Saviors (édition de luxe) - Out May 23rd !!

[þjáningu]

Oh boy 😮‍💨

These new songs aren't good but they are b-sides (I think) so I'm not gonna get worked up about it

 

 

[Beathe.]

I won't be able to listen until tonight/tomorrow. It's exciting with new music but don't have the highest expectations. 

[CherryBombs&Gasoline]

I love Saviors, but this isn’t it. Smash it like Belushi and Ballyhoo are fun and catchy, but the other new songs feel more like C-sides. The acoustic songs sound like lesser versions of the originals.

[farley drexel hatcher]

God there’s no pleasing some of you 🤣 if we never got new music you’d complain, we get new music more often you complain it’s not good enough. Just take it for what it is, extra songs to finish out the era. I’ve never known a group of fans to be sooooo critical about every last thing 

[Mollyluna]

1 minute ago, farley drexel hatcher said:

God there’s no pleasing some of you 🤣 if we never got new music you’d complain, we get new music more often you complain it’s not good enough. Just take it for what it is, extra songs to finish out the era. I’ve never known a group of fans to be sooooo critical about every last thing 

You are so right! But here it is quite okay compared to Reddit. The comments there are ugh... ☹️

As for me, I like the new songs. I just wish the lyrics weren't so repetitive sometimes. But overall I'm happy!😊

[KGLWW]

F Off is pretty good. The rest of the brand new ones could’ve had some improvements whether it was being less minimalistic with the music on Stay Young, or being better structure wise on Underdog. All the new b-sides at least song wise are good, but again things about them could’ve been a lot better. And the acoustic versions just seemed unnecessary. They already were kinda stripped down, didn’t really need to be again.

[alecandstuff]

For as safe as it felt, the original release of Saviors last January was universally praised for its “back to their roots” approach to songwriting for Green Day. As a longtime fan, I was glad to see the band pulling back from their recent pop-rock tendencies, though it largely felt like ground already trod.

When it comes to these deluxe tracks, I actually do appreciate the few here that stray away from their typical formula, such as “Stay Young”. While the track is just as melodic as ever, the structure overall feels a bit more akin to classic rock, with lyrics that reflect the fleeting joys of times gone by.

“Fuck Off” is another song that’s just pure fun. Running at 2 minutes, this track feels like a distant cousin to “The Grouch”. While not as biting as songs like that or “Let Yourself Go”, I appreciate the fast, hectic nature of it all.

The acoustic versions of Suzie & Father are nice, and “Underdog” has the same attitude/tone as some of the cuts off of the Nimrod/Warning era.

Overall, a solid pack of tracks here. I can see why these are deluxe inclusions, but for big fans of this band (us), I think they warrant at least a listen

[ekim]

stay young was the biggest let down the whole thing felt like an idea billie abandoned to write a better song like suzie chapstick should've been called stay yong lol 

[Dingle]

A big well done to Green Day Store. Postie delivered record at 7am this morning. I was a tad dubious ordering from them as past shipping experiences, particularly for @The Grohl left a lot to be desired. But Amazon where very sluggish in loading ordering info to their site this time, so I risked it.

Boy oh boy, now I've got the set. 3 Saviors records, the original, the Japanese bonus, and now the deluxe. 🙂

 

[pacejunkie punk]

Fuck Off misses the mark for me compared to its predecessors like FOD, Platypus and Let Yourself Go. It’s mostly tempo and vocal delivery. It’s too damn slow and he’s singing it straight. I feel like he should be putting more venom and attitude into it like he does those earlier songs. He could be singing about anything. Maybe that’s the joke but that’s why it’s a weaker attempt imo.

[Nezirath270]

10 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Fuck Off misses the mark for me compared to its predecessors like FOD, Platypus and Let Yourself Go. It’s mostly tempo and vocal delivery. It’s too damn slow and he’s singing it straight. I feel like he should be putting more venom and attitude into it like he does those earlier songs. He could be singing about anything. Maybe that’s the joke but that’s why it’s a weaker attempt imo.

Fuck off reminds me of that one network song. Probably from money money pt 2 . Carolina netflix tweet probably

[Little Boy Named Booze]

Stay Young is... not good. 

[rx72]

suzue chapstick and father to a son acoustic versions are such a disappointment 😭😭😭

[Hubert]

My ranking would be

1. Fuck Off
2. Smash It Like Belushi
3. Ballyhoo
4. Underdog
5. Stay Young

6 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Stay Young is... not good. 

