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Reason #29484 why I love this band: they’re shitty liars

Even though it's just the filter there his hair would look really good dyed deep blue like that for real

good lord, Mike... smh

What @Green Day In Seattle said! ok, I know this has been posted in the IG thread but OMG look at those eyes and lips and quite a nice amount of stubble. Beginning to believe they are getting ready for something!

Oh my...he is such a stunner. Every little feature of his is impossibly beautiful. Those striking green eyes of his are just hypnotizing; it’s hard to look away once you’ve been drawn in. Everything around you just dissolves away if you allow yourself to get lost in those eyes. They’re undeniably alluring. If you manage to get past the eyes, they’re really only one of his many gorgeous features: Those plump lips arched into a subtle smile; the light stubble; those expressive eyebrows (that one’s a bit bizarre ). His neatly styled, thick hair is almost too beautiful to be real. And honestly (and I’ve said this before), I think those little lines on his forehead are really attractive. He’s aged so beautifully, and if he didn’t have those subtle cracks in his skin he wouldn’t be such a natural beauty. He is the epitome of “imperfect-perfection”. I could go on forever, but this is probably starting to sound obsessive. I’m going to stop here before I give myself a heart attack.

Damn look at Elvis Armstrong over here, that's some impressive hair

They'd have to pry me off with a crowbar if I got the chance to hold on to him.

Duke had a lot to work with so thank those Armstrong hair genes. And those eyes 😍 How can he be that beautiful just omg 🔥 So they’re getting all pretty for what I believe are the promo shoots, press kits, album art, whatever they need for Warners to promote this album. Recording is done, Billie’s back home and it’s on to the next phase...

Totally fangirling over Billie's thick Elvis hair, wow

It is! A work of art on the hairstylist's part. It's a good compromise between styled hair and his natural curls too.

If you watch that entire performance, the way that girl reacts when she’s invited on stage is so adorable...she just grabs onto Billie and refuses to let go! Can’t blame her; he’s the most huggable little bean on the planet.

Why do you think he saved this thing? Planning ahead.

The eyes. I'd love to see him try purple eyeliner once. Can you imagine how green his eyes would look then?

I wonder if he’s saying goodbye to the punky spikes for the next GD phase?

I literally just woke up and... did I die, cuz holy shit those eyes, the look, holy hot damn! I’m quite jealous of his thick hair. Duke is a master. Also that last hashtag “to be continued”🤔🤔🤔

Literally right from when they first started saying it was stolen they had no poker face about it. The official line from them was never just that they had to start again because it was stolen, it was that the master tapes or whatever got stolen and that made them re-evaluate and realise it wasn't good enough so it would be better to do something more ambitious instead as well as sort their relationship with each other out. They were open about the other stuff from the beginning. There's no way the songs wouldn't have been recorded or documented in other ways, they would've been able to recreate the album if they'd wanted. My assumption is the stolen part just made it a better story than we realised the album sucked

Holy fuck! Those eyes! He absolutely needs to shave, though.

Following the discussion about fans and Billie hugging (which happened elsewhere ), it made me think that I'm fond of these moments where Billie gives fans this opportunity to have this close contact with him (whether he's drunk, sober or whatever, once he began to do it many years ago, he never stopped doing it, and he'll keep doing it ). I love seeing pics of these moments and the happiness on the fans' face. It must be one big rush of happiness all at once to be able to hug him. At the moment I'm really into that pic: and the look on that girl's face makes me smile in turn. Of course there's envy to be in her place, but above all I feel happy for her. That happiness is so relatable it's contagious .

@Vintage Disciple It's black, but the photo has a blue-ish filter. Probably why his green eyes are so intensified as well.

Went to comment on how totally gorgeous Billie looks but headed off to fan girl thread instead where we can let rip! Have to say though, his hair is really something. Wonder how long that took?

It looks so thick! Quite the contrast with Mike

The band said they’d had the master tapes stolen but there have been theories that it wasn’t, that they just decided it wasn’t good enough and started over, or someone just claimed it was stolen because they knew the band could do better, or they just lost them but decided to say they were stolen... it never surfaced online so you gotta wonder what it was stolen for, if it was stolen. 🤷🏻‍♀️

ME THOUGH also these pics are adorable

I haven't fangirled here in a while, but just dropping in to say that that pic Duke posted is 😍😍😍😍😍😍 I just can't get over how stunning our boy's gorgeous green eyes are. So mesmerisingly beautiful. And his hair is fabulous. It looks so soft. I'd give anything to run my hands through it. And the lovely grey strands peeking through at the sides tho. And the stubble is perfect. What an exquisite being.

I took a photo of the picture with my phone, here's the result. I really like it, I put it as my background phone pic

I feel the same way. I’ve had such a rough week and seeing Billie’s pretty face helped me shift my focus away from everything I’ve been stressing over. He’s my cure-all.

