Maddy. Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 ^Exactly! Well, my dad likes Holiday and Good Riddance. He can withstand them, but he doesn't really care for them much. And I don't think he likes KYE. He was like, "What's up with the 'oway-owaaay's?" "Uh. It's, uh, part of the song..I don't know.""Isn't that what they do on your live DVD.""No, Dad, that's 'hey-oh's.' There's a difference."My dad is annoyed by me watching Bullet In A Bible everytime I'm down. It makes me happy. He hums along to this song, he's only heard it about twice XD
Red Lights Flash Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 My mom likes KYE. My dad loves green day, but he doesn't listen to them. He used to play BIAB in his shop (he sells instruments) and I know he thought "This next song's a big fuck you to all the politicians", followed by Holiday, was brilliant.
Maddy. Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 My mom likes KYE. My dad loves green day, but he doesn't listen to them. He used to play BIAB in his shop (he sells instruments) and I know he thought "This next song's a big fuck you to all the politicians", followed by Holiday, was brilliant. That is so cool
BraedonHorbacio Posted October 16, 2009 Posted October 16, 2009 Yeah I loved the song at first but like you said, it got old. But at a certain point after listening to it a certain number of times you get past that and you really learn to love it and it just gets better every time. You realise how perfect it is. I think every big Green Day fan experiences that with some songs.
Maddy. Posted October 16, 2009 Posted October 16, 2009 Yeah I loved the song at first but like you said, it got old. But at a certain point after listening to it a certain number of times you get past that and you really learn to love it and it just gets better every time. You realise how perfect it is. I think every big Green Day fan experiences that with some songs.Know You Enemy is definitely one of those songs. <3
Library Girl Posted October 18, 2009 Posted October 18, 2009 It was the first song I heard before the album came out and all I was thinking "OH MY GOD!"I was singing this song all day long till the day the album came out! Everybody around me freaked out at some time! So I had a few enemys around me, because the wouldn't let me sing! (But well, I'm singing really horrible, I must admit it!)
dolce Posted October 19, 2009 Posted October 19, 2009 To be honest, the first time I heard this song I was slightly disappointed. Sure, it's a catchy tune, but it just didn't have a lot of IMPACT, you know? It was a fun song but it wasn't one that I felt would make listeners want to hear more.Then I heard it in the context of the album. I feel this song should not be a single as it can not fully be taken-in without hearing it with the other songs in the album. On the surface, just hearing this song alone, one thinks "Oh, it's just another song about rebellion" (A non-GD fan would say that, not a fan, obviously, lol). And yeah, when you first come across this song even in the album, it seems like just a call to rally up and go burn down all the people who have screwed the world over. Then you get past that song and start hearing more. You get to a song like "Christian's Inferno" and realize "wow, these characters have a lot of internal struggle, too. It's not just the world around them." Then you hear Viva la Gloria (Little Girl), and you're like "Hmm... I thought Gloria was the one that was strong and had it together. Guess I was wrong!" And then you come to what I believe is KYE's other half, Restless Heart Syndrome. You hear the desperation and sadness and hopelessness in Billie's voice, and it goes right through you. The song is very melancholy, and you see just how low Gloria has fallen from the pedestal Christian had her on just a few songs before. Billie sings the line: "You are your own worst enemy - know your enemy", and it hits you as hard as the roaring guitars that follow, like a smack to the face. The whole brilliantly written CD comes into perspective. Here are these two people who were working so hard to rebel against the "Bastards of 1969" who had made their world a not-so-happy place to live, the people who were "the enemy". And maybe they are in part the enemy, but even more so than that, the enemy has been inside Christian and Gloria all along. That kind of impact that KYE has on the ENTIRE cd makes me love it. Without that song the concept would be lost. It's brilliance.
