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{{Single infobox
| Name           = Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
| Cover          = Green_Dahy_-_Good_Riddance_-_CD_single_cover.jpg
| Artist         = [[Green Day]]
| from Album     = [[Nimrod (album)|Nimrod]]
| Released       = 1997
| Format         = [[Compact Disc|CD]]
| Recorded       = 1997
| Genre          = [[Acoustic music|Acoustic]]
| Length         = 2:35
| Label          = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]
| Producer       = [[Rob Cavallo]], [[Green Day]]
| Chart position = 
* #2 <small>([[Modern Rock Tracks|US Modern Rock]])</small>
* #7 <small>([[Mainstream Rock Tracks|US Mainstream Rock]])</small>
* #40 <small>([[RIANZ|New Zealand]])</small>
* #11 <small>([[UK Singles Chart|UK]], [[Hot 100 Airplay|US Radio Airplay]])</small>
* #30 <small>([[Ireland]]) </small>
* #2 <small>(double A-side with "Redundant") ([[ARIA Charts|Australian Singles Chart]])</small>
* #44 <small>(separate single version) ([[Australian Singles Chart]])</small> [http://www.australian-charts.com/search.asp?search=Green+Day&cat=s]
| Last single    = "[[Hitchin' a Ride]]"<br>(1997)
| This single    = "'''Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)'''"<br>(1997)
| Next single    = "[[Redundant (song)|Redundant]]"'<br>(1998)
|}}

"'''Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)'''" is a popular song by the American [[pop punk]] band [[Green Day]].   Although written by lead singer [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] just after the release of their 1994 hit album ''[[Dookie]]'', the song was not released until their 3third major-label album ''[[Nimrod (album)|Nimrod]]'' in 1997.{{cn}} In comparison to previous Green Day material, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is a veryfeatures more mellow, contemplative [[Steel-string guitar|acoustic]] song, which was a vast change from the band's well-known punk sound. However, the song title does reflect some of the edge that one can expect from this bandlyrics with [[Acoustic music|acoustic]] music. Band member [[Mike Dirnt]] went on to state that the release of this song was probably the "most punk" thing they could have done.{{cn}} The song is more commonly promoted on the radio as "Time of Your Life", and it became a Billboard chart-topper and an international hit.  In fact, it, and was the only song from ''Nimrod'' that was a crossover success when released in single form.{{cn}}

The song began life as an entirely different version as a [[B-side]] to the ''[[Insomniac (album)|Insomniac]]'' album. This alternate version featured strummed chords instead of the usual sound and lacked the orchestra strings found on the more well known version. This early version can be found on the "[[Brain Stew/Jaded|Brain Stew]]" single.

[[Billie Joe Armstrong]] in an interview in Guitar Legends magazine, May 2005: 
{{cquote| "At the time I wrote Good Riddance, I was breaking up with a girl that was moving to Ecuador, and I was trying to be as understanding about it as I could. I wrote the song as kind of a bon voyage. I was trying not to be bitter, but I think it came out a little bit bitter anyway... I thought that calling the song "Time of Your Life" was just a little too level-headed for me, so I had to come up with something different"}}

Despite being a break-up song, it is frequently played at ceremonial social occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, funerals and graduations. It is a continual favorite to be played as the last song at high school Proms. The song reached a massive audience in one night, when it was used during the special two part "Clip Show" of the extremely popular show ''[[Seinfeld]]'' in 1998.   The song played during a montage of clips from the show's history.  

Billie Joe plays an electric guitar version of the song as their traditional show-closer for live Green Day concerts, including their live performance on ''[[Bullet in a Bible]]''. 

The song features on their greatest hits compilation ''[[International Superhits!]]'', as well as on the prom music compilation ''Hey Are You Guys Going To Prom, Too?''

==Track list==
'''CD 1:'''
#Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) - 2:28
#Suffocate - 2:47
#You Lied - 2:25

'''CD 2:'''
#Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
#Desensitized
#Rotting

'''EU CD:'''
#Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) (Clean Album Remix) - 2:28
#Desensitized (Non-LP Track) - 2:47
#Rotting (Non-LP Track) - 2:50

==Music video==
The music video, was directed by Mark Kohr, is very austere.  Itand features Billie Joe Armstrong playing an [[acoustic guitar]] in a bedroom interjected with scenes depicting various people undergoing major physical changes in their lives.   Band members [[Mike Dirnt]] and [[Tré Cool]] make [[cameo appearance]]s in the video as a person at a corner store [(Dirnt]), and an injured bike rider [(Cool]). Also when the video came out, both names of the songs were swapped and were known as "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)", this name was also used on the single cover.

In 1998 Green Day won their first MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video for "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and they were also nominated for Viewer's Choice.<ref>[http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/mtvvmas.htm Rock on the net MTV Video Music Award History]</ref>

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