Green Day - 86 @ Letterman

86 Live at Letterman.

People, please stop saying that you like the 'old' Green Day better, that the new songs have no real message or whatever.. Green Day just freaking rock. Period.
Look at the difference between 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Dookie, or Nimrod and Warning! I never hear people complaint about that, while the difference is distinct..

Edit: a lot of people think this performance was in 1986. It's not, 86 is the name of the song. In 1986 they didn't even release their first EP yet. Their first show was in 1988.

Like it says on GreenDayAuthority.com; "86 is about the underground scene and being kicked out of it, because when you leave, you can never go back. This particular song is about Billie being the one getting kicked out. Everyone from the local punk scene threatened them after they got back from touring Dookie. Kids would spit, insult, threaten to beat up, and one girl wrote on a wall at Gillman 'Billie Joe Must Die'. Billie begins to question himself."

There.

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