Merry Christmas! Here's a new Green Day song

[Chin for a Day]

The song is nothing other than a,fun way to say merry Christmas to the fans.  Do I want an entire album of this?  Hell no.  But it has a fun beat, very beatle-esque.  I really doubt the new album will be like this.  I look at it as a musical christmas card.  

[Libertine Angel]

Just now, AlissaGoesRAWR said:

I truthfully don't understand this logic. Lower your expectations and suddenly something becomes good? Maybe you're not disappointed then, sure, but that doesn't suddenly make something that's bad become good. It just makes you not disappointed.

Obviously I wasn't expecting anything. It's a surprise Christmas song, after all. But I can say after I listen to it "eh, it's just OK" and that doesn't necessarily mean I had high expectations.

It's not lowering expectations, it's changing them. Something being light-hearted fun doesn't make it any better or worse than being serious, just a different thing. They were going for light-hearted fun here and that's what they did, so it is good at what it's supposed to be. I never said it's anyhting more than OK either, just that people shouldn't be condemning it like they are.

[Guest]

This is the GDC I fell in love with.

[petros]

1 minute ago, Céadóg said:

This is the GDC I fell in love with.

If the next album is as good as the trilogy the only good thing coming out of it will be the forum getting active again with the fighting

[Guest]

Just now, JJ1964 said:

The song is nothing other than a,fun way to say merry Christmas to the fans.  Do I want an entire album of this?  Hell no.  But it has a fun beat, very beatle-esque.  I really doubt the new album will be like this.  I look at it as a musical christmas card.  

Why the fuck is being "Beatles-esque" considered a good thing in 2015? They were a middling band at best when you remove them from the context of their time, and if they were around now they'd be considered unoriginal and boring. Exactly like this song.

Hey, maybe it is Beatles-esque. Nice catch.

[AlissaGoesRAWR]

4 minutes ago, Darth Seditus said:

It's not lowering expectations, it's changing them. Something being light-hearted fun doesn't make it any better or worse than being serious, just a different thing. They were going for light-hearted fun here and that's what they did, so it is good at what it's supposed to be. I never said it's anyhting more than OK either, just that people shouldn't be condemning it like they are.

But I didn't have expectations to begin with? Literally nobody on here knew anything about this until we first listened to it today.

[Hermione]

12 minutes ago, Céadóg said:

Never said anything about being more mature, but I'm certainly having a lot of fun. How about you?

I am! And I'm glad if you've enjoyed expressing your opinion that it's shit. But just because someone likes it and/or isn't interested in giving it an objective critical review it doesn't mean they're just mindlessly praising it or wanking off to it. Just as you disliking it doesn't mean you just mindlessly hate anything Green Day puts out.

[Libertine Angel]

1 minute ago, Céadóg said:

Why the fuck is being "Beatles-esque" considered a good thing in 2015? They were a middling band at best when you remove them from the context of their time, and if they were around now they'd be considered unoriginal and boring. Exactly like this song.

Hey, maybe it is Beatles-esque. Nice catch.

Of course they'd be considered unoriginal in an era where everyone's already influenced by them. And they sound bloody good, so what else really matters?

Just now, AlissaGoesRAWR said:

But I didn't have expectations to begin with? Literally nobody on here knew anything about this until we first listened to it today.

People here seem to be expecting something more than the light-hearted fun they got though, which doesn't make sense.

[Guest]

Just now, Hermione said:

Just as you disliking it doesn't mean you just mindlessly hate anything Green Day puts out.

Can you tell your boss that? He seems to have left the thread in a tiff and I think he'd benefit from hearing it from someone other than me.

[Private Ale.]

i wish someone would talk about Tre Cool's "all by myself"  

[Guest]

Just now, Darth Seditus said:

Of course they'd be considered unoriginal in an era where everyone's already influenced by them. 

THAT'S EXACTLY MY FUCKING POINT WHY IS SOUNDING LIKE THE BEATLES GOOD IN 2015 WHEN EVERYONE'S SOUNDED LIKE THE CUNTS TO A VARYING DEGREE FOR HALF A FUCKING CENTURY???

Just now, Private Ale. said:

i wish someone would talk about Tre Cool's "all by myself"  

Greatest musical masterpiece of our time. 

Actually it's not, it's a song about wanking that's literally 4 notes. Also goes in the "shit" pile.

[Libertine Angel]

Just now, Céadóg said:

THAT'S EXACTLY MY FUCKING POINT WHY IS SOUNDING LIKE THE BEATLES GOOD IN 2015 WHEN EVERYONE'S SOUNDED LIKE THE CUNTS TO A VARYING DEGREE FOR HALF A FUCKING CENTURY???

