Popular Post Josh100_3 Posted February 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2020 Oh my god going from the crap leak to Spotify is a brand new experience. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Doggins Posted February 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2020 I agree, My opinion of the album has changed a LOT. I really like the production actually.. Its perhaps the best sounding release in many years.. Anyway I typed up a few of my thoughts. If you're not interested, scroll on It is such a strange album. I wonder if it was intentionally made for vinyl the fact that "Side B" is so different - and so much better than "Side A". Its almost like 2 EPs. In my opinion it starts off pretty poor then builds up to something actually pretty awesome FOAMF - I don't think I'll ever get into this song FRA - Its grown on me, I like Tres drumming on this Oh Yeah! - I don't mind it actually, it has grown on me. But it feels totally out of place. Meet Me On The Roof - No. Just no. I was a Teenage Teenager - Start off thinking WTF is this, but a few seconds in this is where the album starts to pick up pace Stab You In The Heart - YES! Sounds like the Beatles with a modern twist Sugar Youth - Sounds like something from The Longshot - not a bad thing Junkies on a High - This song has grown on me a lot. Didn't like it at first, but especially hearing it in HQ its pretty cool. Especially that *boom* at 2:26 Take The Money and Crawl - Perhaps this will still grow on me, for now I'm just like Meh Graffitia - What a way to finish things off! Awesome You can see how These Paper Bullets and The Longshot were snippets of whats to come in Green Days new sound. Mike has a few awesome bass lines which is great This will probably never be a favourite of mine, but considering how much I literally *hated* it a week ago - It sure has come a long way. This is them telling the world Green Day are no longer a punk rock band, they're a dad rock band! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Boy Named Booze Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 You guys are so lucky!! This album is fucking good. Can't believe I doubt about it because of an artwork. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cav9mm Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 I can’t see it on my Spotify !!! Help !! I’m in Ireland !! Ive got a long car ride starting in 20 mins Help !! This isn’t life or death, it’s more serious than that !!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 1 minute ago, cav9mm said: I can’t see it on my Spotify !!! Help !! I’m in Ireland !! Ive got a long car ride starting in 20 mins Help !! This isn’t life or death, it’s more serious than that !!! It’s out only in the countries where it’s the 7th already It’s gonna be there at midnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted February 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2020 Louder review: https://www.loudersound.com/features/green-day-have-made-a-college-jock-party-record-and-its-the-best-thing-theyve-done-in-years Green Day have made a college jock party record and it's the best thing they've done in years By Mark Beaumont 43 minutes ago Green Day's new album Father Of All Motherf**kers is all out of politics (for now) – instead the Day party hard, 1950s style It might feel like a dereliction of duty ahead of the most desperate fight for its soul and future that America has ever faced at the polling booth, but Green Day are deserting the barricades and kicking back by the pool for 25 minutes. Having delivered their latest bruising and brilliant portrait of gun-rampaging, post-truth America on 2016’s Revolution Radio, a much-needed palate cleanser after the over-egged Uno!, Dos!, Tre! triple album project, curiously they’ve taken Trump’s reign off and instead knocked together a breezy pop-punk party record about, according to Billie Joe Armstrong, “not giving a fuck”. Which is strange, since now is perhaps the most important time in modern history to give a fuck, and this is a presidency that could have been designed specifically to inspire a righteous, youth-quake-inspiring Green Day double concept album. They can’t help themselves, of course. ‘Drink it in, dumb it down, suck it up as we watch the world burn,’ Armstrong sings. But it’s a statement of snarling fatalism tacked on to a desert-rock fuzzball called Junkies On A High that’s otherwise concerned with becoming a ‘rock’n’roll tragedy’ and being proud of his porn collection. Because Father Of All… (…Motherfuckers, if the censors didn’t get their way) time-warps Green Day back to the college jock party, with invigorating results. Meet Me On The Roof finds Armstrong slicking his hair spikes into a duck tail and having a 50s tryst with a cheerleader on the rooftops. I Was A Teenage Teenager, all Pixies bass line and Weezer chug, is a classic truant rock chant: ‘My life’s a mess and school is just for suckers… who’s holding the drugs?’ Reanimating retro rock’n’roll with blasts of modern scuzz-rock to the heart, it’s the wild punk prom you never had. Before you reach for the gif of a skater Steve Buscemi saying: “How do you do, fellow kids?’, Father Of All… never smacks of mid-life crisis. There’s an age-defying playfulness in the glam hand-claps decorating White Stripes-blasted shimmy rockers like Fire, Ready, Aim and the title track, or the euphoric indie synth-pop of Oh Yeah!. On Take The Money And Crawl they come on like the love child of AC/DC and Arctic Monkeys, and even channel The Beatles doing Hippy Hippy Shake on Stab You In The Heart. Such carefree, nostalgic hedonism might be as untimely as offering Prince Andrew out for a Pizza Express, but it’s refreshing, comforting even, to have Green Day back in their exuberant element, unburdened by message or morality. 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cav9mm Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 If I use a VPN, is it likely to show up ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, cav9mm said: If I use a VPN, is it likely to show up ? Depends on the service, for Apple Music I know you need an Apple account activated for that country. For Spotify I think you need both a VPN and to change your country settings. Or maybe just the VPN will work, try it out Edit: for me at least just the VpN doesn’t work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billie Joes Eyelids Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 2 hours ago, jengd said: I never really pay a lot of attention to critics but it is interesting how divided they are, it seems to me like some are just really not getting the point at all, e.g that comment about “c’mon honey, count your money”. I am so excited for tomorrow!! Reviews from local papers and obscure music communities don’t mean a lot in comparison to a good Pitchfork review. That’s a HUGE win for them and will be seen by so many more people.! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 2 minutes ago, Billie Joe's Eyelids said: Reviews from local papers and obscure music communities don’t mean a lot in comparison to a good Pitchfork review. That’s a HUGE win for them and will be seen by so many more people.! Yup, also websites like Metacritic have a weighted average grading system. I think small local newspapers are not even counted, and when it comes to magazines and similar sources they weight the score based on the audience size and the reputation of the journal within the music industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post localinsomniac Posted February 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2020 Oh snap. UPS tracking updated, my vinyl arrives TODAY! 🦄 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pacejunkie punk Posted February 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2020 I love when a review says fans will hate this album. Uh, 🙋♀️ didn’t bother to ask us did ya? 1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimezy Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Stab you in the heart - jailhouse rock 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DookieLukie Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 My order still says "processing" and "not shipped." Anything I can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said: I love when a review says fans will hate this album. Uh, 🙋♀️ didn’t bother to ask us did ya? Let’s say that if they stepped in here or any social media page sometimes before last Sunday they could have had some argument on their side 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post emenius Posted February 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2020 Really good review from The Telegraph (UK newspaper)- not sure what star rating was as not included on online review. Green Day, Father of All..., review: it sounds like the Beatles being driven to homicide Green Day’s 13th album starts as it means to go on, fast and furious. The distorted guitar of Billie Joe Armstrong and gnarly bass of Mike Dirnt hammer out a rudimentary two-note riff on title track Father of All…, while drummer Tré Cool pounds a galloping garage rock beat. It is basic to the point of banality and, honestly, about as thrilling as rock can be, especially when Armstrong starts singing in a sinuous falsetto amid frenetic handclaps. I mean it as a compliment when I say I didn’t immediately recognise Green Daythe first time I heard their new album. There is something positively gleeful about the American multimillion-selling stadium punktrio’s reavowal of the fundamentals. They exhibit the swagger of a hot young band discovering rock’n’roll for the first time, allied to the abilities of old pros who know exactly how to do it right. Stab You in the Heart is essentially an adrenalised update of Hippy Hippy Shake that sounds like the Beatles being driven to homicide. Meet Me On The Roof has the swing of a Happy Days high school hop, albeit one in which the kids are on drugs and worrying about the apocalypse. Sugar Youth borrows a lick from Nirvana to charge through an anti-love song that is frenetic, messy and all over in under two minutes. I Was a Teenage Teenager plays around with Fifties monster-movie tropes to remind us that there is nothing scarier for some parents than an actual adolescent. Frontman and band leader Armstrong is 47, a husband of 25 years, with