Sarabeth Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 The first time I listened to it I thought they could have picked a better song for the first single, but it grows on me every time I listen to it. I now love almost everything about it. The only thing that bugs me a little bit is how Billie doesn't really pronounce the "v" sound or "f" soud in "love" and "life". But I'll probably get over that It does seem to drag out a bit, it's definitely not their best song. But it's so catchy I can't get it out of my mind
Cori Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Oh my. One of my local radio stations is going to be playing Oh Love every hour on the hour until midnight tonight. I know what I'm going to be doing for the rest of the day. At the beginning of the song the radio announcer was like "an iHeart Radio world premiere. This is Green Day." And then you hear Billie Joe's voice saying "It's best if you turn it turn it up real loud" and then he says "It's Oh Love." Now, for my opinion of the song. HOLY FREAKING CRAP. This song is so amazing on it own. As for it being the last song on Uno, I'm sorry FOD, Prosthetic Head, Macy's Day Parade, Whatsername, and See the Light, I love you, but Oh Love is the best yet.
biwic Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I think it's a pretty good song. Definitely different which is what I was wanting! BTW, did anyone else notice the video's in 3D?!
99 Revolutions Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Oh my. One of my local radio stations is going to be playing Oh Love every hour on the hour until midnight tonight. I know what I'm going to be doing for the rest of the day. At the beginning of the song the radio announcer was like "an iHeart Radio world premiere. This is Green Day." And then you hear Billie Joe's voice saying "It's best if you turn it turn it up real loud" and then he says "It's Oh Love." Now, for my opinion of the song. HOLY FREAKING CRAP. This song is so amazing on it own. As for it being the last song on Uno, I'm sorry FOD, Prosthetic Head, Macy's Day Parade, Whatsername, and See the Light, I love you, but Oh Love is the best yet. What station Page own
biwic Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 OH and this is blasphemy, but to those of you saying they could've chosen a better song for the lead single, what if there isn't one? haha
Agija Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I love it so so so much. Made sure all of my neighbours hear it as well by listening to it at full volume. They need to know what such an awesome song sounds like.
Guest Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I'll be blunt: I intensely dislike it. Several reasons: -Biggest one: I kept waiting for it to pick up the pace and sound like Green Day, but that just never happened. The whole song was lethargic, and every time I started to feel like, "Well, sure took long enough, but it's finally going to get going here," it went back into the same lackadaisical chorus. -It had kind of a Beatles vibe to it, actually, which probably raised my expectations unfairly. Thing is, despite the laid-back, late-'60s Beatles vibe being there, the song never lived up to that feeling. -Auto-fucking-tune. Don't use so much of it. Seriously, these guys did some of their best work on Dookie and Kerplunk, albums without an Autotuner in sight. I know they've gotten older and Billie Joe's voice has changed, but FFS don't Autotune the vocals into an oversynthed mess. It kind of leaves me a little bit worried about the overall tone of Uno, tbqh. The lead single off an album is frequently an upbeat number to get a catchy, trademark tune out there in advance of the record. Even 21CB released the godawful Know Your Enemy before putting 21 Guns into radio play. I hope Green Day is just bucking the trend here (and judging by videos of, among others, Nuclear Family, Stay the Night and Carpet Diet, they are) and not giving us a glimpse of things to come on the trilogy. I guess, to sum it up, Green Day does two kinds of ballads really well. The quiter, partially to all acoustic stuff (Good Riddance, When It's Time, Macy's Day Parade--kinda) and, with the exception of 21 Guns imo, the balls-out power ballad (BOBD, WMUWSE). This one seems to want to fall in the middle somewhere, and it doesn't work. I think it would've done well as a quieted-down acoustic, and I also think it would've worked even better if they'd let the guitars loose and given it a power ballad feel. Instead, we've got a disjointed mess of a song that isn't quite sure what it wants to be, and it suffers tremendously for it.
Cori Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 What station It's an Indianapolis radio station, 103.3.
Guest Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 OH and this is blasphemy, but to those of you saying they could've chosen a better song for the lead single, what if there isn't one? haha Pull up YouTube videos of Nuclear Family, Stay the Night and Carpe Diem (Carpet Diet). There are definitely better songs on the album.
