Wine Tuesday Discussion Topic
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revidWho else on the ol' flist is really feeling depressed about the serious lack of Green Day news?
Show of hands, please.
That's what I thought.
I know we've had a rash of Billie sightings (and one really excellent interview) of late, and I'm plenty grateful for that, and it's always sweet to see Mike with a guitar (and glasses! glasses! BE STILL MY BEATING HEART!), even if it is in Europe, and god only knows where that whacky drummer has been (aside from a tattoo parlor apparently), but
{Billie} OR {Mike} OR {Tré} ≠ {Green Day}
At least I have my LJ friends to talk with about Green Day to help to ease the pain. So let's have a little meeting of the LJ Green Day Appreciation Society. Here's a topic I've been thinking about for a while, and I thought I'd throw it out for discussion.
What do you think the set list will look like on the next tour? (Let us not dwell on the fact that the time frame for this is looking more and more like 2009.)
What songs do you think will definitely be on the list? Which song would you die to hear them play, even though you know it will never happen? Obviously, we can't anticpate the new material, but it's a fair assumption that probably 1/3 of the set list will be from the new CD. Which song would you be happy never to hear live again?
Here's what I think:
Opening song will probably be new, but they could stick with "American Idiot." From AI, they'll probably keep BOBD because it was such a monster hit (although honestly, I wouldn't miss it a bit.) I can also see "AWTW/St. Jimmy," just because Billie clearly loved dropping the guitar and prancing around on stage like the lovable little attention whore that he is. "Holiday" would be my dream selection. I bet the occasionally lucky audience might get treated to "JOS" or "Homecoming" just because the mood strikes them, but it won't be a regular part of the set list.
Going backward through the catalog, "Minority" will probably be the only representative off Warning. "Waiting" or "Macy's Day Parade" would be awesome, but I'm not holding my breath.
"Good Riddance" isn't going anywhere. That will still be the final show closer with Billie solo. I have mixed feelings about "Hitchin' A Ride." I like watching Billie stroke himself as much as the next girl, but it's getting kind of long in the tooth. Same with "King For a Day/Shout" and especially "Knowledge." The song I like, but the whole "Who can play guitar?" thing is due for retirement. I fast forward through that on all my DVDs. I think it'd be neat if they put in "The Grouch" or "Prosthetic Head," although my secret wish would be "Redundant."
Also on my list of songs I never need to hear live again is "Brain Stew/Jaded." If you need to play a hit from Insomniac I'd rather hear GSB or "Walking Contradiction."
The Dookie era songs are harder to choose. "Basket Case" and "Longview" will be on the set list when they're playing in wheel chairs. I'd like them to put "When I Come Around" back in the rotation. I wouldn't miss "Welcome to Paradise" very much. (HA! Of course WTP live comes onto my iTunes just as I'm typing that!)
I would be ecstatic if they threw "Christie Road" back in on a regular basis. The AI tour setlist did not contain a single track from Kerplunk, which is a crying shame and just plain wrong. "2000 LYA" would get thrown in once in a while on the last tour, so maybe they'll put that in.
It seems the boys have pretty much forgotten how to play everything off 1039/SOSH, but for many years their opening song was "Going to Pasalaqua," and it's definitely worth pulling out of the vault again in my opinion.
So I can think of about 15 songs or so that they should absolutely play, and that doesn't include the new material, or any covers. I'd be up for a three hour show.
What do you think?
And The Living End should totally be their opening band.
Show of hands, please.
That's what I thought.
I know we've had a rash of Billie sightings (and one really excellent interview) of late, and I'm plenty grateful for that, and it's always sweet to see Mike with a guitar (and glasses! glasses! BE STILL MY BEATING HEART!), even if it is in Europe, and god only knows where that whacky drummer has been (aside from a tattoo parlor apparently), but
{Billie} OR {Mike} OR {Tré} ≠ {Green Day}
At least I have my LJ friends to talk with about Green Day to help to ease the pain. So let's have a little meeting of the LJ Green Day Appreciation Society. Here's a topic I've been thinking about for a while, and I thought I'd throw it out for discussion.
What do you think the set list will look like on the next tour? (Let us not dwell on the fact that the time frame for this is looking more and more like 2009.)
What songs do you think will definitely be on the list? Which song would you die to hear them play, even though you know it will never happen? Obviously, we can't anticpate the new material, but it's a fair assumption that probably 1/3 of the set list will be from the new CD. Which song would you be happy never to hear live again?
Here's what I think:
Opening song will probably be new, but they could stick with "American Idiot." From AI, they'll probably keep BOBD because it was such a monster hit (although honestly, I wouldn't miss it a bit.) I can also see "AWTW/St. Jimmy," just because Billie clearly loved dropping the guitar and prancing around on stage like the lovable little attention whore that he is. "Holiday" would be my dream selection. I bet the occasionally lucky audience might get treated to "JOS" or "Homecoming" just because the mood strikes them, but it won't be a regular part of the set list.
Going backward through the catalog, "Minority" will probably be the only representative off Warning. "Waiting" or "Macy's Day Parade" would be awesome, but I'm not holding my breath.
