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@GDFan2019 thank you for keeping the positivity going with your optimism 👏

In the end the real 1972 is the friends we made along the way 😁 I don’t know about anyone else but I’m just having a good time chatting with y’all.

Guys think of it this way, we’re only a month away from 2023!!! I’m sure we’ll be bombarded with 1972 promos after Nimrod, give or take a few weeks after January 27th

It's not easy for band's these days post COVID, see @pacejunkie punk excellent comments in Nimrod topic. There's so many issues in the world that are affecting album releases not least cost. I'm sorry you think that way. Every minute I spend on here is precious, never a waste of time, I've learnt so much more about GD and treasure being part of this awesome GD community. There are things going on behind the scenes we know nothing about. I'm sure when new album is released it will worth the wait. I've had to wait for album releases over the last 30+ years, but never regretted it. Love yer.

I don’t think any of the teasers sounded much like FOAM.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Clo1fPLSUhS/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Just ignore Eric. He's an ass and probably a troll

At the start of 2020 just as COVID was about to hit, that year realized 2 singles, 3 EPs total of 11 songs. In between 3 albums released, FOAM, No Fun Mondays, The Network's second album. We were spoiled rotten. Yes, 2021 was a tad quieter, 4 singles, but also amazing Welcome to My Panic, with the end of the year the BBC sessions. 2022 has been very quiet. It's post COVID, but it's not gone away, I know friends are still suffering from long COVID after 2 years, and a couple have sadly died. Demand is rocketing, supply cannot cope, millions are still off work. And now a war in Europe, again. Like many industries there's material shortage, not enough working plants to meet the overwhelming demand, and not enough qualified staff. And what is one of those industries reeling from this? Vinyl. Latest indications is that vinyl is facing meltdown, with US hardest hit. Lead times are extending. What was previously weeks to issue a vinyl release it's now months. And what about those awesome covers for our vinyl records? There's a world shortage of ready supply of cardboard. I reckon GD have struggled to get Nimrod 25th out for Jan'23 nice one guys. CD production is a highly sophisticated manufacturing process and is also struggling. I'm sure GD are working very hard to get there music out there. But maybe there's things happening out there that we may never know. I respect all the views on here both points of view have real merit. We may try to understand, but hey we love GD so much and they are so fuckin good, we crave new stuff so much. Man I've been living with this for 30 years. Awesome. I have this feeling that 2023 will be something special for every GD fan.

Dookie U.S Version CD, thanks to Black Friday!!

You know you're a Green Day fan when you suddenly want to buy a black botton shirt and a red tie, dreams every day about BJ calling you to get up on stage and play Knowledge with the guys (and taking a beautiful Les Paul Junior home), when it ends up being your second most listened band in 2022 even if you started to listen to them only from September uptil now (and Longview ends up being your most listened song with 35 streams) and when your hear your neighbor listening to Holiday and you stop everything you're doing to go at the window start singing. I also want a Les Paul Junior or a Blue replica too. I saw a guy on Green Day Brasil that listened to GD for about 11,000 MINUTES, I'll try to find the screenshot In Dookie, I'm sure it's "whine" and its variations. Teens whine a lot.

x2!! Also, it feels a little bit frustrating the band put more effort promoting their coffee brand instead of their music projects. I don't care if the label releases a live version of songs that we have 3746873 versions of it (She, Basket Case, American Idiot, etc). It could be REALLY AWESOME if THE BAND comes to their social media and speak to us about the coming up projects. Just imagine this... "Hey, what's up? It's me Billie, and we're gonna release an anniversary edition for one of our best records, it will be Nimrod XXV. There will be some unreleased demos, unreleased songs and one unreleased show. Tomorrow we will be in a stream, telling you some stories about those sessions, stay tune!!" AND... THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE HYPE!! The sad thing is they kinda did this in the past...

I've heard that it's actually 7 songs now!

Knowing the risk of sounding extremely annoying and obnoxious, I have to say the whining in this forum is reaching unknown levels to humanity. Every thread is filled with self-entitled posts that assume the 50 people constantly writing in here are the only target audience of any promotional campaign, product release and content from the band. I am the first to recognize some of the disastrous marketing choices that Crush made in the FOAM era, but geez we are getting never before heard demos and pro live recordings of one of their best records. If you don’t care just move along. And ffs, lack of new music? We got two side projects releasing two full records in a three year hiatus including a fucking pandemic. Plus all the shitty b-side singles and covers. We got a world tour. I wonder what you would have done in the 4 year hiatus between Warning and AI. They have teased new music a year ago, clearly something changed in the plan, we have to wait a bit longer. Just fucking wait. What we’ll get could be good or bad, but the wait is not impacting your music experience in any way. This is not what is gonna make the record a success or not if this is what you are worried about, our satisfaction with their promotional strategies is not what makes them good or bad, we represent 0.0001% of their fanbase. I get it, being teased and then dealing with silence is hard, but they are not breaking up, they are not disappearing, they are clearly just waiting for the right window to start the real promotion, everyone in here is aware of this, just stop whining and wait a few more months or whatever is needed. Even the fucking GD subreddit is more enjoyable than this. Sorry I am gonna disappear again.

