Random Green Day News

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Interview with Chris Freeman of Pansy Division in which he talks about touring with Green Day:

https://eu.desertsun.com/story/life/2019/10/25/palm-springs-pride-performer-toured-green-day-formed-all-gay-bands/3991929002/

Pansy Division joined Green Day on tour in 1994

After members of Green Day attended Pansy Division concerts, they decided to take the band on a tour in support of their 1994 album, "Dookie." (The original opener, a band called Tilt, broke up while on the road.) But Pansy Division had to condense their live spectacle. 

"They were like, ‘Where are your dancers?’" Freeman recalled. "We said, ‘We can’t afford to have dancers! What are you talking about? That’s four to eight more mouths to feed.’”

That summer, Green Day gained popularity after the music video for their song "Longview" released on MTV. They also traveled Lollapalooza and played at Woodstock 94. 

During the second leg of the tour, Green Day expanded from clubs to arenas, and Pansy Division continued to open the shows. Freeman said they enjoyed the ride, playing in venues such as Cobo Hall in Detroit and Madison Square Garden in New York. They also accompanied Green Day to Saturday Night Live. 

But their live shows were frustrating, even after Dan Havoc of Screeching Weasel joined Pansy Division on the tour as a drummer. The crowd was harsh, often turning their backs to them and sticking their middle fingers in the air. A year earlier "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which barred military personnel from discriminating or harassing closeted LGBTQ service members, was signed into law. Two years later, Congress would pass the Defense of Marriage Act. 

“We were not really that good, and even with Dan, we were the best we could have been," Freeman said. "All of our shortcomings were on display. We tried to make up for it by having a lot of personality and made the setlist so the first three songs were ambiguous. The mosh pit would start and then we’d hit them with a gay song. Then they’d start turning around and flipping us the bird.”

Pansy Division tried to win over women in the audience, telling them not to date guys who stick their middle fingers up because they probably don't like women, Freeman said. Sometimes it worked, often times it did not. 

The concert experience was different than what he saw in an iconic photo Freeman "stared at" growing up: On the back cover of the KISS album, "Alive," a few fans in face-paint holdup a poster in front of the crowd at Cobo Hall, eagerly awaiting the start of the concert. 

"When I played there, they all hated us," Freeman said. "If I would have known at 14 looking at this photo that I’d be standing in that venue looking at the same kind of thing, and all those people were going to chant us down, I would have said, ‘I'm never doing this!'" 

[solongfromthestars]

This is a piece about the devotion of disabled fans who return to shows despite physical challenges and ableism. It's not just about Green Day, but it's based on experiences of following them and The Longshot on tour.

https://www.mariagloriaharvey.com/post/disability-and-devotion

"I've spent a lot of time photographing and talking about fans who sleep on streets. Their devotion is amazing. Now, though, I want to pay some attention to a kind of fan who’s rarely acknowledged, yet equally devoted. They are the disabled fans who know they're unwelcome in the pit, even at shows altogether – but they're still there, singing every word."

[jengd]

@solongfromthestars great article and what a balanced approach you have been able to take.  Hats off to both you and your mum.  👏👏👏 I am nearly ages with your mum but without her major health problems and gigs have become seriously hard work in the last few years.  I have noticed of late that I am subjected to more and more ageists comments which, frankly, make me crazy.  I feel like telling those people that sex was not invented in the last 20 years, nor was punk or rock music or many other things, e.g. exercise and gyms for women were largely fought for by our generation.  However, thankfully there are always people who’s behaviour is so awesome, they makes up for those others.  I have no idea how your mum manages to do what she does, but I wish her many more great gig experiences and kudos to you too for recognising how awesome she is, supporting her and highlighting these issues. 🦄🦄

[Guest]

 

[jengd]

3 hours ago, Nightlife said:

 

I could listen to other people talk about how awesome GD are until the cows come home!

[The Grohl]

Honestly, every time I see Kevin ( I think it's Kevin from Kevin and Bean) I just think, can your spouse please tell you to ditch the weird Pee Wee Herman look? He looks like Pee Wee who got old and didn't get the memo that maybe he shouldn't rock the same hairstyle.