"Good Riddance" isn't going anywhere. That will still be the final show closer with Billie solo. I have mixed feelings about "Hitchin' A Ride." I like watching Billie stroke himself as much as the next girl, but it's getting kind of long in the tooth. Same with "King For a Day/Shout" and especially "Knowledge." The song I like, but the whole "Who can play guitar?" thing is due for retirement. I fast forward through that on all my DVDs. I think it'd be neat if they put in "The Grouch" or "Prosthetic Head," although my secret wish would be "Redundant."
Also on my list of songs I never need to hear live again is "Brain Stew/Jaded." If you need to play a hit from Insomniac I'd rather hear GSB or "Walking Contradiction."
The Dookie era songs are harder to choose. "Basket Case" and "Longview" will be on the set list when they're playing in wheel chairs. I'd like them to put "When I Come Around" back in the rotation. I wouldn't miss "Welcome to Paradise" very much. (HA! Of course WTP live comes onto my iTunes just as I'm typing that!)
I would be ecstatic if they threw "Christie Road" back in on a regular basis. The AI tour setlist did not contain a single track from Kerplunk, which is a crying shame and just plain wrong. "2000 LYA" would get thrown in once in a while on the last tour, so maybe they'll put that in.
It seems the boys have pretty much forgotten how to play everything off 1039/SOSH, but for many years their opening song was "Going to Pasalaqua," and it's definitely worth pulling out of the vault again in my opinion.
So I can think of about 15 songs or so that they should absolutely play, and that doesn't include the new material, or any covers. I'd be up for a three hour show.
What do you think?
And The Living End should totally be their opening band.
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Date: 2007-11-14 06:30 am (UTC)Okay, so what I don’t think we’ll hear is JoS or Homecoming, except maybe as a special sort of thing because honestly, much as I LOVE those two songs, I don’t think they stand alone without the rest of AI. And I also can do without Knowledge. The Build a Band segment has had its day. Likewise, King for a Day, though I love it. HaR? Well…much as I love that bit of performance art, too, I think that’s done, too. I think they should try something new in the exhibitionist/sex-on-stage realm, though. Maybe Billie could shove his hand down Mike’s pants instead of his own! ;)
What I would love to hear…I’ll go album by album…
Going to Pasalcqua…yes, please! I love that one live because I can’t listen to it on the cd – in fact, I rarely listen to 39/Smooth at all because the drumming just screams out THIS IS NOT TRE to me. But I do love that song. =)
Kerplunk… Who Wrote Holden Caulfield remains one of my all time faves. And as people have pointed out…they did do that one at Comp’d so they still know how. =) I’m also not averse to 2000 Light Years and Christie Road is always okay with me.
Dookie…well, Basketcase is always and forever my number one GD tune so I’d be crossing my fingers for that one. And I would vote for Longview as well because of the Dirnt factor. She remains a fave for me as well.
Insomniac…we seem to be all on the same page here in longing for Walking Contradiction. I could skip Brainstew/Jaded, personally. I’d love to hear 86 after all these years.
Nimrod…Scattered!!!! I think that Good Riddance will remain a standard. I’d also love to see them do The Grouch.
Warning…Waiting!!!!!! Pretty please. And I think Minority will stay. Its such an awesome live song.
I’d also love to see them do JAR more…and personally, Ha Ha You’re Dead would be awesome to see them do live.
American Idiot…well, AI, obviously. I think they would likely do Holiday, too…and possibly the ballads though honestly, though I like the songs, I could live without BoBD or WMUWSE. How much of AI they do will depend, I think, on what the next album is like, on whether they’d be trying to distance themselves from American Idiot a bit – whatever they release is gonna be SO in the shadow of that monster hit – or whether they feel like AI kinda flows into the next one. If they do more from AI, I’d love to see Letterbomb, personally.
And other stuff? I think a cool cover or two would be awesome, though no suggestions immediately come to mind. I do NOT long for Billie playing the piano, for the record, though I might be in the minority there. I DO need for Tre to do something out from behind his kit…whether its ABM or DLS or some new perverted Tre tune. And…here’s the biggie for me…please please please, whatever else happens…and seriously, this might just be my absolute number one request, before Basketcase, even…I would KILL to hear Mike sing lead on…something…anything. And then they need to just show me that awesome stage energy of theirs, play off each other, ad lib some silly stuff, throw in some random jokes and ‘the man I like to shower naked with’ innuendo and general brotherly schmoop. =)
Most of all, though…they just need to come back!!!! *nods*
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Date: 2007-11-14 06:37 am (UTC)Amen.
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Date: 2007-11-14 06:59 am (UTC)Maybe Billie could shove his hand down Mike’s pants instead of his own!
Yep, definitely a Mild Meld.
…I would KILL to hear Mike sing lead on…something…anything.
J.A.R. man, J.A.R.
I think you make an excellent point about how the tenor of the next CD will affect what and how much of AI will be played. I'm so excited to hear the new stuff. We'll have to repeat this discussion after we've had a chance to listen and digest and analyze it.
Schmoop, silliness, sex, and brotherly love...we need to see lots of it!