10. AMERICAN IDIOT
Conspirations, Dirty Goverment, Americans, There are all in the American Idiot. An iconic song from Green Day's 7th studio album, "American Idiot(2004)". Green Day reached a great success after releasing this album, along with the singles, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Wake me up When September Ends, Holiday, and no doubt, American idiot. Along with Holiday and American Idiot, it could be seen that Green Day is a band that sings about politic and conspirations. Lirically, American Idiot talks about the American that easily were lied by the goverment and medias. They were called as American Idiot because of their stupidity.
9. NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
Yep, we're going with this Neo-Punk song. Wich was released as 4th and final single from Green Day's 5th studio album, Nimrod. The use of the song in the movie Varsity Blues helped propel it to hit status and earned it a nomination for an MTV Movie Award for best song from a movie in 1999.
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8. GEEK STINK BREATH
Okay, we jump to one album beforw Nimrod, it's Insomniac, with the first single Geek Stink Breath. The lyrics tells about the effects of menthapethamine in the human body. The word "geek" is the slang of menthapethamine. The lyrics were also inspired by Amstrong's own experiences, as well as the people around him that he saw lose control of theor lives becausw of their addictions. Featuring a hardrocking three chord riff, the song pays homepage to the band 1970s punk influences, Including the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. The song ended up beimg a moderate radio hit.
7. STILL BREATHING
Sounds like an Alternative rock with little bit pop-punk seasoning. Man, this song is really great, the lyrics, tone and the tempo is really match. For a notice, this song isn't about politics (hahaha). It from their 12th studio album, Revolution Radio. The album received positive reviews from music critics, appearing on multiple year-end list, and earning 95.000 first week album-equivalent units in the U.S. to debut at no.1 on the Billboard 200. Revolution Radio also debuted at no.1 in the U.K., Italy, Ireland, Canada, and New Zaeland.
6. 21 GUNS
The song is released as the second single from their 8th studio album, 21st century breakdown(2009). This song has a moderate midtempo such as Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me up When September Ends. It was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo/Group with Vocals and the best song in 2010. "21 Guns" adresses the topic of patriotism and it speaks about "Anti war". Billie Joe told: "It brings up 21st century breakdown in a lot of ways. And the 21-guns salute for someone that's fallen, but done in an arena rock n roll short of way.
5. BASKET CASE
If Boulevard of Broken Dreams and 21 Guns had an acoustic guitar and moderate midtempo, Basket Case has an electric buzzsaw guitars and fast lighting drums!! This is the 7th and the 3rd single from their 3rd studio album, Dookie. This song spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks Chart. This song is about Billie Joe's strunggle with anxiety before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder years afterward, he thought he was going crazy. He commented, "The only way I could know what the hell was going on was to write a ong about it."
4. BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
From the 7th studio album again, American Idiot. No doubt there are many great songs from this album. Such as Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a song with moderate midtempo characterized by somber and bleak lyrics. It speaks about the main charactet of the album, Jesus of Suburbia. With the moderate tempo and beautiful tone, it's not weird if this song peaked at no 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the Green Day's most successful song in the U.S. it sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. and worldwide sales exceeding 5 million copies.
3. GOOD RIDDANCE (TIME OF YOUR LIFE)
Some different sound of Green Day, a sweet acoustic ballad song. Although written by Billie Joe before the release of their 3rd album, Dookie, this song wasn't released until Green Day's 5th album, Nimrod. And it was released as the 2nd single from Nimrod. Although it was not issued as a physical single at the time of its original release in the U.S., "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" later went on to sell over 2.6 million copies as a digital download in the country. The song is also certified Gold in the U.K. for sales of 400,000.
2. GOING TO PASALACQUA
Alright.. we're going back to Green Day's early album, wich is recorded by independent record label, yeah it's 39 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. Almost all (or maybe all) of the song from this album talk about love (I mean not politics hahaha, such as recently Green Day's songs). From this song, we can feel how beautiful a young love is. In this song, Armstrong is expressing his insecurity and anxiety about a relationship that he's in. He thought the feeling was gone, but it's still there, still in his heart and making him want to be with the one he loves. Thinking about them, he realizes that his attitude hasn't changed a bit and he's still as much in love as he had been before. And so he decides that no matter what he will stay with the person he loves.
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1. LONGVIEW
YEAH!! We reach no.1!! Yep! Longview. One of the Green Day's most "Punk-sound". The song is from their 3rd studio album, Dookie and was released as the lead single. The song was the band's first single to the top of the Modern Rock Chart in the U.S. The music video for this song received heavy airplay on MTV and is largely credited for breaking Green Day into Mainstream Popularity. The song describes intense boredom. Lyrically, the song is about a day spent sitting around the house. Doing absolutely nothing of importance, masturbating, and smoking until the days are no longer fun. Longview also is a song that has one of the coolest bassline intro in the rock history.
Source: Wikipedia and www.geekstinkbreath.net
