ColinOr Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 If Money Money 2020 was released under the Green Day name in 2003 and they had no alter-egos, no masks, no new band name (The Network), it was just them as normal, then do you think the album would cause a fan backlash and maybe end their careers after Warning was a commercial failure and Money Money 2020 would arguably do worse? It had me thinking if the album would have affected their big success with American Idiot in 2004. I think Money Money 2020 would be a notoriously weird album by a mainstream band that could have been the final nail in the coffin after the commercial failure of Warning.
Amanda Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I often wonder the same about Wombling Merry Christmas. If Pink Floyd had taken off the furry suits and released it as themselves, where would they be now?
Brigister Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Probably you are right. If they published Money Money 2020 as a Green Day album and it was a total failure, there would've been an even worse failure after that because they wouldn't have worked on American Idiot since probably Money Money 2020 would've been published instead of "Cigarettes and Valentines". So no one would have stolen that and they would have never publish AI and here you go, no worldwide commercial success. Absurd assumption are absurd. Meh.
pasalaska Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I've wondered about the same thing before - I've heard a lot about the 'backlash' that surrounded Warning's sound, and how it differed from their past material, so this would have been that but a million times worse. The greater music community would have written them off with MM2020, saying they'd gone all experimental and loopy. They probably would have still written Cigarettes and Valentines and possibly even American Idiot, but by then they would have been lost to obscurity to most people.
captain peroxide Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Yeah, everyone would've hated it. Smart move, releasing it as a side project.
BJA TC MD Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 I reckon it would have been a failure. It's too different to what Green Day normally do, not that there's anything wrong with trying something new. It just wouldn't sell
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