kellista Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 What radio station are you listening to??? 105.9 The Buzz. If you're out of the region you can probably get it on Iheartradio
Karen. Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Its on the Irish Itunes now too I can't get it - what's best to search?
NoVaCaInE! Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Its on the Irish Itunes now too Oh my god is it... off I flee to iTunes
uhleckseee Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I randomly woke up on time to listen to this song. Listened to it twice being a little unimpressed with the song and went back to sleep. I just woke up again and I'm giving it another shot. It's super catchy. A little slow for my taste and it doesn't really focus on the Tre or Mike's talents as musicians very much, which is something I disliked about 21CB's simplicity. But this song is super catchy and the guitar solo is the shit. I'm still giving it a chance, but this song is not leaving my head all day today. haha
GDM Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I fucking love it. COMPLETELY different than any other Green Day single. Very well produced for the first time since 2004 and it's a fun song. I think it's one of the first 50s/modern rock fusion. The melodies are extremely late 50s. Like the "on a noose" (the inflection on noose). It's fantastic. Can't wait for the rest. Interested to see how the rest of the world thinks. LOVE!!! Fangirl.
DannyDirnt Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Green Day in full power-ballad mode, and it... doesn't entirely work. Positives: - The whole chorus into solo section is great, and the one section where the song comes alive. - It's a fresh sound they haven't tried before, and certainly nothing that would have been on either of the last two albums. Negatives: - Almost completely nonsensical lyrics - The verses seem to have lead boots on. No energy whatsoever. - Holy autotune, Batman. 2m 57 in particular. - The official lyrics video is appalling, even as a placeholder. Not only does it draw attention to those lyrics, but it has all the design nuance of a 5 year old who ate his crayons. I dunno, it grows on you after repeated play, but this doesn't feel like it's going to make as big an impact in the charts as Warner are hoping. It doesn't have the energy and impact of their faster stuff, nor the sentiment of their slower songs like 21 Guns. It feels like an anthemic album closer, but it's exactly that: an album track. Whichever way I look at it, this feels like a misstep Agree. Yet I prefer it to 21 Guns. I just like the melody and the vocals, which is the most important thing to me.
Bastard of 1967 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Got to work early so I could listen to this. At first I was so pumped for it and kept waiting for it to build into something (as Ben said) and that never happened. So I was slightly disappointed. Until I realized that 2 hours later, after only one listen, I was still humming the song. It got me. It's catchy and I think I like it. Maybe not my favorite, maybe not their best, but I like and hope it does well. As I'm thinking about it, something else has changed with this one -- Green Day's song structure itself. Most of us aren't accustomed at all to hearing *nothing* intermixed with the guitars, vocals, or whatever part of the song we're listening to at the moment. For the nearly 25 years that Green Day has been making music, there's always been some background, some distraction, woven into the music to fill those spaces in between the highlights. It could be a growling guitar, an echo of Tre's last cymbals or snare hit, a sustained note in Mike's bass line, even an extended vocal from Billie. Always something. Now, on Oh Love, we get clean, precise instruments and crisp vocals, punctuated by SILENCE. It's not just Billie taking more control over what his voice is doing -- it's Mike knowing when to push the bass line and when to back off, it's Tre knowing when to keep that kit QUIET, and it's Rob behind the console knowing when to let the band's music go explosive and when to shut it up. We hear that silence now as part of the song structure itself, and it actually adds meaning to the music. It's nothing like what Green Day has done before (well, ok, maybe there's a hint of it at the very end of "Peacemaker"), it is going to take some getting used to, and the more and more I think about it, the more I'm finding that I fucking LOVE it. As to the hater bashers, they have the right to their opinion here just as the likers do. Don't beat them down. It's their right to voice their opinion. That's what makes GDC so great. Absolutely. One thing I love -- even the new faces here who joined just to tell us how much they hate the new song -- they're new faces here and we need to remember to say "Welcome aboard, y'all!". So without further delay: HOWW-DEE!! How was that? Anyway - with 36 more tracks still to come off the Trelogy I have a feeling there's going to be something for any listening preference in there. Even if you don't like how Oh Love was written or arranged, don't give up -- love it or hate it, the best is still to come!
Alan86 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I can't get it - what's best to search? "Oh Love Green Day" is what I searched. It shows up under albums for some reason You can't click on it to get details but there is the option to buy it for €1.29
Brian Gag Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 What an awesome anniversary present for my wife and I. Thanks, Green Day.
