Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" video

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― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

i saw this yesterday on m2. i roffled.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I caught the beginning - WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY? - and was wondering what the hell was going on. The rest of the video, tho, I'll admit, choked me up a bit.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

i have trouble reconciling this with the band who made their mainstream debut arguing they were too lazy to masturbate.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

also, a.) until the first part of the song comes in i thought it was, like, the new fall out boy video or something, and b.) after the "why why why why" part i have to admit the "twist" is pretty unexpected if you've never seen it before.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

out of everyone, he thought she'd understand! he did it for her.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

HE'S TRYING TO PROVIDE FOR THEM MARK

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

november rain for the new millennium

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Why'd you make me watch that? It would've been cooler if we got to watch Billie Joe getting shot in the heat of battle.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

SHE'LL BE THERE WAITING FOR HIM FOREVER

The way I see it: who better to throw stones at the current admin than kids that used to sing about (not) waxing their pole?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Also, I love this song more than I should. Big ol' mastodonian chord changes = YAY!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

haha i totally thought "novemeber rain for the iraq war generation" yesterday too.

(xpost i kinda like the song too. i definitely thought it was the best one on the album last year.)

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

he's only gone for another eight weeks! girlie needs to chill.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Is the general concensus on American Idiot something like, "holy shit, this is a lot better than I thought it'd be"?

MARK YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

next you're going to tell me november rain was filmed in may!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

dude he may not come back AT ALL

xpost: i thought it was OKAY but jesus there are parts of it that just draaaaag. also, seeing them live (on tv) put the songs across much better, which much more energy.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

the only good song I've heard off of American Idiot is the "Holiday" one.

The guy at the beginning is from the last David Gordon Green movie, who's the chick?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Actually, never mind - I imagine the opinions are split between "WE NEED THIS SORT OF STATEMENT IN POPULAR MUSIC NOW MORE THAN EVER FIVE STARS" and "I liked Dookie" and the above statement (which was mine when I first heard the title track) (I'm now renting out a timeshare in the FIVE STARS camp).

Haha - if anything dragged for me, it was "September"!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

DEXTER HOLLAND PLEASE SOUND OFF ON THE BOLTON APPOINTMENT

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

ahaha holy shit this is awesome (halfway through, the 'DON'T DO IT' part)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

new offspring single = "loco in the oval"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I got bored - does he get shot in the end?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

nope, leg.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

DONT GIVE AWAY

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

He got shot in the butt tock.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

He'll be the focus of the video for the new Metallica single, "One Two".

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

green day presents "wake me up when september ends" pt. 2 of 5

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

What I learned from this song is when they play along to the rocket blasts, i learned about the power of music.

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

And we roll up to the roadblock
And he put a bomb at the roadblock
And I walk to the oil barrel at the roadblock
And I see the bomb at the roadblock

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

ts: playing along to rocket blasts vs. the super zoom close-up on the dudes face in crash when the guy shoots the little girl

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

i think the chick is evan rachel wood

it reminded me of this david gordon green ripoff movie i saw in SF!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

DONT GIVE AWAY

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

i thought there was going to be more of a twist!! and i thought it was going to turn "funny"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

like STRIPES funny.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

"honey, the kiss army. i joined the kiss army."

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Completely maudlin, of course. We should have more videos where the female supports the man that goes off to defend Our Country. This video is just another example of Liberal Hollywood hating on America. If one young man decides against joining the military after seeing this video, well, all I will be able to say is that the terrorists have already won.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Also more videos that insult the listener/viewer

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

What else are videos for?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

That video was too long!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Evan Rachel Wood's looking kinda Jena Maloney nowadays!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

i couldn't get audio to work on it on my computer so I have no idea what any of the dialogue was or how much of it was audible over the song after the first scene. I don't think it would've helped me understand it any, though.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I still can't wait for Bush's response song.

*Somewhat serious* Has there been a mainstream MTV video since the war where soldiers are not depicted as either victims or as absolute tools by the Bush administration? What was the Destiny's Child "Soldier" thing about?

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Kosovo.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

i thought that dude cheated on his chick by them middle.

good for them. it didn't give me the warm fuzzies, and i thought them playing up on the platform stages was stupid, but i love how pleasantly f'ed up billy joe armstrong's teeth are. oh and the political rhetoric.

