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http://www.greendayauthority.com/articles/176/1/ There's a section on GDA just for magazine scans if you want to look around for other things as well.

I'd put it in close second behind Basket Case at Reading '04. It is utterly perfect start to finish, though.

Yeah it's amazing live, Reading 2004 ftw. I do get bored of it these days though, it's the first Green Day song I heard 12 years ago and doesn't have much impact now.

ok dont wet yourself mate. i was thinking about it then my mum shouted me for tea so yknow but anyway sassafras roots > when i come around > chump = having a blast = burnout > she > emenius sleepus > pulling teeth = in the end = coming clean = f.o.d > basket case = welcome to paradise turns out i really like dookie

I thought it was "use" but pronounced like it rhymes with fuse. "Strike this fucking match to light this fuse, uuuzze." I always thought it was a rubber coat too because the coming of the nuclear winter. This is one of my favorite threads!

Sorry if I didn't understand exactly what you said but Last of the American Girls wasn't "the last 21st CB that was in the American Idiot musical that hadn't been released as a single yet" .There are also Last Night On Earth and Before The Lobotomy. Both better songs and better choices for a single imo.

I would equate it more to a modern King for A Day. Just a fun song.

I've literally never heard anyone say that. It's one of their most fun songs, but it's hardly close to a JoS-level masterpiece.

I think so, yes. Billie's got into the Fallout series, and 21CB follows the lives of Christian and Gloria in the couple of weeks surrounding the Great War.

Billie says in the interview that that's the only one he's doing on the whole rehab thing, and he's stayed true to that!

http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/92683-billie-joe-on-the-cover-of-rolling-stone-the-road-back-from-hell/?p=5154738 Edit: Dammit Lone!

This is absolutely gorgeous.

There are lots of lyrics that make more sense clear example is "better than air"....

I just watched Storytellers live, it was brilliant! I think because of the way the piece parts of the song fit together, Homecoming is better live than JOS.

Yeah, that's the one. Mike

nae worries pal (i assume u meant almost acoustic)

oh storytellers ofc!! brb running to youtube

Storytellers and KROQ. Both incredible.

SOMEONE SHARES MY TOP TWO OMG

It's OK, I think I've recovered now. Anyway, if we're allowed to use equals, then I'd change mine to: Basket Case=Longview=Welcome to Paradise>When I Come Around (though not by much, they fluctuate)>She=Burnout=Chump=Sassafras Roots>Having a Blast=Emenius Sleepus>FOD>Pulling Teeth>In The End=Coming Clean. Yeah, Dookie's my joint favourite album (alongside AI).

Yeah, I might have to move it up the list just due to the pressure.

Everyone knows you have Pulling Teeth in the wrong spot.

I thought he was just repeating the end of the word fuse for emphasis

you are so entirely wrong it physically pains me

Oh I'm sorry, I was incorrect that it was the last one. But I do think the reason it was chosen is that it was in it. I'd assume the reason it was picked over the others is they'd already released a slower/ballad type song (21 Guns), and a more upbeat song is a more common choice for a single.

I hadn't thought of that, but yes, that works perfectly.

They totally only released Last of the American Girls as a single because it was the last 21st CB song that was in the American Idiot musical that hadn't been released as a single yet. When the musical became successful they pretty much dropped all promotion of 21st CB that wasn't related to that over night, quickly rushing out East Jesus Nowhere with no proper video and then only talking about the musical and performing songs from the musical in interviews/on TV from then onwards. There was no way they were going to release a different song when they had the chance to release one that was in the musical after that.

So have we established that Last of the American Girls really is about the last girl to survive the apocalypse?

I'd say the rubber would make sense with the "nuclear winter" line, as rubber is often used in haz-mat suits.

Agreed, but the point of releasing a single is to get a hit, and hopefully get someone to purchase the entire album. Plus, remember, it is not the bands ultimate decision what gets released as a single, it is the record company's decision.

Cancer??? Chill, really. It's a fun song and the lyrics are great. He had me at put your laundry basket down.

Cancer really - it's fun - don't take it that seriously - it's just fuck time

Last of the American girls official clip annoys me - it doesn't dipict the song at all - the ladies were pointless.

No

We have high jacked thatdude's thread - he has been having such a lovely time in here. Now its just about an unpopular opinions thread.

Lady Cobra is just awful IMO. Lazy Bones is on there.

That makes more sense, really.

Hope you're OK now.