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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.

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 😂

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

Shocking how bright this album sounds given how dark the lyrics are. Nice contrast.

As if I wasn't confused enough by the singles... Stab You in the Heart is basically a Jailhouse Rock/Fuck Time mashup... I'm going to need to give this album several listens before I know how to feel. It's crazy that they can be so drastically experimental in less than 30 minutes — something that seemed so difficult to achieve over an entire trilogy of albums. Impressive, even if I'm not entirely sure if I'm a huge fan yet. I can definitely hear the influence of basically every side project.

Still looking on pornhub for the leak, back to searching for it on there, I'll let u know if I find it, man this exhausting

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” 🥰

When I first listened to this album, I was alone. I was all by myself. Nobody was looking. I was thinking of you Oh yeah! Did I mention I was all by myself

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.

Just finished ripping side A. It's raw and uncut so I hope you all don't mind. Will upload that now and work on Side B. Sorry for the quality, just wanted to get it up as soon as possible. If you want a link, sorry I can't post them here. Though I do have a support group for people who haven't listened yet [Removed]