Saturday, January 4, 2003

It's another boring night here in Vestal, NY... That's why I'm writing this. Yeah, so, I am nominating Green Day's "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" as the most depressing album in my self-created "she's not with me and I'm going to moan about it for sixty minutes" category. Today while aimlessly surfing around the web to kill my boredom I had all the mp3s on my mp3 player (slightly above a thousand) randomly play in the background. I was a big Green Day fan back in the day, and I still enjoy listening to them every so often. The song "At the Library" played in the background with depressing lyrics such as:

"Why did you have to walk away?
Oh, well, it happened again..
She walked away with her boyfriend
Maybe we'll meet again someday..."

That sort of reminded me that almost all of the songs on this album are horribly depressing. Here's a track-by-track walk through...

"At the Library"

As well as the above quoted segment there's also:

"What is that drives me mad!?
Girls like you that I never had!
What is it about you that I adore?
What makes me go so insane
That makes me feel so much pain?
What is it about you that I adore?
Why did you have to leave so soon?"

"Don't Leave Me"

All right, doesn't the title already prove enough?

"I've gone through pain every day & night
I feel my mind is going insane
Something I can't fight"

"I Was There"

This song is one of two that basically state that "it was better in the past."

"I look into the past
I want to make it last
I was there"

"Disappearing Boy"

Damn, this one hurts...

"In that room I see her
I see her & she's with him
I turn and then I'm gone
Don't call me up 'cause I'm not home
My whereabouts are now unknown
I vanished from all your joy
I'm the disappearing boy"

"Green Day"

"I picture someone, I think it's you"

Enough Said.

"Going to Pasalacqua"

Another "lying in bed reflecting song:"

I toss and turn all night
Thinking of your ways of affection
But to find that it's not different at all
I throw away my past mistakes
And contemplate my future

"16"

Talks about "the pressures" of being 16:

"I wish my youth would forever last
Why are these times so unfair
Look at my friends and see what they've done
Ask myself why they had to change
I like them better when they were young
Now all these times are rearranged
I look down and stand there and cry
Nothing ever will be the same"

"Road to Acceptance"

"I always waste my time just wondering
What the next man thinks of me
I'll never do exactly what I want
And I'll sculpt my life for your acceptance
I feel forgotten
Feel like rotting"

Feel forgotten, feel like rotting? Sounds great!

 

Well that's the first eight of nineteen tracks. My boredom is kind of gone now, so I don't feel like writing anymore. Let me just mention some of the additional track names:

"Why Do You Want Him?"
"Only Of You"
"The One I Want"

With maybe one or two exceptions, every one of the nineteen songs on this album are horribly, horribly depressing. You can check the lyrics out yourself here. Their next album "Kerplunk" is very similar. Then they made "Dookie," the mainstream album nearly everybody around my age has in their collection. Starting with this one they adopted a "I'm a screwed drug addicted rebel and I don't give a damn image."