03 - Revolution Radio

[Chin for a Day]

Revolution Radio is #70 on itunes top songs

[kimmi123]

soda pop and Ritalin=cherry bombs and gasoline

Anyone else thinks this was intentional?

[Chin for a Day]

1 minute ago, kimmi123 said:

soda pop and Ritalin=cherry bombs and gasoline

Anyone else thinks this was intentional?

How is that equal?

[Second favourite son]

40 minutes ago, kimmi123 said:

soda pop and Ritalin=cherry bombs and gasoline

Anyone else thinks this was intentional?

The only similarity there is in syllables/meter.  

[Sarcasm]

I thought the gasoline and cherry bombs was a common way to make some boomin' molotov cocktails 

[spark in the night]

What even is a cherry bomb?

[Second favourite son]

3 minutes ago, spark in the night said:

What even is a cherry bomb?

It's a kind of firework.  Can be used by protesters/rioters to cause chaos/damage/injury on a relatively small scale.  Wikipedia article on cherry bombs

[Stefano Bras]

2 minutes ago, spark in the night said:

What even is a cherry bomb?

a little bomb in the shape of a... cherry.

It isn't that hard to understand really. Also Google is your friend.

[Thatsername]

16 hours ago, Jenn. said:

I think it's less the loudness of the guitars and more the fact the vocals are drowned out a bit by them. 

Yeah, I've read that some people complain about that, too. But funnily enough, I don't have the feeling that the vocals are drowned by the guitars especially in this song. Actually, I think his voice sounds very clear (and I love how his voice goes up in words like "operation" or "debutants", that's what I really love about this song, it just makes me happy). I understood most of the lyrics at the first listen even without reading them. In other songs, there is much more mumbling and/or loud instruments that drown his voice a little bit.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

1 hour ago, Scattered Wreck said:

How is that equal?

Same rhyme scheme  

[kimmi123]

I guess I should explain myself a bit more.

I keep seeing double meaning in both, Bang Bang and Revolution Radio. I guess I concluded without thinking, that everyone else sees it as well, especially after hints given in lyrics video for Revolution Radio. I keep sensing that RR is somewhat about music. About how music can change individuals and the whole world.

 

Musician in JOS was fed soda pop and Ritalin (and passing feeling from it to the listeners) as a kid, and musician in RR is consuming cherry bombs and gasoline (to pass that feeling to the listeners). I thought that rhyme and metrics indicates a connection between the two.

Does this make any sense? Was it at least understandable despite my ability in written English?

 

[Second favourite son]

2 minutes ago, kimmi123 said:

I guess I should explain myself a bit more.

I keep seeing double meaning in both, Bang Bang and Revolution Radio. I guess I concluded without thinking, that everyone else sees it as well, especially after hints given in lyrics video for Revolution Radio. I keep sensing that RR is somewhat about music. About how music can change individuals and the whole world.

Musician in JOS was fed soda pop and Ritalin (and passing feeling from it to the listeners) as a kid, and musician in RR is consuming cherry bombs and gasoline (to pass that feeling to the listeners). I thought that rhyme and metrics indicates a connection between the two.

Does this make any sense? Was it at least understandable despite my ability in written English?

I understand what you mean, your English is good   I just don't agree with you   I think the only reason the rhyme/meter is similar is that the structure fits well in both occasions.  

[Misterglasshalfempty]

28 minutes ago, kimmi123 said:

I guess I should explain myself a bit more.

I keep seeing double meaning in both, Bang Bang and Revolution Radio. I guess I concluded without thinking, that everyone else sees it as well, especially after hints given in lyrics video for Revolution Radio. I keep sensing that RR is somewhat about music. About how music can change individuals and the whole world.

 

Musician in JOS was fed soda pop and Ritalin (and passing feeling from it to the listeners) as a kid, and musician in RR is consuming cherry bombs and gasoline (to pass that feeling to the listeners). I thought that rhyme and metrics indicates a connection between the two.

Does this make any sense? Was it at least understandable despite my ability in written English?

 

I understand what you're getting at, but there's just no way Billie puts that many layers into his lyrics. His recent songs in no way indicate that he possesses the ability to write like that. I mean, he has already used "testify" and "lullaby" in both of the songs we've heard so far.  I would say that he wrote "cherry bombs and gasoline" because it fit, and because he thought it sounded "cool". 

[Libertine Angel]

My immediate thought on the cherry bomb line was to Joan Jett, and considering they've been playing together a fair bit lately it kinda makes sense.

