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I may not get my Saviors vinyl until next week, but I did manage to score a signed CD!! Here's the card for anyone curious: https://imgur.com/IQJrhd8 I got lucky. I reached out to a local record store months ago about signed CDs. The owner reached out today and told me they got exactly one signed copy and it was mine

I have a new song from this album in my head every hour, because they’re all so memorable and have great hooks.

Spotify numbers Bobby Sox - 739,379 1981 - 355,792 Goodnight Adeline - 336,769 Coma City - 308,834 Corvette Summer - 294,824 Suzie Chapstick - 286,155 Strange Days Are Here to Stay - 271,543 Living in the '20s - 262,396 Father to a Son - 240,382 Saviors - 230,825 Fancy Sauce - 215,231 Seems like respectable numbers for the new songs

This album is incredible! Been listening to it all day and haven't gotten tired of it, even the pre-release singles. Right now it has shot itself right into that number 3 spot of my favorite Green Day albums. We will see over time if it stays there, but I'm pretty confident it will. Really blown away by this one. Best album since 21CB. I didn't realize how much I missed Rob Cavallo's production until we got it back. I love RevRad, but RevRad with Saviors production would push it up even higher. Hell even FOAM with this production and CLA's mixing would improve it a ton. As a fan, I couldn't be happier with this release. Over 30 years into their career and they prove to us that they still got it. I won't lie, I was starting to worry that they were going to be a legacy act from now on with an occasional decent release here and there that didn't get much attention or promotion. So glad that feeling was wrong. The boys are truly back!

Under the song Saviors on YouTube, I saw two comments one after the other: The first one said this was a great 62nd birthday present, and the second one was a girl saying she's 17 and has been a fan since she was 10. Green Day speaks to everyone. They're so fucking cool.

Really cool reading everyone's reactions and experiences. Green day brings people together. Feeling grateful and so happy that GDC exists I love this band so fucking much

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2VMNFztar-/?igsh=ZWJtZXExaWtjYmdo Ceremony is April 1 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. They are nominated alongside Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters and Paramore

This album is so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️. Has to be the most beautiful sounding album they've made, everything about it. Blown away by the amazing production, so good. Wonderfully heartfelt songs. Love the proper angry punk songs, the classic rock influence, the classic Green Day influence. It's perfect! I was on my own at work today cleaning for 6 hours and listened to it on repeat the whole time.

I like Fancy Sauce more each time I hear it.

Apparently corvette summer has cowbell, will ferrell be a touring musician?

The most important thing we got from this interview though, is another moment of Mike saying the band was firing on all cylinders. 😄

Too beautiful (both of them) not to be in here.

It’s also on spotify’s New Music Fridays. That helps a lot!

Full video of the interview is up in the download section!

It’s impossible to figure out how an album that has been out for *one day* stacks up against a 20-year-old and 15-year-old album, each with their own legacies and memories attached to them. We can compare them somewhat on a technical level, but when we’ve been living with these older albums for so long, it’s hard to be objective. Not to mention we as listeners aren’t the same — I’m not 11 or 16 or 19 or 23 or 26 anymore, and that’s why every Green Day album hits different. They change, I change. But I know Saviors is already among my favorites because of how immediately it resonated with me and reminded me that even though my fandom has evolved many times over, I picked these guys for reasons that have never changed. I listen to Saviors and all the sudden I’m back in my purple childhood bedroom listening to Shenanigans through a boom box, remembering exactly how it felt then to find music that felt like mine. It is nothing short of magic to me that Green Day keeps finding me and, more times than not, manages to meet me where I’m at in life. I’ve stepped away a time or two, and every time they call me back and manage to make me fall in love all over again, it feels like such a triumph.

Idk I really didn't like the new Blink record. Poorly produced and leaned into the side of Blink I've never liked. Maybe I'm just an Untitled fan, not a "real" Blink fan.

The new horoscope is judging someone’s personality based on what their favorite saviors song is

I know right? Every time they release something I can't get over how good Billie is at writing catchy melodies/hooks. He's written hundreds of songs and still does it, seemingly effortlessly.

Billie is GLOWING this era. He seems genuinely happy 🥹❤️

Another interview! We are spoiled today.

These are priceless https://www.instagram.com/p/C2ThaK9MR7t/?igsh=ZHQ3dzFxaWh2ZmJ0

Favorite track of the album for me is easily Suzie Chapstick. It's been a while since I last felt Billie's lyrics touching me not just for a social issue which I agree with their positions so I agree with their "political" songs.