[Vintage Disciple]

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/11/8681386/saturday-night-live-punk-rock-corporate-nightmare-kristen-stewart

"Kyle Mooney embodies corporate disdain looking like the spitting image of Mike Dirnt from Green Day."

 

[pacejunkie punk]

Any idea what the Italian fans may be hinting at here?  Something happening this Friday at 3:00 pm Europe time?

 

 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Article here from Rock Sound - apparently BOBD has now become the third single from AI to be certified gold in the UK:

https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/green-day-just-scored-their-third-gold-certified-single-off-american-idiot

And another article here - the guy who played St Jimmy in the JoS video is in American Horror Story 1984!

https://www.altpress.com/news/green-day-lou-taylor-pucci-american-horror-story-1984/

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Article from NME here "10 albums that wouldn't exist without Green Day's Dookie":

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-albums-that-wouldnt-exist-without-green-days-dookie-768209?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=

 

[desertrose]

 

[pacejunkie punk]

Contest to win tickets to the shows in Italy 🇮🇹 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Article here from Stereoboard - Not Quite Hella Mega: How 'Warning:' Quietly Set The Table For Green Day's Blockbuster Era

https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/225984/9

When the Hella Mega tour rolls into stadiums next summer, Green Day will be right at home. From its name on down the trek—which will find the pop-punk veterans joined by emo survivors Fall Out Boy and alt-rock provocateurs Weezer—is poised to embrace spectacle at each turn, wringing every available drop of goofy grandeur from the headliners’ latter day sense of pomp and circumstance.

But lurking just around the corner from the confetti blasts and audience participation is an anniversary that shines a light on a time in Green Day’s history when concept albums, pyro and crowd-pleasing weren’t on the agenda. Next autumn, their divisive sixth LP, ‘Warning:’, turns 20. At no point could this group of songs have been slapped with the title ‘Father of All Motherfuckers’.

First, let’s luxuriate in some numbers to set the scene. Each Green Day album released between 1991 and 1997 has achieved Platinum status (at least) in the US. ‘Dookie’ has gone Diamond after passing 10 million sales. Two decades on, ‘Warning:’ is stuck on Gold. Honestly, look at this loser. And its outlier status has only been rammed home by the fact that the band almost immediately ditched its stylistic bent in favour of the black shirt/red tie amateur dramatics of ‘American Idiot’, an album that itself has just marked a major birthday by turning 15. That has gone Platinum six times over, if you’re asking.

The reasons for ‘Warning:’ being cut adrift are almost entirely contextual. After the snotty clapback to success that was ‘Insomniac’, 1995’s rapidfire follow up to ‘Dookie’, and the manner in which 1997’s sprawling ‘Nimrod’ found fresh levels of maturity within their existing sound, it served as a culmination of sorts to a difficult period of creative soul-searching.

Green Day, they wanted us to understand, was a band populated by grown ups who liked British Invasion pop, not a potential empty gesture from some punk kids who’d used three chords to unlock the Federal Reserve. They might have spent the summer completing another Warped Tour trek, but as autumn approached they sought for ‘Warning:’ to be taken seriously, because they took themselves seriously.

“I think our antics sort of get in the way of what people think,” Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone at the time of its release. “But I think this one, for me personally, was a lot more articulate than the last one. The last couple of records I feel were sort of reacting to a time period, but this time I think we’re making an action, and I think we’re making bolder statements than we ever have before.”

Those statements, though, were presented in a manner that was more Roger McGuinn than 924 Gilman. The title track, an outrageous lift of the Kinks’ Picture Book, is an ideal scene-setter. Its loping acoustic stride leads into the peppy Blood, Sex and Booze and Church on Sunday. Both land somewhere between the Sonics’ garage-rock yowl and straight up Rickenbacker jangle—close enough to the middle of the road for some diehards to reach for rock’s emptiest, most dispiriting phrase: sellout. ‘Warning:’ was relatively well reviewed, but met with a lukewarm response on the street.

The reality, though, is that these are entirely passable Green Day songs. With a little more dirt under their fingernails, they could have been issued at any point in the preceding decade (perhaps as b-sides if we’re talking ‘94-’97). See if you can find MTV’s 2000 Live Without Warning special online—Church on Sunday is the second cab off the rank and sounds like something culled from ‘Kerplunk’ in a live setting.

