Green Day: 3rd Band With 5 Hits From 2 CDs
Billboard reports:
With the No. 37 debut of "Jesus of Suburbia" on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, punk rock trio Green Day becomes the third act to pull five singles from the same album more than once on this airplay-based chart.This is the type of almost-interesting music trivia I inevitably remember for life, yet I've forgotten everything from 8th Grade bio except "Mitochondria are 'The Powerhouse of the Cell.'"The title track from its current album, "American Idiot," peaked at No. 1, as did "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Holiday." "Wake Me Up When September Ends" went to No. 2.
Green Day last performed this feat with its 1994 major-label debut, "Dookie," which yielded the singles "Longview" (No. 1), "Basket Case" (No. 1), "Welcome to Paradise" (No. 7), "When I Come Around (No. 1) and "She" (No. 5).
The other two acts that have scored with five singles from the same album more than once are R.E.M. with "Automatic for the People" and "Monster," and Linkin Park with "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora." One big difference: those two groups culled their sets of five hits from consecutive albums.
Anyway, congrats Billie Joe.
Posted at 7:25 PM
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Too bad Billy Joe's a fag.
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Billy Joe is the powerhouse of the cell.
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and that's about it
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Mitochondria's a fag.
The sad thing is that I couldn't name the REM singles. I know Automatic was "Everybody Hurts" and "Man on the Moon." Was "Star Me Kitten" a hit single?
And surely the Beatles did something like that. They had to have.
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Green Day needs to sack up and stop milking this record, plus does anyone else notice that Jesus of Suburbia sounds a lot like Bryan Adam's, "Summer of 69" during what I believe to be the pre-chorus?
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Green Day also ripped off Wonderwall for one of their songs.
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Yeah, the Beatles had 5 hit songs from one album many times over. There was even one time that they had all 5 of the top 5 songs. But the chart in question here is the Modern Rock Tracks Chart. That's why questionably-talented stars that seemingly always have hits like Mariah Carey, Madonna or Shania Twain aren't on here. Got it?
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The accomplishment was definitely much more impressive in the "Dookie" era, because that was the heyday of the modern rock format. If a song made it to that particular chart, it got substantial airplay that usually translated into substantial album sales.
Just a quick look at this week Modern Rock Tracks chart reveals that is no longer the case. The current #1 is Nine Inch Nails' "Only", and the album that is on ("With Teeth") isn't even in the Top 100, and probably hasn't sold a million copies.
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Those mighty Mitochondria...
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Hard to believe, since it gets so much shit as the "bad" REM record, that Monster had five "hits" on it. I can think of the following: "Crush With Eyeliner," "What's the Frequency, Kenneth." And that's it. Guess I'll have to go pull the disc and see what else is on there.
Automatic for the People, of course, is unfuckwithable.
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Jesus does sound like 'Summer of 69' and 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash. There is a mash up of it on the Dean Gray album. The site is offline now but you can download it from here
http://www.americanedit.org/home/ae/
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Off the top of my head, I think the REM singles were: What's the Frequency Kenneth, Crush With Eyeliner, Bang and Blame, Tongue and I Don't Sleep I Dream. At the time I loved the first three and never understood the bashing. But compared to Automatic, which it followed, it's crap for sure.
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There is a part in Jesus of suberbia that severly sounds like a J-pop song... even my little green day obsesed sister admits this... I guess Billy Joe likes to steal from all areas the music spectrum
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams is my favorite song. Then again, I'm also a fag.
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Green Day's a lot more mainstream than they used to be but they're still a good band.
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Mitochondria, I am ready to fight
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Several songs off of Green Day's "Warning" album were borderline plagarizing. The one I can think of was the song "Warning", which ripped off the riff from the Kink's "Picture Book". There were some others I think, but I can't remember now (I think one other song they ripped off was an Elvis Costello song, maybe it was "Church on Sunday"). Also "Beastly Bit" from his side project Pinhead Gunpowder sounds almost exactly like "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" by CCR.
But, honestly, who cares. It's not like the Ray Davies, Elvis Costello, or John Fogerty are hurting for residual checks.
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well i think John Fogerty WAS hurting for residual checks ... but that's another subject
i was a college radio dj when we used to play Kerplung ... and i still think Green Day is mega! ... look at how far other bands that broke post-nirvana have fallen (oasis, offspring, weezer)
and i think it's more of commercial radio coming to them rather than the other way around ... some people complain "nothing good being on the radio or mtv" then when something good (by both critical and retail standards) comes out it's called "too commercial"
if you dont like "commercial music" go see the a-hole with the sitar or rainstick outside your local coffee shop. if you really didnt like "commercial music" you wouldnt know that green day existed
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Franz Ferdinand's album went platinum and I swear allegiance to them as part of their gigantic fanbase. Same goes for Kanye, OutKast, the White Stripes, etc.... I call them pretty commercial and I'm really a big fan of all of them. I don't, however, like Green Day. It has a lot less to do with the fact that they're commercial and more to do with the fact that their music is rubbish.
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Oh, whatever. Green Day completely reformated punk in the early nineties and now they've done it again. Other "punk" bands try to emulate what Green Day has accomplished, and the copy-cat bands fail every single time. American Idiot is probably one of the best punk albums of our time.
Billie Joe is a genius.
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Yeah what a punk record! It sure is punk to go play every MTV/VH-1/Fashion award show for what is going to be a tremendously dated and embarrassing record in a few years. Wait until next year when the Offspring give us there new political opus and light TRL on fire!!!
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Yeah what a punk record! It sure is punk to go play every MTV/VH-1/Fashion award show for what is going to be a tremendously dated and embarrassing record in a few years. Wait until next year when the Offspring give us their new political opus and light TRL on fire!!!
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Good God, I feel like I'm trapped in 1994, what with all the bitching about what is and is not punk. What the fuck ever.
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I don't care of Billie Jo Armstrong is a fag or not but he soooooo fine. And I don't care what you people that hate them say you guys need to get over it fast.
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There are several short references that I've heard in the album. In addition to the obvious bryan adams and johnny cash pulls, there's a pounding guitar beat that mimicks Black Sabbath's "Hand of Doom" and in "Jesus..." at 4:24. The other are verses 3 and 4 of "Whatsername" that are the same as two in the Wallflower's "one Headlight. The Beatles were referenced in a previous post and they too copies styles like "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" (Dylan) and "Back in the USSR" (Beach Boys), but never as blatantly or as often in the same album as this. But I must admit I like songs and the album as a whole, except "Wake me up..." (boring!).
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HIYA U ALL SUCK! GREEN DAY ROCKS THERE DA BEST BADN IN THE WORLD THEY ROCK U ALL U JUST CAN'T FACE IT THATS SO SAD!!!!!!!! BILLIE JOE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....HOT!!!!!!! HE IS THE HOTTETS GUY EVER LV YA MILLIONS N MILLIONS GREEN DAY LV CAZ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Awful voice
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Green Day are so successful. It's stupid that people call them "sell outs" because they are huge hits. Suck it up and accept that they're a good band. Note that this is coming from a 25 year old-- Green Day are one of the best bands around today.
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I don't really care. Dookie is 10 times better than American Idiot either way.
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