Worst line in Green Day's "Oh Love"

Ironically I'm super-curious to hear what's on their THREE upcoming albums just to understand why this seemed like a good idea for a first single.

Oh ride. Free ride. Won't you take me close to you?

Oh losers. And choosers. Won't you please hold on my life?

BECAUSE I JUST MIGHT LOSE IT!

I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonoight

i wonder if these guys have come down with Peter Jackson's disease and have been playing with epic so long they don't know how to make a reasonably paced track.

Oh shit. Oh shit. Our songs are so shit.

Heart on a noose, because (iirc, and I certainly ain't listening to the song again to find out) we hear it quite a few times in the song, though the dog years line is pretty stupid too. I just didn't know whether to vote for it or the following lyric because I didn't know which line to punish the song with for rhyming "day" with "day."

tbf nothing rhymes with "day"

i actually think this is more tolerable than almost anything they've done as Green Day in the past decade (partly because it sounds more like Foxboro Hottubs side project), but i gotta vote for "Oh hours. And hours. Like the dog years of the day."

every once in a while you pull a weird "actually i prefer this oatmeal to the overly spicy business they usually pull" vote for mediocrity but this takes the cake

This does sound less Broadway than their recent stuff. It still sucks but, you know, small favours.

This sounds like something that didn't make the cut for Weezer's red album played at half-speed

actually Maladroit

every once in a while you pull a weird "actually i prefer this oatmeal to the overly spicy business they usually pull" vote for mediocrity but this takes the cake

― da croupier, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 4:32 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

is it that crazy to think this is better than "Know Your Enemy"?

considering what a piece of shit that tune is, no

I just drove home and listened to 39 Smooth for the first time in years and I'm surprised that it sounded better than ever .. fucking awesome in fact, so no there's no way in hell I'm gonna kill my green day buzz and press play on that video.

Oh shit. Oh shit. Our songs are so shit.

― gonna win all over your face (snoball), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 4:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

I just drove home and listened to 39 Smooth for the first time in years and I'm surprised that it sounded better than ever .. fucking awesome in fact, so no there's no way in hell I'm gonna kill my green day buzz and press play on that video.

THIS

His voice is somewhere in between Avril Lavigne and Geddy Lee. I might actually kind of like the "dog years of the day" line, but maybe I won't after I have my cup of coffee.

yes, i still have a tiny tiny little bit of love in my heart for green day. I never got round to hearing 39 smooth though.

is it that crazy to think this is better than "Know Your Enemy"?

that's not what you wrote. you wrote "i actually think this is more tolerable than almost anything they've done as Green Day in the past decade".

right, right. what American Idiot or 21st Century Breakdown single is so great that it's nuts to like this better, though?

american idiot is overrated but holy shit they're better than this test pattern

there's a pause around the 2:30-3:00 mark where it sounds like the song is over and you realize you're just over the halfway mark. if you really think "well, whew, at least i'm not listening to 'Holiday'" enjoy your oatmeal

i just like the jangly retro stuff better than the strident lockstep modern rock, i think. "Waiting" was their last song that i loved.

"Holiday" is the closest thing to tolerable that the AI hits got for me, but the bridge on that thing is pretty unacceptable. "Last Of The American Girls" off the last one was nice but barely a hit at all.

lol their next single is titled "Kill The DJ"

i will also defend "know your enemy" for being two minutes shorter than this

i mean if you're just going to say "hi, we're green day, here's a slogan and a riff and you're listening to WALT - real rock radio from the '90s to today" points for not taking five minutes to do it

yeah somehow i hadn't gotten any sense of how long "Oh Love" actually is. it's definitely downhill from the first minute or so and i tune out a bit, but that first minute is at least mildly refreshing as a melodic trifle i wasn't really expecting to lead their bloated triple album.

it kind of sounds like a Cheap Trick song. well, until it goes vaguely Irish on us in the chorus

I'm not willing to defend this, but I honestly don't understand why it's SO bad. The fact that it's 5 minutes long means nothing to me, might as well be 10 minutes, I'd still feel meh.

lol their next single is titled "Kill The DJ"

― some dude, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:35 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hope it's a collab with stirmonster

I hope they're the dj

Hmmm... It's not really very good but if you cast away any notions about them being a 'punk rock' band and think of it as a power pop song (cheap trick is def a good ref point), it kind of makes more sense. This ban has been around for 25 years, Christ!

okay this is hilarious

I had to look at the lyrics at the top of the thread to make sure BJA wasn't singing "Oh hours. And hours. Like the darkies of the day"

Wow yeah this sucks. I'd rather listen to new Weezer than this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2kPYYQ93Gc

if BAND WHO SHOULD NOT BE REFERENCED IN COMPARISON TO THIS CHORE is mentioned a third time rick nielsen's going to fly out of your computer screen and stab you with an 8-necked guitar

[bleep] trick

if you cast away any notions about them being a 'punk rock' band

big ask

fuck this album rules so hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_S6sQGCrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ9ymEhOSfo

Even as a hard(mall)core GxDx fan in the early 90s I understood their lyrics were shitty and dumb. Looks like over a decade of non-stop success hasn't really improved that.

i don't miss Green Day's punk origins so much as how rubbery and caffeinated they used to sound. at some point Dirnt stopped plunking his strings and Cool stopped doing manic fills and they started sounding like every other major label rhythm section.

I didn't own Insomniac at the time but I really love it now

theyre not really a band i listen to for the lyrics... of course when the only youtube clips of these songs force you to read along while listening, the lyrical quality will be more obvious, but still the songwriting is surprisingly strong considering he was only 18.. they're the kind of songs you can singalong to the first time you hear them, and their energy is so infectious..

plus you can tell this guy totally worshiped the replacements.

wow, just kidding.. he wrote the songs on 1000 Hours when he was 16, and 39 Smooth when he was 17.

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