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

That's what i thought was going on at first.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

RUNAWAY TRAIN NEVER COMING BACK
WRONG WAY ON A ONE WAY TRACK

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

there's not even any political rhetoric, i don't think; it's sort of a non-statement. it's loaded with signifiers (Iraq! War! Army!), but you could read those any way you want. This could easily be taken as either a "support the troops" video or a "comment on the iraq war" video, and as such is the perfect piece of marketing.

and thats coming from someone who really likes American Idiot

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

not also that the one actual political song on the record, "Holiday", gets a big-nothing of a video.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

wake me up when this video ends

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS THE WORST SONG ON ROCK RADIO RIGHT NOW*

*besides Foo Fighters, Audioslave, Chevelle, Jack Johnson, Stereophonics, Cake, Coldplay, Weezer, and Ben Folds

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

*besides Foo Fighters, Audioslave, Chevelle, Jack Johnson, Stereophonics, Cake, Coldplay, Weezer, and Ben Folds

The mid-90s are back with a vengeance, it seems.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Why is Green Day playing a Whitesnake song slower, with even less feeling? And that guitar solo sucked, where's Adrian Vandenberg when you need him?

Jesus, remember when punk rock meant you hated this MOR hard-rock ballad crap?

//Yeah, I know, but they used to be.

― bob.cheerful, Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

i had to listen to international superhits on the way to the post office today to remind myself this band was once good

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

I always forget that bands aren't allowed to evolve.

P.S. I couldn't get the audio to work either.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

they evolved on the last one and it didn't suck.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

I imagine the opinions are split between "WE NEED THIS SORT OF STATEMENT IN POPULAR MUSIC NOW MORE THAN EVER FIVE STARS"...

well, why the fuck not? this video is corny, cheesy, too fucking long and absolutely fucking brilliant. it's a good use of the band's time. it's a good use of mtv's time. to the poster who called it a non-statement loaded with signifiers, you might want to consider that putting this in rotation at all, in between weezer videos, r. kelly videos and, um, "killers" videos, is itself a pretty huge message. the message being, "wake up, look around, and pay some fucking attention to your world."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

are there people who don't know that there's like, a war in Iraq and stuff?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

there are people who certanily as hell don't act like they know.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

and yes, of course, it's not exactly breaking news that war is hell. but to make someone FEEL that in their gut, especially when they're in the middle of one, is a pretty damn good use of an artist's time if you ask me. and this video did make me feel that.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

I have no problem with this being in regular rotation on a cable channel whose demographic skews tremendously toward those born after the Challenger explosion.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

I just got back from opening night of the tour, and a huge hunk of Green Day's fan base are pre-teens and slightly older. Basically, middle school. Frankly, it doesn't take much to shake up their world, so Billie Joe telling them "you're the leaders; you have the power" could ultimately prove as, well, empowering as giving his guitar away to a girl who impressed him with her bass playing.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

oberst stars in new o.c. ep as directed by jerry bruckheimer

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

isn't this the song that people thought was about Billie Joe's dad dying but people thought it was about 9/11 because it has September in the title? are they fudging matters even further by making a video with a "Gone Til November"/I'll-be-home-soon interpretation of the title?

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

ugh delete the first "people thought", I totally messed that up.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I thought people thought it was about BJ's dad because BJ's on the record saying it was about his dad! Tho I though it was a 9/11 thing at first because of all the "it's political!" album hype.

If I were a teenager, this video would probably rock my world and get politically active and make me tear down my Shanice posters &c.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i meant to say it was actually about his dad, like i said, the first "people thought" was an accident.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - I posted right after you posted, and just went ahead and posted despite what you posted after you originally posted. Post.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it seemed very post-posting. that reminds me, I have to go to the post office.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna go eat a bowl of Post Toastees.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

listen to green day on the way to the post office like i did! you wont be sorry.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

post rock?

