Green Day - Why do you want him?

[Mattporter18]

this is A tune 

[GreenDay4life2k]

Son of a bitch this song is beautiful... they were great since the beggining.. Bj's voice makes me cry, literally...sooooo talented >.<

[YesMan014]

NOSTALGY

[AllHallows91]

@YesMan014 nostalgia?

[PlanetDrumLtd]

@Brigister Really? Oh shit my mistake!

[shadupp]

This is so underrated, I love it.

[GREENDAYjanet]

GREEN DAY and bubble machine...great combo!!! XD

[unemployedyouth123]

can anyone ealse relate to this song as much as me

[shootthemoon86]

holy shit look at BJ's hair! god i wish i was around in that era... late 80's early 90's bay area punk rock. pinhead gunpowder, green day, crimpshrine, op ivy...

[WestonBVB]

its the best song from the album

[ThunderRock41]

wow he was only 17 here....

[maluoco]

the first was look for love ...

[DarkGuitarKid]

@maluoco He didn't write it. He only sang it for his teacher.

[PlanetDrumLtd]

This song was/is about his step dad that he doesn't like.

[punKandPolitics]

@PlanetDrumLtd been there lol

[Brigister]

@PlanetDrumLtd not it's not, watch the interview to BJ adn Michael Mayer, the interviewer asks BJ if the thing you wrote was true and he said that's bullshit :)

[oasisfanmatt]

what amp did billie use back then?

[kroemme]

fett

[junkattackjunk]

too bad its out of sync, but still the music is good

[TheBlankUndead]

The 8 people that disliked this are going to hell.

[OMG7585]

I LOVE THE SOLO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[StLinxOfSuburbia]

is sure that Green Day'?

Billie with long hair? ;)

[Quferta]

Billie long hair. Errrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Miss

[95GD]

Awesome!!

[Billiewhat13]

my favorite green day song,billie did an amazing job with song..

I hate my step father too..

[NuPalagKa]

this sOnG is fuckinG epic!!!

[Shenanigans07]

Billie Joe's first ever song he wrote.... I bet he didn't think people would be listening to it 24 years after he wrote it.

[chipsamy]

@Shenanigans07 actually, ''look for love'' was the first, when he had 4 years old

[Shenanigans07]

@chipsamy He never wrote that

[chipsamy]

@Shenanigans07 yes he does, he is a fukin genius remember

[Shenanigans07]

@chipsamy LOL

well, not quite XD

[chipsamy]

@Shenanigans07 heheh ROFL

[arsletirott]

@chipsamy he didnt write "look for love" I can assure you that. He did sing it though.

[yOuRoOCkz4eveR]

<3 billy^^

[pokeguy742]

this is them before they became rock gods

[millionmilesaway222]

0:48 <---- billie joes guitar!!

[AilusGD16]

the song yes is it but the video no.

[BrickUnit]

@AilusGD16 yes it is

[Sparks217]

@AilusGD16 Go look at the At the Library version of this concert. Its them

[AilusGD16]

@Sparks217 lol It's true! I'm sorry but I didn't think they really were Green Day.

[Sparks217]

@AilusGD16 Hahaha you still dont think they were in this video? :P

[AilusGD16]

@Sparks217 I begin to believe... Were very differents

[Sparks217]

@AilusGD16 Haha Just look at "At The Library" song of this concert, the lights are on in the beginning and you can see them :).

[AilusGD16]

That is NOT green day!!!

[destroycelebs8831]

0:49. You can see his guitar clearly.

[BrickUnit]

he was 17 here

[pogostick78]

i love the song

[choc6915]

BUBBLES!

[skakky]

no billie joe is 37

[JTH1282]

@skakky he was born in 72 so he will be 40 in 2 years so he is 38 he was born in February of 72 if I recall correctly

[GLASSB182]

dude what the hall why is video off to the sound, someone should redo this video

[octaaaaaa]

@GLASSB182 its 1989 c u n t

[GLASSB182]

@octaaaaaa bitch

[lovingeveryxsecond]

"You're so obsessed with his love, that's why push came to shove." my life.