My copy of Money Money 2020 put my Green Day vinyl collection looking like this

Yep..... Forever Now would've closed that album perfectly!!

I hope 1972 doesn't feel the need to end the album on a ballad. If it works it works but to many times it just feels like they do it because that's what your supposed to do at the end of an slbum Looking at you ordinary world

Nothing has happened. We basically know the album is coming out in 2023 but that's still just about it

Poprocks and Coke single

I had an inkling they would be mentioned, and sure enough - GREEN DAY! Go to 1:30 AND 1:43 seconds for the Green Day references.

If Green Day is your favorite and or your only band you listen to like most of you are this has to be tough for you. It's not only Green Day but all those irrelevant other bands you listen to most bands seem to have that old ten years and older model where you can lead your fans on plus add months or a year after announcing an album to actually release it. Bands need to get with the times. Artist's I seen in other genres drop either unannounced albums or drop albums in a month or two from first single being released. I use to be able to wait but this is hard to follow. Your logic about how it should come out at the end of the year or mid year next year makes no sense. I use to be able to wait for a new Green Day album but after FOAM, 1972 which I doubt thats the title because it is a shitty title, I lost faith in what this band can do. If it comes it comes. Spending any time in this thread more than this post right here would just be a waste of time. Have fun wasting your lives on this topic!

that tote bag. I must haaave it.

You’ve successfully pointed out how hard it is to be a working musician these days. If touring can’t happen, it’s either release your music streaming for no real money or brand your image and sell as much merch as you can. Physical sales, the only real way for an artist to earn money from the music itself, are getting harder to accomplish with supply shortages and long waits. Even Green Day isn’t immune to this. They may have a back catalog with more in the bank and selling power, but I would bet more of their reserves would be drained every year if they put out more new music. Recording is expensive, and no one pays you while you do it, but you still have to pay your crew. Branding, merch, coffee business and hella mega tours are what keep the lights on. Those small shows everyone wants? Those cost them money too.

Lol remember when Billie Joe accidentally leaked a photo of what may have been crude 1972 album art? Whatever happened there...

Omg that would be so cool. We don’t even dare to dream stuff like that anymore. And you’re right, they’ve made a group video and done interviews for Oakland Coffee 🤦🏻

But why it isn’t a good marketing strategy? Why you are so bothered by it? How promoting an anniversary record is bad for them or us? It’s not that the average GD fan or listener will stop listening to their music because they started teasing the hardcore fans one year ago. Neither will anyone here. No one outside here cares, I get you are annoyed, maybe sometimes I might misinterpret some posts I don’t know… but it feels like so much drama for nothing. And I get people complaining in the speculation thread, it’s a dead thread, but come one, they still released a a song here, we are talking about that. Same in the merch collab thread. Is it really that bad that we are getting this stuff? 😳

I like some of the stuff but only without the "brain dead" logo. That ruins it for me

They're semi-retired.

Mike popped into Rudy's earlier today From Rudy's Facebook

Don't know if somebody here knows the comedy show SUPERSTORE, but in season 3, episode 11 they talk really much about Green Day and name a few of their songs 😄

Just received it!

Picked these up for £5! I don't drink but cool for the collection

Nice guys finish last CD Single!! I've waited for so long to get it!!

You know you're a GD fan when you see a toilet and it says "Armitage shanks" on it and you think about the song

I simply adore Insomniac, it's my favourite Green Day album - both musically and lyrically, and also one of my all-time top albums I don't know exactly what it is about it that makes me love it so, and I remember when I first bought it I wasn't so keen on the album, oh but it grew on me. I find it's often the things you can't quite place why you like them, that you love the most (if that makes any sense!). Definitely the case with Insomniac Also one of my go-to albums for when I need comforting....It's always been the perfect album for when I'm a little bit low and frustrated with life. Or just pissed off.

I hope it sounds exactly like foam. Like some of the same songs even. Then pizzagate and pool party from The Network. And the same cover, but uglier.