[Bronni]

19 hours ago, Platypus2000 said:

Don't listen to it then, RR sounds awesome. Guitars are meant to sound like that, there's nothing that screams energy and urgency more than loud as fuck guitars.

No offense or anything, but people ARE allowed to express different opinions for fuck's sake...

[xXRustyJamesXx]

400k plays on spotify

I think Bang Bang had slightly more after two days, not sure though.

[Chin for a Day]

2 hours ago, kimmi123 said:

I guess I should explain myself a bit more.

I keep seeing double meaning in both, Bang Bang and Revolution Radio. I guess I concluded without thinking, that everyone else sees it as well, especially after hints given in lyrics video for Revolution Radio. I keep sensing that RR is somewhat about music. About how music can change individuals and the whole world.

 

Musician in JOS was fed soda pop and Ritalin (and passing feeling from it to the listeners) as a kid, and musician in RR is consuming cherry bombs and gasoline (to pass that feeling to the listeners). I thought that rhyme and metrics indicates a connection between the two.

Does this make any sense? Was it at least understandable despite my ability in written English?

 

I have to agree with SFS.  But also adding to that, cherry bombs and gasoline are not something someone would consume.  Cherry bombs are a fire cracker.  I think of it more as showing destruction where soda pop and ritalin is supposed to show a lifestyle.  

[Libertine Angel]

Y'know, I actually really like the music for the most part, the chorus is kinda generic and the solo's a bit too Trilogy but other than that it's proper solid. Makes me wish even more that the lyrics weren't such a disappointment, I could love it if not for that.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

Has anyone heard this played on the radio?

[Libertine Angel]

2 minutes ago, Jake69 said:

I think the solo is awesome. It even has a pitch harmonics.

To me it sounds too much like the kind of solos basically everything on Dos had, it's not bad but it just doesn't stand out at all.

[madafaka]

5 hours ago, kimmi123 said:

I guess I should explain myself a bit more.

I keep seeing double meaning in both, Bang Bang and Revolution Radio. I guess I concluded without thinking, that everyone else sees it as well, especially after hints given in lyrics video for Revolution Radio. I keep sensing that RR is somewhat about music. About how music can change individuals and the whole world.

 

Musician in JOS was fed soda pop and Ritalin (and passing feeling from it to the listeners) as a kid, and musician in RR is consuming cherry bombs and gasoline (to pass that feeling to the listeners). I thought that rhyme and metrics indicates a connection between the two.

Does this make any sense? Was it at least understandable despite my ability in written English?

 

I really don't see it. They have a similar structure as sentences go, but that's inevitable with hundreds of songs in their back catalogue. Billie Joe have alot of ongoing words, phrases and thematics in his writing that crosses over from album to album, but I wouldn't read too much into them. Even then, there is not much similarity in this case. You can be fed soda pop and Ritalin yes, but you can't be fed cherry bombs and gasoline (well you can, but...) so I don't get your allegory. Also thiink about it: Why would he make such a subtle reference to an older song that no one gets. What's the purpose? It doens't make sense.

 

If anything, I think there are some similarities to be found between RR and 99 Revolutions, not only in the titles.

I feel like Billie Joe reinvented that song a little bit, which I'm fine with. Don't let a good concept go to waste

[Chin for a Day]

1 hour ago, Tinkle said:

Has anyone heard this played on the radio?

No, I don't know that it was released to radio

[Z J]

I've decided I like this song more than Bang Bang. The riff, the hook, the syncopated rhythm, it's so tight. My housemates and I have had the song stuck in our head for two days. The hook has that cool little stutter or pause that I found myself enjoying more and more. To me, what you want out of a title track is something with a.) potential to get radio play b.) A hook that lives up to the name. This hook does that for me, and I truly could see this doing decently well on top 40 radio down the road. We'll see how these two songs fit within the context of the album, I gotta reserve final judgment for when I've heard the whole body of work. 

So far, I think we've got:

-A pounding, technical punk display with Bang Bang. One of the better punk songs you'll hear. Has pop traces, but those drums and guitars are as punk as anything else. 

-A crunchy, melody-filled pop punk song. And again their instrumentation and precision far surpasses any other bands in the respective genres. And it's not close. 

 

I say A+ so far

[That Dude]

Is this song an actual single?   

[Bollocks]

3 minutes ago, thatdude03 said:

Is this song an actual single?   

No. It's just a song release. I keep trying to remove it from the singles bit on wiki (even added a hidden message NOT to add it, and it keeps coming back