San Miguel Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 The question is simple – how many songs have Green Day produced? For the rest of this post I’ll refer to it as their magic number. Getting to the magic number is harder for Green Day than it will be for most bands. Few have produced as many albums, been writing for as long, or have mixed it up as much as Green Day have. What follows is a starting point, it is not a definitive list. I’m hoping it will be interesting and educational for us fans to think about rare songs, b-sides people may have not heard before, covers people didn’t realise were covers etc.. Who knows, by the end of it we may have a definitive list. I’ve decided not to count FBHT, The Network, or other side projects. Guess the rule is it has to be released as Green Day (prev. Sweet Children). When it comes to covers, as they have performed so many different songs live, I’m only counting those released on an album. If you know of songs that are missing then please post and I will add them in (same applies to any mistakes in this post!). If you think I have included something you wouldn’t – let me know, there are a few I couldn’t decide on myself. Also worth mentioning I have a mod’s approval for this post before anyone points at it being a list. So, “here we go again”… The early days - 38 songs in total 39/Smooth – 10 songs At the Library Don't Leave Me I Was There Disappearing Boy Green Day Going to Pasalacqua 16 Road to Acceptance Rest The Judge's Daughter Slappy – 4 songs, 1 = cover Paper Lanterns Why Do You Want Him? 409 in Your Coffeemaker Knowledge (Operation Ivy cover) 1000 hours – 4 songs 1,000 Hours Dry Ice Only of You The One I Want Extras from around that time - 4 songs, 3 covers I Want to Be Alone (last song on 1039 album) Sweet Home Alabama (Gilman St Block Party) (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) Eye of the Tiger (as above) (Survivor cover) Rock You Like A Hurricane (as above) (Scorpions cover) Kerplunk incl Sweet Children – 16 songs, 1 = cover 2000 Light Years Away One For The Razorbacks Welcome To Paradise Christie Road Private Ale Dominated Love Slave One Of My Lies 80 Android No One Knows Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? Words I Might Have Ate Sweet Children Best Thing In Town Strangeland My Generation (The Who cover) Dookie to Warning era - 63 songs in total Dookie – 14 songs, (as 1 is repeated from Kerplunk), 1 is hidden Burnout Having a Blast Chump Longview Welcome to Paradise – already counted on Kerplunk Pulling Teeth Basket Case She Sassafras Roots When I Come Around Coming Clean Emenius Sleepus In the End F.O.D. All By Myself Insomniac – 14 songs Armatage Shanks Brat Stuck With Me Geek Stink Breath No Pride Bab's Uvula Who? 86 Panic Song Stuart And The Ave. Brain Stew Jaded Westbound Sign Tight Wad Hill Walking Contradiction Nimrod – 18 songs Nice Guys Finish Last Hitchin' A Ride The Grouch Redundant Scattered All The Time Worry Rock Platypus (I Hate You) Uptight Last Ride In Jinx Haushinka Walking Alone Reject Take Back King For A Day Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) Prosthetic Head Extras from around that time – 1 song D.U.I. Warning – 12 songs Warning Blood, Sex And Booze Church On Sunday Fashion Victim Castaway Misery Deadbeat Holiday Hold On Jackass Waiting Minority Macy's Day Parade Extras from around that time – 4 songs, 1 cover Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely (Husker Du cover) The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink (Short Music for Short People) Private Hell (Skull Ring) – I know nothing about this Supermarket (as above) Pre-AI - 17 songs in total International Superhits! – 3 new songs Maria Poprocks & Coke J.A.R. Shenanigans – 14 songs, 3 covers Suffocate Desensitized You Lied Outsider (Ramones cover) Don't Wanna Fall in Love Espionage I Want to Be on T.V. (Fang cover) Scumbag Tired of Waiting for You (The Kinks cover) Sick of Me Rotting Do Da Da On the Wagon Ha Ha You're Dead AI and 21CB era - 48 songs in total American Idiot – 13 songs American Idiot Jesus Of Suburbia Holiday Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Are We The Waiting St. Jimmy Give Me Novacaine She's A Rebel Extraordinary Girl Letterbomb Wake Me Up Homecoming Whatsername Extras from around that time – 7 songs, 3 covers I Fought the Law (The Crickets and many others cover) Shoplifter Governator The Saints Are Coming (with U2) Working Class Hero (John Lennon cover) “The Simpsons theme” We Are The Champions (Live8) (Queen cover) 21st Century Breakdown – 18 songs Song Of The Century 21st Century Breakdown Know Your Enemy ¡Viva La Gloria! Before The Lobotomy Christian's Inferno Last Night On Earth East Jesus Nowhere Peacemaker Last Of The American Girls Murder City ?Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) Restless Heart Syndrome Horseshoes And Handgrenades The Static Age 21 Guns American Eulogy See The Light Extras from around that time – 10 songs, 4 covers A Quick One While He’s Away (The Who cover) Another State of Mind (Social Distortion cover) That’s All Right (Elvis cover) Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan cover) Lights Out Heart’s Collide Cigarettes and Valentines (Awesome as Fuck live CD) When It’s Time (American Idiot musical) Favorite Son (various incl 21 Guns EP in Aus) Too Much Too Soon To the trilogy… and beyond - 37 songs in total Uno, Dos & Tre - 37 songs Nuclear Family Stay The Night Carpe Diem Let Yourself Go Kill The DJ Fell For You Loss Of Control Troublemaker Angel Blue Sweet 16 Rusty James Oh Love See You Tonight F*** Time Stop When The Red Lights Flash Lazy Bones Wild One Makeout Party Stray Heart Ashley Baby Eyes Lady Cobra Nightlife Wow! That's Loud Amy Brutal Love Missing You 8th Avenue Serenade Drama Queen X-Kid Sex, Drugs & Violence A Little Boy Named Train Amanda Walk Away Dirty Rotten Bastards 99 Revolutions The Forgotten Miscellaneous - 2 songs in total Misc produced to an album – 2 songs C Yo Yus – know nothing about this, on ‘On The Radio’ Intermission – know nothing about this, on ‘On The Radio’ Songs not produced to an album as Green Day (so i’m not counting for the grand total), and pretty much anything else that doesn’t have a place above I Saw My Parents Kissing Santa Klaws Like A Rat Does Cheese Mechanical Man Minnesota Girl The Angel and the Jerk Ruby Mae You Can't Fool Me - was this on an album/single? World vs World - ditto Dookie demo instrumental Billie Joe's Mom GRAND TOTAL – 205 SONGS and counting… (16 of which are covers)
Gregorovich Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 Pretty sure we did this a while ago. Wasn't the number up nearer 250?
Jean Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 I think their magic number (or lucky number) is 4. 1994 - Dookie 2004 - American Idiot 2014 - ???
Sanity Loan Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 I think their magic number (or lucky number) is 4. 1994 - Dookie 2004 - American Idiot 2014 - ??? I unfortunately don't think we'll get another smash album 10 years after the last (or, in a xxx4 year). Too much stuff going on in 2014. 20th and 10th anniversaries of Dookie and AI, respectively. Billie writing songs for that Broadway musical, etc, etc.
green day is Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 I don't know why you're counting one-off covers they only did live, but anyway I only looked at early days and you missed You Can't Fool Me, World Vs. World, and those other two from KALX.
frunsi Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 list is missing billie joe's mom and the instrumental from the dookie demos
green day is Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 Misc produced to an album – 2 songs C Yo Yus – know nothing about this, on ‘On The Radio’ Intermission – know nothing about this, on ‘On The Radio’ Songs not produced to an album as Green Day (so i’m not counting for the grand total), and pretty much anything else that doesn’t have a place above I Saw My Parents Kissing Santa Klaws Like A Rat Does Cheese Mechanical Man Minnesota Girl The Angel and the Jerk Ruby Mae GRAND TOTAL – 205 SONGS and counting… (16 of which are covers) So you're gonna count some bootlegs towards the total but not Ruby Mae, which was on Cuatro? Overall I say OP's list is pretty fucked, but I hope we can make it better.
San Miguel Posted July 7, 2013 Author Posted July 7, 2013 Pretty sure we did this a while ago. Wasn't the number up nearer 250? Really? I was looking on here for a while but couldn't find a previous attempt. I don't know why you're counting one-off covers they only did live, but anyway I only looked at early days and you missed You Can't Fool Me, World Vs. World, and those other two from KALX. My knowledge of the oldest stuff is hazy, so thanks for additions - were they released on any albums at the time? For live covers do you mean the Gilman St Block Party covers? I read something that suggested it was released as a vinyl at the time which is why I included them. list is missing billie joe's mom and the instrumental from the dookie demos thanks - will look those up So you're gonna count some bootlegs towards the total but not Ruby Mae, which was on Cuatro? Overall I say OP's list is pretty fucked, but I hope we can make it better. I knew there would be errors in it, it was only a starting point which I'm hoping we can make better. As I said in the OP I was only counting songs released in some sort of album, hence not including Ruby Mae as it's on a DVD.
green day is Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 Really? I was looking on here for a while but couldn't find a previous attempt. My knowledge of the oldest stuff is hazy, so thanks for additions - were they released on any albums at the time? For live covers do you mean the Gilman St Block Party covers? I read something that suggested it was released as a vinyl at the time which is why I included them. thanks - will look those up I knew there would be errors in it, it was only a starting point which I'm hoping we can make better. As I said in the OP I was only counting songs released in some sort of album, hence not including Ruby Mae as it's on a DVD. Your list is gonna be completely fucked if you include everything that's been on a bootleg or anything. Why can't we just do all the songs they've written? Also Minnesota Girl wasn't on an album, so IDK why you included that.
