No Fun Mondays

[Yosuke Hanamura]

Knowing Billie, that’s not gonna happen.

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

Geez this community is always so overdramatic  One week without NFM  (after getting 3 [three] songs in one week) and you start thinking about the band breaking up and whatsoever  I think we should just enjoy these covers for what they are, Billie getting bored and recording a bunch of songs out of his music library. 
If an album will ever be released out of this it will be more for collectors’ sake than for commercial reasons, as fun and good as they can be, these are a bunch of demo-covers. They play in a totally different league than any GD record, and IMHO they can show us something about what music Billie likes to play and listen to, but not much more. 

Of course there is that part of the fanbase that hates FOAM and that musical direction so much that even this bunch of power pop covers is better than it, but this doesn’t change the nature of the NFM project. A fun activity to entertain us and Billie himself, that nothing says about the future of this band. Which I hope will still be very, very, very long. 

[Beerjeezus]

I would honestly prefer that to making albums they act unexcited about

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

3 hours ago, Beerjeezus said:

I would honestly prefer that to making albums they act unexcited about

I don’t think they were/acted unexcited about FOAM. It’s not their role and responsibility to build a promotional campaign that works. Whenever they had the chance to talk about and promote the record they didn’t sound unexcited to me. 
We can agree that the promotion of that record didn’t work out very well, but I don’t think that band is to blame for Crush strategy. Or for the fact that it was a promotion campaign largely based on a tour that will not happen for at least another year. 

[The Grohl]

I never thought they weren't excited about FOAM. I know they seemed that way in interviews, but they do a ton of those per day, answering the same questions. Of course, they're gonna get bored with that. We also don't know what else was going on with them at that time. And I think it's been mentioned that around promotion is when SWMRS had that bad accident, so that may have been weighing on them too. If anything, I think they're bummed that this whole thing pretty much killed further promotion for FOAM. 

[DookieLukie]

They barely played any new songs. Odd that a band excited about their new music didn't play anything outside of their singles.

[Beerjeezus]

13 minutes ago, DookieLukie said:

They barely played any new songs. Odd that a band excited about their new music didn't play anything outside of their singles.

That’s what made me think they weren’t into it more than any eyerolls.

[Montclare]

ITWAN didn't hit any new peaks this week, but did hit 2 million on spotify today.

[Squashie]

37 minutes ago, Montclare said:

ITWAN didn't hit any new peaks this week, but did hit 2 million on spotify today.

Also has 1.2M views on Youtube

Corden performance has 916K views

[killjoywhatsername]

I so far have heard Billie's "I Think We're Alone Now" three times on the radio which is three times more than any song off of FOAM

[Hermione]

16 hours ago, DookieLukie said:

They barely played any new songs. Odd that a band excited about their new music didn't play anything outside of their singles.

When have they ever played anything outside of their singles when initially promoting a new album and the songs they're releasing from it? They would've played more on the tour. There's only 10 songs on the album lol, and playing singles when appearing on TV shows is standard.

 

[Beerjeezus]

30 minutes ago, Hermione said:

When have they ever played anything outside of their singles when initially promoting a new album and the songs they're releasing from it? They would've played more on the tour. There's only 10 songs on the album lol, and playing singles when appearing on TV shows is standard.

 

They played Forever Now a 7 minute non-single song during revrad promo 

[ThranaM]

They released the Manic Monday cover on Spotify today 😎

[That Dude]

17 minutes ago, ThranaM said:

They released the Manic Monday cover on Spotify today 😎

It's on itunes now.    Yay!

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

17 hours ago, DookieLukie said:

They barely played any new songs. Odd that a band excited about their new music didn't play anything outside of their singles.

I mean they basically only had three weeks of promotion since the album release. They didn’t even manage to get to the east coast, they didn’t even have the chance to play MMOTR that is a single with music video. I don’t see how we can judge a promotional cycle that barely started, and based on that evaluate the band excitement for the new material. 
Also, Mike mentioned in a few occasions that he was looking forward to play songs like Graffitia and SY, if I recall correctly same did Tre and Billie (who also played a unplugged version of the former). I don’t really see the point here.

[Hermione]

1 hour ago, Beerjeezus said:

They played Forever Now a 7 minute non-single song during revrad promo 

Sure there's a few examples like that but like, bands playing singles when promoting their new album and singles still isn't unusual in any way . They may have come to play some non single songs if covid hadn't capped their activities but if they didn't it still wouldn't mean anything. It seems like major clutching at straws to say that a band playing singles from an album to promo it is something at all remarkable or a cause for concern or indicative of anything. 

