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Honestly, I feel like revrad was exactly the album they needed to make at the time, even if there's some stuff that's rough around the edges. It's what they needed to do after rehab and the trilogy, 3 longtime friends getting back together in a studio without a label or producer pressuring them. I like how reflective the lyrics were, I'd much rather have lyrics like that instead of party songs. I feel like foam was definitely a misstep

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx-slYVLeLm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== post from 91xhilary who has music producer in her bio. Caption is it was a Green Day in LA yesterday and pics with Billie Joe and Rob Cavallo.

While I agree that Revrad was very back to basics and kind of safe for the band I do think it was the right move as @Maddie86 said. The trilogy era was not kind to the band. Fans and critics felt they fell off at that point and that their best work was behind them. Revrad prove them wrong and got people back. It was a "return to form" after the ambitious but misguided trilogy. I really like Revrad! I remember listening to it on my record player sitting on the floor and just soaking it all in.

RevRad gets better with time and has two of GD's best singles in Bang Bang and Still Breathing. Love that album.

Revrad was the first green day album I played for my cat, he is now a huge fan

Gimme another RevRad level album and I'm gonna be so happy. Still Breathing, Forever Now, Bang Bang, Revolution Radio. Just wow!

Wasn’t 21st Century Breakdown already a spiritual sequel to American Idiot? What would that make this, a Squeakquel?

They wanted to fuck with the fans and call FOAM American Idiot Part 2. And now you're telling me the album RIGHT after FOAM would be AI 2 for real? Nah it can't be a sequel. It can be a rock opera, a story, political, whatever you want but I don't believe in a sequel of AI.

About 3 or so years ago I introduced my now 14 year old son to Green Day through Dookie first, which he loved and was addicted to. But now his favorite album is RevRad, that is Green Day to him. Green Day to me is Dookie/Insomniac/Nimrod - I see that period as one continuous album! But I also feel RevRad is closer to the feel of those three albums and I find I listen RevRad now as much as Dookie/Insomniac/Nimrod,.

Bang Bang is familiar territory but it’s an area Green Day nails. Somewhere Now is one of their best songs and a cool sound from them. Folky, hard, angelic.

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Saturday Night Live returns on the 14th!!! Just in time for the new era!!! I hope they get Green Day on this season!!!!!!!!!

Respect your view fully. If I may I would like to share my intimate feelings of how FOAM has affected me. Sorry it's a bit long. On the surface GD wanted to dance. Just listening to the music it comes across as a party let's have fun album. But once you concentrate on the lyrics imho the message was there. As Billie Joe told Playboy, 'The political content is still there, but it's more subtle. He told Spin in 2020 'I think this whole record, the point was to make GD more danceable..... and just sort of that common natural instinct with beats that make people want to move'. Then in NME that year 'You can't help but think about Trump a little bit, but that wasn't really in the front of my mind. FOAM is just a badass title. It was just too obvious. We live in really dangerous times right now. Everything feels sort of unpredictable. America is really fucked up, and it's hard to draw any inspiration from it, because it depresses me ' For the FOAM song itself, Billie Joe told Rolling Stone, 'I was getting into Motown & soul music, and trying to channel that. I'd been listening to the first couple of Prince records, and everything is in falsetto. At that time, I was in this weird kind of depression, and that's what the song is about. With Trump, it's this toxicity that's in our culture, and we're deeply, deeply divided to a point of paranoia that we've never felt before. There's a line: "We are rivals in the riot that's inside of us," I feel like that's what's happening in our culture.' If I may I would like to further put forward 2 examples that the lyrics in FOAM songs are not meaninglessness but are in fact profound imho, and as always Billie Joe expresses it so amazingly in his lyrics that life is shit, but it's not our fault. W.E. Spevack, in his book Green Day on Track, gave an amazing description of the story told in these two songs. This is a summary using my words Thank you. Sugar Youth and which had to follow Junkies on a High, is a happy danceable track but tells a story. It starts with the narrator wanting to get wasted on 'yayo' to escape the world issues. Then in JOAH, it's the comedown. He is tired, his happy mood is gone, the song is calmed. Using the SY narrator, Billie Joe sings about watching the world burn while living it up. He identifies as 'Nobody'. ( Holy shit, for me personally I've felt that in the past). In the chorus, Billie Joe mentions being "another rock 'n' roll tragedy" again he told Spin, 'I think that line kind of scares me. Sometimes it feels like hell hounds on your trail a little bit'. In 30+ years absorbing Billie Joe's lyrics, they have always affected me deeply, whilst helping me so much. And FOAM has been no different. (Sorry for the long message, just wanted to set an alternative view of FOAM and what I think Billie Joe was trying to convey. It's just how it affected me. Thanks for listening)

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Jimmy blew his brains out into the bay at the end of American idiot lol

No, looks like shooting video. Crowd scenes tonight I guess.

