Your ideal Green Day show/playlist

[That Dude]

1. Oh Love

2.Nightlife

3. 86

4. Nuclear Family

5. Kids in the America

6.  Jerry Falwells Whatever Party

7. Make Out Party

8. Meet me on the roof

9.   Green Day

10.  Jinx

11.  The Saints are Coming 

12.  80

13.  Drama Queen

14.  I Want it All (cover)

15.  Bohemian Rhapsody (cover)

16. Surrender 

17. Jesus of Suburbia 

18.  St. Jimmy

19.  Blood Sex and Booze

20.  Give Me Novocaine   

[Zebahar]

I know the boys are getting a little older and at this point, their shows will mainly just be the hits (which could easily fill a standard setlist), but I would love to see a few changes to their "normal setlist":

• Take out St. Jimmy and replace it with a song like Bang Bang or Stay the Night. I was positive Bang Bang would be a staple after Rev Rad came out, but even if that one isn't picked, I think one of the more "popular" trilogy songs could easily take its place. St. Jimmy is fun and all, but I always thought it fit better as a whole with the album rather than just being put in the setlist
• This will be unpopular, but I have never been a fan of Hitchin a Ride in the setlist. It is one of those songs that gets prolonged by like 3-4 minutes with crowd participation. I would replace that one with one of their audibles that they have been doing recently.
• I would love for them to bring back the acoustic encore, where a few songs were played, even if they were just a few verses of each. I think back to the 21st century breakdown tour where they did Words I Might Have Ate + Novacaine + Good Riddance (here).

Obviously I know that they are in their festival round of the tour, and those will always be catered to more casual fans and have just the hits, but I think there are some gems that get no love, even if they did well commercially (i.e. Bang Bang, Still Breathing, Oh Love, etc.).

[nowshesgone]

setlist made out of  sum bustouts from both Hella Tiny and Saviors tour 
1. Saviors
2. 1981
3. Stuart and the Ave
4. Suzie Chapstick
5. Scattered
6. In The End ->
7. Jaded
8. 2000 Light Years Away
9. Extraordinary Girl
10. One Of My Lies
11. 80
12. Who Wrote Holden Caulfield
13. Strange Days are Here To Stay
Encore
14. Walking Contradiction ->
15. Homecoming
16. Whatsername

[billy1986]

Unpopular opinion but as mentioned above take St. Jimmy out and Hitching a Ride out. They could squeeze 3 songs with that alone. Switch JOS with 21st Century Breakdown ever other night. More Insomniac 

[GreenDayJunkie86]

13 hours ago, billy1986 said:

Unpopular opinion but as mentioned above take St. Jimmy out and Hitching a Ride out. They could squeeze 3 songs with that alone. Switch JOS with 21st Century Breakdown ever other night. More Insomniac 

Definitely more Insomniac. I agree with the Jesus of Suburbia one, too. They play that one too much IMO and it takes up 10 minutes of the show. Definitely could be switched  

[Gwen Stacy]

If I heard Stuck With Me or Stuart and the Ave live I think I might literally die from sheer excitement.

[GreenDayJunkie86]

4 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

If I heard Stuck With Me or Stuart and the Ave live I think I might literally die from sheer excitement.

EXACTLY! I have been wanting to post on this thread, but I always stop mid-setlist because I am intimidated by how long it will take me to make a 30-song setlist, lol. I so agree with you, we NEED more Insomniac, and I would probably die if I heard anything from Warning (except for Waiting and Minority, which they normally play). Why is Deadbeat Holiday so forgotten? I would love to see it live  

[mikedirntseviltwin]

Literally just the 21CB World Tour setlist but with a few songs from Rev Rad

[Mollyluna]

11 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

If I heard Stuck With Me or Stuart and the Ave live I think I might literally die from sheer excitement.

We were happy to get Stuart and the Ave in Vienna. It was just so cool!!🥰

7 hours ago, GreenDayJunkie86 said:

 I would probably die if I heard anything from Warning 

The title track! I need the title track!!!

