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Green Day – ¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)
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“¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)” serves as a reprise to 21st Century Breakdown’s fourth track, “¡Viva la Gloria!”. Billie Joe Armstrong discussed this in a 2009 interview with Q
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Green Day – ¡Viva la Gloria!
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Being the fourth song on the album, “¡Viva La Gloria!” is where the album’s story between the two protagonists Christian and Gloria truly kicks in.
Although “21st Century
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Green Day – ¡Viva la Gloria!(Live At Dallas,Texas)
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Get those hands up / [Intro] / Hey, Gloria, are you standing close to the edge? / Look out to the setting sun, the brink of your vision / Eternal youth is a landscape of a lie
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Oreo the Animaniacs Guy (Ft. Wakko Warner & Yakko Warner) – ¡Viva la Gloria!
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[Intro: Yakko Warner] / Hey, Gloria, are you standing close to the edge? / Look out to the setting sun, the brink of your vision / Eternal youth is a landscape of a lie / The
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Brittany Butler – Green Day Medley!
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[¡Viva La Gloria!- 21st Century Breakdown (2009)] / Hey Gloria, are you standing close to the edge? / Look out at the setting sun / Brink of your vision / Eternal youth is the
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Green Day – Holiday(Live At Dublin,Ireland)
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[Intro] / Do you want to start a fucking war? / All the people in Ireland / Viva la revolution! / [Verse 1] / Hear the sound of the falling rain / Coming down like an Armageddon
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Green Day – Restless Heart Syndrome
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Singer and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong told Q magazine May 2009 that the topic of this mid-tempo rocker is about prescription drug junkies. He explained:
It’s about
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Green Day – Before the Lobotomy
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The song’s title was inspired by a story from The San Francisco Chronicle about Howard Dully, who recalled how his stepmother forced him to have a transorbital lobotomy when he was
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Green Day – Green Day: Rock Band Setlist
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The Fox Theater – Oakland / Set 1 / "Song of the Century" / "21st Century Breakdown" / "Last Night on Earth" / "¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)" / "Restless Heart Syndrome" / Set 2
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Green Day – Christie Road(Live At Hartford,Connecticut)
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[Verse 1] / Staring out of my window watching the cars go rolling by / My friends are gone I've got nothing to do / So I sit here patiently watching the clock tick so slowly
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Green Day – American Idiot(Live At Montreal,QC)
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[Verse 1: Crowd] / Don't wanna be an American idiot / Don't want a nation under the new media / And can you hear the sound of hysteria? / The subliminal mind-fuck America / [Chorus
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Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends(Live At Nickelsdorf,Austria)
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[Verse 1] / Summer has come and passed / The innocent can never last / Wake me up when September ends / Like my father's come to pass / Seven years has gone so fast / Wake me up
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Green Day – Going to Pasalacqua(Live At Chula Vista,California)
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[Verse] / Here we go again, infatuation / Touches me just when I / Thought that it would end / Oh but then again it seems / Much more than that but / I'm not sure exactly what you'
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Green Day – Burnout(Live At Irvine,California)
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This song's from 1994 / This song's called "Burnout" / [Verse 1] / I declare I don't care no more / I'm burning up and out and growing bored / In my smoked out boring room / My
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Green Day – Cigarettes And Valentines
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Via punknews.org, this song was debuted live in 2010. It’s the title track from the band’s intended follow-up to Warning, but the project was scrapped when the master tapes were
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Green Day – 21 Guns (Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 9/4/10)
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[Verse 1] / Do you know what's worth fightin' for / When it's not worth dyin' for? / Does it take your breath away / And you feel yourself suffocatin'? / Does the pain weigh out
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Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown(Live At London,England)
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“21st Century Breakdown” was performed live at Wembley Stadium, London, England, on June 15th, 2010. The song was usually the opener for the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour.
The
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Green Day – 21 Guns
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“21 Guns”, the second single off 21st Century Breakdown, is a power ballad that questions war and shows a narrator looking for peace. When taken on its own out of the 21st Century
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Green Day – East Jesus Nowhere(Live At Glasgow,Scotland)
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“East Jesus Nowhere”, the third single off of 21st Century Breakdown was performed live at Glasgow, Scotland, on June 21st, 2010 on the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour.
The live
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Green Day – Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?(Live At New York,New York)
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[Intro] / You guys wanna hear more old shit or what? / This song is my favorite song from Kerplunk by the way / [Verse 1] / A thought burst in my head and I need to tell you / It's
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Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Live At Nickelsdorf,Austria)
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[Verse 1] / Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road / Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go / So make the best of this test, and don't ask why / It's not a
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Green Day – Christian's Inferno
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Christian is one of two reoccurring characters that feature on 21st Century Breakdown. Whilst the activist Gloria, who is fighting to hold on to her youthful idealism, is a
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Ph0ton – Confusion Vol. 7 Samples
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See all of “Confusion Vol. 7” by Ph0ton’s samples
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Green Day – J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva) (Live At Detroit,Michigan)
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[Verse 1] / My friend drove off the other day / Now he's gone and all they say / Is "you got to live cause life goes on..." / But now I see I'm mortal, too / I can't live my life
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Green Day – That's All Right
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For the iTunes pre-order edition of 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day covered the iconic song “That’s All Right” by Elvis Presley.
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Green Day – Peacemaker
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“Peacemaker” switches Green Day’s iconic punk sound to a fast-paced gypsy-rock tune that describes someone looking for vengeance.
Regarding the story of 21st Century Breakdown
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Sol Bloom – The Streets of Cairo Interpolations
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See all of “The Streets of Cairo” by Sol Bloom’s interpolations
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Green Day – Horseshoes and Handgrenades
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / I'm not fuckin' around / I think I'm comin' out / All the deceivers and cheaters, I think we got a bleeder right now / Want you to
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Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (Demo)
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / Born into Nixon I was raised in hell / A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled / The last one born but the first one to run / My town was blinded by
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Green Day – Another State of Mind
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The cover of “Another State of Mind” by Social Distortion was included in the iTunes deluxe edition of 21st Century Breakdown as a bonus track alongside “A Quick One While He’s
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Green Day – Last of the American Girls
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“Last of the American Girls” is about the increasing lack of American people willing to stand up for their ideals. The “last of the American girls” here refers both to Gloria—one
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Green Day – American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World
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“American Eulogy” is made up of two songs, “Mass Hysteria” and “Modern World.” Vocalist and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine in May 2009:
It swirls
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Green Day – Last Night on Earth
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Singer Billie Joe Armstrong explained to Q magazine May 2009 that “‘Christian’s Inferno’ is like a subway ride to hell and you kind of end up in outer space with this” song
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Green Day – East Jesus Nowhere
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“East Jesus Nowhere” is the 8th track on 21st Century Breakdown, and is the first track of Act II: Charlatans and Saints.
The song was written by Billie Joe Armstrong after Mike
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Green Day – Know Your Enemy (Live At Manchester, England)
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“Know Your Enemy”, the lead single off of 21st Century Breakdown was performed live at Manchester, England, on June 16, 2010. “Know Your Enemy” was a staple on this tour, and a
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Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
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The title track of Green Day’s second rock opera, it presents the main theme of the album, namely how there’s been a “breakdown” in the first decade of the century. Frontman Billie
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Green Day – Song of the Century
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The opening track off of Green Day’s eighth studio album. A “radio” effect has been added to lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals, making his voice sound like it’s being
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Green Day – Like a Rolling Stone
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During the 21st Century Breakdown era, Green Day covered the Bob Dylan classic “Like A Rolling Stone”. The song has an alternative punk twist to it but it wasn’t well received
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