lol
― The Reverend, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Uhhh...huh. I don't think I got a chance to actually vote. Oh, well. There's nothing in the list that I actively hate, despite how objectively terrible it may be. I think I've even developed a level of nostalgic affection for "Good", which was one of my worst and most hated songs on the radio back then (There was something about the opening line, "Lookin' around the house", which indicated to me a distinct lack of trying, akin to opening with "Twiddlin' mah thumbs" or "Readin' my Froot Loops box". Like, COME BACK AND WRITE THE SONG WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.)
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
the u2 and pusa voters are the ppl who have some explaining to do
― call all destroyer, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
i can't even conceive of a reality in which the U2 and PUSA songs aren't easily among the better options
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
no those songs are.....not good
― call all destroyer, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but i don't think there are >6 songs on that list that are better
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
i just realized that Green Day is the one band where my enjoyment of any given song is directly linked to the BPM. "Basket Case" is great, "Longview" is good, "When I Come Around" gets my attention wandering, and anything as slow as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is torture.
Dan, which gives you more joy, You Oughta Know lyric parodies or Video Games lyric parodies?
― sarahell, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
^ gets it
― Snowqueen's Icedragon (crüt), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
dear god lump
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
Song meanings page for Lump is a treat.
Sorry for this, but I don't see why it hasn't been mentioned.
The line, "mud flowed up into lump's pajamas"...
She's bedridden and incontinent.
She has accidents.greyoak
She's lump, meaning she's pretty lazy and emotionless, but still alive. She spent her twenties in between sheets...maybe all she did was have sex with people...or party. And she lingered last in line for brains, the one she has is sort of rotten and insane...she's not all that smart or sane.ashballsack
This song is written about "the load" a guy is about to blow by jacking off. Not trying to be graphic, but I thought it was obvious. "Lump" is semen. He is trying to get it out of his "head" which is basically his dick.
It seems obvious the song is about sperm that is ejaculated and they are making some funny play on words describing this.drumcomposer
yeah i'm prettty sure its about an inactive tumor. makes sense mostlyLifeLikeWeeds
It sounds to me like he's talking about a girl who used to be really wild, but then drugs turned her into a boring lump.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ai5cgFar0
― Snowqueen's Icedragon (crüt), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
but 6/10 for "Roam"? ;_;
Been away from my computer, so I just saw this. I know "Roam" is totally beloved around ilm, I've just never been that enamored with it. Although there was some more discussion about the song here shortly after I wrote that post and I think I may just bump it up to a 7 in retrospect.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
Alanis Morissette, "Hand in My Pocket" 6
You couldn't resist the shitty faux-Dylan harmonica solo.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 May 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
If you six JAR voters had strategically voted for When I Come Around . . .
Yeah but JAR is a less boring/predictable choice and it rules
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 May 2012 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Hold Me Thrill Me" are some lyric changes and a completely revamped arrangement away from being a good song, and that is closer than any of these other toonz.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 25 May 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
reen Day is the one band where my enjoyment of any given song is directly linked to the BPM. "Basket Case" is great, "Longview" is good, "When I Come Around" gets my attention wandering, and anything as slow as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is torture.
"Macy's Day Parade"?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
i don't hate it like i do "Boulevard," but i don't enjoy it the slightest bit either
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
some dude 100% otm. slow Green Day songs are so awful. "look, I slowed the song down, it must be more emotional." No, it's the exact same song played slower and with a hammy prom-ready chorus now. cf. Poison doing ballads, a near-exact analogue
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
also Crüe
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred's hierarchy is dead-on (although I'd make room for "Walking Contradiction" at the top, and I tired of "Basket Case" quickly)--in any event, Green Day ballads are the worst.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
still not exactly sure what "Roam" people have been referring to and will just assume it's the B-52s
― fauxmarc, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
in honor of this thread I listened to the Green Day comp in the car -- man, it gets sludgy from tracks 10-16.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
people, you're overlooking that the biggest problem with "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is that it's called "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", it's liking calling a song "Gang of Dogs Playing Poker"
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Would listen to that song, tbh.
― pplains, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
well obv it wd be better than "Boulevard of Broken Fucking Dreams"
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta demur on "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"--great! Even Marcus, who wrote a great long thing at the time decrying how the video represented everything evil and corrupt in pop music as Nirvana entered the picture, grudgingly conceded it was a good song (if I'm remembering his piece correctly).
― clemenza, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
You are.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
no it's not because the second song would rule
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
OKAY OKAY BAD ANALOGY
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
regardless of how you feel about hair metal power ballads, '90s alt-rock power ballads are worse. i mean, fucking "Lightning Crashes" is in this poll.
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
it always baffles me that people rep for "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", which is without a doubt one of the worst songs ever recorded in the history of mankind that doesn't feature blatant racism
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
You know, not to belabor the point, but especially a Green Day song called "Gang of Dogs Playing Poker".
― pplains, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Hair Metal guys tended to have a good voice for the ballads whereas alt-rock guys wd just be grunting in a more sincere register
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
do you realize that if someone had just dropped a giant boulder on Poison back before "Talk Dirty To Me" came out, the world would be a much better place today
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not a good start to the long weekend: I reread the 21st Century Breakdown thread this morning because I forgot that Green Day released another album after 2004 and it was called 21st Century Breakdown.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
you'd have to say Green Day's "animals engaged in popular pastimes" concept album's probly got a 50/50 chance of appearing eventually
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
only if the animals lived in red states
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
where poker is mostly legal, strangely enough.
― pplains, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
have to give the dogs something to do
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
they should title it Doggystyle, a concept album about being alienated and homosexual in a red state
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
That list of songs is 83 wasted mouse-clicks.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
in re: "Every Rose":
To hear that tears me up insideAnd to see you cuts me like a knife
all responsible for these words finding public purchase should be taken out to sea and cast into the watery depths, fuck "every rose" forever
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2012 10:14 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
put your big boy pants on, because Green Day is set to release THREE ALBUMS this year
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
have we ever polled one of those "monster ballads" hair metal comps they used to advertise on tv?
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
To hear that tears me up insideAnd to see you cuts me like a knifeoh it's called loveand it's cuts through life like a broken knifeit's called love love love love love
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Thought you were kidding on this, but wow. Creatively titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
I loled.
― Snowqueen's Icedragon (crüt), Friday, 25 May 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link