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Number one on the Alternative Radio chart: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5wmax2tJIv/?igsh=MW1idGp1MW55ZGoxMA==

Well, this is cool. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244804661/abba-green-day-national-recording-registry

I've started scheduling stories on the GDA Instagram that are throwbacks to gigs played on that day however many years ago. If I'm going to all that effort, I might as well post this stuff here as well. However! I'm only focusing on gigs (not album releases or anything) and I'm very likely to forget to post here anyway, so if you remember anything that happened on a certain day years ago (or if you feel like copy/pasting from the GDA Instagram), please contribute! Even stuff like music video releases and chart positions on certain days would be interesting to look back on. So, on this day (16 April) 19 years ago (2005), Green Day played in Orlando, FL. 11 years ago (2013), they played the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. And 9 years ago (2015), they played the House of Blues in Cleveland before their Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction. Yes, I did get the year wrong on Instagram. Enjoy looking back at what our favourite band have been up to!

Billboard update Alternative Airplay- 2, up from 3 Mainstream Rock Airplay- stays at 2 Rock and Alternative Airplay- stays at 1 Canada Rock- 1, up from 2

A wonderfully awkward little interview:

1981 does have more streams that the other non-singles though, probably just because it's the first non-single you hear on the album and maybe the fact that it was the first song we heard for the album (live) You can look for the streams each Green Day song and album is getting here Songs - https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/7oPftvlwr6VrsViSDV7fJY_songs.html Albums - https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/7oPftvlwr6VrsViSDV7fJY_albums.html There's a lot of interesting things to take from these figures. Saviors (the album) is getting 296k daily streams now, less daily streams than AI/Dookie/Nimrod/21CB/Insomniac but still much more than the last few studio albums, though in the coming months/years, that figure will continue to fall. I think Saviors will continue to perform better than FOAM and the trilogy in terms of streaming however. Revolution Radio has a lot of total streams, being their 5th most streamed studio album, but is gaining much less streams than all their studio albums from 1994-2009. Father of All has more streams than Dos & Tré but less than Uno. I wouldn't be surprised if Dos starts gaining streams at a faster rate than FOAM at some point. Stray Heart is gaining daily streams faster than any other trilogy song, even more than Oh Love which is the hit of that era and has the most total streams. Considering Oh Love can be heard on both Uno and God's Favorite Band, this is surprising. Last Night on Earth is gaining a lot of streams, currently no. 12 in terms of daily streams, even though it was never released as a single.

Full show: From the description: Here is the first of many rare and previously uncirculated Green Day tapes from Arica Pelino's archive. Huge thanks to Arica for bringing them over and handing them off to me last month. I am going to let Arica introduce this one: "this show has only been released on audio format prior to this. This video is being released in its entirety for the first time and includes RARE after-show footage with: Lint/Tim Armstrong Marshall Stax (on stage) Damon O'Manic Joel Wing Kaz Hope Anna Armstrong Filmed by: Arica Pelino Opening Bands: Blatz, Jack Acid, Alter Ego, Grimple" Transfer by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video (lighting/denoise)

That was my first show 21st Century Breakdown Tour truly was magical.

Shame about Billie! But the other two would work well on either end of a shelf/display as a pair. The one time I bought an album bundle was to get those candles and once I had them I just had to make a Green Day shrine . They're my favourite piece of GD merch I never spent a lot on merch just got all albums on CD and bought or (more often) got gifted some random things over the years

On this day (17 April) 26 years ago, Green Day played Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. "Who's from the West Bay? I bet you people don't even know you're in the WEST Bay. Did you even know there WAS a Bay?" – Mike "How many people live in San fucking Francisco? You suck!" – Billie The Longshot played Thee Parkside in San Francisco on this day 6 years ago. A nice quote from that show: “I have so much gratitude and so much love getting to play music in front of people for so many years.” And an amusing one: “We’re gonna do this thing where we pretend to walk off and walk back on.”

Wonder how it’ll stack up against their 2012 Echoplex show, that one was pretty special.

Saviors guitar straps for Billie and Mike More pics and video of the finished straps here https://www.instagram.com/p/C5JSxxFuuQ5/?igsh=eTlnMjJ3bjFwM2Vu https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4ySFDSJ8IY/?igsh=dG5mMXV6MzV0cWZi https://www.instagram.com/p/C458zfXJIN5/?igsh=bDdzNzJydG1zdGc=

Better pull off Makeout Party and 8th Avenue Serenade from the bin and perform those damn songs again. Both of them were fucking AWESOME last time around. Yes, even Billie's weird ass fap session during Makeout Party.

They were dying until Billie saved it with the AI comment 😂

I'm still listening to it once or twice a day, but I know I'm a freak of nature!

I wonder how God feels about that. They are his favorite band after all.

