what's your least favorite gd album

[The Grohl]

5 hours ago, jengd said:

See, I really love The Forgotten though it’s a difficult song for me as I almost felt like the video was saying goodbye, which at the time felt like a real possibility.

That's always a song I forget 

[BratReject23]

For me kerplunk and Dos. 

Kerplunk has very good songs but as a whole is not that interesting. 

And dos.. God...  It contains 3 or 5 of the worst songs of their career. Ashley, make out party, fuck time, just mention a few. 

Uno also might be in this rank but the first half is pretty solid. 

[Hermione]

FOAM. I don't think there's a song I really dislike and I'm not against GD albums with partying etc themes at all but the sound as a whole just isn't my favourite (it's like FBHT or Dos but with less of a retro sound so less interesting, and more overproduced) and it's probably some of the least interesting lyrics overall. And it just never feels like a complete album to me because it's so short. There's good songs there but not a good album. At least they made up for the with the fabulous double Network album!

Kerplunk. I don't know what it is but I've just never been quite as into it as other albums. I think maybe because it sounds really in the middle between 1039 style and Dookie style so it feels like a transitionary album rather than having as much of a unique feeling of its own. 

Warning. Again it's a great album but it isn't my favourite sound/genre direction they've tried. It's cool they did it and it has amazing lyrics and catchy songs but the folk/acoustic thing isn't really for me. If it didn't have Blood Sex and Booze it would probably be my least favourite

It feels silly to even choose them though because they're still some of my favourite albums and I listen to them all the time . It's just compared to other GD albums. PS all Trilogy albums rule and will never be my least favourite!

[Undómiel]

I haven't listened to FOAM (still), so can't comment. Of the others, and I KNOW people will come for me on this... its Nimrod. Idk. I just don't *get* it as an album. It's got some brilliant brilliant songs on it, but I'll always listen to those songs as standalone, not Nimrod as a whole. Idk why. 

[stories and songs]

1 hour ago, Hermione said:

It feels silly to even choose them though because they're still some of my favourite albums and I listen to them all the time . It's just compared to other GD albums. PS all Trilogy albums rule and will never be my least favourite!

You had me clutching my pearls with Kerplunk and Warning.  But I completely understand your reasoning!

I agree that the trilogy slaps. It took me some time to sort of detach the music from that period of time the band went through, but I can create one of my top favorite Green Day albums if I make a playlist of my favorites from the trilogy. Lazy Bones and Brutal Love are two of my favorite songs of theirs (like, both top 10 all timers, honestly). I’m also obsessed with Ashley, Stray Heart, Stay the Night, X-Kid, Walk Away. I’ll never complain about an artist I love putting out too much music. I understand the critique that albums should be curated and I agree at times, but I’m also fine with the choose-your-own-adventure approach on occasion. 

[Cris.]

1 hour ago, Undómiel said:

I haven't listened to FOAM (still), so can't comment. Of the others, and I KNOW people will come for me on this... its Nimrod. Idk. I just don't *get* it as an album. It's got some brilliant brilliant songs on it, but I'll always listen to those songs as standalone, not Nimrod as a whole. Idk why. 

I feel the same way about Nimrod! It has a lot of great songs in it, and it doesn't have any song that I dislike, but to me it feels like it's all disconnected somehow? Like it doesn't fit one particular mood... Hence it's among the Green Day albums I play the least, because it's never like "oh, I'm in the mood for Nimrod"... usually I play it because I want to listen to one particular song from it and end up playing the whole thing... it's the only Green Day album I get this with.

 

2 hours ago, Hermione said:

It feels silly to even choose them though because they're still some of my favourite albums and I listen to them all the time . It's just compared to other GD albums. PS all Trilogy albums rule and will never be my least favourite!

This is true though, in the last year I might have played my favorite album from my second favorite artists less times that I played my least favorite GD album

And I must say, I'm a bit surprised at the amount of people who are not into Kerplunk, I didn't see that coming. I love that album. I also love Warning, but I find it less surprising if there are people for whom it's among their lowest ranking GD albums.

[Undómiel]

Just now, Cris. said:

 

And I must say, I'm a bit surprised at the amount of people who are not into Kerplunk, I didn't see that coming. I love that album. I also love Warning, but I find it less surprising if there are people for whom it's among their lowest ranking GD albums.

Same! I love Kerplunk! I think it's great. 

Christie Rd., 80, 2000 Lightyears Away... 

 

Maybe I'm just a sucker for Billie's love songs 😅

[Hermione]

58 minutes ago, stories and songs said:

You had me clutching my pearls with Kerplunk and Warning.  But I completely understand your reasoning!

I agree that the trilogy slaps. It took me some time to sort of detach the music from that period of time the band went through, but I can create one of my top favorite Green Day albums if I make a playlist of my favorites from the trilogy. Lazy Bones and Brutal Love are two of my favorite songs of theirs (like, both top 10 all timers, honestly). I’m also obsessed with Ashley, Stray Heart, Stay the Night, X-Kid, Walk Away. I’ll never complain about an artist I love putting out too much music. I understand the critique that albums should be curated and I agree at times, but I’m also fine with the choose-your-own-adventure approach on occasion. 

