New Song: "Here Comes the Shock"

[alienlifeform]

3 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I do remember laughing out loud to Stab You in the Heart and dancing to MMOTR it was so much fun. It was a great first listen but even then it felt too short. Every time I replay it it feels shorter so instead of growing on me it’s kind of shrunk?

2012 wasn’t really a short tour it was a several months long tour plus promotion that went at a wicked pace spanning several continents. 

2014 they actually did play shows both as Green Day (Australia Soundwave) and Foxboro Hot Tubs (SXSW). I think 2015 was their only true actual year off and even then they played at this small little thing called their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Even their breaks are never really breaks. 

2019 they did play shows in LA and Spain as well as promotion (in addition to Longshot and Coverups)

Yeah sorry @Alf to say they only “toured” in 2013 and 2017 over the last decade is really selling short how hard these guys work. (And as if all the time spent writing, rehearsing and recording isn’t work too)

I mean as Green Day, I know they have playing with side projects, but it's not the same. Just compare GD 01-10 with 11-20... They slowed down for sure... This next decade they already said that they want to tour less... For noth american fans there will be no problem, probably, but for us, SA, they won't come here that much...

[jengd]

17 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Simple manufacturing. It takes five months to press vinyl. Releasing it only to stream (which earns nothing) or months ahead of physical copies kills your sales.  The album only did as well as it did because they bundled it with concert ticket codes.

Surely CDs and vinyls could have been produced much earlier or if not possible hold the music release.  This is a current trend and didn’t used to be a thing.  People keep saying you had to pre-order the album to get the code, you didn’t, I got the codes without pre-ordering, folk weren’t reading it properly.

[Beerjeezus]

20 minutes ago, Alf said:

I mean as Green Day, I know they have playing with side projects, but it's not the same. Just compare GD 01-10 with 11-20... They slowed down for sure... This next decade they already said that they want to tour less... For noth american fans there will be no problem, probably, but for us, SA, they won't come here that much...

Obviously it's not great, but everyone ages and I guess it makes perfect sense that they can't do the same things they could do 20 years ago... that's just how life is. 

[The_real_st_jimmy]

16 hours ago, Beerjeezus said:

I like both the trilogy and foam, but still think the vibe isn't right. It's hard to pinpoint when exactly it started, obviously I despised Hella Mega since it was announced, so that influenced the way I felt at the start of this era, but I was very excited about FOAM when it came out, plus then the tour never happened so I don't think it's just me feeling salty, because at this point there's no tour to worry about anymore and I still get a bad vibe from this. It's hard to describe, but I think you know what I mean when I say revrad had a really positive vibe. It felt so wholesome, heartwarming idk how you want to call it. The FOAM era doesn't make me feel that at all, even though I wish it didn't change.

I relate. Tbh I feel the same way 😐you worded it perfectly

[cav9mm]

The only thing amazing about that song is that it managed to get a 30 + page thread discussing it !!

[Christian's Inferno!]

21 minutes ago, cav9mm said:

The only thing amazing about that song is that it managed to get a 30 + page thread discussing it !!

Tbf I feel like most of the discussion is just about modern Green Day at this point. But this song seems to be the tipping point to people just losing it

[Flashback]

Well, without the claps (and let's say, the "Butch Walker-signature elements"), Here Comes the Shock would have fit on RevRad or even 21CB 🤔

[Als5678ors2]

1 hour ago, Flashback said:

Well, without the claps (and let's say, the "Butch Walker-signature elements"), Here Comes the Shock would have fit on RevRad or even 21CB 🤔

Which song on those two albums is as uninteresting as Here comes the shock? Even See the Light and Bouncing off the Wall (the weakest songs on those albums imo) have a lot more stuff going on.

[AlissaGoesRAWR]

20 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Sorry I don't know how I've ended up quoting myself twice here but my phone isn't letting me delete it! 

I fixed it for you.

[Christian's Inferno!]

39 minutes ago, Als5678ors2 said:

Which song on those two albums is as uninteresting as Here comes the shock? Even See the Light and Bouncing off the Wall (the weakest songs on those albums imo) have a lot more stuff going on.

I love both of those tracks

See the Light is an underrated track and closes off 21CB perfectly! Hot take but I think it's a better closer than Whatsername

And Bouncing Off The Walls is a lot of fun!

