Random Green Day Thoughts

[Little Boy Named Booze]

16 minutes ago, That Dude said:

Oakland Coffee was extra speedy this time with my coffee order.     Two days, nice! 

I'm going to do a comparison video on the Father of All Dark Roasts and Atomic Garden.     Atomic Garden smells the best, as I can smell it through the freakin' bag and and Father of All Dark Roast really doesn't have a smell, which is weird.   Maybe it's broken.

But yeah.   Coffee.  

I'm happy about that, (al) bummed that Shinedown are delaying their new album by months.  

 

 

It took me a week. But I'm in Canada. 

This Father of All... Dark Roast is so good!

Give me the link to your comparison video when it will be done please!

[That Dude]

25 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

It took me a week. But I'm in Canada. 

This Father of All... Dark Roast is so good!

Give me the link to your comparison video when it will be done please!

We're both a LONG way from Oakland, that's for sure.  I thought you'd be closer, but it looks like I'd have a 6 hour head start if we were to race to Oakland Coffee, haha!

I remember loving the dark roast, and I think I tried the Atomic Garden one as well, but I'll see how they compare.   Can't do it tonight as I've already had too much coffee, like Mike Dirnt in Homecoming, haha. 

 

[That Dude]

I googled "Green Day are evil" after researching the sassafras plant.  I am glad I did:

 

[jengd]

Can’t find the thread I’m sure there is fir Heart Like. Hard Grenade so putting this here.  I came across this and it has to be inspiration for the dance scene we talked so much about.

 

[RedundantIdiot]

Me: Billie brought his mum on stage about 2009/10.

Dad: Did she stage dive?! 

Me (hysterical laughter): Clearly you don't know how old she is. 

[MillenniumFan]

Man listening to BIAB I can't help but think that it would be cool if they played JOS earlier in the set again. Like, I know why they play it as an encore, but it's just such a high energy song and I'm sure it's exhausting for them to play too. When they play it as like the 25th or 26th song, part of that energy is, for obvious reasons, just gone. The song really shines on BIAB though and besides the band being a good deal younger, I think that's also down to them playing the song earlier in the night. 

[That Dude]

I've been binge listening the Redundant podcast and the guys have basically fanboys of everything Green Day have done....until Rev Rad.    

Holy Toledo, I haven't heard this kind of hate for RevRad anywhere.   Haha.

 

 

 

 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

6 hours ago, That Dude said:

I've been binge listening the Redundant podcast and the guys have basically fanboys of everything Green Day have done....until Rev Rad.    

Holy Toledo, I haven't heard this kind of hate for RevRad anywhere.   Haha.

I always appreciate when people like them, but sometimes people just have bad taste in green day

[That Dude]

2 hours ago, Beerjeezus said:

I always appreciate when people like them, but sometimes people just have bad taste in green day

I feel like I have bad music tastes sometimes, and I definitely have some odd takes on Green Day.

Best Song? - Saints Are Coming

Father of All is better than Smooth, Kerplunk....it just might be a top 4 album.

 

 

[Flashback]

Just watched the footage of the secret show at Reading 2012. The Trilogy Promo Tour would have been so amazing if Billie‘s health was in better condition

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

20 minutes ago, That Dude said:

I feel like I have bad music tastes sometimes, and I definitely have some odd takes on Green Day.

Best Song? - Saints Are Coming

Father of All is better than Smooth, Kerplunk....it just might be a top 4 album.

These are controversial takes, but I see your point. The early albums do suffer from low production value, while FOAM has so many little details to listen for, which makes it equally or even more enjoyable in its own right.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

42 minutes ago, Flashback said:

Just watched the footage of the secret show at Reading 2012. The Trilogy Promo Tour would have been so amazing if Billie‘s health was in better condition

It was amazing! I remember it very fondly as one of the most exciting times to be a fan - they were larger than life touring the world, playing lots of surprise shows with so many new songs that we loved and they kept outdoing themselves with both the new stuff and deep cuts. They played incredibly long sets too… I don’t think any tour they’ve done since has been this exciting from the surprise element POV. At the time, It didn’t seem anyone noticed there was anything off with Billie (which is pretty wild in hindsight)… Knowing about it does kind of take away from the fun of it all, but I’m mostly just impressed he was able to pull all of that stuff off as well as he did. It would have been extremely taxing even for someone in a good shape.

[jengd]

25 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

It was amazing! I remember it very fondly as one of the most exciting times to be a fan - they were larger than life touring the world, playing lots of surprise shows with so many new songs that we loved and they kept outdoing themselves with both the new stuff and deep cuts. They played incredibly long sets too… I don’t think any tour they’ve done since has been this exciting from the surprise element POV. At the time, It didn’t seem anyone noticed there was anything off with Billie (which is pretty wild in hindsight)… Knowing about it does kind of take away from the fun of it all, but I’m mostly just impressed he was able to pull all of that stuff off as well as he did. It would have been extremely taxing even for someone in a good shape.