No Rhyme Or Reason Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 My sister loves it! And she's pretty critical of music in general. +1 My Dad loves it too!!! And he's picky about music and hates half of what I listen to. But he loves the kind of classic rock sound in Oh Love - it reminds him of what he grew up listening to. +2 And I know my mom will love it when she gets home from work, cause she loves all Green Day music. +3 I don't understand how people say Oh Love doesn't really pick up... I think the chorus is really fun and upbeat. And especially towards the end after the bridge - when it goes back to the last verse, it's like it suddenly goes from loud fun exciting music to silence, the soft stoptime anticipation-inducing-ness. It's like LOUD and then quiet - I love it! It's dynamic! And the guitar solo! How much does it really need to pick up?! No comprendo.
Harinezumi Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I told you I always hate the first single at first!!! I've heard it 10 times now and I'm starting to like it. Far awayyy far awayyy waste away toniight!!!!!
Sixtrix Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 My radio is using a GD ad too! Tre says " Were Green Day and we've got a new single for you called Oh Love" the Mike says "World Premiere". Then radio dude says they'll play it at the beginning of every hour! Here they use an old sample of tre saying "listen to our music or I'll kill you" or something like that as the introduction before playing Oh Love
VirginiaMisery Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Listening to it with headphones really does make a difference. A very good difference
Karen. Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 "Oh Love Green Day" is what I searched. It shows up under albums for some reason You can't click on it to get details but there is the option to buy it for €1.29 Thanks, that was driving me insane.
Sweet Armataged Chump Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Interesting to see will this will be on the charts. When do the charts next come out like Billboard?
Bastard of 1967 Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 I started to think what the lyrics is about and I think the entire song is about life, and the "Oh Love" is actually the gift of life. I really think you're onto something here! Kudos. Even though I think you pwned me on being first to accurately get inside Billie's head! "Won't you please hold on my life" ... reread this with some omitted punctuation: "Won't you please hold on, my life!?" Looking at it this way, "life" at the end of the verse actually makes sense now -- "Life's going way, way, way too fast. Just STOP. Hold on for a moment so I can just fucking enjoy it already, OK"? This becomes so relevant especially when you get older. Let me put it concretely: I've got a wonderful daughter who just yesterday could nap inside my FOREARM, and today she's running around all over the place, coming home muddy from the playground and chewed on by mosquitos and she's smiling these huge freakin' "Daddy!!!" grins at me and is already tall enough to reach all the light switches in the house *easily*. Yet when she wants me to sit with her on the couch, watch a favorite Sesame Street episode with her, play a game with her, or whatever, there's always something else important that's bitching for my attention. Work, cleanup from dinner, refinance the house, hang a picture over here, fix that over there, in-laws needing attention now, even posting a song interpretation on GDC ---- just all of it, STOP for a minute and go the hell away so I can enjoy what's really important. [Edit] The "dog years of the day" also starts making sense now. I've both said and been told as a parent that the days are much too long and the years are much, much too short. Every day is a slog -- wake the kid up, get her dressed, get her fed, get her off to school, now you go off to earn a living, then pick the kid up from school, get her home, get her fed, get her cleaned up, get her homework done, put her to bed....and then you yourself finally can knock of for 6 hours of sleep -- if you're lucky -- before it's time to lather, rinse, repeat the next day. Over and over this continues, but then watch what happens to the years: they FLY by. First she's an infant. Blink and she's three. Blink again and she's five and off to kindergarten. One more blink and she's in grade school. Then you blink again and she's sweet sixteen....and blink again she's 18 and off to college. And you wonder where has all the time gone? John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) tackled this same theme in the early zeroes from the first-person perspective with the song "100 years". That was a beautiful, soft, piano-driven, ballad that followed the narrator as he grew through life, ending with him at "99 for a moment, dying for just another moment". Hootie & The Blowfish also had a song in the mid-90's called "Time" that touched on some of the same notes: "Time, why do you punish me/Like a wave crashing into the shore/you wash away my dreams." Green Day being Green Day covers the same theme but punches it up a few notches "Time, go far away from me -- just sit and rot for awhile. Normally you strangle my "heart" -- my love, my dreams, my desires. Tonight, though, it's on fire and it wants to breathe." Viewed this way, Oh Love demands that time let go so we can stop and smell the daisies. Now go back and listen again to those silent moments intermixed in the verses. Those are the fucking daisies. [/edit] Good God, Green Day, you've done it again.
Kitty Purry Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 6 and half hours later and still not sick of it!! Green day im so proud of you i knew you could pull this off. and can someone explain whats wrong with twitter? i just made it 2 days ago i cant tweet! but i can still see other people tweets.
CameronM. Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 No. Aww. was hopeing their was more. oh well. 1 song is better then none.
GDM Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Hahahaha. You show youre fucking face after so long and you come in questioning my masculinity. You slimy bitch. Yeah, totally. Lol T. Hehe... yeah... totally.
1039SweetChildren Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 Interesting to see will this will be on the charts. When do the charts next come out like Billboard? Billboard usually releases their charts on Wednesdays. I'm curious to see how the song does on iTunes in the meantime!
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