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

there's not even any political rhetoric, i don't think; it's sort of a non-statement. it's loaded with signifiers (Iraq! War! Army!), but you could read those any way you want.

i think it leans one way more than the other, the humanizing of a "freedom fighters," these-kids-are-only-18-years-old-and-ARE-IN-LOVE, oh look the young punk has to shave his head and become less himself and more a pawn, "i did this for us" rather than "i did this to serve my country," they didn't show any actual iraqis just a bunch of explosions and doodz getting shot and stuff. says some about heroism, but not so much about patriotism or cause. sure, you can read those, but if the directors (or the band) wanted you to swing the other way at times, too, then you'd think they'd spend more time on that perspective.

oh, and i really like "american idiot" too. don't tell me indie friends

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Bad Oscar clips + punk ballads = ICK.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a problem with the song, though. It's okay. Stopping the song cold so that the actors could cry and shout was a BAD MOVE though.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm fine with the song, actually -- I've been trying to pinpoint what makes me uneasy about this video, beyond just the bad acting and melodrama (which are present in tons of videos). I guess I just get concerned because the war (and war in general) is *such* an emotionally loaded subject that you're almost constantly riding the rail between informing and exploiting to get the easy emotional reaction. and maybe i'm doubly-cautious because i come from a strong religious background where this very thing -- picking emotionally loaded topics to generate a specific kind of reaction -- was de rigeur, and so I naturally default to thinking this kind of thing is just a manipulation technique. But I guess I feel like war is big and awful and that treating it with jump-cuts in a 5 minute video can't help but trivialize it, or turn it into just another device. And I can see the point about the value of having it rub shoulders with videos by Weezer and The Killers et al, but I'm not completely sure that justifies its existence. Pearl Harbor got an awful lot of people thinking about the horrors of war, but I'm not sure I think it's good art. I don't know. I'm open to being convinced otherwise, but right now I'm a little skeptical.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a problem with the song, though. It's okay. Stopping the song cold so that the actors could cry and shout was a BAD MOVE though.

haha that was the best part of the whole thing. In fact, the best thing MTV has done for pop culture is make it standard practice to have that part in the music video where everything drops out and the actors get buckwild emoting they're shitty lines.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Leading into CLIMACTIC FINAL CHORUS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

november rain for the new millennium

-- fe zaffe (fezaff...), August 10th, 2005.

OTFM

i was half-expecting the boy to walk off the battlefield and start playing a solo in front of a tiny mosque.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

So what's Green Day doing that N.E.R.D. didn't do in that video with Brad Renfro like four years ago?

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

In fact, the best thing MTV has done for pop culture is make it standard practice to have that part in the music video where everything drops out and the actors get buckwild emoting they're shitty lines.

That reminds me of another video that could be tied in with this one. Truly, Love IS a battlefield.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

standard practice to have that part in the music video where everything drops out and the actors get buckwild emoting they're shitty lines.

We have much to thank Aimee Mann and 'Til Tuesday for.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

i was half-expecting the boy to walk off the battlefield and start playing a solo in front of a tiny mosque.

That is easily the funniest thing I've heard all day. All videos dealing with war should be required to have something like that.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

i think the video is fantastic, and ya'll are being waaaaaay too hard on green day

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

uhm, i don't have cable anymore. is this vid actually getting any airplay during the day at all on MTV proper? or only on mtv2?

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 August 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

heh. for a little contrast, let's see what happens when a liberal blog watches it

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

My boyfriend just graduated for bootcamp, we have been together for almost 5 years. He's gone now. The video made me cry everytime I see it, we had the same exact fight... It portrays my life perfectly.

― Joan Armstrong, Friday, 19 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Why do all of you hate Green Day so much? K I'll admit the video is pretty shitty but if u just listen to the song itself without all the melodramatic screaming and crying its a pretty good song. So the band made a bade move with the vid but its a good song and thats wut counts.

― gd fkn rock, Friday, 26 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" video

― dan. (dan.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I like the song, but the video is just overwrought. And people talking in a video always reminds me of Pat Benatar or Paula Abdul.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Please tell me you're kidding. Ever heard of "Show, don't tell"???!

The problem with Nu-Green Day, Sum 41, Good Charlotte and the other bands who fit into that category is that their lyrics are extremely dumbed down so that 3rd graders can understand what the message of the song is. And I really hate that.

So what's Green Day doing that N.E.R.D. didn't do in that video with Brad Renfro like four years ago?

Good call. Holy shit, it's the exact same video. And both of them aren't very good. The only difference is that as a song, "Provider" is many times greater than "Wake Me Up..."

