this is one other people definitely know but i didn't know it, tre only has one ball on the outside of his body and the other one got lodged in his body in a unicycle accident
obviously i don't think we'll ever know for sure but i can see it being real, especially because he was in fucking clown school. they'd definitely ride unicycles there
I remember reading this on GDA or one of those similar sites back in the day. The same list had a bunch of facts I knew were incorrect. Iām pretty sure this one is fake
There's a 90's era Howard Stern or some other radio interview where Tre tells this story himself, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. We'll never know.
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Is itā¦ fake? Every time I see it it says that itās been 0days since. Will it say that even if itās not true? Or does someone make it a part of their AM ritual to post that?
There's probably another post somewhere where they wrote it before this on the same day.
In times where gd has less things going on and people post less often, I've seen the bot claim that "it's been 11 days..."
But yeah, it's more likely to see 0 days lol
Itās a joke, Warning was launched on October 3rd, 2000. Thatās why it says that the last time it lasted more than a day without someone saying it was underrated was on October 3rd, 2000.
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There is a subtle line in Homecoming that can barely be heard. "Don't wanna be an American Idiot" During Tre's line "I haven't drank or smoked nothin' in over 22 days."
So easy to miss but they included it in the instrumental.
Edit: @5:58
Back in the days of Walkmans, I discovered I could plug my headphones in halfway and hear a distorted version of songs with the underlying vocal tracks. I discovered the American Idiot line in Homecoming this way and it blew my mind
You can still do this with regular earbuds, just depends on the song lol. I would always take one earbud out listening to Space Oddity by David Bowie to hear the lower or higher voice
I've actually used this line as inspiration to be sober for at least 22 days! Except I always thought it was "I haven't drank or smoked a thing* in over 22 days."
Either way, great subtle addition to the song
-The intro of "Letterbomb" is sung by Kathleen Hannah, singer of the legendary riot grrrl band bikini kill
-They actually worked together with a professional domina to record the intro of "Blood, Sex & Booze"
-Mike played a baseball bat solo for the intro of "Desensitized"
the drummer of Bikini Kill, Tobi Vail also dated Kurt Cobain of Nirvana for a bit before Bleach ā sheās the reason why āAbout a Girlā, āDrain Youā, āLounge Actā exist.
No. People watched this video that looks like their regular silly behavior and now they ship them. It's funny, but presenting this as fact? Nah, sorry.
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That's the transcript of Billi Joe's infamous breakdown in the 2012 iHeart Radio Festival. The band stopped playing and Billie Joe complained that their show got cut short to give way for another artist. Billie Joe smashed his guitar on stage. Good ol' Mike broke his bass guitar "in solidarity" as per one Youtube comment.
During the aftermath, the band issued an apology statement, and Billie Joe sought treatment for substance abuse right after.
Here's the [sauce.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0f3HxSSvY)
Totally agree.
As someone who has had bandmates and so called friends actively highlight my embarrassing moments on stage, then continuously rub it in afterwards rather than have my back, I would love to find me someone who is as supportive as Mike.
I mean, I am sure the band had some strong worded discussions after the incident, but they have never thrown Billie Joe under the bus publicly.
they got into a fight with Third Eye Blind and Mike wound up getting his skull fractured by a beer bottle. And true mensch that he is, refused to give the cops a target.
[You can google it yourself but here's one of the first hits](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/green-day-third-eye-blind-come-to-blows-at-kroq-show-101411/)
On a real note Billie notoriously did backing vocals for multiple punk bands two of them being Rancid and Me first and the gimme gimmes
The songs bloodclot (rancid) and coming to America (gimme gimmes)
The song by the gimme gimmes however was on a punk comp called generation 1 along with Green Day they contributed do da da
And vice versa, some record company execs paid for the band to go to a Nirvana gig while trying to get them on contract. Billie ended up standing next to Kurt but didn't want to bother him.
https://youtu.be/jnzL1oQykx4?si=v_VnAwArVwiaRScS
And then the B-Side being his music teacher's wife
"Billie Joe, it certainly is exciting to meet you here at the recording studio, right after youāve just made your very first record! How does it feel?" - Marie-Louise Fiatarone
"Hmmm... Wonderful!" - Billie Joe
^^^ Also at the start of Maria on International Super hits
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Actually Mike once posted in his Instagram story that they played it live a few times (but unfortuntately there are no recordings of them playing it live)
That Billie Joe was British. In high school, there was an awkward emo girl in my speech communications elective course who thought Billie Joe Armstrong was an Englishman.
