Listen to "Broken World" by the Interrupters (Co-Written by Billie Joe)

[pacejunkie punk]

^^^ What a beautiful story! 

[TimmyChunks]

On ‎7‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 9:11 PM, proud_ginge said:

Interview with the Interrupters explaining how the song came about - 

http://dyingscene.com/news/ds-exclusive-fighting-the-good-fight-with-kevin-and-aimee-of-the-interrupters/

 

K: The world needs more love, and I think that the Martin Luther King Jr. quote, that “darkness cannot drive out more darkness, only light can do that” is perfect. The other cool thing about “Broken World,” is that the riff of that song (*sings riff*) and the chord change in the chorus with the melody that goes with it is something that was given to us by Billie Joe (Armstrong) from Green Day when we were on tour with them. I’ll never forget it. We were in Santiago, Chile, and we played a show, and there were a couple of hours before we had to go to the airport, so we were hanging out with Green Day and their families. It was an amazing experience. And (Billie Joe) goes “hey, I have an idea for a song that I think could be a really cool Interrupters song.” And he grabbed a guitar, and he kinda pulled Aimee and I aside and he played it for us, and he said “I don’t know, I think this would just be a kind of cool thing for you.” And he played it for us and we said “Yes! We love it!”  So we took that riff home and we built the song around it. Tim (Armstrong) produced it and recorded it, and the whole time I was thinking “I can’t wait to get this back to Billie Joe, I want to do right by him.” I wanted him to be proud, because he thought enough of us to give us this riff that he could have obviously turned into an amazing song for any one of his bands. We sent the song back to him right when we were done with it, and he texted us back that night and he was so excited about it and happy to be a part of it. It’s so surreal, too, to have a song with a riff written by Billie Joe Armstrong and produced by Tim Armstrong…

Lost for words. That is so cool. That chorus is so BJA in every way- simply catchy and perfectly written and composed. Only BJA can write a melody that you know you've heard before you've even listened to it, if that makes any sense. 

[Thatsername]

On 7/13/2018 at 4:57 AM, TimmyChunks said:

Only BJA can write a melody that you know you've heard before you've even listened to it, if that makes any sense. 

It totally makes sense! That's one of the reasons why we love him so much. Sometimes I feel kind of sorry for people outside of our universe who don't get it because they're missing out on so much.