pacejunkie punk Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 ^^^ Damn Tre was cute then 💚 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Crush really doesn't fuck around 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Beerjeezus said: Crush really doesn't fuck around And it actually works since in they got 100k new followers and 200k views in 24 hours 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Maybe this is why they don’t seem bothered with radio play, they’re focusing heavily on streaming and download sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billie Joes Eyelids Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 1 hour ago, pacejunkie punk said: Maybe this is why they don’t seem bothered with radio play, they’re focusing heavily on streaming and download sites. But don’t radio stations base their playlist primarily on those 2 things? I think it will start showing up this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 17 minutes ago, Billie Joe's Eyelids said: But don’t radio stations base their playlist primarily on those 2 things? I think it will start showing up this week. I don’t know but if they do then the strategy may be to boost the streams so the radio play gets heavier rotation when it does play? I don’t know how this works but it may be a longer term strategy to sustain it. Because if it’s not that I don’t get why it’s the only single of the three I don’t hear on the radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im.a.basket.case Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/music/2019/04/27/100-most-popular-rock-bands-all-time/3599064002/ 14...pretty respectable given the company, but how the hell are they behind coldplay and maroon 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 8 minutes ago, Im.a.basket.case said: https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/life/music/2019/04/27/100-most-popular-rock-bands-all-time/3599064002/ 14...pretty respectable given the company, but how the hell are they behind coldplay and maroon 5 They’re in pretty good company in the top fifteen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Beerjeezus Posted October 2, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2019 https://thehardtimes.net/music/man-scoffs-at-idea-kerrang-might-know-50-things-about-billie-joe-armstrong-that-he-doesnt/ “He then listed at least 150 additional facts about Billie Joe that were strangely intimate… frankly, we were shocked at the depth of his knowledge. He knew things like Billie Joe’s blood type, wedding vows, and the location of the ‘Cigarettes and Valentines’ master tapes. We’re debating whether to contact the authorities.” "At press time, Sullivan was seen sneaking onto the Armstrong estate 'just to say hi, have a quick beer, and play him some new demos.'" This is disturbingly accurate 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 16 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said: https://thehardtimes.net/music/man-scoffs-at-idea-kerrang-might-know-50-things-about-billie-joe-armstrong-that-he-doesnt/ “He then listed at least 150 additional facts about Billie Joe that were strangely intimate… frankly, we were shocked at the depth of his knowledge. He knew things like Billie Joe’s blood type, wedding vows, and the location of the ‘Cigarettes and Valentines’ master tapes. We’re debating whether to contact the authorities.” "At press time, Sullivan was seen sneaking onto the Armstrong estate 'just to say hi, have a quick beer, and play him some new demos.'" This is disturbingly accurate Hahahaha I love the hard times This one is also amazing: REPORT: Moshers at Green Day Concert Funded by George Soros 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 19 minutes ago, J a c said: Hahahaha I love the hard times This one is also amazing: REPORT: Moshers at Green Day Concert Funded by George Soros That's my favorite together with "BJA: 'I once had a punk phase.'" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grohl Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Green Day See Huge YouTube View Spike When September Ends https://loudwire.com/green-day-youtube-view-spike-september-ends/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grohl Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Green Day have released their own ‘Father Of All…’ coffee https://www.nme.com/news/music/green-day-released-new-father-coffee-2553625 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted October 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2019 This may or may not be an article rehashed by Kerrang each year when Warning turns another year older! GREEN DAY: THE INSIDE STORY OF WARNING No great story is complete without a fork in the road. And on this transitionary record Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt stuttered for the first time… Words: Ian Winwood On September 15, 2000, Green Day performed the lowest of low-key shows at King’s College in London. It was here that an English audience, numbering in the low hundreds, first saw those onstage pull musicians from the crowd to play a cover version of Operation Ivy’s Knowledge, a tradition that endured for the next decade. The show also served as the occasion at which British ears first heard a number of the tracks from forthcoming album Warning, the trio’s sixth, released the following month. A striking aspect of Green Day’s material in the first year of this new century is just how different much of it was from what had come before, and just how little attention was paid to this fact. Four years later, upon the release of American Idiot, many were quick to claim the album as being an unprecedented step into the unknown on its authors’ part. In fact, it was no such thing. As bold and propulsive as Green Day’s 2004 masterpiece may have been, its germination can be found in the expansive and forward-leaping Nimrod set of 1997, a work that stands many galaxies removed from the deeply agitated and tightly focused Insomniac album that preceded it. In truth, it is Warning that is the anomalous inclusion in Green Day’s body of work. A far more restrained collection than anything to which the band had by then placed their name, this new musical framework was put in place following repeated listens to Bob Dylan’s acoustic 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. “There’s a sense of freedom about this record,” Billie Joe Armstrong said immediately prior to its release. “I think we’ve gone to some places that we’ve never been before.” Green Day recorded Warning at Studio 880 in Oakland. The facility lay directly beneath a freeway, and, according to Billie Joe, each time a truck passed overhead “you could feel the console vibrating”. Despite the material’s calmer tone, the sessions were not without incident. For the introduction to Blood, Sex And Booze, Tré Cool recruited the services of Mistresses Simone and Kendra, two dominatrices that he found on the internet. The pair were paid to spank the album’s sound engineer during recordings. “It was just one of those things – studio magic,” joked Billie Joe. Released during a period when Green Day received almost no critical acclaim of which to speak – “back then we were a fans’ band,” Billie Joe once said – Warning is worthy of attention for its