Mike needs to stop 😬

The past few days for me have been crap , so it's really cheared me up seeing that picture . I'm loving Billies hair and stubble... and yes, I think something might happen soon

Not convinced it’s a filter as most things in the pic look normal, think it’s just how the light is hitting the very dense black. Whatever, he looks great.

I don't know exactly where but I just remember them never just saying "the tapes were stolen", they always then went into how it made them re-evaluate the album and the band in general and decide to go for it and make a really ambitious album. "Not maximum Green Day" was one phrase they used that I've always remembered. Idk just whenever I watched/read an interview about it the stolen part always seemed kind of nudge nudge wink wink and realising they weren't happy with the album anyway seemed to be the important part.

It's definitely dyed darker almost blue/black. He seems to be channeling his inner Elvis from Jailhouse Rock era

What sounds better to the public “the songs weren’t that good so we scrapped it” “the album was stolen and we just going to start anew”

Is it too early for this

My own theory is they were really lying to Reprise. Warners owned the music and if they wanted to they could have insisted on releasing what they thought was a crappy record just to recoup some money. The only way to prevent that was to make the tapes disappear.

Yeah like, they were saying the small fire was a "sign" and stuff too. They never really hid the real reasons for scrapping C&V and making AI instead but they wanted to make it a good story too

Don't buy meat.

Green Day’s Woodstock LP was the third biggest seller that’s awesome. I wonder how many copies it sold. And I can’t keep up with Mike’s properties. Where do they even live now, NorCal or SoCal?

Those are two of my most favourite pics of them all 😍😍😍😍😍😍

I know I was the one who posted last, and I never like to post twice in a row, but I just need to share these. They're too cute! GD hugs are the best! So pure and genuine. Their quality and depth of their friendship and their love for each other is very special.

He looks so beautiful . Honestly, if the recording for the new album is already done, the boys are fast... Especially Billie, it's not like he had a long break since 2016 when Rev Rad came out! Time has flown! and there he is (almost) ready to drop a new album! Question is: are we ready? I wonder what will be the most overwhelming aspect: financial or emotional lol

Hmmm...Elvis hair...Elvis lightening bolt necklace...Taking Care of Business?

@maryjanewhatsername there is no C&V.🤭

It makes me uncomfortable to watch that interview. I don't like seeing him that drunk because I associate it with what a problem it was for him at that time. It also seems unnecessary to discuss Billie's drinking habits and alcoholism. Anyway, @Jirachi I hope you're right! I hope we are close to a new album. Can't wait to see what they'll have for us!

Yeah, like when they’re told they have one minute left in their set and they think they’ve been cut short when they haven’t... Can we not try to romanticise Billie being drunk? Because it’s weird.

