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

[Little Boy Named Booze]

37 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"

Yes whatever the subreddit you'll get a lot of downvotes if you don't like something from the band. You can't blame Dave or be angry about the fact that they fired their drummer in the Foo Fighters band. You can't say that your team played bad in a sport team subreddit, you can't say that the TV series episode was bad in the Severance subreddit.... etc.... 

So I guess it's the same for r/greenday 

Every songs is good and you can't say otherwise.

[redline punk]

I enjoyed the songs overall, and I really liked the style of Underdog.

However, as a whole, the deluxe tracks give the impression that they were released more out of obligation than inspiration. I understand they’re B-sides for a reason. They don't quite hit the mark the main album does.

As a longtime fan who genuinely appreciates the band, I hope to see a future project with stronger lyrical depth. That’s the one element I feel has been missing lately. A lot of the material feels repetitive and doesn’t carry much meaningful messaging. It’s easy to grow tired of it quickly.

Still, I respect the effort and always look forward to what Green Day does next.

[stories and songs]

Gave these all another listen since my initial reaction to give a more thorough review.

I’m surprised no one likes Stay Young. That’s probably my favorite of what was released today. Too repetitive vocally obviously, but instrumentally it’s great. It sounds adjacent to Green Day but still fresh — kinda Yellowcard-esque maybe (I love Yellowcard).

Fuck Off is also lyrically repetitive but sonically pleasant for me. It feels silly how mid-tempo and casually it’s sung, though, given the subject. Spelling in songs is not ideal in 2025 unless it’s Hot To Go. Disappointingly unmemorable. 

Underdog is like if you fed artificial intelligence Nimrod, Warning, and Shenanigans and asked it to write a song.

Ranking:

1. Ballyhoo

2. Stay Young

3. Smash It

4. Fuck Off

5. Underdog

[solongfromthestars]

The only song I had high expectations for was the acoustic Suzie Chapstick. It's growing on me after a few listens and I'm glad they released it because it's another take on the best song on Saviors, even if it's not my favourite take on it, and when I've played a song 4598495834958345345 times I appreciate that. The one Billie posted on Instagram  is better though. Also, Suzie Chapstick was absolutely made to echo around stadiums and even crappy audio is more perfect than any studio recording could ever be.

I think everything but Belushi and the acoustic Father to a Son (which I'm not even going to listen to) will grow on me, which is a nice surprise considering that I only bothered listening to any of it because of the acoustic Suzie Chapstick.

5 hours 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 

Discussion is the whole point of a forum though. No-one's saying they shouldn't have released the tracks, they're explaining why they're disappointed which is more interesting than people blindly praising everything.

[stories and songs]

30 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Yes whatever the subreddit you'll get a lot of downvotes if you don't like something from the band. You can't blame Dave or be angry about the fact that they fired their drummer in the Foo Fighters band. You can't say that your team played bad in a sport team subreddit, you can't say that the TV series episode was bad in the Severance subreddit.... etc.... 

So I guess it's the same for r/greenday 

Every songs is good and you can't say otherwise.

Never heard of Reddit being known for its toxic positivity before, that’s a new one.

[Hermione]

Fuck Off is the funniest shit ever . Especially when it sounds exactly like Murder City (with someone repeatedly singing "fuck off" over it lol). Now gonna listen to the rest. All seems like classic Green Day b side material to me, it's not album quality but fun

5 minutes ago, stories and songs said:

Never heard of Reddit being known for its toxic positivity before, that’s a new one.

To me it seems more like a hivemind where you have to like/dislike/rate high/rate low the same songs as everyone else, rather than just being expected to like everything

[PhuzzyPhriend]

Just listed to the deluxe edition and was a little underwhelmed that there weren't more b-sides/bonus tracks. I do love the new songs though! While they are really good, I can see why they didn't make the original album though, since the original album is so perfect as is. 

I have to say I am obsessed with Fuck Off. It might be a little repetitive, but it feels like the perfect song for the current moment in American society.

[pacejunkie punk]

47 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Yes whatever the subreddit you'll get a lot of downvotes if you don't like something from the band. You can't blame Dave or be angry about the fact that they fired their drummer in the Foo Fighters band. You can't say that your team played bad in a sport team subreddit, you can't say that the TV series episode was bad in the Severance subreddit.... etc.... 

So I guess it's the same for r/greenday 

Every songs is good and you can't say otherwise.

I made the mistake once of saying something critical about a Weezer song from the Blue Album in the Weezer sub 🫣😬

[Hermione]

OK Stay Young and Underdog are pretty interesting! Stay Young is really great musically and Underdog is cool. Lyrics are like Minority part 2 and "I wanna be your underdog" has to be a nod to Iggy. And the guitar part is sick. Although Billie isn't fooling anyone calling himself ugly lol

[pacejunkie punk]

3 minutes ago, Hermione said:

 "I wanna be your underdog" has to be a nod to Iggy. 

I could see him doing that deliberately as a musical inside joke

[Hermione]

2 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I could see him doing that deliberately as a musical inside joke

I immediately thought of this classic performance! "Hey, some kid just got up on stage"  

 

 

[Im.a.basket.case]

I swear it sounds like Fuck Off and Here Comes the Shock are the same song with different lyrics.

[Christian's Inferno!]

Underdog is actually growing on me a fair bit. I'd definitely say it's the best of the 5 new songs. Probably a hot take cus some people seem to think it's the worst (or close to it)

The song Fuck Off seems to be interesting lyrically because it seems to be targeted at Trump supporters, which I think is sort of a contrast to how he spoke about Trump supporters back around the first Trump term where he seemed to be somewhat sympathetic to their concerns even if he was completely against Trump. But I understand why he'd now be like "If you still think Trump is on your side after how much he's fucked everything up, just fuck off"

[Dingle]

Having listened to extra songs, time to listen to whole record as the band intended, I'm just along for the ride, willingly.

