New Single "Fire, Ready, Aim" Will Debut October 9th

[Khaleesi.]

I don't hate it.... it's just not Green Day 😕 

[inthehallwaynow]

I hate it with all my being

[Squashie]

Just listened to it on some good headphones (loudly) and dang it. I love it. I can hear Mike's bass and Billie's vocals are coming through WAY better than on my iPhone speakers. I'm really liking the guitar tone on this one too. 

[Maddie86]

This new era is lacking heart. Revrad had a lot of it, still breathing came out as a single at the same time I got sober and it really resonated with me, Billie seemed to be thinking clearly when he wrote revrad, but these new songs don't seem to have any meaning to them and Billie sounds like some kid rambling after he just drank his first beer.

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

4 minutes ago, DadBod said:

Just listened to it on some good headphones (loudly) and dang it. I love it. I can hear Mike's bass and Billie's vocals are coming through WAY better than on my iPhone speakers. I'm really liking the guitar tone on this one too. 

Yes, there’s so much stuff going on in the instrumental part that it really renders way better with proper headphones/sound system. I just listened to it for the first time with my iPhone speakers and it sounds way way worse, the vocals are getting lost and the whole bass and keyboard tracks are barely noticeable. This is a big difference with FOAMF, that on the contrary sounds great on every audio device I tried it to. 

[Jorgemas]

Great song. Great vocals. Its a banger. I know they can do more good, but dont expect many

just sit and enjoy. 

[thisguy3496]

 It’s not bad but it’s not good. It’s a lot different that what I’m used to hearing from the guys, maybe when I hear the album I’ll probably like it more

[Eric]

The guys are 2/2 with this project so far, can't wait for the next single!  

2 hours ago, Josh100_3 said:

To the people that absolutely hate this track, may I ask what other kind of music you listen to?

It’s not the greatest song in the world, but it does heavily remind me of the music I used to listen to in high school (2008/9 I guess?) I’m hearing The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes etc all over these two new tracks, which isn’t a bad thing but it is a pretty bizarre throwback sound to throw at your fan base out of nowhere...

 

all they listen to is Green Day so I can see why they are use to Green Day sounding Green Day  

[That Dude]

We need time to live with the song. 

Too early for all this hate and love. 

In 2024 and onward we'll be on here hating on their latest marterial, saying how we want that classic FOAM sound..

Ugh

[Eric]

I hope the next song is even more different, like a 🖕to the ones still hoping for something that sounds like all their other work.

[pacejunkie punk]

36 minutes ago, DadBod said:

Just listened to it on some good headphones (loudly) and dang it. I love it. I can hear Mike's bass and Billie's vocals are coming through WAY better than on my iPhone speakers. I'm really liking the guitar tone on this one too. 

 

28 minutes ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said:

Yes, there’s so much stuff going on in the instrumental part that it really renders way better with proper headphones/sound system. I just listened to it for the first time with my iPhone speakers and it sounds way way worse, the vocals are getting lost and the whole bass and keyboard tracks are barely noticeable. This is a big difference with FOAMF, that on the contrary sounds great on every audio device I tried it to. 

Yes and to anyone who hasn’t done this yet give it a try. I just played FOAM and FRA back to back LOUD on my wireless speaker and WOW!!! I defy anyone to listen to those two songs back to back on a decent sound system and not want to dance and chant around the room. It was very fun. That’s what they were going for. These are not songs to sit around, cry and get in touch with your feelings over. These are songs to dance to so you have to turn them up.

And since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, “kick the dog when the whistle blows” is a play on the term “dog whistle”, which is when people say secret racist, antisemitic and other hateful things in code meant for other haters to pick up and chime in on.  It’s a silent whistle that brings the trolls out and Billie is saying here that when the whistle is blown, he wants to kick that “dog” and call him a liar. 

[jengd]

What @pacejunkie punk said, I want to love her post 100 times.  I’m saying it again too, crank it up and dance - oh, and smile while you’re at it! 😉😉🦄🦄🦄

[Little Boy Named Booze]

1 minute ago, jengd said:

What @pacejunkie punk said, I want to love her post 100 times.  I’m saying it again too, crank it up and dance - oh, and smile while you’re at it! 😉😉🦄🦄🦄

Exactly !! Back to back it's awesome!

