G is for Green Day
As I mentioned in my theme-reveal post, this month will be all about music and how it inspires my writing.
Of course, the first song from Green Day I ever heard was “American Idiot”. I love the lyrics of their songs – and the music isn’t bad, either. I usually listen to them during rewrites and editing, though they’ve made it onto several first draft playlists. My other favourite group starting with “G” will be a surprise later this month 😉
Favourite album: “American Idiot” Favourite songs: “21 Guns” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams“
Word of the day: glockenspiel
According to Collins English dictionary: glockenspiel n percussion instrument consisting of small metal bars played with hammers
I love the lyrics of this song. I even quoted it in an earlier post this year. (Just ignore the images from “Twilight” if you’re not a fan.)
Do you like Green Day? Do you have a favourite music group/artist that starts with an “G”?
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Glad to see you back on WordPress, my talented friend! Blessings and enjoy your day✨
Thanks, Ann 🙂
You’re welcome Ronel 🙂
Hoesit Ronel.
How’s that for an unexpected greeting. No I’m not Afrikaans but I am South African. I recognized you’r Afrikaans Name though from a comment you left elsewhere.
Music? Most of the music I used to listen to was 70’s music but I can’t for the life of me remember any starting with the letter “G”. The B.G’s comes to mind though.
Blessings Meisie, Geoff in Johannesburg.
Very unexpected! I think you might enjoy some of my other posts this month featuring a couple of SA bands.
Hunh about the glockenspiel. Both my kids used to play one. It was delightful.
Thanks, Jacqui 🙂
My kids love Green Day!
They are an awesome band 🙂
21 Guns and Boulevard of Broken Dreams are my favorites from that album as well!
~Mary
Jingle Jangle Jungle
Literary Gold
Yay, Mary!
That Greenday album is a classic. I love it too 🙂
The Multicolored Diary
That’s great to hear 🙂
Hi Ronel. I keep coming across American Idiot, by Green Day, but I’m not up with the modern music scrne, so I haven’t heard it. I will rectify it very soon.
Nothing springs to mind that begins with G…. let me check my iPod…. Ah… Genesis, Gerry Rafferty, Gordon Lightfoot and George McCrae, but then ‘Rock Your Baby’ always takes me back to the summer of ***4 on the Isle of Wight…. (trying not to show my age, but everyone’s now guessed!)
Looking forward to more of your musical letters….
Thanks, Jemima 🙂 At first I wasn’t sure that I had a band or artist for G, and then I looked at my regularly played list… Face palm.
Green Day has been my favorite band since I was in 8th grade, which was back in 1996. I heard Basketcase from Dookie and fell in love. I’ve seen them live twice.
They must have been great live!
Green Day is awesome. And they do great charity work, which is not what one expects from a punk band, but there they are, making a difference. Dookie was one of the first CDs I owned.
Just shows you: you don’t have to be what people expect you to be 🙂
I like Forgotten. I’ve never heard this one before.
I’m glad you found something new 🙂
Ronel,
My youngest daughter introduced Green Day to me with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” or it might have been “American Idiot” when she lived at home. I think my favorite GD song is ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’. The first band that comes to mind is Guns N Roses and the first G-song is ‘Grease’ Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta. Good share! Thanks for visiting my A2Z Little Mermaid art sketch series ‘Grimsby’ post!