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The American Dream Is Killing Me - 11,597,140 (+58k) Look Ma, No Brains! - 7,507,457 (+48k) Bobby Sox - 4,466,139 (+71k) One Eyed Bastard - 6,739,708 (+70k) Dilemma - 8,580,317 (+89k) 1981 - 2,470,166 (+41k) Goodnight Adeline - 2,226,578 (+35k) Coma City - 1,854,007 (+26k) Corvette Summer - 1,905,536 (+28k) Suzie Chapstick - 2,038,881 (+33k) Strange Days Are Here to Stay - 1,823,495 (+27k) Living in the '20s - 1,834,460 (+31k) Father to a Son - 1,502,418 (+21k) Saviors - 1,489,645 (+22k) Fancy Sauce - 1,445,428 (+24k) TOTAL - 57,481,375 (+625,347)

Billie taking photos of the support act at Irving Plaza in 2012 And the result Second best era!!! (Sadly I love the 21st Century Breakdown era too much to proclaim that even my love the trilogy is the VERY best era)

Some pics here https://www.instagram.com/p/C3REUb3NFTD/?igsh=c3Nuc2VzOHE0cDA=

While I'm happy to get any new doc about American Idiot out there, I would much prefer something on Saviors or even 21CB. But hopefully the new AI doc won't feature any weird choregraphed dance scenes that eat up the run time...looking at HLAHG.

I would love to see a documentary about 21CB 🥺 The recording must have been really intense.

You definitely hear influences of the Longshot on Saviors. Someday I hope we find out the real story behind why that became a solo project without his bandmates and not a Green Day album.

Reviving this thread to share these Oh my God these ones

I know someone who was lucky enough to attend that one. This was right as I was becoming a fan and years before I saw them in concert. And I remember the night it happened cause they told me all about it haha. They still have their ticket stub. 🙂 Every so often I remind him, like bro you got to attend a secret show, where they played 38 songs. 😄 Later on I treated that same person, and bought them a ticket to see Longshot with me at thee Parkside bar in SF lol. We also met Billie right before show, so that definitely made up for it lol.

Coma City needs to be played. And strange days.

And it’s lovely to see and must be great for them but it’s not really spreading the word to a wider audience.

He told Howard Stern that he doesn’t write songs for other people because if he writes a good one he wants to keep it. I guess this is an example of that!

So apparently Billie was supposed to write Still Breathing for 5 Seconds of Summer?? Did anyone know about this? There's a band called 5 Seconds of Summer who wanted me to write a song for them. All of a sudden I was writing the lyrics, and I was like "Oh my God, there's no f---ing way I'm giving these guys this song." Well thank God you saw reason Billie 😂

Per Billie: "We just watched a documentary on American Idiot that we're gonna put out" Do you think there's anything more to the story to be said or shown that HLAHG and BIAB didn't cover?

Billie looks so "British" on this photo

"Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty" has been Billie's stock answer to that question for like 20 years now lmao. Excited for the documentary!

I really wanna hear adeline, fancy sauce, suzie chapstick live. They have to do something with this album. I think the album will have a lot more fans if they start promoting heavily and ditch older songs.

Although Billie has been sharing Saviors fan art and fan covers on Instagram pretty much every day

They may have nothing to prove they put a lot of time, effort and money into making great music you would think they would want to maximize their returns on that and get Saviors the recognition it deserves

100% agree. I'm really shocked they only did the one late night appearance. I thought they'd do more and maybe even perform on Good Morning America, which they usually do during the new album cycle. They did a lot of great interviews, but I think they did more performances for FOAM promotion.

I really think they had momentum with this album release and should have kept up the promotion, really saturating the media with their faces and performances on late night TV and popular YouTube shows that millions watch, promoting both Saviors and the anniversary tour. One week wasn't enough.

I've had Suzie Chapstick stuck in my head all day. It's definitely one of the catchiest in the album and it has simple, but beautiful lyrics. It would make a great single. I'd also love to hear a live acoustic version, the song would feel more emotional.

Going to do the ride later but it’s a pretty good set list when I come around living in the 20s brain stew dilemma Longview minority back in the USA Jesus of suburbia ordinary world Father to a son

Yeah I don't really mind whether things get released as Green Day or a side project but can definitely hear similarities to The Longshot on Saviors! Which is cool because I love that Longshot album.

Billie coming out to take pictures of the support band (I forget their name) at Irving Plaza 2012 really brings the memories come flooding back to me. I was there, what an exciting time.

Last night I dreamed that I got the Saviors vinyl but every track was on a separate disc and before I could play them I had to knead them like plasticine or a dough and then bring them in the shape of a disk again 😅

Uh oh! Better keep that cake away from him!