[Als5678ors2]

11 minutes ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

I love both of those tracks

See the Light is an underrated track and closes off 21CB perfectly! Hot take but I think it's a better closer than Whatsername

And Bouncing Off The Walls is a lot of fun!

I like them too, I just think those are the weakests (or maybe uninteresting) on those albums. Just to clarify, I hold 21stCB and RevRad in great high regard.

[Flashback]

3 hours ago, Als5678ors2 said:

Which song on those two albums is as uninteresting as Here comes the shock? Even See the Light and Bouncing off the Wall (the weakest songs on those albums imo) have a lot more stuff going on.

Remember American Eulogy? Both choruses of the song are as repetitive as the chorus in Here Comes the Shock (don‘t get that wrong, American Eulogy is one of my favourite tracks of 21CB)

[Sanity Loan]

5 hours ago, Flashback said:

Well, without the claps (and let's say, the "Butch Walker-signature elements"), Here Comes the Shock would have fit on RevRad or even 21CB 🤔

🤨

[Lenny]

7 hours ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

I love both of those tracks

See the Light is an underrated track and closes off 21CB perfectly! Hot take but I think it's a better closer than Whatsername

And Bouncing Off The Walls is a lot of fun!

I agree See The Light is probably the single most overlooked song from 21cb. As a closer for an album I would say it's entirely different than Whatsername. It definitely closes the album on a much higher note than Whatername. 

[Als5678ors2]

18 hours ago, Flashback said:

Remember American Eulogy? Both choruses of the song are as repetitive as the chorus in Here Comes the Shock (don‘t get that wrong, American Eulogy is one of my favourite tracks of 21CB)

Yeah, but American Eulogy has many more changes, mike sings, the lyrics are better (but versus Here comes the shock that isn't really saying much tbh). The choruses may be repetitive, but it has two (lol). I would say that American Eulogy is more interesting than Here comes the Shock, by far.

[Bakabanas]

Comment deleted for Popper Punk reasons.

[Slave To The Network]

I should give this song another chance some time soon.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

4 hours ago, Slave To The Network said:

I should give this song another chance some time soon.

Don't waste your time.

[Pereprimus]

16 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

Don't waste your time.

Go popper punk instead 

Edited March 10, 2021 by Pereprimus

[Gonzalo17]

FOAM has 9 worse songs than this one (only Graffitia is better)... I think is a good (6,5/10) Song on the Green Day scale

[Christian's Inferno!]

57 minutes ago, Gonzalo17 said:

FOAM has 9 worse songs than this one (only Graffitia is better)... I think is a good (6,5/10) Song on the Green Day scale

There's no way this song is better than Junkies on a High or Stab You in the Heart

[Clockwise]

I'd be quite happy if we started getting more music but less touring from Green Day in the future. 

[Gonzalo17]

2 hours ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

There's no way this song is better than Junkies on a High or Stab You in the Heart

I don't like Junkies (not Green Day vibe for me), and Stab you is a copy of fuck time... But I respect other opinions of course... i read here not time ago someone disliking Forever now... Everything is possible

[That Dude]

On 3/9/2021 at 10:34 AM, Als5678ors2 said:

Yeah, but American Eulogy has many more changes, mike sings, the lyrics are better (but versus Here comes the shock that isn't really saying much tbh). The choruses may be repetitive, but it has two (lol). I would say that American Eulogy is more interesting than Here comes the Shock, by far.

Maybe there will be an extended version with 2 verses by Mike Dirnt.   

Sung to the melody of a Joan Jett song, but with original lyrics by MIke about getting electrocuted after peeing on an electric fence.   It's got lyrics from David's Overalls, one of the most underated Green Day freestyles of all time.    It's the only one I've ever heard, is it the only one?   

Anyway.   I think something like that could elevate this song to Rock God status.   

 

[Miko]

3 hours ago, Gonzalo17 said:

I don't like Junkies (not Green Day vibe for me), and Stab you is a copy of fuck time... But I respect other opinions of course... i read here not time ago someone disliking Forever now... Everything is possible

Probably me, since I advocate ''fuck forever now'' movement all the time. Hopefully it's gone forever from setlist.

Also, Stab You In the Heart is literally Fuck Time 2.0 and that's why it's so fucking good; it's better on every aspect than Fuck Time (lyrics, solo, tempo, singing, instruments etc).