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Oh hey! 😂😂😂 (@Montclare)

I volunteer as tribute!

Came across this today and thought, how did they not think of this for Oakland Coffee?

This song my favorite on Kerplunk by the way

I'm still waiting for someone to use a profile pic of Billie looking down, so that when @DadBod posts after them, it'll look like Billie's looking at himself.

GDC thinks that everything artists write about are 100% true reflections of their life. There is no fantasy in the eyes of GDC. Billie Joe does Yeyo, underage Billie Eilish seduces people's dads, and John Lennon is a walrus.

Yea! It looks like downward looking Billie (that sounds like a yoga pose) is all suspicious of upward looking Billie.

Oh my god as soon as I started reading that my brain switched to Billie Joe's voice.

Yeah that’s inevitable - green day singer makes heartbreaking coronavirus announcement

Yes, there is no symbolism in Billie Joe's lyrics whatsoever. He killed himself during American Idiot. Imagine if every Green Day song was a true story! Mike Dirnt literally stood by and watched someone drown (Haha You're Dead). Billie Joe dropped a nuclear bomb on a bridge in F.O.D. Dear goodness, Green Day are baaaad! Also, sadly Billie Joe will never reach his love in the song 2000 Light Years Away. To do so would require him to travel for 137,000 years. And that's if he had a really fast space ship like the Challenger. What else.... Billie brain drifted back in time on Words I might have ate. That would be a medical emergency. In Little Girl, the SKY FALLS DOWN! In Horseshoes and Handgrenades, Billie BURNS EVERYTHING DOWN. HE RIPS EVERYTHING OUT! On Uno, Billie Joe rides the world like a literal Merry-Go-Round. I hope he used a space suit. I also REALLY hope angel's piss is good for you. A nuclear family dies. Probably because they've gone nuclear from all the bombs Billie Joe has dropped. Oh my goodness gracious. Green Day turned the world into a nuclear wasteland they like to call their home just a few songs into their first album, and it gets worse and worse!

No. You are doing whiskey. Drinking yeyo. Do not sing ayooo. Mr. Armstrong will not hesitate to sue you. Only he can ayooo. And I'd advice against the yeyo as well. Studies have shown it to not be good for you.

Every couples definition of “infidelity” differs greatly from person to person and couple to couple. You may think 80 just “puts up” with him but she may not care at all, care a little but understands the road she chose or possibly even likes it. Same goes with every other couple on Earth.

this right here

Omg fuck off with that shit. Canceling shows due to a fast spreading virus is not punk rock! GTFO of here with that stupidness.

Fuck anyone who questions their decision to cancel this tour. Not much good playing shows neither you nor your fans can get to. Or is that punk? 🙄

I thought FOAMF was your favourite

WOW Jeff Matika is such a bitch!!

I thought it was only a matter of time until some ReAl PuNx cried about the cancellations, because risking the lives of fans and excluding the immunosuppressed is totally punk rawk Ironic that it comes from a place of privilege (not being immunosuppressed so not needing to worry about coronavirus). Punk "died a little bit more today" because it's still being treated as an ableist and elitist macho contest.

Don't lead her on. Cows are expensive to care for.

I really enjoy it, but I don't have a special connection with it. I'm the rare fan that enjoys the newer more than the older. Foo Fighters is the best example. I don't enjoy their earlier album except for a song here and there. But starting with In Your Honor (2005ish) I feel like they became a truly great band. With Green Day I love every track, so ranking is difficult. I basically have to go through each album and figure which has the most songs I love the least and it's like choosing between children.

You're a true fan

I'm curious as to why Kerplunk is your lowest ranking album, I know it's your personal opinion so I am just interested to know. For me personally, songs like 80, Who Wrote Holden Caulfield and of course Christie Road are better than even the best songs on FOAM.

I had the Holiday picture vinyl in my hand earlier today and it reminded me that this is still a really cool photo of the guys from the AI era Weren't there more of these group shots at the time? Can't seem to find them now. Only the ones of just Billie

He looks really sweet in this photo with a fan from last night

Ah what I like to call the literature class method

Sounds more like Nikki Sixx in the Heroin Diaries book ....or really just a grotesque representation of celebrity decadence in general it's a really good metaphor no matter how you overanalyze it