Record on turntable, speakers full blast (hello neighbors),  I hour, 7 mins. Let's go fuckin' crazy jumping up and down from TADIKM to Underdog. 🤪

 

[pacejunkie punk]

35 minutes ago, Im.a.basket.case said:

I swear it sounds like Fuck Off and Here Comes the Shock are the same song with different lyrics.

Maybe it’s Billie’s response to the people that hated HCTS 😄

[jengd]

I really like Stay Young and Underdog, I always love acoustic versions as somehow they sound more personal and Fuck Off just made me laugh and think well somebody pissed you off that day Billie 😂 I already love Ballyhoo.

[Hermione]

Billie going "stick your Bible and shove it up-" and cutting himself off is so funny

I like Suzie Chapstick acoustic but it's pretty similar to the album version. I prefer this

Father to a Son isn't one of my favourites but I much prefer the vocals on the acoustic version, they sound weird and nasal on the album. The low key guitar suits the song much better than a full on orchestra too

[Nezirath270]

25 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Maybe it’s Billie’s response to the people that hated HCTS 😄

I'm one of those fans that liked here comes the shock after that father of all fiasco

[farley drexel hatcher]

1 hour ago, solongfromthestars said:

The only song I had high expectations for was the acoustic Suzie Chapstick. It's growing on me after a few listens and I'm glad they released it because it's another take on the best song on Saviors, even if it's not my favourite take on it, and when I've played a song 4598495834958345345 times I appreciate that. The one Billie posted on Instagram  is better though. Also, Suzie Chapstick was absolutely made to echo around stadiums and even crappy audio is more perfect than any studio recording could ever be.

I think everything but Belushi and the acoustic Father to a Son (which I'm not even going to listen to) will grow on me, which is a nice surprise considering that I only bothered listening to any of it because of the acoustic Suzie Chapstick.

Discussion is the whole point of a forum though. No-one's saying they shouldn't have released the tracks, they're explaining why they're disappointed which is more interesting than people blindly praising everything.

Oh I definitely don’t blindly praise everything, and I’m not against discussion, I guess I’m just not massively negative and don’t feel the need to discuss if i dislike something in the same way a lot of people do. I’d rather spend my energy on stuff i like

and I can’t be the only one who thinks on here that more often than not people are just moaning cause they can haha 

[PhuzzyPhriend]

49 minutes ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

Underdog is actually growing on me a fair bit. I'd definitely say it's the best of the 5 new songs. Probably a hot take cus some people seem to think it's the worst (or close to it)

The song Fuck Off seems to be interesting lyrically because it seems to be targeted at Trump supporters, which I think is sort of a contrast to how he spoke about Trump supporters back around the first Trump term where he seemed to be somewhat sympathetic to their concerns even if he was completely against Trump. But I understand why he'd now be like "If you still think Trump is on your side after how much he's fucked everything up, just fuck off"

I feel the same way about this. In all honesty, one could maybe sympathize with these folks in 2016, but after everything we have been through since, it's pretty hard to have sympathy for anyone who is still supporting Trump now. 

I just love it whenever Billie takes on current events and really busts out the attitude. I think he did a great job with that on Saviors and it is great to see even more of it in these bonus tracks.

[Elxufinnishidiot]

Stay Young sounds interesting, because despite the little American Idiot vibe, it doesn't sound that much like Green Day. It's like if GD had released C&V and released an alternative rock record in 05 with bunch of sad rock ballads..

[PhuzzyPhriend]

2 hours ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Yes whatever the subreddit you'll get a lot of downvotes if you don't like something from the band. You can't blame Dave or be angry about the fact that they fired their drummer in the Foo Fighters band. You can't say that your team played bad in a sport team subreddit, you can't say that the TV series episode was bad in the Severance subreddit.... etc.... 

So I guess it's the same for r/greenday 

Every songs is good and you can't say otherwise.

Wouldn't necessarily say this about r/greenday. Green Day fans like to complain about everything, and I have found that to be true in that sub as well. I love Green Day and I love this fan base, but we have a tendency to be negative about everything: the band, their music, each other, etc. Compare r/greenday against a place like r/falloutboy, and there is a noticeable difference in vibes.

Having said all of that, I wish we got a little more out of this deluxe edition, but I still like most of the extra songs. I can see why they didn't make the original album though, becuase the original version of Saviors is a masterpiece as is. 

[Elxufinnishidiot]

Also these songs don't sound like Savious much. It's almost like a half new album a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are a bit older like perhaps Underdog from around The Longshot era. 

[PhuzzyPhriend]

3 minutes ago, Elxufinnishidiot said:

Also these songs don't sound like Savious much. It's almost like a half new album a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are a bit older like perhaps Underdog from around The Longshot era. 

I wonder if maybe some of these songs were from the scrapped 1972 project? Like these got tossed aside when they decided to go in the direction that ultimately became Saviors?

Also, I don't think anyone has posted this new video we just got for One Eyed Bastard? I still love this song and now I love this video.

 

[Elxufinnishidiot]

23 minutes ago, PhuzzyPhriend said:

I wonder if maybe some of these songs were from the scrapped 1972 project? Like these got tossed aside when they decided to go in the direction that ultimately became Saviors?

Also, I don't think anyone has posted this new video we just got for One Eyed Bastard? I still love this song and now I love this video.

 

I actually had that exact thought. What if these and some of the songs from Saviors were supposed to be the original album, as I can't really imagine most of these songs on the main album. Same with Fever and aren't One Eyed Bastard and Corvette Summer slightly older? Those 3 would fit with these songs better. I have always liked One Eyed Bastard ever since the leak, I like it more than about half of the songs. Gotta watch the video now.