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

[Denice]

The more I listen to this album the more I really enjoy it. Favourite songs are Sugar Youth, Junkies on a high and Graffitia. There aren't actually any songs that I really dislike but I would say my least favourites are Fire, Ready, Aim and I Was a Teenage Teenager probably.

[ThranaM]

I like how it´s basically a new Foxboro Hot Tubs album and Stab You In The Heart is just a rip of off "Fuck Time"  🙃

 

Grafittia is really fun tho 😁

[Beyza]

I’ve seen some people saying songs on the album are actually out of tune but I couldn’t realize it. If it’s like that, it must be intentional I think. There are examples like that as I know. Did you notice something like that? 

[Clockwise]

I really fucking love this album. Every song. So so happy with the direction they went in this time around. Current favorites are probably Stab You in the Heart, Take the Money and Crawl, and Sugar Youth.

[suffoKate]

Guys, I love how freaking WEIRD this record is!

I wonder when we can  hear those 7 extra songs?

Edited February 7, 2020 by SqueekBatHalloweenBlaster

[Little Boy Named Booze]

It's so short. I can listen to it like 20 times a day. Please don't wait until 2024 for a new album tho

[Hermione]

56 minutes ago, That Dude said:

It's a marvelous album!  The only negative comment I have is some of the muffled vocals.  There are chunks of lyrics I can't make out no matter how many times I read them, or how hard I listen.  Is that still the case on the real release?

It's only as much as is often the case with faster Green Day songs imo. I think once I've read over the lyrics a few times and listened more they won't even seem muffled.

[The Grohl]

2 hours ago, Nightlife said:

I've seen a lot of comments about it but I don't mind the effect on 'cra-a-a-awl' in TTMAC. I'd rather be without it I guess, but honestly I've listened approximately 2 million times already and I don't even hear/notice it unless I purposely try to.

Honestly, that's one of my favorite things about the song I have no idea why, but I love it!

[petros]

It's a fun little album. I don't see how it could be considered better than anything they've released from kerplunk to 21stcb imo. Including the foxboro album which is super good too. Maybe some people didn't like the piano that much and they think it's better than 21stcb I guess, but that's it. 

It's basically an ep and considering their last album was in 2016 and they are going on the most expensive ticket priced tour of their career kinda makes it seem even worse.

[RedundantIdiot]

Now I've had a chance to digest the album I will give my track rankings:

FOAM: Tier A

FRA: Tier C

Oh Yeah: Tier B

MMOTR: Tier A

IWATT: Tier C

SYITH: Tier B

Sugar Youth: Tier B

JOAH: Tier A

TTMAC: Tier A

Grafitia: Tier A

 

[Hermione]

5 minutes ago, SqueekBatHalloweenBlaster said:

Guys, I love how freaking WEIRD this record is!

 

Agreed!

I laughed out loud when the Stab You in the Heart chorus came on. The lyrics are like Take Back part 2 and then rock n roll boogie guitars. Hilarious.

Graffitia is really something. Some pretty serious lyrics to end the album on. It feels like a classic, as in as if it's from a few decades ago and as in a standout track.

[The Grohl]

NVM I put it in the right thread

[petros]

Stab You in the Heart is so bloody awesome though. Love this song. I want a full album of songs like this. And no Dos isn't it.

[Thatsername]

11 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Graffitia is really something. Some pretty serious lyrics to end the album on. It feels like a classic, as in as if it's from a few decades ago and as in a standout track.

What's also interesting about Graffitia is that it's one of (very few?) Green Day songs with a fade-out ending. I love that they usually don’t do this, but it really works for this song. Kind of feels like you’re left alone after the apocalypse in a cold and broken mess and there’s no one left who can save you.

[Marina86]

I just listened to the Album (again) on my run. I didn't have much time, so I made it a fast 5k... and 26 minutes are pretty much perfect for that as well as the pace of the album!

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

So, I listened to the vinyl on my sound system for the first time, with the lyrics sheet on my hands and the volume up. Twice now. I'm quite blown away to be honest, this record is so good. All the songs capture my attention and work in many different ways.  This wanted to be a short passionate comment, but it ended up me writing way too much about each song. Not sure if you can call this a review or me smiling via my keyboard.