The performance of Whatsername at this show was beautiful so I took some screenshots Video below

I know! I giggled when it said Smashing Pumpkins were supporting because they used to talk tons of shit about them in the 90s lmao. I recently listened to a folder of random old audio interviews I found and they made negative comments about them in three different ones including one with Ben Weasel where he and GD agreed on them as a band to be eliminated from existence. They thought they were boring and pretentious. But to be fair they did used to talk shit about virtually every band out there that wasn't a small/unknown one from 1990s to early 2000s. Edit: Nice discussion from a 1996 interview where they praise the music but instead talk shit about them as people This interview also contains this gem from Billie on the subject of GD not being grunge/shoegazers (not about Pumpkins but hilarious) Half the interview is them shit talking various acts lol https://punkrocker.org.uk/punkinterviews/greenday.html

Special one today. 9 years ago, Green Day were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. They also played the LA Sports Arena 11 years ago today. The 99 Revolutions Tour was 11 years ago? WHAT?! HELP. 19 years ago, they played the USF Sun Dome in Tampa on the American Idiot Tour. There was a review up at some point, but the links are dead, so all we've got is "Billie Joe Armstrong asserts his personality while performing with Green Day on Monday night before a sold-out crowd." 30 years ago, Green Day played the Satyricon club in Portland.

Hoping that “the hella tiny tour continues” means there’ll be more shows and specifically outside of the west coast for us east coasters

This is really amazing. For a band that always wanted to have a legacy and leave something important behind yet were told you couldn't get big making their kind of music, it's a tremendous achievement. Congrats to our boys

The second night at MSG was my first show! So cool how many lifelong fans came out of those shows.

I sent all the prints out today so they should start arriving this week in the UK and later in the month overseas. Do let me know when they arrive!

The Devil loves Green Day, it seems.

What's so cool about this album is how so many people have different favourites and there's something for everyone. This track is growing on me a little (but if I'm listening to the album on repeat I will occasionally skip it along with FTAS)

Some screenshots of Billie (Perry!)

At first I really liked it, but now I LOVE IT. One of the best song of the album and the more I listen to it the more I think it would have worked very well as track #1.

30 years ago "Longview" was at #13 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks

Yes it is . One of the Rev's

The sad thing is when I googled Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins the only thing that came up the other way was Billy Corgan giving them a lot of praise in the 00s. Hopefully the band doesn't know lol. But I guess they were a lot younger then and they're all old enough to know that opinions and attitudes change.

I'm still waiting for an interviewer to ask them about Saviors starting life as 1972.

The venue posted about the 2012 show (and this one) https://www.instagram.com/p/C536D2LP1kb/?igsh=MWhuM2YyY2RjcnNmdg== In 2012 I remember staying up all night waiting for tweets that a GDCer was posting for us from the venue!

To show Green Day that The Network is going to take over if they're not careful! I'm so thirsty for a new Green Day live release that I was forced to purchase The Network DVD instead!! The best way they can fix the situation is do some club shows to tell The Network step off of their territory!! They could do a few shows in the midwest like...oh I dunno Chicago...just throwing it out there. Are you listening Billie?

When you keep repeating your hilarious joke about The Network NOT being Green Day ad nauseum to the point your partner says "The joke is old! This isn't the Green Day fangirls forum! I know the joke!" Needless to say, he prefers The Network

Hard to believe I took this 6 years ago. Time's going by so fast!

From Billie's Instagram story

And midwesterners.

No one is fighting, different opinions are important so conversations are engaging. I don't feel like my opinions are disrespected and I don't believe Christian's Inferno! feels that either. Atleast we can agree on Living in the '20s being a fucking banger. Holy hell that song is GOOD.

Finally got my hands on a unicorn plush off vinted they’ve been out of stock for like forever so pretty pleased. Will sit with my bunny 😂

Green Day's YouTube subscribers have reached 6.66M 😈

That’s a great interview lol. I’ve never read it before. It made me want to revisit Insomniac, so looks like that’s the album of the day today.

Still got Saviors on repeat I love it so much.

There is just something about this song that draws me in. From the moment we heard the poor recording in Canada (Montreal I think) the melody was stuck in my head. I think it might be my favourite, though not the one I think is the best song on the album, if that makes sense

Mine too, and I think I’m still getting over it.

Omg the clock!! That's so cool.

Spotify Numbers! -The American Dream Is Killing Me: 13,709,057 -Look Ma, No Brains!: 9,220,318 -Bobby Sox: 6,543,654 -One Eyed Bastard: 9,387,361 -Dilemma: 12,437,273 -1981: 3,745,400 -Goodnight Adeline: 3,390,876 -Coma City: 2,627,637 -Corvette Summer: 2,753,094 -Suzie Chapstick: 3,033,896 -Strange Days Are Here to Stay: 2,650,863 -Living in the '20s: 2,707,809 -Father to a Son: 2,113,239 -Saviors: 2,163,324 -Fancy Sauce: 2,099,624

Green Day from Alice Baxley's Instagram story Pics of Jason White and Kevin from Ryan Baxley "✈️✈️✈️✈️ some cinestill 800" From Mike's Instagram story New pics of Mike

Some tasty Japanese GD CDs here from 1234Go

Made these for a few fellow GDCers.