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Heard it on the radio for the first time this afternoon.  And the dj brought up the swearing during the NHL game and was basically like, you contracted with a band whose album is titled Father of All Motherfuckers, so...

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1 hour ago, Montclare said:

Heard it on the radio for the first time this afternoon.  And the dj brought up the swearing during the NHL game and was basically like, you contracted with a band whose album is titled Father of All Motherfuckers, so...

Furkin American 😎

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Just now, Flashback said:

Wow now it makes absolutely sense that they used „Glitter“ so often before they announced FOAM in September 😨

Oh geez I don’t think it’s related at all 😄

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On 1/25/2020 at 3:54 PM, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Review here from The Guardian and it isn't good:

Green Day
Oh Yeah!

Right: because they know it’s iffy, they are donating all royalties to charity. So I suppose this is fine, in the same way that lobbing chip fat down the khazi is fine because it keeps the people who carve up fatbergs in a job. But you still have to ask: in a tune railing against the “alt-right”, why would you use a sample of a Joan Jett cover of a Gary Glitter song? What are you doing, Green Day? Don’t you think it will be weird if that “Oh yeah!” chanty bit takes off and a stadium full of kids – all born after you stopped being good – are raising their fists to Glitter? It will, won’t it? Would it be less icky if the song were good, though? Oh no!

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There's one here in Spanish from El Pais for any Spanish speakers:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/01/23/icon/1579772889_844118.html

Lobbing chip fat down the khazi? 

What is that?  

I give this review 0.3 stars.  Bad writing, bad grammar and they should donate royalties to charity.

Oh yeah!

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2 minutes ago, That Dude said:

Lobbing chip fat down the khazi? 

What is that?  

I give this review 0.3 stars.  Bad writing, bad grammar and they should donate royalties to charity.

Oh yeah!

Khazi is slang for toilet over here

On 1/25/2020 at 8:54 PM, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Review here from The Guardian and it isn't good:

Green Day
Oh Yeah!

Right: because they know it’s iffy, they are donating all royalties to charity. So I suppose this is fine, in the same way that lobbing chip fat down the khazi is fine because it keeps the people who carve up fatbergs in a job. But you still have to ask: in a tune railing against the “alt-right”, why would you use a sample of a Joan Jett cover of a Gary Glitter song? What are you doing, Green Day? Don’t you think it will be weird if that “Oh yeah!” chanty bit takes off and a stadium full of kids – all born after you stopped being good – are raising their fists to Glitter? It will, won’t it? Would it be less icky if the song were good, though? Oh no!

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There's one here in Spanish from El Pais for any Spanish speakers:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/01/23/icon/1579772889_844118.html

They're not wrong...

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13 minutes ago, That Dude said:

Lobbing chip fat down the khazi? 

What is that?  

I give this review 0.3 stars.  Bad writing, bad grammar and they should donate royalties to charity.

Oh yeah!

Oh, when I read that review, I thought didn’t quite understand it because I’m not native but the language they use in those kind of magazines is weird like a jargon sometimes lol 

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1 hour ago, That Dude said:

Green Day need a song called "Chipping the Wood Fat down a Khazi"

 

Chip fat is from frying french fries, they mean throwing a load of french fry grease down the toilet!  Language barrier 😂

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I just realized that I've only listen to this song 2 times since it's release. First time in a looooong time that I'm avoiding my favorite band song.

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3 hours ago, Little Boy Named Airplane said:

I just realized that I've only listen to this song 2 times since it's release. First time in a looooong time that I'm avoiding my favorite band song.

:( give it a chance, it's a grower (at least it was for me)

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Article here about OY:

https://www.dailycal.org/2020/01/29/green-days-new-single-oh-yeah-leaves-listeners-longing-for-past-punk-days/

Green Day’s new single ‘Oh Yeah!’ leaves listeners longing for past punk days

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While we all wish for the glory days of 1994’s Dookie to return, Green Day has gradually made us accept the fact that its sound is ever-changing. The band’s new album, Father of All Motherf——, seems to completely stray from the sound Green Day made us fall in love with more than two decades ago. The single “Oh Yeah!” is one of three songs released from the new album so far, and while it has the traditional rock ’n’ roll guitar and hard-hitting drums of a standard rock song, it misses the raunchy and fast punk vibe that undertones Green Day’s previous work.

