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I was diagnosed in 2014, and I remember feeling as if Brittany, Jason and I were going through it together. All three of us are in the clear in 2022 and what better way to celebrate than a big ole 1972 Trilogy. 😉 😉 😉

So sorry to hear you guys have been through cancer and other medical issues, but so so happy you've got through it. Your feeling fine then bang your told you've got liver cancer. Thankfully the chemotherapy saved me, but my liver was dying. Thankfully to someone I'll never know I've got new liver. Still got many restrictions but I'm alive. When your texting to someone, it's another human being. Not knowing what's going on in their lives or what problems they are facing. life is precious and people matter just like you.

The consensus I see is that Green Day up to 2009 was basically The Original Star Wars Trilogy - OG and what we knew and loved growing up The Trilogy was the Prequel Trilogy - Universally 'hated' until something else took it's place-now its considered better than worse, just differently. RevRad is Rogue One - Everyone loved it but it was in a weird place when it came out, a little of old a lil of new And FOAMF is the Sequel trilogy - Took the place of Trilogy, most people don't think it's Canon, and the ones who do enjoy it are most likely a minority.

Yes.

FOAMF wasn't a troll album. That's just people coping about the fact that they don't like a Green Day album There isn't any source on wikipedia that says that the recording sessions started in 2014 so I'd take that with a grain of salt. Even if it is true, odds are that there was only 1 song that was partially recorded in 2014 and the actual album recording started much later. It says on the wikipedia page that work on the album began in 2014 but that doesn't necessarily mean recording started in 2014

When you get unreasonably excited when one IG account you follow that has nothing to do with Green Day uses the Billie clapping gif in a story.

Short one kidney and one testicle but doing fine without them.

I'm supposed to get mine with my next subscription order. Everytime I think I'm ready to cancel, they keep pulling me in with free shit 😂

to respond to what has been said on album sloppy or not: For the previous albums the members of the group were present during the mixing sessions while for FOAM they gave their confidence to Butch Walker who had a vision that corresponded to them. the mixing was also done remotely. It's not a good or bad way to work, it's just different. If this method worked better for FOAM, only the band knows, not us. For those who didn't like FOAM, the fault is not with Butch but with Green Day. It was they who were convinced by Butch's proposal and who validated it. For my part I find the album very well produced, even if I understand that some fans are disappointed. Like any artistic proposal, it appeals to some and not to others. This does not mean that Green Day has become bad, but that it is evolving and not trying to recycle a recipe that works. It is commendable. Other groups have bet to keep the same recipe and that's laziness, but Green Day is irreproachable on this point. same logic for the trilogy btw sorry for my English, I’m French and you know that’s not our first quality lmao

You’re all just trying to buddy up with Tre! 😂

Billie still needed recovery time off even after the trilogy tour ended officially in late 2013. Starting 2014, Mike’s wife was undergoing cancer treatments and reconstructive surgeries for more than a year and Mike asked for extended time off even after that settled down in 2015 just to regroup and be with his family. Then towards the end of all that, Jason White had cancer treatments too.

Just remembered we got a Coverups show this Friday! Not saying goodbye to Billie yet for 2022 🥰

Larger capacity, worse acoustics comparatively

The band were on hiatus starting around the spring of 2014 for medical issues that continued to keep them down through at least summer 2015. It may have been late 2015 that they even just start talking about new material and getting together to rehearse and record again. I think early 2016 is when it really began but on his own of course Billie never stops writing and he had several RevRad songs done and ready to go. RevRad seemed to be about a six month process and it was announced and out by late summer/early fall. It was quick compared to this.

More time to work on an album isn't always a good thing.

I attended the first night show it was my first Green Day show and really my first concert experience. I wish they would make a return to The Garden. They always play at the Barclays Center whenever they’re in town for arena shows now. I have a feeling that when/ if they have their next arena tour they’ll probably be playing at the new UBS Arena in Queens.

1,039-Dookie= A New Hope. Smaller budget with young actors but they pulled off a one in a million! Insomniac-warning= Empire Strikes Back. The darkest period for the band. Idiot-21CB= Return of the Jedi. Reviving their career with a bang using all of their training, they destroyed the musical empire with these releases!

