At 07:08 PM 10/1/2004 -0600, Lee Elliott wrote:
>> Am I the only one to notice that one of the songs in the first suite on
>> AMERICAN IDIOT has nicked its melody from "Summer of '69"?
>
>Funny ... "City of the dead"/"Standin' on your mama's porch"  I like the 
>Mott piano bit.

Yeah, that's exactly the part.  I wonder if it was intentional, because
really, it's absolutely spot-on.

Never thought I would say this about a full Green Day album -- although
they're a consummate singles band (anyone who claims to be a pop-punk fan
and doesn't own INTERNATIONAL SUPERHITS is only fooling themselves), their
albums have always been wildly uneven -- but AMERICAN IDIOT is really
remarkably good all the way through.

S