Bracket Case (Green Day Bracket) Bracket • Page 30

As far as I know from research I've done, there have are only five songs that have been confirmed (although three of those were only sort-of confirmed lol) to be on it:

Too Much Too Soon
Cigarettes and Valentines
Waste Away
Sleepyhead
Dropout

Also, Billie Joe has said that Youngblood is a reworked version of a song that was supposed to be on C&V but we don't know if it was one of those other three or another song entirely. I think Shoplifter has just been speculated to have been on it? And some people thought Walk Away from the trilogy was from it but I think it was Mike who misspoke and meant to say "Waste Away".

 

Thanks for the info. Yes now that you mention it I did hear about Youngblood as it sounds familiar to me. Never heard about Waste Away, Sleepyhead or Dropout as track titles.

It's crazy that C&V was never released whether it be a leak from whoever took the masters or Green Day themselves releasing it. Or in the very least Green Day recording a studio version of C&V.

 

Too Much Too Soon rules. Had no idea it was supposed to be on Cigs&Valentines

 

I've always kind of suspected that the tapes weren't actually stolen, that it was just a story the band made up after they decided to scrap the album because they wanted to go in a different direction. Mostly because it kind of doesn't make sense that the person that took them didn't leak them and that we don't even have a complete tracklist for it.

But yeah at this point I feel like enough people have asked for it that it's weird they seem to be so against doing it.

 

I tend to agree with you on that, especially since they ended up recovering the masters after all. The story does sound made up. Don't get me wrong I'm glad we ended up getting American Idiot from them but I'm still super interested in hearing those C&V tracks.

 

Honestly I know this probably isn't fair to say but based on the two songs we've heard alone I think I would've rather gotten C&V than AI personally lol. Like I enjoy AI a lot overall but am not huge on a few of the songs there.

 

AI is probably my favorite Green Day album front to back (or Dookie for pure nostalgia purposes since it was the 1st album I ever owned way back in 1994) so I'm completely biased. I like Too Much Too Soon and C&V but wouldn't trade either for any song on AI.

 

Current scores:

Do Da Da - 4
Scumbag - 9

Ha Ha You’re Dead - 9
I Wanna Be on TV - 4

On the Wagon - 5
Tired of Waiting For You - 8

Outsider - 1
Desensitized - 12

Don’t Wanna Fall in Love - 4
Suffocate - 9

Sick of Me - 3
You Lied - 10


Round 2:

Rotting Vs. Scumbag

Ha Ha You’re Dead Vs. Tired of Waiting For You

Espionage Vs. Desensitized

Suffocate Vs. You Lied

 

B-Sides bracket.

 

Rotting
Ha Ha
Desensitized
Suffocate

 

Rotting
Ha Ha You’re Dead
Desensitized
Suffocate

 

Scumbag
Ha Ha You’re Dead
Desensitized
Suffocate

Pretty easy round. The only one that was a little tough for me was the last matchup.

 

Scumbag
Ha Ha
Desensitized
Suffocate

 

This bracket should wrap up around October.

 

go ahead, make your “wake me up when september ends” pun

 

Honestly bummed I missed the opportunity.

 

Rotting
Ha Ha
Desensitized
Suffocate

 

Scumbag
Ha Ha
Desensitized
Suffocate

 

Rotting
Ha Ha You’re Dead
Desensitized
Suffocate

 

Scumbag

Ha Ha You’re Dead

Desensitized

You Lied

 

Scumbag
Ha Ha You’re Dead
Desensitized
You Lied

 

Rotting

Ha Ha You’re Dead

Desensitized

You Lied

 

Rotting (incredibly underrated song)
Ha Ha You're Dead
Desensitized
Suffocate


Also I don't think Too Much Too Soon was meant to be on C&V, I think it was just an American Idiot b-side

 

Current scores:

Rotting - 6
Scumbag - 5

Ha Ha You’re Dead - 11
Tired of Waiting For You - 0

Espionage - 0
Desensitized - 11

Suffocate - 8
You Lied - 3

 

Those will be the final scores.

Next Round:

Rotting Vs. Ha Ha You're Dead

Desensitized Vs. Suffocate