San Miguel Posted July 7, 2013 Author Posted July 7, 2013 Your list is gonna be completely fucked if you include everything that's been on a bootleg or anything. Why can't we just do all the songs they've written? Also Minnesota Girl wasn't on an album, so IDK why you included that. I figured there has to be some sort of rule to counting the songs they have produced. To my mind, this is the number of songs released to the general public rather than written because they have been going for so long and written a huge amount of material we could never get close to completing a list. Minnesota Girl is in the list of songs I'm not counting towards the total at the end, as it wasn't on an album/single, etc..
green day is Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 I figured there has to be some sort of rule to counting the songs they have produced. To my mind, this is the number of songs released to the general public rather than written because they have been going for so long and written a huge amount of material we could never get close to completing a list. You are severely overestimating the amount of material they have written. My library was only four hundred songs last I checked, and that's counting numerous repeats in the form of demos, singles, EPs, and live albums.
billiejoephil Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 list is missing billie joe's mom and the instrumental from the dookie demos I don't think they recorded Billie Joe's Mom.
green day is Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 I don't think they recorded Billie Joe's Mom. They didn't record half this shit, lots of them are covers off of bootlegs that are in no way Green Day songs.
Nuclear Family Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 Shouldn't all the b-sides from shenanigans be put into their particular era-groups considering that they all weren't originally released or written in 2002?
Dillwad Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 You left out the original recording of Good Riddance/Time of your Life. It was originally released as a b-side to the Brain Stew single back in the Insomniac days before being re-recorded for Nimrod. Doesn't have any violins or cellos, and the guitar strumming is fast and raw. Private Hell and Supermarket are songs that Green Day played on Iggy Pop's album "Skull Ring." They only played instruments, and Iggy Pop did all the vocals, so Billie did not sing. C Yo Yus is an awesome song, everyone should check it out on YouTube.
Todd Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 Fuck this shit. I'm gonna waste my entire day making a much better list. OP's list was a good try, but I can make a better, more organized one
Todd Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 A much better list, if I may say so Songs 1000 Hours Dry Ice Only of You The One I Want At the Library Don't Leave Me I Was There Disappearing Boy Green Day Going to Pasalacqua 16 Road to Acceptance Rest The Judge's Daughter Paper Lanterns Why Do You Want Him? 409 In Your Coffeemaker Knowledge I Want to Be Alone Sweet Children Best Thing in Town Strangeland My Generation 2000 Light Years Away One for the Razorbacks Welcome to Paradise Christie Road Private Ale Dominated Love Slave One of My Lies 80 Android No One Knows Words I Might Have Ate Who Wrote Holden Caulfield Burnout Having a Blast Chump Longview Welcome to Paradise Pulling Teeth Basket Case She Sassafras Roots When I Come Around Coming Clean Emenius Sleepus In the End FOD All By Myself On the Wagon Tired of Waiting for You 409 In Your Coffeemaker (Re-recorded) JAR Armatage Shanks Brat Stuck With Me Geek Stink Breath No Pride Bab's Uvula Who 86 Panic Song Stuart and the Ave Brain Stew Jaded Westbound Sign Tightwad Hill Walking Contradiction I Want to Be on TV Don't Wanna Fall in Love Do Da Da Good Riddance Nice Guys Finish Last Hitchin' a Ride The Grouch Redundant Scattered All the Time Worry Rock Platypus Uptight Last Ride In Jinx Haushinka Walking Alone Reject Take Back King for a Day Good Riddance (Re-recorded) Prosthetic Head Sick of Me Espionage Desensitized Rotting Suffocate You Lied The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink Warning Blood, Sex & Booze Church on Sunday Fashion Victim Castaway Misery Deadbeat Holiday Hold On Jackass Waiting Minority Macy's Day Parade Scumbag Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely Outsider Maria (Original Version) Maria Poprocks & Coke Ha Ha, You're Dead DUI I Fought the Law American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday Boulevard of Broken Dreams Are We the Waiting St. Jimmy Give Me Novacaine She's a Rebel Extraordinary Girl Letterbomb Wake Me Up When September Ends Homecoming Whatsername Favorite Son Too Much Too Soon Shoplifter Governator The Simpson's Theme Working Class Hero Song of the Century 21st Century Breakdown Know Your Enemy Viva La Gloria Before the Lobotomy Christian's Inferno Last Night on Earth East Jesus Nowhere Peacemaker Last of the American Girls Murder City Little Girl Restless Heart Syndrome Horseshoes & Hand Grenades The Static