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My boyfriend teaches drums and he told me that one of his students is learning "Troublemaker." I was like BY GREEN DAY?! And he said Yup! I'm so happy!! It's not a highly requested song and I'm always happy to hear someone else enjoys the song

Maybe it's the pressure. One of the big reasons to do a side-project or a solo album is to get the world off your back. Billie Joe, or something called The Longshot doesn't have every media outlet and most of the world waiting to judge it into oblivion. So there's freedom in doing those, where Green Day is a business. A business with many customers, a lot of whom are overly critical bastards, haha. With that situation, it's hard or near impossible to go too far away from the "Green Day Sound", no matter how the band feels about it. Maybe Billie's fired up about a wild new idea.....but no. Those buttholes over on GDA don't like that sort of thing. He's written the greatest jazz improv of all time.....but 99% of fans will bail. Can't do that either. I'ma stop right there, because Green Day have never put out a bad album. Not even bad song, in my opinion. Haushinka was pushing it, but even that turd is okay to my ears. Lol

They have used vocal filters since long before the trilogy. Tired of that 1 specific talking point.

Every few years when the anticipation goes high I say: I hope they gonna make Insomniac part 2 when it comes to the guitar tone.. generallny the heaviness. No polishing, no vocal filters. Etc. And the hope goes back, but it's wishfull thinking. Pollyanna, HCTS don't point that they want to get back to the old sound. I find it weird when musicians say they don't wanna do the same thing twice.. and they actually come up with something fresh and keep that thing for 5 albums from that time on. In case of Green Day those are, as we know vocal filters and polished, shallow instrumentation. Even if they recorded something out of the world and kept vocal filters, shallow guitars it would be inevitably reminiscent of Trilogy. And conversally: if they recorded the most generic stuff and used real 70s techniques it'd be something fresh in their catalogue. Little criticism again, however there are lot of great songs since 2012 to be clear.

I've seen the movie, but I didn't recognize it as being from Ordinary World because it literally just looks like Billie chilling in a promo/interview or something. Kind of looks like blonde Cuatro BJ. He's sooooo pretty!

That's great! I hope it does happen. I hope the boys will take all the precautions they can regardless, though. It's still definitely a risk.

My god I love the Ordinary World one

I wouldn’t even call FOAM a style. Part of my issue with it as an album is that the style is all over the place. Songs like Fire Ready Aim sound dry as a bone and recorded very straightforward, other songs like Oh Yeah and Junkies on a High slather on production elements carelessly imo. With 21st Century Breakdown you had lots of different kinds of songs but they sounded cohesive, there was a unified front on the production.

Green Day "needs" a comeback When Longshot, The Network, a bunch of teenagers like Panicland and Viva Death sounds better than GD last album, something is wrong.

This is around Billie's birthday - I wonder if any 1972 stuff will have made an appearance by then. A high profile show is a good time to make an announcement.

BM-EXCELLENTTITS

I want the big ballads back. They can be sad or happy and about parties or losers. I just want them back.

From Jason White's Instagram story

Here's another couple of lovely photos of Billie performing and every time I see one these photos I think of @Lady Mix-A-Lot

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Same as you, this is just going off memory. But they sent Butch a few demos of songs that eventually made it on the album, but the title track was so good in demo form that they kept it and just polished it up. I believe it was a full band demo, likely recorded at Otis.

Given Billie recorded some of them on his own, it makes sense that the sound is inconsistent. I'm not a fan of Butch Walker records as I find them noisy. He tends to fill every inch of sonic space in a bad way.

I think he probably got in his own head for the last project, and there was just such a mid life crisis feel to everything

This is a cool photo of Mike from the 21st Century Breakdown Tour

Kansas 2009

Ughhhh! Everything about him in this photo! 😍 😵

Some random Billie pics

BBC Sessions CD!!

And the next album, straight up 1972 rock n roll! Hoo-Ra! I hope Billie does more falsetto, that's the stuff!