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I love Rev Rad. But I also love the trilogy, FOAM and Saviors. 😈

It really is getting way too good way too quickly. I think the most recent thing that has shocked me are the new Google VEO 3 videos, there are still some uncanny valley elements here and there but I think they would fool a lot of people. Fascinating stuff but the implications are scary for sure.

I like Rev Rad a lot. Didn't think I would, because I felt like the Trilogy got worse by the song, and I honestly wasn't sure how BJA's very public struggles would affect the band's sound and chemistry. I'm happy I was wrong. I don't really dislike any songs on the album. I think Still Breathing and Revolution Radio should never have been split up in the track order, because they work together as well as 21 Guns and American Eulogy or WMUWSE and Homecoming do. Still Breathing has what I consider the best lyric Billie Joe has ever written, and I will defend that song to the death as vastly underappreciated by fans who can't get past the fact that BJA originally wrote a very different version of it for a pop band. Forever Now deserves a place among GD's best "album climax" songs with Homecoming and the GOAT (American Eulogy). Somewhere Now is also a criminally underrated song. I get that the band may not have wanted another "slow burn" opener like 21CB, or maybe they just didn't want to play the song over again at the end during Forever Now, but I think it would have been a perfect opener for the Rev Rad tour. I think of Rev Rad as the sort of thing that would happen if Billie Joe walked into a studio and said, "I want lyrics as raw as AI with music as polished as 21CB." Does it always work? No. There are songs that sound "sterile", or like they were trying to make something that sounds like BOBD or Letterbomb. And the elephant in the room, yes, even though I like Ordinary World, it's just stuffing an acoustic track at the end reminiscent of Good Riddance, and it serves the double purpose of using a BJA solo song from his movie to pad the album's length. It's not the best album ever, but I do think it balances out to be their best post-AI work.

Bang Bang was their strongest single ever, imo. The album is absolutely amazing, but it’s a bit to ‘stale’ if that makes sense, and also (like @jengd) mentioned: They played it a little safe. Bang Bang and Forever Now are easily in my top 10 GD songs of all time.

I love Revolution Radio. IIRC their recording process for it was pretty back to basics too.

My all time favorite Green Day album.

awwwwwwwwwww how cute that smile is precious

I became a fan during the Nimrod era. Then warning / superhits / shenanigans / money money 2020 / American Idiot. That whole run is bonkers.

I do feel like that was their best period. nimrod. was the peak of their 90s run as it was finally the first Green Day album that had some real variety, they managed to make an 18-song album where every song was great. Previously albums like Dookie and Insomniac were shorter yet still had filler songs towards the end, nimrod. broke that pattern. Warning in my opinion showed that Billie and the guys were true songwriters with an evolving style and not just California punks. It didn't really do much to keep them relevant as it didn't seem to be what people wanted, but in retrospective it needed to come out and showed us that they'd soon do something amazing in 4 years. Shenanigans is great for the reasons I already said. And American Idiot was just a complete masterpiece, one of the greatest albums of all time. There's nothing I can really say that hasn't been said. It reinvented the band and pushed them back into the mainstream without betraying their original sound or ethos. That's badass. So, I agree, those are their 4 best releases.

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The toilets at my workplace are Armitage Shanks ones, everytime I go in there I'm like heh

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/smith-just-shaded-iconic-90s-180223291.html soooo what is this about ? I fucking hate AI. Why aren't people more upset and aware about AI? *Artificial Intelligence, not American Idiot lol* ai is scary and something that should be addressed.

oooooo I could go for some Rev Rad right now . I LOVE Rev Rad

Seeee someone gets it

When (still as a tourist) in Copenhagen you visit the free city of Christiania and absolutely have to tell your husband the story of Sleepy head…

I like Revolution Radio, think it’s a solid album but it feels like Green Day playing it slightly safe.

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Tony the Tiger or bust.

American Idiot. Nimrod. Warning. Shenanigans. The absolute necessities.

Is the BEST post american idiot GD album and the closest to american idiot sound and style

I think that RevRad has one of the strongest openings of a Green Day album. Somewhere Now, Bang Bang and Revolution Radio are amazing!

