Poll - Dirty Rotten Bastards VS Forever Now

[End Of The World]

Choose your favorite song between the two longest songs (and in my opinion, masterpieces) of the latest GD albums. Please vote and share your thoughts!

I voted for Forever Now, because of the power of the song and its meaning into the whole album. It was quite easy for me, but I don't think it will be for everyone...

[stories and songs]

Forever Now, and it's not even close. Dirty Rotten Bastards is good, but not particularly cohesive—it really feels like a bunch of short songs mashed together. Forever Now flows beautifully and is a wonderful bookend to Somewhere Now. 

[Shahd]

I voted Dirty Rotten Bastards because hmmm I just like it more?! I do like Forever Now, but I'm finding myself liking DRB more, maybe it's the music.

[solongfromthestars]

Sorry trilogy, I had to choose Forever Now.

I like DRB and some of the lyrics are great, but I think Forever Now has some of Billie's best lyrics and it's overall more powerful and coherent.

[Spike]

Forever Now. DRB is good, but it's repetitive and some of the transitions are really jarring. Forever Now feels like it needs to be as long as it is, and the lyrics are fantastic. 

[Chin for a Day]

I really don't think this is a fair comparison.  Even though I love both songs, I think they are very different type of songs.  I look at Forever Now as a big stadium anthem.  It fits so well ending the set.  Where I would love to see them replace King for A Day with Dirty Rotten Bastards.  I love it, but it is a fun type of song.  I chose Forever Now because I think it is just a superior song.

[SuperXCsabre495]

The thing is with both of these songs fit into each of their respective albums so well, the both have reprises and they both have call backs to previous songs. While California's Burning Down is one of my favorite motions on the whole trilogy I think Forever Now just flows better when it goes to separate parts. So I chose Forever Now.

[Wouter1994]

Forever now, but Jesus of suburbia, and homecoming are far better!

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

I think these two songs are hardly comparable, but my long-length Green Day songs chart right now is: 1) Homecoming, 2) Forever Now, 3) Jesus of suburbia, 4) Dirty Rotten Bastards

[End Of The World]

21 minutes ago, Wouter1994 said:

Forever now, but Jesus of suburbia, and homecoming are far better!

 

7 minutes ago, J a c said:

I think these two songs are hardly comparable, but my long-length Green Day songs chart right now is: 1) Homecoming, 2) Forever Now, 3) Jesus of suburbia, 4) Dirty Rotten Bastards

I wanted to create a poll with all the long length songs, but it would have been not that fair because of the supremacy of JOS

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

Just now, End Of The World said:

 

I wanted to create a poll with all the long length songs, but it would have been not that fair because of the supremacy of JOS

 

Fair enough  

[Grinch]

Dirty Rotten Bastards is good but... Forever Now is easily the best closer for an album they've had since American Idiot with Homecoming/Whastername and is one of my favorite songs from Revolution Radio. I actually kinda wish the album ended on it and they had Ordinary World somewhere else in the album

[Chin for a Day]

20 minutes ago, End Of The World said:

 

I wanted to create a poll with all the long length songs, but it would have been not that fair because of the supremacy of JOS

I think it really depends on how you are comparing them.  Are you looking at them as just songs in general or live songs.  Obviously, I've only seen Forever Now in the videos from the recent shows, but I think it has the potential to be a much better song live.  I don't think JOS plays well live 

[The Grohl]

Wow I haven't listened to Dirty Rotten Bastards in so long. I almost forgot how it went!

[End Of The World]

14 minutes ago, Scattered Wreck said:

I think it really depends on how you are comparing them.  Are you looking at them as just songs in general or live songs.  Obviously, I've only seen Forever Now in the videos from the recent shows, but I think it has the potential to be a much better song live.  I don't think JOS plays well live 

I mean in general (studio version).

DRB wasn't played live that much from what I know though...

[Maddie86]

Forever Now hands down. It's just altogether a solid song, where as I can't stand the first minute of DRB, and the lyrics of DRB are pretty dumb too. I do like a lot of the energy in DRB and I love billie and mike's shredding, but other than that I don't think the song really has much goin for it

[Second favourite son]

It's got to be Forever Now.  DRB has some great bits, but they don't fit together as well as Forever Now; in fact, none of the other long songs do.  Forever now feels natural, like that's the way the song panned out when they wrote it, whereas DRB feels forced at times, like they wanted to write another longer song but had to force it a little bit.  Not much, but a little.  That said, the bass in DRB is awesome, and the song has a really strong melody at points.  The introduction is meh, at least for me.  But what really sets Forever Now apart, for me, is the transitions.  The changes of tempo aren't nearly as forced, even now I barely even notice them.  The changes in tune, also, seem much more natural and coherent.  So yeah, Forever Now, not because DRB is bad, but because the new one's better.

[Thatsername]

Forever Now by all means! But I also love DRB and I just listened to both songs in a row, and I got the strange feeling that the story of them fits together perfectly. DRB's lyrics just got a whole new meaning for me. The song is about the chaos, the breakdown: "Calling all demons, this is the season, Next stop is therapy" - that is just so obvious. And this line is especially frightening since we know how bad Billie's condition was and with Still Breathing in mind: "Gonna take it further, get away with murder, And no one here is getting out alive".

Forever Now, on the other hand, is about looking back at the chaos and embracing life again ("How did a life on the wild side ever get so full?"). Yeah, I love both songs, and they both are great representatives of their era.

[St. Jonny]

Voted for Forever Now. Probably would have been a great album title, but the song kills! DRB is also amazing but Forever Now is more fresh at this point so I chose that though comparing them may make no sense.

[iScottie]

FN

[Steven Seagull]

Dirty Rotten Bastards and it's not even close cause FN is shit just like the rest of Revolution Radio. Green Day are just too afraid to play it live cause they would screw it up.

[whatsername]

Forever Now hands down.

[Tubbie Head]

Dirty Rotten Bastards for me  

Love Forever Now tho!

[jordanlolss]

I've always thought that the obsession with DRB comes from peoples' longing for another JOS type song. While DRB was pretty cool compared to the rest of the music that came with it, it is only a shadow of what people were longing for. Forever Now is a true realization of what people were wanting in terms of a long song with multiple parts that blend together. That's not to say that DRB is bad, it's just not quite as cohesive as Forever Now.

[unextraordinarygirl]

As other people have said, I like both songs but I chose Forever Now. It's more cohesive and the lyrics are so personal.