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11 hours ago, dreamykatie said:

wtf in this house we love and respect Misery 

from listening to interviews and stuff I do think Billie does care a lot about what fans think, but Mike and Tre tell him to ignore it and do what he/they want. I feel like all artists feel that way at least half of the time. My only hope for this album currently is that we hear more again soon. 

Misery is fantastic!  I want to know the future of the characters that survived that wild story. 

I'd be good with A 2nd Warning: We Also Told Ya So!

 

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43 minutes ago, Sanity Loan said:

And god awful lyrics with zero substance (save for one or two songs).

and they wasted one good lyric releasing it as 'oh Yeah!'

I don't mind the band trying new sounds, we have plenty of good music where the band gets out of their confort zone, that was never a problem. But FOAM was a miss, not a hit. Warning, Idiot, 21st CB are all diverse records full of different aproaches that were on point and inspired.

You can love Father Of All, but it was by far their weakest try on a new sounding and mixing.

The solid and above average discography that GD has makes FOAM sound even worse

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58 minutes ago, Sanity Loan said:

And god awful lyrics with zero substance (save for one or two songs).

His lyric style has changed no doubt, but I dispute the allegation that they lack substance. The meaning is just more deeply hidden, but he continues to write about what he’s feeling that hasn’t changed. It’s just less explicit. I would argue years of celebrity has made him more withholding and self protective of his feelings, even as he tries to stay true to himself as an artist. It’s difficult to maintain both privacy and openness.

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What will follow are surely unpopular opinions, but the Trilogy IMHO has the worst lyrics in their discography (with a few exceptions in those 37 songs).  RevRad has also some of the worst and most boring lyrics of their career.
And in my opinion FOAM is above that in, even in its simpler lyric structure. Still nothing close to the pre-Trilogy eras, of course, but at least there was again quite a few fun sparkles that they mostly lacked for a while.

Then yes, I agree with @pacejunkie punk, BJ had a very different approach to lyrics in that record, and one can hate it, totally fair. And if I have to choose between Jesus of Suburbia and Graffitia, I pick JoS any time of course. 
But between the best and the worst lyrics of FOAM and those of RevRad/the Trilogy, in many cases I would still pick a FOAM song. Exceptions made of course, their best post 21CB lyrics are still in Bang Bang IMHO, forever now is close up there. 

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21 minutes ago, HAPPY FINKING UNICORN said:

What will follow are surely unpopular opinions, but the Trilogy IMHO has the worst lyrics in their discography (with a few exceptions in those 37 songs).  RevRad has also some of the worst and most boring lyrics of their career.
And in my opinion FOAM is above that in, even in its simpler lyric structure. Still nothing close to the pre-Trilogy eras, of course, but at least there was again quite a few fun sparkles that they mostly lacked for a while.

Then yes, I agree with @pacejunkie punk, BJ had a very different approach to lyrics in that record, and one can hate it, totally fair. And if I have to choose between Jesus of Suburbia and Graffitia, I pick JoS any time of course. 
But between the best and the worst lyrics of FOAM and those of RevRad/the Trilogy, in many cases I would still pick a FOAM song. Exceptions made of course, their best post 21CB lyrics are still in Bang Bang IMHO, forever now is close up there. 

I think Junkies on a High has some great lyrics too

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5 hours ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

I agree but it doesn't sound like Green Day. That's my point. 

But no two records sound the same, that's my point. FOAM can't not sound like Green Day by virtue of the fact that it was created by the same three people (minus 39/Smooth) as every other album.

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I hope 1972 ends up being 40 minutes long at least. Or maybe we’ll get an hour long album if we’re lucky. I think 21CB was like, ironically, 72 minutes long!

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3 hours ago, Sanity Loan said:

And god awful lyrics with zero substance (save for one or two songs).

Yeah. Fire, Ready, Aim was great. 

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4 hours ago, AnonymWarnerGermany said:

FOAM sucks and is possibly the biggest disappointment in music history

you've never listened to William Shatner's foray into music. 

FOAM is fun, I do enjoy a few songs. Mainly Oh Yeah! and Graffitia. Oh Yeah! has a fun video and I enjoy the video for Meet Me on the Roof, everyone involved seemed to have a lot of fun and genuinely be glad to be there.

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1 hour ago, dreamykatie said:

you've never listened to William Shatner's foray into music. 

FOAM is fun, I do enjoy a few songs. Mainly Oh Yeah! and Graffitia. Oh Yeah! has a fun video and I enjoy the video for Meet Me on the Roof, everyone involved seemed to have a lot of fun and genuinely be glad to be there.

Meet Me on the Roof is my favorite song on the record! I even recorded a cover of it!!! I posted it here a few months ago, but just in case anyone hasn’t heard it:

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/gi6nwD9vZgucbwqr7

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43 minutes ago, GDFan2019 said:

Meet Me on the Roof is my favorite song on the record! I even recorded a cover of it!!! I posted it here a few months ago, but just in case anyone hasn’t heard it:

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/gi6nwD9vZgucbwqr7

I'm not gonna lie I expected you to be waaaaay younger dude...wow

 

Great cover too

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5 hours ago, Sanity Loan said:

And god awful lyrics with zero substance (save for one or two songs).

I'd say there were two or three with weak lyrics, but the rest was up to Green Day standards.

The three weaklings off this masterpiece:    Ready, Fire, Aim.  I literally forget it as soon as it's over.  WTF.   I'm not Justin Beiber.    Then there's the clunky I Was a Teenage Teenager Teenaging and yes, this one is kind of a dog salad of words.   Haha.

and finally is Stab You in the Heart, one of my most skipped Green Day tunes.   It's just not great at all.   But the rest is high art.   As good or better than American Idiot.  

Better than Idiot.

I hope that 1972 retains at least SOME of the FOAM magic.    

 

 

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12 hours ago, dylanperkins_ said:

i cannot believe i am able to take month long reprieves from this thread, and read through 100+ pages and have absolutely no knew knowledge to show for it

Maybe, as there's not been any news since last tease. But hey as we speculate what previous albums may or may not influence the next album, a recent comment has led to a very interesting and informative discussion on FOAM. If you had not been here, just think what you would have missed. 🤪

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4 hours ago, Sanity Loan said:

I recorded a cover of it too 🙂

 

Great job on this too!!

Also, welcome back everyone!!! What happened last night? The website went down at around 7 PM my time on the east

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