Random Green Day Thoughts

[gd_castaway90]

Do you think Billie can hear God's voice? How does he come up with the lyrics? They're God's favorite band, after all, right???

[jengd]

6 hours ago, gd_castaway90 said:

Do you think Billie can hear God's voice? How does he come up with the lyrics? They're God's favorite band, after all, right???

Well I think the performance at Download with the rain just proves it! He is our god 😉

[gd_castaway90]

4 hours ago, jengd said:

Well I think the performance at Download with the rain just proves it! He is our god 😉

I haven't seen it.

[That Dude]

I've really overdone it on streaming Green Day lately.    My most played from 4 weeks, 6 months and 12 months are nearly ALL Green Day.    I almost told Spotify not to play them yesterday at all.  

 

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

What could dead skin possibly have done to warrant putting it on trial?

[pacejunkie punk]

23 minutes ago, Tre's Busted Drumkit said:

What could dead skin possibly have done to warrant putting it on trial?

It was the tattoo for her that he wanted to cover after she broke up with him. A poetic way of saying that. Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.

[Long Lost King of Fools]

On 6/26/2025 at 2:04 AM, nowshesgone said:

I wonder how badly fan discourse would change if C&V ever gets a release

I remember before American Idiot came out and they were telling the story of how an entire album's worth of songs "got lost". I immediately assumed that they didn't like it and so blanked the tapes. Nothing I have heard in the last 20 years has made me think any different

[nowshesgone]

3 hours ago, Long Lost King of Fools said:

I remember before American Idiot came out and they were telling the story of how an entire album's worth of songs "got lost". I immediately assumed that they didn't like it and so blanked the tapes. Nothing I have heard in the last 20 years has made me think any different

The AI20 booklet basically confirms that Reprise thought it was "shitty" and that's why it got shelved by the band

 

However, there is a bias towards unreleased songs most of the time, so no matter how mid or shit C&V turns out to be, there's a high chance of it fucking over fan opinion for some songs (going off of theories), such as Youngblood/Carpe Diem and also Oh Love

[thesoundofhysteria]

I have organized a last minute trip for a show but now I'm so fckng scared and in so much anxiety 🤢

[Mollyluna]

1 hour ago, thesoundofhysteria said:

I have organized a last minute trip for a show but now I'm so fckng scared and in so much anxiety 🤢

I‘m sure you‘ll be fine. The shows are all great, and the fans around you will be nice and happy. Are you going to Luxembourg?

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

21 hours ago, Long Lost King of Fools said:

I remember before American Idiot came out and they were telling the story of how an entire album's worth of songs "got lost". I immediately assumed that they didn't like it and so blanked the tapes. Nothing I have heard in the last 20 years has made me think any different

I really doubt they even blanked the tapes. I think we've heard a fair number of the songs off of C&V released by now, either hidden on other albums or as a B-side or non-album single. Or, you know, just played live. Like C&V. And looking back on that song, it was one of those "cool at the time" things, but not a particularly memorable one. If that's the tone-setter for all of C&V, then I'm ok with never hearing the whole thing. It'd be another Uno or something. Lots of promising tracks, but only a couple that actually deliver.

[That Dude]

They played Scattered, very nice!  I really hope they continue to throw in something random at every show.   I know that people want the 1, 21 Hits setlist, but that one change every night goes a LONG way.    Green Day want to be popular, so I understand they don't want to do Trilogy or Father of All tracks.   Theres some massively successful deep cuts in their catalogue that would check all the boxes.   People know it and and it's fast and fun -  those are the qualifiers, lol.  

Here's the most streamed deep cuts if Billie needs help figuring out how to get the most bang bang for his buck buck:  

Going to Pasalqua, 2000 Light Years Away, Burnout, Armitage Shanks, The Grouch, Castaway, Whatshername, Last Night on Earth, Nuclear Family, Amy, Brutal Love, Ordinary World, Sugar Youth, Goodnight Adeline.    

Admittedly, some of those are slower and some are from the albums that people hate.   Okay, replacements on the way:     Homecoming.   Viva La Gloria (girl), Lazy Bones, Missing You, Say Goodbye, 1981.    I left the songs from hated albums because maybe one day, Billie will feel like doing them .  

 

 

 

 

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

27 minutes ago, That Dude said:

They played Scattered, very nice!  I really hope they continue to throw in something random at every show.   I know that people want the 1, 21 Hits setlist, but that one change every night goes a LONG way.    Green Day want to be popular, so I understand they don't want to do Trilogy or Father of All tracks.   Theres some massively successful deep cuts in their catalogue that would check all the boxes.   People know it and and it's fast and fun -  those are the qualifiers, lol.  

Here's the most streamed deep cuts if Billie needs help figuring out how to get the most bang bang for his buck buck:  

Going to Pasalqua, 2000 Light Years Away, Burnout, Armitage Shanks, The Grouch, Castaway, Whatshername, Last Night on Earth, Nuclear Family, Amy, Brutal Love, Ordinary World, Sugar Youth, Goodnight Adeline.    

Admittedly, some of those are slower and some are from the albums that people hate.   Okay, replacements on the way:     Homecoming.   Viva La Gloria (girl), Lazy Bones, Missing You, Say Goodbye, 1981.    I left the songs from hated albums because maybe one day, Billie will feel like doing them .

If they could please come to Denver and play Stay the Night, I'd die. Thanks. Yes, I know it's kind of a Letterbomb rehash musically (not the last time they did that), but that and Let Yourself Go are a couple of the best straight-forward rock songs Green Day has pulled out to date. The guitar solo in Let Yourself Go sounds like something off of a modern-day Chuck Berry album and it's beautiful.

FWIW, Stay the Night is one of those tracks that I think may have originally been meant for C&V and wound up revisited for Uno. Single best song of the Trilogy right there.

[Gwen Stacy]

53 minutes ago, Tre's Busted Drumkit said:

FWIW, Stay the Night is one of those tracks that I think may have originally been meant for C&V and wound up revisited for Uno.

I don’t see the evidence for that. Stay the Night didn’t show up on that B-Sides cd from the American Idiot era. We get the first soundchecks of it in 2009 when we know a lot of the other trilogy material was being worked on. Musically, it’s quite similar to other ¡Uno! tracks.

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

2 hours ago, Gwen Stacy said:

I don’t see the evidence for that. Stay the Night didn’t show up on that B-Sides cd from the American Idiot era. We get the first soundchecks of it in 2009 when we know a lot of the other trilogy material was being worked on. Musically, it’s quite similar to other ¡Uno! tracks.

Evidence? Look, Spider-Dead, if I had evidence, it wouldn't be an "I think" situation, now would it? (read it in John Cleese's voice)

No, there's not a ton of musical evidence to support STN as a C&V-era song. Of course, if evidence were required to support theories, we wouldn't still be trying to convince Gen-X that the earth isn't flat. It's just a feeling I've had since the second-ish time I heard the song.