Glynnis Stevenson Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Love that little falsetto of his this is going to be my new summer song, it's just positive and catchy and I love it
Nzap Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I just cannot accept someone using "day" and then "day" in the end of parts of verses. Please please please. That's the absolutely most annoying part for me. I mean, I would've been satisfied with like "Hours, and Hours Pass on by like a lightning train Old Story, same old Story Won't you see the light of day" I know I'm a "rhymaholic" in the sense that I pretty much need to rhyme everything (and a big part why I write no poems/songs in Finnish cause that language just sucks in that department /OT), but this bothers me a whole lot in this song, and especially in this part. It's also a big part why I never really liked LNOE as ½ of the verse-parts end with "you".
99 Revolutions Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 It's an Indianapolis radio station, 103.3. Rats. Stupid California, none of our stations play good music
Undómiel Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I'm excited it's new Green Day but.... meh. To be honest. I actually expected slightly more.... I like it, but it never hit me squarely between the eyes. #firstlistening
Jaymee!! Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Been awake for 2 hours, about to listen to it for the first time. Yay.
justcause Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Lovely thoughts and I know you don't wanna let doggy hijack the thread but seriously, wow, I'm so pleased for you. <3 SIX WEEKS...that is just insanity. I'm so glad you're re-united. Pretty amazing day! SO happy for you.
Glynnis Stevenson Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Every time I listen to it, it grows on me more and more Same, it's weird isn't it? This song is a special one for sure
Sixtrix Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I think it's a pretty good song. Definitely different which is what I was wanting! BTW, did anyone else notice the video's in 3D?! Yeah, it actually clearly said on Greenday.com that the video is best watched with the red and blue 3d glasses. Therefor I was kind of confused by the bad comments on the video looking like a 5 year old had its way with its crayons or something. But out of our excitement I can understand that it is easy to miss the special description about the 3d thing.
Clayish Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I'll be blunt: I intensely dislike it. Several reasons: -Biggest one: I kept waiting for it to pick up the pace and sound like Green Day, but that just never happened. The whole song was lethargic, and every time I started to feel like, "Well, sure took long enough, but it's finally going to get going here," it went back into the same lackadaisical chorus. -It had kind of a Beatles vibe to it, actually, which probably raised my expectations unfairly. Thing is, despite the laid-back, late-'60s Beatles vibe being there, the song never lived up to that feeling. -Auto-fucking-tune. Don't use so much of it. Seriously, these guys did some of their best work on Dookie and Kerplunk, albums without an Autotuner in sight. I know they've gotten older and Billie Joe's voice has changed, but FFS don't Autotune the vocals into an oversynthed mess. It kind of leaves me a little bit worried about the overall tone of Uno, tbqh. The lead single off an album is frequently an upbeat number to get a catchy, trademark tune out there in advance of the record. Even 21CB released the godawful Know Your Enemy before putting 21 Guns into radio play. I hope Green Day is just bucking the trend here (and judging by videos of, among others, Nuclear Family, Stay the Night and Carpet Diet, they are) and not giving us a glimpse of things to come on the trilogy. I guess, to sum it up, Green Day does two kinds of ballads really well. The quiter, partially to all acoustic stuff (Good Riddance, When It's Time, Macy's Day Parade--kinda) and, with the exception of 21 Guns imo, the balls-out power ballad (BOBD, WMUWSE). This one seems to want to fall in the middle somewhere, and it doesn't work. I think it would've done well as a quieted-down acoustic, and I also think it would've worked even better if they'd let the guitars loose and given it a power ballad feel. Instead, we've got a disjointed mess of a song that isn't quite sure what it wants to be, and it suffers tremendously for it. Bravo.
Sarabeth Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I just cannot accept someone using "day" and then "day" in the end of parts of verses. Please please please. That's the absolutely most annoying part for me. I mean, I would've been satisfied with like "Hours, and Hours Pass on by like a lightning train Old Story, same old Story Won't you see the light of day" I know I'm a "rhymaholic" in the sense that I pretty much need to rhyme everything (and a big part why I write no poems/songs in Finnish cause that language just sucks in that department /OT), but this bothers me a whole lot in this song, and especially in this part. It's also a big part why I never really liked LNOE as ½ of the verse-parts end with "you". Yes, that's another thing that bothered me. There wasn't rhymes where I wanted one. My brain always timed out where I expected the next rhyme to be and then it was like a slap in the face when it didn't rhyme.
