“Goodbye” by Army of Anyone

"Goodbye" was the first single from Army of Anyone's self-titled 2006 album, the only one they ever made, and it came together at the last minute. Singer Richard Patrick thought the record had too many mid-tempo tunes and needed something faster, so it was the last song written for it, and Dean DeLeo reckoned they knocked it out in about five minutes.

You can hear the hurry in the best way: Dean DeLeo's electric guitar charges ahead, Robert DeLeo plays bass and sings backing vocals, Ray Luzier drums and Patrick howls his own words over music by the two DeLeos. Bob Ezrin produced with the band, Brian Virtue engineered and Ken Andrews mixed. It climbed to number three on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and Scott Speer's video, which debuted on October 3, 2006, is a whirl of fast-cut performance footage.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.