Article here from Brooklyn Vegan - "Unpopular Opinion: Green Day's Insomniac is their best album": http://www.brooklynvegan.com/unpopular-opinion-green-days-insomniac-is-their-best-album/ "Green Day nostalgia is in the air because their breakthrough album Dookie turned 25 this year. The band has been selling old gear from the Dookie era (including mud-stained speakers from their Woodstock ’94 set, which is both Green Day nostalgia and Woodstock nostalgia), and the band also unleashed a new Dookie-themed guitar pedal. Dookie turned Green Day into stars, it’s massively influential, it helped get so many people into punk, and it’s home to five of their biggest and most memorable pre-American Idiot singles. For all of these reasons, it’s generally considered their most classic album, but I’d argue that Green Day one-upped themselves just a few months later. Their best album is not the influential, hits-filled Dookie (or American Idiot for that matter), but Dookie‘s quickly-released followup Insomniac. Dookie deserves all the credit it gets. For me personally, it was one of my first punk albums and I can’t imagine where I’d be today without it. You still hear about half of its songs at bars, parties, karaoke, etc, and if you’re under the age of 35 and you play in a punk band, chances are this album was and still is a very big deal to you. Its songs are deeply ingrained in the DNA of modern punk, and dissing it at this point feels like an eyeroll-worthy attempt at being contrarian. That said, like lots of albums this immensely popular, it’s easy to get tired of hearing Dookie or at least feeling like you don’t have much of a reason to put it on at home anymore. I unintentionally hear Dookie songs multiple times a year just by leaving the house, I don’t really need to come home and put it on myself too. If you’ve never listened to Green Day, it might still be the best place to start, but once you’ve absorbed the whole catalog, you may find that Insomniac holds up better. Part of that is because you hear it less — it didn’t match the success of Dookie and it has less hits (Insomniac‘s only real huge hit is “Brain Stew,” which got even more of a boost when a remixed version appeared in the 1998 Godzilla movie) — but that’s not the only reason. It’s not exactly the In Utero to Dookie‘s Nevermind or the Pinkertonto Dookie‘s Blue Album or the Kid A to Dookie‘s OK Computer, but it is just a bit darker and harder than its predecessor and that goes a long way. Dookie can start to sound too bubblegummy after a while, but Insomniac manages to deliver plenty of singalong punk songs without falling into that same trap. It was also recorded better, and the band played better. They hit the studio in December 1994, just weeks after wrapping up their nearly-year-long tour schedule supporting Dookie, and they were unsurprisingly on fire at this point. They had just spent months playing tons of shows to the biggest crowds of their career (including the aforementioned Woodstock ’94), which was all the prep they needed to quickly bang out a rock-solid followup to an instant classic. It gets overlooked because it came so soon after Dookie, and because the next album (1997’s Nimrod) introduced Green Day to even more non-punk audiences with its destined-to-be-sung-at-graduations song “Time Of Your Life.” But among its 14 tracks are some of — if not the — best songs Green Day ever wrote. Like Dookie, Insomniac opens with a now-iconic drum fill, and if it sounds right off the bat that Tre Cool is hitting harder than he had ever hit before, he himself would agree. As he told Rolling Stone around the time of the album’s release, he credited it to having a kid. “I can hit the drums harder than I ever thought I could. Having a kid is trying – you have to watch your temper all the time – but it enhances the experience of playing in the band.” Then the rest of the band comes in, and it’s instant pop punk bliss. Billie Joe Armstrong’s power chords sound sharper than ever, Mike Dirnt’s basslines are more in the pocket than ever, and maybe the most noticeable improvement in Green Day’s sound comes in on the chorus: the vocal harmonies. Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt’s harmonies were admittedly a little shaky early on in Green Day’s career, and though they had vastly improved them by Dookie, Insomniac was the moment they perfected them. By the time they branched out from punk and started delivering more complex vocal work, they were pros at harmonizing, and that all started on Insomniac. It’s clear from album opener “Armatage Shanks” alone that Green Day’s songwriting took a turn for the slightly darker on Insomniac — Billie Joe’s lyrics have always had a dark side, but here his introvertedness and pessimism is matched by the tone of the music more than it was on Dookie — and he managed to do this while only strengthening his knack for melodicism. The verse and the chorus on this song both come with a hook that rivals Green Day’s bigger hits. That continues on the next two songs, “Brat” and “Stuck With Me,” which make for the most relentless one-two-three punch of any Green Day album, and Insomniac has a handful of other should’ve-been hits like “Stuart and the Ave,” “86,” and “No Pride.” Those songs hit the same pleasure points as “When I Come Around” and “Longview,” and they’re actually even tighter and punchier. It’s hard to say for sure, but I bet if “Brat” and “Stuart and the Ave” were the ones all over MTV and the radio in the ’90s, they’d be karaoke regulars today too. (The album’s poppiest song and second biggest hit after “Brain Stew” was “Walking Contradiction,” though admittedly I think that’s one of Insomniac‘s weaker songs.) There’s also an argument to be made that Green Day had developed an even more unique sound on these songs. Dookieearned Green Day their fair share of comparisons to the Buzzcocks, but by Insomniac it was undeniable that this was a band with an original sound of their own. Along with those punchier songs, Insomniac had a slightly heavier — and sometimes slower — sound too. That’s very evident on the aforementioned “Brain Stew,” which sorrrrrrt of goes into alt-metal or grunge territory, but it’s also there on “Geek Stink Breath” (which was also a minor hit), on the hard rock of “Bab’s Uvula Who,” and on the classic rock-ish “Panic Song.” There’s also “Jaded,” which is usually packaged with “Brain Stew” as one big two-part song, and which is one of Green Day’s hardest punk songs. Insomniac was also the last time Green Day were a true punk band. Nimrod had its fair share of punk songs (including career highlight “The Grouch”), but it mostly saw them going in a lighter, more “rock” direction that got even lighter on Nimrod‘s 2000 followup, Warning. (And then they would come back four years later, fully reinvented as rock opera makers, with American Idiot. And the rest was not-very-punk history.) Insomniac closed the book on Green Day’s punk roots, and it’s still the best proof that Green Day really were just a great punk band, before the graduation ballads and the rock operas and the actual Broadway musicals. There’s also a good argument to be made that the pre-Dookie stuff — when Green Day were on Lookout! and playing shows at Gilman St. — was Green Day at their most punk, but as good as the early material (especially Kerplunk) is, their tools weren’t as sharp back then as they were on Insomniac. It might not be their most popular album, but it’s the one where everything just clicked and fell into place so quickly. It sounds better and less dated than its rawer predecessors, and it’s meaner and leaner than any Green Day album that followed. Of all the albums from the band’s classic ’90s run, it’s the one that sounds most fresh today." It ends with some videos if anyone is interested.

Green Day Bread illustrated the sandwich moment quite nicely

I'm playing Animal Crossing with my mum and my fiancee and one of the villagers said "wild one" so naturally I was like Another villager said it today but I was too busy hammering the B button to get a photo and I'm disappointed