Little things you'd change in Green Day songs

[darrenstreetlight]

Ever since the first time I heard it, I've felt it is glaringly obvious that there is one too many lines of 'I don't care if you don't care' in 'Jesus of Suburbia'.

I'd like to add that this is easily one of my favourite songs and that I've become accustomed to the additional line, but I'd be surprised if I'm the only one who's ever felt this.

[Spike]

Ever since the first time I heard it, I've felt it is glaringly obvious that there is one to many lines of 'I don't care if you don't care' in 'Jesus of Suburbia'.

I'd like to add that this is easily one of my favourite songs and that I've become accustomed to the additional line, but I'd be surprised if I'm the only one who's ever felt this.

Yeah, I think you're right there. I've also got used to it, though.

Similarly, I've always felt there's one too many choruses at the end of Are We The Waiting. I've never counted but it feels like there's an odd number, so the transition into St Jimmy feels a bit jarring. Maybe that's the point due to the contrast between the songs, but it could still have worked just as well with one more or one less chorus.

[The Disappearing Boy]

The endings to Brutal Love and (particularly) Homecoming are just way too long. And the Static Age.

[BuckRogers01]

At the end of When I Come Around, put the little guitar solo from the middle of the song in, I always do this when I play it, sounds cool...

[Hermione]

I'd get rid of that horrible voice effect when Billie sings "wake up" in Waiting. I think it's in some other songs on Warning as well. And it's in American Idiot, on the line "going out to idiot America". It's meant to sound like a tannoy/loudspeaker or something. I can see the reason for it in the songs, making the lyrics sounds like an official announcement, but I find it cringy.

And I'd like Church On Sunday to have a cheesy key change the end , I would enjoy it if it went up a key for the repeated chorus. They did the next best thing by doing it on The Static Age, so now I almost have my wish, but it'd be even better on Church On Sunday.

The endings to Brutal Love and (particularly) Homecoming are just way too long. And the Static Age.

But the ending of Brutal Love is so wonderful I don't want it to end! The music changes and builds too, it's not just boring repeating. I think the length of it makes it more powerful and emotional, as it has time to build.

[StuckWithInsomnia]

I'd take out the "better thank your lucky stars" vocals part in Waiting. It just sounds a bit annoying.

I would give EJN a proper third chorus.

And in Scattered it says "If you've got no one, and I've got no place to go, would it be alright? Would it be alright?" I would make it say "Would it be alright with you?" I just think that sounds a bit better.

[The Grouch is Tracy]

I'd take Panic Song's intro away and add a shorter and less boring intro instead.

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[scatteredminority]

I usually prefer songs with original structures, but I think Uptight would be better with a "Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus" structure rather than "Verse, Verse, Verse, Verse, Verse, Verse, Verse, Verse, Chorus, Chorus, Chorus, Chorus, Chorus, Chorus". It sounds so repetitive.

I think the guitar riff during the verses of Know Your Enemy should be different instead of repeating the chorus riff.

I don't like the electric guitar on Last Night On Earth, the one with delay.

Also, where can I listen to the original version of Dirty Rotten Bastards, with the extra verse mentioned before?

[Punkfreak1414]

I think oh love would of been alitte better if they didn't play the chorus 2 times at the end of the song and only did it once...anyone agree?

[The Disappearing Boy]

Oh Love would have been better without existing

[The Grouch is Tracy]

Also, change all the girl names to Tracy so that I know that Billie really does write very song just for me........ except for maybe Ashley and Amanda because he doesn't have very nice things to say. Not too much to ask I'm sure.

[Punkfreak1414]

Actually you know what oh love would be better if it didn't exsist. I personally think the best thing on the studio version is the guitar tone in the intro of it. Not many people seem to care for it (before I get yelled at noticed I said not MANY lol)

[ddany]

more distortion on the trilogy. it's just too light i guess.

i would add yeee haaa to Pulling Teeth, just like Billie did in the last 3 performances

[Spike]

And I'd like Church On Sunday to have a cheesy key change the end , I would enjoy it if it went up a key for the repeated chorus. They did the next best thing by doing it on The Static Age, so now I almost have my wish, but it'd be even better on Church On Sunday.

