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It’s like there’s the Green Day that most people know by their hit records only and the Green Day that superfans know that includes everything they really do and they’re like two different bands or something. Anyone who says they’re not a fan because of Dookie or AI I just think yeah but you don’t really know the Green Day I know.

It may be a bit if a retcon, but I think that’s why Billie prefers to think of Stop Drop and Roll! as the real follow up album to American Idiot and in retrospect he wishes that album was released under Green Day. You can hear him talk about that here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rRd81HelfAb9LxZt0Wfrg?si=tQLOki0sRYG39Uv87u8yNg

Best Green Day live mix ever

https://www.instagram.com/dr.robertdoback/p/B13odnPgvJf/?utm_medium=copy_link guys look what I‘ve found, new album confirmed!

Wow was that ever a review that said some things that needed to be said

Happy international Green Day day From @GDLoT's old post on Facebook

This popped up on Twitter and I thought it would be appreciated here

Euh ok..... This album is fucking good. Seriously. Can't believe it! Okay Green Day you're really my favourite band. Wow 🎉

i listened to these songs probably a zillion times, not to mention all the different live footages etc ... but i simply cant get enough of GD, i really hope they stay with us for a looong time and share their music with us

Blew me away! I was already excited but figured "yeah it's live versions of songs we already have many live versions of with a few deeper cuts" but I've found myself listening all day. Every song sounds FANTASTIC!

Just like Avril....except she died. And sort of like Kurt Cobain...who got plastic surgery so he could form Weezer. Eminem and Paul McCartney and many more have rumors of this.

Conspiracy theory: Billie retired years ago and was replaced by an actor

Wtf, an actual critical review from Kerrang, not just glowing praise! What has the world become 😉 I think many here will agree with every word.

This photo is just so "Tre"!

I got my CD. There’s no jewel case it’s just a gatefold cardboard sleeve like a mini album. Book in one side, disc in the other. Interesting

I hadn't watched that interview before but that's interesting. I like 21CB as a follow up to AI, I think the band spent much more time making that album than Stop Drop & Roll but SD&R is also a really good album and I would really like if more people heard it. Like, the amount of plays it has on spotify is very low & considering what has come out since (trilogy, FOAM), it really just sounds like a Green Day album. At the time, it was a very different sound for them but now it just sounds like Green Day I wonder what the reaction would've been if they released it as a Green Day album and how it would compare to the reaction to 21CB

I think it speaks to how great a performer Billie is that we know what he was dealing with and going though at the time and he still put on a killer performance like this! I also happen to know for a fact that there were some GDC members I’m attendance there (not me!). Couldn't have put it better myself. I think the 21CB tour was probably the peak (so far?) of Green Day as a touring band. Deep setlists, incredible hours long performances night in and night out, stage presentation was A+, it had an extra leg for godsakes. So glad we got AAF to commemorate.

That’s it - whenever I’m given an opportunity to explain to someone outside the fandom that GD in fact has a quite diverse discography, I keep it simple and just say that some of their albums came out under an alias or just not mention that they’re side projects at all. Usually people are pleasantly surprised

Its kind of one of those weird things, where I think fans of the band always felt like it was kind of the follow up album and 21cb was more of a new era for them, but of course things are seen differently by the general public because I doubt they were also searching the internet daily for any mention of anything new from the band like I was back then. While they might have been a bit disappointed if SD&R was actually released under the GD name, I think the wait would have payed off massively once 21cb came out, just as it did for me as a fan. I'll always remember that one time I heard Mother Mary on the radio and when asked by someone I knew what it was I just kept it simple and told them it was a new Green Day album, so there's that I guess 😂 It was an interesting interview but I am a bit sad that Billie didn't go more into detail and explain why SD&R should have been a Green Day album, as well as even a mention of 21cb and how that could have changed the situation for the better, or something.. I don't know but thanks for sharing that!

Dookie and minority tracks sounds better than the original albums In LOVE with winds in church on Sunday and minority!

Okay just finished listening and I’m sorry if this is going to be a long post but I have to get this out so here goes: I know these songs were selected for different reasons and over the course of many years so before any of you @ me, I’m aware this is just serendipity but hearing these songs this way and in this order tells such a perfect story arc of his life during those years (as the albums do of course so no coincidence but removing the nonconforming songs this is compressed with just the best songs chosen somehow to tell this story) that I was overcome emotionally listening to this. I can’t believe it worked out this way. These tracks are in order and here is what I heard: (Pre-fame writings, or the kind of stuff a kid would write in his bedroom about girls, growing up and anxiety, but pure and untouched by fame)— She WICA Basket Case 2000LYA (Post Fame)… (Drugs/Despair)— Geek Stink Breath Brain Stew/Jaded (Doubt)— Walking Contradiction Stuck With Me (Alcohol)— HAR (Doubt)— Nice Guys Finish Last Prosthetic Head (Rebirth)— Castaway (Repair)— Church on Sunday (Acceptance)— Minority (Hope/Redemption)— Waiting And of course what is that thing that comes next for him, that big moment to come that he’s destined for? He didn’t know it yet but it turns out to be American Idiot of course. What a story arc this is. Seriously I know this wasn’t planned but that’s hard to believe when you hear it. It’s the story of his life during those years. Incredible. To me this was more than just a rerelease of old songs and I wasn’t expecting that. Sonically I agree with Billie the Warning tracks in particular come alive here and are my favorite but all of this has so much energy. No one sounds like them. Greatest band in the world 💚

