History Trivia / GreenDay

** While he has no regrets of the song itself, [[https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/shut-the-f-up-when-october-begins-green-days-billie-joe-armstrong-on-the-trolls-who-mock-his-most-famous-song-35211804.html Billie got really tired of trolls/haters/"comedians" constantly spamming him to "wake up" when September ended]], even jokingly saying he'd write a sequel called "Shut the Fuck Up When October Begins". Considering [[RealitySubtext the song itself is a reference to his father's passing at ten years old]], one can't blame him for it.

* For ''Nimrod'', Billie wrote a song called 'Black Eyeliner' that he later reused parts of for Green Day's song 'Church on Sunday' and The Longshot's 'Kill Your Friends.'

* NamesTheSame: The first lineup of the group was called "Sweet Children" and had a song of the same name. They later wrote a song called "Green Day", which inspired them to make THAT the group's name. Green Day recorded the two songs.

** Though "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is considered one of Music/GreenDay's most widely-recognized songs, it sounds almost nothing like their power pop/pop punk edge they're known to this day for.

** Though "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is considered one of Green Day's most widely-recognized songs, it sounds almost nothing like their power pop/pop punk edge they're known to this day for.

** "Fuck Time" debuted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rns_LvXnfwI Foxboro Hot Tubs]] years before being recorded on ¡Dos!, and has slight differences, most notably a guitar solo.

** They've been playing some of the songs from the album on the ''21st Century Breakdown'' tour. The title track was featured on the live album ''Awesome As Fuck''. It sounds like it would be right at home on ''Kerplunk'' or ''Dookie''.

* WorkingTitle: Billie Joe tweeted that ''Insomniac'' was going to be called ''Jesus Christ Supermarket'', which he believes is a better title.
** Apparently there were also plans of calling the album ''Tight Wad Hill'' after the penultimate track.

* CreatorBacklash: Billie doesn't look back on the ''¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!'' trilogy fondly, and not just because of his drug addiction.
-->'''Billie:''' Those records have absolutely no direction to them. It was about being prolific for the sake of it. So we were just going and going.

** Though "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is considered one of Music/GreenDay's most widely-recognized songs, it sounds almost nothing like their power pop/pop punk edge they're known to this day for.

** "21 Guns", the most biggest hit from ''21st Century Breakdown'', can be seen as even calmer version of "Boulevard".

** "21 Guns", which can be seen as even calmer version of "Boulevard".

** Though "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is considered Music/GreenDay's most widely-recognized song, it sounds almost nothing like their power pop/pop punk edge they are known to this day for.
** "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", which has a PostGrunge feel that contrasts the faster-paced songs.

** ''Cigarettes and Valentines'', the follow-up to ''Warning'' that was supposed to be a return to Green Day's old sound. They recorded the entire album in 2003, but the master tapes were stolen before they could release it. Instead of rerecording everything, they decided to write an entirely new album, which became ''American Idiot''. In 2016, the band confirmed that they managed to recover the stolen master tapes of the album and that they're using them as song ideas but has said that there are no plans to release the album.

** Though "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is considered their most widely-recognized song, it sounds almost nothing like their power pop/pop punk edge they are known to this day for.

* DyeHard: Billie, Mike and Tre have all variously changed their hair colour throughout the band's career, from relatively natural colours like blonde, red or black to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unnatural like blue or green]].

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** LoudnessWar, alongside Music/GunsNRoses
** ProtestSong
** RockTrio

* WordOfGod: Contrary to popular belief, Billie Joe denied in an interview that "Why Do You Want Him?" has anything to do with his stepfather.

** Billie Joe tweeted that ''Insomniac'' was going to be called ''Jesus Christ Supermarket'', which he believes is a better title.
*** Apparently there were also plans of calling the album ''Tight Wad Hill'' after the penultimate track.

** LoudnessWar

* {{Jossed}}: Contrary to popular belief, Billie Joe denied in an interview that "Why Do You Want Him?" has anything to do with his stepfather.

* One idea for ''Father of All Motherfuckers'' was to call the album ''American Idiot Part 2: Father of All Motherfuckers'' as a joke. The band decided against this later on, but this is the reason the album cover reuses the ''American Idiot'' artwork.

** BlondeBrunetteRedhead: As a result of aboove, they sometimes appeared as this. For example during ''American Idiot'' era Mike was the blonde, Billie Joe was the brunette and Tre was the redhead.

* ThrowItIn: When the band were recording for ''Insomniac'', they were working on one song called "Stuck With Me", and another, yet-untitled song. Then someone at the studio mistakenly labeled a recording of the untitled song as "Stuck With Me", and the band decided to make that the new title - the song that was originally going to be "Stuck With Me" was released as a BSide under the title "Do Dah Dah". As a result, they have one song with the NonAppearingTitle of "Stuck With Me", and another that has the line "You're stuck with me" in the chorus, but is called something else.

* MissingEpisode: A few of the songs they've recorded aren't available anywhere but YouTube and file sharing sites; their rerecording of '409 in Your Coffeemaker,' which was only released as a B-side in Germany, and 'Favorite Son,' which was only released on a compilation of songs against the George Bush presidency. You ''can'' get 'Favorite Son' in the form of the ''American Idiot'' Broadway recording pretty easily, but not the original for some reason. Their YouTube channel also only has censored versions of their pre-2009 music videos for some reason, as well as their music video for 'Kill the DJ' being on the Warner Music YouTube rather than their own (it was actually uploaded there for a few days before moving channels for some reason). There are also a few music videos missing from their YouTube channel as well, namely the music videos for 'Nice Guys Finish Last' and 'Welcome to Paradise.' They also don't have the full performances from their ''Bullet in a Bible'' and ''Awesome as Fuck'' live albums available on there either.