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Milton Keynes 2005, man what a show, 65,000 of us. After watching GD for 14 years, this was the new GD live. A new awesome sound, yes, but live, this was magical, I was gobsmacked. Reality was gone, I didn't exist, my whole being was one with GD. As for Billie Joe he controlled my life that night. As he strutted across the stage, raising his arms, I, like everyone, followed his every command. I didn't want the show to end, I wanted it to go on for eternity. I will never forget that night. It's nice to have a visual memory with BIAB, but as you say very much incomplete. You cannot substitute being there. Sorry, I'm very emotional remembering that night, feel a right dick the tears are running down my face. I suppose it's possible to love someone/something from a distance. Thank you GD I will love you forever. x

Which is looooool because what's different? The color of the ZIP disk? Come on.

Green Day doing the halftime show would be epic

Green Day and NFL walk into a bar. NFL says "Man, I love promoting stuff WAY too early" and Green Day look over. Their eyes meet and sparks soar through the air. A match is made at a roadside bar.

I remember Green Day recorded a live studio performance of AI and also HOLIDAY which was its debut. Don't remember the exact date, but I remember this was the first time I've heard Holiday. Not sure, but I think after this Letterbomb was released (Not as a single, just presented as an upcoming song for AI at that moment)

I thought for sure we'd get another teaser by February. Man how demoralizing

Damn, it's been so long since I watched my DVD. I feel like it's well overdue for another watch but I hope it gets a 4k blu-ray remaster or something for it's 20th anniversary so I can indulge in every detail of Billie rubbing himself off in front of 65000 people.

The Network have fucking NOTHING to do with Green Day. Jesus.... really, people?

Personally I love the interview snippets in BIAB. They're my favorite part of the film. Thinking about the movie takes me back to when I got the DVD set for Xmas. I rushed to my room and watched it, absorbing every minute. Then we get to HAR...and I was like 😳 I had it up pretty loud so I rushed for the remote and hit the mute button because my mom was in the living room! I didn't want her questioning what she just bought me

Yeah, it would have been great if there was an optional mode to just only see the live stuff kind of how sometimes movies give you the option to watch the theatrical cut or extended etc. If they ever do a re-release or remaster they better also include Homecoming. The fact that they decided to not include that still makes me very sad. The Network are a way better band than Green Day could hope to be anyway. Green Day are nothing but a bunch of poser Network wannabes. Screw those guys.

Lady Gaga released her album Joanne in October 2016 and did the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2017. So maybe Green Day releases the album in fall 2023 for the Super Bowl 2024. But could it really be? Green Day doing the Super Bowl would be way too epic ❤️

If I remember correctly the teaser from last year for this year's Superbowl was a Rihanna song... So maybe we can believe.

Just sent my second message to Green Day support because I haven't heard anything about my order and it's approaching a month since I've ordered.

for real wtf1 were they thinking? Homecoming is one of their best work

I liked BIAB but the snippets beteeen the songs are kinda annoying. Wish they would have put it before or after the show. And the missing songs

True. The last time there was a performer at their peak was The Weakend a few years ago. It’s huge if true. The one last thing left to cement their legend status that they’ve proven with their never ending HM/festivals run

I remember when I got BIAB and absolutely fell in love with it straight away. Blasting it out on my speakers more or less every day, except from the middle part of Hitchin' A Ride, the whole street probably heard a few of those strange noises from time to time 😏

I asked. They said ''We're not the same band. How would we know?''.

Has anyone ever tried to ask The Network their side of the story?

Mike even said, "We still had the backups but they just weren't the same."

Nah, if it was stolen, I believe it would have leaked at least 15 -20 years ago. They also probably would have had it release officially anyway.

