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Initial thoughts on this album are very positive! Lots of catchy songs with great sound, funny lyrics, and awesome harmonies. Hearing to them at the listening party is a bit of a blur and need several more listens to develop thoughts. I wish I could have listened to it again on the drive home.

Man, the whole listening party was such a blur, but I really, really loved the album. I think it's their best since 21CB. It feels familiar, but also new and refreshing? Bobby Sox and Goodnight Adeline were my two favorites. I think it's some of Billie's best lyrics and there's a lot of humor in them as well. Also...how the fuck did he manage to rhyme "mental" with "fentanyl"? Dude's a wizard.

I'm sure it's already been said, but what I most appreciate here is the iconic promotion this time around. Someone finally got it right!

I haven’t been to a listening party and I’ll wait until Friday to hear the album but I’m really glad to read all the positive reactions in this forum. I feel like it’s gotten nearly impossible for Green Day to please fans and certain critics after the release of AI. Most of the albums that came out after AI received generally positive reviews. Even FOAM wasn’t completely hated by music journalists. Sure, it was polarizing, but despite some of the hate it got, it also received praise. Yet some people act as if the band hasn’t done anything good in the last 20 years and I just don’t agree with this assessment. I feel like the band has become a bit of a punching bag for music elitists and gatekeepers who hate them for reasons I can’t quite explain. Maybe it’s because they associate AI with teenage anxiety which is automatically uncool for some people? Or maybe it’s because they believe that middle-aged men shouldn’t make punk rock anymore? That’s obviously silly, but there seems to be this consensus among a certain group that post-AI Green Day just isn’t worth listening to anymore. Take 21CBD for example. That album won a Grammy and people still talk shit about it all the time. RevRad had some of the band’s best songs ever (Bang Bang, Forever Now) and yet it doesn’t necessarily have the best reputation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you’re not allowed to dislike the new album or criticize the band, I’m just really happy to see so many excited fans right now. Because ultimately, that’s the most important thing. It’s a great time to be a fan. Is this the band’s best album since 21CBD? I think it’s difficult to say. I remember a lot of fans saying similar things about RevRad when it came out so I guess we’ll have to wait and see. In general, I think it’s really difficult for any artist to meet people’s expectations after having a massive record like Dookie or AI. Many of us were teenagers when these records came out, meaning that some of the songs hit extra hard because this is a period of life where we are just super impressionable. Plus, these albums are 30 or 20 years old and we all had plenty of time to build an emotional connection with specific songs. You can’t do that with a record that just came out. That’s why I don’t believe that every band is automatically past their prime once they turn 40. But the fans get older and maybe we’re just not as easy to please as we were when we were 15.

This album gives me vibes from different eras which I love—I got some RevRad with trilogy vibes from it. Corvette Summer is probably my favorite non-single track and I hope they play it live. I went to two listening parties, and both were pretty chill! Also, a record store I went to did a raffle for a copy of the vinyl and I won ^_^

The listening party was pretty cool! It was kind of funny and awkward that everyone stopped and stood around the store to listen. Our crowd was pretty quiet - kept to themselves, but still good vibes. We didn't get the recorded memo instead the clerk started the event by Rickrolling us first! I was into it (it's a good song!). Reckless had plenty of freebies (pins, wristbands, posters) but seemed limited on lyric books. They only got 3 shirts and raffled them off. They also gave away a framed Saviors album, the Saviors LP, and a CD copy, which was cool! Some folks got physical copies of the album early! No prizes for me, but at least I got all the freebies I went to another record store nearby to see if they had any signed CDs for pre-order, ended up hearing the album again, entered another raffle and STILL didn't win At least I got more pins and another lyric book. Overall, I think the album is great! Really like just about everything and already have my favorites (Corvette Summer, Living in the 20s, Bobby Sox). Definitely recognized some riffs - a lot of them reminded me of other GD songs. A recent review remarked that Saviors is a focused album and I agree with that. All killer, no filler. More than anything I think it's so cool that Green Day did a worldwide listening party a week before their album officially releases. It's a cool way to get together a bunch of Green Day fans and experience something awesome together. I love seeing GD fans out in the wild! I feel like most people I encounter scoff at Green Day, so it was nice being in a room full of fans listening to this highly anticipated album together. Thanks @Montclarefor joining me! It was great to meet up again

Fallon is Tuesday.

