Father of all Motherfuckers - What are your thoughts on the new album?

[Beyza]

I’ve listened to it 6 times front to back since 7 am in this morning. It could be one of the easiest albums to listen and really makes you want to listen to more. SYITH is stuck in my head so much. I still really love FOA but whole album doesn’t sound like that, it starts and turning into something different. It’s really like a trip.

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

1 minute ago, Beyza said:

I’ve listened to it 6 times front to back since 7 am in this morning. It could be one of the easiest albums to listen and really makes you want to listen to more. SYITH is stuck in my head so much. I still really love FOA but whole album doesn’t sound like that, it starts and turning into something different. It’s really like a trip.

Came out from a two hours work meeting, for two hours I just wanted to scream I wanna stab you in the heart, right in the bloody bloody heart. This song is very versatile 

[Platypus2000]

Meet Me On The Roof and I Was A Teenage Teenager are still utterly horrible after 25-30 listens. 
 

The rest is okay. Solid. Not amazing. Just solid. Though I REALLY hope they put TTMAC and Graffitia in the set list. 
 

I love you Billie but please don’t make us listen to your strained falsetto on FOA, FRA and MMOTR live, makes me cringe. 😂

[Jonny smith]

Brilliant. Yes he borrows some old melodies in songs like graffitia (the clash bank robber) and sugar youth (she’s a rebel), but that’s the fun in it all. No strings fun rock n roll. They don’t wanna make a part 2/ copy albums from their past. Boring for them and boring for us

[CherryBombs&Gasoline]

I think I'll listen to Nimrod instead of FOAM today, which is weird. I usually have a new Green Day record on repeat for months after it's release. Not sure what that says about the album 😅

[Bakabanas]

5 minutes ago, Jonny smith said:

Brilliant. Yes he borrows some old melodies in songs like graffitia (the clash bank robber) and sugar youth (she’s a rebel), but that’s the fun in it all. No strings fun rock n roll. They don’t wanna make a part 2/ copy albums from their past. Boring for them and boring for us

Billie once said, I cannot remember where and when, that nowadays you just simply cannot avoid making melodies, esoecially with his writing, that do not resemble The Clash, etc. 

And that is understandable, you cannot make another Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, but I am looking at this album like its the classic melodies through the Green Day lense. And still, there are some unique melodies, and in the year 2020, where it may seem that everything has already been written, is actually quite great

[Aidana]

Take the money and crawl is such a banger damn. I hope they will have it in the set list 

[Red]

2 hours ago, Jonny smith said:

Brilliant. Yes he borrows some old melodies in songs like graffitia (the clash bank robber) and sugar youth (she’s a rebel), but that’s the fun in it all. No strings fun rock n roll. They don’t wanna make a part 2/ copy albums from their past. Boring for them and boring for us

I personally don't even care that melodies from non Green Day songs are used, it's when he recycles used Green Day songs that disappoints me, I don't mind when it's older albums, but on the same album multiple times? Yeah that's a little much.

I have said in the past that I'd give it a 7, but I am pretty happy with a final score of 6.
I would have rated this album higher than a 6 if it:

1: Wasn't filled with repetitive melodies.
2: Was a little longer, maybe 3 tracks or so would have done it.
3: Didn't have such god-awful fan insulting cover art, I don't care if it's a troll album or not, there's just no excuse here.
4: Didn't have those stupid pew pew laser sounds on some of the best bangers (This is a Rock 'n' Roll album, I don't wanna hear that shit).

Keep in mind that 6 isn't bad, most of the songs here are quite solid, but to me it's still only slightly above average. When compared to even the trilogy albums this just doesn't cut it musically, and the overall presentation of the album along with its terrible marketing certainly doesn't help give a good impression (Billie, try to at least be somewhat sober next time you are going to announce a freaking album).

I am interested to see what the leftover songs are since they "didn't really fit on the album", from what I understand it's probably going to be an EP right? "Son of the Father of all Motherfuckers" is what I am gonna use as a placeholder name for this.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

4 hours ago, RisingRedWolf said:

Don't worry FRA is one of my personal top songs on the album, not sure why a lot of people seem to not like it very much to be honest.

Me too! I didn't like it very much when the NHL released the song. But since the album is out I'm digging it a lot!!

