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"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" (or "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)") is a song by American rock band Green Day, released in December 1997 as the second single from their fifth studio album, Nimrod (1997). It is one of their most popular songs and has also become a staple of their concerts, usually played as the final song.
Armstrong wrote "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" in 1993 and showed the song to his bandmates during the Dookie recording sessions. [14] During the sessions, the song was determined to be too different from the rest of the songs on Dookie, and Rob Cavallo was unsure of how to structure the recording. [14]
The song became a hit in the U.S., reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1976 and remaining in the Top 40 for 12 weeks. [3] The previous month, "Times of Your Life" had spent one week atop the Billboard easy listening (adult contemporary) chart, Anka's only recording to do so. [4]
Time of Your Life (1963 TV series), a 1963–1965 Canadian television youth variety show that aired on CBC; Time of Your Life (1988 TV series), a 1988–1989 Canadian soap opera television series created by Harry Jakobs and Maryse Wilder that aired on CFCF; The Time of Your Life, a 1948 adaptation of the William Saroyan play starring James Cagney
In 2004, the American Film Institute ranked "Time of My Life" 86th in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, its list of the 100 greatest songs written for film. [20] In a 2009 retrospective about movie theme songs, Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly ranked "Time of My Life" as "great schlock". [21]
Aside the instrumental cues accompanying the album, it also features an original song "The Time of Your Life" written and performed by Newman. [2] The score transitions from orchestral music to 1940s jazz which was used when Flik travels to the city. [3]
Whist. Play the classic trick-taking card game. Lead with your strongest suit and work with your partner to get 2 points per hand. By Masque Publishing
One of the B-sides has an early version of the song "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", with the song having a more sarcastic tone than the original. Both "Brain Stew" and "Jaded" were included on the band's first greatest hits album International Superhits! .