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New vinyl for the vinyl collection and new shirt for the shirt collection:

Pretty much lol Just play Holiday five times. Dedicate it to a different person each time, and give a different person the floor each time around. The homophobic slur in there can be easily replaced with other slurs each time.

I am keeping my expectations low and I am just excited to see a Green Day performance. I don't think there's any reason to be anxious for this performance. My only hope is that people won't hate on them if the performance doesn't meet people's expectations.

“We didn’t have stars in our eyes, we just wanted our records to get out there”: How Green Day’s Dookie captured the spirit of a generation https://www.kerrang.com/how-green-days-dookie-captured-the-spirit-of-a-generation

The expectations seems crazy. I’m in a discord for a political podcast and people seem to think Green Day will really put the fire to the Trump admin and I’ve had friends tell me the same. I just don’t see it. I love the band (obviously, I mean, I’m on here 😂) but besides changing a lyric in AI and/or Holiday I don’t see the rebellion that I think a lot of people are expecting from this band.

Then to give American Idiot its props, I decided to try to learn Give Me Novacaine on guitar today. I always thought it was a very good song but I appreciate it much more now. Deceptively simple, yet powerful. The melody is so so beautiful. Never in a million years would I pull that gorgeous intro out of just a few chords. Playing music has deepened my connection to (especially) Green Day’s songs in a way that I really didn’t think was possible. A bright spot in dark times.

You're right. But don't worry, i didn't mean "oh thats silly, you CANT do that" silly, just "oh that's kinda funny" silly But it is true. There's a lot of stuff to look at since i've only started so recently. I found it a bit overwhelming at first and just listened to whatever i found. If you're interested at all, it kinda went like this: "Oh hey, green day has a cool side project! I like side projects. Watch foxboro hottubs live, and "oh look, what's fuck time?" And that happens to be age restricted. Oh, it's on dos! I love nightlife. Oh, billie has a movie he stars in? I love the longshot and ordinary world now. Oh, look, they have another side project! I love the network." And be aware i listened to st jimmy a day before watching that movie too. It just didn't stick. The problem is that i had nothing to connect american idiot to. I love movies and side projects. But where's american idiot? On youtube. Like, just sitting on youtube on a hundred billion different not-really-special to watch green day concerts (unless you were there). I had nothing special to connect american idiot to, and that's what made listening to everything else fun. You could say "c&v!" But what am i connecting c&v to? It's populariy? Influence? I definitely wasn't born for the release either. But i was able to connect to other parts of green day just fine because they were parts of more media i was familiar with... It wasn't really that i was choosing anything but american idiot, it was that i would choose american idiot if it weren't for the lack of connection. There's a movie i watched that had holiday in it. If i watched it any earlier i'd love american idiot much faster. Anyways, i love dos. End of story. I'm enjoying n that's all that matters.

I kind of love this song, so catchy! Definitely not the most genius Green Day lyrics, but still 😅 Nope, also love it. Okay so my favorites from that album are: Father of all Oh Yeah I Was a Teenage Teenager Junkies on High Take the Money and Crawl I like Graffitia too, but it feels too normal for this album... like I can perfectly imagine it being in Rev Rad, but in FOAM it feels kind of out of place 😅 I think I actually really like this album, but it's definitely not in the first 5 albums I'd use to introduce someone to Green Day... and now I have to listen to it 😁

Everyone thinks the same. Can we all just take a short moment to enjoy the comment section of this video?

I got this in the mail today

I’ll be there tomorrow and report back. 🫡

This belongs here! He was SO cute at that podcast show!🥰 I also liked his outfit with the leather jacket and the Converse!😍

https://parade.com/news/green-days-american-idiot-music-charts-ahead-of-bands-super-bowl-lx-60-opening-performance

It's up!

Aren't we all? 😂

Your not silly. You GD journey started only recently. You have such a variety of records to choose from the band's vast discography which is cool. From studio albums, compilations, live albums, and many side projects. You get to decide which record to listen to next. Nothing can be more exciting. Enjoy.

Have y'all seen this pic before??

Very likely, especially since the song can also be interpreted in a sports context. It's a perfect double entendre. Remember this promo from back in 2009?

