"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" - Classic or Dud?

there's no decaf Mountain Dew, is there?

B-b-but most lyrics are shockingly bad! (The again, if that's the case, why would it be shocking?)

sure sounds like one

I've never seen the caffeine free Dew before! I wouldn't try it anyway, though. what's the point?

(As I recall, BTE actually had a similar-sounding "gorgeous", "fragile" etc. ballad on their big LP, called "Porcelain").

I'm sorry, I'm so full of loathing for this song I simply must bring it back up. I wish this song had a face so that I could stab it.

yep. definitely one of the worst songs ever written.

i kinda like it.

I have no feelings about this song whatsoever.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, June 9, 2005 3:42 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I thought I had defended this song before -- maybe on another thread. Anyway, Classic. Overplayed, probably. But that's surely a context problem, not an intrinsic problem?

It's something unpredictable.

It's a classic certainly. But it's a piece of crap.

I am full of admiration for its unashamed, brazenly utilitarian nature.

Absolute dud, for the myriad occasions I was subjected to it at high school assemblies. Hell, it wouldn't even die during my first couple of years in university, but I guess it's my own fault for showing up at those residence meetings.

I can't remember if I liked it pre-overkill. I'm not a fan, but they were better back then than they are now to be sure- "Hitchin' a Ride" and "Redundant" are pretty good still. The singles from American Idiot, which seemed to receive blanket praise, were on the other hand uniquely poor.

I like this song, but it wasn't really overplayed in Finland, nor do we have proms, so that might explain it. Still, the song is pretty and simple and I've never really paid attention to the lyrics.

If you guys want this song to go away you should support grassroots football development in England so in the future, there won't be repeated ignominous tournament exits for it to soundtrack

Awful. Simply awful. I hope my ears are never assaulted in such a way again.

Just had to hear this on local "Lite FM" station while doing my laundry (squeezed between "Father Figure" by George Michael and "Breathe" by Faith Hill). There's something so cloyingly smug about this track. Ugh. I just remember it being used on an episode of "E.R." wherein a nurse plays it for a dying patient, and it made me want to spit up all over my television.

ah it's a sweet little tune

classic, tbh

better than that song from Dirty Dancing

Over the years I've even come around to liking "Eternal Flame" but not this dud.

worst use of strings on a rock record EVER

i started liking this song more when I realized it was about Gilman.

What the hell did people use to score misty-eyed reminiscence montages prior to the existence of this song? Like 'Alley Cat' or some shit?

"the freshman" by verve pipe

"ooh la la" by the faces

was this revive due to the most recent hollywood handbook because i saw it just as that part the episode came up

I'm genuinely trying to answer my own stupid question now because I had apparently auto-planted a false memory of employing this in a tongue-in-cheek fashion during the senior graduation slideshow that me and my friend had been put in charge of but I'm realizing now that it was released two years after my graduation. What the hell have you done to my brain, Green Day?

(FWIW, it would absolutely have been playing at my brother's graduation a couple years later, but still.)

I can’t stand this song but it’d probably me cry if I heard it again

better than that song from Dirty Dancing

― sarahell,

It is not better than "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."

NA: yes.

Anyway Vitamin C’s “Graduation” is also a classic in the video yearbook montage genre

Do schools still use the "Always Wear Sunscreen" thing?

