MTV says Green Day's new album will be "back to the basics"

[Maddy.]

Raw emotion, like Insomniac would be great. That album is so dark yet so powerful, I'd love to hear more stuff like that from them.

[Hermione]

Argh, Green Day never said anything about the new album being back to basics! All they said was they were going "back to basics" in the sense that they're just starting out on the creative process of a new album.

Green Day haven't said ANYTHING about what the new stuff they've been working on will be like.

It's cool to hear they're doing demos and stuff but they do them all the time, it's nothing to be excited about. The album is probably years away. One thing that's for sure is Green Day aren't going to go backwards and make a rehash of an old album, I'm glad to say.

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

Argh, Green Day never said anything about the new album being back to basics! All they said was they were going "back to basics" in the sense that they're just starting out on the creative process of a new album.

Green Day haven't said ANYTHING about what the new stuff they've been working on will be like.

It's cool to hear they're doing demos and stuff but they do them all the time, it's nothing to be excited about. The album is probably years away. One thing that's for sure is Green Day aren't going to go backwards and make a rehash of an old album, I'm glad to say.

The dude from MTV who analyzed the LOTAG video (long shot, I know), did say "they're in the process of recording of what Billie Joe described as a "back-to-the-basics kind of record"" (literally, word for word quoted from the guy), which to me sounds more of a record that might be back to basics, instead of starting out. If we only had the MTV article, I would think it was back to basics in the sense of a fresh start, but that quote made me think.

[bass boy]

well, i remember hearing an interview or something that Billie said that they were going back to the basics.

[Maddy.]

And it's always nice to chat about the different things we'd like.

[Sanity Loan]

This "back to basics" thing is going wayyyy toooo far. Billie didn't mean back to "early stuff", he meant the band playing random things together and trying to come up with riffs/beats/songs etc.

And dido Hermione

[Maddy.]

This "back to basics" thing is going wayyyy toooo far. Billie didn't mean back to "early stuff", he meant the band playing random things together and trying to come up with riffs/beats/songs etc.

Haha, I know, right?

People take stuff way too far.

I still want something ~out there.

[Hermione]

The dude from MTV who analyzed the LOTAG video (long shot, I know), did say "they're in the process of recording of what Billie Joe described as a "back-to-the-basics kind of record"" (literally, word for word quoted from the guy), which to me sounds more of a record that might be back to basics, instead of starting out. If we only had the MTV article, I would think it was back to basics in the sense of a fresh start, but that quote made me think.

I wonder if he got that from that MTV article though? Billie said the thing about getting "back to basics" as in starting out on a new album in Kerrang, and the MTV article twisted what he said to make out the new album would be "back to basics". I can just never believe anything unless it comes directly from Billie's mouth

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

I wonder if he got that from that MTV article though? Billie said the thing about getting "back to basics" as in starting out on a new album in Kerrang, and the MTV article twisted what he said to make out the new album would be "back to basics". I can just never believe anything unless it comes directly from Billie's mouth

Yeah, you do have a point there

[Clayish]

I still can't believe how people are taking this out of context.

Its really sad.

Going back to the basics means they're are just going back to writing songs that come to them. 21CB started with 45 songs, but they saw some of the songs just being connected.

[parinaz]

Back to the basics means that they're going to keep it simple. No hugely complex works of art like American Idiot or even 21st Century Breakdown.

I know right?

This "back to basics" thing is going wayyyy toooo far. Billie didn't mean back to "early stuff", he meant the band playing random things together and trying to come up with riffs/beats/songs etc.

And dido Hermione

and that they decided not to do it again

[Teenage Kicks!]

oh I got somethin better.

How about an album without two main characters. or names in general....

[Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love]

oh, and by the way, isn't this thread about what you would rather see Green Day doing? Not about if they're going back to basics or anything (that probably triggered the conversation, but it's not the thread's goal). Just wanted to point that out since every thread that mentions "back to basics" seems to get people saying that the articles didn't mean they're going back to their older stuff (: (which is true and all, but still)

[parinaz]

oh I got somethin better.

How about an album without two main characters. or names in general....

aha

[valentinesandcigs]

This with devo hats.

[petros]

I just hope the don't make another punk rock opera again because ok it was good for two albums but please not again....