[nowshesgone]

Totally normal GD setlist, trust me
1. Meet Me On the Roof
2. I Was a Teenage Teenager
3. Junkies on a High
4. Take The Money and Crawl-al-al
5. You Lied
6. Scumbag
7. ROTTING
8.  On The Wagon
9a. Stuck With Me tease ->
9b. Do Da Da
10. Tired of Waiting For You
11. DUI
Encore
12. Dont Want To Know if Your Lonely
13. Suffocate ->
14. Haha You're Dead
15. Sugar Youth

Breakdown:
Father of All: 6
Shenanigans: 7+1 scrapped track
Misc: 1

[nowshesgone]

10 Years of Dookie/American Idiot tour
--American Idiot--
1. American Idiot *
2. Jesus Of Suburbia *
3. Holiday *
4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams *
5. Are We the Waiting *
6. St Jimmy *
7. Give Me Novacaine 
8. * Shes a Rebel
9. Extraordinary Girl
10. * Letterbomb
11. * Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming
13. Whatsername
--Warning, Insomniac, Kerplunk, Slappy, and Nimrod --
14. Waiting
15. Hitchin' a Ride
16. * Knowledge (bring someone up to play guitar)
17. * Geek Stink Breath
18.  *Minority, leading into ->
--Dookie--
19. * Burnout (first time since 1999)
20. Having a Blast (first time since 1993)
21. Chump (first time since 1998)
22. * Longview
23.  Welcome To Paradise
24. Pulling Teeth (debut)
25. * Basket Case
26. * She
27. Sassafras Roots (debut)
28. When I Come Around (on the festival sets for 2004, not on them for 2005)
29. * Coming Clean
30. Emenius Sleepus (debut)
31. In The End (on the festival sets for 2005 only)
32. F.O.D
33. All By Myself (Tre & Jason Freese only)
--Encore--
34. Dominated Love Slave
35a. * Brain Stew ->
35b. Panic Song Mirage/Ole Ole Ole
36. * Jaded
37. * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

King For A Day/Shout gets added for the 2005 half, alongside random bust outs/debuts sporadically 
* = on the Festival setlist

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

On 7/13/2025 at 5:40 PM, Zebahar said:

I know the boys are getting a little older and at this point, their shows will mainly just be the hits (which could easily fill a standard setlist), but I would love to see a few changes to their "normal setlist":

• Take out St. Jimmy and replace it with a song like Bang Bang or Stay the Night. I was positive Bang Bang would be a staple after Rev Rad came out, but even if that one isn't picked, I think one of the more "popular" trilogy songs could easily take its place. St. Jimmy is fun and all, but I always thought it fit better as a whole with the album rather than just being put in the setlist
• This will be unpopular, but I have never been a fan of Hitchin a Ride in the setlist. It is one of those songs that gets prolonged by like 3-4 minutes with crowd participation. I would replace that one with one of their audibles that they have been doing recently.
• I would love for them to bring back the acoustic encore, where a few songs were played, even if they were just a few verses of each. I think back to the 21st century breakdown tour where they did Words I Might Have Ate + Novacaine + Good Riddance (here).

Obviously I know that they are in their festival round of the tour, and those will always be catered to more casual fans and have just the hits, but I think there are some gems that get no love, even if they did well commercially (i.e. Bang Bang, Still Breathing, Oh Love, etc.).

Hitchin' a Ride is one of the "deep cuts" more likely to be played on any given night because it was a live staple for so, so long that people still know it.

Are they even doing encores anymore? I thought it pretty much went straight from Bobby Sox into Good Riddance, with no pause for an encore.

St. Jimmy works by itself. Not every song has to fit a narrative all the time. In live shows, it's a quick little "go fucking mental" number played for a crowd that's just waiting for excuses to go fucking mental. If it were ten minutes long, I'd get dropping it. Speaking of ten-minute-long songs...

On 7/14/2025 at 11:30 AM, GreenDayJunkie86 said:

Definitely more Insomniac. I agree with the Jesus of Suburbia one, too. They play that one too much IMO and it takes up 10 minutes of the show. Definitely could be switched  

BLASPHEMY

On 7/14/2025 at 4:43 PM, GreenDayJunkie86 said:

EXACTLY! I have been wanting to post on this thread, but I always stop mid-setlist because I am intimidated by how long it will take me to make a 30-song setlist, lol. I so agree with you, we NEED more Insomniac, and I would probably die if I heard anything from Warning (except for Waiting and Minority, which they normally play). Why is Deadbeat Holiday so forgotten? I would love to see it live  

Mine typically happen because I'm listening to an album and go, "Oh, hey, you know what would sound really good and fit well right here?". It's not really an intentional thing, it just happens when I come across a little chain of songs that works well together.

On 7/14/2025 at 11:44 PM, Mollyluna said:

The title track! I need the title track!!!

The title track from Warning? Nah. They should play Minority more often instead.

But seriously, Waiting needs a lot more love than it gets, if we're talking about underplayed songs.

 

Also, someone please bribe Billie Joe to put American Eulogy back in the set. He doesn't have to mention who's throwing gas into the hysteria.

