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Just saw an interview with Billie where he says that Uno is like old school Green Day, like Dookie and Kerplunk. Jesus Christ, no. Just, no. Never.

Billie Joe's mud on the list 4 Weird Objects Thrown at Singers in Concert http://www.newser.com/story/182956/4-weird-objects-thrown-at-singers-in-concert.html Network and Foxboro Hot Tubs mentioned. "Likewise, see how Green Day have adopted new identities for their side-projects - the new wave electric enigma The Network and vintage garage rock group Foxboro Hot Tubs (the latter of which features frontman Billie Joe Armstrong going by the name Reverend Strychnine Twitch)." http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-grand-budapest-hotel/29600/the-james-clayton-column-wes-anderson-and-auteurs-with-an-identity

I think when you talk about that anger in the trilogy, the first word that comes to mind for me is: forced. That's what it feels like. Compare that to the raw power and darnkness that exists on Insomniac and I think it is clear why one album is respected and one isn't. The live performances really exemplify this. I mean just watch the two Letterman performances from the Insomniac era. He looks mad as hell (and high). The emotion in those performances adds so much to the songs for me personally.

lol what

Billie's thing.

Two songs that are victims of the quality of the rest of the album. In isolation, they're pretty good, but next to the rest of the album, I can understand that opinion, to be honest.

at around 4:16 Maybe there's an actual video of it but that's where I made the gif from!

Sadly some people do them to act the same. Despite the differences in their life since then, and the new experiences they have gone through since their biggest worry was getting high every day.

I completely understand how one could think that the trilogy's sentiments and attitudes are forced, yet at the same time I can see the arguments against this notion, as the production and guitar tones don't help its cause. Also, you can't compare drugged up 20-year-old Billie to 40-year-old sober Billie either. Finally, it's also very difficult to compare a live performance like those two on Letterman to the studio versions of the trilogy. Live is always better. And we have limited live trilogy performances to really judge by. I mean, this live recording of "Let Yourself Go" might not have the pissy (drugged up) attitude that those Letterman videos had, but you can still see the genuine emotion while he's performing. I don't think the trilogy is necessarily forced in its genuineness; I just think it didn't translate well in the studio versions, and I think the band's overall attitudes have changed now. They're not pissy 20-year-olds anymore. They're a little more fun. (Again, although that didn't translate well in the studio.)

He really does, his nasty teeth are so fucking cute and the way his eyes get all crinkly and his big cheeks are just AAAGH

i have no clue if this is unpopular or not but...I love Kill The Dj. Both live and studio versions.

I just read a news about the Foreverly album of three days ago of a very know site here in Brazil and they wrote Billie's name of three ways. Billie Joe Billy Joe Billy Joel > this is the one that appears in the name of the news. Why is so dificult write only one name?

Tony winning lighting designer Kevin Adams, now a Tony nominee for American Idiot, tells about his first time meeting Green Day (in a cramped SNL dressing room)

I know I'm WAY too late but... I remember you were talking about the trilogy and said that it was too 'happy' and because of that the songs "sucked". Guys... are you fucking kidding me? Loss of Control? Let Yourself Go? Kill the DJ? Rusty James (somehow)? Ashley? Those songs were genuinely filled with anger. I mean, yeah, those songs have a ridiculous amount of swearings but c'mon... The message they try to express on those tracks, the anger, the rancor, the disappointment, the hysteria... Insomniac's Anger is not too far away.

I can't

Bet you're "Overjoyyed!!" Okay, bad pun. Have fun either way!!

Does that author even have ears?

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I don't think it's going to count as a Green Day album technically. It'll be more along the lines of Shenanigans and International Superhits.

You don't know how much I hope you're right...

Jason White, NLR AR, circa 88 Kevin Kerby and Jeff Matika of Mulehead

Bus stop near the beach

i saw this while i was in philly, it says sassafras, reminded of the song sassafras roots

Green Day 4 hours ago Do you know where this is?

Saw this on tumblr

This is from one of my many many many english books