In this case Gilman should of went 18 plus. Since all the American Idiot kids parents bought them tickets so the real GD fans that actually followed their career could of went. These American idiot kids suck. They don't even know who Operation Ivy is or even Rancid for that matter. They know Blink 182, Good Charlotte and Simple Plan and they think that's "Punk Rock"
I on the other hand liked Green Day when my sister had a Kerplunk Cassette and I was 12 years old. I remember being excited when I seen Longview on MTV. I did not have any feelings like "they sold out" I was happy GD was making new music and I could actually go to the store and get it and my friends now knew who they were. The difference between myself a once 12 year old GD fan is I was also into Bands Like Screeching Weasel, Fifteen, The Queers and Ramones. I followed Green Day through the real popular years like Dookie and was with them when people forgot about them like when Nimrod first came out...Then Time of your life came out but for REAL Green Day fans that was not a new song...No, that was a B Side off of Brain Stew single which was on Insomniac. So when all of sudden hat song was everyones Prom song it made me sick but I would still wave the Green Day flag. Then WARNING comes out and everyone forgets about Green Day BUT NOT ME. No, WARNING to me was one of my favorite GD records but it looked dark for the bands future. When I would bring the WARNING CD to my friends house they would say "Green Day is still around?" But I loved that album... Then years went by and all of sudden these "punk" bands were flowing on MTV and the REAL Green Day did not fit in, They did not have eyeliner, they did not wear skinny jeans, Nope Billie Joe just wore his high waters. And suddenly GD was "old" BUT THEN here comes American Idiot. Green day suddenly did not look like the band I had been following for over a decade. They had a complete make over, they looked like all those "punk" bands on MTV. They suddenly hitched onto the popular thing to do at the time that caused controversy and attack The President George Bush. Suddenly now Hot Topic was carrying Green day American Idiot underwear. American Idiot was the most over the top commercial. Green Day now was not my band that I have been supporting. It was taken over by these 12-16 year old kids who would write "Punk Rock" on their arms with a sharpie. It was like the band I loved was gone and replaced by people that kind of looked like them but they had makeup on. No longer the Green Day sound. I was all for Green Day trying different things like they did on WARNING but to completely sell out for the HOT TOPIC crowd broke my heart. Green Day suddenly were cool again, I could no longer see them at a place that held 1000 people, now I had to see them at these huge arenas. One thing I also lost was the Live Green Day shows. Back before American Idiot Green Day would have really cool opening bands like The Riverdales, bands that REAL GREEN DAY FANS loved! That all ended with American Idiot know we were force fed some band that was a major label was just trying to push like My Chemical Romance...I even enjoyed when Green Day went on Tour with The Living End but no more of those kind of bands. Now it was all about the eyeliner bands..I'm 33 years old now, I watched Green day grow up and I grew up with them. I watched them become fathers as I became a father myself. Make no mistake about it Green Day was basically my entire teenage life and adult life.. Those American Idiot "punk" Yuck, kids stole a piece of myself and stole my band.. I'm hoping Green Day one day goes back to being themselves again. Because these American Idiot kids are now dwindling down. There are still a huge group still around but as time passes the numbers are falling and as time passes I'm still here with MY band Green Day..I supported them in any way possible through out the dark days but I would not give 1 dollar during the American Idiot days. Here's to hoping Green Day made enough money and they can be real again. UNO, DOS,TRE I believe had some great songs on there and showed a glimmer of hope..
One thing is certain. I'm never leaving, that would be like abandoning my life. Oh on a side note for real GREEN DAY FANS. Mr T Experience, The Queers and Screeching Weasel are touring this summer!

"End of the Road"

The ‘90s were awful.

i saw green day twice around this era. (97-99) and know they must have played this but have no recollection.

it's bad

real bad

my first slow dance, s/o to allie sanders what up hope you had the time of yr life

Slow dance?!

in THIS economy?!?

truly a different time, back when we had the time. nowadays if a man had five minutes to himself he'd have to explain the gap in his resume

If kids today recorded this today it would be called "Cancelled (I hope you die in a fire)"

i graduated from high school in 1997 and I think they played "In My Life" over the year-end tear-jerking slideshow thing ...

my first slow dance

Lucky, mine was to "Brick."

my first slow dance was Chris De Burgh

Mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2RnjFHmNY

So weird, I was just recalling all ten excruciating minutes of my first slow dance this morning when 'November Rain' popped up on shuffle.

yes but Axl never smiled as smugly as Kenny G in that freeze frame

it's better than that "wake me when December ends" thing

What the hell did people use to score misty-eyed reminiscence montages prior to the existence of this song? Like 'Alley Cat' or some shit?

"These Are The Days"

FULL DISCLOSURE: My HS Theatre Dept. farewell video used "TATD" and "Good Riddance".

When I think about it, this is actually one of my least favourite tracks on Nimrod. I understand that it's always had its fans but I've never really thought that much of it.

It's better than "Hitchin A Ride" at least

and the ska song from that album

Nah, I like both of those songs! Nimrod, Kerplunk and Insomniac are the three I mostly tend to listen to these days.

Having said that, it would seem that I like American Idiot more than most on here too.

Green Day is a bit too Grohl-y for me to be completely down with, but I like a few of their big hits. Not this one so much. It's doesn't come close to the glory of the song I had my first slow dance to in late summer 1986...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHhqDRn4_c

warning >>>>

idk why i'm struggling to remember what my first slow dance was