Download Song 3 Idiots

[Escolastico Hall]

WRITTEN:

Written in late 1985 by Perry and Eric. In a way, it's the oldest Jane's song; Eric had come up with the bassline months before he started working with Perry. It was actually taken from a song Chris Brinkman wrote, while he and Eric were in a band together. Chris later became Jane's first guitarist, but was in the band only briefly.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS:

Perry at a live show, '86...

"This is dedicated to all the motherfuckers of this world who think they run things. Fuck them!"

Perry at a live show, '90...

"This is a song about lies."

Perry in the Words And Music interview, late '88...

"We're not overtly political, but we're political but in a philosophical way. And I've always tried to write that way. Because I've kind of figured... you know, like "four dead in Ohio"... it kind of doesn't make sense anymore. You know what I mean? But if you were to sing something about "idiots rule"... 20 years from now or 100 years from now, that would still make sense. So I try to stay away from writing politically about politicians or political events. But philosophy is something that's, like, say... the great philosophers still matter, and they still make sense in these days. And I kinda feel like good philosophy is timeless."

Dave in Guitar World, 11/97...

"I remember Perry telling [Flea] what to play [sings riff]. That's what was great about Perry. We had this song, "Idiot's Rule," that Flea and Angelo Moore and Chris Dowd from [pioneering L.A. ska/rock/funk band] Fishbone came down to play on. And they had this horn section part worked out that took a Jane's Addiction song and, somehow, within one pass of tape, turned it into a Fishbone song. So Perry trimmed away some of the fat and it became what it is now."

Dave in Guitar Player, 1991...

"When I listen to records by Hendrix or Jimmy Page--albums I've known my whole life--I always hear something new. I like that, and I like the fact that there are things on our records that people won't hear at first, or even by the hundredth time. For example, on "Idiots Rule", there's a track of just wah-wah, no notes, just the muted strings. You can barely hear it, but it adds texture and opens things up a bit."

LIVE:

* Played frequently throughout Jane's existance, 86-91.

* 97-02: never played. (funny, with George W as president, I'd think this song would be relevant as ever! :)

ADDITIONAL INFO:

* As one of the above quotes mentions, on the album version, Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Angelo Moore (Fishbone), and Christopher Dowd (also from Fishbone) play horns. I doubt Flea ever played it live with them, but I believe the other two did at a few L.A. shows.

Building on the unexpected success and popularity of their sound, Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots signed to Black River Entertainment in May 2015. In November of that year, they proudly released a six track digital EP for their youngest fans entitled The Raging Idiots Presents: The Raging Kidiots,

2016 has already kicked off in a major way. Bobby Bones and The Raging Idiots released their debut single "If I Was Your Boyfriend" from their forthcoming full length musical comedy album. Additionally the video was exclusively premiered on CMT and CMT.com.

"American Idiot" is a protest song[2] by the American rock band Green Day. The first single released from the album American Idiot, the song received positive reviews by critics and was nominated for four 2005 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Song, and Best Music Video.

One of the two explicitly political songs on the album (the other being fellow single "Holiday"),[3] "American Idiot" says that mass media has orchestrated paranoia and idiocy among the public. Citing cable news coverage of the Iraq War, Billie Joe Armstrong recalled, "They had all these Geraldo-like journalists in the tanks with the soldiers, getting the play-by-play." He felt with that, American news crossed the line from journalism to reality television, showcasing violent footage intercut with advertisements.[4] Armstrong went on to write the song after hearing the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "That's How I Like It" on his car radio.[5] "It was like, 'I'm proud to be a redneck' and I was like, 'oh my God, why would you be proud of something like that?' This is exactly what I'm against."[6] Songwriter Mike Dirnt felt many people would be insulted by the track until they realized that, rather than it being a finger-pointing song of anger, it could be viewed as a "call for individuality".[7] The song emphasizes strong language, juxtaposing the words "faggot" and "America", to create what he imagined would be a voice for the disenfranchised.[8]

In a 2004 interview with Q Magazine, the three members of Green Day discussed the idea of flag desecration in relation to their song, with Armstrong and Dirnt being the most supportive: "It means nothing to me. Let's burn the fucking thing."[9]

