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“Welcome to Paradise” is a song from Green Day’s 1992 album Kerplunk and was re-recorded for their 1994 album Dookie. It went on to be released as the second single released from Dookie, after “Longview”. The Dookie version was later included on their 2001 greatest hits album International Superhits!. The song is based on the band’s experience moving out of their parents’ houses and into an abandoned house in Oakland, CA where the band members, along with several others, lived without paying rent. The house was quite broken-down but to them it became home, and this sentiment is described in the song.

Billie Joe Armstrong said this of the song:
“ It’s about West Oakland, living in a warehouse with a lot of people, a bunch of artists and musicians, punks and whatever just lived all up and down, bums and junkies and thugs and gang members and stuff that just lived in that area. It’s no place you want to walk around at night, but it’s a neat warehouse where you can play basketball and stuff. ”

The opening riff of the song is reminiscent of the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop”, if one were to take the same chords but play the progression backwards using the same rhythm. The song is played with the guitar tuned a half-step down, as are all their Dookie songs.

A live version of the song can be found on the Foot in Mouth EP and the Live Tracks EP. The song is also featured in the movie Surf’s Up.


Tracklist

1. “Welcome to Paradise” - 3:45
2. “Chump (live)” - 2:44
3. “Emenius Sleepus” - 1:44

* (Track 2 recorded March 11, 1994 at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, Florida)


Released - October 1994
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  • motorbikegame

    @cello1995 Eh. Whatever floats your boat I guess, I'm not too fussed about bands changing their style because I find if they keep clinging to the one they started with it just starts to sound dull :/. Bands mature as they get older. Also their new stuff is better than about 80% of the other "rock" you get today IMO x)

    9 days ago

  • cello1995

    @motorbikegame Woah there. They DID basically COMPLETELY change their whole style, so obviously some people that fell in love with the old stuff are going to feel shorted. Just because a band completely transformed and you find yourself not liking them anymore doesn't mean you're a hipster. Because that's what happened to me.

    14 days ago

  • motorbikegame

    @Artika91 YES. People need to learn that bands change their style otherwise they just start to sound bored and tired. So fed up with all the hipsters hating on their new stuff. I love ALL Green Day :D

    22 days ago

  • a_barfight

    mahvelous.

    last month

  • johnnclarkee94

    How did the same band create this and then the pure shit of the last 2 albums?

    last month

  • disarm78

    Ok not one of the best songs ever, but this song means so much to me as it awakened in me a love of guitars making noise!

    last month

  • xusurper

    Dear mother can you hear me laughing

    last month

  • IntroVertedMind

    Welcome to Cali <3

    March 2012

  • star2777

    :)*

    February 2012

  • bhangraprincess

    WELCOME TO PARADISE!!!!!!!!

    January 2012

  • FoolmeThrice

    very good. And I pretty much hate new green day... you can like it, i just don't

    January 2012

  • Artika91

    @Ferdokki: I'd say they grew older. You can't really stick with the same stuff for over 20 years and not get bored or want to try something new. Maybe it's just me but I love New Green Day just as much as Old Green Day...

    January 2012

  • MrSlam1

    :)

    January 2012

  • a-d-t-r

    yeah... this is the real green day.

    December 2011

  • snafflebot

    Kerplunk version > Dookie version

    November 2011

  • MrSlam1

    <3

    November 2011

  • Ferdokki

    Does anyone know why they changed their style? o_0 I mean, compare this to "21 Guns"...

    November 2011

  • AvrilkaSkate

    gd <3

    October 2011

  • greendaypunx09

    L♥ve this!

    October 2011

  • jonnammoi

    one of green day's best songs [2]

    October 2011
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