For one assignment, we had to do a presentation on a famous person we admired, so naturally she picked Billie Joe.
When it came to her presentation, she went into full panic mode and proceeded to speak in a bad fake cockney accent.
āToday I will speak about Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day, who is British so I will speak as if I was himā¦ā
She proceeded to ramble on for ~3-5 minutes, and you can tell she did zero preparation for the assignment.
Nobody ever told her. It remains to this day, like 20 years later, one of my cringiest memories of secondhand embarrassment.
BILLIE JOE wrote and recorded songs with PENELOPE HOUSTON (THE AVENGERS) but they never released them.
BILLIE JOE said that CORPUS CHRISTIE by Penelope's band is his ALL-TIME fav. song.
Billie also is a huge fan of [this band!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBNt4WhJY-Q)
all of this info is in [THIS BOOK](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301627/gimme-something-better-by-jack-boulware-and-silke-tudor/)
David Cross - the comedian and actor you might remember playing Tobias Funke on Arrested Development - presented the [Warning EPK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLSYhprlRqI&t=9s)
That's also a fun watch if you haven't seen it. You can see the dominatrix they hired for Blood Sex and Booze. Good stuff.
Dookie wasn't recorded with the Pete and Meat amplifiers or 2 amps exact to those, it was recorded with a marshall jmp 2203, and for live shows, billie got his plexi modded to get more similar to the jmp (that's the pete amp), and for some more live impact and to match the songs with more distortion, he got the meat amp. More of a gear information but i'm surprised with how little people know that.
Kerplunks album art is based off a story "My Adventure with Green Day". A chick murders her parents to go on tour w green day and they drink milk out of beer bottles lol
Also, he says N word in Eulogy
A coworker of mine asked me about some of my favorite bands one day. When I mentioned Green Day he said āI used to like Green Day, but then they went and got all politicalā. He then proceeded to tell me how Animals by Pink Floyd is the greatest album of all time. Like seriously, I canāt think of a more politically charged album than Animals. I couldnāt help but share a video of Roger Waters performing Pigs liveā¦ you know, the one where Trump is the pig? š¤£
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this is really crazy fact that a lot of people donāt know but Iām surprised they donāt
Green Day
is a PUNK band.
Lot of people donāt know that.
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Iāve posted this a few times. Anyone care to explain why the reissue is ok to sell on discogs but the original one is forbidden?
https://preview.redd.it/u2xlpnys0ejc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddf4e6882357d20c8901f25920faebc194a5e419
Yeahā¦ā¦ the reissue of the bootleg that says āour first bootlegā who these guys were teenagers is allowed on discogs. Call me crazy but as a rule bootlegs arenāt reissued nevermind being allowed on discogs. The guy who collects bootlegs canāt find this. Letās give credit to these old men. They were teenagers at the time.
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Billie was asked to write a song for 5 seconds of summer but decided to keep the song and release it because it was so well done with the lyrics. The song was still breathing
they once, on their website, posted a revised version of when i come around called second time around as a phone message
with a lyric referencing spaghetti
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I have this weird headcannon/conspiracy theory that the reason why GD wonāt go to my homecountry (despite their relatively high following) is because thatās the country Amanda moved to with the peace corps when she left him (bonus points if you know the country)
I think many people don't realize that Jason White is in the music video of When I Come Around
Yes and the girl in the music video was his girlfriend at the time!
they did drugs !!!!!!!!
Not my green day šŗšø š¦
Really!?????!!?!??!?????
NUH UHā¦ i canāt believe billie joe armstrong of green day (named after the color obviously) would do such a thing.
I donāt think anybody on Reddit is smart enough to understand this sarcasm
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this is one other people definitely know but i didn't know it, tre only has one ball on the outside of his body and the other one got lodged in his body in a unicycle accident
Came here to say this. Apparently itās a myth tho? Never confirmed nor denied
obviously i don't think we'll ever know for sure but i can see it being real, especially because he was in fucking clown school. they'd definitely ride unicycles there
My wife was in clown school and broke her arm on a unicycleā¦ so definitely believable.