Age 21 Guns American Eulogy See the Light Lights Out Hearts Collide A Quick One Another State of Mind That's All Right Like a Rolling Stone When It's Time Nuclear Family Stay the Night Carpe Diem Let Yourself Go Kill the DJ Fell for You Loss of Control Troublemaker Angel Blue Sweet 16 Rusty James Oh Love See You Tonight Fuck Time Stop When the Red Lights Flash Lazy Bones Wild One Makeout Party Stray Heart Ashley Baby Eyes Lady Cobra Nightlife Wow! That's Loud Amy Brutal Love Missing You 8th Avenue Serenade Drama Queen X-Kid Sex, Drugs & Violence Little Boy Named Train Amanda Walk Away Dirty Rotten Bastards 99 Revolutions The Forgotten Side Projects Joe Robot Transistors Gone Wild Reto Supermodel Robots Money Money 2020 Spike Love and Money Right Hand-a-Rama Roshambo Hungry Hungry Models Spastic Society X-Ray Hamburger Teenagers From Mars Hammer of the Gods Stop, Drop and Roll Mother Mary Ruby Room Red Tide Highway 1 She's a Saint, Not a Celebrity Broadway Sally Alligator The Pedestrian 27th Ave Shuffle Dark Side of Night Pieces of Truth Collaborations Private Hell Supermarket The Saints Are Coming Depression Times Unreleased World vs World Maybe Forever Jennifer You Can't Fool Me Metal Song Instrumental Billie Joe's Mom Allison Alfred E. Normal 19th Nervous Breakdown Wastaway Sleepyhead Like a Rat Does Cheese Boys in the Bathroom Stall Second Time Around Things I Heard Today What About Today? Minnesota Girl Cigarettes & Valentines Dropout Wonderful Olivia Dream Catcher Oh Girl Hello Firecracker State of Shock Gabriella Ruby Mae Hotfoot Jamboree I'm Alright Hard Times Satellite Life is So Plain Can't Believe My Own Eyes That Just Happened (Instrumental ) Serena vs Mike (Instrumental ) I did not include Mechanical Man because that is just Billie Joe solo, but I did include The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink because it's credited to Green Day on the album. If there are any other disputes, feel free to bring it up to me. So I counted 1999 Green Day released songs 226 Green Day songs including The Network and Hottubs 230 including collaborations and the above 266 all songs including unreleased that we know about
Annie, get your gun Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 In my count for the "magic number" I did included both Network and Foxboro In the end, they're songs written by them, played by them and they released by Green Day But I didn't count covers and some of the unreleased songs.
The Platypus! Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 Was Surrender and Bastards of young released? Could you include that to the 'magic number'?
Todd Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 Was Surrender and Bastards of young released? Could you include that to the 'magic number'? No, those are both covers that were only played live. I we included all the covers they've ever played, there'd be an addition of 100 songs to the list
Iva Posted July 14, 2013 Posted July 14, 2013 The Angel and the Jerk WAS officially released; it's just that Penelope Houston is on vocals. It was on a movie soundtrack in 1997. I remember Viva news when it was announced (on 16th April that year) and well, it's obvious that it's a studio recording. Questions from a fan who was dormant for a long time: Is there a .zip I can download with these unreleased songs from TMAN864's lists? What is Depression times? Also, where can one hear Minnesota Girl and Mechanical Man? Thank you. <3 In return, you wrote 1999 instead of 1999. Thanks to the original thread starter, too.
green day is Posted July 14, 2013 Posted July 14, 2013 The Angel and the Jerk WAS officially released; it's just that Penelope Houston is on vocals. It was on a movie soundtrack in 1997. I remember Viva news when it was announced (on 16th April that year) and well, it's obvious that it's a studio recording. Questions from a fan who was dormant for a long time: Is there a .zip I can download with these unreleased songs from TMAN864's lists? If he wants to upload them I guess. What is Depression times? A song they did with Jesse Malin under the name Rodeo Queens. Also, where can one hear Minnesota Girl and Mechanical Man? Youtube. Minnesota Girl is for download on GDA but I don't know about Mechanical Man, I got it from the LF!DF! soundtrack. Thank you. <3 In return, you wrote 1999 instead of 1999. Thanks to the original thread starter, too. .
Certified Nimrod Posted July 15, 2013 Posted July 15, 2013 You are severely overestimating the amount of material they have written. My library was only four hundred songs last I checked, and that's counting numerous repeats in the form of demos, singles, EPs, and live albums. Mine has thousands 0.o Is there a .zip I can download with these unreleased songs from TMAN864's lists? I too would like that .zip
green day is Posted July 15, 2013 Posted July 15, 2013 Mine has thousands 0.o Do you keep your bootlegs in the same place as your other songs? Cause that would be why. [Edit:] Oh, unless you thought I meant my library in general. I mean for Green Day only.
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