Song of the Week: "Stay The Night"

This week's Song of the Week is the as-yet unreleased track Stay the Night, originally played at the sound check for the 2010 Dublin show, and more recently played with other new songs at the four secret Green Day shows. According to reports from people that have been to the secret shows, the song's sound has changed somewhat from its original Dublin version, however there's no new recordings of this new version, so for this Song of the Week we're sticking with the old version.

I love the sound of this song, to me it's part Cigarettes and Valentines, part very early Green Day with that 'chugging' guitar in the verses, and at the same time it's got the potential to be a huge arena song with such a catchy chorus. Obviously the sound check version of Stay The Night that we currently have is just an early version of the song and it still needs refining - it'll certainly be interesting to see how the final album version of this song turns out, if it ends up making the next album.

This week's video was recorded on the 22nd of June, 2010 in Marlay Park, outside of Dublin, at the sound check before the concert on the 23rd. The stage was set up on one end of a big field with just a mesh fence blocking the area in, so us 20 or so Green Day fans there, plus all the families using the field, got a perfect view of the entire sound check.

(video credit: EMANUELsonic )

Lyrics and a download of the song can be found here, and this is Stay The Night's Song of the Week thread, where you'll find a greater song-analysis and some member-discussion. Feel free to stop by and post your opinion, or nominate next week's song.