Released in 2004, the single peaked at number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Green Day's first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry.[18] The appearance of "American Idiot" on the US singles charts occurred just prior to Billboard's inclusion of Internet download purchases into their Billboard Hot 100 chart data, which would have made a significant difference in the song's peak had it benefited from the new chart tabulation system.[19] "American Idiot" became Green Day's first top-five single in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 3, and it debuted at number 1 in Canada, their only #1 single there. In Australia, the song reached number 7 was ranked number 22 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004. Green Day performed the song at the 2005 Grammy Awards.[20] "American Idiot" has sold 1,371,000 copies as of July 2010[update].[21]

Ian Winwood of Kerrang! said that "Green Day did for their generation, and their country, what the Sex Pistols did for the United Kingdom in 1977, for a nation sick with love for a parasitical royal family."[3]

Green Day's 2011 live album Awesome as Fuck contained a live rendition of the song, featuring an extended guitar solo, recorded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour. It was also featured in their 2005 live album Bullet in a Bible, set at Milton Keynes Bowl.

The music video for "American Idiot" shows the band playing in a warehouse against a green American flag (a reference to the name of the band), which only has 48 stars. In the middle of the video, the band is seen playing at different speeds (fast, slow-motion, and normal speed). During the bridge, the stripes of the flag melt onto the floor. The band is then sprayed by a green liquid from amplifiers next to the flag. At the end, the band drop their instruments and leave.[22] The song's video was directed by Samuel Bayer. At MTV's Video Music Awards, the video won the Viewer's Choice Award and was also nominated for Best Art Direction.[23]

"American Idiot" was ranked the number 13 Single of the Decade by Rolling Stone magazine in 2009. VH1 also placed the song at number 13 on its Top 100 Songs of the 2000s in 2011.[24] Rolling Stone ranked it number 432 of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010, the only Green Day song on the list.[25] The song is certified Gold in the United Kingdom for sales of 400,000.[26]

In advance of Donald Trump's visit to the UK in July 2018, a campaign to get "American Idiot" to the top of the UK song charts was launched.[27] On the Official UK Charts dated 13 July 2018, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at 25 and the UK Singles Downloads Chart at number 2.[28]

In 2019, Billie Joe Armstrong began changing the lyric "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of a MAGA agenda" during live performances. The lyrical variation received renewed popular attention following Green Day's televised performance at New Year's Rockin' Eve 2024. Armstrong has been strongly critical of Donald Trump, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.[29][30]

Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer covered the song and released it on June 11, 2014.[72] The song was released as part of Kerrang!'s tribute album to American Idiot, marking the record's 10-year anniversary.[73] It was also included on their Amnesia EP.[74] The band performed the track live on The Howard Stern Show.[75]

The cover was met with mostly positive reviews from music critics. Haley Blum of USA Today called the track, "pretty good." She stated, "The guys, who play their own instruments [...] produce a pretty faithful rendition of the track."[76] Fuse.tv remarked, "The cover is fairly faithful, but it does have 5SOS flair."[77] Michelle McGahan of PopCrush praised the band's harmonies on the track.[78] Carolyn Menyes of Music Times gave a less positive review, criticizing the band's use of autotune and vocal distortion that "make this song sound not quite as biting as the Green Day version" and the track's overproduction.[73]

If you didn't get the memo from the department's Chairman, "Tortured Poets" is Swift's 11th era album with 16 tracks and four bonus songs (four versions of the album each have a different bonus track).

The album was released during Swift's two-month break from her massively popular and economically fruitful Eras Tour. "Tortured Poets" serves as an exclamation point to the behemoth success the billionaire has seen over the past year since the three-plus-hour show launched in Glendale, Arizona. Swift will return to the stage in Paris, France, on May 9. Fans anticipate that her newest era will be added to the show.

Bass Guitar for Dummies explains that music notation spells out both the rhythm and notes in music and that low notes are written with the bass clef, which bassists learn to read and play from. It also says that bass sounds one octave lower than the written note and that when piano players read from the same sheet as a bass player, they play their notes an octave higher than the bass.

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