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Well this has been fun, I'm glad you all are enjoying the album. I had been refreshing GDC, KingdomLeaks, and /r/GreenDay all week praying for a leak - never thought I'd be the one leaking it! I was floored by how much I enjoyed this album, didn't have crazy high hopes after listening to the singles but I can comfortably say this is my favorite album they've done since 21CB. Awaiting my C&D letter from Warner, do you think I'll get to meet the guys??

Wow, this album is WAY better than I expected. Green Day, I'm sorry I doubted you guys. "Fire, Ready, Aim" had me really scared, but the rest of the album pulls its weight!

We owe this album a big fucking apology

Lol @ the people complaining that it's 44.1 320 CBR. Guys, I have an AT-LP60 running via aux into my Focusrite Scarlet and I don't know what I'm doing. Just wanted to share it with everyone.

What I love about FOAM is that I feel this is exactly the album the guys have been wanting to release for a long time, but didn't dare to because of the Green Day brand burden. It makes sense that it sounds like a mix of all their side projects, because it's almost as if they thought of this album as a passion project, and honestly, at this point of their career, is just what they should be doing. I love Revolution Radio and 21st Century Breakdown is still my favorite GD album, but you can feel their desire to live up to certain expectations in most of those songs, and on the contrary, there's a sense of freedom in FOAM that gives it a special magic. A lot of people talk about the lyrics being trash, but I stand by my point that Billie's lyrics this time are intentionally provocative and raw, and mostly graphic to evoke a specific feeling in the listener. My favorites are Teenage Teenager (anyone who doesn't like it is tasteless, I don't make the rules), Graffitia, Junkies on a High, Meet me on the Roof, FOA and Take the Money. And yes, I almost listed the entire album, it be like that sometimes.

FOAM >>>>>>>>> MOOTIK

I KNEW IT!

The “sounds like a car commercial” comments are generic and lazy.

I CAVED!!! I’M SO WEAK!!!! 😭😭😭😭 But I LOVE it!!! Goddammit Billie Joe how are you such a freaking genius?! This whole album is a trip. I could imagine the entire thing playing on Underground Garage it has such a cool, fun vibe. Beatles, Clash, Prince, Ramones but so much more. All that and still pure Green Day. At first I didn’t get the whole attitude they were going for with the singles but I do now. The singles don’t do the album justice. They’re good, but together with the rest this is really a great listen start to finish. What a great addition to their catalogue, like a love letter to their influences. I love that after all these years and all these styles and sounds they can still do something like this.

Could they choose a Dookie point instead?

Wake me up when stereo version leaks 😑

I'm on FOAM.

OH BABY BABY IT'S LEAK TIME

Do you people ever listen to other bands? Basically any band that's been around as long as Green Day (and for bad bands, even less) have similar riffs and melodies sprinkled into their music. There's only so many notes and combinations. Green Day isn't egregious with it by any means.

🙏🙏🙏 How many bands come out with new albums 30+ years into their career that fans actually want to hear all of live (as opposed to the hits)?

Zero time to read through the last 30 pages, but holy fuck I love these guys. I may have teared up slightly during Graffitia due to the fact that this band that I have been obsessed with since 1995 did some of the musical/melodical stuff that they did on this album. Time to blast this thing on repeat for a very long period of time.

Making my annual GDC post to say the album rocks. Glad they are making the music they want and sounding fucking good doing it.

DID BILLIE JOSEPH JUST DID AN "AND IT'S DANGEROUS" MELODY LIKE IN SHE'S A REBEL??????????????????????

The record flow works greatly in its 26 minutes. I don’t understand why someone keeps thinking this is a “message to Warner”. I listened to 3 new records last week, they were all under or a little on top of 30 minutes, with 9 to 11 songs. Why it is so hard to imagine the band wanting to put out a fast, smooth record, even when we can hear that it actually works well (not saying that you can’t not like, I am more thinking about the people liking this but still thinking that the length is a “troll” element”). They also already confirmed they are gonna release 7 more songs as either singles or EPs, maybe with Warner maybe with someone else. They just didn’t want them on this record, and I don’t see why the reason for this should not be artistic.

"Reduce, reuse, recycle" - BJA on his songwriting methods

Bands would die to take even a grasp of an album like this after 30 years of being in the business.

This is like Billie kept working on the trilogy with The Longshot and now he eventually got it right

So... is it too early to ask for b-sides? Cause I want more of this!

15 years i've been on this forum and I just got my first ever warning. Am I a Punk now ?😲

Yeah I feel like the 3 songs they released early were some of the weaker tracks, so hearing how good some of the other songs are was a really pleasant surprise. I need to apologise to GD for having so little faith in them I still hate the album cover tho

Can you expand on what you think a “rawer” production would sound like? Along the lines of the trilogy? If so, that’s a big reason why it wasn’t well received (Billie even just admitted he wasn’t a fan of the production). I actually want something more like 21CB again. That album sounds incredible. Layers upon layers of guitars, full and fat drums, layered and heavily produced vocals, etc. So good.

