Do you have the time to listen to me whine About nothing and everything all at once? I am one of those Melodramatic fools Neurotic to the bone No doubt about it Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Or am I just stoned? I went to a shrink To analyze my dreams She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down I went to a whore He said my life's a bore So quit my whining, 'cause it's bringing her down Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Uh, yuh, yuh, ya Grasping to control So I better hold on Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Or am I just stoned?
Do you have the time to listen to me whine About nothing and everything all at once? I am one of those Melodramatic fools Neurotic to the bone No doubt about it Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Or am I just stoned? I went to a shrink To analyze my dreams She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down I went to a whore He said my life's a bore So quit my whining, 'cause it's bringing her down Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Uh, yuh, yuh, ya Grasping to control So I better hold on Sometimes I give myself the creeps Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me It all keeps adding up I think I'm cracking up Am I just paranoid? Or am I just stoned?
“Basket Case” foi gravada entre setembro e outubro de 1993 no Fantasy Studios, em Berkeley, Califórnia, sob a produção de Rob Cavallo, que havia descoberto a faixa ao ouvir a demo da banda.
A letra da música, que trata da ansiedade de Billie Joe Armstrong, foi escrita enquanto ele estava sob efeito de anfetamina em Glasgow, Escócia, segundo seu livro *Welcome to My Panic* (abril de 2021).
O videoclipe foi filmado no abandonado Agnews Developmental Center, em Santa Clara County, e incorpora referências visuais a *Um Estranho no Ninho* e *Brazil*, sendo originalmente em preto‑e‑branco com cores adicionadas posteriormente.
Embora tenha sido indicada a nove categorias no MTV Video Music Awards de 1995, o clipe não conquistou nenhum prêmio.
Em 2006, ouvintes da BBC Radio 1 elegeram “Basket Case” como a “Greatest Punk Song of All Time”, e em 2024 a Forbes a classificou como a 36ª melhor música dos anos 1990.
A canção liderou a Billboard Alternative Songs por cinco semanas e foi incluída na lista da Rolling Stone de “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, ocupando a posição 150 em 2021.
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