Are Green Day FF Fans?

POSTED BY: oddness2her
UPDATED: Monday, February 14, 2005 20:32
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EBONEZER

Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:51 AM

I FINIALY got this alubum a few weeks ago and I've been listening to it non-stop. Its in my CD player AND my MD player and I've got the guitar tabs to all the songs. I'm totaly obsessed. If I were to have children, this album would be the father. They can do that sort of thing nowadays.

And yeah, a lot of the lyrics make me think about Firefly, (especialy Holiday, thats a terrific song.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed.

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Four out of five gynecologists recommend calling Ebo a girl.

MAGICALTREVOR

Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:31 PM

Well song lyrics, like poetry in an English Lit class, can be made to mean anything at all by reading the blank spaces between the lines.

Trev

AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:13 PM

And here I thought I was being silly by associating Jayne Cobb with the lyrics of a Jimmy Buffet song -Piece of work. While it's far more likely that GD are FF fans than JB, it seems that JB's lyrics hit a bit closer to home. ( IMO )

(originally posted on 8/13/2004)

Just how in the world does one go from a Jimmy Buffett song to thinking of Jayne Cobb? Easy! ( for me, that is ) Just by listening to the lyrics of one of Jimmy's latest song.. Piece of work. Don't know what it was about that tune, but its bracy (it features Toby Keith )gritty tone just spoke to me... 'Jayne'.

I'm a piece of work I'm an angels fiend
Bathed in lavender and gasoline
Scared brave, shallow in an ink black well
Lightly browned in the fires of hell
Wicked, holy, full on fake
*Best known for my big mistake
I'm zen wise, peaceful, gone berserk
Good God almighty, What a piece of work

* Big mistake? 1st thing I thought of when I heard this was - Ariel. Yeah Jayne, you got stupid.

I'm a piece of work, I'm a love sick boy
Cloth cap, caviar, and corduroy
*All over the map, justa lost in space
With a filthy mind and a choirboy's face
Heels up, head down, straight on through
Watch out woman, I'm a get to you
I'm a gladiator with a mind to irk
I'm a see you later, I'm a piece of work.

*Jayne and them do get about a good bit. Lost in space, not knowing where they'll end up next, as the jobs take them here or there.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

GWENHARKER

Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:28 PM

I must be strange as I love both Green Day and am a republican. Strange.

This album that's never left my cd player since I bought it in October hits me with more of it being a 'Firefly' soundtrack than it did anything political. Amazing how sometimes people take the intended message and get something completely diffrent out of it.

ODDNESS2HER

Monday, February 14, 2005 6:39 PM

I'm not familiar with this particular song, but it does sound a lot like our favorite merc.

ODDNESS2HER

Monday, February 14, 2005 8:11 PM

Great art speaks to the soul. The soul cares not for politics.

DEVP

Monday, February 14, 2005 8:32 PM

I actually don't think that American Idiot was really about being political as such, believe or not. I mean, the political content is there, but I think it's *really* trying to talk about this slice of the American life. This someone who remembers highschool in New Jersey, hanging out at midnight:

"In the parking lot / Of the 7-11 where I was taught"

...with kids like me couldn't get what they wanted from their world, yet.

Firefly and American Idiot are both really about some very American stories, so although they weren't actually about each other, I'm not surprised that they share some of the same emotional landscape.

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