sons older than their father was when Green Day released their first album in 1990. Rising to success as belligerently minimalist pop-punk revivalists, Green Day have struggled to strike a balance between maturing artistic ambition and the juvenile impulses of an almost deliberately dumbed-down genre. Political themes have risen to the fore, notably with their 2004 punk opera American Idiot and 2009 concept album 21st Century Breakdown. Yet Armstrong’s sloganeering non-sequiturs would fall flat if it wasn’t for the sound and fury of his band’s performance. This album is far more about the medium than the message. Oh Yeah! channels Gary Glitter’s Do You Wanna Touch Me (via a sample of the 1982 Joan Jett version) for a rousing glam anthem that might be about the American education system (“Burning books in a bulletproof backpack”) but is mostly just a chance to revisit one of rock’s great lost choruses. Acknowledging the inherent problem of covering a song by a convicted paedophile, Green Day are donating all royalties from the track to International Justice Mission and Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. It is a reminder that political sensitivity is not all about the lyrics. “Drink it in, dumb it down, suck it up/ As we watch the world burn,” Armstrong sings over the heavy crawl of Junkies on a High. It serves as an effective manifesto for Green Day’s best album in years, a rock’n’roll party for end times. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Boy Named Booze Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 10 minutes ago, localinsomniac said: Oh snap. UPS tracking updated, my vinyl arrives TODAY! 🦄 Hey me too (in my case it's a CD)!!!! That mean my shirt and the freaking CD is right now in my mail at home. I'm stuck at work until 3:30. C'MON!!!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 1 minute ago, emenius said: Really good review from The Telegraph (UK newspaper)- not sure what star rating was as not included on online review. Are these guys schizophrenic or what? 😂 Didn’t they give a 2 stars review the other day? Great review anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emenius Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 4 minutes ago, HAPPY ROOTING UNICORN said: Are these guys schizophrenic or what? 😂 Didn’t they give a 2 stars review the other day? Great review anyway Haha. It was The Independent that gave it a 2 star review, but Ian Winwood wrote an article in The Telegraph that trashed FOAM at the end - but this one is the official review. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 4 minutes ago, emenius said: Haha. It was The Independent that gave it a 2 star review, but Ian Winwood wrote an article in The Telegraph that trashed FOAM at the end - but this one is the official review. Right, I got confused My average commuting time is 1 FOAM and a half. I might start to take the long route from tomorrow onwards and make it 2 FOAMs 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 4 minutes ago, emenius said: Haha. It was The Independent that gave it a 2 star review, but Ian Winwood wrote an article in The Telegraph that trashed FOAM at the end - but this one is the official review. 🤦♀️ This album is as polarizing as American politics itself 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 The telegraph review is a 4/5 one by the way https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/green-day-father-review-sounds-like-beatles-driven-homicide/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Good review, I mostly agree with the writer, however I'm not sure how they mean it with the lyrics. They definitely aren't the kind you could read without the music and get a proper experience, but they're not bad at all imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Still processing the album. I do think we're talking it up a bit but I still think it's a B or B- grade album. Metacritic was 72. I thought that was fair. I think the quality of the album is on par with Rev Rad. Both have a small handful of A grade songs but both have a few stinkers. Of course the average being in the middle which is what makes the grade for the albums. I think this album will be something I don't get bored of as fast as I did with Rev Rad just because it's a bit more fresh and the songs are different. Rev Rad left me wanting a lot more but kinda left us with little hope for their future. This also leaves me wanting more but with hope. Graffitia is the last track and shows the band still has it if they want to do it. I'd love to see them make an epic again, nothing like a concept album or rock opera. Just make an 18 song album of 2-3 minute epic songs. If it takes 3-5 years to put it together take the time as we just got 5 albums between 2012-2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Another 7/10 review, but the guy somehow got a 5 extra minutes of music 😂 "That said, at just 31 minutes, there shouldn’t be room for the plodding filler of Junkies On A High." You are a filler https://www.longlivevinyl.net/new-releases-and-reissues-february-7/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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