...in that it's made me listen to it. wow is this really Green Day? I mean, it's not good but I've got to applaud them for not sounding anything like their usual selves
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
wait... what
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
why is the second track the same song as the first one? Is this some In A Silent Way shit?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
It’s because it’s 100% Pure Uncut Rock. No trap beats. No Swedish songwriters. Do you want Realness, or do you want fake pop crap?
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
Okay I'm at work and I'm 5 songs in and... Okay, the ad campaign was ridiculous, and the change of direction is ridiculous and the whole thing is daft, but... Am I kind of secretly enjoying this? Much more than whatever I heard on that awful trilogy anyway...
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
i've also been having fun revisiting nimrod instead of listening to the new record. "redundant" is a great power-pop song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
new record better than the trilogy otm
I always listened to Nimrod at arm's length. You know that point in your teenage years where you're painfully aware that your favourite band might have sold out because suddenly everyone's singing along to the songs? (not that people didn't know all the words to Dookie, but the difference between being a 14 y/o listening to Dookie and 17 y/o listening to Nimrod was significant)
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
but like you Brad, I'm going back to Kerplunk and the stretch from 80 to No One Knows is a serious madeleine moment
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
He would also state that the lyrics are about "the life AND death of the party" and the "lifestyle of not giving a fuck."
this album sounds too intense for me, might steer clear
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
i've always felt nimrod was a little uneven with its mix of genre shuffling and the classic green day sound you know and love, but "uptight" gets it just right by being both. maybe their best song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
insomniac: 32 minutes, not one of them wasted
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
this was my gateway band to rock music that wasn't the beatles or beach boys and every time i revisit insomniac i remember 1) being confused out that it came out so quickly after dookie, like was this a real new record? 2) having that dubiousness sort of confirmed by the runtime even though i bought the cassette and didn't actually know how long it was but the songs really whipped by. "no pride" was my favorite at the time 3) thinking "geek stink breath" was such an ugly, gnarly song yet so so catchy and every time i turned on mtv i hoped to catch the (gnarly, ugly) video
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
insomniac confused me a bit too. not sure what the release schedule was in the UK but I was still quite young at the time so the gap between the two albums didn't feel that short
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
i think i ended up getting dookie for christmas '94 (in my stocking, which now that i think about it, is a very funny joke by my parents), so by the time october '95 rolled around i was like "fuck i gotta buy another green day album now???"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
I had a few friends totally into that Gilman Street scene. One of them had not one, not two, but three Green Day tattoos ... before "Dookie" came out. That's kinda like getting a Raffi tattoo right before he released "Singable Songs for the Very Young."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Anyway, I was never into them, but I did see them play a small club show right when "American Idiot" came out. They played the whole album and introduced the expanded band, then played a long greatest hits set, and I thought, huh, I guess they do have a lot of great hits. It was a really good show.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
One of them had not one, not two, but three Green Day tattoos ... before "Dookie" came out.
lol i think this is so rad
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
I sort of feel like this is the most effortless Green Day since Warning, I kinda dig it if I'm being honest.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
xpost lol though I suppose there was good reason to believe that Green Day's ceiling was being as big as Op Ivy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
I'm still regretting my three pre-Schubert Dip EMF tattoos
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
i think i ended up getting dookie for christmas '94 (in my stocking, which now that i think about it, is a very funny joke by my parents), so by the time october '95 rolled around i was like "fuck i gotta buy another green day album now???"― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Hah, me too. Well, my (French who lived in the US) grandparents brought it with them as a gift. Apparently they'd gone into a shop and asked the clerk what a 14 y/o boy would want. I'd seen Green Day doing 'Welcome To Paradise' as a live stream on Top Of The Pops only weeks ago and had been enthralled. I don't think I'd ever seen actual rock music being performed in that particular way and I thought it was incredible.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:18 (four years ago) link
21st century breakdown is the best green day album though― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 1:26 AM (seventeen hours ago)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 1:26 AM (seventeen hours ago)
i don't care at all about green day beyond thinking the dookie singles are pretty good but i really wanna know what could possibly be the justification for this
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:31 (four years ago) link
haven't heard the album but I'm gonna just be humoured by the idea it's a pvmic
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
If I was going to challops a best Green Day album I'd go for Warning. It hit a sweetspot being more mature than the jacking off/sniffing glue era but without being as dull as everything that came after.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
― ufo, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 2:31 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
strongest melodies of their career, all in a row. my previous fav was warning
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
also, idk, i think the “american idiot but MORE” gambit works, the songs are all really tight and propulsive and full of surprises, even the ballads (there’s nothing as turgid and unendurable as “wake me up when september ends” for instance), and it helps that the singles from it weren’t turned into wallpaper by radio overplay. the “story” is incomprehensible and pointless but i connect way more with its apocalyptic vibe than american idiot’s “anti-bush record that is secretly a breakup album” thing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJf2PPbJeQ
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
Kerplunk! is a great record but it seems the pre Dookie stuff doesn't count as part of their discography
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
(there’s nothing as turgid and unendurable as “wake me up when september ends” for instance)
This song invades my head every time I'm outside and it starts raining (here comes the rain again/falling from the stars) and I just wish someone would put me out of my misery.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
I don't feel like this is challops in the least, that's such a great record.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
it's fair to say Green Day album cover art has been on a steep and steady decline since Dookie (which has fantastic cover art). 21st CB has one of the worst album covers of all time.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Not sure if we included 'International Superhits' in the Great Millennial Colour Drought' thread
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Warning is like their Huevos or Lodger, just out there on its own, a great record that's been slept on.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:15 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
imo the insomniac art is their best, wish they had stuck with that collage style
the 21st century breakdown art is godawful but the trilogy is even worse. and father of all motherfuckers is somehow even worse than that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
otm, Insomniac is such a great cover, with Dookie a close second.
I think Father of All is saved from being the worst by how it, almost literally, shits on the cover for one of their more iconic, Broadway show spawning albuns.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
i mean i sort of appreciate it for that reason but it's still horrible to look at
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
oh, absolutely horrible to look at, but beats the 2012 trilogy even so.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
i remember seeing an array of posters of the uno! cover in brooklyn and thinking "i am never listening to that album"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
i am revisiting the trilogy for some reason, idk, i guess i like sorta masochistic projects. anyway this is sooooooooooooo embarrassing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDX0kmzC3J4
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
a song with that title shouldn't be rocking *less* than recent U2 guitar hero sings or a perturbed Coldplay performance.
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
*guitar hero singles
it helps that the singles from it weren’t turned into wallpaper by radio overplay
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
weird that so much recent Green Day reminds me of Northern European rock acts - the Hives, even a bit of Ghost
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
isn't that just due to them sucking too
― j., Thursday, 13 February 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
been spending more time with the new one. this is definitely the best green day song in a decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCReEFO-5M
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link
I heard "Meet Me On the Roof" in the wild yesterday while I was out getting lunch, didn't sound bad.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAmulKjcHoo
i take back what i said almost four years ago, THIS is the best green day song in more than a decade
― ivy., Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:37 (four months ago) link
I’m… actually kinda enjoying a new Green Day song/video, didn’t see that coming
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:40 (four months ago) link
I wonder how Billie Joe felt making this video
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:48 (four months ago) link