I hope Will Farell played it

Drove three hours each way to the closest listening party. It was fun! A little too much talking from folks but overall a really cool experience. Got a poster, lyrics book, pin, and a wrist band. They gave away three shirts at the end.

Green Day is reposting Album Release Party posts on their Instagram stories, and one of them was of my buddy that I took!

Can we stay on topic please?

Sounds like the same melody to me. That makes me happy because I’ve always loved Regretfully Yours I thought it was another example of a beautiful song that he tossed away on a side project glad to see it get new life here.

Yup. They gave away the copy of the CD they used for the listening party and two vinyl copies. The entire time I kept looking at that beautiful vinyl copy behind the counter, just sitting there. I thought "I could just take it. Run like hell." but of course I didn't

The band just showed up at one of the listening parties. They are live on Instagram.

Crucify me for this take but: I think saviors has a lot of aspects that resemble the trilogy. Specifically in the chord progressions and vibe of the songs. I felt a lot of similar sounds that I wasn’t expecting to hear tonight. But done really well - like if the trilogy was distilled down to one album, with heavier guitars, and focused production I think sonically there are a ton of parallels

Just saw on Twitter that Marc Maron’s podcast with Billie Joe comes out tomorrow!

Billie's vocals are the best they've ever been on this album. We barely get any falsetto but godDAMN he's hitting really high notes and just belting like never before and when there are angry or screaming vocals... wow. Oh and the cowbell was amazing.

In Oslo we got posters, but no lyric book. They had a quiz were the prizes were t-shirts. It was fun to listen to the album before it's relased. Wonder if they keep doing things like this. The album was as I expected after the songs they already have given out. I like it, but it's not one of my favorite albums. I have to listen to it some more times by myself and not a room with several other people. Will be exciting to hear more of the songs live and see how they play out in stadiums. It's was really sweet of them to show up for one of the listening parties in California. Love Billie Joe's outfit.

I’m in the same boat as you, RevRad was very special to me for subjective reasons, but not their “best”. Upon hearing this album, for me, it has surpassed RevRad. To me Saviors is RevRad but they also reach forward to something new and fresh, as well as reach backward to their past, and I think it’s a perfect blend of those things. Where RevRad, no matter how special it is to me, definitely felt like “this is what Green Day is good at RIGHT NOW.” Not “this is what Green Day was AND what they CAN be.” Saviors was awesome. But obviously, you’ll form your own opinion on it! That’s what it’s all about!

RevRad is my favorite album for personal, subjective reasons (don’t think it’s their best) so I’m really curious to not only hear how good Saviors is but how it will fit in my life I’m reading all comments but trying not to listen to the phone recordings — only six days to go!

I don't even think they're past their prime. Frankly its just people have their favorites and don't allow anything after that to top it. I'm sure at some point a good amount of fans will say this is their favorite album. Just like we have our dookies, insomniacs, nimrods, american idiots, 21st centuries fan favorite groups.

Just got out of my record store where they played it twice front to back. This album is everything we wanted from RevRad in my opinion. Bobby Sox and Corvette Summer are absolute bangers and everything that wasn’t already released was amazing. Saviors also a certified banger Weakest links were Suzie chapstick and (unfortunately) father to a son in my opinion. EDIT: strange days also a banger. also I need to fucking know what inspired the lyrics to fancy sauce. That song is a little too deep for the title they gave it I need to know what brought it to fruition

Happy album release week to all who celebrate x

I am in the Uk, most Brits have no idea who Howard Stern is, I only do ‘cos of Green Day.

Well said. I agree 100%. I have never understood people who will willingly diss a band they no longer like and make others feel bad about it. People have tried to make me feel bad about liking GD, Blink, and even a band like Bullet for my Valentine and I never understood why. I'm just trying to listen to music I enjoy. There's a lot out there I don't like including artists I used to love. Why put so much energy into hating it and spreading that hate online? Stating an opinion sure but don't put down others because they like something you don't.

