is anybody out there who knows why Green day have chosen such a title for this song ? ( i love it, by the way). the song talks about panic disorder . . . pliz if anybody knows...
2006-10-29 01:49:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
This is about anxiety attacks and a feeling that you are going crazy. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong suffered from various panic disorders while he was growing up. This song stereotypes the whole condition of paranoia and compares it to being stoned.
2006-10-29 01:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of popular pop-punk group Green Day's best known songs, "Basket Case" from their 1994 hit album Dookie was a major step in their career. After the single was released in January 1995, the song ended up being a huge hit. The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disorder, he thought he was going crazy.
2006-10-29 01:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lyrics are: I went to a whore HE said my life's a bore So quite my whinning Because it's bring HER down So Billie Joe said this in the magazine, The Advocate, "I think I've always been bisexual. I mean, it's something that I've always been interested in. I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't.' They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing." He's married ftr. But yeah, he's bi.
2016-05-22 05:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A basket case is a slang term for someone who goes mad.
2006-10-29 03:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by onetruekev 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because a basket case is a not so nice term for crazy insane person, one that belongs in an asylum.
2006-10-29 01:52:22 · answer #5 · answered by Frita_VanShnidelvanhouwserson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
billie joe and mike dirnt both get panic attacks and they wrote a song about it.
2006-10-29 01:54:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to the lyrics:
Basket Case
Do you have the time
to listen to me whine
About NOTHING and EVERYTHING
all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it
Sometimes I give myself the CREEPS
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm CRACKING UP
Am I just PARANOID?
Or am I just STONED
I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
SHE said it's lack of sex
that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
who said my life's a bore
So quit my whining cause
it's bringing HER down
Sometimes I give myself the CREEPS
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm CRACKING UP
Am I just PARANOID?
Uh,yuh,yuh,ya
Grasping to CONTROL
So I BETTER hold on
Sometimes I give myself the CREEPS
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm CRACKING UP
Am I just PARANOID?
Or am I just STONED
2006-10-29 02:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by GirlsRGamers2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you actually listened to the song? if you listen to the lyrics than you might get why they chose that title.
2006-10-29 01:54:21 · answer #8 · answered by Bella Hart-ti2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause they're all in a nut house
2006-10-29 02:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by soxfan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