The reason I found this was because I'm doing a research paper on Green Day. This is only because I couldn't find anything else in common with my partner. I was first thinking Joy Division for the project but she had no idea who I was talking about. So I said, "Ok Green Day I don't really like their new stuff but I liked them when I was little and in my teens" she replied "yeah I like their old stuff to". Only to find out she thought that American Idiot was their old stuff and that they had only made 2 albums....Yeah I'm pretty much doing 90 percent of this project...

Regardless this brings a sense of nostalgia, I swear he looks like my brother did with that stupid wide eye goofy expression and short blue hair.

stop floundering

You're the only one floundering here, trying to shove your loose interpretation of poorly spoken words down the throats of everyone with any sense who is explaining rather simply the actual meaning of an often wrongly worded phrase. The bottom line is, in almost every situation, people should say "I couldn't care less" when they actually say "I could care less."

Most people just don't care enough about the words they speak to analyze or understand their meaning. Then, of course, there's that rare 0.01% of wackos who do understand but still try to defend, pervert, and proliferate twisted words because they have a false sense of entitlement and a magnificently inflated ego. These are the nuts who'd probably also try to convince you that saying "I don't not care" is also a valid way to express your lack of interest in something. "Sure it am not not a double negative and sure the speaker are actually saying it cares, but hey that am okay. You can figuring it out what they could mean any ways, so we should encourage every people to speak those way! Hooray for bastardization of these Ynglish lang wedges!" Let's encourage everyone to exercise incorrect language because, hey, everyone else can figure out what they mean anyway, right? GMAFB.


It is never misinterpreted by the listener

This is not true at all. I forget the particular song, but on Green Day's American Idiot album, a line says something like "I could care less" and I've always wondered and will never know if he added stress to the phrase to make it clear he's speaking literally about actually caring or if that stress was just for the melody and he actually misspoke as most people do and he really does not care.


Whenever this phrase is used, it is a whimsical way of saying they're in danger of caring less than they already do.

When someone exclaims, "I could care less if we water board George W.," what they're really saying is, "I'm in danger of caring less than I already do if we water board Old Georgie. Everyone pay close attention to the needle on my caring gauge because I think it's about to drop a little bit!" Right. You just keep looking at your reflection in that diploma frame and telling yourself that, friendo.

Out of curiosity, what about when people say, "If I never see you again, it'll be too soon?" Is that a whimsical way of someone saying they actually hope to see you again and preferably sometime soon, or is it someone who suffers from bad word choice and is attempting to inform that they never want to see you again?

If you ever comment on this again, it'll be too soon, and if you do, I couldn't care less.

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Guess I need to sort my tags / channels better...


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Guess I need to sort my tags / channels better...

Oh yeah, that vid definitely belongs in *rocknroll, go ahead and add it when you feel like it.

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Awesome - thanks again, you're one of the best fixers I know.
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(and several others, mind you)

Think the Green Day clip you popped in should be considered part of the rocknroll collective?

Awesome - thanks again, you're one of the best fixers I know.
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(and several others, mind you)

Think the Green Day clip you popped in should be considered part of the rocknroll collective?

Unfortunately, it is probably Green Day's weakest album ever. This song is pretty representative of most of the album: bland and repetitive.

Even though I agree with their pro environmentalist, anti fundamentalist message, most of the lyrics get rather preachy and long winded. Practically missing are the clever hooks the band is famous for.

"21 Guns" is the best song on the album, "The Static Age" is the best rocker. "Horsehoes and Handgrenades" sounds most like the early Green Day of old. Buy these three if you are a fan.

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Note: not in order

1 - Ten - Pearl Jam
2 - By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3 and 4 - Songs for the Deaf/Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age
5 - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
6 and 7 - Old World Underground, Where are you Now?/Live It Out - Metric
8 - Around the Fur - Deftones
9 - You're A Woman, I'm a Machine - Death From Above 1979
10 to 13 - Moving Pictures/Power Windows/Signals/Hemispheres - Rush
14 - Offend Maggie - Deerhoof
15 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
16 and 17 - Absolution/Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
18 to 20 - Dookie/Warning/Nimrod - Green Day
21 and 22 - Good News for People Who Love Bad News/We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
23 to 27 - Guero/Mutations/Midnite Vultures/Sea Change/Odelay - Beck
28 - Revelations - Audioslave
29 - Aqualung - Jethro Tull
30 - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - Foo Fighters
31 - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace - The Offspring
32 - The Blue Album - Weezer
33 - The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
34 and 35 - The Shepard's Dog/Our Endless Numbered Days - Iron and Wine
36 - You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
37 - Something for Everyone - BSS presents: Brendan Canning
38 - Welcome To the Night Sky - Wintersleep
39 - You In Reverse - Built To Spill
40 - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

And now for the Extra Credit 8!

41 to 43 Kill the Moonlight/Gimme Fiction/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
44 - Discovery - Daft Punk
45 and 46 - Piece of Cake/The Lucky Ones - Mudhoney
47 - Atlas - Battles
48 - Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

First!

1997 is one of my favourite years of musical releases. 15 years old... Matthew Good, Live, OLP, radiohead, Foo Fighters,Econoline Crush, Green Day, the Verve... so many great albums that year. 2003 was pretty sweet as well, loving our scene in Toronto that summer...

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" would have been a more fitting choice for a Green Day song I think.

oh yea.

"Hey this HOMECOMING video of our son (husband?) COMING HOME from IRAQ after 14 MONTHS needs a little music. what would be a good song that would capture our feelings?"
"How about that Green Day song everyone loves. Whats it called again? Oh yea: GOOD RIDDANCE."

Very moving. I love this video. Just wish they picked a better song, is all.