MillenniumFan Posted June 13, 2020 Posted June 13, 2020 Damn, Green Day actually made the list, not a proud moment I suppose Then again, can't really blame them for mentioning it. Aside from the reasonable lyrics, I absolutely hate that song... 1
Popular Post The Grohl Posted June 14, 2020 Popular Post Posted June 14, 2020 Oh it's someone saying Oh Yeah! is terrible. What a totally surprising and shocking opinion. 1 4
BilIie Joe Armstrong Posted June 14, 2020 Posted June 14, 2020 it’s a good poppy song, just would do better without the oh yeahing 2
Guest Posted June 14, 2020 Posted June 14, 2020 6 hours ago, The Grohl said: Oh it's someone saying Oh Yeah! is terrible. What a totally surprising and shocking opinion. I hear their next scoop is about Warning being underrated and how they actually like the Trilogy. Could you even imagine those news breaking? People will freak out for sure.
The Grohl Posted June 14, 2020 Posted June 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Nightlife said: I hear their next scoop is about Warning being underrated and how they actually like the Trilogy. Could you even imagine those news breaking? People will freak out for sure. 1 1
DookieLukie Posted June 18, 2020 Posted June 18, 2020 Fire, Ready, Aim was featured in this trailer. Vocals seem more up-front. 1 1
BilIie Joe Armstrong Posted June 19, 2020 Posted June 19, 2020 This song sounds very good in commercials. 2
That Dude Posted June 20, 2020 Posted June 20, 2020 On 6/13/2020 at 11:57 PM, The Grohl said: Oh it's someone saying Oh Yeah! is terrible. What a totally surprising and shocking opinion. Any Green Day song that starts with "OH" is going to be great. The Oh Chronicles: Oh Girl Oh Love Oh Yeah What could be next? Oh S%&! or Oh F&*k! Oh No! Oh Boy! Oh Geez!
MillenniumFan Posted June 20, 2020 Posted June 20, 2020 On 6/14/2020 at 5:57 AM, The Grohl said: Oh it's someone saying Oh Yeah! is terrible. What a totally surprising and shocking opinion. Yeah no, it's definitely a lame take, no doubt. There's definitely worse songs on the album (cough...FRA...cough), Oh Yeah actually has decent lyrics. I still don't like the song as a whole though, but hey-ho... Thing is, we should still be aware of the fact that outside our little bubble here, the optics of FOAM really aren't great. I have a lot of "casual GD fan" friends and shocker (not): None of them like the new album. That's just how things are... 1
BilIie Joe Armstrong Posted June 20, 2020 Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, MillenniumFan said: Thing is, we should still be aware of the fact that outside our little bubble here, the optics of FOAM really aren't great. I have a lot of "casual GD fan" friends and shocker (not): None of them like the new album. That's just how things are... Not sure if that’s just how horribly biased I am, but I don’t really get the reasons why FOAM is so disliked when it’s really just a standard Green Day album with a poppier sound. If I was to guess I’d expect casual fans would enjoy it (even though maybe it’s the opposite because if I only knew American Idiot, I’d exect something similar.) 4
Popular Post remember2learn2forget Posted June 21, 2020 Popular Post Posted June 21, 2020 19 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said: Not sure if that’s just how horribly biased I am, but I don’t really get the reasons why FOAM is so disliked when it’s really just a standard Green Day album with a poppier sound. If I was to guess I’d expect casual fans would enjoy it (even though maybe it’s the opposite because if I only knew American Idiot, I’d exect something similar.) This is exactly how I feel about it too. I think it's got a cool and fresh sound while also staying true to their other work. It's certainly different to what I expected from them, but different doesn't always mean bad! 5
jengd Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 8 hours ago, remember2learn2forget said: This is exactly how I feel about it too. I think it's got a cool and fresh sound while also staying true to their other work. It's certainly different to what I expected from them, but different doesn't always mean bad! Same, I agree with one of the reviews which started off saying something like if you were really surprised by FOAM, you haven’t been paying attention. 1
MillenniumFan Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 9 hours ago, Beerjeezus said: Not sure if that’s just how horribly biased I am, but I don’t really get the reasons why FOAM is so disliked when it’s really just a standard Green Day album with a poppier sound. If I was to guess I’d expect casual fans would enjoy it (even though maybe it’s the opposite because if I only knew American Idiot, I’d exect something similar.) Yeah I in no way think it deserves the hate it gets. As you said though, most casual fans really aren't as open-minded as one would think, mostly because they only know what Green Day is "supposed to sound like" based on a narrow selection of songs/albums (usually American Idiot, 21CB or Dookie). I'd have to compare it to how I consider myself a casual fan of Linkin Park, but only really like or know their early stuff. That's what Linkin Park's "sound" is to me and I was unhappy when they strayed from it. Of course more committed fans would disagree. I'm not someone to melt-down over a band taking a new direction, but as much as I really like and respect the band on a personal level (and of course Chester Bennington), I certainly wasn't a fan of the newest album back in 2017. Still, though I have my issues with FOAM, the internet meltdown of some "fans" that ensued its release is absolutely ridiculous and honestly cringe-worthy... 2