No, I like that too! And Graffitia and Stab you in the Heart and Junkies on a High. To be honest I like the whole album. My least favorite song is the title track, of all things...

Exactly, there is so much hype. The expectations are so high that GD will never be able to meet them. And they don’t have to, in my opinion. It’s not for musicians to save the world. With their art they can only make it a bit better. Or more bearable.

Me three haha

Are you working on it?😂

Yes!😆 I‘m with you there…

Moustache? .... no thanks billbo....

They have hit the mark hard and definitely have been heard in the past but they’ve been a little tone deaf on what it’s like to actually live as a poor or marginalized group. They are not poor and have been protected by wealth and yes people around them and people that don’t know any better either. There’s no way to avoid it with the way they are and always surrounded by the same people and sheltered/protected lifestyle. There’s no point in risking too much or needing to lawyer-up for anything. Costs too much. They are a great band and they do a lot more than most. However, they do have filters and they do seem to keep their guards up. I doubt anything super groundbreaking or shattering will happen with the Super Bowl performance. They’ll do a great job and continue with their normal routine. From a semi-casual fan something big might be expected to shake up political and entertainment media. As a seasoned fan, I’m not expecting anything too much. A great performance and not much more.

I highly recommend them as well. I use them all the time! 😄

Woah the shirt looks sick!! 🔥✨ and cool vinyl too yayaa!!! :DD

It was quite the look!

I think im a little scared and excited for how green day will present themselves during the performance. It seems like there's going to be a bit (or maybe even a lot) of control involved in this and if that's so they're obviously going to find a way to put a message out in one way or another

am i the only one who kinda liked "oh yeah!" ??

Graffitia and Fire, Ready Aim are me 2 fav tracks.

I really love Take the money and crawl! But some interesting lyrics here again…😂

Forgot about these... i made these on the 17th i think, maybe even before that while i was at my grandmas. I had a regular pencil with those pink erasers on the end of it but it would just smudge pink instead of erase anything... so i took advantage of that n doodled saviors billie n tre and one eyed bastard (I forgot how to draw tre)

It's one of the few times I'd support Know Your Enemy being played, since it'd be easy to slip in "Do you know Trump/Ice's the enemy".

It would be nice if they did release a non album single during these hard times in the U.S and just before or after their Super Bowl performance since all attention are already on them.

They need to make tea or chia for us who don’t like coffee

Or a date for New Years Rev to be released?!?!

I really hope it means we'll finally hear more about a live album/doc! They have so much footage that we haven't seen.

That’s very unfortunate! But they will be back and until then you‘ll have time to explore their whole catalogue and learn all the lyrics by heart! 😉

Great, thanks! I have soundcheck every morning (that sounds funny😅). And soon I will have a new shipment without shipping costs. Which means our friend from Washington DC will come over to visit.😊

I really hope we can see/hear this done how at some point!

Np! It looks so cool ^^ ooh nicee! :0 ill check it out :3

Thanks for that, I want that t-shirt 🙂

...So a while ago my nimrod jewel case broke. Hinge fell off i don't know where when lettng my friend borrow it and the case just looked like shit. Had to replace the case myself... Since the replacement jewel cases i have has those black opaque back covers (is that what you call it??) i had to swap them out and perform surgery. Fun! Now it doesn't need to fall apart when i grab it. My radiohead cd needed this treatment months ago, i still need to do that...

Thats awesome! i feel like its really important to learn the music so when your casually listening you enjoy and appreciate so much more. I had a similar experience with writing a school essay about their lyrics when i went back and listened it felt way better!

Love the bit in there about Billie Joe’s songwriting, couldn’t agree more, he’s brilliant.

i make a lot of gifs, lol.

I loved that song and most of Father of All.

Today I woke up with the song Dream Catcher in my head!😊 It’s not that surprising, listened to it twice on YT yesterday before going to bed: First one is AI. I hate AI but in this case I can accept it. It’s such a beautiful song, I‘d die for an official release. I think I even dreamt about it. Isn’t it fitting, I had Dream Catcher in my dreams….

"I was a teenage teenager" has grown on me. Kill me