- Welcome to Paradise
Infobox Single
Name = Welcome to Paradise
Artist =Green Day
from Album =Dookie
Released =October 1994
Format = CD,Vinyl
Recorded = 1993
Genre =Punk rock
Length = 3:44
Label = WEA International,Reprise Records
Producer =
Chart position = * #7 (US Modern Rock)
* #20 (UK)
* #21 (New Zealand)
* #44 (Australia)
* #57 (US Radio Airplay)
Reviews =|
Last single = "Longview"
(1994)
This single = "Welcome to Paradise"
(1994)
Next single = "Basket Case"
(1995)"Welcome to Paradise" is a song fromGreen 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! ".Tracklist
#"Welcome to Paradise" - 3:45
#"Chump (live)" - 2:44
#"Emenius Sleepus" - 1:44*(Track 2 recorded March 11, 1994 at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, Florida)
ong meaning and composition
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:
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".
Chart positions
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