Glad to hear you're in remission, Dude

Oh duh! And Jason White had cancer too at some point

Or this could be their most epic album to date with grandiose production

Yes, that is an amphitheater!!!!!!!!!!

Also I don't think we're getting any info on 1972 any time soon. Probably nothing except maybe a small teaser until after Nimrod anniversary edition

It feels like they already have

Twice on the 21CB tour as well

And "Nothing says 'fuck you' like a unicorn!"

So glad you're ok.

Possibly. The band also wasn't taking itself seriously though at that time. Maybe not a troll album but it's not too serious of a release either. Don't forget the ketchup font.

Arenas would be much better. Have they ever played at Madison Square Garden?

No. That's worse than a baseball stadium.

I think Mike's wife was diagnosed and fighting cancer at that time.

I believe there was an acoustic video in 2014 with the Somewhere Now riff

It's been mentioned before that some consider FOAMF was a troll album, the last record the band was required to release with Warner Reprise. When, after careful consideration back in '94 they signed to Warner's Reprise label, giving the band full control on content and record release. And of course the record co., made loads. So instead of making their last release an epic record as a thank you, and something for the fans to drool over, had the relationship soured and it was a case of throw a handful of alright songs out to end this contract as they had to? Was there a time limit?

I remember Billie started teasing RevRad at the beginning of 2016, but then I saw on Wikipedia that the sessions actually started in 2014, so I started thinking maybe that's when he recorded the song Ordinary World in preparation for shooting the Geezer/Ordinary World movie?

Agreed - Look at Chinese Democracy However, look at Social Distortion on the contrary. I guess the spirit of my post is just that they give the album some love and care it deserves.

Jason White and Kevin have been record shopping

Nah it'll be similar to RevRad tour except maybe less new songs. I still think they will play new songs though

I'm thinking it'll be a 1972 tour. I'm sure they enjoyed Hella Mega, but they might be itching to do a good ol classic Green Day show soon.

Cool to see Ed get a pic with Tre when he's such a big GD fan 😊

https://www.instagram.com/p/CkB6lvJvH4t/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

He also put someone’s cowboy hat on and galloped around like he was on a bronco 😂 Wish I could find video of that

I love your enthusiasm, but you really are grasping at straws at this point dude. I mean, Billie could just fart and y'all would probably think it's some kind of hint towards the next album 😅

How can a band that’s been around 30 years not have an element of being a legacy band? If they didn’t, it would mean nothing they had put out in that 30 years was worth going back to listen to!

What was a joke for stupid people is now true.

Well if Alec thinks it sounds like Green Day, then it must be good

I don't think Mike himself is anti-vaccine or anything like that, as he was sometimes the only one wearing a mask when the rest of the band members didn't. I think he simply values his wife above all else and puts her first.

I swear to god, if 1972 is a 10-track album about partying and feeling young im gonna delete my account

A Dookie/AI level hit would probably be one that nowadays would hit 100 million streams on spotify in the first couple months and make it to the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. The odds of that happening for Green Day are essentially zero. Since 21 Guns, the only track to make the Hot 100 was Oh Love which peaked at 97 while Bang Bang reached no. 4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart (meaning it hit no. 104). Their most streamed songs of the 2010's are Still Breathing and Bang Bang which are on 92 million and 77 million respectively. A Dookie/AI level single would need to be far more successful than these two. When it comes to a new album, the only real commercial success to be expected is the album debuting in the top 5 on the Billboard 200 and a couple singles reaching no. 1 on the rock charts but hitting the mainstream charts? Revolution Radio debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200, FOAMF at no. 4. I think the new album could debut at no. 1 if there's enough excitement for it, I think a more AI sounding album is more likely to do so than an album that sounds more like FOAMF I think when it comes to Green Day charting positions, they get a lot of airplay on the radio but they don't get streamed or sold enough to actually chart on the mainstream charts like the Hot 100. The only way I can see them having a huge single is if they collaborate with a more mainstream artist.

I'm willing to put $100,000 on that they wont. But out of curiosity what is the quantifiable target? Are we talking RIAA certification or chart position?

If we use album 13 as a baseline, this one has to be good because they can't get any worse