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Aska

Joined August 2011 1 year on the team Inactive since July 2012

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About Aska

Aska's been a Green Day fan since 2005, and has been visiting GDA ever since. She became a moderator on GDC in July 2011, where her job is to update Song of the Week on GDC and GDA. Hailing from Australia, she's a seasoned traveller, having followed Green Day's 2010 tour across 9 countries in Europe and America. When not travelling, she enjoys going fast and bashing into people playing Roller Derby.

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Song of the Week: "21 Guns"

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In honour of 21st Century Breakdown's 3rd birthday earlier in the week, this week's Song of the Week is its 16th track and biggest hit 21 Guns, the second single released from the album. The 21 Guns single charted very well on various charts globally, but ...

Song of the Week: "Rest"

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This week's Song of the Week is the airy Rest; track 9 off Green Day's first album 39/Smooth, released in 1990, as well as the compilation album 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1991). There's a certain dream-like quality to Rest's lyrics, they seem to describe ...

Song Of The Week: "Last Night On Earth"

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Song of the Week for this week is the "unapologetic love song" Last Night On Earth, track 7 from Green Day's 8th studio album, 2009's 21st Century Breakdown. The song is also featured in the American Idiot musical, fitting into the storyline between She's a ...

Song of the Week: "Scumbag"

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This week's Song of the Week is the cynical Scumbag, originally released as a b-side to the Warning single, but better known as track 8 off Green Day's compilation album, Shenanigans (2001). The song was also featured on the soundtrack of the 2001 movie ...

Song of the Week: "In The End"

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Song of the Week this week is the cynical In The End, the penultimate track off Green Day's 1994 major-label debut, Dookie. Billie Joe wrote In The End "about my mother's husband", rather than about a girl he was interested in, and can almost be taken as a ...

Song of the Week: "Geek Stink Breath"

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To commemorate happy chocolate-eating day, this week's Song of the Week is the gritty Geek Stink Breath, track 4 off Green Day's fourth album; 1995's Insomniac. Geek Stink Breath was the first single released off Insomniac, charting at number 27 in the ...

Song of the Week: "Private Ale"

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This week's Song of the Week is the whimsical Private Ale, track 5 off Green Day's 2nd album Kerplunk, released in 1992. As with much of Green Day's earlier material, Private Ale is all about unrequited teenage love and the woes of growing up. Rather than ...

Studio Update #10: Nobody knows nothing and everyone knows everything

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The 10th studio video from Green Day has just been put up on the band's official YouTube channel, once again showing the band recording, as well as a few snippets of what looks like some sort of creepy movie set and various bits of their studio. A drum track ...

Song of the Week: "Rotting"

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Song of the Week this week is the sombre Rotting, originally released in 1997 as a b-side to the Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) single, but better known as track 11 off 2002's b-side compilation album Shenanigans. Looking at the lyrics, it's unclear whether ...

Studio Update video #8: 3/14

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Another in-studio video has just been released by Green Day's official Youtube channel, this time showing the band jamming and discussing new songs, with footage of a city (can anyone definitively tell us which city?) overlayed on top of the studio footage. I ...