[WhiteTim]

I was lukewarm with the three singles when they came out but with the album I actually love em I love most of the songs other than Teenage Teenager which would be bottom of the list but still decent I’ve listened to this album non stop this week I haven’t even listened to the other album I bought that came out last week 

[Beerjeezus]

Junkies On The High should be a single 

[Gonzalo17]

Is to short... Tune in Tokyo and Foot in Mouth are longer and considered EPs

[Tre's Busted Drumkit]

Finally got around to it. First reaction: fun. Short, forgettable, fun. It feels more like an EP overloaded with tracks than it does a true, full album, but after 15 years of writing epic rock operas and...whatever the trilogy was, the band has earned a short, forgettable, fun, glorified EP.

[jengd]

Don’t agree with @Gonzalo17 it’s like a burst of adrenaline, the more I listen, the more I think it’s like all the main classic rock updated and perfectly suited to this period where everyone’s attention span is about 3 minutes.  While I would like more music, it would lessen the impact of it.

Edited February 13, 2020 by jengd

[WhiteTim]

23 minutes ago, Gonzalo17 said:

Is to short... Tune in Tokyo and Foot in Mouth are longer and considered EPs

EP in America are considered 4-6 songs and/or 30 mins or shorter 

since FOAM is 10 songs it doesn’t fit the EP standard 

[Gonzalo17]

11 minutes ago, WhiteTim said:

EP in America are considered 4-6 songs and/or 30 mins or shorter 

since FOAM is 10 songs it doesn’t fit the EP standard 

Tune in Tokyo 7 tracks, foot in mouth 11, so the only Green Day EPs on their discogrsphy are Live tracks, Oh Love and 21 Guns... Either last night on earth is 7 tracks... And we all consider them "EPs" 

Edited February 13, 2020 by Gonzalo17

[Hermione]

6 hours ago, Jonny smith said:

Brilliant. Yes he borrows some old melodies in songs like graffitia (the clash bank robber) and sugar youth (she’s a rebel), but that’s the fun in it all. No strings fun rock n roll. They don’t wanna make a part 2/ copy albums from their past. Boring for them and boring for us

Omg yes The Clash! Knew Graffitia reminded me of someone. Awesome.

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

10 minutes ago, Gonzalo17 said:

Tune in Tokyo 7 tracks, foot in mouth 11

Doesn’t really matter, almost everywhere (I think everywhere) a record with 10 tracks is considered an LP, also on streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify. Kanye West published a 7 tracks 23 minutes LP, bands like Alice In Chains as many other artists did the same in the past. 

[WhiteTim]

16 minutes ago, Gonzalo17 said:

Tune in Tokyo 7 tracks, foot in mouth 11, so the only Green Day EPs on their discogrsphy are Live tracks, Oh Love and 21 Guns... Either last night on earth is 7 tracks... And we all consider them "EPs" 

Tune In Tokyo and Foot in Mouth And most of those were not released in the US

UK and other countries have different standards on EP and LP’s 

[The Grohl]

I'm also one of the few that likes FRA, but it's still the weakest single. It sounds better than when I first heard it, but there are much better songs on the album. I'm just not into Billie's voice here. And speaking in terms of singles may favorite is Oh Yeah. But I will say Billie does a better job with the falsetto on MMOTF, which makes me happy because that songs is fucking awesome. 

[Lenny]

46 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Omg yes The Clash! Knew Graffitia reminded me of someone. Awesome.

It sounds like a track on the second half of London Calling 

[That Dude]

This album has me building a playlist of it's influences!

While I have taken notes of musicians Billie has name dropped, I'm sure I've missed some - any you've heard??

I am not exactly how I am organizing it yet.  One with only FOAM influence, or with other Billie favorites.  Or a seperate list for that.  

In any case, this album had me super excited about the history of Rock N Roll!

 

[Squashie]

Listening/watching Brendon Urie's twitch stream today and someone asked what he thought of the new GD album and he said it was dope.

[Lenny]

1 minute ago, DadBod said:

Listening/watching Brendon Urie's twitch stream today and someone asked what he thought of the new GD album and he said it was dope.

I don't like that dude but cool that he said good stuff

[jengd]

1 hour ago, Sheenius said:

It sounds like a track on the second half of London Calling 

The start is Bankrobber to me.