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Kim Wilde seal of Approval 😀

Kids in America added to the download post.

I don’t wanna spam here so much but this pic. I’m honestly obsessed. Especially with his eyelashes, looks so pretty..

ITWAN chart update Hot Rock- 14 (down from 11) Adult Pop- 14 (up from 15) Adult Contemporary- 27 (up from 28) Rock Digital Sales- off list Canadian Adult Contemporary- 43 (up from 48) Canadian Rock- 47 (new on chart)

I love this cover so much. I wish they would release all of them on Spotify.

This is the best cover I ever heard in my lif

Love these pics I’m happy that I could finally find this pic without any watermark, made my day lol

Oh, I wasn't really paying attention during the RevRad era. Good to hear they played those songs regularly! Yes, I'd love to hear GMN more too. On a side note, this is a really cool photoshoot that I've always liked a lot. Billie has such weird poses, though. It looks like he has a stomachache. Such a strange boy.

I demand a cover of Animal Crackers in my Soup. One of the crackers was a rabbit, Green Day has the drunk bunny, it works.

Next cover -

Two days ago I was thinking about Billie doing this cover.... and it happened!! 😂😃

I hope this quarantine gets Billie famous. It’s too late for him to become the next Shirley Temple, but he can still have a solo career.

Has kind of a ‘synthi’ sound to it, reminiscent of The Network. His voice sounds really really good too.😍

I love him in beanies 😍

Yeah, like everything on his perfectly carved, cannot imagine anything better lol

Butch Walker Shares His 8 Favorite Rock Opera Singles. Green Day, “American Idiot” http://floodmagazine.com/77581/butch-walker-shares-his-8-favorite-rock-opera-singles/

Must be left over from when we were "The Longshot Community" for April fools a couple of years ago . Where does it say it exactly?

Omg yes! Billie and 80's pop rock songs are a match made in heaven

And the curve of his back..... I could go on and on...

Does anyone remember the show where Jason badly screwed up on Minority? Just kept playing the wrong notes Edit: Might not have been Minority, could've been another song

This is great! Again, Billie has the talent to turn a song I find annoying into something great! This is one of the best ones so far!

I am a huge fan of the new "Kids in America" cover. It's got a beautiful clean sound, but without losing that dirtiness and iconic sound that GD is known for and is exactly the kind of sound I'd love to hear in a new album. This one seems to take a few iconic pop elements of the original song by Kim Wilde and take most of the inspiration from the cover that The Muffs did, which I am also a pretty big fan of. Naturally my only complaint would probably be the outro was much shorter than it should be and seemed to have less energy, but overall I am so happy with this, and it's a great example of how good Billie can sound when his voice isn't overly processed, so I hope he's taking some notes.

Birthday wishes from Larry Livermore

I thought that was a really weird review, they are saying that Dookie, insomniac and Nimrod were great but that AI and 21CBD were overblown and not so good, they dont mention The Trilogy or Revrad at all but think FOAM is better so yes, they think their career was on a downward spiral is how I read it.

Their carrer were already stalling before Foamf, they implying?

