When was good riddance written

The song features on their greatest hits compilation International Superhits! The music video was directed by Mark Kohr , and features Billie Joe Armstrong playing an acoustic guitar in a bedroom interjected with scenes depicting various people undergoing every-day-things. Also when the video came out, both names of the songs were swapped and were known as "Time of Your Life Good Riddance ", this name was also used on the single cover.

EU CD 1. Template:Unreferenced section. Green Day Songs Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Good Riddance Time of Your Life. Edit source History Talk 0. This alternate version featured strummed chords instead of the usual sound and lacked the orchestra strings found on the more well known version. This early version can be found on the "Brain Stew" single.

I wrote the song as kind of a bon voyage. I was trying not to be bitter, but I think it came out a little bit bitter anyway… I thought that calling the song "Time of Your Life" was just a little too level-headed for me, so I had to come up with something different". This mistake was recorded on purpose and included in the song to provide comic relief, as it is considered one of their more serious songs. The song reached a massive audience in one night, when it was used during the special two part "Clip Show" of the extremely popular show Seinfeld in The song played during a montage of clips from the show.

Billie Joe plays an electric acoustic version of the song as their traditional show-closer for live Green Day concerts, including their live performance on Bullet in a Bible. The music video was directed by Mark Kohr, and features Billie Joe Armstrong playing an acoustic guitar in a bedroom interjected with scenes depicting various people undergoing every-day-things.

Also when the video came out, both names of the songs were swapped and were known as "Time of Your Life Good Riddance ", this name was also used on the single cover. Track descriptions on Last. Where once he had yelped about masturbation, Armstrong was now singing about forks in the road and lessons learnt in time.

Where previously his songs had been thrashed out with youthful abandon on an old Fernandes Stratocaster covered in punk rock stickers, this one found him strumming a Guild acoustic with skill and precision.

It was Green Day, but not as we knew it. While their gigs were still strictly eclectic affairs, Green Day had long been aware of the benefits of working on acoustic. It was a simple case of practicalities winning out over principals.

He picks up an acoustic guitar and starts jamming on it. Nor was Good Riddance written specifically for Nimrod.