![]() It was an honor and a challenge to cover it in that we had to thread the needle between respecting the original vision of the arrangement but putting our stamp on it as well." If you've ever wondered what an amped-up, full-throttle version of Carole King's "I Feel The Earth Move" or Prince's "Kiss" or OASIS's "Champagne Supernova" or Madonna's "Music", then this is the album for you.Īs a special treat, the band has released the first single from the album - a powerful rendition of DURAN DURAN's "Ordinary World" - featuring Martin on vocals, offering just a small taste of what's in store.Īs Lynch himself explains: "I was never a huge DURAN DURAN fan, but I always loved this song. But this new batch of recordings, titled appropriately enough "Heavy Hitters", stands apart not only for its outstanding roster of players and vocalists, including BULLETBOYS' Marq Torien, FISHBONE's Angelo Moore, EARSHOT's Wil Martin and drummer Brian Tichy ( WHITESNAKE, OZZY OSBOURNE) but for the jaw-dropping song selection. The two have previously made metal magic together as a duo on the 2003 album "Wicked Underground", which was recently reissued on vinyl, as well as with other projects such as T&N and THE END MACHINE. Roots matter to me, I guess.Guitar-shredding virtuoso George Lynch has reteamed with former DOKKEN bandmate Jeff Pilson for a set of new studio recordings that turn pop music classics into powerful metal anthems. People ask me, like, “Why do you maintain these relationships for so long?” I don’t know. I’m very deeply connected to Adrienne, and I’m very deeply connected to Green Day. ![]() I think about this song as an extension of “2000 Light Years Away,” 20-something years apart. We tend to overthink the things that are not really important. It’s just finding out that the things in life that are more simple are actually the biggest connections that you can have. Then I ended up writing this song, “Ordinary World,” that sounded more country, and it just sort of fit the movie. One of them was “Outlaws,” which is also on Revolution Radio. I was in a movie called Ordinary World in 2016, and the director, Lee Kirk, wanted a song that kind of summed up the character’s life. His punk-rock dreams however, have yet to die. Instead of a career in the music industry, Miller works an ordinary job and lives with his ordinary family. The lead character can be viewed as Billie Joe himself in an alternate world in which Green Day was never successful. ![]() The lyrics are told from the perspective of the character Armstrong plays in the film, Perry Miller. The title of the song is also a callback to the song “Extraordinary Girl” from American Idiot, which opens with the lyrics “She’s an extraordinary girl/in an ordinary world” Armstrong was happy enough with the outcome of this track that he opted to include it on the album. “Ordinary World” wasn’t originally written for the album, but for the soundtrack of the movie of the same name. ![]() An acoustic ballad, written in the rhetorical style of folk classics such as Bob Dylan’s “Blowin' In The Wind” and Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” – which Green Day had already referenced in American Idiot's “Letterbomb” – “Ordinary World,” presents verses composed of hypotetical questions left unanswered, and provides an optimistic atmosphere to close the album. ![]()
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