Billie Joe lives in catacombs and deals blood on the black market. Oh God, please let me escape the horrors of Billie Joe's mind! Let me get back on topic. It's been 30+ years since the horrors began. Let's see how things are going in Literal Green Day land in the lovely 20's.... Billie Joe is choking, being poisoned and losing his mind in blood and money. Oh joy! Dogs are being abused, liars are getting off work and young people are exaggerating! Does anything good ever happen to poor, poor Billie Joe Armstrong? He's an alien, which I guess isn't a negative thing. I wonder what planet he's from. On Sugar Youth, things get REALLY bad. Billie Joe is fighting in a civil war inside a boom box and he doesn't have The Cure. He's dying of a fever, but that's the least of his worries. Because being on fire is his most urgent problem. I'm surprised he even knows he has the shakes. WOW, I'm having way too much fun taking Green Day literally. Currently reading the lyrics to Dirty Rotten Bastards and thinking what a messed up movie the plot would make. GEEEEEESE In Youngblood, Billie Joe is married to a tree that is haunted by Miss Teresa. But a supernova is going to kill everyone so it's fine. But before the supernova, Billie takes his Tree Wife and uses her as a gun to shoot the moon into the Sun! Which would kill her but pretty sure it wouldn't effect the Sun at all. Now our tides are screwy, but again. Supernova is the biggest issues in this song.

None of these seem particularly unlikely

It's my least favorite, but still a favorite! and when I said everything before FOAM was trash, I was just trying to stick up for what is becoming the most hated album of their career. But now I believe that is a good thing. I am going to get all the albums in my car and just listen to nonstop Green Day for a while. My new rankings will be coming soon. What's your favorite album?

Baby got the hyperbole

You two are awesome! @DadBod and @green day in Seattle

Great minds think alike!

Are my Jam 🥰

I actually suggested this to them at one point. Get out of my brain 😄

The Coverups should do Going Underground or The Jam in general

The only downside of this cancellation is that we’ll never see the headline “Green Day cancel shows due to getting quarantined for two weeks” which would have been hilarious

