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annnnnnnnnnd we're on Spotify!

Clearly someone disappointed they didn’t get Dookie.12.

songsforassholes-ig / the 19th july rumour / mootik conspirancy / and now the hype and love for foam atleast waiting for a new gd-lp to drop never gets boring when you are at GDC 😂🙌

What a ride, seems like yesterday when we were still counting the songsforassholes posts and followers each day, being focused on understanding the difference between meteorological and astronomical summer, and decrypting the meaning of a bull head on the wall Almost there peeps

I can't believe tomorrow I could listen it for the first time. I have been waiting for so long, it seems kinda unbelievable right now lol

look what came in the mail

Mike Dirnt: "Fuck the past." Setlist: All old hits

I just wanted to say that I really enjoy this era. It felt really weird and kind of dark when the whole thing was announced, definitely bringing some of the Trilogy vibes, so I didn't know exactly what to expect. I like the record and the whole feel behind it, at least more than Revolution Radio, which always seemed too safe to me (however, Somewhere Now, Bang Bang and Outlaws really stick out. I fucking love Outlaws man, it makes me cry). I mean, Billie is definitely in some kind of dark place I'd say, but in a different way than in 2012. In some ways it scares me, but I also think him, Mike and Tre have the tightest relationship than ever and they support and help each other alot. I think I can understand where are these new lyrics coming from. It's an interesting time for being a Green Day fan and it's kind of bizzare that I've been stuck with these guys for 15 years and I'm looking forward to continue this ride. In the end, they are and will always be my band. My favorite band.

I love when a review says fans will hate this album. Uh, 🙋‍♀️ didn’t bother to ask us did ya?

What a journey.. from speculation back in the Songs For Assholes days to MOOTIK to where we are now... Its been.... Well its been something..

Forever Now? Revolution Radio? Bouncing Off The Wall? Too Dumb To Die? Somewhere Now? Absolutely miles better better than 80% of this album. But whatever floats your boat 😂

Ok, this is a really, really weird one 😂 It's overall very positive, but have a look at the recommended songs: https://technoea.com/green-day-father-of-all-motherfuckers-album-reviews/ Essential tracks: “Oh yes!”, “Stab yourself in the heart” and “father of everything”

2 hours until it lands on Spotify here in Aus

It was so short and sweet. It’s so diverse that every song is like coming from different parts of the world. Meet Me On the Roof gave me the greatest feeling on the first listen, made me smile honestly. I Was a Teenage Teenager gave me SWMRS vibes immediately and really loved it. Stab You in the Heart is like a pure Rock n Roll and so beautiful. Sugar Youth is the most significant one that has Green Day sound IMO. Junkies on a High could be the coolest one, so chill and groovy, I felt like the coolest person when I was listening to lol Take the Money and Crawl is full of energy, simple but really punchy and finally Graffitia is a perfect closing song that made my heart really warm. The whole album actually made my heart really warm. It has a really delicate and vintage feeling like the songs back then but at the same time really modern and groovy. I remember Billie once said that album will be like a Rock and Roll chronology. I don’t have that much music knowledge but based on other interviews/reviews there are many influencers on that record and they are all melted thoughtfully in the same pot. I think it’s not something really easy to do and that’s why I think they put a lot of great effort and soul on to that record and I’m so glad and happy to finally could hear it!

Voila!

Oh my god going from the crap leak to Spotify is a brand new experience.

Surprised this one wasn't in this thread yet!

I want to listen to the real record so badly. Tomorrow can’t come soon enough. (Don’t send me links, I made a vow of chastity )

Aw man, @UNICORN VOMIT is going to love where I just happened to pause this.

Oh god Graffitia is outstanding

I'm just picturing an unshaven Billie sitting at home in a dirty t-shirt, sweatpants with his unkempt curly hair and glasses sitting on the couch with the remote in his hand.

Man, I'm fuckingly in love with DOS! so I'm currently melting with songs like Stab You in the Heart, Sugar Youth and Take the Money and Crawl. Man, I'm head over heels with Billie, Mike and Tre loving garage rock, please don't be shy and go deep into that genre 😍😍 😍

Salty Oldness is my favourite. Especially with that "I wanna be a Juliet" chorus.