What ‘Warning:’ did was quietly double down on some of the theatricality and open-hearted emoting that would allow Green Day to transition into their Bush-baiting blockbuster era. While their sound would soon shift gears again—the title track from ‘American Idiot’ replaced the Kinks as wounded party with Dillinger Four—many of the core materials were already in place four years earlier, and in some cases existed as far back as ‘Nimrod’. They were essentially hiding in plain sight.

In the title track and the furiously overblown march of Minority, there are embryonic versions of the banner-sized slogans that lit up ‘American Idiot’. “One light, one mind, flashing in the dark,” Billie Joe sings. “Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts. ‘For crying out loud,’ she screamed unto me. A free-for-all, fuck 'em all.” Jesus of Suburbia, much?

For further foreshadowing, drink in the maudlin closer Macy’s Day Parade, which takes an American cultural standard and tips it on its head. “The night of the living dead is on its way, with a credit report for duty call, it's a lifetime guarantee,” Billie Joe earnestly drawls. “Stuffed in a coffin ‘10% more free’.”

If these exercises in low-key rabble rousing feel a little awkward and unsure of themselves, particularly the broadly execrable Minority, they do ensure that ‘Warning:’ isn’t entirely cut adrift in the broader narrative. With hindsight they also suggest that ‘American Idiot’ wasn’t as much of an about face as it initially appeared. 

That record’s politics were inescapably of their time in a post-9/11, mid-Iraq War America—Green Day’s noisy awakening as a political band was almost entirely reactionary, but Green Day are a reactionary band. The skyscraping ‘American Idiot’ was a completely on brand response to the muted reception that awaited ‘Warning:’. It’s the nihilism of ‘Insomniac’ vs. the runaway success of ‘Dookie’ all over again.

But its form, thematic cogency and soapbox grandstanding would stick around through ‘21st Century Breakdown’ and beyond as the band embraced a ‘size matters’ approach. That reality has essentially divided their discography into pre-and-post ‘American Idiot’, which is the distinction that causes ‘Warning:’ to stick out. It doesn’t really fit in either camp—it’s the forgotten pitcher who throws the eighth inning and allows the closer to clinch the pennant.

Fifteen years along the line, ‘American Idiot’ reigns as one of the crucial late period reinventions in modern American rock, and also as the defining factor in Green Day being able to stage spectacles with the scale and gleeful lack of subtlety that will characterise Hella Mega. The ‘Warning:’-era trio were on a different wavelength, but they’d probably find a few things to get on board with among the fire and festivities. It’s their show too.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

GD are No. 1 on Radio X's All-Time Best Pop-Punk Bands:

https://www.radiox.co.uk/features/x-lists/best-pop-punk-bands/

1. Green Day

Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool had been knocking around since the late 1980s, but they hit the big time with their 1994 album Dookie, which spawned the hits Basket Case and When I Come Around. Their other masterpiece was 2004's politically-charged American Idiot, which was a rant against the post-9/11 United States.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

This is quite funny. Someone has done a scientific analysis of Green Day's Twitter!

https://globalrealnews.com/news/2019/11/10/we-dug-deep-into-green-days-twitter-2019-11-09/?fbclid=IwAR2Tdg8YnEMuB5hrsAGVza-nFkFEbYkDuTLdA6V0hagG3uoEP97kHR3hPbs

What’s up. Today we did a major analysis of Green Day’s Twitter activity. Let’s dive in. The main metrics are as follows – as of 2019-11-09, Green Day (@GreenDay) has 5077712 Twitter followers, is following 187 people, has tweeted 2157 times, has liked 432 tweets, has uploaded 398 photos and videos and has been on Twitter since August 2009.

Going from the top of the page to the bottom, their latest tweet, at the time of writing, has 14 replies, 78 retweets and 908 likes, their second latest tweet has 36 replies, 333 reweets and 2,295 likes, their third latest tweet has 42 replies, 624 retweets and 3,966 likes, their fourth latest tweet has 78 replies, 1,294 retweets and 6,972 likes and their fifth latest tweet has 109 replies, 795 retweets and 5,824 likes. That gives you an idea of how much activity they usually get.

