10 Mistakes That Made It Onto Famous Rock Songs

10. Billie Joe’s Potty Mouth - Green Day's Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

If you go onto Green Day's Spotify page, you'll see that one of this no-nonsense, political punk band's most streamed songs is an acoustic ballad with a string section.

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) from the band's Nimrod album was written by singer Billie Joe Armstrong to spite his girlfriend who had moved to Ecuador without him. Now, over 500 million people have streamed the frontman effectively telling his ex to go stick it.

This theme of bittersweet farewell can be found throughout the tune, as Armstrong sings about forks in the road and how unpredictable life can be.

Clearly, the emotional weight of Good Riddance got to Armstrong, as he messed up the intro not once, but twice. On the album version of the song, you can hear him attempt to start the song twice and blow it on both occasions, even muttering a curse word after the second failed effort.

The radio version and the one used for the song's music video omit both the flubbed start and the expletive, but you can still hear it in all it's glory if you get yourself a copy of Nimrod.