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This boxset... I dreamt for years getting this!! By far the best Limited "Book" Editions on Green Day discography EVER!!❤️ (AI, 21stCB, Trilogy and RevRad... and I got all of them)

Well, I did my part…!😄

I picked up the rainbow puke FOAM vinyl! I was surprised to see them still being sold on the web store so I wanted to snag it before they’re out of print.

https://www.nhl.com/news/green-day-tre-cool-attends-anaheim-ducks-game My two favorite things: Green Day and hockey . (I don't know if this has been posted yet, sorry if it has ❤️ )

I feel like they're on a roll lately with these big numbers lately. 👀 I really dislike that it's a Spotify thing though.

I remember when i heard Trés voice for the first time and i genuinely did a double take and said "What the fuck is he made out of helium"

I understand where you come from. I think the feeling is 100% real, and at some point life will happen for the band members, the shows will be less energetic and the "dad rock" will escalate. We also have a tendency to compare them now and in the past. Yes, Billie isn't jumping as much around on stage and he uses a teleprompter, and they don't play intimate shows that much anymore. But, some things we know are the truth: 1. They are as tight as ever 2. They show no signs of not wanting to perform 3. They just played a tour where they played 2 albums in full + even more songs from other albums 4. They clearly love what they're doing - trust that feeling!

I like thinking of those pictures, lol. I wish i could watch that episode, but I can't cuz i cant find it anywhere (unless i resort to pirating again...) edit: i found it. God i love pirating

Just remembered that Billie Joe played Charlie Chaplin in an episode of Drunk History. Some of the new fans here might get a kick of seeing it if they can find it!

It’s not just you. People have been saying that all these years… 😂

Just reading your post has given me flashbacks, because I was at the first night too! Your experience was very similar to mine.🥰 You're right, it was a baking hot day and there was hardly any shade to sit. I'm kind of surprised that we didn't all pass out with the heat and excitement.😆 We didn't get into the front circle because we didn't get there early enough to get a wristband, but we had no clue about any of that because it was our first time seeing GD!lol! We ended up somewhere at the bottom of a slope towards the sides. I remember just standing on tiptoe when GD came on the stage and losing my shit with excitement, because I could see them in front of me, (admittedly at a bit of a distance and quite small) with my own eyes. It was the best feeling!😁 Just to make sure I captured some photographic evidence, I took a disposable camera with me.🫣😅 I still have the pictures somewhere, and I think I was very pleased because you can actually see tiny GD specks that weren't captured from the screens!lol! One other souvenir that I have is the tour programme that I purchased. I remember sitting reading it in the heat, waiting for GD to hit the stage I also vividly remember looking up at the sky and seeing a helicopter overhead, which might have been the one doing some of the aerial shots. I also remember that when we were wandering around during the afternoon, we walked past them interviewing/recording some of fans that they show in the dvd. Of course, we didn't have a clue what was going on.😆 When the show finished I was on such a high. On the way home, I was desperately trying to figure out a way that I could do the Sunday night. Obviously I couldn't, but that was the night I properly fell in love GD.😅 I feel soo incredibly lucky that BIAB was my first GD show. It was so special, and to have it captured on dvd is amazing. I haven't watched it in ages, but I really feel like a re-watch is in order now.😂 I have to admit, some of the fast cut aways are slightly jarring for me, but I still love it.

(over) Caffeinated Shower Thoughts 1.) My bathroom towel has seen some shit. 2.) Why does hot water + caffeine turn into philosophy? 3.) I can see water, but can a fish see air? 4.) How tf do you spell “caffeine?” 5.) Caffeine is the only thing keeping this band together. (i am the band) 6.) My thoughts are measurably louder than the water – I think. 7.) Would it be ethical to charge my dryer rent, if I hang dry everything? (I got this email, these are not my shower thoughts )    

You are right about that. I hadn't realised people didn't like long songs until about half a year ago...

So are we speeding up a Viva Death song before the next album comes out or are we going with a different artist this time? Sound the alarm because everything is tictoc or whatever he said.