MOST POPULAR:

Going through Green Day’s last couple-dozen tweets (including retweets), the one we consider the most popular, having generated a very nice 272 direct replies at the time of writing, is this:

That seems to have caused quite a bit of discussion, having also had 2466 retweets and 23110 likes.

LEAST POPULAR:

What about Green Day’s least popular tweet as of late (including any retweets)? We say it’s this one:

That only had 4 direct replies, 32 retweets and 382 likes.

THE VERDICT:

We did a lot of of digging into Green Day’s Twitter activity, looking through what people were saying in response to them, their likes/retweet numbers compared to what they were before, the amount of positive/negative responses and so on. We won’t drone on and on about the numbers, so our verdict is this: we say the online sentiment for Green Day on Twitter right now is perfectly fine.

We’ll leave it there for today. Thanks for visiting, and drop a comment if you disagree with me. Just make sure to keep it civil.

[Beerjeezus]

this is so reletable to me as i'm writing something for uni rn

step one: fancy opening paragraph

step two: data data data look i did research

step three: therefore, i've come to the conclusion that everything is FINE which means this paper is thereby over

[desertrose]

Green Day Members Now: Who Is Still In the Band?

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/green-day-members-now/

[Beerjeezus]

I got curious if this article explains what happend to Jeff, but no, it just confirms Billie Joe is still in Green Day What a relief

[desertrose]

8 Anticipated Albums That Were Never Released

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/8_anticipated_albums_that_were_never_released-99428

Green Day - Cigarettes And Valentines

After Nimrod and Warning, that were good but different from what fans came to expect after Dookie and Insomniac, Green Day decided to get back into playing fast-paced punk-rock. They began writing the new record at the end of 2002 and it was nearly finished, but their work was cut short by the theft of all the master tapes. Instead of re-recording they just started writing new material (which would become American Idiot). The tapes were later found, and one of the songs even became a B-side on the American Idiot, but the full album has never been released.

In 2010, Green Day performed Cigarettes And Valentines track for their live DVD, the fact that made fans hopeful of a full release, but in 2016 interview the band stated that the unreleased tracks were used and reworked for future albums.

 

The Song Green Day Has Played Live the Most

https://www.radio.com/music/alternative/gallery/the-song-green-day-has-played-live-the-most#2--basket-case---865-times-ck0pltqsv007t3b60xfg34d1q

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Rock Sound have done a similar article - theirs is 6 Scrapped Albums We Want To Hear So Badly:

They may exist, but not really. We're aware of the existence of them, but the chances of hearing them seem so minimal. We hold on to hope. Here's the five scrapped albums we'd sell our kidneys for a chance to hear.

'CIGARETTES AND VALENTINES' - GREEN DAY 
Before 'American Idiot' was a thing, there was 'Cigarettes And Valentines'. Now, 'Cigarettes And Valentines' was the album that was supposed to be the follow-up to Green Day's 2000 album 'Warning', but alas- in November of 2002 the almost finished masters were stolen from the studio.

Instead of re-recording the stolen tracks, Green Day used the theft as an opportunity to have a clean-slate, and ended up writing the biggest album of their career- 'American Idiot'. So really, all's well that ends well. 

Truthfully, you've probably unknowingly heard some of 'Cigarettes And Valentines'. Green Day managed to recover the stolen master tapes, and a handful of the original tracks got a reworking and were released as b-sides on 'American Idiot', and as a part of the tracklist of 'Tré!'. As recently as November 2016, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong confirmed that the master tapes are being used on new songs, and that the band has no plans to ever release 'Cigarettes And Valentines' as a stand-alone album.

As it stands though, we'd still love to hear what the album that brought us 'American Idiot' is like. Dreams are free.

[Billie Joes Eyelids]

Here’s a video from Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas, who pretty much does everything for her songs except sing them. He mentions Green Day not surprisingly as he’s a big fan. I actually really like his taste in music. Some great songs on his list.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

10 hours ago, Billie Joe's Eyelids said:

Here’s a video from Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas, who pretty much does everything for her songs except sing them. He mentions Green Day not surprisingly as he’s a big fan. I actually really like his taste in music. Some great songs on his list.