This album just went in my top 3. What an amazing freaking album it is!

Just a random thought but I love how Billie says "The 20s" in Living in the 20s Found this 50 second snippet of Fever on YouTube. I think this is the same snippet I found elsewhere yesterday but I'll repeat what I said before. An alright guitar riff but sounds very much like FOAMF. The clip gets louder at the end so idk what happened there, maybe they combined that clip with another short clip but didn't adjust the volume between clips?

It's almost 30 minutes!

A Grammy win would be validating but tbh no one takes the Grammys seriously anymore.

I’m probably responsible for 85% of those streaming numbers for Strange Days, it’s my favorite (currently!!) by far

Bobby Sox is doing well. I don’t know if that’s considered an official single but it should be. I hope it charts. Just got off a plane and listened to Saviors four times on my flight. What fun start to finish. I still love every track but songs like Coma City (that outro!) Strange Days, Fancy Sauce and Goodnight Adeline really get me going for both their melodies and thoughtful lyrics. Corvette Summer and 1981 are a just a lot of fun to bop to too. Billie’s vocals are the best I’ve heard since 21CB. I can’t imagine how over the moon the band have to be right now. They just finished a great week of promotion in NYC and they know they hit it out of the park with this record. I wonder what’s next on the promotion front but in the meantime I’m loving this on repeat.

I love the first two photos! It continues Billie's trend of being a monster when it comes to cake.

I was just about to write 'ARMS FINALLY!!!' 😂

I haven't been on here for years but this beautiful new album and Billie Joe's exceptional hotness 🔥🔥 inspires me to say WOW WOW WOW this is the best era since 21st Century Breakdown 😍😍 !

This could be my favourite! Absolutely beautiful and instantly made me think of the Beatles, I love how it builds up to the pretty "ba da da da da" part haha

Very positive Variety review: https://variety.com/2024/music/album-reviews/green-day-saviors-album-review-1235879035/amp/ 9/10 https://thelivewire.com.au/2024/01/20/green-day-saviors/ “Saviors is no American Idiot, nor Dookie, nor Nimrod. Saviors is its own entity. It draws from the past to summarise the future. It’s open, honest, fast, slow, melancholic and contagious. No matter where you jumped on the Green Day bandwagon, there is something here for you. But make sure you strap in, because this wagon isn’t slowing down anytime soon. ” 5/5 https://crypticrock.com/green-day-saviors-album-review/ “In enough words, just savor the taste and experience everything” With so many reviews out, I think it’s safe to say this record is a critic success, the best rated record since American Idiot. Well done Green Day, you did it again ❤️

HARD AGREE. I can so distinctly remember my first experiences with this band hearing American Idiot. My dad bought it and played it all the time. At first, it was too "upbeat" for me — I liked heavier rock and Green Day felt light by comparison. But I knew that it was a political album and really respected that, so I paid attention to the lyrics. I remember being like, "uh, who wrote this? Whoever did is amazing." Saviors gave me that flutter again of just being in awe of how well Billie is able to capture a moment in time and express such a wide range of emotions, and also just in awe of this band's musicianship as a whole. I've loved and embraced the vast majority of what they've put out since I became a fan, but this is the first time I think I've been so strongly reminded of why I fell in love with them to begin with.

I haven't felt this obsessed about a Green Day album since 21st Century Breakdown. I didn't have that same feeling with the trilogy or RevRad even though I highly enjoyed all of those. Saviors feels like the album that everyone thought Magnum Opus of the Inglorious Kind was going to be but instead we got Father of All... It almost feels like this the "No Features, No Swedish Songwriters, No Trap Beats, 100% Pure Uncut Rock" they promised from last album lol