Long time listener, first time caller, or at least it's been a while since I have posted anything. Just adding my two cents to my thoughts for the upcoming album and when my fandom took off. My Green Day fandom officially launched when 21st Century Breakdown released. I got an issue of Rolling Stone in early 2009 with Taylor Swift on it, and it had a story on Green Day still putting together the finishing touches for the follow-up to American Idiot. I forgot what the title was, but I remember the song East Jesus Nowhere had a different working title a couple of months before the album was released. For me, I only knew of When I Come Around, Good Riddance, and the singles from the American Idiot album prior to 21st Century Breakdown. Loved each of the tracks, but didn't do any deeper digging than that. Honestly, I am not even sure if I was truly jacked by the release of Know Your Enemy, although I do remember them using that for the NCAA March Madness tournament. Either way, between the article and the NCAA promo, it got me interested enough to check out the album. The album came out either the week before I graduated from high school, the week of, or the week after. I just remember listening to the album from my iPod setup in my car nonstop when it came out. The title track was euphoric to me sonically and lyrically. It reminded me of the classic rock I grew up listening to with hints of The Who and Queen, or that's what bands it reminded me of. From there I was hooked the rest of the album. The album might not have had the long-term commercial success and singles hitting radio airplay, but I will argue into forever that it is one of their best albums. A product of it being my first album of theirs I listened to all the way through, but I feel that that sonically it is some of my favorite sounding things to listen to, and lyrically while it can be dark, the lyrics came from Billie's experience. Plus, I know Billie talked about how taxing making that album was, and I can only imagine what it is like making a follow-up the a blockbuster of an album that American Idiot was. They were coming from a true genuine place, even if the storyline for the rock opera might be a bit more over the map compared to American Idiot. I hope that if I am lucky enough to see them again that they can find a way to add more songs from that album to the setlist, or by divine intervention add the title track. It would hit me the same way when I saw the Foo Fighters two years ago and they played Aurora, my favorite track of theirs. My first album cycle where I jumped in with both feet was the Trilogy, and what a time to be a fan to see the creation of an album. Remember all of the video updates they posted on YouTube, and how this site was flooded with a level of analysis not seen since the Zapruder film? What does that blue filter mean? Trying to pause and zoom in to see names of songs, etc. It was paradise and maddening at the same time, which would seem like a good set of words to describe what that album cycle became. So these videos on TikTok reminded me a lot of the lead-up to the Trilogy. As for the next album, I have some hopes, but no true-blue expectations. At this point they are a legacy band, so the likelihood of having anything top the Billboard Top 200 albums or Top 100 singles chart is out of the question. I want them to make an album that they are proud of, that is true to where they are at the moment, and builds upon their strengths with some hints of new elements that stays true to their sense of not making the same record twice. I don't want them to chase a certain sound, or to play the nostalgia card because rock/alternative/pop punk music is having a renaissance. Make the music that is true to where you are at this moment. *There I go being a hypocrite and putting together a laundry list of things I want them to do for the next album, but honestly do whatever moves you guys! I will finish with this. It seems since American Idiot the subsequent albums have followed the trend of trying to outdo the previous album in terms of the extravagance or the event associated with a new album, or trying to course correct from the response to previous albums to some degree. It will be interesting to see if whatever comes from the 1972 sessions if they fall into either category, or forge a new path of being comfortable/confident with where they are. Again, not to say that they were feeling this with any of the subsequent albums, but it is just what I feel the music they released since American Idiot can fall under. 21st Century Breakdown and the Trilogy would fall into the outdoing the previous albums category. Follow up a concept record with another, with even more songs?!?! The Trilogy, how about three albums with 37 songs in total?!?! Having songs in Angry Birds and other avenues, etc. I am sure part of that was to make money back for releasing three albums of music, but it was all about making an event out of it. Not to mention the documentary on the making of the album. It is interesting to see artists today, especially in Country music like Zach Bryan and others releasing three albums worth of songs, and that it is a trendy thing to do. A product of the streaming age and having more things to stream, even though I am still sure there are other factors to this trend. To me 21CB stuck the landing better in terms of the spectacle of it all, although I have more than a soft spot for what the Trilogy was all about, even though again it was an extremely dark time for Billie and the guys. The Trilogy served as a course correction of the perception of people not wanting another concept record, which I was guilty of, and I know from interviews from the Trilogy era that the guys were more than happy to create an album that didn't have that kind of structure. It was just that they played both sides of trying to make an event out of this album cycle, and course correct to do more "classic" Green Day. RevRad was a course correct from the Trilogy in my book. A more straight down the middle album with some of the best bits of the music that they have made this century. A standard twelve-track album that was less of an event in the lead-up to the release of the album, but still a great payoff. The Trilogy wasn't critically acclaimed, and there were more than enough people putting together what they thought would be the best standard twelve-track album from all of the songs of the Trilogy. Father of All was another course correct of going against a safe record that RevRad could come across as. A wild/party record with elements of Dos and Foxboro, with literally no filler when it comes to the amount of time the record lasts for. Another album that I may like a bit more than others do for the sake of doing something a bit wild, even if lyrically it is a bit rough to put it lightly. Who knows if this new project will follow in this pattern that I feel has emerged since AI, but I look forward to it either way. At this point they aren't obligated or need to put out any new music, so anything they do release is a win. I just want it to be a solid addition to their catalogue, and something that they are proud of. As many of you have mentioned recently who have been a fan far longer than I have, there was a stretch where their existence as a band was in question, so I can be as patient as I can be in this day of instant gratification of wanting new music right now! Although the marketing strategy seems a bit odd to me with the radio silence after the initial bombardment of updates, but I suppose having a world tour during the process would have a little bit of an impact. Feel free to let me know if I am way off base, or need to clarify anything! Beyond glad to be part of this community, and I hope to see some of you guys for the show in Milwaukee this July. Still got to get my ticket, but when you have Green Day and Foo Fighters on back-to-back nights, I will for sure find a way to be there! Wouldn't miss it for the world.

