i still dont get it? help u greenday fans!?
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The short answer is the video and the song mean two different things.\n\nYes, Billie Joe Armstrong said he wrote the song about his dad, (a jazz musician and minor league baseball catcher) who died of cancer when Billie Joe was ten.\n\nThe video, on the other hand, was conceived by director Samuel Bayer, (Smells Like Teen Spirit) who turned it into an expression of pain felt by people when confronted with war.
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The Meaning of The Song:\n\n\nWhile there is no clear reference or explanation of the song's lyrics, the lyrics itself are self explanatory: the song centers around a man's relationship with his girlfriend, and his observations about her wild and reckless behaviour including overindulging in alcohol or drugs. The song also contains numerous references to their active sex life and partying lifestyle. The imagery of the man's girlfriend "passed out on the deck", "pass[ing] the check" and other lyrics certainly paint the picture of fun.\n\nIn a lyrical trick, the observations of the man about his likes of his relationship with his girlfriend at the start of the song (e.g. "I love the places that we go, I love the people that you know") are in the second verse turned into the very same things he dislikes about her and their relationship. Other subtleties of their relationship, such as sex ("I like the white stains on your dress" or "I like your pants around your feet") or rough sex ("I love your lack of self-respect while you're passed out on the deck, I love my hands around your neck") give way to his dissatisfaction with the same behavior he found appealing at the start of the song ("I love the good times that you wreck").\n\nBEST ANSWER?????????
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TRE COOL!!!!!\nHE IS THE DRUMMER FROM GREEN DAY!!!!\nHE IS SOOOOOOO SEXY!!!!!FUCK YEAH!!!
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Have them write their own Greed Day styled song.  Let them use a tape recorder if you can.  Or let them take any green day song and write there own words for it.  Then arrange a performance. \nThey could also make Green Day posters for their rooms.\n\nThey could design a Green Day CD cover\n\nOK, the words Green Day are starting to sound weird in my head so that's it.
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To be honest Id never heard of this (knew the song) until now.\n\nIts what they say, learn something new every day.\n\nJust got to work out if its a good thing to learn lol\n\nCheck the link for some possible material ideas.
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that song rocks! i love greenday! billie jo used to be hot b4 he died is hair blonde
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yeah...i have listened their whole CD. Some of the songs on there are played too much on the radio, but there are some (such as Are We the Waiting and She's a Rebel) that haven't been played on the radio very often. Overall, though, Green Day's songs are pretty awesome!
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green day is my favorite band, and in my opinion they are the best band ever, and other ppl might not think the same and thats ok. i dont care. i just care about green day. i luv them to death.\n\nEMO is short for EMOTIONAL so in a way, EVERYONE is EMO because EVERYONE has EMOTIONS! duh. ne ways. oh and by the way, LABELS R FOR CANS! green day isnt "EMO". i hate when ppl say they r. they think cuz they wear black eyeliner and wear darker clothes or sumthin, then theyre "EMO". look, they dress the way they wanna. just cuz their music rox and u cant even get outta ur garage doesnt mean u have to bust on them. also ppl think theyre "EMO" cuz of sum of their songs on American Idiot being "slower" than their "old stuff". most ppl relate green day to being "EMO" thru Blv of Brken Dreams. just cuz u have one EMOTIONAL song doesnt make u "EMO".\n\nthe reason they are awsome is because of what they write about. they sing about teenagers having issues in their life, trying to find themselves. they put their music out for themselves. they write and sing what ever the f they want and u know what, its not for u, its for them.\n\noh and to all u ppl who think their "new stuff" sux, its not that "new" ne more. its a few yrs old now. and all of their "old stuff", wtf! which "old stuff"? there is 1,039/smoothed out slappy hours and kerplunk before Dookie, so what do u mean by "old stuff"? plus theres other old stuff, like insomniac, and nimrod... plus more! sum1 tell me how green day is "sold out" or "overplayed"? if u listen to their "old stuff" doesnt that mean that their "old stuff" is REALLY REALLY "overplayed"?! hello!? is ne 1 there!? if u like/luv green day, then u should like or luv it all! i dont care if u think the "old stuff" is better than the "new" but at least give respct to the "new stuff". if u totally blow American Idiot off by hating it so much and thinking that green day sux cuz theyve become mainstream, then u were never a true fan.\n\nthis following peice is to all of those who hated green day for making dookie, cuz the same s**t is happening again thu American Idiot.\nwhats the difference between playing in front of a small group of ppl @ Gilmore st. who know ur lyrics, compared to 50,000 ppl  in Giants Stadium who know those same f ing lyrics? just because they became successfull in putting their music out, letting others relate to them, and letting others hear them, doesnt mean they r ne different. what, do u just wanna keep them all to urselves!? is that y u hated them for signing with reprise and putting out dookie? ur f ing retarded u selfish B@$*@*ds! just because green day is successull and ppl listen to them, relate to their lyrics, and luv them, doesnt mean u have to be dfferent and hate them.\n\nAmerican Idiot... everyone knows of it, has heard of it... etc... but ppl mistake it for just politicalness. it isnt jsut a bash on bush, (bush sux). lol. it is a story of Jesus of Suburbia trying to find his way in life, meeting St. Jimmy, trying new things(give me novacaine), and falling in luv with Whatsername (shes a rebel). the whole cd is a story, yes its political, look at holiday, but its not just politics, but an adventure of a teen confused in life and doesnt know what to do, so he leaves. Blv. of Brken Dreams is a song about how JOS doesnt haven ne place to live, ne $$$ or ne food and hes basically homeless. dont think Green Day is "EMO" cuz of Blv. of Brken Dreams. its a chapter in JOS's life that he has to conqure, my life, and everyone elses life (at least once)! dont tell me uve never been sum hard times.\n\nsrry this is so long but i have to get it all out!\n\ni luv green day and i think that they are the greatest band ever, TO ME!\nbye!\n\nluv,\njess
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probably one from def jame or reprise records. reprise has green day, and look at them. even iff you dont like them, there still extremely famous.
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Definitely Both too! I LOVE Green Day. A Loyal fan for three years, and a brand new Fall Out Boy fan ever since I found out they were from my town. The homeboys do well! If either band is reading this, I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!
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i live for green day id die without green day i need green day they are my life i am obbsessed but i do not care b cuz it an obssesion for green day
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I love Green Day. I can't beleive that half the people at school hate them. They can't be that bad.\n\nI'd like to show my fanitude, but I don't really want to waste time.\n\nI wouldn't call myself their #1 fan, I'm not that perfect.
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I have to agree...I like Green Day as much as the next guy, but it's enough. Especially since most of the people asking didn't know who Green Day was before American Idiot came out.
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I AM SOOOOO OBSESSED W/ GREEN DAY!!! THEY ARE THE GREATEST BAND EVER IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE!!!!! BILLIE JOE IS SO COOL!!!!!!! ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE GREEN DAY IS CRAAAAAZY!! GREEN DAY ROCKS, & I LOVE THEM SOO MCUH!! KEEP THE LOVE OF GREEN DAY ALIVE!!!!! I LOVE GREEN DAY QUESTIONS!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY! YOU ROCK!!!!
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This is sad but I am 44 years old and I really like GreenDay. I liked them when they first came out.they are the 70s punk band of the 2000s. Their songs have alot of meaning if you listen to them.
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I agree. New Chili Peppers suck. The Gorillaz always have. I think it's a great question.  And to the person above me.... Green Day sucks more than either of the bands that they mentioned.
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WHat - I dont understand !