Oh god, no! The ending of The Static Age is so cheesy, it kind of kills the song for me. It also sounds like the vocals have just been pitch shifted up rather than Billie singing it in the new key. Makes the whole thing sound very Disneyfied, which I find offputting.

There should be a proper solo in 2000 Light Years Away. It's my favourite Green Day song, but the more recent live versions where Billie has done a big solo during Mike's bass solo have been amazing.

[Hermione]

Oh god, no! The ending of The Static Age is so cheesy, it kind of kills the song for me. It also sounds like the vocals have just been pitch shifted up rather than Billie singing it in the new key. Makes the whole thing sound very Disneyfied, which I find offputting.

What can I say I enjoy a bit of cheesiness from time to time

I know a change that Billie would like , make it so the last time he sings "the only thing that's beating" in BOBD the "beating" goes lower. I swear he's done that every single time they've ever played the song live. When we go to Green Day shows my sister and I make a point of looking at each other when he does it and it makes us crack up laughing. Bet he wishes he'd recorded it that way.

[tamsin]

What can I say I enjoy a bit of cheesiness from time to time

I know a change that Billie would like , make it so the last time he sings "the only thing that's beating" in BOBD the "beating" goes lower. I swear he's done that every single time they've ever played the song live. When we go to Green Day shows my sister and I make a point of looking at each other when he does it and it makes us crack up laughing. Bet he wishes he'd recorded it that way.

I remember you posting this a while ago. I've looked out for it ever since and he really does do it every time. At the shows I've been to I've joined in with him doing it as well

[Hermione]

I remember you posting this a while ago. I've looked out for it ever since and he really does do it every time. At the shows I've been to I've joined in with him doing it as well

Hah glad you get to enjoy it as well now! I've noticed he's started doing similar changes at the end of more and more songs in recent times.....looking out for it has become a bit of an obsession

[LogikaX]

Just because the whole loudness war things seems popular in here, I actually saw this video earlier today! It analyzes a re-release of American Idiot compared to the original version released in 2004. Really fascinating stuff

[Otis Big]

I would change the lyrics in Missing You to

"She's my blood, and she's my soul

I get so lost out in the cold

She's my heart, she's in my mind

I'm missing you on my own time"

It rhymes better and also connects back to Kill The DJ

And if anyone recalls the first video of stray heart, after they finished the first chorus you could hear someone say "Yeaah!" at like the perfect time.

I think it would be cool if Billie like faded in with a yeah at the perfect time. Like an "oh yeah, this sounds awesome" or "fuck yeah" kind of yeah.

It would also kind of connect back to Oh Love on top of the songs already being connected in the first place.

[Jon Benjamin]

In Oh Love, like 2 measures before the 2nd verse there was a little one note-bend riff in the Red 7 video I'd put that in, I love it

[Ham Pascale]

Remove 'whoa oh yeah' between chorus and verse in Private Ale. Make all Tre Cool's songs never exist/performed.

[tdlyon]

In Murder City, change the line "Christian's crying in the bathroom, and I just want to bum a cigarette" to "And I just want a fucking cigarette." Billie does it live sometimes and I think it's cooler.

Also, in Restless Heart Syndrome, change the line "I've got a really bad disease" to "I've got a crippling disease" or something like that. I definitely feel like Billie could have come up with something better than "really bad," it makes him sound like a little kid.

[Anaïs.]

Oh god, no! The ending of The Static Age is so cheesy, it kind of kills the song for me. It also sounds like the vocals have just been pitch shifted up rather than Billie singing it in the new key. Makes the whole thing sound very Disneyfied, which I find offputting.

I really love the key change actually, probably just because it's something the band so seldom does.

[bagelfeet]

Take out that weird breathing noise or whatever the fuck it is in Wow! That's Loud. That is so annoying!

[michael1989]

Also, in Restless Heart Syndrome, change the line "I've got a really bad disease" to "I've got a crippling disease" or something like that. I definitely feel like Billie could have come up with something better than "really bad," it makes him sound like a little kid.

To me, that line is supposed to reflect the absurdity of how people are so quick to jump to medication for any ailment. "Really bad" as in people are childish in how they deal with their pain.