From high school proms to TV show finales. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)įeaturing on the band's 1997 album Nimrod (through written by Armstrong several years earlier), Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) is far from the band's biggest chart hit, peaking at Number 11 in the UK, but is perhaps one of their most enduring. To date, its chart sales stand at 761,000, including a massive 52 million streams - their most-streamed song in the UK. So sure were they of its hit potential that it had two cycles on the Official Singles Chart once in 1994 where it peaked at 55, and again six months later in 1995 where it reached a much healthier Number 7. Basket Case's sharp, ear-snagging lyrics about ones descent into madness can be recited by any punk-rock-raver worth their salt ("Do you have the time/ To listen to me whine/ About nothing and everything all at once?" is surely one of the best opening lines of a punk song ever?). Green Day's fourth biggest seller was the moment they well and truly cracked the UK. Released: August 1994, re-released January 1995 was written by Armstrong about the death of his father, and not long after its release, became symbolic for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11. It's one of Green Day's five Top 10 singles in the UK, peaking at Number 8, and its chart sales to date stand at 678,000, including 36.5 million streams. Another cut from their American Idiot album, Wake Me Up.
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