I've listened to both MCR's 'Helena' and No Doubt's 'Spiderwebs' a half dozen times since they popped up in the tournament. I love those songs. I guess I have shitty taste now? Thanks, Jorge.

Guys, just like last week, I'm not going to be around tomorrow morning so I'm going to go ahead and close the matches now.


That's OK, I like those songs too.

Advancing:
The Offspring- "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"
Harvey Danger- "Flagpole Sitta"
The Offspring- "Self Esteem"
Rancid- "Fall Back Down"
Lit- "My Own Worst Enemy"
Green Day- "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
Wheatus- "Teenage Dirtbag"
Green Day- "Hitchin' a Ride"

Eliminated:
Fall Out Boy- "Sugar, We're Goin Down"
The Offspring- "All I Want"
Dashboard Confessional- "Vindicated"
Story of the Year- "Until the Day I Die"
Mest- "What's the Dillio"
MXPX- "Chick Magnet"
Fall Out Boy- "This Ain't a Scene It's An Arms Race"
Paramore- "Misery Business"


New matches are up go vooooote!

Kind of weird to not see "Here in your Bedroom" by Goldfinger in this thing.

Hey thanks for suggesting that like 6 months after I made the thread asking for suggestions, REID

Hindsight is 20/20, much like what I'd rate this video on a cheesiness scale of 1-20.

This group of matches closes tonight, so make sure to get your votes in if you haven't yet. If you want. If this is something that you want to do.

When does Welcome to Paradise come up? I want to vote for it.

Jorge didn't include it for some stupid reason.

what? it's like the first song to rock the charts from the whole genre

horrible call, jorg, which i'm now just going to shorten to jorgible

You're thinking of "Longview", which is in this

I think we have more than enough Green Day, and three much more popular songs from that album. We don't need the lesser Dookie single (which was originally released before our cutoff anyway)

Advancing:
Blink 182- "First Date"
New Found Glory- "My Friends Over You"
Josie and the Pussycats- "Three Small Words"
Blink 182- "All the Small Things"
Yellowcard- "Ocean Avenue"
The Aquabats- "Super Rad!"
The Offspring- "The Kids Aren't Alright"
Green Day- "When I Come Around"

Eliminated:
The All-American Rejects- "Dirty Little Secret"
Good Charlotte- "I Just Wanna Live"
Lit- "Miserable"
Bowling for Soup- "Girl All the Bad Guys Want"
MXPX- "Responsibility"
Box Car Racer- "I Feel So"
Smash Mouth- "Why Can't We Be Friends?"
Blink 182- "Josie"

- Goodbye Smash Mouth
- Good Charlotte continues to not advance!
- Three matches this round that came down to a single vote. Every vote counts

New matches are up. Do your thing

Lesser Dookie single? I think not!!

Lesser in terms of popularity. I like the song a lot. But it's kind of the same reason why I didn't include "She's Got Issues" from Americana or "Always" from the Blink self-titled album; they're the less-popular singles from huge albums that are already well represented. Even if they're individually more popular than other songs in the tournament (way more people know "Always" than, say, "What's The Dillio"), I prefer to make a little room for variety

Welcome to Paradise is perhaps Green Day's best song. You dun goof'd here, friendo.

Welcome to Paradise got a lot more airplay in my neck or the woods than Hitchin’ a Ride, which, again, I’ve never heard before.

yeah jorg, this could be a geographical thing, but when i was a kid, Welcome to Paradise was the second song to blow up, right after Basketcase. Longview is better than both of those, but it never blew up and i think basically underperformed as a single.

"Longview" was definitely bigger than "Welcome to Paradise", and you can look at the numbers to corroborate that. "Longview" was also the first Dookie single, had a music video that was huge on MTV, and was their first calling card to the world outside of Gillman Street. I also like "Welcome to Paradise" much better, but that's neither here nor there.