Sampling from Joan Jett’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah),” the song starts out with a driving drum beat before launching into a repeated series of “oh yeah.” Unfortunately, the drums on the song clearly underutilize Tré Cool’s skills as an extremely talented musician, luring him into a slow beat without allowing him to add in the speedy improvisations he’s become known for.

Entering next is lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. Despite his great lyrical delivery, the auto-tuning of his voice simply detracts from the song. Without the processed-sounding vocals of Armstrong, “Oh Yeah!” would surely be more tolerable. His voice is still in excellent shape, but the mixing of “Oh Yeah!” does him no justice. Armstrong’s voice, across previous Green Day songs, makes up a significant part of the band’s signature punk-angst sound. Without his classic sound, which appears only slightly through the auto-tuning, Green Day doesn’t quite sound like Green Day.

The one good thing about “Oh Yeah!” is its meaningful lyrics and their message, touching upon the violence some American schools are experiencing amid school shootings and lack of gun control. The lyrics “I am a kid of a bad education” and “Burning books in a bulletproof backpack” evoke powerful images and thoughts about an important and pressing issue.

“Oh Yeah!” generates mixed feelings from die-hard Green Day fans. On one hand, the band’s new sound is appreciated as Green Day branches out beyond what it’s generally stuck to for more than 20 years. This expansion, however, just isn’t executed properly. While Green Day may have been trying to stray from making another punk record, the band ultimately produced a song that sounds like garage rock played by a seemingly commercialized and inexperienced group, which is certainly not what Green Day is. 

A band as legendary as Green Day producing canned pop rock doesn’t sit well with those who have followed the band’s music from Kerplunk! to American Idiot. “Oh Yeah!” only makes fans long more and more for the good ol’ punk days, as the song is ultimately an unsuccessful attempt at revitalizing Green Day’s sound.

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I get the complaints about the drums and the vocals but "fans want something else" isn't a valid criticism. I agree the revitalization could be done better/not in a shitty radio pop rock kind of sound

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So, I can't get this song out of my head. Not sure what that means, but I find myself listening to it frequently.

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What Billie said in the new Rolling Stone article about getting inspired by other artists' styles and "putting it through the Green Day filter" on the new record makes sense to me. OY totally sounds like a Cage The Elephant song with a Green Day filter over it. The song gives me vibes of both bands, and I can't say it doesn't work. (I love Cage The Elephant.)

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13 minutes ago, Thatsername said:

What Billie said in the new Rolling Stone article about getting inspired by other artists' styles and "putting it through the Green Day filter" on the new record makes sense to me. OY totally sounds like a Cage The Elephant song with a Green Day filter over it. The song gives me vibes of both bands, and I can't say it doesn't work. (I love Cage The Elephant.)

I agree, but I think Cage the Elephant also takes a lot of inspiration from bands like Pixies and Kasabian. I think they probably looked a little further back in the inspiration chain, but you can for sure be right, there is that kind of sound in here :) 

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I hear no traces of Cage the Elephant lol. OY doesn't sound like something they would do, to me at least. 

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8 minutes ago, kaylubd said:

I hear no traces of Cage the Elephant lol. OY doesn't sound like something they would do, to me at least. 

I think you can find some of that Pixies-ish sound in it, but the glam vibe coming from the JJ sample, and the “GD filter” as well, makes it still very different from any song a band like Cage the elephant released so far. That’s why I agree when people says that there are many artists influences in these songs, but at the same time I don’t really perceive this as derivative.

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15 minutes ago, DadBod said:

A Behind the Scense Video!!

 

They’re never long enough for me 

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1 minute ago, pacejunkie punk said:

They’re never long enough for me 

Same. I miss the days of MTV and FUSE having the "making of..." shows.

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4 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

They’re never long enough for me 

Wish she produced the BANG BANG clip.

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Wish they would've made it clear that the dude Tre was interviewing was supposed to be a rapper. That went over my head big time 😂

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