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river of a shadow of a doubt of a dawn's shadow in the light of night

something like that.

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somewhere towards the end of Haushinka and Walking Contradiction have the same chord progression

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In a lot of green day songs, they start out very softly so that I feel the need to turn my ipod up very loudly, then they randomly become loud and blast my ears out. It's mostly the newer songs, and no matter how many times i hear them, it still gets me xD (i have no idea why my english sounds so horrible in this paragraph xD)

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What patterns do I notice in Green Day songs?

Drugs.

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What patterns do I notice in Green Day songs?

Drugs.

Amen! :lol:

Maybe it's just me... but in a lot of their songs I've heard ticking, in Nimrod especially I remember correctly.

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Come on; of course there are going to be lyrical themes and pattens throughout the songs on American Idiot, guys, it's a rock opera...a story. Thats obvious.

Anyway I've noticed from their earliest days, and into the present they're lyrics have a heavily urban in theme. -makes sens considering where they live-

Every album has at least two -if not more- songs that mention street names, transport,buildings, industrialism, etc.

I think the weirdest thing is the love/hate relationship they seems to have with it. Sometimes they're talking about it like it's wonderful, other times it's like hell.

Also Billie's weird obsession with females names, both real women he's known and those he's invented. He loves sining lady names.

Julie, Adie, Haushinka, Olivia, Virgina, Gina, Whatsername, Gloria, Sally (i'm sure there are some I've forgotten)

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I guess an obvious pattern would be the maturity the band has gained and portrays it through music.

They went from Dookie, which were the days of masturbation and drugs.

Throughout the albums and years, they slowly matured

Now they don't have bratty fast punk albums, instead they put more meaning and thought behind telling a story.

Both are excellent, just different

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The word Fuck

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SELF DESTRUCTION!!!

(especially on Insomniac)

In 'All the Time' there is the lyric 'wasting time, wasting time down a bum fuck road, and I don't know where the hell it'll go' and later on 'guess I should have read between the lines'.

In BOBD there then is the lyric 'read between the lines, what's fucked up etc'. He is also on a 'bum fuck road' - the boulevard itself, and doesn't know where it'll go.

I noticed this link a few days ago - nice!!!

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That's not a lyrical pattern but a musical pattern...

Parts of Mass Hysteria and deadbeat holidays are fuckin the same intervals and the same beats! They are just...nearly exactly the same

And the end of JAR seems like Modern World...

And in Jackass "Well No one ever said that live is fair" and favorite son: "Well No onesays it's fair"

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A musical one: Church on Sunday and The Static Age have very similar riffs

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I've noticed Billie likes to use the phrases "my mind" or "my head" a few times.

Guess it's not really a pattern.. Was this mentioned?

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I don't know if anyone has said it yet or not, but his whole "not caring" theme. I don't care, you don't care, I don't care if you don't care, I don't care if you don't mind, I don't mind if you don't mind....

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And in Jackass "Well No one ever said that live is fair" and favorite son: "Well No onesays it's fair"

You forgot Homecoming too, "Nobody ever said that life was fair now" :sherlock:

And yes to whoever mentioned the beginning music to Letterbomb and Static Age being incredibly similar.... but that's whatever.

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she's a rebel, vigilante

Vigilante's warning ya, calling christian and gloria!

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"I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride" and "I'm on the wagon again"

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somewhere towards the end of Haushinka and Walking Contradiction have the same chord progression

Same with parts of All the Time and Private Ale.

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"lost and found" I've heard it on St. Jimmy, Are we the waiting and on a Warning dong, I don't remember which one

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Same with parts of All the Time and Private Ale.

oh yeah i didn't even notice that! :happy:

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A lot of songs have BJ saying "Alright". Know Your Enemy and East Jesus Nowhere. The beginning of 86 and Armatage Shanks.

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That's not a lyrical pattern but a musical pattern...

Parts of Mass Hysteria and deadbeat holidays are fuckin the same intervals and the same beats! They are just...nearly exactly the same

And the end of JAR seems like Modern World...

And in Jackass "Well No one ever said that live is fair" and favorite son: "Well No onesays it's fair"

What are you talking about? The drum beats in Deadbeat Holiday and Mass Hysteria are completely different.

Anyway, interesting topic.

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Hear the drum pounding out of time - Holiday

Marching out of time, to my own beat now - Minority

...everyones heart doesn't beat the same, it's beating out of time - Jesus of suburbia

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Everytime I'm singing Scattered I'm drifting up in 2000 lightyears away. The chord progression is very similar, isn't it?

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Everytime I'm singing Scattered I'm drifting up in 2000 lightyears away.

I'm having a similar situation with "Stuck with me" and 86.

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Hear the drum pounding out of time - Holiday

Marching out of time, to my own beat now - Minority

...everyones heart doesn't beat the same, it's beating out of time - Jesus of suburbia

She's always living like she's running out of time (Too Much Too Soon)

So stay, so stay the night, 'cause we're running out of time! (Stay the Night)

I love out of time pattern!

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