Green Day Provides The Soundtrack For The Punk Rock Nursing Home
New Green Day video for "21 Guns," you guys:
Hey Green Day, cool sonzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I'm not saying that Green Day ever actually embodied any kind of punk ethos beyond what came in a 10$ jar of Manic Panic and an artfully torn Misfits t-shirt from St. Mark's Place, but COME ON. What a snooze! This is even worse than "Wake Me Up When September Ends," and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is very bad. Did I ever tell you guys about how I was listening to the radio one time right after Hurricane Katrina and they played the "Wake Me Up When September Ends Hurricane Katrina Remix" and it was literally just the regular song but interspersed with interview clips of people talking about how their lives had become nightmares? That was the moment that my life became a nightmare. Listening to that offensive piece of garbage on the radio while making my Trader Joe's burrito was exactly the same as losing everything in the one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of the country.
Besides, I hated this video a lot better 10 years ago when it was a Korn video. It's one thing to be terrible, but at least be terrible in a new way!
On the other hand, if this is an ad for the website Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians, it's perfect.
Posted by Gabe at 1:00 PM in Music Related Content
Tags: Aging | Death | Green Day
It's something unpredictable but in the end its right
i hope you had the time of your zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Wake me up when "Wake Me Up When September Ends" ends
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Clap clap clap. Excellent comment, good sir.
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Sometimes I see that tag progression in the newspaper headlines of my fantasies.
Though, I realize now that the presence of newspapers in my fantasies is probably not a sign of mental health.
Kinda like having a recurring dream where you're counting paper clips. Which i've totally done.
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Some points I have:
• I want to know what moisturizer Billie uses.
• That poor goldfish was sacrificed for that?! It can't survive in such a small dirty jar! You guys are assholes!
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Why does Green Day keep trying to make me hate them even more? Actually, by now it's not even hate anymore. It's just overwhelmingly meh. I hope you had the meh of your life.
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Love is like being shot at a lot but all the bullets miss!
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When I first heard this song, the minute Billie Joe hit the high notes, I was done. Green Day's never had high notes. What's with this high note shit?!
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"When making music's lost its fun, you're fucking lazy."
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Solo guitar, empty staring, swoosh fade in, cue more guitars (this time to bring out the angst). Repeat until you suddenly become 31 years old and manager at the local Hot Topic, realizing you wasted your time being meaningful listening to Green Day..
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Not a description of myself; rather, your alt boyfriend from high school.
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I wonder if the director thought "metaphor = writing the lyrics on the walls"
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no, he thought "metaphor = writing the lyrics to a DIFFERENT totally shit Green Day song on the wall."
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Auto-tune? Really?! Green Day? Auto-tune?!!
My childhood has officially been raped. This is what you old people must feel like about the Karate Kid movie. I feel your pain now.
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'90s pop raped your childhood as it was happening. You just didn't know it yet.
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I'm only as old as I feel.
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My mom told me a couple of days ago that she's gotten into Green Day and that it was seeing them perform this song on SNL that got her interested...
FML
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Before I can decide if this is the worst thing I have ever heard, I'm going to need to know how old you are. (How to tell you're old: the children of your HS classmates could be old enough to be posting about how lame their parents are on the internet.)
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double-hockey stick x 2
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Whoops, that's your mom
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they've got nothing on the dirty projectors
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Comparable.
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Billie Joe asks, "do you know what's worth fighting for?"
Yes. To get the last five minutes of my life back.
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"when you've lost all sense of control
and your thoughts have taken your toll
and your mind breaks the spirit of your soul"
New party game! What's the next line?
this butter knife is adequately dull
I've got a sham marriage I'd like to anull
my weeping tears are filling a bowl
Actually he probably says that last one in the next verse, can't make myself listen far enough to find out.
Score = 17
http://vodpod.com/watch/294471-wake-me-up-when-september-ends-hurricane-katrina
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holy shit this is awful. i miss green day being at least fun to listen to.
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They should just call title their album "Songs for Your Video Montage".
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2 points I would like to make:
1. At 2:58, the guy and girl totally form the cover of this album!
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Isn't that like saying the title of your movie in the movie?
2. Immediately after (3:00), the first part of his guitar solo totally rips off the theme song from Full House!
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About Rips: Doesnt it totally sound like "All the Young Dudes" at the beginning of the chorus, the 21 guns part?
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Good call. Remember the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Wonderwall" fiasco (it wasn't really a fiasco)? Get your own songs, Green Day! And stay off my lawn! Next time you hit a nerf ball over my fence, I'm keeping it!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
Everybody rippin' Pachabel, man!
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the fourth dude kind of looks as awkward as Rainn Wilson in Rockstar... also, the song is as awkward as the songs from that movie. Like when you went to see it and expected total School of Rock Mayhem and actually got all Jonas Brothers on you
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Five whole minutes of that sepia-inspired banality? Wow. And the autotune makes me think they needed the lowest setting to let him hit the high notes.
Worst thing about this is, it'll be all over the radio.
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To me, the rhythm sounds the exact same as Neil Young's "Heart of Gold"; sorry Neil. On a side-note: Misfits t-shirts are the official uniform of the vacillating punk fan; however, I once saw a guy with a Misfits tattoo, which is beyond legit (by legit I mean regrettable).
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Your avatar just gave me an aneurysm, a heart attack, and a seizure all at once. You'll be receiving my medical bills in the mail.
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Actually Green Day, a long time ago, were punk. I'm old enough to remember that. This video makes me feel like I might now be my dad, in the way I used to look at him when he would turn the radio WAYYY up when some "good jams" came on.
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Of course Green Day used to be punk. Gabe just likes to make things he doesn't like into irredeemable monsters. Oh wow, so Green Day have lost their edge after nearly two decades. They're so bad! They've never done anything good! Let me use lots of angry words to take on these titans of terribleness.
Lay off the vitriol for a bit. I mean, if you're going to rage against musical artists, there are literally hundreds of worse contemporary acts you can pick on. I mean, I've never even been that into Green Day, but this entry just was so vindictive and spiteful for no reason.
I'm just surprised you didn't mention Transformers 2 in your rant, 'cause this song is on the soundtrack. That's like, the WORST, isn't it? Woof.
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brace yourself for vote downs sir.
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