Revolution Radio

[Teenage Lush]

2 minutes ago, CrimsonArk said:

Is it just me or does this album have the most bland song titles for a Green Day album ever?

Somewhere Now?

Forever Now?

Outlaws?

Bang Bang?

Troubled Times?

Nothing here really sticks out like X-Kid, 8th Avenue Serenade, Stop When The Red Lights Flash, A Little Boy Named Train etc.

I find the cover art to be kind of "Eh" as well. It's essentially just the Kill The DJ artwork, but less of a headache. Looks almost placeholder.

i'm not super keen on most of the song titles either but the trilogy had awesome titles with very meh songs so you can't really judge by that. i mean, if you think of albums like nimrod and warning a lotof the song titles are pretty boring too: all the time, uptight, walking alone, jackass, hold on, etc etc but the songs themselves are great. i wouldn't read too much into it. 

[James11693]

Really happy it's called Revolution Radio. Love that title. Don't really mind the song titles but I can see why people don't like them. Anyone think this album can still blow up like idiot did? Considering Billie said the albums not really about the elections or anything. Idiot blew up because it was basically based off of that and the presidency. This doesn't seem to be like that. My friend also told me that one of the articles said it wasn't going to be that political either which kinda bums me out

[rockmanx37]

The cover is fine, i like it.
I want to know the track times!

[PurpleIron1039]

1 minute ago, rockmanx37 said:

The cover is fine, i like it.
I want to know the track times!

They're on Wikipedia, apparently.

[spark in the night]

I like the flaming radio, but the "Green Day" fake graffiti font is yuck. Looks like it was slapped together in MS Paint. I totally love the typography they did for BANG BANG. I think its the same style they used on the Trilogy. That font works for them. But the graffiti  seems too immature. I guess it appeals to younger kids. I'm getting old  

[SomeNimrod97]

5 minutes ago, PurpleIron1039 said:

They're on Wikipedia, apparently.

There were some but they're not there now.

[WhiteTim]

What's with the track time fascination do the times give an indication on how good the song is?

[PurpleIron1039]

3 minutes ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

There were some but they're not there now.

I have a screenshot but can't for the life of me figure out how to post it. (nvm)

EDIT: Oh, I didn't realize they're gone now. I remember that Forever Now (I think) is nearly 7 minutes long and Outlaws is about 5.5.

[SomeNimrod97]

1 minute ago, WhiteTim said:

What's with the track time fascination do the times give an indication on how good the song is?

Sometimes track times can be indicative of quality. Every track I've ever heard over 7 minutes has been gold. Just to name a few in length order: Citizen Erased, Champagne Supernova, HK Farewell, Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming and The Globalist.

[Tubbie Head]

^ Yeah, I can't help but get really excited about the long songs, given GD's history with those!

[Arthur_Rhuan]

5 minutes ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

Sometimes track times can be indicative of quality. Every track I've ever heard over 7 minutes has been gold. Just to name a few in length order: Citizen Erased, Champagne Supernova, HK Farewell, Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming and The Globalist.

did you even heard Revolution 9?

[PurpleIron1039]

1 hour ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

Sometimes track times can be indicative of quality. Every track I've ever heard over 7 minutes has been gold. Just to name a few in length order: Citizen Erased, Champagne Supernova, HK Farewell, Jesus of Suburbia, Homecoming and The Globalist.

...Victim of Changes, Prisoner of Your Eyes, Civil War, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Thick as a Brick, To Tame a Land, Run of the Mill, Floods, Cathedral Spires, Blood Red Skies, 2112, Karn Evil 9, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Paschendale, Salisbury, In My Time of Dying, Stairway to Heaven, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Child in Time, Won't Get Fooled Again, Achilles Last Stand, Free Bird, Layla, War Pigs, etc.

Those were the ones off the top of my head that I remembered as being pretty long but very good, but I had to check the times for most of them, haha.

[SomeNimrod97]

1 minute ago, Arthur_Rhuan said:

did you even heard Revolution 9?

I don't think I have. I'll have to look that up.

Anyway, point is that if a song is longer than 7 minutes, it tends to be a song that is executed very well and is well remembered by fans.

[jordanlolss]

12 minutes ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

I don't think I have. I'll have to look that up.

Anyway, point is that if a song is longer than 7 minutes, it tends to be a song that is executed very well and is well remembered by fans.