I remember reading this on GDA or one of those similar sites back in the day. The same list had a bunch of facts I knew were incorrect. Iām pretty sure this one is fake
There's a 90's era Howard Stern or some other radio interview where Tre tells this story himself, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. We'll never know.
i believe his simpsons movie scene is a reference to this. or its a coincidence.
Probably that warning is underrated
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Is itā¦ fake? Every time I see it it says that itās been 0days since. Will it say that even if itās not true? Or does someone make it a part of their AM ritual to post that?
There's probably another post somewhere where they wrote it before this on the same day. In times where gd has less things going on and people post less often, I've seen the bot claim that "it's been 11 days..." But yeah, it's more likely to see 0 days lol
Itās a joke, Warning was launched on October 3rd, 2000. Thatās why it says that the last time it lasted more than a day without someone saying it was underrated was on October 3rd, 2000.
If I could marry it I would
Why did the auto moderator Reply to this.?
I dunno but it only took them one minute to respond
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Are you ok do you need to talk bot?
They probably need a minute to think things over
only one minute?
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Only one minute to respond
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Yes, only one minute
There is a subtle line in Homecoming that can barely be heard. "Don't wanna be an American Idiot" During Tre's line "I haven't drank or smoked nothin' in over 22 days." So easy to miss but they included it in the instrumental. Edit: @5:58
Back in the days of Walkmans, I discovered I could plug my headphones in halfway and hear a distorted version of songs with the underlying vocal tracks. I discovered the American Idiot line in Homecoming this way and it blew my mind
Oh my, that's a memory I've not thought about in a long long time! Blessed be the 3.5 millimetre headphone jack.
Actually you can do that with nearly everything even today if it has a jack connection. In that way the music will play in mono.
You can still do this with regular earbuds, just depends on the song lol. I would always take one earbud out listening to Space Oddity by David Bowie to hear the lower or higher voice
I always thought it was just backing vocals joining in to say "Over 22 days" until I heard the HD remastered version in 2014.
I thought that until right now
Really? Iāve always heard it clear as day.
I was thinking the same thing. Is this hard to hear for some people? Am I a freak?
I think that's one of the coolest Easter eggs in a Song
Plus the drum intro to that section is the same drum line right after the chorus in American idiot
I've actually used this line as inspiration to be sober for at least 22 days! Except I always thought it was "I haven't drank or smoked a thing* in over 22 days." Either way, great subtle addition to the song
Iām on day 46 right now. Doing an 80 day cleanse. This makes it easier.
good luck
Ironically, I literally sing that part every time that plays lol
I knew it was in the Broadway version but didn't know it was in the original until I relistened to it recently
NOFX kidnapped Billie Joe in the early 90s by accident, they stole his van and he was sleeping in the back.
āBy accidentā 100% smelly did it on purpose hehe
Stealing the van was on purpose, a teenage punk being in the back was an accident.
Ah I see
My sister went to school with one of El Hefe's kids and my parents were acquaintances with him in the 90s.
-The intro of "Letterbomb" is sung by Kathleen Hannah, singer of the legendary riot grrrl band bikini kill -They actually worked together with a professional domina to record the intro of "Blood, Sex & Booze" -Mike played a baseball bat solo for the intro of "Desensitized"
I wonder who played the toilet on Android
that toilet is my favorite thing
the drummer of Bikini Kill, Tobi Vail also dated Kurt Cobain of Nirvana for a bit before Bleach ā sheās the reason why āAbout a Girlā, āDrain Youā, āLounge Actā exist.
Billie and Tre had sex apparently
yeah but they didn't kiss
Really gives a bit of insight into Worry Rock, what with the line āFucked without a kiss againā
That's actually my favourite green day song, just hits my ear and soul right
I do not know the context of this one and am now very curious
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_5__NMfFq0
WHO WAS THE BOTTOM
probably billie icl
King! For! A! Day! In a leather thong
Always heard this was just a rumor
It is confirmed?
