oh wow man
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG
― pplains, Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
also a week or two before all this they cancelled a show for undisclosed billie joe 'medical' reasons so it's not totally out of the blue (xpost)
― the definition of fuckshit bird (some dude), Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/20/1345479653159/green-day-angry-birds.jpg
― die face down in some dude's pool (how's life), Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
have to respect cartoon caricatures that accurately depict the bags under each band member's eyes
― the definition of fuckshit bird (some dude), Thursday, 27 September 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
omg I *must* play green day angry birds!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
:o
― spazzmatazz, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
new album is "how many times are they going to write the same songs with newish vocal melodies over and over again?"
― spazzmatazz, Friday, 28 September 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's pretty blatant
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Just rebels without a clue.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol i was wondering why that line felt familiar
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
vague confessionshttp://music-mix.ew.com/2013/03/01/green-day-billie-joe-armstrong-drug-interview-rolling-stone/?hpt=hp_t3
― how's life, Saturday, 2 March 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
insomniac is a great record because he wrote it about/on methamphetamine
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/judy-greer-fred-armisen-billie-joe-armstrong-geezer-1201352793/
GET EXCITTEEEEEEEEEDDDDD
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
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.”
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
green day and weezer are mutual fans aren't they? why not form a supergroup with that name?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― j., Thursday, 7 July 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
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
― j., Thursday, 7 July 2016 01:38 (seven years ago) link
I miss when everyone in Green Day was on meth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMl-sVlQbak
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 July 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84PtK8RQes
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 July 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
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 Now02 Bang Bango3 Revolution Radio04 Say Goodbye05 Outlaws06 Bouncing Off the Wall07 Still Breathing08 Youngblood09 Too Dumb to Die10 Troubled Times11 Forever Now12 Ordinary World
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 August 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 August 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
i like the cover.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 August 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 August 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
it's remarkable that they had a career renaissance with American Idiot
It's remarkable they've had a career beyond Dookie, IMO.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 11 August 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
lol i'm going through the trilogy, wtf is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8UILPQD9Y
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
It is the time of fuck.
Or alternately:
"It's the timeOf the SEEEEEASONFor FUUUUCKING!"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
was this in rolling worst songs 2012
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
did anybody actually listen to these records at the time
so many questions
shit, "nightlife" is even worse
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i tried but ultimately couldnt do it.
― Spottie, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
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."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
fuck time 2: fuck forever
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Fuck Time Reloaded
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Could see that being a decently fun live song if the lyrics weren't those lyrics
― Vinnie, Friday, 30 September 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Is Dookie considered canon now? Will it ever be? Does it deserve to be?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 30 September 2016 08:48 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 30 September 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
I know, but Insomniac is so good & brutal! Such a blistering, angry record. Probably the only major label album with 3 singles about methamphetamine.
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 September 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
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
― 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!
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 30 September 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
dookie was canon back in the 90s when you would get cassettes of it in the mail w samples of tide
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 30 September 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 30 September 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 September 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
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.
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 30 September 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link