This week's Song of the Week is live anthem Minority off Green Day's 6th album Warning, released in 2000. Minority was Warning's first single, released in October 2000, and spent 5 weeks in the number 1 spot on the Billboard Modern Rock charts. The song also ...
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 ...
In celebration of the great Halloween tradition of dressing up in costumes, this week's Song of the Week is the fabulous King for a Day off Green Day's eclectic 5th studio album, Nimrod, released in 1997. The song has been a live favourite since its release, ...
This week's Song of the Week is the incredibly dark Christian's Inferno off Green Day's 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown. The song is one that often pops up on peoples' 'least favourite Green Day songs' list, so it was chosen as SotW to see why exactly that ...
To celebrate Nimrod's 14th birthday last Friday, this week's Song of the Week is its opening track, Nice Guys Finish Last, which was also Nimrod's 4th single, reaching number 31 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1998. The song also gained popularity when ...
This week's Song of the Week is the exceedingly clever Walking Contradiction, in celebration of the 16th birthday of Green Day's second major-label release, Insomniac. Walking Contradiction was the 4th single released off Insomniac, and reached number 21 on ...
This week's Song of the Week is the spiteful Sick Of Me, originally released as a b-side in 1997 but better knows as track 10 on 2002's b-side compilation album, Shenanigans. Sick Of Me is an argument in musical form - right from the opening seconds, the song ...
This week's Song of the Week is the whistful Words I Might Have Ate, released in 1991 on Green Day's second album, Kerplunk. Despite its cheery, upbeat sound, Words I Might Have Ate's lyrics are ones of a lost love, regret, and not truly appreciating a good ...
This week's Song of the Week is the international super-hit Boulevard of Broken Dreams, released in 2004 on Green Day's equally super American Idiot. Boulevard of Broken Dreams was the second single released off American Idiot, and helped launch American Idiot ...
This week's Song of the Week is the poignant J.A.R, originally released in 1995 on the soundtrack for the movie 'Angus', and more commonly known as track number 8 off Green Day's 2001 greatest hits compilation album, International Superhits!. J.A.R was written ...
This week's Song of the Week is the defiant Reject, off Green Day's fifth album, Nimrod. Reject was inspired by a letter sent to Green Day in 1996 from an irate parent complaining about Green Day's "rubbish" music and the concern she had over the band's ...
This week's Song of the Week is the timeless 16, off Green Day's first album,1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. 16 is Green Day at their beautifully simplistic best - it's a universally relatable song for any teenager approaching adulthood; the yearning for the ...
This week's Song of the Week is the brand-new Amy Winehouse tribute, Amy, one of sixteen new Green Day songs debuted on the 11th of this month at the 'secret' Green Day show in Costa Mesa, California. At that show, Billie Joe performed the song solo on guitar ...
Hi all, my name's Aska (better known as pasalaska on our forum), and I'm a moderator on the Green Day Community. My job there, amongst other things, is to run a little something we call Song of the Week. Song of the Week is a weekly event on the GDC, where a ...