[Hermione]

Green Day have been making amazing albums that I love for 20 years. I kind of trust them to decide what they're gonna do on their own

[Maddy.]

Oh, you. <3

[pisquano]

You're getting it way off, i'm sorry.. You, and alot of others in that argument... Pop isn't even a genre. Pop is a shortened version of the word 'popular', and you can put it in front of everything that is "popular" at a period of time. Green Day is a Punk/Rock band, because they have a most common use of 'Rock' and 'Punk' aspects in their music, both musically and in their lyrics. Green Day is a pop-punk/rock band, and by that i mean a 'popular punk/rock band', and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the music or anything else. It just means that Green Day is a popular band.

If you mean that Warning in general had softer songs than their previous, i'm absolutely agreeing with you, that's a fact. But Dookie were alot more 'pop' than Warning (Again, knowing the exact meaning of the word, and the number of records sold, individually)

Rock, Punk, R'n'B, Country, Metal and so on, that's genres... Pop is a term. And it's opposite is unpopular. And if you on purpose try to make music, that nobody likes, then you're just about stupid not that clever...

(Sorry for freaking out on you a little bit. This is just something that always gets me off)

Edit: To get to the topic, i'd say that 'Back to basics', could be interpreted as alot of things

I have to say that period (1994) was the era of punk revival, grunge, ...and that's why dookie had that success...warning was something in the middle between pop and dookie, and this thing did not satisfy the old fans and did not capture other fans, this is why warning has not been a success...and I absolutely agree with you when you say that dookie was a commercial success because it had pop-punk songs, but this was the genre of that period...

[E!!i]

I think this is a great idea but I don't know if they will really do this cause they meant that it sounded like crap.

[Hermione]

Pop is simply a description of music. Yes, Green Day are punk, but their various songs contain a mix of many, many different musical styles. Of course there's elements of pop in their music.

[E!!i]

You're getting it way off, i'm sorry.. You, and alot of others in that argument... Pop isn't even a genre. Pop is a shortened version of the word 'popular', and you can put it in front of everything that is "popular" at a period of time. Green Day is a Punk/Rock band, because they have a most common use of 'Rock' and 'Punk' aspects in their music, both musically and in their lyrics. Green Day is a pop-punk/rock band, and by that i mean a 'popular punk/rock band', and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the music or anything else. It just means that Green Day is a popular band.

If you mean that Warning in general had softer songs than their previous, i'm absolutely agreeing with you, that's a fact. But Dookie were alot more 'pop' than Warning (Again, knowing the exact meaning of the word, and the number of records sold, individually)

Rock, Punk, R'n'B, Country, Metal and so on, that's genres... Pop is a term. And it's opposite is unpopular. And if you on purpose try to make music, that nobody likes, then you're just about stupid not that clever...

(Sorry for freaking out on you a little bit. This is just something that always gets me off)

Edit: To get to the topic, i'd say that 'Back to basics', could be interpreted as alot of things

I think you can argue about pop being a genre or a term. Times change and meanings of words change. For example in early times the word emo had the meaning of hardcore punk and now it's just a word for people who wear black clothes, are emotional and like to write poems or something like that.

[PanicAttack!]

I have to say that period (1994) was the era of punk revival, grunge, ...and that's why dookie had that success...warning was something in the middle between pop and dookie, and this thing did not satisfy the old fans and did not capture other fans, this is why warning has not been a success...and I absolutely agree with you when you say that dookie was a commercial success because it had pop-punk songs, but this was the genre of that period...

Yeah, Dookie had succes because it was popular at the time...

The thing is just, that you said that Warning had alot of pop songs, which i don't see as a way to describe it. i would rather say that Warning was a punk/rock record, with a huge amount of folk music influence, and some softer elements like Mayc's Day Parade, but that is more of a ballad.

(Again, pop = not a way of describing the music itself, but the reaction it get's by the majority of the listeners)

And for those who might wonder - Yes, i know this is getting a little bit off topic

[E!!i]

back to the basics

[Hermione]

(Again, pop = not a way of describing the music itself, but the reaction it get's by the majority of the listeners)

No, it's both. Warning is full of great pop songs like Church On Sunday, Castaway and Minority. Catchy, upbeat pop genius. That doesn't mean those songs aren't punk too. The word pop isn't an insult.