Nice #americandream too. It was at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood.

RevRad is a good/decent record, BUT... it has no new ideas, no experimentation, no risks, etc. Even some songs are kind of "new versions of" (Ordinary World/Good Riddance, Say Goodbye/Holiday or East Jesus Nowhere, etc). I could think "Troubled Times" could be something "different" in its sound/melody. In a few words: No risks, no fun.

I think mid is a bit harsh but it definitely does feel a little “been there, done that”. Competent, but I do feel like they could’ve aimed a little higher. A lot of the songs are great individually but I just don’t think it quite hangs together as a whole as well as it could have. Bang Bang and Forever Now are top shelf Green Day and worth the price of admission alone. If the new album is drawing from the same well as 21st Century Breakdown I think we’re in for a treat. Could this be a Rob Cavallo produced 21CB style album?

American Idiot may be one of Green day's best album.. But I'm telling you guys, Nimrod pumps American Idiot by a 100 times. It got everything you need.Angry, Fun, polka, folk and whatnot shits. Nimrod is the definition of Green Day. Period

It may not be intended as a sequel, but there's no way they would name the album American Dream (if that is actually the album title) without being highly aware of the obvious parallel people would make with American Idiot.

11.Razor blades. 12.Bottle rockets.

Hot take: RevRad was mid. These guys can do so much better.

I can just picture how the new song is going to sound First, the intro that we heard in the teaser Then the heavy guitars kick in, like we heard at the end, Da-na-na-nananana-naaaaa Da-na-nana-nana Then the drums kick in, pa-pa-pa-papapapa-tsssss pa-pa-papa-papa-tsssss Then the HEY!'s kick in, Da-na-na-nananana-naaaa Da-na-nana-nana pa-pa-pa-papapapa-tsssss pa-pa-papa-papa-tsssss ------------------------HEY!----------------------HEY!

I’m assuming they’ll all have to sign NDAs, so probably not a ton

I remember being so excited when I heard the Oh Yeah! snippet. Damn I was disappointed when the song came out. Hoping for a great rock album, that's all. I'm not gonna judge anything over snippets.

What’s the logic here? Just because it has “American” in it? I don’t agree with that idea.

#americandream preceeded by #album New album name confirmed

They did take the risks, but Andy Scheps reverse them to make the songs more radio friendly. The bow guitar was there, but only with the stems leaked I could notice where it was. That and the trumpet that Ronnie Blake recorded For foam lyrics, I always loved them. This account is stan for IWATT. That song makes me weep a little every time I listen to it. Sometimes simplicity can communicate a lot and that songs does to me. Not to mention they are always looking for pushing their boundaries as artists. That's why I keep following them.

We gotta be cautious tomorrow night for spoilers, from anyone who stupidly decides to leak what's going on

If Rev Rad is mid then I would happily take 5 more mid albums over whatever FOAM was

My main thing with RevRad is that I just don't understand why a lot of people put it on the same level as 21CB, or even AI in some cases. Yeah ik opinions are obviously subjective but my personal opinion is that AI and 21CB are easily top 3 GD albums. RevRad is like around 8th or something on my list now

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I think green day know this album is important that's why rob and Chris are back at the helm they can't afford another flop this late in their career they need something fans will remember

Pretty sure tomorrow we will know more. No way nothing will get leak lol

Insane!! have a great night dude!

The little guitar teaser and the name actually makes me think it’s a 21st bd sequel than a AI sequel.