You are right.  They were on the radio in the Uk and did this wild broadcast with Zane Low where they leaked so many tracks, hinted about the secret show, it was lots of fun.

[MillenniumFan]

5 hours ago, Flashback said:

Just watched the footage of the secret show at Reading 2012. The Trilogy Promo Tour would have been so amazing if Billie‘s health was in better condition

Absolutely. Opening the set with WTP is also just badass, beats KYE any day.  That said, I like how they played the odd 21CB song such as Murder City (or East Jesus during other gigs), they barely do that anymore. The most we can hope to hear from that album these days is KYE or 21 Guns. In a lot of ways a more stripped down high energy version of Green Day could have worked, it's just that both Billie's condition and the trilogy's overall execution did not quite allow for it. But watching this show I can certainly see what they were trying to do. 

[That Dude]

Reading random Green Day facts in hopes of finding some I didn't know.  Here's the only two I haven't heard before:   

They are the youngest people inducted in the Rock N Roll hall of fame. 

All three guys have EAST BAY PUNK MAFIA tattoos.  

 

[jengd]

1 hour ago, That Dude said:

They are the youngest people inducted in the Rock N Roll hall of fame.

I was surprised more wasn’t made of that, it doesn’t really matter other than being admirable they were so young when they started and worthy of comment that they are still active.  

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

1 hour ago, That Dude said:

They are the youngest people inducted in the Rock N Roll hall of fame. 

If I knew this I'd forgotten . Really cool 😎 

[Slave To The Network]

Oh yes, I knew that! That's what makes it even cooler. Green Day is just the best! They're such wonderful, amazing people and I love them so much. ❤️

[Duhhan1023]

Forgot how good Revolution Radio is! Listening to it this morning ❤️

[That Dude]

The good ole Redundant Green Day Podcast suggested this video, and it's pretty special, although I'll be fact checking that number Tre Cool throw out there, haha!   

The bastards!  They can only play 150 songs and they have 169 songs on studio records!   We can figure out most of the ones they can't play....

No One Knows, Panic Song, Westbound Sign, Deadbeat Holiday,  Song of the Century, See You Tonight, Baby Eyes, Night Life, The Forgotten, Say Goodbye, Outlaws, Bouncing off the Wall (singular) and anything from FOAM that wasn't a pre-album single.   

 

[HoneyEmerald]

I haven't heard them play Poprocks and Coke in a while....

[That Dude]

1 hour ago, HoneyEmerald said:

I haven't heard them play Poprocks and Coke in a while....

That one too.  It's not on a studio record, so I let it slide.   We're never going to hear Shenanigans tracks live either, and that's a gosh darn travesty.  It’s one if not their best album..

Yes, I said it. 

[Christian's Inferno!]

So I was just listening to the trilogy and while reading along with the lyrics on genius, I noticed that there are some more interesting lyrics than I thought. I think because there are so many songs & lyrics on these albums that people think most of them are just meaningless filler but there's definitely interesting stuff in there that you won't notice if you're not really paying attention. Not to say the trilogy is a lyrical masterpiece, obviously it's not. But because there are so many lyrics there and there are some lyrics that are just... bad, a lot of people assume that all of it is bad

[pacejunkie punk]

25 minutes ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

So I was just listening to the trilogy and while reading along with the lyrics on genius, I noticed that there are some more interesting lyrics than I thought. I think because there are so many songs & lyrics on these albums that most of them are just meaningless filler but there's definitely interesting stuff in there that you won't notice if you're not really paying attention. Not to say the trilogy is a lyrical masterpiece, obviously it's not. But because there are so many lyrics there and there are some lyrics that are just... bad, a lot of people assume that all of it is bad

I’ve never had a problem with the lyric quality if the trilogy I’ve never understood where this criticism came from. For every “bad” line people find, I can find ten good ones that are overlooked.

[Christian's Inferno!]

8 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I’ve never had a problem with the lyric quality if the trilogy I’ve never understood where this criticism came from. For every “bad” line people find, I can find ten good ones that are overlooked.

I understand the criticism but I don't really agree with it for the most part. I think when people say a certain song is bad lyrically, they usually mean there are 1 or 2 lines in the song or in one verse that they don't like and then they ignore the rest of the lyrics. There are lyrics that are pretty bad or generic, but I mean it's no worse than what I'd expect from a trilogy of albums

Btw in my original comment, I accidentally said that most of the lyrics are meaningless filler when I meant to say that people think most of the lyrics are meaningless filler. I edited my original comment