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This is so cute!

No shame in it 🙂

Omg I just saw that, very sweet! Billie drew boobs on the Adie stick figure

The reasoning as to why BJ writes depressing songs even when intending to make a "party record" is because... he doesn't wanna freak you out, but he cannot li-i-i-ie

When you're a Brit and you've been absolutely disgusted with the UK for a very long time, but then FOAM gets to #1 and you suddenly feel extremely proud to be British.

I have a crush on this Guy 😍😍 Maybe I'm bi.

Listened to American idiot yesterday and I can say that it’s the best album that ever existed. Foam is also great. I’m in love with it. Guys never disappoint me. Glad they are experimenting and that they never stick to one thing. The goat

From Kerrang this week:

When you go into town and all you see is unicorns to remind you of GD:

The cover is pretty good trolling, but it makes it look like they're not taking it seriously which is a shame considering the album is great. However, it's "we won't play the new songs" that pisses me off.

I'm so glad to see someone else is as deeply in love with Graffitia as I am! I've been keeping the song on repeat in the past week so much that I woke up with it stuck in my head this morning. 😁 Absolutely agree with you on the lyrics too! Your opinions match mine pretty closely. I looooove how dark Junkies is.

I’ve only had a crush on girls before Billie. I’m probably bi and actually love it lol

I kinda did the same thing, when Billie mentioned motown and soul music i started to listen some of that from the 60'. Honestly i didn't find that many similarities but i discover some amazing songs. I'm stunned by Aretha Franklin singing. I'm out of breath just thinking singing like her.

Good point - I'd say it boils down to the length of the album. The reused melodies make up more of the runtime because it's shorter. But either way, there quite a few of them. On the other hand, I just can't help it, the album is fun as hell.

Just Billie. And he's always running into himself as he makes music with Tre and Mike from different time periods. We also learn that the Network are actually from the past but use Billies powers to go the future and live for a long time before travelling BACK to 2003. They were trying to be normal but were in the wrong decade than they thought. Oh, and they are related to Green Day.

In preparation for writing a story based on Father of All, I've just discovered what could possibly be a big part of the story arc. The album is about Billie Joe traveling through time. That's why the songs sound like they are from different time periods - THEY ARE. Billie travels to these time periods, records these songs with whatever band he can get together (Mike and Tre help him in the times they exist in. In 1959 and 1960 he enlisted some mystery musicians of the famous ilk....) Billie travels first to the 70s, then returns home. He then goes to the year 3000, all the way back to 1959, takes a detour through 2002., back to the 60s, then to 2004, 2015 and finally 2009, where we leave our time-weary traveler.

lol ok but we all know he's a notorious liar, full of piss! (and vinegar )

I love Green Day so fucking much.

This has left me with all kinds of visions😮

WHO’S HOLDING THE DRUGS?!

In Take the Money and Crawl, it sounds like the verse starts with "illegal tinder" and ends with "I don't want to fuck it".

Mine finished yesterday & then Love is for Losers started & I remembered what a treat that was when it was released😊

Billie makes a good looking woman then so I see no problem 😂

So, after one week of listening, I can say this album grew on me a lot and I'm happy that it's so much better than expected after we got the first two singles. FRA is still a weak song for me, but I like it more now. FOAM is the only song on the album I still absolutely don't like, sorry. We won't be friends in this lifetime😂 I love Graffitia, Junkies on a High, Meet Me on the Roof, Sugar Youth, Take the Money and Crawl and Oh Yeah. I can't get so much into Stab You in the Heart because it sounds like an exact copy of Hippy Hippy Shake for me. I like Teenage Teenager, but it's too long in my opinion - I don't see the point of this being the longest song on the album with 3:45, they are repeating one verse and a repetetive chorus over and over. It could have been shorter and Graffitia could have used some extra time. It has that epic, Who-esque, anthem-like feel and could totally be the Forever Now of this record with one or two extra minutes. Have I already mentioned how much I love Graffitia? So overall, I think it's a really good record with songs I like a lot. And now that I got over the shock of how dark, depressing and even suicidal some of the lyrics are, I can even dance to the songs (after the first few listens, I felt more like crying to be honest because some lyrics are truly shocking).

Yeah haha I found it and created Green Day as a new recipient of a petition, but then caved in because it looked too much like I had to put my real name in lol (i hate the fact that my name is so easily google-able, i might change it to Jane Smith and then @green day day and night)

If no one has created anything tomorrow I will make one I think they have an option for lazy boomer bands

If I was to say something negative about this album (that I thoroughly enjoy), it would be that it's derivative and there are reused melodies. That said, Billie has been doing this for years and in a way, the way he keeps working with some of these ideas is pretty cool. He's like a frantic artist painting the same thing over and over trying to get it right and at times, I'd say he accomplished. Sugar Youth is easily the best She's A Rebel he's written Yes, we only need a way to make them see it!

Yes, please. It's okay if he doesn't want to indulge himself, but he can indulge us. Maybe we do need the petition.

I never said I don't like it. The only song I dont like is Oh Yeah and even that was warming on me till they started playing it live and now I hate it again. I gave the album a 6, 6 being above average which is what 5 would have been. It's simply just not the quality I have come to expect from the band but that doesn't mean I don't like it. In fact I still don't understand where some of the hatred for the album comes from. And yes, the art was done as a fuck you to people asking for another American Idiot, that's where the word insult comes in. It was cheap and in no way a creative or even good move, and now the album doesn't even get to have its own identity because of a cheap joke which isn't even funny in my opinion.

Awesome!☺️

My friend in school once sang “hey mister wear your hair down” for hitchin a ride. We all laughed at her soooo hard.

She’ll be coming to join us one of these days. 😂

God damn, this album always ends when I start enjoying the sound.

I care less and less about reviews because none of these people's opinions are more valid than mine, except those who make/produce music themselves. I enjoy this album. I think a large amount of people just hate Green Day and will trash them no matter what they put out.

Yeah, it has similar vibes I think but I personally prefer his little brother’s works much more lol Billie loves British bands, mentioned The Cure recently and it honestly made me happy

Yes, it’s me lol Thanks! (Btw that moment was very cute from the same interview)

Willie Moe Legweak

haha I actually zoomed in on his hands during the interview because I was trying to work out if his fly was undone

Truthfully? It’s painful to see our favorite band ridiculed. Their cred is taking a hit and some of it was caused by unwise promo and unnecessary comments in interviews. They need to do better. As far as the music, they should keep putting out whatever they want and the critics can go to hell. Just don’t make these other mistakes again. And this is coming from someone who was happy when they switched to Crush. Not anymore. Oh and one more thing. They really need to pick their singles more carefully.

the song “green day” to confuse all the fans that don’t know that’s a song “alright this next songs called green day ! “ Young fans : yeah I know your green day

Is this another thread in a loop? Sorry, it’s just funny how comfortable many of us get with our music and while want new music, we really want the old music back again.

It's a fun little album. I don't see how it could be considered better than anything they've released from kerplunk to 21stcb imo. Including the foxboro album which is super good too. Maybe some people didn't like the piano that much and they think it's better than 21stcb I guess, but that's it. It's basically an ep and considering their last album was in 2016 and they are going on the most expensive ticket priced tour of their career kinda makes it seem even worse.

I think that was later on. At some point there was an Oakland one Green Day used as a "clubhouse" but that must have closed when Pat took over.