Music Appreciation

The fact that radio broadcasters routinely referred to it as Time Of Your Life – as opposed to Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) – gave listeners the mistaken impression that Armstrong’s lyric was a cosy reflection on past glories. In fact, the song was a bitter rebuke to a former lover. “It’s about an ex-girlfriend who had moved to Ecuador,” the singer told Guitar World. “In the song, I tried to be level-headed about her leaving, even though I was completely pissed off. So I named it ‘Good Riddance’ just to express my anger.”