Mar Posted October 20, 2009 Posted October 20, 2009 To be honest, the first time I heard this song I was slightly disappointed. Sure, it's a catchy tune, but it just didn't have a lot of IMPACT, you know? It was a fun song but it wasn't one that I felt would make listeners want to hear more.Then I heard it in the context of the album. I feel this song should not be a single as it can not fully be taken-in without hearing it with the other songs in the album. On the surface, just hearing this song alone, one thinks "Oh, it's just another song about rebellion" (A non-GD fan would say that, not a fan, obviously, lol). And yeah, when you first come across this song even in the album, it seems like just a call to rally up and go burn down all the people who have screwed the world over. Then you get past that song and start hearing more. You get to a song like "Christian's Inferno" and realize "wow, these characters have a lot of internal struggle, too. It's not just the world around them." Then you hear Viva la Gloria (Little Girl), and you're like "Hmm... I thought Gloria was the one that was strong and had it together. Guess I was wrong!" And then you come to what I believe is KYE's other half, Restless Heart Syndrome. You hear the desperation and sadness and hopelessness in Billie's voice, and it goes right through you. The song is very melancholy, and you see just how low Gloria has fallen from the pedestal Christian had her on just a few songs before. Billie sings the line: "You are your own worst enemy - know your enemy", and it hits you as hard as the roaring guitars that follow, like a smack to the face. The whole brilliantly written CD comes into perspective. Here are these two people who were working so hard to rebel against the "Bastards of 1969" who had made their world a not-so-happy place to live, the people who were "the enemy". And maybe they are in part the enemy, but even more so than that, the enemy has been inside Christian and Gloria all along. That kind of impact that KYE has on the ENTIRE cd makes me love it. Without that song the concept would be lost. It's brilliance.I completely agree, I didn't like it as a single, but now, whenever I listen to it within context of the album, I love it. I take back basically all of my dislike for the song!
emmaILGD! Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 I love this song even more now that I've heard it live . They have so much energy when they play this song, and the whole arena was jumping and clapping, it was amazing.
Bastard of 1967 Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 Know You Enemy is definitely one of those songs. <31039sweetchildren.net somehow got a hold of the full "Making of Know Your Enemy Video" clip and posted it on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKNqn-6Y98...player_embedded. One part that cracks me up -- Butch Vig was on the set for this shoot, and at about 5:15 into the clip there's a part from a few hours into the shoot where Butch and Billie are talking...Butch is telling Billie how the shoot is looking on playback so far, and he says "I've heard the song 5,000 times, I'm not sick of it yet." I guess that was a good thing. To be honest, the first time I heard this song I was slightly disappointed. Sure, it's a catchy tune, but it just didn't have a lot of IMPACT, you know? It was a fun song but it wasn't one that I felt would make listeners want to hear more.Then I heard it in the context of the album. I feel this song should not be a single as it can not fully be taken-in without hearing it with the other songs in the album. On the surface, just hearing this song alone, one thinks "Oh, it's just another song about rebellion" (A non-GD fan would say that, not a fan, obviously, lol). And yeah, when you first come across this song even in the album, it seems like just a call to rally up and go burn down all the people who have screwed the world over. Then you get past that song and start hearing more. You get to a song like "Christian's Inferno" and realize "wow, these characters have a lot of internal struggle, too. It's not just the world around them." Then you hear Viva la Gloria (Little Girl), and you're like "Hmm... I thought Gloria was the one that was strong and had it together. Guess I was wrong!" And then you come to what I believe is KYE's other half, Restless Heart Syndrome. You hear the desperation and sadness and hopelessness in Billie's voice, and it goes right through you. The song is very melancholy, and you see just how low Gloria has fallen from the pedestal Christian had her on just a few songs before. Billie sings the line: "You are your own worst enemy - know your enemy", and it hits you as hard as the roaring guitars that follow, like a smack to the face. The whole brilliantly written CD comes into perspective. Here are these two people who were working so hard to rebel against the "Bastards of 1969" who had made their world a not-so-happy place to live, the people who were "the enemy". And maybe they are in part the enemy, but even more so than that, the enemy has been inside Christian and Gloria all along. That kind of impact that KYE has on the ENTIRE cd makes me love it. Without that song the concept would be lost. It's brilliance.^^^This. Every fucking word of it. [edit] Didja also notice the cover art for the single (the same as for the album track in the limited edition's art book)?The protestor is carrying a burning poster of a silhouetted human head that says "Your photo here". It's all there: the person you need to overthrow -- the person who in the first instance is destroying your peace, your sanity, your life -- is yourself. And the message this drives home is that you can't even begin to fix anything else in this crazy messed-up world until you fix what's going on between your own two fucking ears.[/edit]The crazy part of it is, these cross-currents within the album and the characters takes, I think, more work to uncover than we're accustomed to with other concept albums like The Who's "Tommy" or even Green Day's "American Idiot". 21CB in that regard is more like Pink Floyd's "The Wall" where you also have to really dig deep to understand even part of what's really going on in there. You have to listen to the album over and over again for weeks if not months to pick up the connections between the songs. But it's worth the work when the light bulb goes on in your head, ain't it?
