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keep calm and reserve judgement till ya see the video or rack your brain with unnecessary doubt till it comes out.

He's right. You don't need to say the same thing over and over just to try and piss people off. It's really starting to get annoying and you need to stop doing it. If you know everyone in the thread already knows your opinion on something (eg American Idiot or Bang Bang) you don't need to keep saying it again.

Yes I love this! It's the most awkward meeting ever (although to be fair all set up band meeting fan things are beyond awkward) and I don't think I've ever cringed so much as when he's reading them that letter and they have no clue how to react, but he remains completely happy and enthusiastic regardless so you have to be pleased for him. Have you seen this one? The show is a terrible concept, the fan (allegedly) first thinks they've just met the person they're a fan of by chance, but then afterwards it's revealed that it was set up and they were being filmed (which surely would be a disappointment compared to thinking you were having a real conversation with them?!). The best thing about it is how Billie is more awkward than the fan It is by me! Never mind BMXcellent tits, "I wouldn't say I'm straight 'cause I'm bent out of shape" is the most badass lyric on the trilogy.

LOTAG Girls were kind of cool, I'm just really sick of seeing asses and boobs everywhere all the time... I'm not saying this is how the Bang Bang video will be, it's just that Oh Love traumatized me a bit Although, it could fit the "give me death or give me head" line, if they show these girls like, shortly and not throughout the entire video. We'll see

Alright guys enough of the back and forth shitting contest

i saw that picture on facebook earlier and was waiting for the complaints to start coming in over the suicide girls bit the uproar among green day fans about the girls in the oh love video was so over the top.

I don't see anyone else on GDC doing what you do

Can it not be accepted that sometimes someone will have something about a song to criticise and sometimes someone will have something about a song to praise? As long as no one's being obnoxious about it I don't see any reason for objections, anger and personal comments over opinions on songs being expressed.

Heard Bang Bang for the first time on the radio since the premiere. It was a pleasant surprise.

Sweet! Kevin Kerslake directed the Brain Stew video Cool to see that he's working on this too

I can't wait to see a video of them performing Bang Bang live

I really like this solo. I wonder why they took it out.

I can't claim to go that far, but it is one of my favourites along with Nimrod, 21st CB, American Idiot and Dookie. It sometimes has a turn as my favourite About the concept album discussion that was in another thread, I do think of it as somewhat of a concept album because it tells a vague story of living the party lifestyle and the consequences of it over three stages/albums. It's not a concept in the same sense as a rock opera but there is something there that makes it not just a standard set of albums. Even if the whole thing isn't I definitely think Dos is, a proper little story there with Uno really only being an intro and Tre the aftermath as far as the story aspect goes. Depends on how you define a concept album though I suppose.

I think the best 'moment' of the trilogy is the Stay The Night bridge.. Even after 4 years, it still takes me WAY up lol. I can feel Billie was as high as the stratosphere when he wrote/recorded that. The melodies in the guitar work is just ridiculous.. It's as sugar sweet as pop/punk rock gets in my opinion.

Didn't you list the scream as a good point in the bang bang thread?

I also rotate through my favorites, depending on what vibes I'm going through. Recently I've been appreciating the trilogy more than I had whe nit first came out. I think there are some really weak songs, musically and especially lyrically, but there are some that I just love too. Kill the DJ is (uh) killer, X-Kid, Nuclear Family, Stray Heart. I'm really thankful they gave us this much material, even if it came with tons of filler too

That's great. I didn't think we'd hear any more of the trilogy on the radio. Maybe RR will get some people buying the trilogy albums

So the actors are suicide girls. So what? It doesn't mean anything. Watch the Jesus of Suburbia video ever? The punks in it could just as easily be suicide girls if you didn't know better. These girls could be portraying punks. I highly doubt we can expect a replica of Oh Love video unless Green Day are completely brain dead. A video of the band laying about covered in half naked models, getting drunk and otherwise portraying the "rockstar lifestyle" would look idiotic for a song about a mass shooter.

Please no half naked 'sexy' dancing girls, I'm so tired of that I still hope it will be somewhat artistic and meaningful, but god... this Instagram post is taking away a chunk of hope. Dunno how a few dancing girls will fit the thematic of Bang Bang but I guess I will let it surprise me... Edit: Jesus, that website... yikes.

Suicide Girls? I hope this isn't another video like Oh Love...

Lmao that isn't true Utter tripe!

This isn't the topic to debate the trilogy.

I mean, maybe there's no lines like "I'm the son of rage and love, the jesus of suburbia" on the trilogy, but I'm not seeing that in Bang Bang either and there's nothing wrong with that. I think both, Bang Bang and the Trilogy, deliver perfectly their message. The problem is that people are not aware that you can't expect the same thing with every release. People have to understand that you can't appreciate everything in the same way, the trilogy is meant to be a collection of simple, fun and stripped down rock n roll songs. It's meant to have songs like Fuck Time, Let Yourself Go and Sex Drugs & Violence, that's the whole point. If your mindset is configurated to enjoy only a certain type of things obviously you're not gonna be able to enjoy the complexity and poetic deliver of masterpieces like American Idiot and at the same time enjoy the simplicity of albums like ¡UNO! or Kerplunk.

