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Congratulations on not being one of the painfully musically illiterate people who hear a band play triplets for a bar and assume it sounds that way because there's something wrong with the CD.

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

I think Longview is one of Green Day's best and most unique songs.

I think Stuart and the Ave is first just because the combination of incredible melody, bassline, and lyrics is just irresistible. Jaded isn't quite as melodic. I do have to say that Walking Contradiction is a stroke of genius. It essentially addressed the elephant in the room (elephant being: How can Billie act how he does and write lyrics like he does when he's got a kid and a wife). It's a classic problem with rockstars and Walking Contradiction does a damn good job of being relatable

Odd signatures...

I don't think it's strange, it's just another way of changing things up in the last chorus.

Well, obviously it's a song about Billie's menopausal symptoms.

Oh, in the last chorus? No, I don't think I ever thought it was faulty.

I think it is, too..

I love it! Which is why they thought it was a good idea, clearly.

What Makes You Beautiful fired One Direction into the mainstream, is that a good song? Your use of invalider makes your argument invaliderer

No I do not know, it's the most fabulousest bassline Mike has ever written and is by far their most fun song to play. Anyway, aren't you a Longview sympathiser? Your argument is invalid.

Please stop being an ass. Please. Please. Please. Please. I like you well enough when you're not being one, so please don't be one.

...my little green friend. Holy shit, that was actually something Lucas thought was a good line to put in that movie. *headdesk*

You say that like it was an accident. I've waited so long for this moment, and I'm not even joking.

"Turn to page...shit, there isn't a page 394 in this thread yet."

inb4 shitstorm happens There will be no foolish wandwaving or silly incantations in this thread. You have been (pre)warned.

Jeff Matika continually tweeting about that girl that called him rude, hours after it happened, is coming across as very childish to me. He strikes me as a bit of a dick sometimes.

I had a feeling, hence my immediately resorting to a spammy ad hominem. But seriously, you suck.

Insomniac is alright. Definite good points and definite bad points. It's not that I dislike it, but it's not as much of a favourite as the other ones are. As for Breakdown, it's tricky to explain; objectively it's one of their best works. It contains some fantastic songs, has excellent production, and hits the spot in so many different ways, but I think it's a little too sprawling and gargantuan. There are some songs that could easily be cut, even if they are good songs. If it were 13-14 songs in length, it would easily be up there with AI.

Don't worry, Green Day's average is much better than most other people's best! Insomniac's never been my favourite album, but it's by no means their worst. I'll have to give it a listen again at some point. Reported for posting an unpopular opinion in the unpopular opinions thread.

That's a close second for me, but—Unpopular Opinion time—my favorite song from that album has to be "Jaded". Really, it's its being coupled to "Brain Stew" that makes it so great. The metaphor a previous poster made is apt: playing "Brain Stew" and then skipping "Jaded" is like having sex without the orgasm. You spend all of "Brain Stew" getting used to the slow bump-and-grind tempo, it stretches out longer and longer, and then, just when you're about to get sick of it—BUM-BADA-BADUM-BUMBUM-BADA—the new guitar riff gives you just barely enough warning to recognize that the something different is about to happen before the full guitar, bass, and drums hit your ears like an assault. And the lyrics are brilliant—"I'm taking one step sideways, leading with my crutch/Got a fucked-up equilibrium/Count down from nine to five, hooray we're gonna die!/Blessed into our extinction" is one of my favorite lyrics Billie's ever done.

Bunny ears

That man.

I should have guessed a shit load of people posted that. XD

It's been a few days so I thought I might as well share another dream. So here. This one is really weird and I guess it's because I'm taking so many biology courses that I dreamed it. I was with Florence somewhere on a trip, or at least a place I didn’t recognize and it seemed like we were only going to be there for awhile, and we found this amazing book. It was like three inches thick and appeared to be a book about biology (I have too much bio on the mind I guess), but centered around Green Day. It had a huge table of contents with a bunch of different topics in biology and was also filled with pictures of Green Day, usually taken from concerts. Even though Green Day was the subject used to talk about all of these biological concepts, Billie Joe was used as the example in almost all of them. One particular thing I remember was that there was a part related to “health” and it mentioned how Billie manages to not get sick when he and the rest of the band are constantly traveling everywhere and exposing themselves to all sorts of things when they’re on tour. According to the book, he takes a frozen pill filled with antibodies before each concert. But then it went on the say that it actually wasn’t that effective of a method because his body would waste energy heating up a frozen pill and absorbing it before it would even have any effect, which would not leave as much for him to fight something off if he got sick. There was an introduction too and it was pretty weird also. You know how books throw out random examples/facts about something cool to try to get people interested? Well, there was one of those and it was something like how “Billie Joe’s heart will never be the same wave during a massage”. I have no idea why massages are even involved there or what it meant by wave, (maybe heart rate fluctuation, like it wouldn’t stay the same over a given time?), but it was there nonetheless. On a different note, Florence pointed out some of the pictures that were on one page. We figured that since this book had already been published and out, these weren’t recent pictures of Green Day. But Billie looked extremely similar to how he looked at the most recent Foxboro Hot Tubs concert, down to the littlest detail. Florence said something like “See? There you go. He still looks the same!” And then we sort of started fangirling a bit about how amazing he looks and how he doesn’t age at all.

Oh my god that bit annoys me every fucking time. Why did they think that was a good idea?!

I've always thought it was actually "I wanna jump out" no ?

Like that defective copy of Church On Sunday everyone got?

It's a well-constructed radio hit. But seriously, fuck One Direction. As I've said before, it's jarring and different, but the bassline gives it such a great groove and the lyrics are quite unique. So your argument's invalidererer.

Sassafras's lyrics have always seemed to repetitive for me. Musically on par, though.

I really like Ceadog. He just has a massive ego.

Well technically. Oh look, it's us again.

YOU TASTELESS BASTARD :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

When you put it like that I do agree with you about Breakdown. Christian's Inferno, Horseshoes and Handgrenades and 21 Guns could go. As much as I don't like Know Your Enemy, the guitar production on it is fabulous and its place in the running order does benefit the album. But if we're just going off individual songs, obviously that could go. I've never understood the argument that it being huge and sprawling is beneficial to it - if it was shorter it'd be easier to listen to all the way through, and you wouldn't have to waste time sitting through the lower quality songs on there. Quality over quantity, surely? A common problem with Green Day

fuck off

Brittney on hautestreet.com missing Tré on this though

Uhhh erm yes I mean who doesn't need to know their enemy raw ham? Kidding

I find it a bit grating sometimes. Like how Billie can't do the falsetto so he either butchers it, or gets the crowd to sing it. Or after the solo when he repeats the chorus about 6 million times. I do like the piano on the live version, though.

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