This is going to sound ridiculous but I have to get it off my chest somewhere… for the last few weeks I randomly have been having weird anxiety that GD will never do as big of a tour as they did for Saviors ever again. And the last time I saw them (Citi Field 2024) I had this bizarre sinking feeling of “what if this is the last time I see them live.” It sounds silly as I type it out but I can’t help it! Y’all please tell me I’m not crazy and other people have had this same thought 😅 I know it’s unreasonable but damn it’s hard to watch the guys get older!

https://q107.com/news/11738826/ongoing-history-daily-green-days-al-sobrante-who/ Cool lore... I guess . When I read it, I was just like, "...okay..." lol.

Just added: 2000/11 - Player 2001/09 - Crossbeat (Ad on the back of the cover) 2004/10 - InRock 2005/02 - Rockin' On Link to folder 2000-2002: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t6IeZPc4i7OFe07Ne_O2mWPCMOYSWjiT?usp=drive_link Link to folder 2004-2008: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qyWewoZZ6UrniFpWyckpBoN6fl0gMEgm?usp=drive_link I had those ready for about two weeks but I was pretty busy and forgot. Coming soon: Doll 1996/04

I have no idea if i'm allowed to say this but he kind of looks like putin. I dont know if thats just me

I will be thinking about this one a lot

I have Letterbomb as my ringtone . Idk, I thought it was fitting, I guess lol. Your spelling is pretty accurate, actually; I knew what you were talking about before you even said it was the riff .

I added your mom to my concert tracking website.

yea lol same.. i love them tho ^^ i tortured my old class by adding master of puppets and stuff to some class playlist when we were like 6 years old it was rlly funny XD

Yes, it is amazing but it’s also loooong. You need patience and many people don’t have it.

Yes, I got it too. It looks so cool!

Good riddance is your ideal go and cry song and you have american idiot as your ringtone so that whenever someone calls you it goes BOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOWBOWWOWNOWNOW BRRRRR (My attempt at spelling out the american idiot riff)

I am absolutely not finishing this today but happy st patricks day idk

I love Underoath! I have never heard that version before! Ew . It is very awkward, and the lyrics are now incomplete. I completely agree with this. I never listen to the radio edit versions, and I don't know anyone who does.

Time for some Trilogy vibes…😊

Billie Joe has said the only way he’s leaving this band is in a coffin. Artists like McCartney, Dylan, and the Stones have proved you can tour well into your eighties. That might be a bit more challenging for Green Day given the type of music they perform but if there’s a will, there’s a way. Intermissions, acoustic portions of the set, there are so many different ways of going about it. I don’t worry about a “final tour” anytime soon. How many final tours have Motley Crue and KISS had? The love and joy of what they do isn’t going anywhere. They’re friends. This is what they’ve done since they were teenagers or even before. It’s the only thing they know how to do really. Make music and perform it. They’ll do that as Green Day as long as we have all three members with us. And their music will live on forever.

I had a weird feeling during the Hella Mega Tour. The 21stcB Tour in 2009 was my first Green Day Tour and that tour was the point for me to go „yep, they‘re my favorite live band“. I never had a doubt during the trilogy and RevRad tour. But then covid began and after a long wait they started the Hella Mega Tour in 2022 in Europe. And don‘t get me wrong, it wasn‘t a bad tour (especially I really like FOB and Weezer), but I didn‘t like the short set and EXACT same songs (maybe they changed Waiting/King for a Day with She and Pollyanna. Btw fuck you „rock n roll all nite 😂). I thought „ok, they‘re still my fave Band and I‘ll go to as many shows as I can, but we‘ve already seen the peak of their live shows“. And you know what? The Saviors tour prove me wrong. It felt like almost the 21st Tour where they changed a little bit during in the middle of the set and towards the end of the set and got a little bit more spontaneous like they used to during 21st/RevRad. Sure Billie isn‘t 35 anymore and won‘t jump around for 2.5 hours a day like he used to. But he still sounds amazing and I‘ve seen a lot of bands in their 20s/30s and Green Day still kick their ass today. Am I afraid to see an announcement for a final tour one day? Oh hell yes, I‘m scared. But I think they got 10 years at least and I think Billie has a lot to say during these shitty days in the world

To get Billie out of the band you „have to put him in a fucking coffin“. And as long as the band exists they will do shows, they love it. So I‘m not anxious about that. I‘m just missing them right now… (Besides, being in the fifties doesn’t feel old! I know that….😅)