Revolution 9 is very well remembered by Beatles fans everywhere, just not for the reason you'd hope 

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i really think this is not the real album cover. i mean.. they put a guy to working only on the single's art (and a wall for photos) and to the cover they just puting fire in a radio? i dont think so.

[PurpleIron1039]

22 minutes ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

I don't think I have. I'll have to look that up.

Anyway, point is that if a song is longer than 7 minutes, it tends to be a song that is executed very well and is well remembered by fans.

I agree; I think that once a song reaches that kind of length, it's got to be memorable or relatively progressive to keep the listener's attention. You've got to make it interesting.

I think that the mark of a truly good song that runs over 7 minutes is that, once the song ends, the listener feels that it's only been a minute or two, instead of 7+.

In fact, I was listening to Cathedral Spires as I was typing these comments, and I didn't even realize that 9 minutes had passed until I heard the song end. A good long song lets you lose yourself in the music.

[SomeNimrod97]

7 minutes ago, jordanlolss said:

Revolution 9 is very well remembered by Beatles fans everywhere, just not for the reason you'd hope 

Well, it was only their first album, so no biggie.  When you think of every concert GD have played since 2005, everyone has known the lyrics to JoS.

[Jon Benjamin]

1 hour ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

Still, first it was listed on Wikipedia with Forever Now being 13 minutes long, then cut to 6 minutes long and it's been blanked again. Then you have people claiming it's 10 minutes long and 7 minutes long. Nobody knows and nobody will know until someone from management or Warner puts actual times to titles or everyone else records numbers on 7/10.

I listed it first and it wasn't first at 13, it was what they had on that leaked tracklist since it was correct about the songs and Bang Bang's time.

[CrimsonArk]

56 minutes ago, Teenage Lush said:

i'm not super keen on most of the song titles either but the trilogy had awesome titles with very meh songs so you can't really judge by that. i mean, if you think of albums like nimrod and warning a lotof the song titles are pretty boring too: all the time, uptight, walking alone, jackass, hold on, etc etc but the songs themselves are great. i wouldn't read too much into it. 

But still, those albums had titles like Prosthetic Head, Good Riddance, Platypus, Fashion Victim, Macy's Day Parade, Deadbeat Holiday etc. There isn't a single memorable title in the bunch on this album. And I'm not necessarily equating the originality or creativeness of the title to the actual quality of the songs themselves, but there isn't really a title here that makes me think "I wonder what that song is about".  There's no interesting or colorful word choices.

[PurpleIron1039]

1 minute ago, CrimsonArk said:

But still, those albums had titles like Prosthetic Head, Good Riddance, Platypus, Fashion Victim, Macy's Day Parade, Deadbeat Holiday etc. There isn't a single memorable title in the bunch on this album. And I'm not necessarily equating the originality to creativeness of the title to the actual quality of the songs themselves, but there isn't really a title here that makes me think "I wonder what that song is about".  There's no interesting or colorful word choices.

You forgot Haushinka.

[SomeNimrod97]

6 minutes ago, Jon Benjamin said:

I listed it first and it wasn't first at 13, it was what they had on that leaked tracklist since it was correct about the songs and Bang Bang's time.

So, was it actually listed as 12:54 or was my laptop bugging out? I think you didn't follow the changes after you added to it .

[CrimsonArk]

12 minutes ago, Diego Baro said:

i really think this is not the real album cover. i mean.. they put a guy to working only on the single's art (and a wall for photos) and to the cover they just puting fire in a radio? i dont think so.

Yeah, honestly it looks like the cover to a crappy overproduced heavy metal album. There's no style to it, and it being against a blank black background makes it seem like it was slapped together really quickly. Plus it's honestly a little on the nose given the title of the album.

[PurpleIron1039]

41 minutes ago, SomeNimrod97 said:

Sometimes track times can be indicative of quality. Every track I've ever heard over 7 minutes has been gold.

Well, thinking about it again, When the Wild Wind Blows is pretty bad, and Lochness is pretty much pointless. You can't make a song long just for the sake of it; the amount of material that you want to put in the song has to warrant that kind of length. But I don't see GD as the overly self-indulgent type.

[CrimsonArk]

4 minutes ago, PurpleIron1039 said:

You forgot Haushinka.

True. Hell, even Jinx is a more interesting title than literally every song on this new album.

[Tubbie Head]

1 minute ago, CrimsonArk said:

Yeah, honestly it looks like the cover to a crappy overproduced heavy metal album.

Yes, that's exactly what it looks like to me. If I didn't know GD and saw the album at a store I would stay away from it xD