Everyone's influenced by them to a varying degree, so if it's a little more noticeable it makes things a little more interesting. And besides, it's a good sound, and a good sound is all that matters in music because that's basically why you listen to music.

[Guest]

Just now, Darth Seditus said:

Everyone's influenced by them to a varying degree, so if it's a little more noticeable it makes things a little more interesting. And besides, it's a good sound, and a good sound is all that matters in music because that's basically why you listen to music.

I don't understand how you're still missing my point.

[Steven Seagull]

Let's take a moment to acknowledge that ceadog was the one traveled all the way from Ireland to Cleveland to see Green Day inducted into the HOF. I know it's hard to believe but he's the biggest trilogy fan on GDC.

[Libertine Angel]

1 minute ago, Céadóg said:

I don't understand how you're still missing my point.

I could say the same.

[AlissaGoesRAWR]

9 minutes ago, Darth Seditus said:

People here seem to be expecting something more than the light-hearted fun they got though, which doesn't make sense.

Nobody was expecting anything for this song, though. People are reviewing it after it's been released.

Of course they were probably expecting the first song post-trilogy to be better than the trilogy — one would hope the band learned from its not-so-well-received albums and improve for their next go-around. However, when this was what people got as their first song post-trilogy and post-Hall of Fame induction, it's understandable, in my opinion, that they're frustrated to hear that little to nothing has changed. Unfortunately a slightly catchy, but admittedly sub-par Christmas song just so happened to be their first return to music in 3 1/2 years. So of course there's going to be backlash and criticism. Not because of what the song is, but because of what it isn't. I doubt one person on the planet thought "I want them to release a Christmas song that sounds just like the trilogy!" 

[Guest]

Just now, Steven Seagull said:

Let's take a moment to acknowledge that ceadog was the one traveled all the way from Ireland to Cleveland to see Green Day inducted into the HOF. I know it's hard to believe but he's the biggest trilogy fan on GDC.

Best part of that show was that they only played one Trilogy song.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

This again 

[Clockwise]

2 minutes ago, AlissaGoesRAWR said:

I doubt one person on the planet thought "I want them to release a Christmas song that sounds just like the trilogy!" 

Pretty sure I've had that thought, actually.

[Libertine Angel]

1 minute ago, AlissaGoesRAWR said:

Nobody was expecting anything for this song, though. People are reviewing it after it's been released.

Of course they were probably expecting the first song post-trilogy to be better than the trilogy — one would hope the band learned from its not-so-well-received albums and improve for their next go-around. However, when this was what people got as their first song post-trilogy and post-Hall of Fame induction, it's understandable, in my opinion, that they're frustrated to hear that little to nothing has changed. Unfortunately a slightly catchy, but admittedly sub-par Christmas song just so happened to be their first return to music in 3 1/2 years. So of course there's going to be backlash and criticism. Not because of what the song is, but because of what it isn't. 

But the whole idea that it's sub-par is flawed when the defition of par isn't the same as the band's definition of par. They've never cared about whether or not their music is well-received, so it shouldn't come as any surprise when they do what they want to do regardless of what other people think. And besides, the same argument I'm making about this could be applied to the Trilogy - they were going for light-hearted fun, and that's what it was, so there's no real problem there either.

[Guest]

Just now, Clockwise said:

Pretty sure I've had that thought, actually.

Yeah, but in fairness mate, you're fucking mental.

[DarcyJ76]

I like the song, it makes me happy :-)  Tell me about these filters.  I am not a music person and cannot tell filters versus nonfilters in any songs.  

[Brutal-xkid2]

3 minutes ago, Céadóg said:

Best part of that show was that they only played one Trilogy song.

Oh that makes sense now. Youre forgiven Travelling from ireland to cleveland just to see Green day thats impressive

[Libertine Angel]

1 minute ago, DarcyJ76 said:

I like the song, it makes me happy :-)  Tell me about these filters.  I am not a music person and cannot tell filters versus nonfilters in any songs.  

The vocals sound sort of like they're coming through a tin can, that's due to the filter.

[Guest]

Just now, DarcyJ76 said:

I like the song, it makes me happy :-)  Tell me about these filters.  I am not a music person and cannot tell filters versus nonfilters in any songs.  

- Does his voice sound like he's shagging Optimus Prime in a swimming pool?

- If yes, then they're probably using filters. Or he has a very serious medical ailment.