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No past events should ever be a baseline for the future. We're speculating because we're bored and have nothing else to go on. There is nothing, other than Billie saying 2023 (which I can confirm), to base this speculation on. That could mean January, but it could also mean December. We have no idea and what the band did for FOAM, RevRad, or Dookie has no bearing on what is going to be done for this next album. Marketing music these days is very different when compared to late 2019/early 2020, 2016, 2012, and 1994. Green Day's popularity and the lens in which people view them through is also very different. They're now more of a legacy act than a heart-throbbing punk rock group that is blasted all over Top 40 radio and Hot Topic and Claire's stores. When they want us to know something, they will make it incredibly clear. Until then, I think we should all go outside.

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Enjoy 15 months of GDFan saying "I think the album should be coming any day now"

After that, he will land here with a bulletproof vest

Jason Freese getting in the mood

Not like them to turn something into a halloween party 😂😂

And that's....fine?

Sounds like it’s gonna be a Halloween party now https://www.instagram.com/p/CiBi9JkvX2k/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Being gay rules, I would know. You know what else rules? Some of the teasers we've gotten, they should give us a little more of that! I don't necessarily need news, I just want them to drip feed me that sweet, sweet content.

They've certainly upped their game since that one time I wanted to do some heavy reading on Simple Plan and it said "PAGE HAS BEEN DELETED DUE TO THE GAYNESS OF THIS BAND". Whoa, wikipedia. Whoa.

I hope those aren’t in danger too

Oh nooo :(( I hope whoever got it is going to be fine soon. I was looking forward to this

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I had completely lost sight of how many shows are still to come, looking forward to more footage!

And it's being broadcasted in 4K

Man.... I have a very expensive travel to see them in Rock In Rio next week. I would be very pissed off is this got cancelled

Me too. If it's someone needed for the tour, hope they recover quickly.

FYI It's been postponed https://www.instagram.com/p/CiBCz5PPb4X/

Someone’s got Covid. Show postponed https://www.instagram.com/p/CiBCz5PPb4X/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

That’s not Green Day

All we know is that we don’t know nothing

Green Day will be the focus of their North American tour.

I don’t think FOAM should be our baseline for any future Green Day releases.

I have thought this for a while. This record is flawless and it’s the start of Green Day really branching out and being brave with new sounds and styles. This record is why they’ve not just ended up as another 90’s punk rock band & instead a true rock and roll juggernaut that has rightly been inducted into the RnR hall of fame. Even the ‘deeper cuts’ are easily some of their best work, Haushinka, Jinx, All The Time, Worry Rock, Uptight, The Grouch, Scattered, Prosthetic Head, Redundant, Take Back, Reject, Platypus… I could go on and on. I feel like this record goes under the radar, people will always look to American Idiot and Dookie as their best bodies of work - both are incredible in their own way but Nimrod, damn, it covers everything that we love about these guys. It’s also them being daring and showing how great they are as musicians… These guys didn’t need Warped Tour or to hang out with all the Fat Wreck bands, instead they’ve cemented themselves in rock and roll royalty and history & this record epitomises that. I don’t know what more to say other than that this record is their true Magnum Opus.

OMG he's gorgeous😍😍😍

Same. I hope whoever has it gets over it fast. I got it a few weeks ago it's no fun😭😭😭

The last small Green Day club show in Europe was actually in 2019 in Madrid when Dookie was played in full (capacity 2500) https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/green-day/2019/la-riviera-madrid-spain-4b9d2f76.html

Fine but from the US perspective it doesn’t count to say we got club shows because we got the Coverups. This is about hearing Green Day deep tracks so lets compare apples to apples.

Still more Green Day than what we got in terms of club shows (spoiler: nothing since 2013)

Okay, let's keep positive thoughts... Only one of them caught COVID and they'll be cleared for Rock in Rio!

Man, 1972 is gonna suck and it just doesn't feel like the band is excited about it. I miss the FOAM era

Me too, now it will have to wait until all the Green Day shows are done in Sept/Oct

Didn’t you know? Billie updates all the Wikipedia articles himself.

My point is that, according to Wikipedia, album releases have never been more than 5 months after completion, with the exception of ¡TRÉ! 1039/Smoothed out Slappy Hours (compilation of 2 previously released EP's) Kerplunk (Released 3 months after completion) Dookie (4 months) Insomniac (5 months) Nimrod (3 months) Warning (5 months) American Idiot (5 months) 21st Century Breakdown (1 month) ¡UNO! (3 months) ¡DOS! (5 months) ¡TRÉ! (6 months) Revolution Radio (Exact month isn't listed but it says work started in 2014 and was completed in 2016) FOAM (1 month) Although the RevRad description doesn’t add up because Billie didn’t reveal they were in the studio until 2016. Unless maybe he recorded Ordinary World himself in late 2014 for the movie?

Yeah there's been quite a lot of side project small shows in the US but small GD shows are much rarer unless you count the few that come prior to an album release and there really isn't much of a precedent for the Metro show (hardcore fans all over the world wished they could be there but there were only 1000 tickets). Costa Rica in 2010 was the longest show with rareties but was a stadium show and the band just went off script (nobody expected what happened) probably followed by the small Hall of Fame show in 2015 when Sweet Children opened for GD and then the Warfield when the Network opened. Good luck to you guys trying though. I was surprised there was only 1500 signatures

I’m wondering what the B side will be

This is probably the best use of k n o w l e d g e in this thread so far.

I managed to get one from someone on Craigslist! AHHHHHHHHH I'M SO EXCITEDDDDDDDD

Hella Tiny Tour for the states too! Just make all shows tiny, both domestically and internationally.

I wish they do a Coverups or Longshot shows in Europe

On Monday, American Idiot was certified double platinum in Italy https://www.socialartist.it/2022/08/29/certificazioni-34-2022/

I made a playlist of every song connected to Green Day or side project in any way. Billie Joe has the best taste in music of all time, and I have compiled it for all to enjoy

Is this a new pic of Billie Joe with Anna? https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch4ax3kvRMk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

It all depends on your definition of pop punk. Some considers pop punk any form of mainstream punk rock emerged from the 90’s punk rock revival. In this case Green Day definitely belongs here. Others use pop punk to define those 00’s bands born from the commercial success of 90’s punk rock bands, usually having an even more polished and accessible sound. In this case Green Day sits in a different bucket. There is a clear generational, musical and stylistic difference between Green Day and bands such as Sum 41 or Simple Plan, so if we really need to use labels, I think it’s fair to have different labels for them. That said Green Day developed a quite unique sound during the year (remember how easily a certain bunch of kids which rhymes with land trolled us by replicating it?), and in the last 15 years got heavily influenced by other genres, mainly power pop. So hard to answer.

At this point I'd call them a punk influenced rock band

Some more random photos from the Hella Mega North American Tour 2021

Bay Area Show. Credit to Strings West of Tulsa. #billiejoearmstrong #greenday

Some of Billie's old Instagram posts

Random photos from the Hella Mega North American Tour 2021