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I love FOAM for its diversity. Songs like Junkies on a High and Sugar Youth on the same album is amazing.

Ohio's governor just approved crowds of 6,000 at four professional football games this year (nearly 70,000-person capacity arenas, 2 for Cleveland, 2 for Cincinnati). I don't understand why we can't do the same for concerts? Sure, it would be weird to be so spread out in a large venue. But I wish this country worshiped anything the way it worships football. Even if nobody wants to do it because it wouldn't be profitable, at least give performers the same option. (Meanwhile, the Indians are still capped at 1,500 if they wanted to bring in fans, even though if baseball got the same special treatment as football, percentage-wise, their crowd would be 2,800.) I have to wonder if, at some point, we decide as a society that we won't wait around for a vaccine and we just start to ease restrictions before people give up entirely. It's already happening here. I went to the zoo on Saturday and social distancing just was not a thing. There were crowds everywhere huddling at exhibits. It felt like a mini mosh pit. Maybe half of people were wearing masks. Nobody was enforcing it. The same is true for smaller businesses, especially in the more rural areas of the state. People just don't give a shit. And, comparatively to the rest of the country, Ohio's case numbers and test positivity rates aren't that bad. If a vaccine doesn't come by spring — since everyone thinks once 2021 comes, everything is going to magically be better just because of a new year — I imagine this isn't going to be very sustainable in the long-term.

His eyes in this one are just killer. The most perfect color there is!

I was in eastern Washington over the weekend on a trip with two of my friends and I normally refrain from playing Green Day in the car since they aren't as into them as I am, but I just really had a longing to hear them while I was driving home today (it's a 4 hour drive). I only played a handful of songs, but it made me really happy. That is, until I asked my other friend (not the gay one who I was talking about Billie with) if she actually liked it at all. She basically said not particularly and that she would not go out of her way to listen to them and that it kind of sounded like it was just the same song over and over again. I guess she connects music like Green Day and other similar artists with middle school and high school and has formed kind of a negative association because of that. I was just really sad that she couldn't feel any appreciation or hear what I hear when I listen to them. I've always thought that Green Day songs are generally quite different from one another and there are so many interesting nuances in sound and style and I stand by that obviously. She and another friend are obsessed with BTS, who I don't care for, and all of the songs I've heard by them sound the same to me while she claims they have a lot of variety. It's probably because she's never really listened to any Green Day apart from the more popular songs that are well known and so can't pick up on how diverse their catalogue actually is. I suppose the same goes for me with BTS, but it still makes me feel weird and melancholy that she can't see how special GD are. I don't know. I just feel like Green Day is just objectively such a phenomenal band and Billie is such an outstanding songwriter that it seems like it would be much easier to like their music than to dislike it. I also think that Green Day and just good rock and roll in general is more genuine, real and objectively better than K-pop. I could say that about western pop music as well, though. But K-pop is so cookie cutter, corporate, and fake, even more so than western pop. I just needed to get that out. Didn't mean it to turn into a mini rant about K-Pop, but it baffles me and it's hard not to bring it up if I mention BTS. I love Green Day (and Billie) so deeply and so passionately that it hurts me that she can't enjoy their music even a little.

It is fun no doubt, and I really enjoy listening to it, but I just get the nagging feeling that albums like this one used to be considered side projects. Now they’re the main event, and I have mixed feelings about that.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Covers Wreckless Eric’s “Whole Wide World”: “I love this—the most punk rock version ever!”—Wreckless Eric

Going through the most horrible week of my life, within one of the worst years of my life (as for everyone most probably). Green Day is incredibly helping out as usual, and my connection with FOAM has grown even stronger. Fuck 2020 but at least I got this record, as unpopular as this might sound at the moment.

I will say, it feels great to watch baseball again. But I would've totally understood if they didn't do the season at all. I'm a sports fan and I still don't get it, especially the viewpoint that football shouldn't be touched.

It was such a stupid joke too. Absolutely nothing to get upset over 🙄

@Green Day In Seattle That always sucks when you feel like people don't get it. I kind of had that recently. I was blabbing about how much I loved the new Creeper record to my friend. I was how unique it is and how they did something new yet still made it distinctly them. And his only reaction was meh....it sounds like mcr. And I was so disappointed. I had experience with the album I was hoping to share with him and it just didn't happen. That's why it's so cool to find people on your level with things you like. I mean who knows, when the k pop trend dies (because it will) your friends might come around to Green day. And if not, more for you then 😛

it is and will forever be a middle of the road 5 outta 10 for me

My dislike of FOAM has been unwavering

Listening to it on headphones now..... WHOA. This is my jam. The lyrics are awesome and Billie's version is electrifying! I hadn't actually listened to the whole wide thing until tonight, so color me impressed. Sometimes bad can do some good, and Covid is no exception. We now have: Billie Joe Armstrong solo music Smith and Meyers. Corey Taylor solo. and bands like Blink-182 and The Killers have found new ways to create music. So while it continues to suck, the musical world is finding new ways to make art.

I have a super centrist opinion on FOAM, because on one hand, I really do wish there would be continuity with RevRad (I didn’t realize “Green Day but make it wholesome” could be a thing but since it happened I wouldn’t have it any other way), on the other hand, it’s such a fun album with a cool sound and I’m like “fuck it, I like this and that’s enough”.

IDK MAN as time goes on I'm surprisingly liking this album a lot more! It's just fun to me.

I Was A Teenage Teenager (and yeah they do sound similar)

Cage the Elephants cover was way better!

Yay! I hope no one got suckered into an Amazon Music subscription.

Whole wide world is up on YouTube

Just imagine how weird it'll feel to be in a crowd with 10,000+ people one day, now that we're all so used to social distancing and not hugging even your closest friends or parents. It'll be kind of claustrophobic, but I can't wait for it. Probably not next year tho😭 I think it's very likely that they will have to postpone the tour again, I don't think they will go ahead with it with Corona restrictions. I just can't imagine a socially distanced Green Day show, it's an oxymoron.

World tour please🙏

sometimes I wish the Longshot would do a mini tour after this is all over

Cover is pretty good! I think I like it more than Cage The Elephant's version, which is also very good.

So we had: No Fun Monday No Fun Monday on Friday No Fun Friday No Fun Monday, but on a Sunday (Easter edition) No Fun Hump Day He should have just said ''Hey I'm releasing music during quarantine whenever I want Day''

I was wondering if anyone has seen any 1990 slapped out tour t-shirts on the internet or elsewhere? I went to see green day in Tampa Florida on 7/25/1990. I purchased one of the screen print shirts the band did that night for the show. I still have it 30 years later because it holds sentimental value to me. My girlfriend and I went to that show together and she is no longer with us today and the shirt reminds of her. I would like to put the shirt on my Instagram and tell it's story. I think it may be the only one left in existence but I don't want to claim that if it isn't true and some people may still have there's after 30 years.

I already posted this in the Vegetarian/Vegan thread, but same thing when I saw this.