Jack [DF] Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Damn good. I like it a LOT. Though after three and a half minutes, I find that it gets annoyingly repetitive. Still. Great song, hearkens back to Dookie or at least Nimrod but with a new twist. Better than anything off 21st Century Breakdown, by far.
Heather. Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 On 21CB, the lyrics sometimes tried too hard to be complex and meaningful... here we have a total regression I'm sure that won't be the case throughout---there are 38 fucking songs!---so I'm really OK with this fluff summer song. That's what it is. I'm sure when Billie talks about it in interviews, he'll say "Sometimes you just feel like writing a simple, catchy, silly love song." We already know from his Boy Named Train story that there's more *interesting* songs to come. This is just a really beautiful teaser.
Jack [DF] Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Almost all of Billie Joe's vocals are very blatantly synthed and Autotuned. Which is funny, because live he clearly proves that he has the talent to do without.
Alan86 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 After Listening to the song a few times now, Im still of the opinion that it is a good song, and a good song to close an album. Its certainly a better closing song than "See the Light". As a single though i'm still not entirely convinced.
kellista Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I love it. It really grows on you. I just still feel like there is something missing or your still waiting for something to happen Plus it sounds way better than the No Doubt single. Settle Down sounds like a terrible Nicki Minaj song (and those are already terrible)
Heather. Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Damn good. I like it a LOT. Though after three and a half minutes, I find that it gets annoyingly repetitive. Still. Great song, hearkens back to Dookie or at least Nimrod but with a new twist. Better than anything off 21st Century Breakdown, by far. Sad but true, I feel this would be the best song off 21CB. I admire that album as a complete work, but... Oh, Love!
.:Whatsername:. Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I actually really like it. I think it's better than the first single we got off of 21stCB, Know Your Enemy. It took me a few listens to decide I liked that one, but I loved this one right away. It does get a little repetitive but I don't mind, it's just one song from the entire album, out of three, so we're bound to get even better ones.
Undómiel Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Damn good. I like it a LOT. Though after three and a half minutes, I find that it gets annoyingly repetitive. Still. Great song, hearkens back to Dookie or at least Nimrod but with a new twist. Better than anything off 21st Century Breakdown, by far. Peacemaker? Horseshoes and Handgrenades? Static Age? American Eulogy? Restless Heart Syndrome? Definitely going to have to disagree with you there...
Jaymee!! Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I'll be blunt: I intensely dislike it. Several reasons: I agree with your points, Ben. I don't intensely dislike it, but it's much more...boring...than what I was expecting. The preview track for Uno was much better, in my opinion. Catchier tune, even though it only lasted 27 seconds. With Oh Love, I kept waiting for that true wow moment, and I was left with something like a cock tease. So close to the explosion, but dispersing before it really got there. That being said, I can very easily picture how well this would work as an opening song in show. I can visualize the thunderous clap-along as they rush the stage. I can see the stage staying unlit as they start the song, and with the rising organ comes the light and the pyro at its peak. I was nodding my head along slightly to the song, but overall left just wanting a bit more. Such a greedy fan! I've only given it one listen. I'm sure it will grow on me more and more the more I listen to it. But those are my initial first thoughts.
BadgerLALA Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Love it, sounds so like Green Day Happy they are back
Nzap Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Sad but true, I feel this would be the best song off 21CB. I admire that album as a complete work, but... Oh, Love! Whoa take it easy there. No way is this better than all the songs on 21st CB. I would put this below 21Guns, and that is not in my favorites from that album. Examples: American Eulogy, KYE (YES KYE!), 21 Guns, Static Age, H&H, Viva la Gloria!, 21st CB, BTL, EJN, Peacemaker, RHS are at least better than this if you take lyrics and melody combined. Melodically this is quite good, but the IMO the lyrics are horrible. I mean, if you make them a bit cheesy that's okay, but please make it rhyme in that case. You can't put two bad things into a box and expect something good. As I earlier said the lyrics in this song puts this song to the brink of disaster, but the song is saved by the awesome chorus and solo and the ending (which pretty much is the chorus and the solo )
WestboundSign! 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 it as the first single, I think they accomplished their goal. Wow. I think no one on here could have said it better. Your words never fail to amaze me. In my opinion, you're completely right.. with everything you said! Thanks!
minorityxdisturbed Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I like it, but I think the song should have had more lyrics, but for the rest, I like it.
Webb_2011 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Absolutely loved it! I tried as hard as I could to not listen to the live version they played at the secret shows because I didn't want to have an opinion before I could hear the actual studio version. I can't get enough of this song! It's so catchy and Billie never ceases to amaze me at how he can write such a beautiful song. I can't wait to hear the rest of the album!
Undómiel Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I think it's going to be a good song live. I'm just not loving the studio version atm....
daria02 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I really don't hear the autotune in this… I don't hear it either. Autotune's obvious in a lot of other bad artists, for example Rebecca Black, but I don't feel there's any obvious, "blatant" autotune in this.
aldyofficial Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I don't know with all guys here with the long comment and said Green Day didn't do it good enough for this first single from the surprise show, studio video, interviews, even with the artwork of the cover, I already know that they just want to have some fun, and sure they always try to give the fun to the fans. create songs with a lightly lyric and sounds, I think Green Day will show us a way to look great even without making a hard-political-opera album. so, for those who wanted to hear a trilogy of American Idiot, please, they will create a masterpieces in other way.
fatherotti Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I don't know with all guys here with the long comment and said Green Day didn't do it good enough for this first single from the surprise show, studio video, interviews, even with the artwork of the cover, I already know that they just want to have some fun, and sure they always try to give the fun to the fans. create songs with a lightly lyric and sounds, I think Green Day will show us a way to look great even without making a hard-political-opera album. so, for those who wanted to hear a trilogy of American Idiot, please, they will create a masterpieces in other way. True that. The negativity is ridiculous.
Amanda Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 So... are we all agreed that it needs more autotune?
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