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}} "Longview" is the debut single by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the fourth track on the band's third album, ''Dookie'' and was released as the lead single. The song was the band's first single to top the Modern Rock chart in the U.S. The music video for this song received heavy airplay on MTV and is largely credited for breaking Green Day into mainstream popularity. The song describes intense boredom. Lyrically, the song is about a day spent sitting around the house, doing absolutely nothing of importance, masturbating, and smoking marijuana until the days are no longer fun. The song captured the attention of many youth at the time with its overt allusions to masturbation. Bassist Mike Dirnt has stated that the famous bass line intro to this song was written one night while he was high on LSD, and what remains on the album is what he and lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong could recall in the morning. At most shows in the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour, Billie Joe picked a random audience member to sing the song or play the song on electric guitar onstage. The song is named after the city of Longview, Washington, where it was first performed in 1992. The band had already written the song prior to arriving in the city. In 1995, Green Day received four Grammy Award nominations, including Best Hard Rock Performance for "Longview". The band won Best Alternative Music Performance for ''Dookie''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=37th Grammy Awards – 1995 )〕 ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it #3 on the list of Best Singles of 1994. The song can also be found on their 2001 greatest hits collection ''International Superhits!'', and a live performance can be found on the ''Bullet in a Bible'' CD/DVD. ==Concept== "It's about boredom, and smoking dope." – Billie Joe Armstrong〔(GDA | Song Meanings )〕 "I guess it was just living in the suburbs in a sort of shit town where you can't even pull in a good radio station. I was living in Rodeo, California, about 20 minutes outside of Oakland. There was nothing to do there, and it was a real boring place." – Billie Joe Armstrong in an interview in ''Guitar Legends'' magazine, May 2005. "When Billie gave me a shuffle beat for Longview, I was frying on acid so hard. I was laying up against the wall with my bass lying on my lap. It just came to me. I said, "Billie, check this out. Isn't this the wackiest thing you've ever heard?" Later, it took me a long time to be able to play it, but it made sense when I was on drugs." – Mike Dirnt in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Longview (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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