Popular Post GreenDayItaly Posted June 23, 2020 Popular Post Posted June 23, 2020 Green Day are on the new 'Classic Rock Magazine' 100 Greatest song of the Century so far with American idiot: At the time they recorded American Idiot, Green Day were finished, washed-up, done. The California trio could still fill a room on the fumes from 1994's Dookie, an album that had chimed with a rock scene that needed cheering up after Kurt Cobain's suicide and grunge's death rattle. But creatively and commercially it had been a long decade's downturn, capped by the ignominy, on 2002's Pop Disaster Tour, of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool trading headline status with their thunder-stealing successors Blink-182. "For some fans," wrote biographer Ben Myers, "it was total confirmation that Green Day had lost it and were resorting to touring with their own lightweight doppelgangers." But perhaps these thirty-something punks still had something up their sleeves. Measured against the globe-shaking events that washed in on the ripples from George W Bush's election and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the rebirth of Green Day might have seemed like a footnote. For fans of back-to-basics rock'n'roll, though, American Idiot's title track was a joyous chink of light, puncturing the West's febrile mood with a fistful of brittle chords and a clarion call: 'Don't want to be an American Idiot/Don't want a nation under the new mania.' If a creative rebirth seemed unlikely, then Green Day's politicisation was unthinkable. To date, the band's most-quoted line came from slacker anthem, Longview (When masturbation's lost itsfun,you'refucking lonely'). But when they released American Idiot as a single in August 2004, the formerly bleach-haired and goonish Armstrong seemed like a rock star reimagined by Tim Burton and Noam Chomsky, now chronicling the itchy paranoia, media-orchestrated hysteria and gormless White House administration playing out on rolling news channels. "Well maybe I'm the faggot America", he raged: "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda". Locking swords with George W and his red-state support was a risky move for any rock band; only a year earlier, the Dixie Chicks had been blacklisted by the country scene for criticising Bush from the stage in London. To his credit, Armstrong was unrepentant. "We live in times of terror, and now is the time to speak out," the singer reasoned of his new-found ire. "We wanted to face danger, put it on the line and tell people what we think. Rock'n'roll is supposed to be dangerous. That's where we come from." American Idiot's polemic wouldn't have counted for much, of course, if the sugar-rush hooks hadn't forced the song on to every radio playlist across the planet. Despite opening a punk-opera concept album that was often musically sprawling — consider the nine-minute, five-section Jesus Of Suburbia — the title track couldn't have been leaner, simpler or more whip-smart. With Armstrong citing his preference for Quadrophenia's "power-chord, mod-pop aesthetic" over weightier works like Pink Floyd's The Wall, American Idiot wasn't much more than a four-chord thrasher; it didn't even have a riff. Yet the scalded attack of Armstrong's playing reminded you just how powerful a well-struck electric guitar could be. And when the band dropped out then exploded back in at the 2:22 mark, the effect was akin to a detonation. Especially when you watched the heavy-rotation music video, in which Armstong mimed blowing his head off. With 16 years of hindsight, there's a case that Green Day's American Idiot retooled the concept album for the post-millennium. But as the title track flew to No.3 in the UK in the summer of 2004 — reconnecting with older fans who'd drifted away, and kids who heard something in the singalong venom of these kohl-eyed provocateurs — it achieved something every bit as noble. In a world gone to hell, American Idiot's three-minute riot was a reminder that rock still had something to say — and adhered to the old punk maxim that anyone in possession of three chords, at least two fingers and a guitar turned full-up could say it. Not so dumb after all. 2 3
GreenDayItaly Posted June 23, 2020 Posted June 23, 2020 Why Green Day’s ‘Pissed’ Singer Wrote ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’ https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-green-days-pissed-singer-wrote-good-riddance-time-of-your-life.html The Green Day Performance That the Killers’ Lead Singer Called ‘Cheap’ https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-green-day-performance-that-the-killers-lead-singer-called-cheap.html
pacejunkie punk Posted June 24, 2020 Posted June 24, 2020 I think this is a new add — Bullet in A Bible is now streaming free on Prime 3
Give_Me_Novacaine90 Posted June 28, 2020 Posted June 28, 2020 https://meaww.com/pandemic-playlist-green-day-top-5-songs-basketcase-boulevard-september-end-21-guns-time-of-your-life Pandemic Playlist: Top 5 Green Day songs are a celebration of the Pride-friendly band's enduring hits 1
GreenDayItaly Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 Green Day's Mike Dirnt: “My wife bought me a ’58 Olympic White Fender P-Bass - it eats my friends alive that I play it live” https://www.guitarworld.com/amp/features/green-days-mike-dirnt-my-wife-bought-me-a-58-olympic-white-fender-p-bass-it-eats-my-friends-alive-that-i-play-it-live 2
That Dude Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 On 6/18/2020 at 7:59 PM, DookieLukie said: Fire, Ready, Aim was featured in this trailer. Vocals seem more up-front. Who's ready (fire,aim!) for some more Hockey related videos? I....am not.
That Dude Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 This morning I heard I Think We're Alone Now on the pop station of XM radio. Then on the underground station, they were playing THE BOO -I Want Revenge!!!! Anybody else heard the Boo on the radio?????
pacejunkie punk Posted July 8, 2020 Posted July 8, 2020 10 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said: Omg I want that! Everyone’s gonna want that. It’s genius 1
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