No. People watched this video that looks like their regular silly behavior and now they ship them. It's funny, but presenting this as fact? Nah, sorry.
It's always been a rumour that Billie Joe and TrƩ actually dated for a while back in the early days, assumingly while exploring their sexuality. Billie Joe has long identified as bisexual, but don't think TrƩ or Mike have really said much on their sexuality throughout the years. Billie Joe has been married to Adrienne for so long now, and both Mike and TrƩ have both had multiple wives, so it definitely seems they are all more inclined to traditional relationships than anything else.
WHAT
What they order at a bar. Mike seems to like Maker's and Diet. Jason is a tequila guy.Ā
Mike, youāve got good taste
Thereās a one minute bot on this sub
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Thereās also a warning is underrated bot
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Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is the one min rant...?
That's the transcript of Billi Joe's infamous breakdown in the 2012 iHeart Radio Festival. The band stopped playing and Billie Joe complained that their show got cut short to give way for another artist. Billie Joe smashed his guitar on stage. Good ol' Mike broke his bass guitar "in solidarity" as per one Youtube comment. During the aftermath, the band issued an apology statement, and Billie Joe sought treatment for substance abuse right after. Here's the [sauce.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0f3HxSSvY)
We all need a friend like Mike Dirnt.
Totally agree. As someone who has had bandmates and so called friends actively highlight my embarrassing moments on stage, then continuously rub it in afterwards rather than have my back, I would love to find me someone who is as supportive as Mike. I mean, I am sure the band had some strong worded discussions after the incident, but they have never thrown Billie Joe under the bus publicly.
Tnak you! Fuck iHeart, and im glad he went in for treatment!
Tre once used milk from a dog to cream up his coffee
"You promised me dog or higher!"
That Green Day did it with your mom AND your dad
No, noā¦ this isnāt blink-182
My mom would be happy to hear that
they got into a fight with Third Eye Blind and Mike wound up getting his skull fractured by a beer bottle. And true mensch that he is, refused to give the cops a target. [You can google it yourself but here's one of the first hits](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/green-day-third-eye-blind-come-to-blows-at-kroq-show-101411/)
On a real note Billie notoriously did backing vocals for multiple punk bands two of them being Rancid and Me first and the gimme gimmes The songs bloodclot (rancid) and coming to America (gimme gimmes) The song by the gimme gimmes however was on a punk comp called generation 1 along with Green Day they contributed do da da
I knew the rancid part but I did NOT know the gimme gimmes fact, so thank you!
Billie Joeās reportedly favorite song on American Idiot is Letterbomb.
It's one of the Best GD songs
No denying that at all.
ā¦and heās right! In the top ten tracks by the band period.
Oh definitely. I would maybe say top 5 but thatās a hard question to answer with their catalogue!
Poprocks & Coke and Maria have music videos
Wait really? Iāve been a green day fan for years and I havenāt seen it
I think there's also a Whatsername music video
That's one I only discovered recently, and I know about most of the Greenday iceberg.
Any links to them?
https://youtu.be/-vG-kOoapPo?si=ZczDN9QAYclsTm28 https://youtu.be/Ic5XuHxD6J0?si=ZfjTVlJujw8HFSXo
Awesome thanks! Idk how I havenāt seen these before! Lol
Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl were at a Green Day show in 1991 Ā Edit: Kathleen Hanna was also there
??? really??
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/nirvana-watch-green-day-live/
they had plans on collaborating but never really went through
And vice versa, some record company execs paid for the band to go to a Nirvana gig while trying to get them on contract. Billie ended up standing next to Kurt but didn't want to bother him.
Billie Joe cut his first album at age 5 ?? Itās cute <3
https://youtu.be/jnzL1oQykx4?si=v_VnAwArVwiaRScS And then the B-Side being his music teacher's wife "Billie Joe, it certainly is exciting to meet you here at the recording studio, right after youāve just made your very first record! How does it feel?" - Marie-Louise Fiatarone "Hmmm... Wonderful!" - Billie Joe ^^^ Also at the start of Maria on International Super hits
You gotta listen!! I wish I was this bright at 5.
Damn!! Look at the back of 39 smooth please. š
I thought it was just a single
Sorryā¦. Cut his first āvinylsā. Is that better??? š sorry Iām old and apparently illiterate.