It took me longer than I would like to admit to realise the song wasnt about the 1920's ha

This! I had a similar situation and I felt like I was in a hole. When RevRad came out a few weeks later I started to climb out of the hole and felt better (their new music which I love, new relationship back then, new work, seeing my friends again and so on). So when I listen to the album I think back to that time when it all started getting better and it has a special place in my heart. But hearing these new songs for the first time which makes it harder to wait till friday, I feel kinda proud (?) to have them. I know it sounds a little bit silly, but after 22 years my love for this band haven‘t changed and it seems like they got the potential for a 3rd career after all these positive reviews and they deserve it. Sure FOAM wasn‘t well received (including me) but I think it‘s fair to say they always trying different things and not making another Dookie or AI. I think we will love the new era and like I said before: I‘m glad to call them my favorite band since 2002.

Ducked out of work yesterday to attend my local listening party. Got both posters, lyric book, and a pin - they only had two shirts to raffle off and I just missed out, having my number called third. the record store only had one speaker, and they didn’t play the album all that loud, nor did they play the introduction from Billie Joe. Still, on first listen, I quite like the album! The three song run of 1981-Goodnight Adeline-Coma City is really strong. I dig Corvette Summer also. More mid-tempo songs than I expected. It might be cliche but this is a good evolution of their sound, taken in its totality. It all feels fresh. I recorded a voice memo on my phone of the whole thing and I’ve been listening to it back today. What a great time to be a fan!

I didn't hear it, at least I don't think so. Either way, for an album full of short songs with very simple and standard arrangements, wow it felt massive! I think my least fave is Suzie Chapstick. Can't say what my favourite was until I listen again properly, but goddamn 1981 is shockingly amazing! A couple of "jam" style interludes or outros certainly stood out, lasting longer than they normally do in GD songs, and damn there's a lot of lead guitar!

all killer no filler couldnt agree more

It's true, us Californians are wimps It's like 40 degrees here at night right now and we're freezing our butts off. Billie cracks me up though with his big winter coats

Super refreshing to have a new Green Day album in the year 2024 that I can recommend to friends without any reservations. The album is straight-up good. The tunes are great, the production and mastering are somehow solid, and the good Lord gifted us the skip button to deal with OEB and Corvette Summer. I didn't know they still had it in 'em!! Coma City's their best song in two decades

The man was wearing a winter coat in LA. He'd break in two here.

Tre just smoked a fat blunt and passed it to the crowd…at their own party 🤣

The listening party in long beach was chill. People were just laid back looking through albums and listening to the tracks. The stand outs for me outside of the singles that have been released were bobby sox, coma city, fancy sauce, father to a son and probably living in the 20's. I get vibes of insomniac, 21st century breakdown, ai, nimrod and warning. No songs that sound to similiar to the triple album or revolution radio or father of all motherfuckers. For now i'll give the album a 9/10 yes sirs!

Weird neither store I went to played the recorded message from Billie 😤 and both stores only got 2 - 3shirts...which i didn't win 😞

I see people already selling the free stuff on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204615663432?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LFp9_RhtSLy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=WxbrlRlGTE-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266616350393?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HzgsIPkoRBG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=WxbrlRlGTE-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Really kind of shitty especially when some stores don't seem to have had all the giveaways

I was intently reading the lyrics because I felt awkward doing anything else 😂 our store was pretty quiet the whole way through, which I was grateful for!

