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Welcome to My Panic

Words + Music, Vol. 14

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Welcome to My Panic

By: Billie Joe Armstrong
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Soaring ambition. Unwavering integrity. Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t the first punk to negotiate mainstream success, but he might be its most undisguised example. In Welcome to my Panic, Green Day’s iconic front man holds nothing back as he tracks listeners though his deeply personal and artistic journey in raw detail.

Matching his emotional storytelling with new, exclusive, recordings of Green Day’s biggest hits including “Basket Case”, “Good Riddance”, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, and “American Idiot”, Armstrong chronicles the seminal moments in his life: the trauma and triumphs that have come to define him. As we listen, Billie Joe reminds us punk rock is not about how hard you can play but how hard you can remain yourself.

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About the Creator and Performer

Billie Joe Armstrong is the frontman and guitarist for four-time Grammy award-winning rock band Green Day. Originally hailed as punk revivalists blindsiding the mainstream from the margins, Green Day has become one of rock’s sturdiest institutions, a band whose sound threads the three-chords-and-a-head-rush excitement that runs through everything from East Bay punk, power pop, 60s garage, and hard rock. The band, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, has released thirteen studio albums to date, including the Diamond-selling Dookie, the punk rock opera album turned Broadway musical American Idiot, and their latest album Father of All… which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart and number four on the Billboard 200, resulting in the band’s eleventh US top-10 album.
Outside of Green Day, Billie Joe also fronts The Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Longshot, and The Coverups. In 2013, he teamed with jazz singer and pianist Norah Jones in a project to re-create the classic 1958 Everly Brothers album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us that they titled Foreverly. In early 2020 Armstrong launched the No Fun Mondays series in quarantine, released as an LP later that year. The collection of covers sees Armstrong putting his signature melodic-punk spin on the songs that have formed the soundtrack to his life, including classics by John Lennon, Billy Bragg, and Johnny Thunders.

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Featured Article: 5+ of the Biggest Revelations for Green Day Fans from Billie Joe Armstrong's Memoir


Green Day is one of the most influential rock groups of all time. Vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, an icon in his own right, has become a hero to many for his integrity and authenticity. In his Words + Music installment, Welcome to My Panic, Armstrong leads listeners through the defining moments of both his personal life and Green Day’s journey with the same soul that makes him a force onstage. Here are five of his most candid revelations.

Featured Article 5+ of the Biggest Revelations for Green Day Fans from Billie Joe Armstrong's Memoir
Authentic Storytelling • Intimate Personal Revelations • Captivating Musical Interludes • Heartfelt Narrative

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I wish this were longer and I also would have paid for this. I heard about Green Day in 1992 but didn't listen or realize how great they were until maybe 2005 or 2006 when they came to Portland and I took my daughter to their show.
I love that Billie Joe talks about the process of becoming who they are and it gives us fans a glimpse into what all goes on, not just getting to production but the innermost thoughts of the artist. Fantastic song writing. I could go on and on but this is a really good listen.

RREF! Real, raw, enlightening and funny

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I loved Billie Joe’s authenticity. His insight into the journey and the songs makes me appreciate the music even more. I will listen to this again and again!

Like a fireside chat with a friend!

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Great dive into the life of Billie Joe. I'm not really a fan of Green Day these days, but it definitely is an inspirational story and made me listen to those first few albums again for the first time in a long time.

great story

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huge Greenday fan in general but it was well put together song choice was good and Billie Joe just has a way with words I even sang to my dog and he loved every minute of it

amazing

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Amazing insight into Billie' Joe's perspective on the continued evolution of the band and their music. He shares his story with brutal honesty, humility and tremendous respect for the process. Song selection is excellent. Even greater is the renditions of each song. Turn those into an album please!

Put this on repeat!

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It was so fun to listen to as a childhood Green Day fan but otherwise, it was kinda surface level look at everything. Really enjoyed the acoustic renditions of songs across the broad catalog.

Awesome, not very deep

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I really enjoyed hearing Billie Joe Armstrong tell his story and the story of the start of Greenday and how the band has evolved into a peice of American culture!!

Great story of Billie Joe and the band!!

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I'm a Greenday fan. I wasn't allowed to listen to their music from the start simply because I was a child. But when I got older, in high school, I became a true fan. I enjoyed this audio. I love to hear how bands and music come together and how it evolves over time.

Great! Listen and be intrigued

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This was a fantastic quick listen into the front singer of the band Green Day. Hearing where he was in his mindset writing some of my favorite songs was interesting and insightful. It really makes you listen harder to those songs as you know the background too.

Green Day 💚

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This was a short and sweet little history of one of my favorite frontmen. Green Day will always be one of my favorite bands. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s their music was everything to me. Billie Joe is the biggest influence on my picking up a guitar. I learned just about every Dookie track followed by American Idiot. Anyways, it was interesting to hear about the events we all know about from his point of view. Of course we've all heard about all their craziness in the media, but to actually listen to his thoughts and feelings leading up to (and after) record releases, Woodstock, iHeat was quite entertaining. The acoustic versions of the tracks he recorded for this were fun to listen to too. My only criticism is that I would have loved to hear about the Revolution Radio making process. It just kinda drops off after the iHeart meltdown, he performs Grafitia and that's it. I thought RR was an amazing album so I would have loved some depth there. I still rated it 5 stars though just because I'm biased.

Long time fan

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