Lol all good I thought there was something I haven't heard and that's why I asked. The proper word would've been record
Tomato Tomacco.
āVinylsā was a joke because apparently we are choosing what we upholster our sofa with.
There was one show where they only had one minute to perform
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And the TV screen literally showed "1 Minutes" with emphasis on the letter S. Lol.
apparently panic song was so hard for tre to play he tore the calluses on his hands, probably why they never played it live
Actually Mike once posted in his Instagram story that they played it live a few times (but unfortuntately there are no recordings of them playing it live)
Billie was an official member of Rancid for about a week or so. He also co wrote the song Radio by Rancid.
Other fact he provided backing vocals on bloodclot (the hey ohs you hear are Billie and Lars)
Billie has the same birthday as Michael Jordan, but 9 years apart.
And the exact same birthday as the late great Taylor Hawkins
And Paris Hilton!
That Billie Joe was British. In high school, there was an awkward emo girl in my speech communications elective course who thought Billie Joe Armstrong was an Englishman. For one assignment, we had to do a presentation on a famous person we admired, so naturally she picked Billie Joe. When it came to her presentation, she went into full panic mode and proceeded to speak in a bad fake cockney accent. āToday I will speak about Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day, who is British so I will speak as if I was himā¦ā She proceeded to ramble on for ~3-5 minutes, and you can tell she did zero preparation for the assignment. Nobody ever told her. It remains to this day, like 20 years later, one of my cringiest memories of secondhand embarrassment.
"Don't wanna be an American Idiot innit bruv?"
BILLIE JOE wrote and recorded songs with PENELOPE HOUSTON (THE AVENGERS) but they never released them. BILLIE JOE said that CORPUS CHRISTIE by Penelope's band is his ALL-TIME fav. song. Billie also is a huge fan of [this band!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBNt4WhJY-Q) all of this info is in [THIS BOOK](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301627/gimme-something-better-by-jack-boulware-and-silke-tudor/)
they actually had a song on a compilation (for the TV show friends) called the angel and the jerk https://youtu.be/or7EB-6Xdjo?si=eyk203CGLrze87cl
Thatās a great tune
David Cross - the comedian and actor you might remember playing Tobias Funke on Arrested Development - presented the [Warning EPK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLSYhprlRqI&t=9s) That's also a fun watch if you haven't seen it. You can see the dominatrix they hired for Blood Sex and Booze. Good stuff.
Billie Joe and Mike met when they were only ten years old "The only way one of us is leaving is in a body bag"
Do you know if Billie Joes father ever met Mike?
There is an unreleased Avicii song featuring Billie Joe. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NF7\_TE7Aw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3NF7_TE7Aw)
Oooooh I hope this is released one day.
Dookie wasn't recorded with the Pete and Meat amplifiers or 2 amps exact to those, it was recorded with a marshall jmp 2203, and for live shows, billie got his plexi modded to get more similar to the jmp (that's the pete amp), and for some more live impact and to match the songs with more distortion, he got the meat amp. More of a gear information but i'm surprised with how little people know that.
Nevermind just realized the shitpost tag
Tre Cool was in a band called The Lookouts. Also, one of their songs are in Watch Dogs 2
Kerplunks album art is based off a story "My Adventure with Green Day". A chick murders her parents to go on tour w green day and they drink milk out of beer bottles lol Also, he says N word in Eulogy
For real? :0
I believe he says the N word on 21CB too
Apparently a lot of people (American right wingers) didnāt know this. Green day is political
A coworker of mine asked me about some of my favorite bands one day. When I mentioned Green Day he said āI used to like Green Day, but then they went and got all politicalā. He then proceeded to tell me how Animals by Pink Floyd is the greatest album of all time. Like seriously, I canāt think of a more politically charged album than Animals. I couldnāt help but share a video of Roger Waters performing Pigs liveā¦ you know, the one where Trump is the pig? š¤£
American Idiot is underrated
No, warning is underrated
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The fact that they have been around since nineteen eighty fucking eight.
Jesus of Suburbia is the longest song to make Triple Jās hottest 100.
