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The American Dream Is Killing Me - 11,597,140 (+58k) Look Ma, No Brains! - 7,507,457 (+48k) Bobby Sox - 4,466,139 (+71k) One Eyed Bastard - 6,739,708 (+70k) Dilemma - 8,580,317 (+89k) 1981 - 2,470,166 (+41k) Goodnight Adeline - 2,226,578 (+35k) Coma City - 1,854,007 (+26k) Corvette Summer - 1,905,536 (+28k) Suzie Chapstick - 2,038,881 (+33k) Strange Days Are Here to Stay - 1,823,495 (+27k) Living in the '20s - 1,834,460 (+31k) Father to a Son - 1,502,418 (+21k) Saviors - 1,489,645 (+22k) Fancy Sauce - 1,445,428 (+24k) TOTAL - 57,481,375 (+625,347)

Billie taking photos of the support act at Irving Plaza in 2012 And the result Second best era!!! (Sadly I love the 21st Century Breakdown era too much to proclaim that even my love the trilogy is the VERY best era)

Some pics here https://www.instagram.com/p/C3REUb3NFTD/?igsh=c3Nuc2VzOHE0cDA=

While I'm happy to get any new doc about American Idiot out there, I would much prefer something on Saviors or even 21CB. But hopefully the new AI doc won't feature any weird choregraphed dance scenes that eat up the run time...looking at HLAHG.

I would love to see a documentary about 21CB 🥺 The recording must have been really intense.

You definitely hear influences of the Longshot on Saviors. Someday I hope we find out the real story behind why that became a solo project without his bandmates and not a Green Day album.

Reviving this thread to share these Oh my God these ones

I know someone who was lucky enough to attend that one. This was right as I was becoming a fan and years before I saw them in concert. And I remember the night it happened cause they told me all about it haha. They still have their ticket stub. 🙂 Every so often I remind him, like bro you got to attend a secret show, where they played 38 songs. 😄 Later on I treated that same person, and bought them a ticket to see Longshot with me at thee Parkside bar in SF lol. We also met Billie right before show, so that definitely made up for it lol.

Coma City needs to be played. And strange days.

And it’s lovely to see and must be great for them but it’s not really spreading the word to a wider audience.

He told Howard Stern that he doesn’t write songs for other people because if he writes a good one he wants to keep it. I guess this is an example of that!

So apparently Billie was supposed to write Still Breathing for 5 Seconds of Summer?? Did anyone know about this? There's a band called 5 Seconds of Summer who wanted me to write a song for them. All of a sudden I was writing the lyrics, and I was like "Oh my God, there's no f---ing way I'm giving these guys this song." Well thank God you saw reason Billie 😂

Per Billie: "We just watched a documentary on American Idiot that we're gonna put out" Do you think there's anything more to the story to be said or shown that HLAHG and BIAB didn't cover?

Billie looks so "British" on this photo

"Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty" has been Billie's stock answer to that question for like 20 years now lmao. Excited for the documentary!

I really wanna hear adeline, fancy sauce, suzie chapstick live. They have to do something with this album. I think the album will have a lot more fans if they start promoting heavily and ditch older songs.

Although Billie has been sharing Saviors fan art and fan covers on Instagram pretty much every day

They may have nothing to prove they put a lot of time, effort and money into making great music you would think they would want to maximize their returns on that and get Saviors the recognition it deserves

100% agree. I'm really shocked they only did the one late night appearance. I thought they'd do more and maybe even perform on Good Morning America, which they usually do during the new album cycle. They did a lot of great interviews, but I think they did more performances for FOAM promotion.

I really think they had momentum with this album release and should have kept up the promotion, really saturating the media with their faces and performances on late night TV and popular YouTube shows that millions watch, promoting both Saviors and the anniversary tour. One week wasn't enough.

I've had Suzie Chapstick stuck in my head all day. It's definitely one of the catchiest in the album and it has simple, but beautiful lyrics. It would make a great single. I'd also love to hear a live acoustic version, the song would feel more emotional.

Going to do the ride later but it’s a pretty good set list when I come around living in the 20s brain stew dilemma Longview minority back in the USA Jesus of suburbia ordinary world Father to a son

Yeah I don't really mind whether things get released as Green Day or a side project but can definitely hear similarities to The Longshot on Saviors! Which is cool because I love that Longshot album.

Billie coming out to take pictures of the support band (I forget their name) at Irving Plaza 2012 really brings the memories come flooding back to me. I was there, what an exciting time.

Last night I dreamed that I got the Saviors vinyl but every track was on a separate disc and before I could play them I had to knead them like plasticine or a dough and then bring them in the shape of a disk again 😅

Uh oh! Better keep that cake away from him!

