So after listening to 21st Century Breakdown...

[forget_me_nots]

For some reason, in the first Viva La Gloria.....right after, "as the years will testify," there's a drum bit that's just, "duh-duh," and that somehow that makes me emotional. I guess it's powerful.

[Ingrid]

^ That exact part gets to me so much it's unbelievable...

[Anko]

I've said this before, but Restless Heart Syndrome is definitely a song to OD and die to.

What the fuck dude That's messed up.

[Bastard of 1967]

Seriously, I think I cried a little after listening to 21 Guns. It didn't get to me as much as WMUWSE did, but I have to admit it is quite a sad song.

How about you guys?

¿Viva la Gloria?, in the bridge:

"The traces of blood

Always follow you home

Like the mascara tears

From your getaway

(GLO-RI-A)

Your'e walking with blisters

and running with shears

So unholy

Sister of grace"

I'm not sure yet why this gets me, but it's the one song on the album that really makes my arm-hair stand on end, particularly where the background vocals plaintively cry Gloria's name right in the middle of the bridge.

to me those lyrics mean "we remember the past...the happiness we knew as kids is gone...we cant dream anymore...there is death everywhere...we must face a new world with no laughter"

Wow, you really nailed that! Did you submit it on the lyrics interp form at GDA? Anyway, building on that theme, I'd think the "lobotomy" in this song is when the US went ape-shit with materialism, religious fury, and aggression with the advent of the Bush years and 9/11, say around the 2000-2002 timeframe...it's as if someone stuck a poker in our collective cerebral cortex and, even though we're not stoned, "[we're] just fucked up, [we] got so high, [we] can't stand up".

Anyway....great post!!

[forget_me_nots]

^^ Its funny, whenever I hear that song title (Before the Lobotomy) the first thing I think of is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. >.< So that's what I think of when I hear the song.

[badwolf]

Well when I listen to Last Night on Earth, I feel in love. With my crush (and BJ ) mostly.

21 Guns makes me happy anytime I'm sad or crying.

Horseshoes and Handgrenades for some reason just makes me smile like a moron.

I love those songs.

[tapdancingowl]

What the fuck dude That's messed up.

Hey, nothing wrong with knowing your options.

[fatherotti]

¿Viva la Gloria?, in the bridge:

"The traces of blood

Always follow you home

Like the mascara tears

From your getaway

(GLO-RI-A)

Your'e walking with blisters

and running with shears

So unholy

Sister of grace"

I'm not sure yet why this gets me, but it's the one song on the album that really makes my arm-hair stand on end, particularly where the background vocals plaintively cry Gloria's name right in the middle of the bridge.

Wow, you really nailed that! Did you submit it on the lyrics interp form at GDA? Anyway, building on that theme, I'd think the "lobotomy" in this song is when the US went ape-shit with materialism, religious fury, and aggression with the advent of the Bush years and 9/11, say around the 2000-2002 timeframe...it's as if someone stuck a poker in our collective cerebral cortex and, even though we're not stoned, "[we're] just fucked up, [we] got so high, [we] can't stand up".

Anyway....great post!!

thank u very much!

i dont know it just came to me...

btw i did send my interp to GDA the thing i dont get and im sure you can help me out with is if your not a member of GDA, then how can they contact you without leaving your email?

if it helps i left my GDC Member name so they can find me out here

[jose armstrong]

I cried in Know Your Enemy. I don't think my ears will ever recover.

yes, the song is that bad

[GreenDayaremyGods]

yes, the song is that bad

aw that's kind of harsh. It's alrighttt.

[TheMinority16]

East Jesus Nowhere makes me think about what will happen in the future....

[Doctor Demon]

I was having a really shitty day and began to cry during ¿Viva la Gloria?

The chorus just got to me for some reason.

[Bastard of 1967]

thank u very much!

i dont know it just came to me...

btw i did send my interp to GDA the thing i dont get and im sure you can help me out with is if your not a member of GDA, then how can they contact you without leaving your email?

if it helps i left my GDC Member name so they can find me out here

GDA and GDC are operated by the same group of people but screen names aren't integrated between them, I don't think....best I can suggest is that you use the same screen name on GDA as you do on GDC and hope that everyone's paying attention.

