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I'm gonna say it. Popper Punk > HCTS

I like FOA, I don’t think it’s their deepest but it’s fun and I think part of the weird feeling around it was the massive gap between releasing the first stuff and the tour, and then of course COVID hit. I still don’t understand why on earth, especially in this day and age of shortened attention spans, would you release the first single in early September and the album in February for gods sake! Madness.

The only thing amazing about that song is that it managed to get a 30 + page thread discussing it !!

YES because the show I went to in Pittsburgh (my first-ever one) was the first show where they started playing it again! I ugly cried SO hard, it was so embarrassing.

I've been to 7 shows from 2013-17 of varying sizes, from club shows to Wrigley Field, and still haven't heard Wake Me Up When September Ends live. Like, how?

21st Century Breakdown is the song I want back on tour. This song is the best opening. I think it's hard to put this song on the setlist if it's not for the opening.

How about whoever wants to see a Green Day concert just pay for a private one? Think of it. You sitting there playing on your phone looking bored. Billie screaming at you to get up. And it would only cost money!

My daughter was at that show, her first ever concert at 15. She always remembers it by that fact, as the first show on the tour where they brought it back. She and her friend had started walking out thinking the show was over and then he came out and played it.

Me neither (only been at one show during 99 Revolutions Tour during summer), but I got to hear many other bangers that they haven't played since then or very rarely like Murder City, Stray Heart and Brutal Love! Fucking Murder City!! God I love 21st Century Breakdown..

21st CB Is one of my favourites from them, just epic, it deserves a regular spot on the setlist

the band always had odd choices on putting songs on hold... Burnout is one song that has had a gap of 10 years, from 1999 to 2009 it wasn't played live

such dedication, I love it 😄

What bothers me is Green Day is slowing down on touring. The band only did 230 shows in the last ten years, an average of 23 shows a year. The only active years of them in the last decade were 2013 and 2017, all the other years they just played a bunch os shows. For a band that produces so much, they tour just a little... They are getting old, the future we'll see them live even less, probably. We have to enjoy while we still have the chance

I like both the trilogy and foam, but still think the vibe isn't right. It's hard to pinpoint when exactly it started, obviously I despised Hella Mega since it was announced, so that influenced the way I felt at the start of this era, but I was very excited about FOAM when it came out, plus then the tour never happened so I don't think it's just me feeling salty, because at this point there's no tour to worry about anymore and I still get a bad vibe from this. It's hard to describe, but I think you know what I mean when I say revrad had a really positive vibe. It felt so wholesome, heartwarming idk how you want to call it. The FOAM era doesn't make me feel that at all, even though I wish it didn't change.

I don’t know it seems most fans here love the trilogy, unless that love wasn’t there in the beginning. I’d be curious to know if the fans who don’t like FOAM also didn’t like the trilogy. Is there a correlation? Like are those the same fans who prefer GD’s classic rock style or their (pop) punk sound?

Tre Cool: Happy Birthday Sara Rose!!! Can’t stop won’t stop never stopping!! I F*€£ing love you!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Had a dream that I was at a court case (just observing) that had to do with it being illegal to eat bananas. Billie then showed up on behalf of the defense (wasn't sure if he was actually their lawyer or just really interested in the case). He was wearing a really fitted suit and his hair was slicked back, like to a comical degree (but oddly enough, looked good, even though I hate the slicked back hair). In the dream, I woke up, rolled over to write it down so that I wouldn't forget to put it on GDC, which is what I did when I actually woke up.

Everything since 2019 on has had a Bad Vibe and that’s all I know for sure.

