Songs Billie changed

[Kayfabe]

Oh yeah and in the american idiot bridge instead of leaving acapella they play the riff in the background which is wicked imo

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

^ Oh I heard that version once! It used to be called Better Not Come Around but I can't remember where I heard it.

I would also love a link to it if there is one

Oh, I remember hearing that!

[Bohemian+Scandal]

He hardly ever says the "I wanna hurt myself" line in the first chorus of 80... At least I don't think he does.

He usually just says "I just can't trust myself" an extra time.

Not a major alteration, but just something I've noticed.

[AnnA™]

Old version of When I Come Around? I don't think I've heard (of) that. Do you have a link or something?

^ Oh I heard that version once! It used to be called Better Not Come Around but I can't remember where I heard it.

I would also love a link to it if there is one

Sorry, I wish I did. I remember I heard it on YouTube, it was an old recording from around the Kerplunk era. The lyrics were a bit different. I can't find it though... :/

Edit: Nevermind, I found something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMPK7cSaeXo

This sounds more like the original though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6QgeSNa0M...feature=related

A few lines are different.

[PasalacquaBomb]

I only can find this one:

But lyrics are the same.

this version is awesome, too. It's not really changed but I love that drum intro :>

[Hermione]

Thanks for the links both of you! I enjoyed listening to all those slightly different versions.

I think the Gilman one was the one I heard before. It's not that different sounding but he is saying "better not come around" and a couple of other different words, plus some of the melody is different. I really like hearing songs in their earlier stages like that.

Oh my god that reminds me, has anyone heard the early live version of Longview with loads of different lyrics? "Fucking myself through the night"

Plus there's a live version of Longview where he says "I'm feeling like a CAT in heat". Someone mentioned it on here ages ago and I spent ages trying to track it down, but now I've forgotten where I finally found it . I need to do some detective work.

[PasalacquaBomb]

[Hermione]

^YES! I love you . Thanks so much for that.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

Lol yeah I remember that

what's up with the woman screaming 'ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh with the jesus christ" (or whatever she's saying) though?

[Eirik]

Oh yeah and in the american idiot bridge instead of leaving acapella they play the riff in the background which is wicked imo

You mean they play it a capella instead of playing the riff?

[The Disappearing Boy]

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I love this version of Longview.

[Juliette]

In Jesus of Suburbia, instead of singing "Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed", he sings unemployed. But I think everyone already knew that lol.

I like it when they change things up. It's unexpected and fun of them to do that.

I never quite got that... when I heard it on the radio it had unemployed, but on the cd & live he sings overjoyed. Wieieierd.

It says: "Runaway To your lost Tranquility and find your face in the gutter

Your a stray for the Dregs of humanity

There is no place like home when you got no place to go"

I think I prefer that. Though it wouldn't sound as good in the song, "dregs of humanity" doesn't quite fit.

[dustyn808]

the demo version of 21st century breakdown i love a lot of these lyrics too... its tough to say which one i like better

Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell

A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled

The last one born and the first one to run

My town was blind from refinery sun.

My generation is zero

I never made it as a working class hero

21st century breakdown

I once was lost but never was found

I think I'm losing what's left of my mind

to the 20th century deadline

I was made of poison and blood

Combination is what I understood

From Mexico to the Berlin Wall

Homeland security could kill us all

We are the cries of the class of '13

born in the year of humility

we are the desperate in the decline

raised by the bastards of 1969

My name is 'No one' your long lost son

born on the 4th of July

Raised in the barnyards of heroes and cons

left me for dead or alive

There is a war that's inside my head

that questions the results and lies

I'm breaking my back till I'm better off dead

When enough ain't enough to survive

I am an agent, a worker, a pawn

my debt to the status quo

The scars on my hands and a means to an end

it's all that I have to show

I'm taking a loan on my sanity

for the redemption of my soul

well I am exempt from this tragedy

and the 21st century fall

I praise liberty

the freedom to obey

It's a song that strangles me

well don't cross the line

Oh, dream, American dream

I can't even sleep

from rainstorms till dawn

Oh, bleed, America, bleed

Believe what you read

from heroes and cons.

Also early Versions of longview are awesome. Shit early versions of all their songs are awesome

[Punk Rock]

i agree.... i saw then live at sheffield arena on the 26.10.09 and they were amazing. The only downside was is that i was in the middle of the arena and i wasnt that close. im going to see them again this year at the manchester lancashire cricket club and this time im going to fight my way to the front. the gig is on the 16.6.10 and its an open stadium.. so this time im going to fight my way over to the front!

[Ila Reto]

the lyrics to Who Wrote HCL was altered at their Pinole 1990 show (i think thats the one).

i cant make out what it is though. right before the second chorus.

http://greendayvideos.com/mp3/pinole90.mp3

[Hermione]

the lyrics to Who Wrote HCL was altered at their Pinole 1990 show (i think thats the one).

i cant make out what it is though. right before the second chorus.

http://greendayvideos.com/mp3/pinole90.mp3

Yeah! He says something else instead of "well it hasn't been the first time". I think he's saying "well it sure does make me crazy".

"Well it sure does make me crazy, and it sure does drive me mad". I like that