Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2

[Spike]

I'll never get over the fact that AI ends with Billie rhyming time with time.

It makes me feel better to believe that he's rhyming time with thyme and the whole thing is actually about a shopping list.

[Sauli]

It makes me feel better to believe that he's rhyming time with thyme and the whole thing is actually about a shopping list.

Maybe I dropped it whilst walking on the street

Then it turned out to only be a dream

Seems like I forgot the shopping list home

The wife's naggin and I feel like a gnome

I'm going to warp cos I can't recall the herbs

Now I wonder how abstracted I've been

[DoodleBob]

Can you imagine the Youtube video? 2 GIRLS THROW DOWN OVER GREEN DAY SONGS and we'd be pulling each other's hair and shrieking about Good Riddance and Brutal Love

Title of video: 2 Girls 1 Closer

(that's horrible I'm sorry I can't believe i typed that out )

[Z J]

Can you imagine the Youtube video? 2 GIRLS THROW DOWN OVER GREEN DAY SONGS and we'd be pulling each other's hair and shrieking about Good Riddance and Brutal Love

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sorry

[Pat1308]

Sure, for example

"Turn out the lights

Close your eyes

Turn up the silence

The heartache of your life

Dance forever

Under the lights

This brutal love"

When I hear these words I think of how going to a concert can be a cathartic event for people. We temporarily block out reality (heartache of your life) and indulge in this relationship with the artist (brutal love). But it is often an unrequited love, because the artist doesn't know you specifically exist, really. Which explains the next verse:

"Oh how you want it

You're begging for it

But you can't have it

Even if you try

It's in the clutches

In the hands of

This brutal love"

And so on

I can't not read those lyrics in a non-erotic way. I'm too perverted.

[Hermione]

I can't not read those lyrics in a non-erotic way. I'm too perverted.

You and me both

[The Disappearing Boy]

The enormity and brilliance of Whatsername cancels out the thing or rhyming time with time, so it ain't an issue for me

[Hermione]

I think rhyming "crazy" with "crazy" in not just one but two verses of Android is worse anyway. And "crazy" with "lazy" in One For The Razorbacks and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?. And it's all on one album

[unextraordinarygirl]

I love Whatsherename as a closing song. It's sad but beautiful and powerful all at the same time.

[Pat1308]

You and me both

For some strange reason, Brutal Love conjures up images of a dominatrix teasing and whipping up a hapless guy to me. I must have listened to DLS a tad too much.

I think rhyming "crazy" with "crazy" in not just one but two verses of Android is worse anyway. And "crazy" with "lazy" in One For The Razorbacks and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?. And it's all on one album

Hey old man in woman's shoes

I wonder if he knows I think he's cray-ZEEEEEH

When he was young did he have dreams

Of wearing woman's shoes and being cray-ZEEEEEH

I kinda have the same problem with Android as with Brutal Love: I hear the song with its lyrics about a cray-ZEEEEEH old man in woman's shoes and then my mind kinda defaults to King for a Day. Huh.

[Guest]

Just listened to "Missing You" and realized that Billie actually sings the words "Lost my nerve, it's unnerving," and decided that that line was acceptable? What the fuck, Billie. What the actual fuck.

[Spike]

Just listened to "Missing You" and realized that Billie actually sings the words "Lost my nerve, it's unnerving," and decided that that line was acceptable? What the fuck, Billie. What the actual fuck.

What the fuck, why did I not notice this?

Still their best song since Jesus Of Suburbia, though.

[Anaïs.]

What the fuck, why did I not notice this?

Still their best song since Jesus Of Suburbia, though.

Song of the Century, 21st Century Breakdown, East Jesus Nowhere, Peacemaker, Restless Heart Syndrome, Viva la Gloria, Viva la Gloria?, American Eulogy, The Static Age, Working Class Hero, The Saints Are Coming, etc. beg to differ.

[Certified Nimrod]

I still want to know what Billie is saying at the very beginning of Missing you.

[Chin for a Day]

I still want to know what Billie is saying at the very beginning of Missing you.

According to Metro Lyrics it s SAILOOOOO whatever the fuck that means.

I will put up with any of the bad rhyming if he can just take Makeout Party back.

[Spike]

Song of the Century, 21st Century Breakdown, East Jesus Nowhere, Peacemaker, Restless Heart Syndrome, Viva la Gloria, Viva la Gloria?, American Eulogy, The Static Age, Working Class Hero, The Saints Are Coming, etc. beg to differ.

They really don't, though. Restless Heart Syndrome maybe, but I'd put Missing You above Breakdown and EJN, and the rest are way below.

I still want to know what Billie is saying at the very beginning of Missing you.

Play it backwards and it's a recipe for meth.

[Libertine Angel]

I think rhyming "crazy" with "crazy" in not just one but two verses of Android is worse anyway. And "crazy" with "lazy" in One For The Razorbacks and Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?. And it's all on one album

His rhyming "crazy" and "lazy" in Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? has always annoyed me a disproportionate amount and I don't know why.

They really don't, though. Restless Heart Syndrome maybe, but I'd put Missing You above Breakdown and EJN, and the rest are way below.

Also Horseshoes & Handgrenades and Lights Out.

[Libertine Angel]

Missing You is one of the best on the Trilogy (better still on Demolicious), but seeing as most of the Trilogy is in the lower quartile of their stuff, that's not saying too much.

[Chin for a Day]

Missing You is one of the best on the Trilogy (better still on Demolicious), but seeing as most of the Trilogy is in the lower quartile of their stuff, that's not saying too much.

Especially when 21CB is between JOS and Missing You.

[Z J]

Still their best song since Jesus Of Suburbia, though.

you wot m8

I still want to know what Billie is saying at the very beginning of Missing you.

it's the only good part of the song besides the bass line

[Libertine Angel]

Oh, and I just wanted to add that I think the only reason that "Missing You" doesn't get the same amount of shit that "The Forgotten" and "Nightlife" get in this thread is because Tom and Ceadagh have massive, inexplicable boners for it. FIGHT ME.

I'm inclined to disagree - it doesn't get the same amount of shit as the other two because it's not as shit as the other two. Few things are, in fact.

[Chin for a Day]

I'm inclined to disagree - it doesn't get the same amount of shit as the other two because it's not as shit as the other two. Few things are, in fact.

Makeout Party

[Z J]

Oh, and I just wanted to add that I think the only reason that "Missing You" doesn't get the same amount of shit that "The Forgotten" and "Nightlife" get in this thread is because Tom and Ceadagh have massive, inexplicable boners for it. FIGHT ME.

I think it's garbage

His vocal tone is subdued, soft, unengaging. The lyrics are so god damn by the numbers a computer could have generated them given the title. The bassline is a redeeming quality, as is the opening. The melody doesn't stick out by GD standards, and that was pretty much the song's last chance at being good.

It is middle of the road by trilogy standards.

[Libertine Angel]

Makeout Party

That's got good energy, I'd put it above Nightlife and The Forgotten for that.

[Chin for a Day]

That's got good energy, I'd put it above Nightlife and The Forgotten for that.

The lyrics are embarrassing. I think he sounds pretty on The Forgotten, even if the song is somewhat nonsensical. I do however think it was supposed to be a goodbye, beyond that I've got nothing.

I like Nightlife. There, I said it.