There's a new interview in Augsburger Allgemeine, I translated it with Google Translate for you https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/gesellschaft/interview-green-day-wir-muessen-uns-rettungsinseln-suchen-ansonsten-werden-wir-verrueckt-id68974976.html All three of you had Corona. Are you fit again? Billie Joe Armstrong: Yes, fortunately we are all healthy again. At best, a little groggy from last night, as we shot our video for the song “Dilemma” late into the night. But what has to be done, has to be done. In the said video you can be seen partying, and at the end you are lying on the floor, completely drunk, singing: “Welcome to my problems, this is not an invitation.” Armstrong: The song has a really serious core. It addresses the difficult topic of getting sober, being sober, and staying sober, which is a constant challenge for many of us, myself included. They had to seek treatment for alcoholism in 2012. Have you had your addiction under control since then? Armstrong: Yes. With a few ups and downs, but the general direction is right. “Dilemma” is actually a very personal song. At the same time, however, it broadens the view. So many people, in our environment and in general, struggle with addictions, but also with problems of a psychological and emotional nature. This struggle is often very painful for us as well as for our loved ones, but we cannot avoid it. It's all the better that you've made an album that's full of energy and, in a way, combines the best sides of Green Day on fifteen songs. Who do you want to save with “Saviors”? Tré Cool: Rock 'n' Roll, ourselves, and ideally the whole world (laughs). The title song “Saviors” was one of the first we wrote for the album. At the time, the pandemic was still raging, everyone was desperate and at the same time looking for something to lift themselves up from. Mike Dirnt: It was no different for us, and fortunately we had and have the music, the punk rock and finally this album born out of chaos. In a world of uncertainty and in the midst of a sea of madness that seems deeper than ever, we must look for small, safe life rafts. Otherwise we'll go crazy. Do you also support each other? Armstrong: Absolutely. We cling to ourselves and we hold on to each other. The band has actually always been something like our lifeboat over the years. The three of us are very, very close friends. Yes, more than that. We are like a family. Your song “The American Dream Is Killing Me” paints a picture of a torn society. In the video you appear as zombies. Can you only take the world with humor? Armstrong: Horror films have always been great at taking reality to the extreme. Especially here in the USA, fear, hatred and unforgiveness are rampant. There is no real middle path anymore, or if there is, no one seems interested in taking it. Anger and weapons are everywhere. We live in a dangerous country that hardly allows any real discussions and arguments, fueled of course by social media. Which you view very critically? Armstrong: Yes, because it often doesn't help to impulsively and unreflectively spread content in these media, which is often wrong and also has a divisive effect. I see myself as responsible here. There's a big difference between being a songwriter who puts a lot of thought into every single line he writes. Or if I just put out everything that comes to mind on Twitter. Thanks to the Internet, each of us has the potential to bring something politically stupid into the world. Is the song also a warning about another term in office for Donald Trump? Armstrong: Indirectly, definitely. We originally wrote “The American Dream Is Killing Me” for our previous album. Trump was in power at the time, and we didn't want to release it because another anti-Trump song seemed like low-hanging fruit. So it's just too obvious. It would also be too easy for yourself to just bash Donald Trump and ignore the much deeper grievances in our country. Nevertheless, Trump is of course a real threat. Populism has no useful answers to the challenges of our time. 2024 will not only be an important year for world politics, but also for you as a band. Not only your marriage, but also your breakthrough album “Dookie” are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary. Is it a coincidence that these two events happened in the same year? Armstrong: 1994 was damn intense and also impulsive. Crazy when I think about it today. I was already married to my wife Adrienne at 22 and became a father at 23. And suddenly we were no longer playing in front of our small, loyal following, but in front of a really large audience that no longer just consisted of typical punk fans. We had to grow very quickly and get used to everything. We were young, we were crazy. Suddenly we had this success and quickly agreed that we wanted to continue making music for the rest of our lives. For me, Green Day and my wife are the linchpins of my adulthood. With the song “Fancy Sauce” it becomes clear that you must have really liked the Beatles too. Armstrong: Absolutely. The Beatles have always been a prominent influence for us. They lived the dream that we later lived, they paved the way for us. I love all these British rockers anyway, The Who, The Animals, The Kinks, I'm also really into glam rock. The Sweet are just awesome and I could listen to David Bowie all day. Didn't you also record the new album mainly in London? Armstrong: We did. We were with our producer Rob Cavallo at RAK Studios, right by Regent's Park, where we often went for walks. We just wanted to get out of our usual surroundings in Oakland and see something new. I think it was worth it. Once we ran into Paul McCartney in the basement of a music store and said hello. Just the other day we were driving in a taxi and it turned out that our taxi driver was Malcolm McLaren's brother. This really only happens to you in London. The acoustic, soft “Father To A Son” clearly stands out among the uptempo numbers. Armstrong: I dedicated the song to my two sons, who are now 28 and 25 years old. I wrote “Wake Me Up When September Ends” about my father twenty years ago. I was ten when he died. Then I became a father myself at an early age and simply didn't know what I was doing, what was expected of me. I did my best and was always there as these babies became boys, these boys became young men. Age seems to have little effect on you. Armstrong: Oh, no? Can't you see them, all those wrinkles? You're right, aging is good for us. Sure, I color my hair, but I've been coloring my hair since I was fifteen. That's just punk rock. I was always into fashion, and my hairstyle was a bit of a statement for me. I wouldn't even know if I'm actually gray because I've always dyed it (laughs). They are now all 51 years old. Can you believe that when you compare yourself to friends your own age who don't play in rock bands? Dirnt: (laughs) We just made a very good life decision. Rock 'n' Roll is an art form that invites restlessness. You are always in motion, in your head as well as on stage. Our band is a natural fitness program. Armstrong: Interestingly, many of my punk rock friends from back in the day now work as teachers. Some also as activists. In general, most of them took honorable jobs. As a politically active poet, are you also an activist? Armstrong: Well, I don't know if that's too much of an honor. I've always been against war, all of us in the band are against war, but is that activism or just common sense? For me, an activist is someone more like a close friend of mine. He founded a refuge for chimpanzees who had to live as laboratory animals for years and can now feel real earth under their feet for the first time. I cry tears of joy when I see these animals jumping around between the trees and how happy they look.

