Bonus Song Thursday - Green Day "21 Guns"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Brian, Bill, and special guest Ryan Hanratty forget about the podcast's "fans-not-critics" criteria of content for a little bit as they talk about Green Day's "21 Guns" from the album 21st Century Breakdown (2009, Reprise). Before that though, they have a little bit of an addendum to the GnR episode. We discuss how "21 Guns" was here and gone thanks to the legacy of American Idiot and its smash success. And finally, Ryan points out why that guitar solo may sound a little familiar to you...

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0:00.0	Do you know what's worth fighting for?
0:21.6	When it's not worth dying for, does it take your breath away, and you feel yourself suffocating
0:38.7	Does the pain weigh out the pride
0:46.5	And you look for a place to hide
0:52.6	Did someone make your heart inside?
0:57.0	Whatever else? Hey, welcome to the sad out. 21 guns Lay down your hearts
1:11.6	Hey, welcome to the sad albums podcast.
1:15.6	I'm Bill.
1:16.6	And I'm Brian.
1:17.6	This is the great album's podcast, bonus song Thursday,
1:21.6	where instead of going into track-by-track analysis of an entire album,
1:26.6	we just take Monday's artist and talk
1:29.3	about a single song. Here with us again today is Ryan Hanratty. Welcome back, Ryan. Thanks for
1:36.1	having me. Yeah, by today, I mean, the same day we recorded the other episode.
1:41.4	That was supposed to be a secret. Oh, yeah.
1:47.6	Made you drive from Long Island just constantly.
1:49.3	To talk about one song.
1:49.7	Yeah.
1:51.2	I'm in Jersey so much.
1:52.0	It doesn't...
1:54.6	So... It's good, though, because some of our guests, like, are on a very strict timetable,
1:59.1	and I know you are, too, too Ryan but thank you for kind of
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