I remember being a Green Day fan before FOAMF came out. Revolution Radio was the last GD album at the time. Was it better than the trilogy before it?...debatably, the trilogy had some really standout songs like Lazy Bones and Dirty Rotten Bastards but got overshadowed by some of the shittier songs like Nightlife. However, I look back at RR and realize it may be better than we may have given it credit for, given that the two albums they'd release after it sucked pretty hard. Honestly, Revolution Radio in my opinion had the potential to be one of Green Day's best albums, minus the songs Say Goodbye, Youngblood, and Ordinary World. Those songs not only don't fit but worse than that - they're boring. However, I have a case for why the rest of the songs (with those 3 cut) would have made a far greater comeback from the trilogy without the unholy trinity that I just mentioned... 1. Somewhere Now It's a decent track, definitely not a favourite but I can at least say there are parts that are enjoyable and do remind me of 21st Century Breakdown, which is not a bad thing. Certainly not a bad way to open the album, and it does get better that it starts with this, as you'll soon see... 2. Bang Bang Not only would I say this is one of the best songs Green Day has ever made, I'd even go as far as saying this is one of the best hardcore punk songs I've heard in general. It managed to be topical in 2016 without being cringe (that's a true feat!), it fucking rips, the bridge is just perfect, and the chorus is so fucking catchy. This song perfectly captures the essence of the mass shooter pandemic we were not only going through then but continue to live and die through today. 3. Revolution Radio The first thing I said about Bang Bang is also something I'd say about Revolution Radio. This is a song that is also very catchy, and makes you feel empowered. It carries that punk message of not letting anyone shut us up, that we'll say what we need to say and then some until our tongues bleed no matter what the oppressors try to do to stop us. Once again, it was relevant then and remains relevant now. 4. Outlaws We're gonna pretend this is the 4th song (obvious reasons). It's a nice change of pace, and has a much more large, epic feel to it. I like the balance between quiet and loud as it's used here, and it does also remind me of their early 2000s work which is a good thing. The solo may just mirror the vocal melody but man, for some reason it just hits. 5. Bouncing Off The Wall Can't say this is one of the better ones, it's really more useful as a filler track, and typically I don't care for filler songs, but this album (without the 3 shitty songs) could use a more simple fun track to break up the heavy emotional tones displayed in the previous tracks, and if you turn this song up really loud in a good stereo, it's really fun to jump around and bang your head to. 6. Still Breathing Honestly a misfit on this album, but surprisingly it also does fit at the same time? It's like, it doesn't fit, but it doesn't fit in the right way, so it loops back around to fitting. I don't know. I just feel like by this point, the album is calling for a track like this. It's definitely more of a pop style song than a Green Day punk song, but it's one of the pop songs I would've otherwise liked even if Green Day didn't write it. Once again, it's catchy, it hits hard, and I think it earns its stay. 7. Too Dumb To Die We've found another favourite song of mine. It's another one that I'd say is generally one of my favourite Green Day songs as a whole. One thing I'll say is the whole album seems to be produced the same way, but the production style of this album hits so fucking hard in this particular song. This is gonna likely sound stupid, but I'd say this could've potentially fit somewhere on American Idiot or 21st Century Breakdown. I can't get bored of this song. It's so catchy and honestly perfect. I wouldn't change a thing. 8. Troubled Times This song kinda sounds like the signs of the end, and so it's fitting that it's second-to-last (forget about ordinary world, it doesn't exist), the solo is great, the song is catchy, and it just feels right at this point in the album. 9. Forever Now This song honestly reminds me a lot of Jesus Of Suburbia and Homecoming, it has similar qualities to those songs (which are masterpieces), and I love how it bookends with a reprise of Somewhere Now. It really takes you for a ride and is the perfect way to finish off this album. Now as to why they decided to take those 3 bad songs that don't exist and scatter them through this great record is beyond me. What do you think?

Hot then and hot now!

How sad. It's a pretty insightful song.

So a cookie Dookie shirt now? 😂😂