I think it is a line that is 100% directed at the incels that end up being the mall/school shooters. They need to fuck a robot that only speaks English. Takes a direct shot at their inability to get sex as well as their racism against anybody that is a non-English speaker

Goodnight Adeline has a key change at the end where he’s belting out the chorus and it may be the highest non falsetto note he’s recorded

yea i have seen that.. now would be a good time to share them here bc the forum mods are sleeping hahahahaha they are so strict, stricter then my mum when i tried to smoke in the backyard

I was lucky enough to win one of the ONE NIGHT ONLY shirts, stoked to have that along with my button, poster and lyric book. Goddamn I wish they were letting records or the CD go!

I was really surprised at the turn out. They had given away all of the lyric booklets by the time I had showed up, but I did win a shirt at the end. The reaction to the album was really positive, everyone in the store started clapping and cheering after fancy sauce finished. I can’t wait to hear the album again on Friday.

My mom saw the ad and said it was for Kimmel. She's a very reliable source

I knew it. Freaking California gets all the fun

Wow the guys showed up to a tiny shop in Burbank! https://www.instagram.com/p/C2EMlFtLPFU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Ok, so I'm finally settled in back home now. Overall it's definitely a great album but I'm not going to say anything really in depth right now because I need multiple listens to really take stuff in. My least favorite songs were actually the ones people on here seem to like the most lol. I'm not saying they're bad songs by any means, they're just not my thing. I thought living in the 20s was going to be one of my least favorite songs but I liked it and I legit laughed out loud a couple times when I was reading along with the lyrics. I really liked the verses of the title track, I love Billie's vocal melodies, and Coma City was an enjoyable 80s power pop style track, I can't wait to hear this all on vinyl next week! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2D7An1sPRR/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==

Very bold of them to take selfies on his phone haha

Just back from my listening party and I loved the album. It’s almost 3 hours since it’s finished and it seemed to go by so quickly so I’m now struggling to sort all my thoughts but my reaction to each song was oh, Coma City, this is great and it kept on going. In no order, I loved Susie Chapstick, Saviors felt quite Beatly but the guitars were often heavy, emotional lyrics (Father to a son❤️) and I loved Billie’s vocals throughout. Quite a lot of talking among crowd 😡 so still feel Friday will be exciting but everyone there seemed pretty positive. Fancy Sauce was great, just remembered it! Billie had nice wee message at beginning saying thank for coming, it took a long time but they think it’s one of their best.