The only Nu-Green Day song that I like is "Jesus Of Suburbia." And previous to American Idiot, the only Green Day single that I didn't like was "Brain Stew."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

but "Brain Stew" is fabulous!

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 26 August 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

The song is a formulaic pile of shit. The video struck me as a little bit corny, but mostly because it showed the band playing, and how the fireworks went off behind the band as the soldiers were getting rocket-attcked.

I think many of the troops in Iraq would feel pretty honored by it, desipte the guitar-hero shit.

I also think it is a great recruiting commercial. I think plenty of guys that age are into that tragic hero stuff. What's more masculine than a guy who decides to take care of business by risking his life to provide a future for his family?

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to make a spoof of a clueless Spinal Tap type band trying to do a video like this. Have shots of Humvees being launched sky-high each time the lead guitarist does a windmill chord strum.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

I think this greenday clip was good although the clip in the begging no offence to greenday and others was a little bit of what the heck!But hey
i still like green day and their music.Plus if greenday reads this can someone let me know because i need their email so i can tell them about their music!!!!

― Justin S., Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

omg that was horrible

― bob b., Monday, 29 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

but "Brain Stew" is fabulous!

So obviously, every other pre-2002 Green Day single is better than fabulous.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Pre-2002 Green Day singles not better than fabulous:

Minority
Redundant
Nice Guys Finish Last
Walking Contradiction (nice vid, though)
That one song

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

i havent listened to redundant minority walking contadiction but have listened to nice guys fin. last so your point is they all suck?even i thought american idiots BLVD.OF BROKEN DREAMS was better then the nice guys finish last song and etc. but the song that really sucks is on nimrod called last ride in and they dont even sing! plus it dosent sound like greenday!

― bob b., Monday, 29 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

PLUS FUCK BRAIN STEW IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!!

― bob b., Monday, 29 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Brain stew was so fucked up it made my little sister cry and it is not fabulous it was SHIT and if u dont belive me your an asshole yourself so FUCK brainstew and hope it goes to hell because it was so boring and a complete waste of my time!

― bob b., Monday, 29 August 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

who ever started the whole brain stew idea is a complete asshole and should re think that song over because the best clips were american idiot holiday blvd. of broken dreams paridice and basket case!

― bob b., Monday, 29 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article308969.ece

heh.

Is Green Day the band that proves that ILM doesn't really like pop as much as it purports to?

― J (Jay), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

The guy at the beginning is from the last David Gordon Green movie,

it's Jamie Bell/Billy Elliot.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

I think that the attitude here seems to be that Green Day didn't suck when they were nice, adolescent punk-pop.

There's no love for Coldplay around here (or most mainstream rock), and that's the market/genre I see Green Day delving into now. Stuff that crosses over between alt-rock radio, mom-rock Top 40, and straight Top 40.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

ps "Minority" was fabulous. That album should have gotten the rock-crit love that American Idiot ended up with.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

And lets not forget the shameless rip off of "Picture Book" by the Kinks that was "Warning".

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

If you hate "Brain Stew", then you also hate "25 or 6 to 4".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

If you hate "Brain Stew", then you also hate "25 or 6 to 4".

All I said was that I didn't like "Brain Stew," which I stand by. And I like "25 Or 6 To 4." It has an awesome guitar solo, which "Brain Stew" does not. And since I'm sure someone will try to contort that statement to make it seem like that's the only reason why I enjoy it better, rest assured that it is not.

I think that the attitude here seems to be that Green Day didn't suck when they were nice, adolescent punk-pop.

The attitude should be that Green Day used to be fun, and now they're not.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

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"Wake me up when September ends, too."

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Is it wrong that the only reactions I had to the video were "Who the fuck is that other guy on the left platform playing guitar?" and "Is the drummer leaping off his platform at the end? Where's he going in such a hurry?"

So, it was about a war or something?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

u are all fucking wrong the best clip is the blvd of broken dreams that one an award on the mtv music video awards p.s.BRAIN STEW FUKING SUCK AND I DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IT SO SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!

― bob b., Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

*knocks bob b.'s head about to see if the particle of brain in his skull has been dislodged*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

FUCK U AND GO TO HELL BITCH

― bob b., Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know billie joe armstrongs email address???

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

y dont u ask the critic

― bob b. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is that supposed to mean asshole!!!

