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I love Rev Rad. But I also love the trilogy, FOAM and Saviors. 😈

It really is getting way too good way too quickly. I think the most recent thing that has shocked me are the new Google VEO 3 videos, there are still some uncanny valley elements here and there but I think they would fool a lot of people. Fascinating stuff but the implications are scary for sure.

I like Rev Rad a lot. Didn't think I would, because I felt like the Trilogy got worse by the song, and I honestly wasn't sure how BJA's very public struggles would affect the band's sound and chemistry. I'm happy I was wrong. I don't really dislike any songs on the album. I think Still Breathing and Revolution Radio should never have been split up in the track order, because they work together as well as 21 Guns and American Eulogy or WMUWSE and Homecoming do. Still Breathing has what I consider the best lyric Billie Joe has ever written, and I will defend that song to the death as vastly underappreciated by fans who can't get past the fact that BJA originally wrote a very different version of it for a pop band. Forever Now deserves a place among GD's best "album climax" songs with Homecoming and the GOAT (American Eulogy). Somewhere Now is also a criminally underrated song. I get that the band may not have wanted another "slow burn" opener like 21CB, or maybe they just didn't want to play the song over again at the end during Forever Now, but I think it would have been a perfect opener for the Rev Rad tour. I think of Rev Rad as the sort of thing that would happen if Billie Joe walked into a studio and said, "I want lyrics as raw as AI with music as polished as 21CB." Does it always work? No. There are songs that sound "sterile", or like they were trying to make something that sounds like BOBD or Letterbomb. And the elephant in the room, yes, even though I like Ordinary World, it's just stuffing an acoustic track at the end reminiscent of Good Riddance, and it serves the double purpose of using a BJA solo song from his movie to pad the album's length. It's not the best album ever, but I do think it balances out to be their best post-AI work.

Bang Bang was their strongest single ever, imo. The album is absolutely amazing, but it’s a bit to ‘stale’ if that makes sense, and also (like @jengd) mentioned: They played it a little safe. Bang Bang and Forever Now are easily in my top 10 GD songs of all time.

I love Revolution Radio. IIRC their recording process for it was pretty back to basics too.

My all time favorite Green Day album.

awwwwwwwwwww how cute that smile is precious

I became a fan during the Nimrod era. Then warning / superhits / shenanigans / money money 2020 / American Idiot. That whole run is bonkers.