[germanfuzaloo]

Wow, Billie was 17. That's amazing

[BrickUnit]

Green day with solos. wow

[mimz10583]

as far as i know, he first recorded this song when he was 12 years old

[elixirproductions7]

@mimz10583 he was 14

[octaaaaaa]

He wrote this song for his mother or something like that, right?

[Junkpunker21]

@octaaaaaa

Not really FOR his mother. It's actually a little about his mother and against their stepfather.

[Arthaszs]

@octaaaaaa

Actually Billie joe HATED his step dad becuase of the facts that he hated music and made him stop his music career for a bit

[germ288]

@octaaaaaa yeah he wrote it cuz he didnt like his stepdad. so its like hes askin his mom why do you him

[sHareLBJ]

awesome song

[Sparks217]

To everyone, he wrote this song at 14 years old, not 12 lol.

[sasgay]

i wish they were still this good or, you know, would just stop defiling the memory

[PretzleRox]

@sasgay what do you mean green day is amazing

[MrBurgundy76]

this is amazing that this video exsists and is on youtube

[PunklWollf]

it isnt the best qually but its a great song!!

billie joe we love you!!

[lyla755]

omg he was only 12 when he wrote this?!!

[meonyouztubecom]

@lyla755 nope he was 14

[wcoffemakers]

i love thi song !!!!

[95GD]

i love song

[UnCuoreCheBatte]

omg billie was and is fantastic

[itsamazing1992]

I'm 13 and i wrote my first song 2 days ago but not so good,like this.

[yihd]

Its like 12 years old when he wrote this.

[GreenDayJ17A13]

14 :)

[linuxscurvy]

What's for sure is that is Billie. But with such a long hair? :D He's not SO sexy with that hair...

Still, that's Billie Joe Armstrong - the sexiest man alive :)

[3cs101]

@linuxscurvy

yay-- som1 who finally agrees with me!! my frends say 'isn't he like 40?' but he is SOOO sexy... ESPECIALLY with the long hair...

[Blahblerdeda]

@linuxscurvy Stop treating Green Day like BIllie's the only one in the band

[Brigister]

@linuxscurvy Well Green Day is a punk rock band, not a beauty contest ;)

[Ellana1995]

ya it's billie's first song.

Amazing.

[frangipanibum]

its not his first ever song but its still one of his first

[zanessatilidie]

not his first ;)

his first was 'look for love' when he was 5 (:

LoveYouBillie<3xD

[himynameisgreenday]

No he didn't wrote that one by himself

[JessieSnookems]

Are you people crazy? Of course this is Billie Joe! This song is off Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, its about his mother marrying his step dad which he dislikes. Can't you tell by Billie's voice? & Yeah that's his guitar 'blue' :)

[BrittSquit]

OF COURSE ITS GREEN DAY!!!!!!!!!!! er, sweet children

[0709Greenday]

it's allllllll billie Joe; it's alllllllllll Greenday. Or Sweet Children.

[lilnicky920]

is this song about Billie Joe's step dad and how he hated him cos i heard he wrote when he was about 10 along with look for love

[TheLucy1992]

yeah is it about his step dad, but he wrote it when he was about 14 i think (?) and he had already recorded Look For Love (not wrote it) when he was about 5-ish :)

[MaestroLeech]

That's what I heard too. Whatever, it's awesome.

[MusicLoverization]

that is most definitley greenday and for anyone thats saying it isnt its because your probably new "fans" who have hearda couple 21st century breakdown songs on the radio and instantly declare themselves # 1 fans lol~this is how they used to dress .how they play,and thats billy joe armstrong talking

[MaestroLeech]

You spelled Billie's name wrong.