[39smoooth]

Last Night On Earth i guess...

I feel happy insise whenever billie hits a high note

[21st Century Drum Player]

21 guns has always been my favourite on the album reminds me of the character from Wake Me Up When September Ends Video.

[The Underbelly.]

I think every song makes me emotional, but in different ways.

So make me very meloncholy and others make me very angsty.

But overall I think listening to the album I'm just smiling the entire time because I've missed Green Day so much.

[Opezi]

every time i hear see the light it is emothional. its like love, sadness and then i totally disconnect and feel the song

[J'net]

Any music that's good evokes an emotional response in me - jubilation, sadness, anger ... - it could be any emotion. When I first listened to Breakdown, I had previously heard the little snippet of Song of the Century that was on GreenDay.com, I had heard the demo of 21st Century Breakdown, and I had heard Know Your Enemy.

¡Viva la Gloria! was the first song I heard that was completely and utterly new to me. The beginning of the song is so beautiful, it brought tears to my eyes (not sad tears, just an excess of many emotions all welling up together). EJN always makes me feel defiant, strong, determined, and energetic. The end of Before the Lobotomy (when the "Dreaming, I was only dreaming" part starts again) often makes me tear up (especially live). I'm not sure why - maybe because it's just a very effective arrangement that pulls the emotion out of me. And, I quite often get emotional when I hear 21 Guns - it's just so beautiful.

[Static Noise]

I didnt get really emotional until I heard the album for the 3rd time and i already knew the story, then i heard Song of the Century and the lines:

"Tell us a story that's by candlelight

waging a war and loosing the fight.

/.../

tell me a story into that goodnight

sing us a song for me"

Made me a litle emotional. I think it is because when you know whats gonna happen and how the war is gonna "get lost" you think in your own wars.

Some ppl forgets about this song, but Song of the Century is my favorite song in the album, it puts everything in context, idk its like the container that contains all the story inside 21CB

I beg you pardon if i made grammar mistakes im from Venezuela and down here we speak spanish

[forget_me_nots]

Some ppl forgets about this song, but Song of the Century is my favorite song in the album, it puts everything in context, idk its like the container that contains all the story inside 21CB

I actually agree. It's not my 100% favorite, but it really gets me into the feelings and emotions to come in the rest of the album....it's emotional in itself, and it really gets to me.

[GreenxDayxRockxMyxSocks]

The songs of that album that make me emotional is Viva La Gloria (Little Girl) it's like he's telling whoever's listening that there is still a child in them that's lost in the grown up world. The lyrics of 21 guns also leaves me feeling a bit sad, and wow the end of restless heart syndrome is so powerfully emotional.

[Holly]

First time listening Viva La Gloria made me cry. I was just so overwhelmed and happy and it just made me feel so emotional. Just hearing his voice in that song I actually just felt complete for a while. Which sounds a bit sad, haha, but I can't help it.

[Banan]

I cried the first time i heard 21 guns. Im kind of having a rough time right now, and that song .. It's amazing.

when you're at the end of the road

and you lost all sense of control

and your thoughts have taken their toll

when your mind breaks the spirit of your soul

your faith walks on broken glass

and the hangover doesn't pass

nothing's ever built to last

you're in ruins ...

And Last Night on Earth <3

[spark in the night]

See The Light makes me emotional

because it's the ending song

its the same effect as Whatsername

it's like the end of the story

I don't cry over it but it makes me feel a little sad

Last Night on Earth, on the other hand, did make me tear up

[forget_me_nots]

See The Light makes me emotional

because it's the ending song

its the same effect as Whatsername

it's like the end of the story

I know what you mean! I'm the same way.....like when I finished reading Harry Potter 7, I cried cuz it was all over. At the end of the albums, I get all sad because I'm like, "Awww, it's over." It's a weird thing, but that's how I am.