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I recorded a cover of it too 🙂

and they wasted one good lyric releasing it as 'oh Yeah!' I don't mind the band trying new sounds, we have plenty of good music where the band gets out of their confort zone, that was never a problem. But FOAM was a miss, not a hit. Warning, Idiot, 21st CB are all diverse records full of different aproaches that were on point and inspired. You can love Father Of All, but it was by far their weakest try on a new sounding and mixing. The solid and above average discography that GD has makes FOAM sound even worse

I find FOAM fun. Just a fun turn your brain off 26 minute thing. Nothing amazing but I do like it and have fun listening to it while working on stuff.

His lyric style has changed no doubt, but I dispute the allegation that they lack substance. The meaning is just more deeply hidden, but he continues to write about what he’s feeling that hasn’t changed. It’s just less explicit. I would argue years of celebrity has made him more withholding and self protective of his feelings, even as he tries to stay true to himself as an artist. It’s difficult to maintain both privacy and openness.

FOAM is so bad that we still have the RevRad font on GDC.

The most disappointing thing about it to me wasn’t the music but the super short running time after a four year wait for a new album.

FOAM sucks and is possibly the biggest disappointment in music history

I'd say there were two or three with weak lyrics, but the rest was up to Green Day standards. The three weaklings off this masterpiece: Ready, Fire, Aim. I literally forget it as soon as it's over. WTF. I'm not Justin Beiber. Then there's the clunky I Was a Teenage Teenager Teenaging and yes, this one is kind of a dog salad of words. Haha. and finally is Stab You in the Heart, one of my most skipped Green Day tunes. It's just not great at all. But the rest is high art. As good or better than American Idiot. Better than Idiot. I hope that 1972 retains at least SOME of the FOAM magic.

Meet Me on the Roof is my favorite song on the record! I even recorded a cover of it!!! I posted it here a few months ago, but just in case anyone hasn’t heard it: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/gi6nwD9vZgucbwqr7

you've never listened to William Shatner's foray into music. FOAM is fun, I do enjoy a few songs. Mainly Oh Yeah! and Graffitia. Oh Yeah! has a fun video and I enjoy the video for Meet Me on the Roof, everyone involved seemed to have a lot of fun and genuinely be glad to be there.

Yeah. Fire, Ready, Aim was great.

But no two records sound the same, that's my point. FOAM can't not sound like Green Day by virtue of the fact that it was created by the same three people (minus 39/Smooth) as every other album.

Ah, new member 😂😂. Welcome.

i cannot believe i am able to take month long reprieves from this thread, and read through 100+ pages and have absolutely no knew knowledge to show for it

I think Junkies on a High has some great lyrics too

What will follow are surely unpopular opinions, but the Trilogy IMHO has the worst lyrics in their discography (with a few exceptions in those 37 songs). RevRad has also some of the worst and most boring lyrics of their career. And in my opinion FOAM is above that in, even in its simpler lyric structure. Still nothing close to the pre-Trilogy eras, of course, but at least there was again quite a few fun sparkles that they mostly lacked for a while. Then yes, I agree with @pacejunkie punk, BJ had a very different approach to lyrics in that record, and one can hate it, totally fair. And if I have to choose between Jesus of Suburbia and Graffitia, I pick JoS any time of course. But between the best and the worst lyrics of FOAM and those of RevRad/the Trilogy, in many cases I would still pick a FOAM song. Exceptions made of course, their best post 21CB lyrics are still in Bang Bang IMHO, forever now is close up there.

Agreed. I always think, what if the only two GD albums a person heard were Dookie and Insomniac, and the next they heard was 21CB? They wouldn't believe it was the same band. GD is more diverse than a lot of non-fans give them credit for.

And god awful lyrics with zero substance (save for one or two songs).

Misery is fantastic! I want to know the future of the characters that survived that wild story. I'd be good with A 2nd Warning: We Also Told Ya So!

FOAM rocks and sounds like Green Day.

There’s one problem with this and many theory/speculations I’m reading. They assume the band will compose and put out music based on some willingness to appeal to this or that part of the fandom, or as they say here to “try to unite their fans more”. In my opinion one constant that characterized GD throughout their career is that they do not give a fuck about fan service and putting out music based on what their fanbase might or might not want, for the good and for the bad. Thanks to this not giving a fuck about fan service, thanks to the fact that they just put out the music they like to write and play at a certain point of their career, we got some of their best records, and some of their most controversial ones. FOAM is a clear example of this, as Warning, as Dookie, as AI, as Nimrod, as the Trilogy. This is why I find extremely ridiculous that someone still buy into the conspiracy theory of “FOAM was a joke record to piss off this or that”, and why I believe whatever the new record is gonna be is not gonna be that because BJ is thinking about what a teenager or a 40yo dude wants to listen in his bedroom. Even less to find a compromise between that. It’s gonna be what these three 50yo want to put out now. Bad or good we’ll see. But they don’t give a fuck about mine or your desires. Just my opinion of course. And IMHO thank god they don’t give a fuck or we’d be listening to Kerplunk 14, or not because they would not exist anymore.