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Just now, Billie Hoe said:

are you suggesting the lyrics aren't written by Billie? :D 

We don't know WHO  is in this band.  Sure it sounds like Billie and there are pictures of Billie, etc.  But we don't have confirmation of ANYTHING yet.  lol

I'm fairly certain it's Billie Joe Armstrong at least singing and writing the lyrics.  But I just noticed the lyrics are all PG.  Nothing wrong with that, they have emotion and impact - Billie doesn't need  15+ F words in a song to make a point. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Too Dumb to Die(s) said:

We don't know WHO  is in this band.  Sure it sounds like Billie and there are pictures of Billie, etc.  But we don't have confirmation of ANYTHING yet.  lol

:lol:

2 minutes ago, Too Dumb to Die(s) said:

Billie doesn't need  15+ F words in a song to make a point. 

 

Maybe you should go back in time to 2010-2012 and tell Billie that :lol:

I kid, but really, a lot of the trilogy had so much obscenities just thrown in for no reason

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Just now, Christian's Inferno! said:

:lol:

Maybe you should go back in time to 2010-2012 and tell Billie that :lol:

I kid, but really, a lot of the trilogy had so much obscenities just thrown in for no reason

Yeah, I pulled the number 15+ from Kill the F***ing DJ, haha.  Uno had F-bombs exploding around every corner, it was astounding!  Haha  

So far I haven't heard a single one from these Longshot fellows.  

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Don’t know if this has been mentioned yet but when you click on the link on insta it now shows Spotify as an option!

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5 minutes ago, Tyler96 said:

Don’t know if this has been mentioned yet but when you click on the link on insta it now shows Spotify as an option!

Cool! Unfortunately it's still not available for me :(

Posted
1 minute ago, Billie Hoe said:

Cool! Unfortunately it's still not available for me :(

Same, I’m in U.K. hoping for tomorrow then

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Billie added the Spotifier :wub:

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The lines in Chasing A Ghost remind me Sam Cooke's Twistin' The Night Away:

 

Chasing A Ghost:

Everyone's happy and everyone's gay
Feelin' the spirit and twistin' the night away

Twistin' The Night Away:

Where the people are so gay
Twistin' the night away

Posted
1 minute ago, Johnny Higher said:

The lines in Chasing A Ghost remind me Sam Cooke's Twistin' The Night Away:

 

Chasing A Ghost:

Everyone's happy and everyone's gay
Feelin' the spirit and twistin' the night away

Twistin' The Night Away:

Where the people are so gay
Twistin' the night away

It could be intentional. He's referenced/paraphrased other songs before. Johnny B Goode in FN or LNOE come to mind as examples 

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Just now, Jane Lannister said:

It could be intentional. He's referenced/paraphrased other songs before. Johnny B Goode in FN or LNOE come to mind as examples 

Billie Joe is a fan of Sam Cooke, (Brutal Love give credits to the song Bring It Home To Me of Sam Cooke) so I guess that's intentional and I think that's pretty cool :)

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7 minutes ago, Johnny Higher said:

Billie Joe is a fan of Sam Cooke, (Brutal Love give credits to the song Bring It Home To Me of Sam Cooke) so I guess that's intentional and I think that's pretty cool :)

Yes, me too! 

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1 hour ago, Too Dumb to Die(s) said:

Whoever is in this band doesn't have Billie Joe's potty mouth - unless the few songs I haven't heard are an endless tourettes-fueled shout fest.......which is entirely possible.  

This album could be Green Day's cleanest release to date!  

Hmmmmm....... too true.

13 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

It could be intentional. He's referenced/paraphrased other songs before. Johnny B Goode in FN or LNOE come to mind as examples 

Could have a thread to homages and tips of the hat that most of you would have no idea on. I don’t mean that rudely. Just very obscure and some intentional, some not.

I mean even Like a Rat Does Cheese was a Miami Bass crew.

Posted
27 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

It could be intentional. He's referenced/paraphrased other songs before. Johnny B Goode in FN or LNOE come to mind as examples 

What was in Last Night on Earth?  

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11 hours ago, Grubby Poop said:

Taxi Driver is OK. It doesn't suck and it doesn't blow me away. Love is for Losers grew on me. I didn't like it at all when I first heard it but the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. But Chasing the Ghost has made me forgive Billie for not accepting this 20+ year fan on The Longshot account. My only regret is that Tom Petty is not alive to play on the song with him. It is Tom Petty meets punk. LOVE IT!!!  

I'm less than a 2 year fan but I forgive Billie as well for not having accepted me, because he's making every single day of my life in more than one way. Also, I wish I could love your post more than once! :wub:

For the lyrics of Chasing a Ghost, I hear some slightly different things here and there from what @pacejunkie punk has posted (I'm not speaking native English, though):

20 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I’ll give the lyrics a shot:

Chasing a Ghost

[...]

Thanks for the company

but I’m still standing alone

Chorus

A long, dull scene it ain't the same

Ain’t it a shame

Here’s to the painkillers again yes to the painkillers oh yeah

on Saturday night

So if you see her tell her 

that I said hello

I miss the time she spent we've spent

and now I gotta go

She was the last hurrah

and always got me stoned

Thanks for the sympathy

and the punch in the nose and now punch in the nose

Chasing a Ghost

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

 

15 hours ago, Lisasinferno said:

Ahhh I love chasing a ghost. The high pitch ooohs Billie does  :wub:. Might be my favourite. Love is for losers  still catchy as hell though, wake up every morning with it in my head. Think I need to give taxi driver a few more listens 

Exactly this :wub:

3 hours ago, disappearingfs said:

I'm not american but I speak, write and sing in american. Yes, the articulation. I wish I would sing like he always did, I don't know why he force himself with that pronunciation... He has a really great voice, I don't understand why he's feeling, recently, the urge to sing like someone else. I don't know, he sounds like a different person, in that sense.