Mar Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 [edit] Didja also notice the cover art for the single (the same as for the album track in the limited edition's art book)?The protestor is carrying a burning poster of a silhouetted human head that says "Your photo here". It's all there: the person you need to overthrow -- the person who in the first instance is destroying your peace, your sanity, your life -- is yourself. And the message this drives home is that you can't even begin to fix anything else in this crazy messed-up world until you fix what's going on between your own two fucking ears.[/edit]I never noticed this, and you're exactly right! It really does hint towards the RHS connection.
Bastard of 1967 Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 I never noticed this, and you're exactly right! It really does hint towards the RHS connection.It's an epiphany when you uncover these connections, isn't it? It's like the whole album is a big connect-the-dots journey through Billie Joe's head. I think it was either Mike or Tre who described Billie's mind as being like someone who's sitting in a room surrounded by a ring of 50 radios, each one of them playing something different than the others, and all of them turned on full-blast at the same time. How anyone can be that brilliant and so constantly intense, and still somehow manage to get through life with all of that going off inside of him, just amazes me.
E!!i Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 It's an epiphany when you uncover these connections, isn't it? It's like the whole album is a big connect-the-dots journey through Billie Joe's head. I think it was either Mike or Tre who described Billie's mind as being like someone who's sitting in a room surrounded by a ring of 50 radios, each one of them playing something different than the others, and all of them turned on full-blast at the same time. How anyone can be that brilliant and so constantly intense, and still somehow manage to get through life with all of that going off inside of him, just amazes me.My mind is the complete opposite. When you want to know what I am thinking about at the moment you only have to be quiet...But sometimes it's the opposite again and I have millions of thoughts.
HoneyDo666 Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 It's been GD #1 hit off this album. More people know 21 Guns but it never hit #1. I think it was a very good choice for a single, and I love it!I especially love the "insurgency will rise" part and the solo!
Sarahnade. Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 This song is still an epic win in my book. Such a great tune. I have to sing along to it, and you can't help but feel impowered when listening to it.
Kimpsu Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 I just noticed that it sounds a little bit like Pinhead Gunpowder's Certain Things.
♥Christian and Gloria♥ Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 I honestly don't understand why people don't like this song as much. I think it's really good song. May be repetitive but in a good catchy way.
E!!i Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 This song rocks and it's a good choice for the first single.
Bubbles. Posted December 6, 2009 Posted December 6, 2009 I love the song , but I don't think it should have been the first single...
E!!i Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 I love the song , but I don't think it should have been the first single...Why not? It's a catchy number and good chart breaker.
Red Lights Flash Posted December 11, 2009 Posted December 11, 2009 What it lacks is a mighty solo and a different bridge without the main riff on guitar to make it a little less repetitive.
E!!i Posted December 11, 2009 Posted December 11, 2009 What it lacks is a mighty solo and a different bridge without the main riff on guitar to make it a little less repetitive. If you say it.
Mar Posted December 12, 2009 Posted December 12, 2009 What it lacks is a mighty solo and a different bridge without the main riff on guitar to make it a little less repetitive. That, and I think it's a song that's better when it's in context with the rest of the album, especially Restless Heart Syndrome.
dolce Posted December 14, 2009 Posted December 14, 2009 It's an epiphany when you uncover these connections, isn't it? It's like the whole album is a big connect-the-dots journey through Billie Joe's head. I think it was either Mike or Tre who described Billie's mind as being like someone who's sitting in a room surrounded by a ring of 50 radios, each one of them playing something different than the others, and all of them turned on full-blast at the same time. How anyone can be that brilliant and so constantly intense, and still somehow manage to get through life with all of that going off inside of him, just amazes me.It is amazing to discover the whole meaning of the CD, bit-by-bit. Billie is just - he truly is a brilliant songwriter and musician. His brain is like on a different wavelength than the rest of us. His talent really boggles me sometime, because I just can't imagine being that gifted. The thing that's so fascinating about him is that you'd never know just how gifted he was unless you dug a little deeper. He doesn't flaunt his abilities at all, but he's genius.
rfgz Posted December 27, 2009 Posted December 27, 2009 First I loved this song because it was a catchy song. But soon - after listening to it 5-7 times - I found it so boring and disappointing. hose 3 chords now get on my nerves. I often skip this song because I cannot hear it anymore...Now I find it's the worst song of 21st century breakdown. :down:Nevertheless I bought the single but more because of the b-side than because of Know your enemy...
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