At least you say it with the depth that I think is appropriate. I remember my cousin once removed casually mentioning that she had gone to see Green Day "where was it again, oh yeah... Milton Keynes I think" at a Christmas dinner and my jaw just dropped to the floor when she said it haha - I simply couldn't believe my ears. Honestly, I was a Green Day fan before it, but BIAB finally cemented my love for Green Day. And I'll have to disagree with those who think the interview bits are annoying. I will forever know the start by heart. --- ---- --- --- --- --- --- --- *cue black and white shot of Billie's mouth* "You know music to me is... ah.. it's the air that I breathe you know, it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive. So, without it, I don't know what I would do. I mean, I'd probably have a job or something like that, but... People ask me what would you do if you didn't have Green Day. And I say, well I'd be in Green day, I don't really know anything else. Or people say, you know: what do you think of people that only talk to you or like you, because you're in Green Day. And I say, well I am Green Day. That is me. That is my life..." *cue cheering* then the transition to the bird's eye view of a field with the setting sun. The also Sprach Zarathustra intro comes in, then starts the slow and dramatic zoom-in onto, what I at time thought, must be the largest concert crowd in the world... and then the band comes up on stage... Billie does his majestic thing on the pedestal, all the while the crowd is going nuts, finally he puts the people out of their misery, plays the intro riff, jumps off- *boom* and with that, the concert roars into action. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Magical.

I like to tell myself that it's just because it just didn't fit on the discs with all the other stuff... but ehhh I dunno. It's especially strange considering it was apparenlty the first song written for American Idiot? Well parts of it anyways. You'd think it would be a little bit more important than it ended up being to BIAB. Oh well... it is what it is, at least everything that made it on there is awesome and we have KFAD, so we don't need it at our live shows anymore! (Oh yes, I'm going back there). Here's an idea that was floating around in my head a few days back.. why not have like a 7-9 minute trilogy medley or something like that instead of KFAD? Take a bunch of Trilogy songs, play about a minute or so of each and have them arranged in a way that they just flow into each other. Most are in the same key and follow very similar chord progressions, so why not? If it even ends up being good enough, they could release it as a song on spotify. Damn, you are lucky. I would have given anything to be able to just see them play on that tour but you actually being at Milton Keynes is beyond epic. Have you managed to find yourself in the DVD at all?

Maybe you get an exception when you're the Stones? I really can't think of another show that wasn't playback. There's little time to set up/soundcheck/troubleshoot

I think 1972 will sound like Green Day, but the lyrics will be a step away from what Billie usually had to say. Maybe the music was done but the lyrics kept getting reworked and tweeked because Billie kind of needed them to be great, but also different than what he's done before. I remember seeing this and instantly knowing American Idiot was going to be something special.

And Jaded, Knowledge, She, We are the Champions

The BIAB journey will not be complete until they release Homecoming from one of those two days. The sound/mixing is just so fantastic, but in true Green Day style they cut out the songs that we reaaally want.. 🤷‍♀️

Really? Oh, I hope they won‘t perform then 😂

Well, okay. As long as you're not being sarcastic while saying it.