Green Day indeed! 😂

“Stab You in the Heart” IS “You Broke My Heart” from These Paper Bullets. Not like it sounds similar, it IS the same song. Slightly different lyrics. I’m not knocking the song at all, I prefer the new lyrics, but it’s the same hands down. Composition is exactly, even the outro and everything. “You Broke my Heart” at 14:25

I’m in love, could have been the hype in the first place, but I have been listening to this the whole day. It’s such a great record, I’m so proud of this band for pulling out such a gem today. Redefining their sound like this, 30+ years into their career, being free, as many said, free to pick and perfect whatever they wanted from their career and the music they love. Even what in the past has been heavily criticized and what clearly does not align to your fandom expectations. This really is what the me of 2020 hoped for, thank you guys.

It's called the 12 bar blues Common in a lot of songs of that era

I hope I manage to stay strong until Feb 7th, I dont want to listen to the leaks. btw to everyone who listened already, please support the guys and buy the album!

I do enjoy reading all the reviews and excitement on the new album leak! Im sorry for not joining this rad party, but I’m going to wait a few more days until I get my CD and going lock myself up in my room and listen to the whole thing while reading the lyrics like the 16-year old version of me did when I first listened to Warning. Which was 20 years ago.

It's so refreshing to have an album with zero 'Ordinary World' '21 Guns' 'The Forgotten'. This is just banger after banger for 26 minutes.

Me after first listen to the album:

This album is fantastic.

Reading the comments here is making me extra excited to hear it!

Isn't it funny how pessimistic nearly everybody here was for the last months and now it seems like nearly everybody loves it

All things considered, Butch Walker and Tchad Blake would be having a big laugh reading the last 30 pages of this thread with people (like myself) freaking out for a fucking mono version of their work 😂