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

ASK THE FUKIN CRITIC THAT I SSHUVVIN HIS ASS IN MY BUSSINESS!

― bob b., Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

The Three Faces of Bob

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is yur problem
the three faces of bob my ass u mother fukin bitch go to hell and never come back asshole

― bob b., Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

go to hell u fukin asshole

― bob b., Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is his problem?

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

yo ned do u know billie joe armstrongs email address?

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

how the hell is he gunna know

― bob b., Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

idk do u bob?thats right u dont becuase u emailed me and said u didnt

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I was going through my clippings file, and I was surprised to see in my review of AmIdiot that I singled out WMUWSE as the best song on the otherwise sorta boring album.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

what does that mean?

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Who's the fourth guy? Is it Pat Smear showing up unexpectedly again?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Something about part of the vocal melody sounded weirdly familiar. I just realized what it is.

The intervals in the line "the innocent can never last" are almost the same as the intervals in "if you can't finish what you start / if this is love, then break my heart" in the song "Promises Promises", by Naked Eyes, from 1983.

Damn, now I need to go find a copy of "Promises Promises." Damn good song.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

That fourth guy is Jason White who helps run Adeline Records and was in Pinhead Gunpowder with Billie Joe.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Thank you. As your prize, you may now have billie joe armstrongs email address.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Naked Eyes - "Promises, Promises"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

so what is billie joe armstrongs email adress?????

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

You don't get to know. You didn't answer the trivia question, and thus were not entered into the contest.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

so?

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

can u please tell me

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

fine then tell me when u can acually help me

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

justin it's [email protected]

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

haha

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

how do u know that is billies joe armstrongs email adress?

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

yur a fukin jerk john justen u know that u cant even help somone how pethetic u PRICK think about it asshole theres a new bob and thats means u either help him even though he wasnt answered in the contest or u will be a pussy FOR LIFE!!!

― bob b., Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

u r all dicks exept 4 j blout that acually helped

― bob b., Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I can't love this thread any more!

― J (Jay), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Billie Joe shd be the new host for P!mp My R!d3.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

fuck u man and who the hell r u yur a fukin loser get lost!!!

― bob b., Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Trying to resist urge to change screenname to "John Justen, pussy FOR LIFE!!!"...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

yo john justen even though i wasnt entered in the contest to find out his email address do u know anyone that can help me find out?

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

BOB B. CAN GO TO HELL BECAUSE HES PUSSY!!!!HA HA HA BITCH THATS RIGHT U BOB!

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

w/e u piece of shit fuck this tread im out for good happy now asshole!

― bob b., Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

YES!!!

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

"John Justen, pussy FOR LIFE!!!"

I think I've said that before.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Is it something I was being granted? Like "In recognition of all your hard work over the years, I give you, John Justen, pussy FOR LIFE!!!" (fanfare, raucous applause.)

Because that would be cool.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is yur problem????sholdnt you be just john justen with out the pussy for life thing???and since when did this web site turn into aim

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

thank god bob b. is gone he was a real jackass if u ask me

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

green day is cool but you guys scare me with your tough talking comments! lol. most of these have nothing to do with green day, what a bunch of fags!

― randon smith, Saturday, 3 September 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Randon, it's not nice to call green day a bunch of fags. What would Billie Joe's mother say?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 3 September 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

green day? more like....green gay. oh i kill myself.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

I thought the video rocked! with the war, it was sweet! I love that song.

― Hannah Watson, Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

bull shit u do go to hell

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

at the beginning...(i skiped the part where the song name was written) i was like...did i click the wrong thing...but i kept watching...and i was like....kewl...but im confused by one thing...the guy tat got shot in the leg..was that the main guy or jus some normal soldier?

― Carrie K., Monday, 5 September 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

no that wass u!!!!!!!!!!

― Justin S. (Justin S.), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

BANANAS

― BANANAS, Friday, 9 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

ok, duh, it's the Marines.....

― pam, Friday, 9 September 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

i liked it and its all true it happend to people

― jessica k (lozrific), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

What is your email address green day?

― Danielle cunningham, Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

[email protected]

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

pleaes can i have billy joes email address coz i am there bigest fan ever xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

― Sam peater, Saturday, 24 September 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

shut up

― emily durrin, Friday, 7 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.haveabanana.net/banana/banana.html

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

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