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or "i like your BM-excellent tits with a tattoo of a pig sniffing glue"

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I fear for any person that finds Nightlife relatable

Total Guitar, December 1997 This was one of my favourite interviews when I was a wee one.

You do, you just complained about fallacies.

But that's just it, I think a song's lyrics increase in value quite a bit when they appear to mean something to the author, even if I can't relate. Lazy Bones, for example. Decent lyrics but I think the pain that Billie experienced while writing it adds a value to it. On the other hand, you have Makeout Party. How a 40 year old married man relates to Makeout Party is beyond me

No its in context of the song - lady cobra is a quick & punchy song & fits perfectly on DOS. Hermione will back me up.

Yeah, and same line as usual of course. I think it's the most discussed line in the history of GDC!

Fallacy Man, that's who.

Except I wasn't complaining about trying to prove others wrong, just pointing out her fallacy in telling me I can't prove others wrong and then trying to prove me wrong. So you committed ANOTHER FALLACY!

Well, Nightlife is just a fun song and I do find the lust and sense of dread in Billie's vocals/lyrics to be relatable.

In Hermione's defence (although I do agree the lyrics to Troublemaker are just ridiculous), some of the best lyrics are ones where you have to fill in the gaps, so I don't see anything wrong with that in itself. I'm pretty sure Billie's done that intentionally at times. Like with how so many people relate to Jesus Of Suburbia - Billie wrote that about a character, and people apply parts of it to their own lives by shoehorning it into different contexts. That's one of my favourite things about music, tbh.

I know, right? I'd hate for anyone to go walking in a park in New York at night.

I don't really think any of them are bad, I just think it's easy to make a lyric look bad if you post it out of context and just say it's bad/silly/has no meaning. People only seem to like doing it with trilogy lyrics though. Probably doesn't help that the band have hardly talked about the songs at all, I bet if they'd talked about the meanings more this would be less of an issue

For real what's wrong with the Sex Drugs and Violence lyric though? Every word of it makes sense, with multiple thoughtful/intelligent meanings that relate to the song and society (and that have already been explained by many people on here), and it's put in a succinct and catchy way. I don't see the issue with it.

The people need to witness the horror that is the trilogy lyrics, one signature at a time. I'll update it

Just a little heads up, you might wanna remove that trilogy lyric from your sig. I mean, people might think you like the trilogy, and you wouldn't want that, would you?!

Yesterday I was listen to "Foreverly" and I think that i don't have words to say how much I love that album and I really really hope that Billie make something similar in the future

It's more often want to though, which is why it's listed first in dictionaries. I don't think there's any Green Day song (or many songs in general) that uses wanna to mean want a because it kind of sounds more lazy/childish than wanna meaning want to. "I wanna (want to) be on TV", "I wanna (want to) be sedated" and loads of other examples of wanna = want to in lyrics spring to mind but I actually can't think of any examples of wanna = want a. Unless the lyric is "want a" and it just sounds like "wanna", as in this case. But yeah that's not even why you don't like it so

I wouldn't trust disog 100% as you can put fakes up...

I'm pretty sure it's "want a suicide" anyway. Not want to.

Don't forget "She gave up on Jesus for living on venus"!

you're right. it is ridiculous.

Your dedication to the wellbeing Green Day fans is quite remarkable

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It's ridiculous how much I prefer the trilogy to Dookie on every level.

But the trilogy has a ton of serious subject matter. They did lighthearted spins on serious subjects far better on Dookie.

More than BMX-cellent tits?! Are you sure?

Pretty certain I already have more than once before . I think it's just a nice simple, positive message to end the albums on, to embrace the now, the future (or to put it another way live in the "moment" and look forward to "tomorrow" rather than fearing/"looking away from" those things and living the past), and love. After all the shit that's happened, a full blown mid life crisis and drunken binges and flings and the rest of it, those are the things that matter in the end.

Lol I couldn't be bothered. But yeah, there's good rap lyrics and bad rap lyrics, and good rock lyrics and bad rock lyrics, there's good and bad in every genre of music so it's silly to generalize about a whole genre based on the bad. And excellent . I think about ten thousand people have explained that line on here over the years though, I can't take any credit! It is referencing periods which might be gross to some people, but it's as a metaphor for a young female celebrity (the subject of the song according to the band) becoming old enough to be exploited by the media and her family through being pushed into fame too young. She's old enough to literally bleed by menstruating, and metaphorically "bleed" as in deal with problems as an adult and start to earn and get exploited for money by everyone with a stake in her fame.

You're appealing to authority right now!

explain my signature then and all of its glorious context

"menstruation's icky! right guys?!?!" It's a symbol of maturity in nearly every culture in the world.

Go back and read the actual post where I mentioned it. Basically, I was saying that while I enjoy Trapped in the Closet, I cannot call it good, and I think the same applies for the Trilogy; you can like stuff from it, but calling it good is a different matter.

You straw manned me not 20 minutes ago.

Cool opinion, I respect it.

It sounds like you are attempting to say that their head got turned to watch someone while they were starting to say " I like your BMX" and they couldnt help talking about their chest in mid sentence... it is not that uncommon a thing when you consider that people's thoughts get interrupted on a near daily basis. If one person has an experience they feel the need to talk about, sometimes they find other people with the same or similar experience by sharing it. Just because you do not empathize does not mean that someone else will not.

See: signature

You said this about Troublemaker in the last thread: There is absolutely no justification for this explanation. There's nothing in the song to suggest this, especially because that's not something anyone ever does. What you and other Trilogy apologists like to do is something called "pouring your own concrete". The analogy is this: the Trilogy is a shitty road full of a lot of potholes. But you guys bring along your own cement and pour it in to fill in the potholes. It makes the ride more enjoyable for you, but in the end it's not the original material that made it that way, it's you adding your own material, which wasn't there in the first place, to justify it. In the end, Occam's Razor says that in all likelihood Billie didn't have some wildly convoluted explanation for the Trilogy's cringeworthy lyrics—they're just bad. And even if they did have some convoluted explanation, the fact that that explanation isn't at all clear upon just listening to the song and reading the lyrics is poor songwriting.

So are convoluted retcons that desperately try to explain how the lyrics are good and make sense. Occam's Razor is your friend.

Ok well a few things: 1) simply having a meaning doesn't justify the lyric 2) I like that Chump lyric because he's speaking about this man whom he doesn't even know with such hateful words, it's comical 3) Some of those lyrics were written when they were younger than 20, that's an excuse. There isn't really an excuse now. 4) If you put half of these lyrics in context they make no sense still. And it isn't even always about them not making sense. Lines should be able to stand alone for the most part and not sound absolutely ludicrous like half the trilogy lyrics do. Was unaware as I don't listen to them lol. ...sounds like a 10 year old wrote it….better?

>quoting the intentionally ridiculous song Why do people keep doing this? It's really, really obvious he wasn't going for gold in Troublemaker.

This isn't exactly "Green Day", but it immediately remind me of Worry Rock (I'll put it on spoiler 'cause it's a big picture) And look! I'm going through pics from his art on tumblr and found this!

I suggest "hope there's more in your pants than a bus route" for the next one.

he didn't say it sucked bro he just said it wasn't their best goddamn