[asiegrist]

14 hours ago, GDFan2019 said:

The live version can easily be much longer!!! “READY, AIM, FIRE, FIRE, READY, AIM!!!” And then 5 minutes of Billie running around the stage screaming, “SAY HEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY OHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

So true, I respect this post so much as it's exactly my thoughts as well. What an absolute trainwreck.

[**nobodylikesyou**]

8 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

 

Yes and to anyone who hasn’t done this yet give it a try. I just played FOAM and FRA back to back LOUD on my wireless speaker and WOW!!! I defy anyone to listen to those two songs back to back on a decent sound system and not want to dance and chant around the room. It was very fun. That’s what they were going for. These are not songs to sit around, cry and get in touch with your feelings over. These are songs to dance to so you have to turn them up.

And since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, “kick the dog when the whistle blows” is a play on the term “dog whistle”, which is when people say secret racist, antisemitic and other hateful things in code meant for other haters to pick up and chime in on.  It’s a silent whistle that brings the trolls out and Billie is saying here that when the whistle is blown, he wants to kick that “dog” and call him a liar. 

Ok I am gonna take the time right now and give them both a proper listen......thanks for the idea!!

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

This isn't music to think deeply about. If you're expecting a serious, thoughtful masterpiece, you're bound to be disappointed. Listen to this like to Foxboro or Longshot or Dos and it's decent.

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

1 hour ago, Maddie86 said:

This new era is lacking heart. Revrad had a lot of it, still breathing came out as a single at the same time I got sober and it really resonated with me, Billie seemed to be thinking clearly when he wrote revrad, but these new songs don't seem to have any meaning to them and Billie sounds like some kid rambling after he just drank his first beer.

I don't agree with this, and I think this is very personal and depends on how you interpret and relate to these songs.

There's no right or wrong opinion in this, but I take this as a chance to explain how I feel about this and why so far I can relate more to this era than the RR one. It's fucking long and no-one asked for it, so I'll be a nice happy rooting unicorn and put it in spoilers

Spoiler

I think this concept that Billie has been repeating in a few interviews (including the new Howard Stern one) explains this quite well: feeling like being constantly bombarded by hate, grossness and negativity, the difficulty in getting inspired, the desire to escape from all of this. FOAMF being an example of escapism.

I love this, and I see a lot of hearth and honesty from Billie talking and writing songs about this (also with the Longshot), I love how they're making the music match with this, and the overall vibe of this era. And I love it because I can totally relate to it. I used to do a lot of politics and activism during my high school and early university years, I am still interested in politics and try to commit myself as much as I can, but I am totally overwhelmed and disgusted by so many things. So much that I felt the need to escape from part of that world, so much that I just feel like throwing up when I read or hear some of the shit that is being repeated on the news, online, and sometimes even just among people. Sometimes the only way to not throw up is a big fuck you.
This has an impact also on the music I like to listen to. I still enjoy political songs when it's stuff like Bad Religion or the Clash, I like a couple of contemporary Italian rappers and bands that I think manage to share political emotions very well, but I mainly listen to "escapism" music, early 90's punk rock, ska, early Rolling Stones and Who records, Kinks, a lot of Talking Heads. Love is for losers, and FOAMF from what I heard, fits so well in it.

Rev Rad on the other hand had a lot of meaning for the band and phase it was coming out from, but in the end, looking at that era after three years, I related to it only partially.

To put it in another way: when AI came out I was a different person, I was one of those kids passively assisting to the world getting fucked up after 9/11, with a lot of shit going on and barely no politics on the mainstream channels, no social networks, no spaces of discussion, no way to find a way to relate with something bigger then you going on there, outside. Today is the same and the opposite. A lot of shit going on, and getting misrepresented, overly exposed, and constantly thrown in your eyes, ears, and mouth, here, inside, in your very personal social spaces. 