I'm not seeing how that's the case though. Aside from a few songs that are very clearly about looking back on the past rather than acting as if they're teenagers now (eg I Was a Teenage Teenager, or Outlaws on Rev Rad) they don't write about teenage stuff. Billie writes from the perspective of a middle aged musician and about the stuff going on in the world. Also their current sound really isn't particularly like what's in the charts or what most teenagers listen to. I don't get why people can't ever just say they don't like a new album/don't think it's good? You not liking some songs doesn't mean the band is doomed, doesn't mean they didn't try/don't care, and most of all doesn't mean that other people must feel the same way as you or aren't being honest about liking it. Also like, the Network album is the album of the year, fabulous. Don't really get why anyone cares if it's called The Network or Green Day, it's still great stuff by them made this year.

I’m glad he surfs, it’s great for cardio, muscle strength and balance - all things that help keep him in better shape longer for performing at the physical level that he does but also has to help with anxiety and depression too.

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I was at the first show where they brought back WMUWSE in 2017 so you don’t have to tell me about crying

Remember the first wave of 2013 shows when they weren’t playing Good Riddance? I didn’t see it live until 2017

I like them too, I just think those are the weakests (or maybe uninteresting) on those albums. Just to clarify, I hold 21stCB and RevRad in great high regard.

I love both of those tracks See the Light is an underrated track and closes off 21CB perfectly! Hot take but I think it's a better closer than Whatsername And Bouncing Off The Walls is a lot of fun!

I fixed it for you.

Tbf I feel like most of the discussion is just about modern Green Day at this point. But this song seems to be the tipping point to people just losing it

I know, right? 99 Revolutions was supposed to be one of Billie's favorites and it wasn't played even once during RevRad Tour nor in short FOAM Promo tour. Same guy once said ''I don't even know what the fuck is Nuclear Family about!'' yet still played it once during RevRad Tour so I'm really confused their reasonings to ditch songs. I miss 21CB, 99 Revolutions, Stop When The Red Lights Flash and Stay the Night sooo fucking much (thank god Longshot exists).

I relate. Tbh I feel the same way 😐you worded it perfectly

Yeah this is exactly what I meant. Similarly I think people will look back on FOAM more fondly in the years to come.

Reaction to the trilogy was quite similar to FOAM. I'd say more people liked it (especially at first) than FOAM, but there was always a significant amount of hate for it, doom mongering and complaining about how they were marketing themselves etc, particularly after Billie's whole rehab thing and the tour being cancelled. Took a long time for feelings towards it to mellow/become a bit more positive on here. I see pretty much same here. People don't like it when they do "party albums" and when negative exterior things happen (then it was Billie's rehab, now it's covid) it intensifies negative feelings about the album/era. I do agree that Rev Rad had a particularly positive/wholesome/heartwarming vibe. I think it's more that it was just a particularly special/positive time then (being the first album after Billie going through rehab and them "coming back") than that there's necessarily anything wrong now though. Definitely think the tour/everything being cancelled has given it a much more negative vibe than it would've had if covid didn't happen and it went ahead.

AMYL NITRATE.

Maybe because we don't think there is any reason to be concerned? Not trying to start an argument, but given no one here knows them personally (that I'm aware of), it's really not something we should speculate about or concern ourselves with.

I don’t disagree with you completely, in fact, I share some of your concerns about the band not reaching its full potential and I’m not a fan of their post-revrad change at all, even though I wouldn’t call their recent music childish. But I just don’t want to let these concerns tarnish the enjoyment I can get from the music they put out. It’s better to have fun with it rather than sit on gdc complaining how I’d prefer another 21CB.

Yeah because when MM2020 Pt2 came out you only said it one time that you didn't like it.

The only meaning I get from HCTS is that there is a shark nearby and sniffing cocaine is the way to escape him.

They can release anything they want from now on and that's great! It would just be more great if the song were good.

The best comments under this song on Youtube: I feel like this’s a Nickelodeon show theme song The song is so bad that the band didn't even bother showing up for the video. This sounds like an auto generated Green Day song So true 😂 omg this song is bad.

Still spinning this record and loving it. So much quality in here and unique sound from the band.

I think during the trilogy tour they were playing a random song in the middle of the show for each city. I got Rusty James it was pretty nice! They only played it 5 times

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