That is very true 😂 welcome to the fandom!! I absolutely LOVE how many new fans joined in the Saviors era! I suppose I should focus on feeling grateful for how many times I have seen them over the last 20 years ❤️ I’m sure you’ll get to see them one day too! as Mike said in that bass interview last week, he’s a race car not a pace car 😂

Knowing my best friend got to see them n i didn't makes me all a little more anxious about it :') i haven't seem them yet as a very new fan (march 2025). As they get older i also get that same anxiety thinkin i'll never see them even once, lol. Maybe never even in a cardboard box i'll see em. But... billie is restless. If he breaks his back playing i know he's probably gonna come out on stage on a wheelchair still rocking the hell out

Is everyone in a mask green day at this point

Omg Mike, your hair! https://www.instagram.com/stories/greendayinc/3857263585731070172?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=ODlnZzhuaHpkdnVp

Speaking of ringtones, i have touch me idiot, one of those ringtones green day had on their old site, as my ringtone on my phone... (its true, i never touch my phone anymore)

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JoS only 250 mil... dont get me wrong, that is BIG!! But i thought there'd be more streams for such an amazing song, lol

For me personally, it's purely nostalgia. Even back in the day, I vastly preferred the album version of Holiday (or even the Sessions @ AOL live version). It's a weird feeling of there no longer being any trace of a piece of media you used to regularly consume. I know people in the wider internet have their own lost media searches for station bumpers or SpongeBob commercials, but my white whale is this damn edit.

My one and only exception to that is "I Want to Break Free" by Queen. For whatever reason, the song on the album is about 3 minutes long and cuts out large chunks of instrumentation that, frankly, the song kinda doesn't work without. I think it kinda doesn't work even with them, but it's really weird getting a 3-minute album cut then a 4:30 radio edit. Gotta wonder what was going through heads there.

70 songs but when the box set comes out it's just a demos of the songs we've heard before, lol. They've probably reworked a lot of these into other things or are holding onto them until the year 4,000. How awesome would it be if they actually had all 70 in a deluxe version? oh man.

Has anyone heard anything specific about side projects coming up between now and between Green Day working on a new album? I hope it’s the Longshot or something new.

It's funny that during the emo/pop punk boom of the 2000s, pop radio tried to minimize screams and guitars where possible. Taking out solos and bringing down the guitar in the mix was normal for the time, and ridiculous in hindsight. As for screams, an example is Underoath's "Reinventing Your Exit." The song is primarily screams, so taking them out just leaves weird empty space.

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I was there too! Both nights!

Thanks for clarifying. But it’s sad, I liked the album cover and the title Saviors Summer!😅 Maybe your friend should work for the band…

One of the things that's made me happiest about streaming is the death of the radio edit. Editing out slurs and not dropping F-bombs on top 40 stations at 8:00 AM, sure, I get it, but there are two long-standing traditions in radio that I hate. One, they speed up the songs' playback. Two, they slice and dice anything they have to to bring a song down to three minutes. That's how 21 Guns on the radio ended up without the guitar solo that the whole thing is built around, and it's why if you've ever thought that Know Your Enemy sounded slightly faster in your car than it does on your iPhone, well, you're right. The radio edit completely ruins songs.

The 1972 Speculation began 2 years and 42 days before Saviors dropped.

Well, it's really common that certain countries like France or Denmark has rare edits for Green Day songs. I know there is another Radio Edit for Oh Love which lenght is just 3 minutes. Also, there is a rare radio edit for When I come around which was in a Radio Promo CD from a Mexican Radio station called "Radio Activa". Unfortunately, The song at the beggining is watermarked. Also, I would dare to say the song 21st Century Breakdown has another Radio Edit which is a "Lost media". I remember it has the intro part with acoustic guitar sampler, but the song is shorter than the album version. And finally, one of the biggest "mysteries" in GD's Radio Edits are the Radio Versions for Walking Contradiction. In my youtube channel are available the Radio Edit #2 (The same mix for WC videoclip) and the Radio Version (which comes from a green CD promo). However, there is a "Radio Version 2" from an orange CD Promo. I asked to 3 people who have this CD about this version and one of them told me that (supposedly) is the same as Radio Edit #2. And last year appeared another CD Promo with a "Remix Clean Edition" in discogs. And these are just a few examples...

Thank you so much! Btw does anyone have American Idiot 20 booklet scans? I can't find them anywhere.