@LaughingClockIt’s interesting, because I have a totally different take on Fancy Sauce (the power of music and good writing, woo!). Mike did an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked a bit about it, and that set me up for how to frame it. Here’s what he said: If there is a theme throughout the record, it’s making sense of all of the chaos around us, and realizing that, “Yeah, I may be insane, but it doesn’t change the fact that the world’s been gaslighting me for the last four years. Shit is bananas out there.” When I hear that song…maybe it’s the rubber room portion of it or whatever, but it is circling all the way back to “Basket Case.” I don’t so much interpret this one as being about addiction/sobriety. I think it’s about navigating a world that’s so divided and almost comically apocalyptic: “Watch the evening news cause it’s my favorite cartoon.” It also reminds me of the insanity of what you find when you open TikTok for 15 minutes: “I’m crazy! But also you’re the one who’s crazy! Everybody’s crazy!” And on social media, everyone is famous for no reason at all. “Everyone’s a victim and it makes me wanna puke” and “Gonna join a cult, do a somersault,” also very much sounds like it’s about the chronically online and the randomness of TikTok culture. With that interpretation in mind, to me, “we all die young some day” means more like — we’re all wasting our lives away on this shit that doesn’t matter, and we won’t have really experienced life by the time we die. Similar to your point, it speaks to not living your fullest life and struggling with your mental health to navigate this overbearingly absurd world we live in. But I agree with you on how great this song is — it feels new and essential to their catalog.

Agreed! They both look gorgeous and amazing! Perfect picture, perfect caption, perfect couple. New favorite photo of them. Love them so much!

Looks like Bobby Sox is doing pretty well. These are higher numbers than any of the other singles had after 24 or 48 hours. Of course it’s mainly because it was release day and there was a lot of excitement among fans but it’s still nice to see.

Missing Dudes fake song names.

I imagine they’ll do promotion again in the spring in the lead up to the tour. I’d really like to see them do SNL or some other late night shows. Would be really cool to see more club shows too! I’m sure some will pop up — maybe not a full club tour, but a few stops here and there. But for now, it’s time to bask in the awesomeness of this new album! They’ve done so much awesome promo this cycle. Right now if they just want to go sleep for a week, I’d understand lol. They deserve it.

God fucking dammit he is hot jesus christ.

I've seen a few comments in other discussions that say something like, I'm a straight guy but I'll be Billie's boyfriend! 🥰

I feel exactly the same, went to bed with fancy sauce, woke up with coma city, back to dilemma, moving to good night Adeline, back to coma city, then saviors’ turn, a bit of Bobby Sox, and now I can’t get fancy sauce out of my head. What a great album.

Yeah, I just read and was gonna post the Variety review. It says best album since AI and “actually sounds richer and fuller” thanks to Rob C. That’s a bold and possibly true statement. Although for me I wouldn’t put TCB as one of the 5 between. To me, TCB was always a sequel to AI and this album sort of is the next of their best. If I’m being honest, I never thought they could put out an album this good again. Had some hope with “Love is for Losers” but as I ease into my older age, I just love these guys. I grew up with them since 91. Saw them in a house once, some them in front of 500 at a fairground and I’ve seen them in stadiums all over the world and countless festivals. “They can’t be convicted, they’ve earned their degree” Long health to them. Thanks for finding my soul and for keep jolting and massaging it.

Walker also plays guitar on Goodnight Adeline and is listed as an additional engineer!!! I was surprised to learn he had any involvement with this record, but it lines up with what we learned about One Eyed Bastard being recorded in late 2020. So could the 2020 sessions have been for that rumored 6 song EP? But then it was brought to our attention that they started recording in October 2021 before we got the first teaser that December. It all makes perfect sense now!!! So maybe that EP would've been 1. Corvette Summer 2. Goodnight Adeline 3. Fever 4. Pollyanna 5. Damn Juvenile Delinquents 6. Holy Toledo! And then in 2021, they decided to release Pollyanna and Holy Toledo! as one off singles, including Here Comes The Shock from the FOAM sessions, then shelved the rest of the project. Then in late 2021, Billie's call to Rob Cavallo got the ball rolling to make the full album!!!! It all makes sense now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This album is on repeat since this morning it's crazy. I really don't get the singles when I hear something like Strange Days, 1981, Coma City and Goodnight Adeline.

I really really really love the line “I’ll see you later when I get my shit together.” Love how it’s delivered, too.

@Cali89It’s a dangerous question to ask. Lots of girls and guys will say yes. 😂

I know right. After all this time it's finally out, and is exceeding our expectations. I've been emotional about it all day

I think this song was a bit overhyped. It doesn't sound as epic as I was imagining. I was thinking something BIG like on the scale of 21 Guns or WMUWSE. But it's still a good song. I like that AI has a song about Billie's dad and here we get his perspective on being a father, which he hasn't really touched on in songs. It's a very sweet song.