| Green Day – Viva la Gloria! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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As someone who only listens to a handful of songs from 21CB, I can't make any comments about how this song fits into the rock opera plotline, but even on their own, these lyrics are pretty thought-provoking. I'm listening to the song again and again, and it sounds to me like Gloria is a sister in a convent or some sort of spiritual retreat, and she eventually runs away because she knows she's living a lie there - the morality can't mask her tainted past, and she's crumbling under the hypocrisy. The lyrics are basically a mocking lamentation of her life, and fit perfectly with the kind of angry rhythm and the slightly Hebrew melody. I actually love this track to pieces - can't decide whether this, American Eulogy or The Static Age is the best from the album, but definitely podium finishes for all three. |
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| Green Day – I Was There Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm not exactly blown away by 1039, but I love this song. To pieces. Let's just put aside the artistic semantics for one moment; this song oozes with that energy they had in their early days. It's almost a child-like energy, whereas American Idiot for example has a more mature, political energy to it. But whenever I listen to their older stuff, particularly their thoughts on the past and future (Android comes to mind), I can just imagine BJA and MD rocking it as a couple of tearaway teens in some dingy backstreet location. Oh, to be nostalgic. |
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| Green Day – The Grouch Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Yeah DJgif, got to agree - the opening line nails it, makes me laugh and crank the volume up every time. |
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| Green Day – Walking Contradiction Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Now I may be setting myself up to get flamed into oblivion, but I have to be honest here. Of all the posts I've read on this, about 50% are roughly 'this song fits me perfectly because A B or C', and the other 50% are roughly 'this song is about people who sell out and are hypocrites'. What do I think? I think I don't have a scooby doo what the song's about...but at a guess, I would think it's some reflection on the hypocrisy of authority, ie 'Do as I say not as I do' and 'control the chaos behind a gun'...that would be a classic Green Day message as we all know, after all. Hell all I really know for sure is that it's on iPod and I'm okay with that. |
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| Green Day – Panic Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'll forever associate this song to my drive into work at 7am on a cold, crisp London winter morning, watching the top crescent of the sun glint out over the misty Wembley horizon as the city wakes up around me. Tre's drum work on the opening bars is phenomenal, like a heartbeat beginning to pick up. Obviously I'm just referring to the epic instrumental intro - I've got no opinion on whether or not the lyrics deal with drugs. |
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| Green Day – American Eulogy: A. Mass Hysteria/B. Modern World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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'Vigilantes warnin' ya... Callin' Christian and Glori - yow!' Fucking epic. |
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| Green Day – The Static Age Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song sends shivers up my spine every time I hear it. Billie Joe nails the vocals, especially from the line 'all I wanna know is a god-damn thing'...you can hear a kind of desperation in his voice, that he's trying to escape from this static monotony that the modern age has become. Man I could listen to this track every day...oh wait a minute, I already do. |
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| Green Day – Sassafras Roots Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I remember reading somwhere that Billie Joe wrote this about a girl he used to date before he met Adrienne - some girl who went off to join the Peace Corps or something. Can anybody verify? |
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| Green Day – Stay the Night Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Been playing this song on loop for the past three days. Agree with the above comments, but in terms of style, this is Green Day mellowing gracefully. Something about this song makes me think of a glorious summer's day, but just as the sun is beginning to set and grow that orange tinge...much like the band I guess, having shone during those punk 90s albums and the socio-political commentary of the naughties, now slipping into cruise control and celebrating all that's been and gone... ...or maybe that's all in my head, haha. Fuck it, I love Green Day and I love this song. |
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| Green Day – Give Me Novacaine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've only downloaded a few of the songs off AI, so I'm not really in tune with how the rock opera plot unfolds - I'm pretty sure that the significance of the song is with specific relevance to the plot's characters, but it's worth mentioning that even as a standalone track, this song is beautiful. I think anyone who has experienced any kind of unrelenting pain will get some resonance from this song - it's essentially a plea for release, for some respite from ongoing turmoil. I personally would link it to the pain of a messy break up, but that's just because I'm a big pussy like that. The most poignant line is at the end, when he calls out to Jimmy (who I'm going to assume is his dealer) - Billie Joe's voice is awesome here, helpless and desperate for this saviour-type figure to help him in any way he can. Man I love this song. |
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| Green Day – Pulling Teeth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Whenever this song used to come on, I would usually skip it and move on to the next track, but after a few weeks it started to grow on me very gradually, and now I would rate it as one of the best on Dookie (although it's got some stiff competition because that album is frankly the shit). The above comment about the connection to Mike Dirnt's accident with his ex is a pretty compelling argument, but the beauty of the song is that it can be looked at on several different levels; in fact any guy who has ever been a relationship where he gave more than he got back would surely be able to relate to a lot of these lines. 'I'm all busted up Broken bones and nasty cuts Accidents will happen But this time I can't get up.' Green Day, you fucking legends. You think you can bounce back from anything, but when you're knocked down by that special someone, you don't think you'll ever get up off the canvas. This opening line is the best in the song by a country mile. 'She comes to check on me Making sure I'm on my knees After all she's the one Who put me in this state.' The occasional text or phonecall, just to make sure that she's got you exactly where she wants you - on your knees. 'Is she ultra-violent Is she disturbed? I'd better tell her that I love her Before she does it all over again Oh god she's killing me...' To be honest, this part has more undertones of physical violence rather than emotional manipulation, which kind of undermines my interpretation and makes some of the other comments a little more convincing (ie perhaps a physically abusive relationship), but then again it could still fit. What's the matter with this girl? Does she just get off on making me miserable? I want to tell her that I love her, in a last-ditch effort to get some recognition... 'For now I'll lie around Hell that's all I can really do She takes good care of me, Just keep saying my love is true.' By my interpretation, this is Green Day being a bit tongue-in-cheek. Yeah, she's taking good care of me - every now and again getting in touch to assure me that the relationship is going somewhere, keeping my hopes alive by a flicker. 'Looking out the window for someone that's passing by, But no-one knows I'm locked in here, all I do is cry.' Again, this doesn't really fit in with my view - most people have commented that it fits better with the notion of an abusive relationship rather than unreturned love, which I accept. I always took it to mean looking out the window to see if she is coming, wasting my life away shedding tears for her. But as you can probably tell, I'm letting my own experiences get in the way, lol. Anyway, some good comments on a fantastic song - which explains why I've rambled on about it for this long, apologies. |
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| Green Day – Warning Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Whenever I need my Green Day fix, this is almost always the first song I go for. It just turns me on (non-sexually) more and more every time I hear it . Awesome lyrics, awesome instrumentals, a chilled, defiant, timeless classic - easily the best song on an album which is actually pure quality in itself. |
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| Green Day – 2,000 Light Years Away Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Interesting opinions on this song; I've always taken it to be about someone that you cherish from a distance, whom you can't have for whatever reason - hence '2000 light years away', ie unattainable. Best song on Kerplunk, in my opinion - got a Buzzcocks kind of sound to it, like a lot of their older shizzle. |
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| Green Day – 86 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Can't say much about the phrase '86' since it doesn't really mean anything here in the UK, but if it is a term to descrbe getting hoofed out of somewhere, it would make sense that it refers to their relationship with Gilman St. Classic Green Day - writing a song in tribute to the guys who gave them the finger, and an awesome song at that! |
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