FOAM is a great opener, I really liked this song since the beginning, I love the lyrics, and the music keeps making me shake as hell each time I listen to it. I love rock and roll, I love songs that make you move your body, and every time drum and guitar kicks in I just can't stay still. That bass track then, beautiful as the song.

FRA is the injection of adrenaline that kicks you up when FOAM is over and you think to be allowed to breath. No way, time to clap your fucking hands  In the beginning I thought this was going to be a bit like the Christian's Inferno of the record, and well in part this is actually the case for me. But contrary to that Christian's Inferno, that I don't hate but also never include in my playlists, at the moment I find FRA extremely fun to listen to. I love the modern take towards FBHT all over it, I love the synths and the piano, and contrary to the 21CB song it's not too long. 

Oh Yeah! is a good song, this is for me a Still Breathing that works, two different songs, but I think both represent a step of the band towards modern pop rock. Contrary to Still Breathing tho, this doesn't want to be a hyper emotional song (which is cool but not my genre of song), it's marked by Joan Jett's glam, and it works. It slows down the record but at the same time keeps the paste. It's like sprinting and then keeping a normal paste to not fall on the ground, and it servers its purpose greatly. Are there songs on RevRad and the Trilogy that I prefer to this? Definitely, Bang Bang and Fell for you are the first two songs that comes to my mind. That said is a cool toon, I prefer 100 times this weirdness to having another ballad without purpose. 

Meet me on the roof is such a delight, this is one of those songs in this record that is 100% above everything they have released after 21st Century Breakdown IMHO. I just love how music and lyrics merge with each other, this is one of those songs that doesn't sound like the Green Day you would expect, but at the same time no one else but Green Day could have done. It's like a modern version of the Beatles, but different, somehow authentic. It's not Greta van Fleet (nothing agains these guys) sounding like Led Zeppelin, it's Green Day creating again another Green Day. This is also the first time the record manage to fully realise something that the trilogy only partially accomplished, because to me this screams "Stray Heart" but with a better production, and overall a better song. Listening to this song the first time for me it was something like listening hearing 21 Guns at the first 21CB listen when I was 17. Two totally different song, totally different vibe, styles, everything. But now I'm 27, I'm a totally different person, I love different things, and I listen to a different kind of music. And this song just make me fucking happy. 

I was a Teenager Teenager is such a cool anthem. "I was a teenage teenager full of piss and vinegar / I was a teenage teenager, I am an alien visitor" is one of those lines contrast that makes me love Billie Joe, in such an apparently simple song, there's so much to relate to for me. I love the progression of this song, I love that it starts at one state and it gradually evolves and changes in its 3:45, and also in this case bass, drum and guitars merge so nicely with the lyrics that the shortest lyrics of the record not make me bored for one second in its longest track. Green Day Magic (TM). This can stay in the playlist for a very very long time. 

Stab you in the heart is the second case of Green Day finally bringing to a wonderful state a missed opportunity in the Trilogy. This is not only Fuck Time but better, this is the revenge of all those attempts of merging FBHT and Green Day that I can listen in Dos!. This song is an absolute banger, the lyrics are fucking bullets hitting the wall, the familiar Johnny B. Goode-ish riff is mixed with this modern and harder Beatles-esque melodies, and also in this case one can only dance the shit out of this song. All the sound details that Butch Walker helped them to include in this one really makes the difference, and the result is one of the most beautiful Green Day have put out there in the last 10 years, at least. 

Sugar Youth is the me of 2009 getting what he wants, that fucking cunt. But it's not only that, not only because also in this case the GD 00's style is mixed and modernised through sounds that the guys experimented with in the Trilogy ( I mainly think about Lazy Bones here), but with a much better result exactly because that Green Day TM mark is more present. The lyrics are some of my absolute favourite, in the record and in the production of this band from a while.  "I need a sugar fix, it's making me sick/I wanna drink all the poison in the water/I wanna choke like a dog that's on a collar/I am the child of coyote and bandito/I'm drinking whiskey by the river doing yayo" brings me back to those old days every time I listen to this, but in a conscious and not nostalgic way, and this fucking freaks me out because it lyric wise exactly what the instrumental components are. And this fucking bit I'm hearing voices up inside my head (Oh, what you thinkin'?). Jesus, a Green Day song didn't hooked me with something like that since I don't know when.  Pure love. 