Joan Jett: The Godmother of Pop-Punk One of the highlights on Green Day’s recent career-reviving album, Father of All Motherfuckers, is the song “Oh Yeah!” which takes its title, its earworm chorus and its sizzling guitar riff from the 1980 track “Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)” by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong wrote new verses to vent his disdain for social-media narcissism, but the chorus’s shotgun marriage of melodic hook and slam-bang beat remains irresistible. If they wanted to climb out of their 21st-century slump of straining-for-meaning concept albums, Green Day couldn’t have adopted a better role model than Jett. She understood better than anyone that if you’re going to strip rock ’n’ roll down to its 4/4 basics, you’d better add a catchy sweetener. Otherwise you’re going to sound merely mechanical, even if you get as loud as Jett’s hard-rock peers in the ’80s or as fast as Green Day’s punk peers in the ’90s. Fortunately, both Armstrong and Jett have a rare gift for inventing—or borrowing—four-bar phrases that are familiar enough to feel comfortable, new enough to feel memorable and rhythmic enough to be heard in the hips as well as the ears. This is a different gift than that of, say, Paul McCartney or Taylor Swift, who can spin out a melody that stays interesting over 32 bars. This is distilling all the tuneful pleasure in a song into a few lines that can be pounded home without ever losing their appeal. This was a talent that Green Day demonstrated on their brilliant first three albums for Reprise (1994’s Dookie, 1995’s Insomniac and 1997’s Nimrod). It’s a skill they foolishly laid aside for their overblown and overrated rock opera American Idiot and its hapless sequel, 21st Century Breakdown. It’s a knack they’ve recovered on The Father of All Motherfuckers. For the new record, the trio of Armstrong, drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt (together since 1991) slow the tempos a bit to put them more in Jett’s ballpark and thus reveal her influence as never before. Most of the record bolsters a Blackhearts’ stomp with high-pitched vocals, handclaps and sparkles of electronica enhancing the hooks. Former glam-rocker Butch Walker was the co-producer, and he nudged the sound in Jett’s direction. Armstrong’s lyrics are still those of a mallrat cynic (“I am a kid of a bad education,” he sings on “Oh Yeah!” “The shooting star of a lowered expectation”), but the verbal pessimism is countered by the musical optimism of the choruses. On the title track and first single, for example, he invites a would-be lover to join him “in a bed of blood and money.” The words are purposefully off-putting, but the rave-up music is powerfully seductive. The second single, “Ready, Aim, Fire,” begins with the line, “Kick the dog when the whistle blows,” but the chorus is so galvanizing that the National Hockey League adopted it for a national broadcast. Much of the album is compellingly danceable, even if Armstrong describes himself as “crawling across the dance floor; I think I lost my phone.” That comes from “Meet Me on the Roof,” a song so giddily happy sounding that it justifies to its similarity to “Up on the Roof,” the song that Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote for the Drifters. “Stab You in the Heart” borrows its intro from the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” and its bass line from the Beatles’ “Dizzy Miss Lizzy.” The handclaps from Jett’s “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” are all over Green Day’s “Graffitia.” So much for punk purity. Green Day is not the only California band channeling Jett in 2020. On the duo’s new album, Always Tomorrow, Best Coast sounds more like Jett than ever. https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/joan-jett/joan-jett-godmother-of-power-pop/ NME Recommends: need for speed – the best albums under 30 minutes ‘Father Of All…’ At 10 tracks and little over 25 minutes long, there’s no time for any existential angst on Green Day‘s latest effort. “Hurry up ’cause I’m making a fuss,” spits Billie Joe Armstrong on the record’s titular opener, “fingers up ’cause there’s no one to trust”. That’s the record’s M.O. It’s a quick-fire, breakneck rush of garage rock fun. Their intent is laid bare when comparing two of the band’s record sleeves: ‘American Idiot’ was a heart like a hand grenade, ‘Father Of All’ is a unicorn puking a rainbow. Don’t try to make sense of it, just enjoy. https://www.nme.com/features/nme-recommends-best-albums-under-30-minutes-2653221

Woah my bad @That Dude I was sure it was only Holy War!

Billie says Ho-ve and the gang says HO! WAAA! is this like that Laurel / Yanny thing, haha.

I never noticed

Billie says "Private Movie" while the background vocals shout "Holy War"

Easy to make typos like that. I sometimes add e's to things if I'm writing too fast. It's like my hand just goes and does its own thing without my brain's permission.

I agree so much with @Red, love to hear Billie so loud and clear in the mix. Is it just him doing backing vocals, nobody else is credited on a YouTube but it doesn’t all sound like him to me?

Just what Bilie needs, fame and fortune. And what a great comparison. I hope he Becomes the Next Shirlie Temple and that's what people think of him as. imagine the interviews.....Billie Joe, how does it feel to be the modern world's Ms. Temple.....Billie looks perplexed....then.....in his best kid's voice, he says "...Wonderful!"

He is apart of their crew. He shoots their live photography and does some video work for them. He is also Bill Schneider’s (tour manager) brother.

I don't wanna sound like a dummy here, but who is Greg? And what does he do with Green Day?

I don't know if I like the song or not, because I was too busy being mesmerized by him writing the lyrics. Whoops.

This week’s edition is great for those that love Billie’s hands 😍

ft. Billie’s own hand in the video

This is intriguing, wonder what they are, typically one is titled “Billie in bathroom” 😂😂

During RevRad it was nice to hear AWTW followed by St. Jimmy. I'll really love to hear GMN too. Followed by She's a Rebel tho! I've never heard this song live.

Billie, wanna be my boy next door? I'll leave the bedroom window open.

I think he looks like a little shit 😆

I was about to say that my general rule for concerts is not to drink that much (1-2 pints of beer max.) and to cut out all alcohol for my absolute favourite bands/artists. Don't know why, but I've never felt the urge to get really buzzed at concerts (unlike at the club lol). I just usually "get into it" after a short while and am on a kind of natural high, especially if I love the artist in question. Maybe if the band really sucks, I might see myself grabbing some extra drinks. But even then, here in Switzerland it's usually not really worth wasting all that money, cuz drinks here are tremendously expensive...

If that’s the case then by all accounts it’s remarkable to me that anyone remembers ever seeing The Replacements 😂

Glad I’m not the only one that sees Green Day items in public places and flashes them a little knowing smile 😏