100% eco organic songwriting

Toronto Sun - New Interview with Mike Dirnt For punk rock icons Green Day, since their first LP in 1990, the mantra has remained the same: get bigger, be louder and sound more ambitious. “We always want to put out the greatest record we can for our fans and the world because those songs are going to outlast us,” says bassist Mike Dirnt. “That’s our legacy, so we take it seriously.” After 2016’s Revolution Radio, the trio, which includes lead guitarist/vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong and drummer Tre Cool, wanted a new sound. “We wanted something different,” Dirnt, 47, says. Soul music started to nudge its way into the band’s pop-powered punk. Suddenly, the threesome started experimenting with new genres, all being pushed through the sieve of Green Day’s signature rock riffs. “We pulled from a lot of our influences, so that meant everything from glam rock to R&B to Motown to hip-hop beats, here and there. We were looking for new stuff to add to good rock ‘n’ roll songs.” The result is Father of All..., out Feb. 7, a lean 10-song set that finds the band weaving a musical tapestry made up of dance rock, New Wave and R&B. “There are no ballads on it,” Dirnt chuckles, describing their 13th studio effort. “It’s short, rocket fuel-injected Green Day songs with great choruses.' The energetic songs left the band wanting to go big with their live shows. They’ll debut the new songs on an upcoming summer stadium tour (hitting Toronto’s Rogers Centre Aug. 24) with fellow alt-rockers Weezer and Fall Out Boy, who inducted them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. “The album just feels big. So when we were talking about touring ... we wanted to create a festival-like atmosphere. Something like the old Monsters of Rock tour in the ‘80s (with Van Halen, the Scorpions, Metallica, Dokken and Kingdom Come). Imagine Monsters of Rock with rainbow-coloured unicorns and a more ridiculous party attitude,” Dirnt says with a laugh. After 34 years and 70 million in album sales, Green Day’s newfound status as stadium rockers has forced Dirnt and his bandmates to reflect on their legacy. But in a phone interview from Oakland, the co-founder of the Grammywinning rock outfit spoke about why the band is still standing. - Every time you come back, it’s like a new chapter in this ongoing story. How do you view the relationship Green Day has had with its fans ever since you broke out big with 1994’s Dookie? We’re growing up together. The people who liked us back when Dookie came out all the way up to now. The other day, one of my daughter’s friends, who is nine, was listening to Father of All... and that was their introduction to Green Day (laughs). It’s amazing. We’re lucky to have this life. - Last time I saw you in concert, the crowd was a mix of ages. What’s it like to look out and see kids and adults rocking out to your songs? It’s a great feeling and a huge compliment for us. To still be bringing on new fans this late in our career is special. But I think that’s one of the reasons we work so hard at the records we make. We could mail it in, but that’s not really in our DNA. - After seeing you out on the Revolution Radio tour I thought politics would definitely infuse your next set of songs. But there’s nothing really political on Father of All... Why not? It just seemed too expected. But really the state of politics in America just leaves us with a sick stomach. We just wanted to dance our way through the apocalypse rather than shine a light on all the bulls--- that’s going on right now. American Idiot is still doing its job; it still speaks to all the crap that’s going on. Sadly, in a lot of ways, that record might be more relevant now than it was 15 years ago. - Does the relevance of Green Day and the longevity of the band come as a surprise? I’m more proud of it. This band has transcended time and I don’t think we can be defined by one era anymore. That’s a special thing. - Green Day has so many iconic anthems. What’s the one you never get tired of playing? Holiday is always a shot in the arm. I always love playing Basket Case — that never gets old. Jesus of Suburbia ... people hear those opening chords and they know they’re getting on the train. It’s like, ‘Here we go... it’s on.’ - Thinking back to Dookie’s success over 25 years ago, it seems like you went from playing small venues to the larger ones pretty quickly. How did you adjust to that sudden fame? We had a lot of shows under our belts. I think that’s a big part of what helped us make that jump. We had just played so many shows by the time that record came along and was a success. But, afterwards, we continued to do the same and in doing that we’ve really honed our craft. - Who was the template for you guys in terms of your live shows? If there was a template for Green Day it was the punk rock community that we grew up in and really breaking down the barrier between the band onstage and the crowd and making us all feel like one. That’s the big thing we were able to do. Also, as we played over the years, we have a very short filter for bulls--or boredom, so if there’s a show and it’s not going great we will literally stop and do a 180 and make it successful. Life’s too short to go through the motions. After years and years of touring, we make it great. - You started the band as a teenager. How did your dreams of rock stardom measure out with where you ended up? It’s weird. I feel like when we were little kids, we just wanted to be good enough to play someone’s backyard party. Then once that happened, we wanted to be good enough to play clubs. After that, it was play clubs and tour. So it was all these gradual steps. I never thought I’d get to a place where I could say I’ve done pretty much everything I wanted. But, if you’re a creative person, there are always new things for you to try. Would anyone expect us to play a backyard now? No. Would anyone expect us to write an album in 12 hours and put it out the next day? No. These are things we could still do and that’s what I love about this band. We don’t have a rule book or playbook. If we feel like we’re getting stuck in a lane or it’s getting too formulaic, we’re going to burn that playbook and throw it out the window. - There are so many bands from the ‘90s that have come and gone. What do you think the key to your success was? I think whatever we do, we do it with heart and we do it with purpose. It’s gotta come from a real place. Whether it’s a song like Time of Your Life or American Idiot, it’s gotta come from a real place with purpose. Whether that purpose is to make a great record or a fun record or a dance record, you gotta commit. No matter how weird or uncomfortable it may be, doesn’t matter. Just commit to making a mess and you’ll know when it’s right. - What has been your proudest moment as a member of Green Day? Quite possibly when we finished American Idiot. I remember the very last thing we said to one another was, ‘No matter what anyone thinks of this record, we’re proud of it.’ I remember I had to do a few backing vocals for the very last song on American Idiot, Whatsername, I knew as a band we had done something different and I didn’t know what the world was going to think of that. So it was a crazy emotional time for us. But there are certain points in your life where you walk out the door and you know that an exciting moment is now behind you and you’re left wishing you could bottle that. Fortunately we did, we bottled those moments and put them on record and now we get to go out and play some of those songs live. - We’ve seen recent musical biopics on Elton John, Motley Crue and Queen. Is there a chance we’ll ever see Green Day’s story on the big screen? I think there are vignettes that would make interesting short stories. But the story of our lives, I don’t know, man. I love all rock ‘n’ roll movies. I think they’re all great, but I don’t think they ever live up to the real thing. - In case we never talk again, 20 years from now where’s Green Day? I hope we’re talking to you again about another great album. I know I sound like a broken record, but I want that record to last forever. I want to put as much great music onto wax as I can before I say goodbye to this f---ing planet. - You guys played the NHL All-star Game recently, who’s winning the Stanley Cup? You’re going to love this: who’s Stanley and what’s in the cup? I have no idea. But here’s my prediction, either the best team or the luckiest team is going to win. You can either bet your money by looking at the stats, or you can wear your lucky pin and put your money down that way.

This album is not experimental, this album sounds like every single car commercial that ever aired on network television. It's generic and lazy.

Typical gdc whenever new music drops, one of their least favorite song will automatically become "the worst green day song ever".

Wow. After my first listen, the only new track I wasn't into was I Was A Teenage Teenager. I'm actually really impressed. I wasn't expecting to like the songs as much as I did. It's really late though so I gotta go to sleep. Hopefully the next few listens will be as good or better I guess I've learned not to underestimate Green Day, (which is something I probably should've learned by now)

That outro on “stab you in the heart” 🥰

I feel this album is gonna be like a Dos redemption arc. We are going full circle people, so you all better start appreciating it as the best trilogy album, because it is!

2 hours ago I didn't even care about the release of FOAM, now this fcker got me like. That's Green Day for you guys, rigth there.