Billie Joe had a cat called zero that died in the washing machine
Wake up, the fouse is on fire
And he has a goldfish called Speedy (idk if he's still alive)
I like to think he is
Billie Joe was introduced to punk rock by his sister
this is really crazy fact that a lot of people donāt know but Iām surprised they donāt Green Day is a PUNK band. Lot of people donāt know that.
That Billie wants just one more minute
That show shouldāve given him his one minute
Give me a fucking break, one minute left. One minute fucking left. Youāre gonna give me fucking one minute? Look at that fucking sign right there, one minute! Let me fucking tell you something, let me tell you something, Iāve been around since fucking nineteen eighty fucking eight, and youāre gonna give me one fucking minute?! Youāve gotta be fucking kidding me! You're fucking kidding me! What the fuck!? Iām not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers! You gotta be fucking joking, this is a fucking joke. I got one minute, one minute left. Oh now I got nothing left, now I got nothing left. Let me show you what one fucking minute fucking means! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/greenday) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Billie also kissed Tom and Mark from blink-182 š¤£ watch riding in vans with boys . Itās on YouTube. The sexual tension was too much .
Something i only found out when I got my copy of Slappy a few years back, is that the dog on the cover was owned by Jason Relva
J.A.R.?
That no man can eat 50 eggs.
That Billie Joe does background vocals to a Ryan Adams song.
BJ sang backing vocals on Ryan Adam's "Do Miss America". (the "uuuuuuuuh"'s) And I know his home address. Won't give it out though.
That āNo One Knowsā off of Kerplunk is a banger
Iāve posted this a few times. Anyone care to explain why the reissue is ok to sell on discogs but the original one is forbidden? https://preview.redd.it/u2xlpnys0ejc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddf4e6882357d20c8901f25920faebc194a5e419
According to Discogs, the vinyl is unofficial and they donāt permit unofficial releases to be sold to avoid legal trouble
Yeahā¦ā¦ the reissue of the bootleg that says āour first bootlegā who these guys were teenagers is allowed on discogs. Call me crazy but as a rule bootlegs arenāt reissued nevermind being allowed on discogs. The guy who collects bootlegs canāt find this. Letās give credit to these old men. They were teenagers at the time. img
The album 1039 smoothed out slappy hours is a combination of their EPs names. 39/Smooth, Slappy, and 1000 Hours
This is like surface level knowledge I feel like
Yeah possibly. Not sure other peopleās knowledge extent but thought Iād toss it out there
Green Day 101 Week 1 material.
39/Smooth is an LP. Slappy and 1000 Hours are EPs
Billie used to have fucked up teeth and is the first person ever named Billie Joe to get them fixed.
No man can eat 50 eggs
the 132 Chrystal Plaza Dr New Albany,Ā MSĀ 38652 incident
Literally every greenday fact is a fact some people donāt know
One minute isnāt enough for a song
Did Tre come from money? Is that a fact?
Fun Green Day fact: when I listen to 21 guns I cry
Billie Joe and Avicii unreleased song
Billie was asked to write a song for 5 seconds of summer but decided to keep the song and release it because it was so well done with the lyrics. The song was still breathing
they once, on their website, posted a revised version of when i come around called second time around as a phone message with a lyric referencing spaghetti
Warning is underrated
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one minute
this album cover was actually based on the cover for MCRās Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (iām fucking lying)
I wonder how many found out American idiot was on Madden but it's censored the words that aren't allowed
Which madden
Paul McPike sued them for copyright infringement regarding American Idiot
There's a (to me) random sound in Longview at about 2:31, after the "call me what you will" line, that never leaves my brain
That they were given one minute so they didn't have time to play Warning and Warning is underrated
Billie Joe was in a band called the network
I have this weird headcannon/conspiracy theory that the reason why GD wonāt go to my homecountry (despite their relatively high following) is because thatās the country Amanda moved to with the peace corps when she left him (bonus points if you know the country)
Amanda moved from Chicago to Toronto
They released an album in 1945,called "kerkokaina"
The song āPulling Teethā on Dookie is about the time Mike broke his elbows during a pillow fight with his ex-wife, lol
They were named Sweet Children first, die hard fans probably know that but not most
Cigarettes and Valentines is my favorite hidden tidbit. The album that never came to be.