Thus I loved AI back then, cause it helped me to find a way inside, and I'm loving FOAMF so far, cause it helps to party outside. I will be a shitty poet in my next life 

 

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[Eric]

if this had Foxboro Hot Tubs as the name GDC would all love it  

 

just because you do not like the new songs doesn't mean it's a troll album or lacking heart, Magnum Opus Of The Inglorious Kind doesn't exist no matter how much you want it to after hearing each single from FOAMF

[solongfromthestars]

I've listened to them back to back on both decent speakers and headphones and I'm not really getting the urge to dance. I'm sure I will live, but not feeling it listening at home.

Also, I'd argue that the things this era keeps being compared to (FBHT, ¡Dos! and The Longshot, though I'm not really seeing it) do give the listener something to think about. Some songs, like Stop, Drop & Roll or Fuck Time don't, but others like 27th Ave. Shuffle, Lazy Bones and most of Love is for Losers do. No, I'm not saying that means everything should. Just pointing it out. It's also totally possible (and lots of fun!) to dance to most "deep" Green Day songs. Who doesn't want to dance to Armatage Shanks or Uptight?

tl;dr I don't think people are viewing these songs the wrong way, they just don't like them.

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

23 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

And since it hasn’t been mentioned yet, “kick the dog when the whistle blows” is a play on the term “dog whistle”, which is when people say secret racist, antisemitic and other hateful things in code meant for other haters to pick up and chime in on.  It’s a silent whistle that brings the trolls out and Billie is saying here that when the whistle is blown, he wants to kick that “dog” and call him a liar. 

Ah, thanks for this, I interpreted it in a similar way, but that line makes much more sense now.

[Morse Code Guy]

I really like this song now. This song sounds really cool while driving. 
 

P.S - I really do think that this album was made in just 2 months or something. And that, it’s just a “Fukc you Warner! We’re saving the best for next year” vibe album. 

[Littleshi]

3 hours ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said:

I am looking into the lyrics with a little more attention, this is how I interpret them: 

Kick the dog when the whistle blows, you’re a liar
Attack someone that is speaking out, you are just frustrated with your life and you are a liar

Feed the creeps with a stick and bone, you’re a liar
The typical troll activity, exasperating communities, provoking (stick) and feeding lies (bones)  

Baby got the hyperbole
That’s always the excuse for what a troll says, it’s just an hyperbole, he didn’t mean it 

Rip it up on retribution, turn it up sideways 
The punishment is destroying the other’s opinion, altering its true meaning 

Ready aim fire, fire ready aim
Open your mouth not thinking twice

Stick a hammer in your mouth, you’re a liar, knock your teeth out to the ground, baby got the hyperbole
This can be interpreted as another “troll activity”, but I think in the second part the lyrics become an attack to the trolls, in other words “shut your fucking mouth, now look who need to deal with the hyperbole”

i said the meaning of the song before was released just by the title, i think the lyric is really good simple but good, maybe i expected something about someone dealing within trying to think more but being impulsibe (because te preview singing ready aim fire, and then fire ready aim, and so far both songs have fresh lyrics, in the last records billie tended to repeat himself with words . t

this song is really good. and speak a true of the times we live.

[Morse Code Guy]

Also, with the Artwork, i do think Warner pressurised them to make another American Idiot, so they ripped its artwork and trolled Warner

[Little Boy Named Booze]

Just get over the troll thing lol. It's their album and they wanted to do it.
 

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

9 minutes ago, Morse Code Guy said:

I really like this song now. This song sounds really cool while driving. 
 

P.S - I really do think that this album was made in just 2 months or something. And that, it’s just a “Fukc you Warner! We’re saving the best for next year” vibe album. 

From the new interview with Howard Stern it looks like they're considering the option to stay with Warner and that it all depends on how the contractual terms negotiation will go. So I don't really think this is an intentional "fuck you" to Warner. I think this is the music they want to make right now, with no filter (except Billie's vocal filters ), and we have to accept it, whether we like it or not. There might be more music coming out next year, but I don't think they're putting the "worse" music out now because it's, maybe, the last record with Warner.