Smoke, Prepare, Target

I love the album Father Of Everything by my favorite band Blue Night

They forgot the best one, "Give Them All of Your Currency and Scoot Along the Floor"

This part of the review is so amusingly personal, it honestly reads like a copypasta. I'm starting to think Billie stole the reviewer's dog or something, like do we even know where Lenny came from? Really makes you wonder...

Really good review from The Telegraph (UK newspaper)- not sure what star rating was as not included on online review. Green Day, Father of All..., review: it sounds like the Beatles being driven to homicide Green Day’s 13th album starts as it means to go on, fast and furious. The distorted guitar of Billie Joe Armstrong and gnarly bass of Mike Dirnt hammer out a rudimentary two-note riff on title track Father of All…, while drummer Tré Cool pounds a galloping garage rock beat. It is basic to the point of banality and, honestly, about as thrilling as rock can be, especially when Armstrong starts singing in a sinuous falsetto amid frenetic handclaps. I mean it as a compliment when I say I didn’t immediately recognise Green Daythe first time I heard their new album. There is something positively gleeful about the American multimillion-selling stadium punktrio’s reavowal of the fundamentals. They exhibit the swagger of a hot young band discovering rock’n’roll for the first time, allied to the abilities of old pros who know exactly how to do it right. Stab You in the Heart is essentially an adrenalised update of Hippy Hippy Shake that sounds like the Beatles being driven to homicide. Meet Me On The Roof has the swing of a Happy Days high school hop, albeit one in which the kids are on drugs and worrying about the apocalypse. Sugar Youth borrows a lick from Nirvana to charge through an anti-love song that is frenetic, messy and all over in under two minutes. I Was a Teenage Teenager plays around with Fifties monster-movie tropes to remind us that there is nothing scarier for some parents than an actual adolescent. Frontman and band leader Armstrong is 47, a husband of 25 years, with sons older than their father was when Green Day released their first album in 1990. Rising to success as belligerently minimalist pop-punk revivalists, Green Day have struggled to strike a balance between maturing artistic ambition and the juvenile impulses of an almost deliberately dumbed-down genre. Political themes have risen to the fore, notably with their 2004 punk opera American Idiot and 2009 concept album 21st Century Breakdown. Yet Armstrong’s sloganeering non-sequiturs would fall flat if it wasn’t for the sound and fury of his band’s performance. This album is far more about the medium than the message. Oh Yeah! channels Gary Glitter’s Do You Wanna Touch Me (via a sample of the 1982 Joan Jett version) for a rousing glam anthem that might be about the American education system (“Burning books in a bulletproof backpack”) but is mostly just a chance to revisit one of rock’s great lost choruses. Acknowledging the inherent problem of covering a song by a convicted paedophile, Green Day are donating all royalties from the track to International Justice Mission and Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. It is a reminder that political sensitivity is not all about the lyrics. “Drink it in, dumb it down, suck it up/ As we watch the world burn,” Armstrong sings over the heavy crawl of Junkies on a High. It serves as an effective manifesto for Green Day’s best album in years, a rock’n’roll party for end times.

You know there is a hq flac version out now right? I'm gonna say it. FRA>Graffitia

When FOAM came out, I thought it was a short simple little song that didn't took much work for them, but listening to the album, I see there's a lot more happening sonically than there was on revrad. It's not like they didn't make an effort.

...and don't get me started on Meet Me on the Roof and G r a f f i t i a.

The reviews don't ruin the fun for me, but I wish this album got the recognition that I think it deserves

1st half is awful, 2nd half is better but still not great. Meh.