This guy have great taste and he's actually a very great musician. 
Can't wait to hear to new Billie Eilish song “everything i wanted” at 4pm today!

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Tre gets a mention in this Radio X article: The most outrageous claims in rock. Hardly outrageous but worth a mention:

https://www.radiox.co.uk/features/most-outrageous-claims-rock/?fbclid=IwAR0SNbPHPSXtnJJPA-2cgS5NtYYtIYrpOANxrXNlHNcMn-fL0i3I6Y8JzE4

11. Tre Cool on being Green Day's drummer

"I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck."

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Green Day get a mention in this article about mean tweets!

https://www.eonline.com/news/1092905/billie-eilish-green-day-more-have-the-best-clap-backs-to-these-mean-tweets

Billie Eilish, Green Day & More Have the Best Clap Backs to These "Mean Tweets"

Jimmy Kimmel Live's fan-favorite "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets: Music Edition" is back—and the tweets are scalding. For its sixth installment, superstars like Billie Eilish, Green Day, Leon Bridges and more unearthed some of the internet's meanest tweets about them. A teaser for the full segment was released ahead of Wednesday night's episode and these stars are definitely going to be needing some ice for these zingers.

And tweets only got worse from there, especially when it came to the one that was aimed at Green Day's drummer Tré Cool. "Why does Tré Cool from Green Day look like the emo version of Ted Cruz?" he read into the camera, which was met by a roar of laughter from his bandmates. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong was quick to note that bass guitarist Mike Dirnt also has a political doppelgänger: "Well, Mike looks like [Vladimir] Putin!"

Catch the full segment on Wednesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live, airing at 11:35 p.m.

Saw there was an old thread for this but wasn't sure if this deserved a thread of it's own this time.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Warning has come in at No. 7 on Ultimate Classic Rock's "2000's Best Rock Albums":

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/2000-best-rock-albums/

As our list of 2000's Best Rock Albums shows, the new guard had taken center stage by the time a new millennium loomed.

Green Day continued to tinker with their tried-and-true formula, distancing themselves in the most interesting of ways from what came before.

7. Green Day - Warning

By the beginning of the new millennium, Green Day found themselves in a sort of musical purgatory between true punk credibility and full-on mainstream acceptance. But instead of pressing harder to shake their pseudo-sellout status, they veered even further from punk with 'Warning' – a diverse, underrated, Kinks-esque collection of stylistically fearless songs that nearly ruined Green Day at the time. (It was the first album since they signed to a major label that failed to go multi-platinum.) But 'Warning' has found more critical acclaim in retrospect, as the trio embraced its ability to churn out catchy, compact and instrumentally adventurous ditties, regardless of genre.

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Also International Superhits gets a mention in this Kerrang article  - "10 Best of Albums that are Perfect Introductions to Famous Bands":

https://www.kerrang.com/features/10-best-of-albums-that-are-perfect-introductions-to-famous-bands/

More often than not, Best-Of or compilation albums feel like a way to keep fans interested with something other than new material. A band usually puts out a live album or collection of their greatest hits because they’ve waited a little too long between recordings; even worse is when the collection is driven by a label looking to squeeze every last dollar out of a band on their roster.

And yet, despite that stigma, there are a handful of compilation albums that are widely regarded as worthwhile additions to bands’ discographies. Sometimes, this is because they’re well-packaged, and in the case of live records it’s usually because they capture a band’s energy while providing a cross-section of their discography. But what really sets a compilation apart is when it provides a gateway into an amazing band, giving newcomers a chance to catch up on several records’ worth of big hits.

Here are 10 compilation albums that provide an excellent gateway into a well-known band’s back catalog…

GREEN DAY – INTERNATIONAL SUPERHITS! (2001)

Especially interesting about Green Day’s massive best-of album International Superhits! Is that it was released at the end of what many consider their first act. It would be three years after the band released this compilation that American Idiot would drop, revitalizing the trio’s careers; as such, International Superhits! feels like a landmark, ending one period of their public identities. Not that their careers were spartan before American Idiot, of course — Superhits! charted in 10 countries, reminding fans that even Green Day’s early material was some of the most enjoyable punk rock ever written.