Green Day in this article from straight.com "Thanks to Green Day and Billy Idol, the past 24 hours will be marked by punk rock taking two more steps to the grave": https://www.straight.com/music/1366746/thanks-green-day-and-billy-idol-past-24-hours-will-be-marked-punk-rock-taking-two-more Every now and then, there are days which make you realize that—as sure as Sid Vicious is shooting up somewhere in heaven—punk rock is dead. Like, for example, a mortified-by-its-own-stupidity NOFX apologizing to everyone after spending its entire career offending, well, everyone. And the Warped Tour packing up its tent for good in 2018, denying the youth of America the opportunity to see such, one last time, such punk-as-fuck acts like Blink-182, 3OH!3, and Sing It Loud. Or Johnny Rotten gleefully deciding to play the role of butter pimp for Country Life. (Actually, that was pretty goddamn punk rock, for no other reason than it violated every original tenet of the movement. Who better to rip up the rules that he helped invent than life-long fly-in-the-ointment John Lydon?). Anyhow, today brings two more major strikes. First off, comes the news that Green Day has decided to cancel its upcoming tour dates in Asia. One upon a time, Billie Joe Armstrong and company thought nothing of toughing it out at centre stage at 86 Street while Vancouverites gave the trio a good idea what Lotusland looks like in November. Except it was spit chucking down on them during a Bad Religion opening slot, not the tears of angels (led by Pete Shelley, Joe Strummer, and Randy Rampage) crying in heaven. That's what happened back in the day when you dared to make up your own punk rock rules by signing with a major label after cutting your teeth at 924 Gilman Street. Green Day was the band that stood gamely at centre stage at Woodstock '94 dodging every mudball thrown at them by the future frat boys and CEOs of America. And it was Green Day that showed up at the recent NHL All-Star game festivities in St. Louis and promptly salted its second-intermission set with language that would have shocked Reggie Dunlop, Tim McCracken, and the great Nancy Dowd. Now, one of the most iconic acts in the history of punk rock is too chickenshit to get on a plane and play Asia because it's bought into the hysteria about the coronavirus. In cancelling shows in Bangkok, Osaka, Manila, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo, the band issued this statement: “We have unfortunately made the difficult decision to postpone our upcoming shows in Asia due to the health + travel concerns with coronavirus. We know it sucks, as we were looking forward to seeing you all, but hold on to your tickets we’ll be announcing the new dates very soon.“ Did GG Allin ever cancel a show because he was afraid that someone would punch him in the face, kick him in his naked nutty buddies, or scoop up the byproduct of his voided bowels and fling it back at him? Hell no! Did Joe Strummer leave the stage when half of Holland was gobbing on him during a festival performance in 1979? No, he stood there, took it like a man, and trundled off to the doctor after he contracted hepatitis from some Dutch loogan's loogie. There are rebels, and then there are American Idiots who think they're guaranteed to get everything that causes hysteria on Fox news, including evidently not only socialism, but the coronavirus. Speaking of fearless rebels, Billy Idol was also in the news. Today, one of punk's original shit disturbers was announced as a key player in a campaign to clean up New York City. The big Apple has launched a No Idling campaign, where citizens are being encouraged to take cell footage of buses and delivery trucks that are sitting curbside with their gas-guzzling motors running. Rat out said vehicles to the Department of Environmental Protection, and your video finking will get you a reward. The Idol-approved motto of the campaign is "Billy Never Idles, Neither Should You." Appearing beside New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a "War on Idling" press conference, the L.A.-based Idol said he decided to sign on for the initiative because New York was instrumental in launching his career in America. You might recall MTV being based in the Big Apple in the '80s, a period when a certain bleach-blonde punk ruled the video airwaves. Any true punk would hate what NYC has become today. And by that, we're not talking a city that rewards folks for snitching. Once upon a time New York was one of the scariest places on earth-the kind of hellish shithole that had Travis Bickle driving the streets seething while delivering modern American poetry like, "All the animals come out at night—whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." Because it was desperate and seedy and dangerous in the '70s, it was only natural New York was the petri dish for what became punk. Take a grimy city, add a famously grimy club like CBGB, and you had the launching pad for the Ramones and the New York Dolls–two bands which re-taught England that rock was meant to be loud, raw, dangerous, and unwashed. Bonus lessons included driving the message home that everyone looks 210 percent more badass when wearing a leather jacket. Ask Suzi Quatro. Idol was one of the first Englanders to buy into the movement with Generation X. Flash forward a few years and he, as much as anyone, helped shove punk down the throats of Mainstream America. Idol was a man who championed white weddings. A man who suggested that the time was right for the teenagers of 1984 to rebel yell themselves hoarse. A man who believed it there was nothing shameful with looking in the mirror and announcing "I'm Dancing With Myself". A man who love mony....... alright fuck it. Let's face it—no one has a fucking clue what Billy Idol stood for. Here's wagering that the only things he really cared about in the '80s were coke, cooters, and royalty cheques. The great thing about the latter being that it helped him secure endless amounts of the former. But at one point in his career Idol at least seemed like he was more dangerous than Bruce Springsteen, Pat Benatar, and whoever sung that fucking "Africa" song. And if he made it okay for at least one kid in Mississippi, Alabama, or North Burnaby to go to school with peroxided hair and combat boots, that helped pave the way for the future likes of Kurt Cobain, not to mention Billie Joe Armstrong. And now today Billy Idol is the face of a campaign called War on Idling. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Idol said: "This city really means a lot to me, and the idea that I could give back in some way for such a good cause, it was such a great idea. Obviously, the air quality [in New York] is loads better than it was when I lived here, but car idling is a major contributor to air pollution and that’s just not healthy." It goes without saying that any self-respecting punk would want to see New York looking like the kind of wasteland Snake Pliskin sees in his worst nightmares—not some shiny happy utopia where the peep shows of Times Square are a long-gone memory and Gothamites can blow their noses without seeing something that looks like the Dubai tar sands. That’s not gonna happen on Billy Idol’s No Idling watch, any more than Green Day is going to be booking an extended Asian vacation in the coming months. Punk rock died a little bit more today. At the rate things are going, the next thing you know they'll be closing the Cobalt, shuttering the Smilin' Buddha, and selling CBGB shirts at Urban Outfitters.

That telepathy is working well! 😂😂

Never seen this before, it’s really cool and surrealist

Our clearly well thought out plan is going well @DadBod

Your profile pics at you two fuck me up

And so tiny next to that guy! 😍🥰

He looks so tiny next to this guy.

Damn he’s looking good 😍

Tre being Tre 🤣

His reply to a fan on this post

But the words were completely changed from heartbreak to murder

He looks like he gives the best hugs. 🥰 This is to fucking cute. Jumping bean Billie

Shitty couple of days, so I need some Billie hugs. And let's toss a puppy hug in for good measure.

A Green Day era has never felt this sellout to me. They don't even seem confident in it - especially Billie Joe, who is acting so strange lately... The album itself is forgettable at best, with a few redeeming moments. The only two times I've felt excited yet (not counting the MOOTIK shenanigans) was hearing Graffitia and watching their MTV World Stage performance. All the other songs and live performances are mediocre at best. They need to get their shit together for the next one, seriously. We need good Green Day back!