No sense in debating with the Elite Green Day fans, they are too cool to understand

Really? you think that's all the trilogy is about? Alright... Here are some that I found to be clever and/or beautiful (and not generic at all as you claim): --- All this lyrics seem to be on the same level as Bang Bang in my opinion, song that you enjoy quite a lot as far as I can tell. Mate, sometimes I feel you're so blindsided and enthusiastic with some stuff, like Bang Bang and Green Day's future (believe me, I think just like you, I think the album is probably gonna be awesome), But with others stuff you seem rather mindclosed and seagull-ish nonsensical..

lol i posted that on tumblr. no it's not true but it's hilarious nonetheless "never knew this!" fucking fail

Was at a bar on the beach last night listening to a bunch of lame stuff (they usually only play reggae or "island" music everywhere in Hawaii) suddenly East Jesus Nowhere came on and they blasted it. It was awesome.

It's happening

Bang bang is number 1 in the UK rock and metal chart

Bang Bang is already Green Day's 3rd most popular song on Spotify, after Basket Case (1) and American Idiot (2) and before WMUWSE (4) and 21 Guns (5) This is amazing

Billboard - The week of September 3, 2016 Top 100 Artists - #100 Twitter Top Tracks - #18 Top Rock Songs - #8 Rock Airplay - #6 Rock Digital Songs - #9 Alternative Songs - #8 Mainstream Rock Songs - #5 Canadian Digital Songs - #46

I came across this video on youtube, it's from a show MTV did in the late 90's where they pick a fan to go meet up with their favorite artist. I actually remember watching this back in the day, I'm pretty sure I taped it back then, I think the episode was Green Day and Usher. Anyways, I wonder if the fan in this episode is on here

Not to mention, that video has the best like/dislike ratio I have ever seen on YouTube--1098:1 (excluding barely-seen videos with zero dislikes).

Assuming I said that On a more positive side of things, I heard Oh Love on the radio the other day and it felt so cool to hear it somewhere I had no control of what was being played and it sounded so great. I am glad to be a UNODOETRE supporter

Well that's about the most obnoxious Instagram post I've seen in a while. Can she be any more stereotypical and basic? And wtf is a Suicide Girl?

Hmm I remember him saying it's about divorce/relationships more than anything, he might have acknowledged it could also be taken to be about war etc but I can see him saying that, doesn't sound very legit. I never listen to the radio so I haven't heard Bang Bang anywhere other than just playing it myself yet, can't wait to see the video on Scuzz when it's out.

I doubt it. Most people would mention having an astronaut uncle. It's too damn cool. I wouldn't shut up about it if my uncle had been to moon. Someone put it up on Wikipedia because they found it funny. It's a quite common last name.

I dislike the trilogy, everyone knows I'm not trolling. It may be a you problem Also, I agree with the people saying it will be tough for GD to follow in Twenty One Pilot's wake. The real issue is that TOP are on the "rock" charts, but they do so many more things that cause them to do well across top 40 radio. They rap, they incorporate EDM, they are bound to no genre. Green Day will be hard pressed to beat them anywhere head to head, just have to hope that TOP don't have plans to run another single through the radio cycle (though they'd be insane not to, there's at least 3 other radio gems on that album). For those reasons, I don't think we see Bang Bang reach number one (on the rock charts), unless it lasts a while and gets a boost after the album comes out. We also have to consider that TOP are coming to the end of the album cycle, their songs have been out there for well over a year now, so perhaps that skews things a bit.

Bringing this back Look at all that hair!

So I criticize things on here and I get attacked for it by a group of people. I call out your sillly complaint and yet I am blind? ok only on GDC

It really annoys me in troublemaker when Billie sings 'you're giving me a heart attack, you're giving me a cardiac arrest...'. Like, is he having both? Or does he not know the difference? One of my pet peeves is people getting the two things mixed up, but everyone does it. Still like the song though.

I highly doubt this song reaches #1. Twenty One Pilots has absolutely exploded in popularity and their crossover into the mainstream is going to prevent a barn burner like Bang Bang to out chart them.

Last week Bang Bang was #23 on Billboards top rock songs, this week it is #8. It is also Billboards top Streaming Gainer and Download Gainer

Man if you have Tumblr you should post this on there. Everyone's talking about that Kerrang! Stuff on there.

Your first post on this thread was "I wrote this on Twitter. It's like Kerplunk, Trilogy, Dookie and Insomniac had a baby. Kewl song." Now it seems you hate it just because mostly everyone else likes it. What's this obsession you have with being in the minority? Hating AI and 21CB, loving the trilogy and now disliking this song

21CB is, in my opinion, wildly under appreciated. It's one of my favorite albums of theirs, if not my very favorite. I know American Idiot tells a more linear story, but there's something about 21CB that is truly an EXPERIENCE when listening to it front to back in one sitting. It's diverse, it's fun, and features some really clever writing. The way the album starts off with Christian raging that people need to "know your enemy," only to later realize in Restless Heart Syndrome that he is his own worst enemy? Wow wow wow. The line "You are your own worst enemy...know your enemy" before the guitars kick in gives me chills every time.

And your opinion is fine, but it's still your opinion. I prefer the AI/21CB era because it just sounded like a more ambitious, natural evolution of the band and the harmonies and instruments sounded incredible.

Billie has never been known for his grammatical prowess Also, the Daddy's little psycho and Mommy's little soldier might actually be a reference to Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter. I've already said this but his father left because he could not deal with him or his mother and his mother taught him to shoot.

I heard the uncensored Kill the DJ song at an after school event. It echoed all down the halls with "shoot that fucker down" but nobody noticed