finest songs, as well for being the second consecutive transitional album from a band whose second act was by now well underway. Asked in 2002 if the record represented a creative low-water mark, Billie Joe Armstrong answered, “No, not at all.” In this, he was right. But to suggest that Warning is anything like its creators’ finest is folly. It is best viewed as an experiment, an anomaly, and a partial success. “We have a really strong core of fans,” the frontman said of the album’s chances, “but as far as [exposure on] MTV and VH1 goes, I don’t know.” Because of this, Green Day did what they always do: they hit the road. The final U.S. show in support of Warning took place on August 5, 2001 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, at which Billie Joe encouraged a young fan to dive – backwards, no less – from a vertiginous balcony. Barely five weeks afterwards, the United States convulsed in shock as terrorists steered passenger planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. By the time the trio released their next studio album, the boots of their country’s armed forces were on the ground in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The world, clearly, had changed; and so too would Green Day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I've not been able to listen to this because it's currently unavailable in the UK but those of you elsewhere might be able to tune in: 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Nothing really new here but a piece from Radio X on how Green Day got it;s name: https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/green-day/what-story-meaning-behind-name/ There;s a cool pic of the guys in the article: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Just a bit of fun here. It gives you 10 GD songs and you have to say which album they're from: http://whatculture.com/music/green-day-quiz-which-albums-are-these-songs-from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 From Kerrang: 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Article from Time Out about Green Day playing Hong Kong: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/news/green-day-coming-to-hong-kong-because-rock-is-not-dead-091319 Green Day is coming to Hong Kong, because rock is not dead We need to wake you up before September ends because Green Day is making their return to Hong Kong next year! Fronted by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool, the American punk-rock group is returning to Hong Kong ten years after their last live show here in March 2020 to promote their upcoming album – lovingly titled Father of All Motherfckers – which will be released on February 2020. The five-time Grammy Award winners and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are known for hit songs like Basket Case, Wake Me Up When September Ends, American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, 21 Guns and Holiday, that speak to our angsty inner teen. To date, the band has sold over 70 million records across the planet. The band will be performing at AsiaWorld-Expo on March 20 at 8pm. Tickets aren't available for sale yet, but we'll keep you updated as soon as they are. Meanwhile, here's a little something to get you strolling down memory lane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grohl Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 BJA is featured in this Rolling Stone photo gallery: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-pictures/musicians-cars-photos-895013/r1178arma/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Green Day get a mention in this Rock Sound article on "8 bands that absolutely should have played the Super Bowl halftime show by now": It doesn't say much but for anyone who's interested: 04. GREEN DAY 2005 was the moment. Green Day were one of the biggest bands in the entire world. You couldn't leave your house without hearing 'American Idiot' on the radio. It's a Broadway musical. Bring out the cast and have a big, theatrical collaboration. We're just throwing ideas around. There's no reason that Green Day shouldn't have been offered the Super Bowl halftime show by now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Billboard article about American Idiot here: Rewinding the Charts: In 2004, Green Day Stirred 'American' Passion A politically charged 2004 LP earned the band its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 & an album of the year Grammy nod. By late 2004, Green Day was a superstar rock band with four smash studio albums and five No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Alternative airplay chart, yet a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 still eluded the trio. That changed on Oct. 9, 2004, when the raucous concept album American Idiot debuted atop the list, later earning a Grammy nomination for album of the year and a win for best rock album. “It’s pretty sweet,” singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, then 32, told Billboard about finally reaching No. 1. “We’ve been doing this for a long time.” Armstrong formed the band in 1988 in Rodeo, Calif., with his childhood friend, bassist Mike Dirnt, and the act adopted its name the following year. Drummer Tré Cool joined in 1990. In addition to the Billboard 200 milestone, Idiot also sparked the band's first crossover success into the mainstream pop world. The album's title cut became Green Day's first Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at No. 61, while the set's second single, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," raced to No. 2 on the chart and later won a Grammy for record of the year. Further Hot 100 hits "Holiday" (No. 19) and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" (No. 6) only solidified the band's impact. In 2010, Idiot re-entered the public sphere through its adaptation into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Despite the success, Armstrong, ironically, wasn’t keen on the idea. When asked if the pop-punk opera would become a movie musical, a la The Who’s Tommy, he said, “I like the Tommy record, but not the movie. I’d like to do something that comes across like a movie, not a musical.” American Idiot was followed by another No. 1 album, 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown -- and then things came crashing down. Armstrong had a booze-fueled onstage meltdown in 2012 and swiftly checked into rehab. The group endured a significant break before emerging with 2016's Revolution Radio, which became their third Billboard 200 leader. Most recently, the trio announced the Hella Mega tour, a co-headling trek with Weezer and Fall Out Boy. In conjunction with the announcement, Green Day released a new single, "Father of All...," from the upcoming album Father of All Motherfuckers, due in Feburary 2020. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pacejunkie punk Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 2 minutes ago, kaylubd said: Enter to win a signed guitar: http://iwantaguitar.hellamegatour.com/ Anyone else having a problem getting this to work? I can’t get past the terms and conditions. I check to accept and click continue but it doesn’t go anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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