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As someone who became a fan after hella mega I can confirm that ppl will do this. Hell, my bestie and I got back to the hotel around 12:30 a.m. bc we were in the merch line and as soon as we got there I plugged my earphones in and searched up Green Day and listened to their songs, especially the older stuff, for a full hour afterward!

I think you’re misunderstanding what a legacy act is. WWWY is literally a festival of legacy acts, hence the title. Legacy acts can still sell out tours, stadiums and headline festivals. It doesn’t mean a band is “over” or “down” or that they suck. It just means that their most popular and best music is behind them and they’ve amassed enough of a back catalog that they can 100% live off it and tour off it. When every tour becomes a greatest hits tour and you’re no longer playing or promoting your latest music much because most fans don’t care to hear it, you might be a legacy act. It doesn’t mean you’re no longer loved, but you are loved more for your past accomplishments. Most bands never achieve enough to have a legacy. GD are one of the lucky few.

How can a band that’s been around 30 years not have an element of being a legacy band? If they didn’t, it would mean nothing they had put out in that 30 years was worth going back to listen to!

I like the timing of 1972. Because of all the festivals they headlined during the past months they got the attention of many non-GD-fans. And now with the release of the Nimrod anniversary album they get the attention of former-GD-fans. So maybe they are rather in the spotlight when they release 1972 than they were when they released FOAM.

After this tour I’m starting to believe that but I’m willing to give them one more new album/tour cycle before fully accepting it. If the next tour is the same pattern of greatest hits and mostly festival dates, then yeah. Basically, I’m still in the denial phase of grief 🫢

Yeah I'm fine with them prioritising the Nimrod anniversary edition before the release of 1972 even if it makes them seem like a "legacy band". I can imagine if there's any advertising or promoting of the album before its release that it will emphasise the fact that it's the album that has Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) on it. I think those casual Green Day fans would be more likely to listen and maybe get into the rest of their discography and/or stick around for 1972

Even new fans from the past tour may be discovering Nimrod for the first time (checking out the album with Good Riddance on it) and then will be tuned in to when 1972 comes out and be more inclined to give it a listen. I'm sure they were hoping the HM tour would raise their profile, even as big as they already are, because there are so many people under the illusion that Green Day broke up years ago, don't still release new music, etc.

I mean we don't really know whether Insomniac or Nimrod is the 3rd highest seller and not knowing which is the better sale does not make someone a fake fan. Afaik they've been neck and neck for most of their career. However in terms of streaming & single sales, Nimrod is by far the more successful album, mostly due to Good Riddance I don't care if they're a legacy band or not. I think they will continue making new music but their old music is always going to be more important to most of their fanbase. And that's nothing against their new music, it's just when a band has had as many great albums as Green Day, you're always going to be remembered for your past albums. It seems like legacy band has a negative connotation here when it shouldn't. Green Day's legacy is great. And Green Day's golden age is 1994-2009. Doesn't mean there's not been great songs/albums before or after that golden age

I've gone ahead and removed the paparazzi photos and discussion. We prefer not to have paparazzi photos posted here and it's off topic anyway.

I love it how “fans” think Green Day are a legacy band and are down…they still sell out tours and are headlining When We Were Young this coming Summer….nimrod is not their 3rd highest selling album btw…Dookie - AI - INSOMNIAC that’s their 3rd highest seller Insomniac…seems there are a lot of haters pretending to be fans. Green Day are far from over they still are known and tour all around the world. When the new album comes out and is amazing I hope the “doubters” admit how far off they were.

I think it’s safe to declare they’re a legacy act at this point.

Awesome! Welcome to the fandom. I joined late too, RevRad is what did it for me. And yes as @GDFan2019 said, it explains why Billie would wear an intriguing 1972 vest to plant the idea in people's heads.

Plus Billie has been playing these festivals with 1972 painted on his back!!!!

Even if that was true, it still suggests that the band values their greatest hits over their new music. Really Green Day has felt like a legacy band since RevRad. The trilogy was the last time where I feel like the band was really into what they were doing, were pushing themselves, were being ambitious. RevRad was a really solid album but it felt familiar, there wasn't anything too different, there wasn't the ambition behind that project that their last few had and they didn't play the new songs from that album as much as they played the new songs from their last few albums on the following tour. For RevRad, they played 5-6 songs off the album live regularly and 3 songs never got played at all despite the album only being 12 songs long. For the trilogy, 21CB and AI, they played at least 7-8 songs regularly and every song from AI/21CB got at least a few plays. Only 5 trilogy songs were never played live. The whole FOAMF era seems completely like the era you'd expect from a legacy band. FOAMF using the AI cover for its cover, not playing the new songs, only playing the hits, not really talking about the new album. Maybe the 1972 era will be different from FOAMF. But they'll still be a legacy band and there isn't anything wrong with that

I had a pretty lengthy response that I ended up deleting. As someone who is sometimes skinny but currently overweight, I was going to 'weigh in', but I decided against it. Code name 1972 is going to be great to the point that GDA won't be so divided. Yes, so great that we all agree for once. I say code name because I really hope it's called something else.

Billie Joe does not like this person.

No, I think that’s pretty unlikely. I think it more likely either their many business ventures are taking up too much of their time, they aren’t making any money or the guys just got bored with them. I think they all probably could spare some cash if they needed to on a new project.