[Patchie97]

It's them for sure. Who else could sing like that? Besides, Green wasn't that popular then, they were kinda a cafe band. They were never so popular until American Idiot came out. Sure, they were known by a lot of people, but not like they are now.

[MaestroLeech]

Actually they first got really famous with Dookie.

[LMTrock]

they were pretty big with dookie, and again with american idiot but they were released a decade apart

[ECullen1901171918]

for any idiot out there who doesn't think its them look at the guitar at 3:04 its "blue!" its his guitar!

[boloyoung1234]

Perhaps you people could stop being idiots? That's exactly what Green Day looked like in in '89. It's Billie Joe talking, Billie Joe singing and playing guitar, Mike Dirnt on bass and probably Al Sobrante on drums even though we can't see him. The only reason why "the timing for the notes are completely off" is that the audio is out of sync with the video. Something that happens on a regular basis. I can't believe I had to write this.

[gutyp]

look at 1:03 that's NOT billie joe, and billie never move like that when he plays guitar.

[Sapito103]

i could probbly reconize billie joe's voice in any song and that is totally him although u cant really see him or the restof green day

[BgMstudio7]

dookie is probaly my favorite along with isomniac and nimrod

[youngy182]

its green day live, but its not them in the video! wtf

[jay3213]

Im pretty sure it is them. At that time Billie joe actually had dread locks. So that explains the long shaggy hair

[blankschito]

lol this is green day LRStudioz. theyre like 16 or 17 here

[katastr0feN]

Stupid! This is green day

[AmericanIdiot005]

this is not green day!!

[snowboy42]

american idiot is your fav album of theirs? of course you wouldn't know them

[AmericanIdiot005]

my favourite album is smoothed out slappy hours...but i´m a real fan...i know that that isn´t green day... look at billie....this is not billie ... and his giutar has another sound ...

[LRStudioz]

That isnt Green Day, Iv watched millions of thier videos and I know them Inside and out. This isnt Green day...It just some guys thinking they can play a song from Green day,,,

[snowboy42]

millions of their videos? they've only written about 200 songs. and of course they sound different..it's out of a PA system in a closed space and it's a live recording with a hand-held camcorder from 1990. it's not going to be the highest quality.

[billiepoeh]

lol .

it is green day

[greenday4everrrr]

this is green day

its their sound

i would no billies voice ANYWHERE

its his guitar

just believe me

its them

[jonesmh123]

well im a drummer charini1234 and the guitar is on time so fuck off

[CariandBeth]

well uh..im were12 year old girls and we WROTE 19 songs...-.-

[skatertumen]

Call me noob and stuped kid, but I wrote my first song before I know green day and my song call "why do you WAIT him".. im serious..

[psychocatsanddogs]

HA i can beat that one of my best friends is a super mordern day enstien! he has created formulas i dont even understand has written the songs for my band and hes the best friend you could ever have!!!

[charini1986]

this is fake, the audio is real but thats not them

[ffuhhi962]

how do you know?

[charini1986]

well i know green day inside out and i know how they move on stage second i play guitar and the timing for the notes is completely off

[boloyoung1234]

This is ridiculous. Sorry man.

[666pinet]

If you knew green day in and out you would know that that is billies guitar, you can see the BJ

[lostpolly]

anyone can fashion their guitar to look like Billie's. its not rocket science...

[666pinet]

yeah, but you can even see billies face at the begining

who cares anyways, it's a great tune, first song he ever wrote.

[keilan303]

Use your ears and not your eyes....there is never any denying BJ's vocals...

[kapnzach]

Even when they talk, they sound like Green Day

[billiepoeh]

ur so wrong..

of course it's them, listen to the vocals dammit

[gatzagataraino]

@charini1986 is not a fake, at first green day was like this, then they changed...

[CreepyPolentaXD]

@charini1986 You're wrong, they're really Green Day, look at Billie's guitar = 0:45,

[buffalofetus801]

@charini1986 Yeah, that is them.