Yeah it's pretty boring and repetitive as fuck

[Dingle]

A couple of years ago there was a rumour that Billie Joe was having problems with his voice. I don't know how true or false those claims where, but listening to Billie Joe's performance on the two acoustic songs, his voice is as clear and strong as ever. Still the complete package, singer, songwriter, musician and performer.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

1 hour ago, rx72 said:

suzue chapstick and father to a son acoustic versions are such a disappointment 😭😭😭

Bro that's already 2 slow songs why the fuck are they giving us an acoustic version 😂😂

[legendary]

Underdog is credited as used by permission of National Geographic 

WTF

[Christian's Inferno!]

I finally got a chance to listen to these new songs and yeah I don't know what they were going for here. None of them even feel like they belong with the rest of the album, they're honestly closer to The Longshot or the new PHGP album than Saviors.

Even though Belushi didn't leave much of an impression on me, I was fine with that track when I thought at the time that it was just a leftover for Saviors. But no, these songs were apparently made after Saviors specifically for the Deluxe which just makes me wonder why it's so much worse than the actual album?

None of the tracks work as actual album tracks imo. I think Ballyhoo, Fuck Off and Underdog work as "B-side" type tracks even though they aren't actually B-sides. Smash It Like Belushi has only shrunk on me with more listens. Stay Young is extremely boring, repetitive and overly long. The acoustics seem unnecessary, they don't improve the songs, they're barely any different and I don't see why anyone would choose to listen to them over their originals. Very disappointing release and I didn't have very high expectations anyway.

If I were to rank the entirety of Saviors + these new Deluxe songs, I think all 5 of the new tracks would probably rank at the very bottom. Maybe a couple of them would surpass One Eyed Bastard (which is my personal least favourite of the og album, I wish they were releasing a music video for a different song). I'll give them some more listens but yeah, not expecting my opinion on these tracks to change massively

Apparently according to people here and on r/greenday, people giving their opinions or any kind of criticism after listening to them is them "complaining"

[Zebahar]

It’s interesting to see all the dislike for Stay Young, because I feel like that’s the “strongest” of the B-Sides that were released today (so excluding Ballyhoo and Belushi). I really liked the instrumentals and I think there was a theme that could’ve been fleshed out more, but I figure this song was cut before they could work on it more.

The chorus is also very repetitive, which I don’t love, but that’s another piece where I think it would’ve changed if they kept it in and worked on it more. 

[Dingle]

21 minutes ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

 

Apparently according to people here and on r/greenday, people giving their opinions or any kind of criticism after listening to them is them "complaining"

I always look forward with interest to reading your comments, as I do for everyone on here. You, as everyone, are entitled to you opinion. You're deffo not complaining. 

We all love GD to bits, and we'll all have our fav songs, and some songs not so good, and that's cool. So keep posting.

[stories and songs]

I wasn’t expecting much from the deluxe songs and that’s what I got. Like many Green Day b-sides, I probably won’t be coming back to this (I still love Ballyhoo though, so that’s a win!). Like with any artist I like, “deluxe” tracks are appreciated but are very hit or miss in terms of quality.

I’m most disappointed in the “acoustic” songs — a different mix of the original recording is not at all the same as having a new acoustic version of the song, which would’ve been so great to hear. You can’t just isolate the acoustic track and the original vocal, it doesn’t sound right at all. I’ve heard other artists try this before and I never like it.

[Nezirath270]

You know green day career is over if they released those 7 deluxe track after father of all 😂.  Well not over but it's gonna be like cigarettes and valentines situation again. 

 

Speaking of cigs and valentines now that the 5 tracks existed, it had me thinking if those 5 saviors deluxe tracks are on the same level of cigs and valentines? Okay new theory hahaha. Crazy

[rx72]

39 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Bro that's already 2 slow songs why the fuck are they giving us an acoustic version 😂😂

not because of that, but because they could have recorded these acoustic versions and instesd they decided to upload the original songs without the bass, drums and electric guitar tracks. its ehhh

[Christian's Inferno!]

Whatever your opinion on these new tracks are, at least this gives us a reason to listen to the original album like a hundred more times

[GuitarPunk94]

since these are "deluxe edition" songs, they sound exactly what i expected

nothing too "special", not bad, but hey, i will never complain about new greenday music!

a new live-album would be nice, and hopefully they wont leave us in the dust too long until a next lp

suzie chapstick is still one of their most beautiful songs they have ever written 🥰