Junkies on a high is becoming another of my favourites, this really is, as I read on rolling stones, the three guys smoking a joint while the world burns surrounding them. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful lyrics, such a weird and at the same time beautiful sound for the band, why did you guys didn't write songs like this in the past? Ballads no thank you, I want this kind of shit from now on. That piano track breaking the verses, all the fucking instruments. What a trip, this is one of my favourite GD songs from now on, it's settled.  "I'm not a soldier, this ain't no new world order / My path don't follow / My name is nobody, my pride is my pornography", I keep hearing this in contrast with the Still Breathing lyrics, I love it. 

Take the money and crawl, what a beautiful mess these guys did. I really can't compare this to any they did before. Also in this case the mastery of Butch Walker in gently and respectfully push the band in the right direction is very present. The filters, sound effects, the whole production is just so much on point. And there's so much stuff happening for fuck sake, I have to listen to this 100 more time to fully digest it. God bless Tchad Blake, god bless Green Day. That intro guys, that intro is my favourite thing in a Green Day song since the violin in Peacemaker, a smile every time. I want to mosh on these lyrics, like right now, please play this mess live, please. 

Graffitia is me, if someone ask me what kind of music did I grow up with, Graffitia is a brilliant summary of that. It's Joe Strummer and Roger Daltrey meeting for a beer and a Longshot show at the Golden Bull. I wrote already so much about this song, now I just want to press play and listen to this again. 

I can't really give a vote right now. One thing I know for sure tho, last time I felt like this listening to a new record I was 17, and this is fucking magic. I am not saying that this is better or worse than 21CB breakdown. I am just saying that for sure everything that came after that falls after this for me. The record ranking and all that kind of stuff varies every month for me, it's way too soon to place this somewhere. 
At the moment I am just so glad to be a fan of this band, I hope this will have success and be recognised for what it is, a great record.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

8 minutes ago, Thatsername said:

What's also interesting about Graffitia is that it's one of (very few?) Green Day songs with a fade-out ending. I love that they usually don’t do this, but it really works for this song. Kind of feels like you’re left alone after the apocalypse in a cold and broken mess and there’s no one left who can save you.

MMOTR is a fade out too. I dont really like fade out tho. 

[Im.a.basket.case]

10 minutes ago, Marina86 said:

I just listened to the Album (again) on my run. I didn't have much time, so I made it a fast 5k... and 26 minutes are pretty much perfect for that as well as the pace of the album!

Good for you, I can listen to this album about three times running a 5k😂

[Little Boy Named Booze]

1 minute ago, Im.a.basket.case said:

Good for you, I can listen to this album about three times running a 5k😂

Wow I can't even run to my closest liquor store. But I can listen to this album 3 times while drinking a 12-pack.

[Billie Joes Eyelids]

Does anyone have any opinion on how or if this album will affect their fan base? Seems like a lot of purist longtime fans hate it  and are saying they’re done w the band, but a lot like it too. It also seems like it’s kind of a popular thing right now to trash it on social media, although that’s very much a bubble. Casual listeners might actually like this a lot more than Rev Rad because it’s so energetic and fun.

[killjoywhatsername]

I would love to hear these songs live in a club setting. I am so sad it seems hella mega is all we're getting. 

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

1 minute ago, killjoywhatsername said:

I would love to hear these songs live in a club setting. I am so sad it seems hella mega is all we're getting. 

How so, that’s just the beginning  

[xXRustyJamesXx]

VICE put it best. "It's probably the most fun some punk legends could have while fulfilling a contractual ten-album record deal obligation."

this is what I feel too. The boys are having fun and i like it! it does not blow me away but its a solid record

[Clayish]

Not as bad as I thought it would be based off the singles. I think I even prefer it to Revolution Radio.

[Montclare]

The album's grown on me a bit with the final version, but I would still put it in GD's bottom tier.  Could move into mid tier, possibly.  Whoever said a difference would be noticeable between the rip and final when it came to bass and drums was right; I thought I wouldn't notice that much of a difference between the two, but there were definite moments that stood out.  One issue that I had with the rip was the songs sounded thin; they did seem fuller here (did notice some issues in my left earbud; might just have to try a different pair and see if that's the issue).

Overall, I feel it's enjoyable, but there's no standout moment/song for me.  It's kind of like an album full of 7s, which is low for me for GD.  I would put Oh Yeah and Teenage Teenager higher, followed by SYITH and TTMAC; lowest point definitely Junkies on a High.