirty blonde, eyeliner, shirt a little open….. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOEeHRejV8m/?igsh=MWcwbmNzaHIwd200cw== 🔥🔥🔥

Solid album! Great songs I can listen repeatedly: Bouncing of the wall, Bang Bang, Outlaws, Trubled Times, Forever Now, Too Dumb too Die and maybe... Stil Breathing Songs I like less - Youngblood, Say Goodbye, Revolution Radio, Somewhere Now. I don't like Ordinary World. To me this song is just mawkish and corny. Doesn't fit with the rest of the album. The same feeling I had with Still Breathing (but SB has really grown on me much)

I'd love to see this live: Only Of You 409 In Your Coffeemaker Panic Song Brain Stew/Jaded Platypus (I Hate You) Take Back Desensitized I Want To Be On TV Ha Ha You're Dead Bang Bang Revolution Radio Alternatively, this would be cool: Words I Might Have Ate F.O.D. Warning Misery Macy's Day Parade Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Give Me Novacaine Wake Me Up When September Ends

I love it

I wanna play. in an ideal universe where time, stamina and pleasing casual listeners are not constraints, and cows are a perfect sphere (physics book joke): 1. 1000 Hours (because this is how long the show is gonna be, it's a fitting song to open with ) 2. Going to Pasalacqua 3. Paper Lanterns 4. 2000 Light Years Away 5. 80 6. Who Wrote the Holden Caulfield? 7. Burnout 8. She 9. F.O.D. 10. Armatage Shanks 11. Brat 12. 86 13. No Pride 14. Panic Song 15. Redundant 16. Scattered 17. Desensitized 18. Haha You're Dead 19. Good Riddance (what can I say, it's a good closer ... before the first encore) ----- 1st Encore ----- 20. Blood Sex and Booze 21. Deadbeat Holiday 22. Macy's Day Parade 23. Minority 24. Black Eyeliner 25. Lowlife 26. Everyone's Breaking Down 27 - 39. American Idiot in full ----- 2nd Encore ---- 40. 21st Century Break Down 41. Peacemaker 42. American Eulogy 43. Stay the Night 44. Lazy Bones 45. Brutal Love 46. Dirty Rotten Bastards 47. Holy Toledo 48. Revolution Radio 49. Say Goodbye 50. Too Dumb To Die 51. Forever Now 52. Father of all... 53. Oh Yeah 54. Bobby Sox 55. Dilemma 56. Strange Days are here to stay 57. Saviors 58. Fancy Sauce The order can change within each album except: Good Riddance has to close the first part of the show. American Idiot has to be played in full and in order, with Whatsername being the last song of the 2nd part Fancy Sauce has to close the show. Only 11 songs longer than their longest show on record -- I tried to restrain myself EDIT: Only 14 songs longer than their longest show on record (I had missed an album! I'm too embarrassed to admit which one 😅

The exact same thing happend to me and my gf - we were the only ones jumping around and singing to OEB where we stood 😂

This is hilarious . I love it though and glad there's no noticeable autotune. Yes please live album! I loved seeing this song live so much, the people around us weren't singing the new songs and it was me and my sister jumping up and down shouting bada bing bada boom lol

Excuse me? Whatsername is a perfect song to close a perfect album. Macy's Day Parade and Fancy Sauce are the only other closers in Green Day albums that come anywhere near. No arguments here though

When I say I forgot all about this song and I haven't listened to it in years, I mean it. I love it

Yeah they removed it because of the lyrics. In the booklet it's printed in the credits with the other tracks but "spray painted" over Don't think I've ever heard anyone say they don't love Shenanigans! It's awesome

I don't think Ordinary World would have worked anywhere else on the album though. I was fine with it as a "let the air out of the balloon" closer like Whatsername or See the Light, or what Good Riddance does at the end of shows. It really doesn't fit the album, which is to be expected for a standalone single that gets tossed in there because it's recorded already (except Under Pressure, which is just a perfect song in every way). It does serve its purpose at the end, and while it's not up to Good Riddance or Macy's Day Parade levels, it's far from a bad song.

I used to skip Outlaws all the time but it grew on me and I definitely think now it fits the Revrad sound. Youngblood is still a skip for me and while I like Ordinary World, I agree it doesn’t fit on the album. Everything else I love. Say Goodbye is awesome. Too Dumb too die is very underrated. Forever now is legendary and the release of Bang Bang and Revolution Radio singles were what made me skyrocket into the Green Day fan I am today.

RevRad is great. I still remember first listening to Bang Bang debut on the radio and loving it, particularly once that little drum solo hit. I remember it being liked by even “old” Green Day fans. I also heavily associate it with Autumn given the release and sort of melancholic vibe of the record. I loved stories of them recording it in that apartment studio. I loved stories how the drums sound. I wish Billie’s vocals weren’t so filtered. Guitars and vocals with Saviors production would bring a lot of the songs more energy. Some of them fall flat at times. And the mixing is sort of unbalanced in a few tracks. It’s a solid, mature record. Only a few songs on there that I never revisit.

Well, I've been running over 30km / 3h per week for the past 6 weeks, most of it outdoors, so the odds are a bit in my favor I guess. That said I've seen only two people. The first was a woman around my age with a shirt from the Saviors tour. I cannot see very well from afar, so at first it was the black and pink design that made me suspicious, and I only confirmed it was Green Day / Saviors themed shirt once she was super close. I was in the second to last km of my long run then, so I was more in survival mode and didn't think to any thing. The other was a younger girl with a shirt with the hand-grenade design from AI, so I saw that a mile away, but she was young and with her parents (I assume) and I didn't want to seem like a creep, so I just ran past her without acknowledging it at all 😅

You do? I NEVER see someone with a GD shirt at home. Never!😭

It should have ended with Forever Now though. Seems like the only appropiate thing to do, considering how it ties in with the first song and all. Ordinary World is obviously an overthought and appears to be shoe-horned in, so to speak. It's one of their best albums overall, for sure. To me it's definitely better than 21st Century Breakdown. I also feel like it has their most successful tracks in that American Idiot/21st Century Breakdown vein. Like "Bang Bang" and "Revolution Radio" is a culmination of that particular type of Green Day song.

When you get excited every time you notice someone one wearing a Green Day shirt during your runs, and wish you could acknowledge it/them somehow

Shenanigans is great! When I first got that album I didn't even realize it was a compilation of B-sides.