Billie's articulation has always been a thing :lol: I've most of the time needed lyrics written next to me to understand what Billie sings, even though I speak and write fluent English. No matter the album. The worst being Insomniac, and by far :P but with Chasing a Ghost I still could hear mostly everything after a few listens. I actually agree Billie has many ways of making his voice sound. I don't find him to sound like someone else now, to me it's just one of his ways of singing. As they are sometimes very different, we can easily have our favorite among his different ways of singing.

I like the messed up articulation, I don't know why though, since the first time hearing I don't understand much :P

3 hours ago, disappearingfs said:

That said. I NEED THAT EP.

Me too, but I didn't get much of how the EP is gonna be available now. I've never been on Spotify or iTunes and don't know how it works, I only saw and started to follow the Longshot Youtube channel featuring the 3 songs so far.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Too Dumb to Die(s) said:

What was in Last Night on Earth?  

sending all my love to you is from the Beatles.

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11 minutes ago, Biddymc said:

sending all my love to you is from the Beatles.

I agree that they throw in a lot of stuff but “sending all my love to you” is a bit of a stretch if you ask me as it’s a pretty used term.

Using the same song, are they referencing Chaka Khan with “through the fire”? I would say no but:

Even the TITLE of the song is the title of a U2 song. That’s a more direct reference too yet they definitely weren’t thinking of U2.

Ill name some definite homages, again like “Rat does cheese” and maybe you’re actually right here but I think it’s just a phrase.

“Send my love to...” is just so common.

 

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Is there an official Longshot YouTube channel? So many people have the songs uploaded I search and see all those but can’t find an official page for The Longshot.

Posted

Yep, here you go, at least for UK.

 

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The new songs Billie released for The Longshot, in my opinion, shows his age. when he was young he was raw with sound and lyrics hyped up on drugs depression and all the things of being a teen. When he was a young adult he and the band pushed for a revolution and used their songs as messages for what they believed in and gained popularity for saying the truth and speaking their minds (taking risks). Now their older, wiser, lived life to the fullest and have years of wisdom. so now were seeing a more mellow Billie and man that is calmer and realizes he has a fan base that will listen so hes more calm in his demeiner hes being sinsear. when everyone gets older their personality becomes calmer and more focused on life and i beleive its that point in billie life where he just wants to enjoy it not fight against it. so this album is most likely going  to be calmer more of a chill day style album and frankly i cant wait !!!!!    

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26 minutes ago, Kuromignonne said:

I'm less than a 2 year fan but I forgive Billie as well for not having accepted me, because he's making every single day of my life in more than one way. Also, I wish I could love your post more than once! :wub:

For the lyrics of Chasing a Ghost, I hear some slightly different things here and there from what @pacejunkie punk has posted (I'm not speaking native English, though):

 

Exactly this :wub:

Billie's articulation has always been a thing :lol: I've most of the time needed lyrics written next to me to understand what Billie sings, even though I speak and write fluent English. No matter the album. The worst being Insomniac, and by far :P but with Chasing a Ghost I still could hear mostly everything after a few listens. I actually agree Billie has many ways of making his voice sound. I don't find him to sound like someone else now, to me it's just one of his ways of singing. As they are sometimes very different, we can easily have our favorite among his different ways of singing.

I like the messed up articulation, I don't know why though, since the first time hearing I don't understand much :P

Me too, but I didn't get much of how the EP is gonna be available now. I've never been on Spotify or iTunes and don't know how it works, I only saw and started to follow the Longshot Youtube channel featuring the 3 songs so far.

Hi sweetie. Yeah, like I said he always had his particular ''articulations'' making his singing recognizable back in the 90s. That ''weird'' thing I'm talking about started in 2011 and with 2012's trilogy. When I mention the ''I wanna sound like I'm younger'' thing is 'cause Billie Joe always talked about the trilogy like something to go BACK so I linked those 2 things and thought, '''Ok, so maybe that's why he's trying to sound younger''. Of course the vocal filter is important too, but it's not that hard to get that change I mentioned. Just compare, I don't know... ''Youngblood'' and ''Sweet 16''. He sings with a total different accent/articulation. And I'm not talking about the vibe you put on a song. Emotional for a sad song or loose-ish for a funny song. Or maybe it's just me... He also speaks with an higher voice nowadays and... thinking about it now... it's not that different from the nowadays singing. So maybe that's why I hear those articulations louder... 'cause he sings higher nowadays. I mean, it's hard to explain, le'ts say the same note but in a different way. Ahh, I don't know, haha! Yes, I logged in into Spotify only recently 'cause I don't like to download things, it's a prettty fair middle-road. Hoping for the real thing, one day :-)

11 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Is there an official Longshot YouTube channel? So many people have the songs uploaded I search and see all those but can’t find an official page for The Longshot.

I don't know if it's the official channel but it's where I heard ''Love is for Losers'' on good quality today :-)

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13 minutes ago, disappearingfs said:

 

I don't know if it's the official channel but it's where I heard ''Love is for Losers'' on good quality today :-)

I’m thinking that it’s the official channel because it’s linked from the one he posted on the Instagram account. 

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Just now, squashie09 said:

I’m thinking that it’s the official channel because it’s linked from the one he posted on the Instagram account. 

I love the artwork, btw :-)

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