{"id":4102,"date":"2012-11-20T05:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2012-11-20T03:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T11:39:54","slug":"did-the-green-day-song-stuck-with-me-gain-its-name-accidentally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2012\/11\/20\/did-the-green-day-song-stuck-with-me-gain-its-name-accidentally\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Green Day Song &#8220;Stuck With Me&#8221; Gain Its Name Accidentally?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2009\/04\/19\/music-legends-revealed-history\/\">here<\/a> to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">MUSIC URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: The Green Day song &#8220;Stuck with Me&#8221; got its name by someone in the studio switching the labels on two songs.<\/p>\n<p>Reader Scott K. wrote in with this one. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A legend I&#8217;ve heard about Green Day is that the song &#8220;Stuck With Me&#8221; from their &#8220;Insomniac&#8221; album actually ended up having the name of a totally different song because the labels on the tapes got mixed up by the producer and it was too late to change it by the time anyone caught it.  Any truth to that one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s definitely some truth to this one, Scott, in that it is mostly all true!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nInsomniac (released in 1995) was Green Day&#8217;s fourth studio album, and first since the band&#8217;s major mainstream hit album Dookie came out in 1994. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/insomniac.jpg\" \/><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=legenrevea-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000002N2P&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their second single off of the album was called \t&#8220;Stuck with Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/stuck-with-me.jpg\" \/><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=legenrevea-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0011Z4ZGS&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet of the lyrics&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not part of your elite<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just alright<br \/>\nClass structure waving colors<br \/>\nBleeding from my throat<br \/>\nNot subservient to you I&#8217;m just alright<br \/>\nDown classed by the powers that be<br \/>\nGive me loss of hope<\/p>\n<p>Cast out&#8230; Buried in a hole<br \/>\nStruck down&#8230; forcing me to fall<br \/>\nDestroyed&#8230; giving up the fight<br \/>\nWell, I know I&#8217;m not alright<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you might notice, the lyrics don&#8217;t exactly suggest the name &#8220;Stuck With Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, on the other hand, let&#8217;s take a look at some of the lyrics from a track from the album that did not make the album (but was released later) called &#8220;Do Da Da.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/do-da-da.jpg\" alt=\"do-da-da\" title=\"do-da-da\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/do-da-da.jpg 320w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/do-da-da-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/do-da-da-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=legenrevea-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B001227PA8&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every time I&#8217;m fallin\u2019 down<br \/>\nYou take the reprecussions<br \/>\nHeadaches and anxieties<br \/>\nAdvancing my frustrations<br \/>\nRushings of my depression<br \/>\nSacrifice everything<br \/>\nWaste with me into nothing<br \/>\nWell now you&#8217;re stuck with me<br \/>\nStuck with me<br \/>\nStuck with me<br \/>\nHand up your soul to my wrist<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll vow my trust to you<br \/>\nMoving here I always thought<br \/>\nI realized you&#8217;ve imagined<br \/>\nRushings of my depression<br \/>\nSacrifice everything<br \/>\nWaste with me into nothing<br \/>\nWell now you&#8217;re stuck with me<br \/>\nStuck with me<br \/>\nStuck with me<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, it really is exactly how it sounds &#8211; the two songs were switched! The labels on the master tapes were switched up, and after it was discovered, it was either too late, or the band just didn&#8217;t mind the change.<\/p>\n<p>The legend is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Scott for the question and thanks to Ben Myers&#8217; great book on Green Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/193285732X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=legenrevea-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=193285732X\">Green Day: American Idiots &#038; The New Punk Explosion<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=legenrevea-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=193285732X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, for the confirmation!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future urban legends columns! My e-mail address is &#x62;&#x63;&#114;oni&#x6e;&#x40;&#x6c;&#101;ge&#x6e;&#x64;&#x73;&#114;ev&#x65;&#x61;&#x6c;&#101;d.&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: The Green Day song &#8220;Stuck with Me&#8221; got its name by someone in the studio switching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[9],"tags":[1424,1421,1423,1420,1422],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjBq-14a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7220,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/09\/22\/did-paul-mccartney-acquire-the-rights-to-the-phrase-ob-la-di-ob-la-da-in-a-unique-fashion\/","url_meta":{"origin":4102,"position":0},"title":"Did Paul McCartney Acquire the Rights to the Phrase &#8220;Ob La Di, Ob La Da&#8221; in a Unique Fashion?","date":"September 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. 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