I will stick every studio album they have made in a blender and drink it if it’s a sequel to American idiot. They would and will never do this

Agree foam was a bad idea I honestly can't stand that era the music, billie running around singing without a guitar the whole thing just seemed lazy

So-so weed

And the bonus track about my Warning era memories: I remember when I watched a Green Day interview from Japan in 2000. The thing is Billie was speaking and meanwhile he was talking, Tré started to put Sello /Scotch Tape around a chair to stick it... IN A WALL!! Then, as he realized he couldn't do it, Tré sat down and put the tape around himself and the chair. Finally, when he wanted to stand up, he fell down!! It was SO HILLARIOUS, I laughed for minutes!!

Nimrod is the best... there's no discussion, but Warning is my solid second GD favorite album!! I have so many good memories about this era. Me, being a GD fan, it was 5 or 6 months before Warning's release. This was the first GD album I waited for its release (At that time I just knew Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod). I really enjoyed listening to Minority in the radio the first time. Then I waited for some weeks before this record was available in a local record store in my city. Also, I remember all the times I had the chances to watch Mtv (I have to say I talk about the Latinamerican version of Mtv, I live in Chile so there were a mixture of music from Latinamerican and Anglo artist), waiting for Minority video, the Warning, oh god... WAITING video (It was less popular, so less chances to watch its video), same thing for Macy's Day Parade... you know, no youtube at that time. I loved the booklet from this record, the band pictures, the cover, the combination of colors, the promotional posters. The Limited Edition is also a MUST HAVE if you like this era. Also, all the TV performances for example GD in Much music Music and Interactive, it was so cool to watch that, or Listen to King's College Gig!! The Tune in Tokyo EP is pure god damn GOLD!! And of course the "Shut the F**k up" moment of Billie in Bizarre Fest was just EPIC!! Also, I remember once time in which Tré gave a radio interview for the Chilean Radio called "Rock & Pop", saying some stuff like he loved practising Snowboarding and his first girlfriend was Chilean. I can speak so many things about this era, I love it. Some tracks at the beggining I didn't like them (Misery, Jackass, Hold on, etc), but now in 2023 the whole album is magnificent, it ages like the finest wine!! I know it wasn't the best time for the band, but it was my first era as a Green Day fan (And I'm so proud about it).

Right, I just finished that part. I'm saying if they're going through the trouble of hiring Jerry Finn to (re)mix a song, they had the option of the old version and the higher fidelity Dookie version. Though that was an interesting tidbit of why they recorded covers and older songs. They were maximizing efficiency by getting acquainted to the new studio setup playing existing compositions and creating potential B-side content. This makes me wonder whose call it was to say Welcome to Paradise was too good to be left as a B-side, making it all the way to a single. Anyways, there was plenty of facts that were new for me in there. Warner was pushing hard for the Pearl Jam and Nirvana producers. Green Day eventually took them up on Butch Vig for 21CB. I'm guessing the Pearl Jam producer refers to Rick Parashar, who sadly passed away in 2014. The lost mix of Dookie is intriguing. My curiosity would have me buy it in a heartbeat, but by all accounts it was an inferior product. This early version is also interesting for having completely different takes of Longview and Chump. Though they were deemed unusable because of audible tape hiss, I wonder if that could be fixed digitally. It's not super surprising, but the compositions for Dookie were pretty much finalized by the time they were in the studio. There was no tinkering or toying with songs when they were on studio time. Which reinforces my opinion that the songs on Dookie would still be the same whether they were on Lookout or Reprise. Production value and promotion were all they needed. Also, was it ever previously confirmed that Chump was one of the song about Whatsername? I always find that series of songs intriguing (I've only previously known She and Sassafras Roots).

I think a realistic expectation of a Green Day album now is at least 1-2 good to great songs. We can hope for another pre-Trilogy level record, but just being realistic. I think Green Day is capable of the 1-2 great song model. Evidence: UNO: Stay the Night, Oh Love, Nuclear Family DOS: Lazy Bones, Wow! That’s Loud TRE: Brutal Love, Missing You, 8th Avenue Serenade Revrad: Bang Bang, Somewhere Now FOAM: Honestly I don’t know. A lot of okay songs, which is why people hate it so much. Hoping for more but if they can add 2 great songs to their long list of hits, I think people will look at the album positively.

Someone get in touch with Kevin so we can make this happen!

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I don’t think that’s entirely true, like always there are some gems there, but you have to dig a little deeper to find them. “Rock and roll tragedy, I think the next one could be me”, “All hell is breaking loose and heaven only knows” are my favorites