GDInsaniac Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 so fucking cool. i was skeptical about what the new tone/sound was going to be like, but I love it!
adrocker Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Am a bit skeptical about this song atm, think i need to listen to the song more but at least its a new song i suppose. It reminds me of Beatles-esque iin the chorus bit too. BUT GREEN DAY ARE BACK!! :runaround:
Bastard of 1967 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Well, I gotta get my $.02 in somewhere, this looks like as good a place as any. Short answer: nicely, nicely done. Remember when we all were asking what 39/Smooth or Kerplunk! era Green Day would sound like if they re-recorded these albums today? "Oh Love" is the answer. The lyrics are right out of that period of BJA's songwriting, crisp, sweet and simple (probably with some deeper meaning in there if one chooses to go digging for it) instead of 50 different similes, metaphors, and interwoven themes exploding all over the place like a defective pressure-cooker full of spaghetti going up in Mama Rosa's Italian Kitchen. Poetically, the lyrics aren't anywhere close to the best that Billie has penned, but after giving Oh Love a dozen or so listens I think I'm okay with that. From what we know thus far, our poetic satisfaction will be found elsewhere in the trilogy. The arrangement -- that slow build into an aggressive, driving chorus -- takes what could be a simple "meh" song and turns it into a damn earworm. After that first listen you just want to hear that climactic harmony in the chorus again, and again, and again. One or two times through the song isn't enough. And that guitar solo is all . Last week, I analyzed Green Day's "When It's Time" studio track that was included on the AIOB original broadway cast soundtrack. and predicted from this that the sound we're likely to get on the trilogy would have three key characteristics: (1) Billie's vocals would take it up a notch -- wider range, greater expressive capability, with his trademark sneer well under his control; (2) Mike's bass line would become identifiable in the mix again; and (3) the songs would be cleanly mixed to the point where you can clearly hear each individual instrument. I won't toot my own horn *too* loudly but I think all three of these are borne out by the new single. They didn't overcompress any of the instruments this time, and I *love* hearing Mike's bass return so prominently in the mix. At 5:04 it clocks in a bit long -- maybe a bit *too* long -- and I think the momentum that builds up in the kick-ass bridge and guitar solo gets tackled by an unnecessary and easily expendible third verse -- they should have gone right into the power-chord closing chorus here. Radio stations are going to need to edit some of this out (and if they don't, I will. ) My response to those of you who question whether Billie's vocals benefited at all from his time on Broadway last year: if you're asking that question, you simply were not fortunate enough to have seen him during his second or third run as St. Jimmy. I saw him in January of 2011 so I think I can speak from a point of some authority here: Billie Joe Armstrong doesn't need any fucking autotune to sound phenomenal. Live theater is different than a recording studio or even a concert venue. The acoustics are different, the requirements are different, you can't necessarily take a "quiet second to catch your breath" whenever you need to. You need to use your lung capacity differently and your vocal inflection differently, because your voice needs to not just convey emotion but carry a storyline on a live stage much differently than it needs to in a recording studio or even in a concert arena. Most importantly: there's no second take, auto-tune, or studio wizardry that can save you. You need to nail it every damn time you go out there. So, yes, something in his vocal presentation and the collection of tricks Billie has up his sleeve has changed, which leads me to wonder if some people who dismiss When It's Time (and now Oh Love) as being full of auto-tune simply don't know what a clean recording should sound like. By no means do I think that Oh Love is going to be the best song off the trilogy or even off iUno!. On other tracks and even other singles I think we're in for more of the shit-kicking rockers and flowing poetry that we've been more accustomed to getting from Green Day. But over the next six months keep remembering those three characteristics I mentioned earlier -- vocals, bass, and mix -- and add one more: sweet, simple, fun. Oh Love proves that that's what we're going to see in the Trelogy era -- and if that's what the band set out to showcase by selecting Oh Love as the first single, I think they accomplished their goal.
Guest Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I really don't hear the autotune in this… Almost all of Billie Joe's vocals are very blatantly synthed and Autotuned.
1039SweetChildren Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 If people are interested in seeing what stations are playing Oh Love (and all Green Day songs, in general) you can track spins here: http://www.yes.com/#Green_Day
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