I was inspired by this whole conversation (which no longer has anything to do with the next album, sorry guys) to pull out my own recording from the Chula Vista amphitheater show and am listening to it now. It's cringey hearing me from ten years ago lose my shit, but damned if Billie Joe isn't a master of the crowd. And musically, they were 100% on point. I've been lucky enough to see some amazing shows from some amazing artists, and even if I can't say with 100% certainty that this was the best, it was definitely right up there.

Is it still too soon to laugh about our collective trauma?

Tweets from Tower Records Shinjuku Store in Tokyo 😃

Never seen this clip it’s pretty funny https://www.instagram.com/hitchinarideee/p/CXUMvm7v7qj/?utm_medium=copy_link

Not had a chance to read this yet but thought I'd post

Thought I'd look for some pics from the show in Tallinn, Estonia tonight but didn't find anything. Found these from the Trilogy Tour in 2013 though From Alamy's website

Mine hasn't arrived yet either so also resisting the urge to listen!

From Billie's Instagram story From Kevin From @bubukittyfk

Vinyl won’t be here until tomorrow. Resisting the urge to listen until then 😅

I think it might have been much more popular if the iHeartRadio incident never happened and Billie didn’t enter rehab. Once he entered rehab, all promotion stopped!!! Oh Love was getting a lot of radio play that summer!!! And then this performance of Let Yourself Go at the 2012 MTV VMA’s!!! Look how the fans stormed the stage!!!

I would love to hear Green Day do a cover of Rome Falls!!!

don’t know if it’s been mentioned here or in another thread but now that Billie is back I hope this means the longshot account resuscitates 🤭

https://www.instagram.com/letsdanceon/p/CSF1aE0rT12/?utm_medium=copy_link sorry I’m too dumb to know how to share

Stunningly good collection this. the warning section, in particular ‘church on sunday’ perfection 😍

Screenshots from Billie's Instagram story

This video that BJ Guitars(ID:bjguitars) posted last year is also great ☺️ https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0B3KDnQRC/?utm_medium=copy_link

This is brilliant… I commented this is why we would love these songs released - hope he sees it! https://instagram.com/stories/billiejoearmstrong/2726208309007193084?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&utm_medium=copy_link

Were any of them in that crowd on the stage?

Why are you hurting me like this

Sounds epic. And too real to be fake, nobody would go to so much effort I think the most likely scenario of the 6 songs recorded in UK will be a new BBC Sessions But the new Sweet Children cover art is very intriguing! Hope it is unreleased stuff but I doubt they recorded very much back then it's not like they had the budget Maybe a Gilman live vinyl or something.

Some screen grabs from Billie's Instagram story https://instagram.com/stories/billiejoearmstrong/2725114660230340563?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&utm_medium=share_sheet

I love how he called Green Day “handsome devils” ❤️ I am glad he knows and states it! Tré deserves lots of birthday love ❤️ Tré is the best. Tré cool rules!

an unmixed version of 409 came out on the Basketcase single. i've not heard that christie road was re-recorded during those sessions, but i wouldn't be surprised.

If you’re implying they’re currently on tour for their previous album, they’re clearly not. The last album never got a tour and never will. This is a legacy tour and the rules don’t apply. Without Warner to answer to, they don’t have to follow an album/tour cycle anymore or any other traditional format.

I don’t think you want to challenge them on that. HCTS was way worse. But throwaway singles aside, I have faith this will be different.

Unfortunately I think that's wish fulfillment. I truly believe they are stingy with releasing unreleased songs because they are Billie Joe's tool box for new songs. If they suck, they don't want you to hear them, if they are good they can maybe be dissected and resurrected into new good songs. The more stuff he releases, the more it limits his ability to do that. That said, I believe Mike when he says these things will all come out some day, but I think that day will be long after Billie is done songwriting. And why would you think an EP wouldn't come out until as late as July? Surely they would want some new material out to play at the next round of shows. Pollyanna was the song of Summer 2021 and has run its course. And Billie wouldn't be teasing anything that is still that far off.

Yup and this time I hope Panicland will not fuck with us!

Nah, pretty sure you would like more than just his name in your dream 😉😉