[Sparks217]

@charini1986 Wrong to you and to the people who voted up for you.

[coupedehill]

@charini1986 this is absolutely green day. billie joe had long hair back then, and you can recognize his face at the end. the audio is out of sync though.

[SananaS0]

what an awesome performance, i can't see much but the sound is really good.

unbelievable Billie's only 17 here!

[bodbal]

does the begining sounds a bit like

basket case?

[Myfavmusic142009]

The begining does sound a little like basket case..

[friway69]

if this was 1989 he was 17.

AWESOME! I AM GREEN DAY'S BIGGEST FAN! i'm freakishly obsessed

[fallenskater49]

first song he ever wrote right here

[gohanstrokes]

how old is at that moment?

[hamehead1]

1989 so u do the math lol

[kooki092]

how old was billie here ?

[vansfreek]

He is around 17 here.

[RyanRotten80]

dunno why you got thumbed down..you're right, he was 17 here!

[scottw48]

i just love it, i know it's about his mum but i like to it about a girl aswell either way it has a very powerful effect on me cos the song kicks ass

[eyelessmofo2013]

it is about a guy that his mom married and all of his siblings hated him so he wrote a song about it

[vansfreek]

Now that's just flat out good music. We need more of that.

[emoduzzintsuck668]

i think this song has the best green day solo ever haha

[charlesthemeerkat]

no, the judges daughter has their best solo, but this one kicks ass too!

[juanteojo]

blue ♥

[fenderx24]

bullshit he was twelve when he wrote this gem

[uripijuli]

14 idiot

[redundantxheart]

To everybody butting-heads about what age Billie Joe was when he wrote this song, he was fourteen.

"He wrote his first song, "Why Do You Want Him", a song about his mother and his step father, when he was 14."

^ Taken from his Bio on Green Day Authority

Now STFU about it and enjoy the song. ;D

[igormoutinho]

PRIMEIRA MUSICA DO GREEN DAY

[ravafufu]

Billie Joe was/is a genius :) He was 12 when he wrote this :)

[apatty94]

he was actually 14 :) x

[hamehead1]

no it was in 1989

[lustmolch113]

i'm also a genius i wrote 2 songs and i'm 13 now

[lazrpo1nt3r]

Just cause you wrote 2 songs doesn't mean you're a genius. I can write hundreds of songs at the age of 13, however, none of them could be good or make sense.

[charlesthemeerkat]

how exciting, i wrote like 10 and the same age.

[LauraSmith96]

He was five when he recorded Look For Love though.

[LauraSmith96]

According to what I'm looking at the first song Billie Joe Armstrong wrote was this song. He didn't even get his first guitar until he was ten years old. Look For Love was the first song he RECORDED. But you people who said he was twelve when he wrote this song, y'all are wrong. He was fourteen.

[helbleboy]

oh wooooow

this is very coool

green day are the best

[estef44]

adre60 is right

billie wrote this wen he was 14

not fuken 5!

[xxKerplunk80xx]

this was on my birthday and the day he married adrienne

[Emetophobiax]

this is one of my favorites fo' sho. =]

[aidan0008]

thi s one of there great songs that should be played in live and not forgotten

[86bassguitar]

this song is awesome

[snoozer188]

My favorite basket case and american idiot

[1234DRamone]

This songs is better than all of american idiot

[helpmeimscared07]

yea but he didnt write that

[helpmeimscared07]

yea but he didnt write that

[pizzacat311]

This song was written to express his feelings towards his Mom's relationship with his stepdad. Billy hated that man.

[greenday900002]

this really goood

[cliffermand]

we wrote this song when he were 12 and the first song he wrote was looking for love and he wrote that when he was 5 year old

[fergusgunn]

in this he was 17 cuz he was 18 in 1990 -_-

[ALfan010]

Look him up on wikipedea. you'll be surprised

[adre60]

wikipedea isnt real facts genious, chek on fan sites and there official site dick head