As long as they are perfoming alone and not collab with someone or playback like Chili Peppers back in 2014 I‘m fine with it 😂

So I was i elementary school when a friend played Bullet in a Bible in the classroom during the breaks. I immediately fell in love with this sound. Bullet in a Bible was then the first album my parents bought for me and when I first saw it I was really shocked that Billie uses the f-word on stage that often (hey I was a child to be fair 😄).

I love this thread wound back to AI and the tapes. That was my intro to Green Day. Hearing those songs on radio constantly snapped something in me as a 10 year old. My mom hated rock or anything adjacent and kept me from it but when those songs came on she was like “you use to be terrified by their one song about eyes bulging” (had no idea what she was talking about cause I was 2 when insomniac came out and that was Brain Stew. Obviously I went on a deep dive into their discography after that. I went small Catholic school (100 kids k-8) and I remember these three 8th graders told me I was I was poser cause I only got into Green Day cause American idiot (granted, they dressed as Billie, Tre and Mike for Halloween at school which even now I think is rad) but I was stubborn and rattled off at them songs off warning and nimrod. Silly, in retrospect but funny.

I would think it would be a good time to do it also because it would be partly promotion for it

It actually makes more sense now since they tend to be legacy acts not performers at their peak. Rihanna had most of her hits ten years ago

it's strange they'd get to do it now when they didn't at the peak of their popularity

So? The band members say a lot of things. Not saying they're liars, but they do like to stretch the truth sometimes to make things a little more exciting. I believe there are demos, I just don't believe there was ever a finished C&V album, and if there was then we'd have it by now in some form. Theres also the matter of the person who "stole" it probably would have tried to sell it and we'd all know about it.

Do you believe their story about the session tapes being stolen or did they just make up that story as an excuse to start from scratch?

That means the new albums gonna be great! 😁

There’s so much about the AI image overhaul that never stops to fascinate me. There was this band that released an album of The Kinks and folk rock inspired music and then someone took a look at them and went you know what guys, you should do the emo look that would work for you. And then they decide to record a rock opera and aim big and it all works out. When you watch HLAHG, you can tell they were thinking it through as a comeback/reinventing themselves and in hindsight, yeah, it was perfect, but it was such a strike of genius. I wouldn’t look at a chubby 30-year-old man and think “that’s gonna be the next teenage heartthrob!” if I were a Warner exec

It was either right before or right after

They were playing St Jimmy for sure, but it was in theaters for a day so not sure if they’d air the whole thing too pre release.

Music acts aren’t selected this early for Super Bowl or hinted at this early the reason for the song is CBS has been after the contract for Super Bowl for a while now

I think halftime break is 20 minutes and performers get 15 minutes but not sure. I‘m not that interested in football, more soccer here in EU 😂

It probably would have just been a mixed bag, average album with some decent songs on it. Not unlike FOAM, but probably with much better production and safe to say it definitely wouldn't have had the same impact as American Idiot. I think the band realized this and knew it wouldn't be worth it in the end to put it out when big, iconic rock albums were coming out in full throttle and many bands were evolving past just doing the same thing over and over in pursuit of ambition. (I've always had my doubts C&V was actually finished and stolen, lets face it, the story we know is much more exciting and unique than "we decided to scrap it and start over because it wasn't good enough"). Calling it now, track 6 is going to be the greatest Green Day song of all time. Also the transition to Kidney Bill will be more iconic than the transition between Holiday/BOBD.

And watching the music videos from Warning (especially Minority) they were still being marketed as goofy, silly cartoon punks. It really was a reinvention in every way.

It was a scary time pre-AI. Not a lot of people listened to Warning when it came out so Green Day wasn’t a very popular band anymore or on anyone’s radar. A lot of people thought Green Day hung it up and that Superhits/Shenanigans were the final nail in the coffin. It wasn’t really until BOBD came out as a single that EVERYONE began to take notice of the “new” Green Day. at least these days it’s a lot easier to know the band are up to something and that new music will be coming in the near future 👍

Just like Green Day to wake us all up with a new side project in The Network. Money Money 2020 is amazing. Still, we had a few titbits to keep us going. The 'Tune In Tokyo' live ep was awesome for me being so into GD live. There was of course, International Superhits CD/DVD with two new songs - Poprocks & Coke and Maria, and Shenanigans. And Crickets cover 'I Fought The Law.

Honestly, I'd love to see Hitchin' a Ride video in 4K.

Ranking the Demos!