[WorryRock02]

Manic Monday available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play and iTunes

https://greenday.lnk.to/manicmonday

[pacejunkie punk]

2 hours ago, ThranaM said:

They released the Manic Monday cover on Spotify today 😎

Awesome! That brings the total to six official new Green Day releases (released under artist Green Day on Spotify: three track Otis EP, ITWAN, Dreaming and Manic Monday) in the last three months alone since FOAM. That’s besides all the other NFM songs. Not bad.

[Beerjeezus]

I’m not painting this as a conspiracy theory, but listen to the show where they played 21CB in its entriety, the trilogy era shows where they played lots of new songs, or the revrad release party where they also played quite a few songs from it and then compare with the FOAM release party where they played two singles, botched one of them and then Billie proceeded to forget lyrics to every other song. Sorry it just doesn’t look the same to me

[Q-Man]

4 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

I’m not painting this as a conspiracy theory, but listen to the show where they played 21CB in its entriety, the trilogy era shows where they played lots of new songs, or the revrad release party where they also played quite a few songs from it and then compare with the FOAM release party where they played two singles, botched one of them and then Billie proceeded to forget lyrics to every other song. Sorry it just doesn’t look the same to me

Exactly what I was thinking. Even since at least AI they have played nearly every song from their new albums at least once (with some exceptions). But FOAMs own release party hardly had any new songs and the ones that hey did play were singles that were already released. The album is so short that they could have played at least SOMETHING new that people hadn't heard. It just came off very weird and made it seem like they aren't that into the album.

[That Dude]

I am all about deep cuts live.  It's kind of my thing.  

But chill out.   When Hella Mega comes back, who knows what they will play?

It'll be all the big hits, for sure.  But I think with the fun nature of the thing, they will have some nice surprises for us and may deviate from the standard. 

At least covering each others songs every now and then.

Green Day have debuted most of their songs live, but have let some killer tunes fall by the wayside the last few cycles.  And Rev Rad had no excuse, there were no disasters that time,  haha.

But yeah.  

Wait on Hella Mega. 

Then we can all complain about how, in front of a 100,000 people, the bands played what most of those people wanted to hear.  

 

[Hermione]

How can we judge properly when their promo was halted prematurely by covid though? I don't get why people act like there aren't unprecedented circumstances going on this time around. There was complaining before that Billie was doing stuff alone and that they weren't promoting the album during quarantine. It's like....this is a unique situation. And they also have a new management company. I really think some people are just projecting their feelings about the album onto the band  

[Montclare]

2 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Awesome! That brings the total to six official new Green Day releases (released under artist Green Day on Spotify: three track Otis EP, ITWAN, Dreaming and Manic Monday) in the last three months alone since FOAM. That’s besides all the other NFM songs. Not bad.

ITWAN is under Billie's name on spotify.  Haven't looked yet, but I would assume Manic Monday would be too. Or am I missing something?

I wonder if he'll do Manic Monday on GMA now.

Edit- huh.  Looks like it's listed under both Billie and GD now on spotify.  I'm almost positive ITWAN was only under Billie's name before.

[Beerjeezus]

39 minutes ago, Hermione said:

How can we judge properly when their promo was halted prematurely by covid though? I don't get why people act like there aren't unprecedented circumstances going on this time around. There was complaining before that Billie was doing stuff alone and that they weren't promoting the album during quarantine. It's like....this is a unique situation. And they also have a new management company. I really think some people are just projecting their feelings about the album onto the band  

This is funny to me since I was one of the few people on here who loved the album. I don’t dare imagine what people who disliked it are thinking

1 hour ago, Q-Man said:

Exactly what I was thinking. Even since at least AI they have played nearly every song from their new albums at least once (with some exceptions). But FOAMs own release party hardly had any new songs and the ones that hey did play were singles that were already released. The album is so short that they could have played at least SOMETHING new that people hadn't heard. It just came off very weird and made it seem like they aren't that into the album.

Exactly. It seemed odd and like they were writing the whole thing off before it started. That was disappointing - I was looking forward to the new stuff

[pacejunkie punk]

37 minutes ago, Montclare said:

ITWAN is under Billie's name on spotify.  Haven't looked yet, but I would assume Manic Monday would be too. Or am I missing something?

I wonder if he'll do Manic Monday on GMA now.

They have both been released under both BJA and Green Day artist profiles on Spotify. Look them up under Green Day they are there under latest singles alongside Dreaming.