[Gwen Stacy]

50 minutes ago, Tre's Busted Drumkit said:

Also, someone please bribe Billie Joe to put American Eulogy back in the set. He doesn't have to mention who's throwing gas into the hysteria.

Solution: update the lyrics to be more topical. It works for American Idiot, why not American Eulogy?
"Because the martyr is a compulsive liar when he said it's just a bunch of Antifa throwing gas into the hysteria"

In reality it'll never happen because adding it back into the setlist would just kick up dust and cause a controversy that they do not need. Still a pump-ass song though.

[nowshesgone]

9 minutes ago, Gwen Stacy said:

Solution: update the lyrics to be more topical. It works for American Idiot, why not American Eulogy?
"Because the martyr is a compulsive liar when he said it's just a bunch of Antifa throwing gas into the hysteria"

In reality it'll never happen because adding it back into the setlist would just kick up dust and cause a controversy that they do not need. Still a pump-ass song though.

i saw a short of someone playing it once where they changed that line to something J6 related

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

22 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

Solution: update the lyrics to be more topical. It works for American Idiot, why not American Eulogy?
"Because the martyr is a compulsive liar when he said it's just a bunch of Antifa throwing gas into the hysteria"

In reality it'll never happen because adding it back into the setlist would just kick up dust and cause a controversy that they do not need. Still a pump-ass song though.

I think "Just a bunch of snowflakes" works perfectly well.

[solongfromthestars]

I'd take American Eulogy over anything else. It's one of their two best live songs along with Forever Now. Wouldn't be hard to change the problematic lyric.

I would also love more trilogy (8th Avenue Serenade!!!!!!) but I'm sure I've said that before

[Gwen Stacy]

I would do disgusting, horrible things to hear 8th Avenue Serenade played live. 
 

On that topic, I wonder why the trilogy has become a fan favorite. Rose colored glasses? Not that I’m complaining, that’s the first project I was a fan for from beginning to end so it has a very special place in my heart. It just seems to have the widest variance between general reception and fan opinion. 

[nowshesgone]

4 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

I would do disgusting, horrible things to hear 8th Avenue Serenade played live. 
 

On that topic, I wonder why the trilogy has become a fan favorite. Rose colored glasses? Not that I’m complaining, that’s the first project I was a fan for from beginning to end so it has a very special place in my heart. It just seems to have the widest variance between general reception and fan opinion. 

Father Of All is probably why tbh

[That Dude]

Father of All in full every single night with a 20 minute version of Nightlife as the encore.  

[solongfromthestars]

16 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

On that topic, I wonder why the trilogy has become a fan favorite. Rose colored glasses? Not that I’m complaining, that’s the first project I was a fan for from beginning to end so it has a very special place in my heart. It just seems to have the widest variance between general reception and fan opinion. 

I think it's just that a lot of people hated it because of the circumstances when they wouldn't have hated it otherwise, but now the circumstances are a distant memory so those people are able to enjoy it. It was also uncool to like it when it came out, but most fans will have grown out of that by now or if they're new, they don't know that was even a thing.

I've been a trilogy defender from the start and I'm glad people are realising how great it is! Billie's best love songs are on those albums and Love is for Losers.

8 hours ago, That Dude said:

Father of All in full every single night with a 20 minute version of Nightlife as the encore.  

I'd take it for Meet Me on the Roof and Nightlife. I can always go for a toilet break during Teenage Teenager and What Else Are Junkies On?

[jengd]

11 hours ago, That Dude said:

Father of All in full every single night with a 20 minute version of Nightlife as the encore.  

I’d take it!  I agree with @solongfromthestars re the Trilogy and think with time people will come to FOA which I have defended many times too.

[berserk]

All by Myself

Dominated Love Slave

Fuck Time

Makeout Party

Nightlife

D.U.I

Like a Rat Does Cheese

[nowshesgone]

setlist.
1. Fuck Time
2. Fuck Time
3. Fuck Time
4. Fuck Time
5. Fuck Time
6. Fuck Time
7. Fuck Time
8a. Letterbomb tease
8b. Fuck Time
9. Fuck Time
10. Jaded
11. Jaded
12. Jaded
13. Jaded
14. Jaded
15. Jaded
16. Rest (partial)
17. Rest (partial)
18. Rest (partial)
19. Rest (partial)
20. the first minute of Basket Case
Encore
21. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
22. Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)
23. Good Riddance (Fuck You)
24. Fuck Off (Good Riddance) [Mashup]
25. Fuck Time