I think Dropout is a longer version of the final part in Brutal Love, and it's not because "OMG EXTRAORDINARY GIRL IS TROUBLED TIMES DEMO IM SO FUCKING DUM" but because in Cuatro if you look closely you can see "Dropout" written under Brutal Love in that board thing. I really want Grand Olympic 2004 and Warfield 2005 as the live shows like Dookie 30's Woodstock 94 and Garatge Club. They're underrated shows that never really got much attention.

It would be dumb to just go underground until the tour. Hope we get more promotion/singles/videos eventually

IMO, if this was a typical album cycle, where the boys go full swing on touring and promotion, TADIKM and Dilemma could've hit the Hot 100. Rockin' Eve was the most amount of attention they got in a little while, and capitalizing on that could've done wonders for them. I get it though, they have nothing to prove.

For comparison, FOAMF was at 191 at this point before not appearing on the chart after that point FOAMF's history on the chart. 4 > 111 > 191 Savior's chart performance (so far). 4 > 87 > 184

Saviors is now 184 on the Billboard 200.

Most are correct. Favorite Son and Governator are about politicians and Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003, and C&V was recorded approx. 2002-2003. And you forgot Brutal Love, The Pedestrian.

Agreed a doc for the album that just got released would be really great. Unless there are actual untold stories from the AI era if there’s actually anything left besides what we’ve already seen. And unreleased stuff from Cuatro would be awesome too.

Yeah it'll start with a scripted comedy scene of Green Day finally catching the guy who got their stolen tapes and beating them up or something. Putting the tape in and the documentary starts

I'd still like to see the 2+ hours uncut Cuatro video. I assume it isn't out there?

I’d like to hope Green Day were smart and retained the rights to anything he filmed in the studio. Surely a band that band that big would make sure of it

Throw me a Saviors doc while you’re at it, guys!

Had to be done.

Interviewer- we've been following you for 40 years... Billie- 40?!

She mentioned it because you said you couldn't find it. I have so many pictures from that era

Here is a large size photos https://www.punksinvegas.com/images-green-day-big-boi-killer-mike-breland-february-9-2024-house-blues-las-vegas/

Jason's grey hair and Tre's face ruins that impression for me, but goddamn aren't they all still beautiful as ever.

Wouldn't that be great if The Network appeared in the documentary at least for a few minutes telling they have no relation to the loss of the master tapes of the band Green Day?

Where does Brutal Love come in to play here? It’s not a C&V song. The Pedestrian possibly was and is listed on John’s bsides disc.

Governator has been ruled out by timing. C&V’s release date was for Feb 14 2003 I think we can factor out the east 12th st part, his DUI was 2003 right? If I remember correctly his hearings for that DUI affected the AI production. And Mike’s part was written on a day where Billie was absent for that. So that part is also out. Was Tre’s part added after Mike’s? I think possibly the intro and final parts of the song are from C&V. But they could have been connected by other parts that were omitted.

Got Godzilla's 1998 soundtrack. And one non-Green Day CD, which is the Foo's Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace.

I remember a few people who caught HLAHG, when it first made it's Grauman's debut; they said the theatrical cut was a bit longer in runtime. It had scenes that never made it to the wider/home release when the movie was re-issued in 2015. Always wonder about that. 🤔 Where that cut of the movie ended up. And why it was cut up so much.

Some more Trilogy era pics

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-01-15/green-day-saviors-billie-joe-armstrong Some interesting new tidbits in here! BJ On Bobby Sox: But then in the next verse, I thought I should flip the script,” he says. “I’m kind of playing the character of the woman, but it also felt really liberating to sing, ‘Do you wanna be my boyfriend?’” adds Armstrong, who identifies as bisexual. “It became more of a queer singalong.” The Taco Bell ad - originally the brand wanted to use The American Dream is Killing Me: “I was like, Hmm, I don’t really think that’s the appropriate song for a seven-layer burrito,” Armstrong says. Was licensing “Look Ma, No Brains!” a tough call? Cool laughs. “We made a bet amongst ourselves that we could get Taco Bell to show the person eating a taco while Billie sings, ‘Sick boy, and I s— the bed,’” he says — which indeed the spot does. 😂 Sobriety: “There’s no party I haven’t seen,” Armstrong confirms. “So why do something where I wake up in a park the next day?” Cool turns to his bandmate, suddenly serious amid his usual barrage of jokes. “We’re both really proud of you,” he says.” 🥹 There’s so much in here, including BJ talking about he thinks he “fucked up as a father.”