Transgender isn't a slur. "Tranny" is and always has been a slur - if you weren't aware of this google it to learn more. The T in LGBT+ stands for transgender not t*****. Just because some transgender people choose to reclaim the slur by using it doesn't mean everyone should be throwing it around. It's exactly the same thing as some black people reclaiming the n word by using it or some gay people reclaiming the f word (eg Billie Joe, a bisexual man, using it in a song) etc. Pretty simple to understand. The context was that you were making a rhyming joke - it's not like you were for example quoting it in order to explain something like I just have. You weren't using it maliciously (which I'm sure you can tell I realised from my reply) but just like if people started casually using the n word on here, we don't want to see other slurs used casually either. We received reports from people who were offended so acted on them by simply pointing out that it's a slur and not appropriate. If you want to discuss further PM me. Back on topic here please.

I agree, but also think "legacy band" is often used as a derogatory term. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place, look at all the reviews saying what great shows they've just played, no filler etc etc. We just have to accept, in a crowd of 65,000 like they had in Singapore, probably not many could name more than a couple of hits.

People should be allowed to become famous for being legendary GDA users. We're saints, but we should be celebrities, ya know?

I think the answer is just that they've had a lot more going on during this recording period than for their other recording periods which most likely delayed the recording. Additionally, the album is probably more or less finished at this point and would probably be out by January if it weren't for the Nimrod anniversary edition but they don't want to release both of them around the same time because they don't want one album to overshadow the other

To be clear I didn’t mean that as a pejorative. There are good and bad ways you can be a legacy act. I’d just rather them be something more like Rush and less like The Beach Boys.

He uses the dog analogy 17 times in total. Not one of his most frequent buzzwords, but in his top 50 for sure. It's actually his 42nd most used word, right between Dawn (41) and Loser (43rd). Not kidding. If anyone's snatched my fan card lately, I think you can pass it back now.

It kinda bothers me though that the release date for the album is in 2023 instead of 2022 when Nimrod was released in 1997. Just like how Insomniac's release was in 2021 instead of 2020. Like is it even still a 25th anniversary edition if it's not released 25 years after the album's initial release. Like for the Insomniac anniversary edition, ok but you'd think if they were going to do this for more albums that they'd plan it out better so that the new edition of the album comes out on the same day as the album's anniversary or at least the same year

There is "Legact Act" and then there is "Washed Up". Green Day certainly aren't washed up, but the legacy thing is a bit blurred in 2022. Many bands are putting out albums that sound like the most popular stuff and bringing back old members. And everybody is playing the hits and not much else. Did Covid do this, or what? Maybe it's always been this way.

I'm really happy we're getting this relatively soon. It felt like we waited FOREVER for the Insomniac vinyl. I can deal with waiting 3 months at this point.

Bought the silver vinyl and a crewneck. Very impulse, but I'm very okay with that.

I think the only reason why they only played their hits on the Hella Mega Tour was because they had to cut down their setlist to make room for Weezer and Fall Out Boy. It’s the first time they’ve ever done a tour like that. Once they go on tour for 1972, I guarantee they’ll play the singles from the new album, they may even play some FOAM songs, maybe even RevRad and Trilogy songs.

Some random Billie pics

They want to focus solely on performing Longview and Basketcase as many times as possible.

@Sheenius You got a bit of a shoutout in a very cringe YouTube short. Haha

If an anniversary release of their third best-selling album takes priority over new music, Green Day is officially a legacy act.

The leak came from a vinyl and the guy who transferred it didn’t really know how to do so in the greatest way that’s why the quality isn’t the best

I don't mind it being slow, it just sounds like it needs cleaned up to me.

Eh Idk if they would, when an album isn’t received well lately they just pretend it didn’t happen 😂

I'm sure your right, it's a little slow as compared to when he sang it with Elvis Costello at Decades of Rock Concert back in 2005

A Celebration of NIMROD: 1. Good Riddance 2. You Irritate Me 3. Prothedichead 4. King for a Day 5. Take Back 6. Reject 7. Holiday 8. Walking Alone 9. Haushinka (cut short because it sucks) 10. Jinx 11. Last Ride In 12. Uptight 13. Platypus 14. Worry Rock 15. All the Time 16. Scattered 17. The Grouch 18. Redundant 19. Nice Guys Finish Last 20. Hitchin a Ride ENCORE: 21. Letterbomb 22. Homecoming 23. Longview 24. Basketcase 25. American Idiot

If the album is out by then, it just seems odd to me that they would start teasing at the end of 2021, which implied a 2022 release. So maybe there really were plans to put out an EP, then they decided to make a full album and went back to RAK, then back to LA at Ocean Way and Henson. Then the Nimrod news dropped and it got me thinking. Could they have just been at Henson simply to mix Nimrod?

Sounds plausible. I’m not aware of anything I haven’t already said, so still just “2023.” It’s hard to tell if the Nimrod release in late January is timed due to physical media production, or to start generating buzz for what’s next. I’d have to assume the new album would be out by When We We’re Young, at the latest. If more festivals are announced or we start hearing rumors of venues getting booked for tour dates, I’d think we’d have a more accurate estimate of when an album would be released. Has Green Day ever been a band to start a tour prior to an album being released? (Excluding the trilogy)

Jokes on you! I already am!

With the Nimrod anniversary set coming in January, I'm thinking more realistically now. Now I'm thinking we'll get a single in late March, the album would be out in May, and the tour would start in June. @Sanity Loan what are your thoughts?

Tr*nny is literally a slur and a word that you used. Trans people might say it for the purpose of reclamation but the fact of the matter is that you are not trans yourself and as such have no real right to claim it as a part of your lexicon on a public forum. Have trans friends? Cool, if they are fine with you using it around them there is no issue with that. However, you could very well hurt and make any trans person reading feel unwelcome. As somebody in a close personal relationship with a trans woman, I simply can't remain silent on this specific issue.

Considering they're making more of a deal with Nimrod than they did with Dookie, I hope that means that Warning will get a lot of love too. If there is a lot of extra material out there, that album is so loved now by fans I think it will be much appreciated.