I think Dropout is a longer version of the final part in Brutal Love, and it's not because "OMG EXTRAORDINARY GIRL IS TROUBLED TIMES DEMO IM SO FUCKING DUM" but because in Cuatro if you look closely you can see "Dropout" written under Brutal Love in that board thing. I really want Grand Olympic 2004 and Warfield 2005 as the live shows like Dookie 30's Woodstock 94 and Garatge Club. They're underrated shows that never really got much attention.

It would be dumb to just go underground until the tour. Hope we get more promotion/singles/videos eventually

IMO, if this was a typical album cycle, where the boys go full swing on touring and promotion, TADIKM and Dilemma could've hit the Hot 100. Rockin' Eve was the most amount of attention they got in a little while, and capitalizing on that could've done wonders for them. I get it though, they have nothing to prove.

For comparison, FOAMF was at 191 at this point before not appearing on the chart after that point FOAMF's history on the chart. 4 > 111 > 191 Savior's chart performance (so far). 4 > 87 > 184

Saviors is now 184 on the Billboard 200.

Most are correct. Favorite Son and Governator are about politicians and Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003, and C&V was recorded approx. 2002-2003. And you forgot Brutal Love, The Pedestrian.

Agreed a doc for the album that just got released would be really great. Unless there are actual untold stories from the AI era if there’s actually anything left besides what we’ve already seen. And unreleased stuff from Cuatro would be awesome too.

Yeah it'll start with a scripted comedy scene of Green Day finally catching the guy who got their stolen tapes and beating them up or something. Putting the tape in and the documentary starts

I'd still like to see the 2+ hours uncut Cuatro video. I assume it isn't out there?

I’d like to hope Green Day were smart and retained the rights to anything he filmed in the studio. Surely a band that band that big would make sure of it

Throw me a Saviors doc while you’re at it, guys!

Had to be done.

Interviewer- we've been following you for 40 years... Billie- 40?!

The American Dream Is Killing Me - 11,649,394 (+52k) Look Ma, No Brains! - 7,551,767 (+44k) Bobby Sox - 4,533,766 (+68k) One Eyed Bastard - 6,803,931 (+64) Dilemma - 8,660,120 (+80k) 1981 - 2,507,539 (+37k) Goodnight Adeline - 2,259,216 (+33k) Coma City - 1,877,879 (+24k) Corvette Summer - 1,931,152 (+26k) Suzie Chapstick - 2,070,257 (+31k) Strange Days Are Here to Stay - 1,848,921 (+25k) Living in the '20s - 1,863,703 (+29k) Father to a Son - 1,521,827 (+19k) Saviors - 1,509,925 (+20k) Fancy Sauce - 1,466,561 (+21k) TOTAL - 58,055,958 (+574,583)

He does lots and lots of woo hoos on Saviors, at least I think he does.

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I've always thought the AI project started on 2002-2003, including C&V, and now Billie technically confirmed that saying the Homecoming original version thing. So, I think there will be a Special release for AI Anniversary (Maybe this year, maybe not), including demos from C&V era and the record itself, a live show, etc). However, I think the documentary could be something apart, like the documentary for Insomniac's 25th Anniversary. What could be this new documentary about? I think they will cover from the first sessions from C&V, then something about the issues around the band/anxiety about AI project, how they worked with Rob Cavallo, then the impact and success of the album (maybe including some extras from AI Tour/BIAB unreleased video material) and finally how AI has influenced along all these years on fans/people and the band.

Well Babylon was supposedly an amazingly wealthy city but was destroyed by God because it was so sinful, the original apocalypse and I think the whole song is doom laden. The guns out of clay could just be that humans will make weapons out of anything. I think this one is really open to quite a lot of interpretation but clearly it’s not going to end well.

It won’t be outtakes they won’t release a whole new documentary that’s just outtakes when more raw footage is already on YouTube and they want to interest people who’ve never seen HLAHG. This would have to be an entirely new doc with a different focus or what’s the point.

The documentary will start at a point after the master tapes are stolen probably by Fink.

I'd assume at that point they'd already have fancy music industry lawyers to make sure they do, but who knows. Billie and Roecker were good pals at the time so it might have been a more casual deal, who knows. I would love to just sit down and watch however many hundreds of hours of footage from those sessions they have recorded, no editing needed lol. I also get the impression they have a ton of shit filmed from the American Idiot tour that hasn't seen the light of day. So this documentary could be less of a making of story, and more the story of Green Day's second world domination.

I like the album cover . Their most iconic cover with silly scribbles and a vomiting rainbow unicorn on it, I don't care that's fucking funny. The fact it's Billie's doing makes it even funnier. Graffitia, Take the Money and Crawl, Stab You in the Heart, Junkies On a High, Fire Ready Aim, Father of All... are top tier songs to me and I don't dislike any of the others. I listen to themb all the time when I'm running. I just wish it had been more songs so it felt more like a full album.

There's only one Billie that's for sure!