What are you listening to right now? v2.0
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I wanted to share what this song means to me, but I'm putting it on spoiler in case it triggers:
The "City of the Damned" section (from about 1:05 to 3:40) reminds me of where I was on 07/07/2005 when I first heard what had happened. I was 18 at the time and living in Hackney. I'd gone into my local at lunchtime for a pint and saw the news footage of all the carnage and mayhem on their TV, which was on mute with this track playing on the jukebox. It was a song I already had on "American Idiot" but hadn't yet been released as a single at that point. So I don't know if someone else saw the relevance of the lyrics and decided to play it, but a shiver went down my spine as soon as Billie sang "City of the Dead". It was a track I'd listened to on American Idiot loads of times but hadn't really paid attention to the lyrics until then. And of course, it was also around the time Green Day had started getting more political. Now I play this song in my room every 7th July as my own personal memorial to everyone who lost their life that day.
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