No, we are all too busy judging Billie about that

I'll have you know my impeccable vocabulary won me a 6th grade spelling bee. My greatest personal achievement to date

I don't think we can really call any of these songs filler - all 7 of the "fillers" were taken off the album before it was announced by the band. I think every song is here for a good reason

I could not wait, and have now listened to the cd version of the album. It is soo much better than the mono version I listened to before. I grew up with this band, and I guess we kinda grew up together. Turn up the volume and dance ❤

Oh snap. UPS tracking updated, my vinyl arrives TODAY! 🦄

Louder review: https://www.loudersound.com/features/green-day-have-made-a-college-jock-party-record-and-its-the-best-thing-theyve-done-in-years Green Day have made a college jock party record and it's the best thing they've done in years By Mark Beaumont 43 minutes ago Green Day's new album Father Of All Motherf**kers is all out of politics (for now) – instead the Day party hard, 1950s style It might feel like a dereliction of duty ahead of the most desperate fight for its soul and future that America has ever faced at the polling booth, but Green Day are deserting the barricades and kicking back by the pool for 25 minutes. Having delivered their latest bruising and brilliant portrait of gun-rampaging, post-truth America on 2016’s Revolution Radio, a much-needed palate cleanser after the over-egged Uno!, Dos!, Tre! triple album project, curiously they’ve taken Trump’s reign off and instead knocked together a breezy pop-punk party record about, according to Billie Joe Armstrong, “not giving a fuck”. Which is strange, since now is perhaps the most important time in modern history to give a fuck, and this is a presidency that could have been designed specifically to inspire a righteous, youth-quake-inspiring Green Day double concept album. They can’t help themselves, of course. ‘Drink it in, dumb it down, suck it up as we watch the world burn,’ Armstrong sings. But it’s a statement of snarling fatalism tacked on to a desert-rock fuzzball called Junkies On A High that’s otherwise concerned with becoming a ‘rock’n’roll tragedy’ and being proud of his porn collection. Because Father Of All… (…Motherfuckers, if the censors didn’t get their way) time-warps Green Day back to the college jock party, with invigorating results. Meet Me On The Roof finds Armstrong slicking his hair spikes into a duck tail and having a 50s tryst with a cheerleader on the rooftops. I Was A Teenage Teenager, all Pixies bass line and Weezer chug, is a classic truant rock chant: ‘My life’s a mess and school is just for suckers… who’s holding the drugs?’ Reanimating retro rock’n’roll with blasts of modern scuzz-rock to the heart, it’s the wild punk prom you never had. Before you reach for the gif of a skater Steve Buscemi saying: “How do you do, fellow kids?’, Father Of All… never smacks of mid-life crisis. There’s an age-defying playfulness in the glam hand-claps decorating White Stripes-blasted shimmy rockers like Fire, Ready, Aim and the title track, or the euphoric indie synth-pop of Oh Yeah!. On Take The Money And Crawl they come on like the love child of AC/DC and Arctic Monkeys, and even channel The Beatles doing Hippy Hippy Shake on Stab You In The Heart. Such carefree, nostalgic hedonism might be as untimely as offering Prince Andrew out for a Pizza Express, but it’s refreshing, comforting even, to have Green Day back in their exuberant element, unburdened by message or morality.

Oh yeah, which turned out to be nothing like the shitty real artwork lol

I just listened to Graffitia like 20 times in a row, I don't really know, just put it on repeat while I was doing other stuff. My fiancée probably hates me by now but I don't care, I love that song.

Another good review: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/green-day-father-of-all/ “It’s a genuine blast hearing Green Day lock-in with music this peppy and spirited, at least for a little while. The album aims for instant gratification and achieves it so efficiently that it can’t help but burn fast. They band have no secrets to share; they reveal them all upfront, and its most eager hooks can begin to grate after just a few spins. But there are worse things than a record that doesn’t play the long game. Father of All Motherfuckers asks for almost none of your time and makes good on it. Who knew Green Day had a record this humble left in them?” 6.7/10 They gave 5.1 to RevRad to put this in the right perspective One can agree or not with this, but the closing bit I underlined is why I consider this band such a unique gem. Legacy act? No thank you ❤️

In love with this ❤️

Lmao I mean I've read all the lyrics to all the songs anyway so I guess I kinda cheated and yes I have a habit of overanalyzing I'm sure by Friday I'll have a 90 page FOAM thesis to defend haha

hahaha this is hilarious (but also go outside, it looks like it's a nice day in the window reflection )

They never sent my magnum opus vinyl

I want to move to Australia right now. ☹️

I never really pay a lot of attention to critics but it is interesting how divided they are, it seems to me like some are just really not getting the point at all, e.g that comment about “c’mon honey, count your money”. I am so excited for tomorrow!!