Talk:Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

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Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) → Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

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Proper capitalization. —User:Mulad (talk) 05:10, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

• Oppose Looking at the track listings on my CD of Green Day's Nimrod album, the song is listed as "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" with a capitalized "O" in "Of", and as a song being a work of art, and with works of art (i.e. books, paintings, music, etc.) generally considered as proper nouns, and as the name of the song is listed with "Of" on the information included with the compact disc, this proposed RM does not conform with the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) policy. —ExplorerCDT 05:32, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Neutral See [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Music_standards#Albums.2C_bands.2C_and_songs|]], #10 — Catherine\^talk 10:07, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I think this qualifies under the "unless it is unique" rule. —ExplorerCDT 16:53, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Pointless move. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 12:47, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Proper and logical capitalization. In my opinion, letting people hijack the conventions of English for marketing or whims or whatever is not something to support, even if they Want To Capitalize Every Word or use BiZZare CapitALs or whatever. Note that this is in agreement with the Naming Conventions (capitalization) listed above; it is not a proper noun per se but a title; titles are traditionally capitalized according to specific rules which keep short, common prepositions like of in lowercase. I confess I'm not sure I understand what "unless it is unique" means—it seems to me that the vast majority of song titles would be unique. — Knowledge Seeker দ (talk) 07:56, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. What Knowledge Seeker said. — OwenBlacker 22:24, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. While I agree wholeheartedly with Knowledge Seeker, this isn't—unfortunately—the current policy of Wikipedia. Let the idiotic marketing capitalization stand. A.D.H. (t&m) 03:27, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Support. It's unique only if it's something like Yvan Eht Nioj. Mixed 06:53, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Jonathunder 18:11, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
• Support. I doubt very much that it's a marketing ploy — it's just some careless or ignorant typist's error, not picked up by a copy-editor (because there wasn't one). I'm looking at an Island CD, Cat Stevens' Catch Bull at Four, according to which track 8 is that well-known Irish bar “O'CARITAS” (for those who don't know it, it's a Latin title, “O Caritas”). It's one thing to go along with idiot marketing people (the sort of people who recently decided that boxed sets of CDs would be box sets — who the hell wants a set of boxes?), but another to go along with a typo. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Jordi·✆ 12:22, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. —Lowellian (talk) 09:14, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

This move request is now closed - further discussion should be added under a different section violet/riga (t) 16:31, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Question

can I put it was the last song ever played by The Storm radio station?

Contradiction

When Billie wrote Good Riddance, his girlfriend moved to Ecuador. He tried to be levelheaded about it and wrote this song when they were producing Dookie, but to show his anger, he named the song "Good Riddance" and made "Time Of Your Life" the subtitle. The song shows us about life, how we are not to question it and keep moving on.

This line in in direct contradiction with an earlier part in the article that said he wrote in response to his fans turning on him when GD got big. I lean towards this explanation since BJA mentioned this in this month's issue of Rolling Stone. Regardless, we have to go with one. Also this part "The song shows us about life, how we are not to question it and keep moving on," is WAY too subjective.--Esprit15d 18:54, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Ahh, just discoverd its copyright vio from [1]. I will remove it.

It was pretty much a "fuck off" type of song.

I have no fucking idea what that means. Removing it. -VJ 23:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The Fact Section

Does it make sense? On the International Superhits! CD, the song still has the messed up guitar and the swearing, leading me to believe it's intentional.67.142.130.15 21:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

it was an accident, but was kept anyway71.184.227.2 (talk) 16:21, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Modern Rock Tracks Discrepancy

On here and on the Green Day discography page, this song is listed as having reached #1 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1998. However, our pages listing all of the hits (Number one modern rock hits of 1998, as well as other years in close range) do not seem to display this song's title anywhere. According to our Modern Rock Tracks archive the Green Day songs to hit #1 were Longview, Basket Case, When I Come Around, J.A.R., Minority, American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and Holiday.Porce 21:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

what about this

I know that there is a alternate version of this song that is called time of your life (good riddance) and fans had to say which one was better and they said the one we know now. maybe someone could add something about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.80.96 (talk) 19:31, 25 March 2019 (UTC)