I love the description of it as choose your own adventure . I never got wanting the albums to be cut down either. Love Brutal Love . I think because alongside the whole Billie rehab thing there were a lot of fun things as a fan during that era as well (including Billie coming out the other side much better) I don't see it too negatively. 

6 minutes ago, Cris. said:

I feel the same way about Nimrod! It has a lot of great songs in it, and it doesn't have any song that I dislike, but to me it feels like it's all disconnected somehow? Like it doesn't fit one particular mood... Hence it's among the Green Day albums I play the least, because it's never like "oh, I'm in the mood for Nimrod"... usually I play it because I want to listen to one particular song from it and end up playing the whole thing... it's the only Green Day album I get this with.

 

This is true though, in the last year I might have played my favorite album from my second favorite artists less times that I played my least favorite GD album

And I must say, I'm a bit surprised at the amount of people who are not into Kerplunk, I didn't see that coming. I love that album. I also love Warning, but I find it less surprising if there are people for whom it's among their lowest ranking GD albums.

Kerplunk is great honestly . I think it's just out of all of their albums the two most similar are probably Kerplunk and Dookie (to me anyway) and Dookie happens to be better (naturally as it builds on Kerplunk and they were older/more experienced as songwriters and musicians and the techincal quality is much higher). Just means it doesn't stand out quite as much.

[BRAIN_STEW1039]

@Undómiel my jaw DROPPED when you said you didnt like nimrod, lmao. I get why you cant enjoy the album as a whole but like some songs, I'm like that on some albums like kerplunk or 1039, but overall great albums. Nimrod will always be my fav, its even my xbox user 😆

[Christian's Inferno!]

8 hours ago, Saviour said:

IMO, FOAMF because it's just really, really not a very good album. Like, at all. Especially when you factor in the consistently high quality of their other output. That whole period feels like a strange mid-life crisis fever dream of an experiment that really didn't work. The marketing. The artwork. The over-production. It's like if the NFL commissioned an album of tracks for their end-of-season montages. 

Even as a Foxboro Hot Tubs album it would be worse than Stop, Drop and Roll!!! 

Stop Drop and Roll is such a fantastic album. I think it's for sure a Top 5 Green Day album, and definitely their best side project release. FOAM would be such an awful follow up to it

19 minutes ago, BRAIN_STEW1039 said:

@Undómiel my jaw DROPPED when you said you didnt like nimrod, lmao. I get why you cant enjoy the album as a whole but like some songs, I'm like that on some albums like kerplunk or 1039, but overall great albums. Nimrod will always be my fav, its even my xbox user 😆

Yeah Nimrod is probably the least hated Green Day album ever. Like even Dookie & American Idiot get a fair amount of criticism from certain parts of the fandom but in my time as a fan, I've rarely, if ever, heard people refer to Nimrod as anything less than good. Not necessarily amazing, but at least like a 7/10

[Undómiel]

@BRAIN_STEW1039 @Christian's Inferno!

Yeah some of the songs are excellent - GR, NGFL, The Grouch, Redundant, KFAD...

 

but I never think "oh, I'll put Nimrod on" whereas I do for all other GD albums apart from FOA and the trilogy 😅. 

[BRAIN_STEW1039]

@Undómiel yeah, I get that. also, the trilogy rocks! Uno! is by far my fav

[stefand11]

This will be unpopular but the guitar tones of 1039 smooth is a struggle for me, if that and kerplunk were re-done they would be so much better 

[Jesus-of-nowhere]

hot take, but probably father of all, the trilogy, or warning. Warning is good okay but its just very moderate in the middle (besides misery) but maybe its just not grown on me enough. Father of all just comes off as trying to hard but its not all bad and the trilogy just feels filler or really hard attempts at mainstream pop rock. No completely bad albums though

[Christian's Inferno!]

15 hours ago, Jesus-of-nowhere said:

hot take, but probably father of all, the trilogy, or warning. Warning is good okay but its just very moderate in the middle (besides misery) but maybe its just not grown on me enough. Father of all just comes off as trying to hard but its not all bad and the trilogy just feels filler or really hard attempts at mainstream pop rock. No completely bad albums though

You say hot take but name the 3 projects that were their commercially/critically least successful albums at the time of their release lol. Which of these is supposed to be the hot take?

[Jesus-of-nowhere]

19 hours ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

You say hot take but name the 3 projects that were their commercially/critically least successful albums at the time of their release lol. Which of these is supposed to be the hot take?

just warning really the other two aren't. But I know a LOT of people who like warning so its really only for warning I just worded it wrong

[BRAIN_STEW1039]

@Jesus-of-nowhere yeah, I agree, all of those are all pretty mediocre.. I often forget about FOAM because its just not that memorable lol.