Green Day: C/D?

As I've been muttering elsewhere, hope you get to fling a guylinered bird screaming about doing this since 1988.

I read this wrong and thought, "so behind the times, never played Anrgy Birds and I don't even know who guy line red bird is."

new album is "how many times are they going to write the same songs with newish vocal melodies over and over again?"

have to respect cartoon caricatures that accurately depict the bags under each band member's eyes

― the definition of fuckshit bird (some dude), Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:33 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i hadn't even heard the "count the circles around my eyes" line on the album when i posted this.

Goddam, Paul Westerberg sang "Let's count the rings around my eyes" motherfuckin' 28 years ago.

Love these guys, but they have to learn how to steal better.

yeah that's pretty blatant

Just rebels without a clue.

lol i was wondering why that line felt familiar

vague confessions
http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/03/01/green-day-billie-joe-armstrong-drug-interview-rolling-stone/?hpt=hp_t3

insomniac is a great record because he wrote it about/on methamphetamine

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/judy-greer-fred-armisen-billie-joe-armstrong-geezer-1201352793/

GET EXCITTEEEEEEEEEDDDDD

Judy Greer, Fred Armisen and Selma Blair have joined Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in music drama “Geezer.”

The cast additions come as director Lee Kirk begins lensing in New York City. Producers are Tim Perell of Process Media and Alex A. Ginzburg and Tony Lee of Let It Play.

Dallas Roberts, Chris Messina and Brian Baumgartner are also starring.

“Geezer” centers on the mid-life crisis of a husband and father who, on his 40th birthday, decides to revisit his punk-rock past by throwing an extravagant party in the presidential suite of the Drake Hotel — where he encounters his beautiful ex-girlfriend and former bandmates who have since moved on to bigger and better things.

The film will include new songs written and performed by Armstrong.

“The initial seeds for ‘Geezer’ were planted a couple of years ago, when my son was born within weeks of my fortieth birthday,” said Kirk. “Billie Joe Armstrong brings an exciting authenticity to the film. He’s a dad, he’s a musician and he’s an incredible talent.”

green day and weezer are mutual fans aren't they? why not form a supergroup with that name?

dirnt is cool and an underrated contributor to its sound

4 real

like the front half of every one of their lines is the attack on the maxxed out guitars that then just dully keep grinding it out

the second half is where all the movement inside the monotonous parts is and it's all dirnt

also that almost always makes him sound like he's way behind the beat, dunno if he is or not, but it really makes them sound simultaneously lazy/slackery and agitated since he's behind but moving around a lot

I miss when everyone in Green Day was on meth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMl-sVlQbak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84PtK8RQes

new album Revolution Radio out October 7. new song sounds like shit. whatever

http://pitchfork.com/news/67465-green-day-announce-new-album-revolution-radio/

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/gdalbum.jpg

01 Somewhere Now
02 Bang Bang
o3 Revolution Radio
04 Say Goodbye
05 Outlaws
06 Bouncing Off the Wall
07 Still Breathing
08 Youngblood
09 Too Dumb to Die
10 Troubled Times
11 Forever Now
12 Ordinary World

Middle-aged white dude "YEAH! I'M REBELLIOUS!" signifiers remain not just the worst but the dullest and most obvious. (Signed, 45 year old white guy, don't tweet at me, etc.)

no, it's true. it's remarkable that they had a career renaissance with American Idiot, which I really like, very good record, but everything they've made since (not much, admittedly), has been beyond bad. self-parody/lazy/phoned in rebelliousness. but they're in the hall of fame now, so they don't have anything to worry about.

i like the cover.

me too. not SPIN:

http://www.spin.com/2016/08/green-day-revolution-radio-album-cover-terrible/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

it's remarkable that they had a career renaissance with American Idiot

It's remarkable they've had a career beyond Dookie, IMO.

lol i'm going through the trilogy, wtf is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8UILPQD9Y

It is the time of fuck.

Or alternately:

"It's the time
Of the SEEEEEASON
For FUUUUCKING!"

was this in rolling worst songs 2012

did anybody actually listen to these records at the time

so many questions

shit, "nightlife" is even worse

i tried but ultimately couldnt do it.

I quite literally rode a bus by the club in Costa Mesa where there were already a slew of people waiting for the secret show that night where they premiered a lot of songs from all three of those albums. I have to wonder how many of them thought it was worth it.

And indeed here's the setlist:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/green-day/2011/tiki-bar-costa-mesa-ca-7bd086e0.html

You'll be thrilled, Brad -- TWO versions of "Fuck Time."

fuck time 2: fuck forever

Fuck Time Reloaded

Could see that being a decently fun live song if the lyrics weren't those lyrics

Is Dookie considered canon now? Will it ever be? Does it deserve to be?

Yes, yes, yes. I'm wondering when Insomniac will get its due, though.

Although tbf, Dookie is no Enema of the State, which has become the ur-text for every Warped Tour band and many hyped indie rockers like Joyce Manor. Dookie was more of a major label culmination than a new synthesis. They're both "pop punk," but Enema of the State leans more pop, and vice versa.

Insomniac was always considered Dookie's runt little brother with the same format and fewer memorable songs. Amazing (to me) that Blink are remembered so fondly these days. I'm probably not the right generation to appreciate them though.

It's amazing to me as well, and I was exactly the right age to be into this kind of shit back in the day.

I know, but Insomniac is so good & brutal! Such a blistering, angry record. Probably the only major label album with 3 singles about methamphetamine.

Is Dookie considered canon now? Will it ever be? Does it deserve to be?

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, September 30, 2016 8:48 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's been considered "canon" for years!

dookie was canon back in the 90s when you would get cassettes of it in the mail w samples of tide

Dookie was definitely considered canon by the end of the '90s... it was perceived as being as essential a '90s alternative rock record as Blood Sugar Sex Magik or Siamese Dream. One of those albums your '90s alternative rock collection would be incomplete without.

it's remarkable how Green Day managed to avoid being a one album wonder with two career boosts after their breakthrough with Dookie: "Good Riddance" and American Idiot. I understand why Insomniac isn't really rated and was dismissed at the time, I imagine hearing that record a year after Dookie was a sign that this band didn't have much else in them and that it'd be diminishing returns from there on out.

I've always been amused by the fact that people expected some kind of artistic evolution from this band. Talk about missing the point. Anyhow, the band clearly took it to their hearts as they went on to make albums like Warning and American Idiot, in which they attempted to do something a little different within the confines of their sound, and amusingly, still ended up pissing people off. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's tempting to think albums like Warning and American Idiot wouldn't have been made if they hadn't made that major label jump and that they would have been content to crank out endless versions of Kerplunk! for the rest of their days and that their fanbase would have been satisfied with that.

it's almost time to wake up that guy

Hahahahaha!

are you saying that they expected evolution and were still mad when they managed it?

i'm not sure this is how i experienced "people"s reactions to green day

their only really reactionary album is insomniac

Yes, I am saying that there were people that clearly expected Green Day to artistically evolve (see: people getting upset because they felt that Insomniac was just "more Dookie") and I am saying that were people that got upset when they made albums like Warning. This is exactly how I experienced "people"'s reactions to Green Day.

yeah warning wasn't received well by the green day fans i knew at the time, mostly they were confused by the whole kinks fixation, but like... ime no one was mad about american idiot