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Popular Post HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted January 19 Popular Post Share Posted January 19 Fucking hell, I keep getting chills every time this song starts. This is such a beautiful track, and can I dare say the best album closer in their discography? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post greendepent Posted January 19 Popular Post Share Posted January 19 I need to say that the expectations didn't match this song at all. A lot of people expected this would be a joke song or something. Then, when first few lyrics were highlighted, they decided to show "all we die..." and explain it like a warm message. Then the song drops, and is the total opposite. This is vicious, and probably one of the saddest songs I have heard, not only for Green Day, but for all the music I have heard in my life. This song continues the theme of the "party in the apocalypse" presented in FOAM, in such a manner, that leads me to think that is an outtake from that record. For the song itself, a postal of the parties BJ used to have, at the point it becomes risky. The wrenching part to me is that if you add the sentiment of dispair and losing hope of FOAM, you end up with a hymn of abandonment, where you try to wipe your mind of the impending doom that this world has become. And even if I'm no a party guy and no drinker, I can totally relate to that feeling: Wanting to escape from an awful situation, and the only thing you can do is cope. Then the final line hits like a deathwish, and makes me mirror it with my own life. As I go older, there are times I find really hard to keep moving because I keep finding this feeling of abandonment in everything I do. My task is to resist as long as I can, but this song makes me wanna finally to give up. And that's why I love it, in a very dark and twisted way. We all die young someday, but not without a fight. Or a party, if you like so as well. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillenniumFan Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 This one had to grow on me, I have to admit. Sonically, the first part did not quite have me sold initially, too slow for my liking, but the second half and lyrics more than make up for that shortcoming. What a great guitar solo and outro! It's a fantastic album closer for sure, their best since Whatsername. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalo17 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 3 hours ago, HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN said: Fucking hell, I keep getting chills every time this song starts. This is such a beautiful track, and can I dare say the best album closer in their discography? Whatsername 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillenniumFan Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 13 minutes ago, Gonzalo17 said: Whatsername Yeah that's impossible to beat. But admittedly Whatsername is in a league of its own compared to all other album closers they've done over the years, although I also think Macy's Day Parade is a worthy contender for the second spot. Fancy Sauce may be their 3rd best closer, certainly the best since Whatsername, which, it's worth remembering, was released two decades ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 1 hour ago, Gonzalo17 said: Whatsername Fair, let’s make a deal on second best and everyone’s happy 😝 1 hour ago, MillenniumFan said: Yeah that's impossible to beat. But admittedly Whatsername is in a league of its own compared to all other album closers they've done over the years, although I also think Macy's Day Parade is a worthy contender for the second spot. Fancy Sauce may be their 3rd best closer, certainly the best since Whatsername, which, it's worth remembering, was released two decades ago. I love Macy’s but at the moment this song is just feeling even more like a perfect closer especially when put in the context of the record. Might be because of how much I relate to it, and also because of the freshness, but that’s how it is atm IMHO The instrument in this song tho, Jesus such a perfect composition and production. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stories and songs Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Even though this is a slow song, I find it so catchy. It keeps getting stuck in my head. I love it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okotavio Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I really really love the melodies and riff, though I wish he kept the riff acoustically as the original teaser Definitely the best album closer since Whatsername Really love to hear Tré’s drumsticks, it’s a return to sounding more organic and authentic like Good Riddance’s intro fuck up 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grohl Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 For a song named Fancy Sauce it's grim as hell. And I love it. I had no idea what this song would be when the tracklisting originally leaked and I'm so happy it defied my expectations. I like the waltz of the music and it goes from a soothing, hushed sound to loud and brash near the end. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jengd Posted January 19 Popular Post Share Posted January 19 I couldn't understand people hating on this from must the title! Pulled me up short at the listening party, those lyrics, Jesus, has he ever written darker? Clearly written by someone who's known pain, so authentic. Love the "I'm not crazy/famous, you're the one that's crazy/famous lines", brilliant. Listening to this again and again, it's such a strong song, so emotional. Again, Billie's voice and all the instrumentation, god it's brilliant. Another slow build and longer outro but agreed, it could be their best last song and they write GREAT last songs. Whatersname is one of the best songs in the history of the world for me and this..... gives me the hairs standing up on the back of neck feel just the same. As ever, Billie has written lyrics which resonate on so many levels. We all die young some day speaks to me as an older fan because you don't feel any different but have to recognise you have less time in front of you than behind. Agree completely with @stories and songs and @The Grohl. Love it, off to cry in the corner now. 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bastard of young Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 All this talk about album closers, and no love to See the Light? Blasphemous! This was a great song, but man is it depressing. Comparing it to the high of the start of the album, it's kinda jarring. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LaughingClock Posted January 20 Popular Post Share Posted January 20 Ive already had my favorites change several times but I now keep landing on Fancy Sauce and I couldn’t figure out why and then it occurred to me that it IS quintessential Green Day. It’s a GD song through and through we needed it. Somehow as GD as this song sounds, it sounds brand new. The intro. OHHHHH the intro. It’s like he knows how to get to my soul through my ear hole. I listen to his accapella melodic intro which turns into from the Eisley Brothers sound to a rock hit but doesn’t lose its mind (but will live). This is gonna be banger live, listen now, believe later. This song is an anthem. “We all die young some day” The old “only the good die young” from the lyrics of Billy Joel which is to say “only the good die young” meaning if you don’t do shit in your life than you’ve died early no matter how old you got. So what are we to make of this lyric? I haven’t read them yet as I don’t until I’ve absorbed them. So what does it mean? All die someday, all of us? Young? Does that mean he just thinks we don’t live long enough? Than none of us live to our full happiness potential? I truly don’t know and not sure I could be convinced yet. I think it just means we all turn back to our vices. What I think is it’s a closer to the whole I’m back on wagon (or off or whatever the proper verbiage is), and we all die young someday is if you believe in the mantra “only the good die young”, it literally means if you don’t have fun you’re dead anyway but in this song put in a fairly sad, almost a melancholic way. I as much as anyone hope Billy can get clean again but it’s his life and I don’t believe anyone should hold dominion over someone else. I just hope he doesn’t do what he wants for what we want. But the song, to wrap this up, hits me in a way I can’t explain. It feels like it could be any old Green Day song, but name its musical dopledanger. I can’t. It’s like a song we needed because we don’t have yet. This song is going directly into a unique, one of my favorite Green Day songs of all time. Lovely enough, there are a couple on this album that reach that mark. Listen to this song with cans and I don’t mean ear pods, but on a nice over ear headset, smoke a cone, or not if you don’t, but if you’re gonna start, listen to this, right after AI. Ok so I’m settling for now on Fancy Sauce as my favorite current song (should say first) off the album as it will change but this is my must listen to every day song. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post stories and songs Posted January 20 Popular Post Share Posted January 20 @LaughingClockIt’s interesting, because I have a totally different take on Fancy Sauce (the power of music and good writing, woo!). Mike did an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked a bit about it, and that set me up for how to frame it. Here’s what he said: If there is a theme throughout the record, it’s making sense of all of the chaos around us, and realizing that, “Yeah, I may be insane, but it doesn’t change the fact that the world’s been gaslighting me for the last four years. Shit is bananas out there.” When I hear that song…maybe it’s the rubber room portion of it or whatever, but it is circling all the way back to “Basket Case.” I don’t so much interpret this one as being about addiction/sobriety. I think it’s about navigating a world that’s so divided and almost comically apocalyptic: “Watch the evening news cause it’s my favorite cartoon.” It also reminds me of the insanity of what you find when you open TikTok for 15 minutes: “I’m crazy! But also you’re the one who’s crazy! Everybody’s crazy!” And on social media, everyone is famous for no reason at all. “Everyone’s a victim and it makes me wanna puke” and “Gonna join a cult, do a somersault,” also very much sounds like it’s about the chronically online and the randomness of TikTok culture. With that interpretation in mind, to me, “we all die young some day” means more like — we’re all wasting our lives away on this shit that doesn’t matter, and we won’t have really experienced life by the time we die. Similar to your point, it speaks to not living your fullest life and struggling with your mental health to navigate this overbearingly absurd world we live in. But I agree with you on how great this song is — it feels new and essential to their catalog. 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaughingClock Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 20 minutes ago, stories and songs said: @LaughingClockIt’s interesting, because I have a totally different take on Fancy Sauce (the power of music and good writing, woo!). Mike did an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked a bit about it, and that set me up for how to frame it. Here’s what he said: If there is a theme throughout the record, it’s making sense of all of the chaos around us, and realizing that, “Yeah, I may be insane, but it doesn’t change the fact that the world’s been gaslighting me for the last four years. Shit is bananas out there.” When I hear that song…maybe it’s the rubber room portion of it or whatever, but it is circling all the way back to “Basket Case.” I don’t so much interpret this one as being about addiction/sobriety. I think it’s about navigating a world that’s so divided and almost comically apocalyptic: “Watch the evening news cause it’s my favorite cartoon.” It also reminds me of the insanity of what you find when you open TikTok for 15 minutes: “I’m crazy! But also you’re the one who’s crazy! Everybody’s crazy!” And on social media, everyone is famous for no reason at all. “Everyone’s a victim and it makes me wanna puke” and “Gonna join a cult, do a somersault,” also very much sounds like it’s about the chronically online and the randomness of TikTok culture. With that interpretation in mind, to me, “we all die young some day” means more like — we’re all wasting our lives away on this shit that doesn’t matter, and we won’t have really experienced life by the time we die. Similar to your point, it speaks to not living your fullest life and struggling with your mental health to navigate this overbearingly absurd world we live in. But I agree with you on how great this song is — it feels new and essential to their catalog. I love it! As usual your posts are thought provoking and even if different in line with how I think. Not many people can sway me but I think a world can exist where you can add your thoughts of the songs and mine can still exist only you’re adding to it this time. I am running out or I would add some examples but I’ll edit this post later to do so. Beautiful interpretation and I agree that the album as a whole represents a lot of what Mike said that you quoted. Can I ask you was he specifically speaking of FS or was it the album? I think your interpretation is lovely. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stories and songs Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 @LaughingClockYes, I totally agree that our interpretations can exist together and go hand-in-hand! I think the beginning of the song could especially speak to issues relating to sobriety: "Scratching at the wallpaper in my solitude/go, go, falling like a yo-yo." Mike was responding to the journalist's comment that Fancy Sauce is a great way to wrap up the album. So it might've been a little bit of both (about the album and the song), but it seemed to ultimately be about the song by the end of his answer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AlienVisitor Posted January 20 Popular Post Share Posted January 20 Fancy sauce along with Look ma and Suzie Chapstick are the songs that I keep repeating on my playlist. But idk man, there's something about this song that stands out, the musical structure here is kind of unique in their catalogue. Like how the song ends on a long instrumental tail, it's just Billie and Tre going absolute ham. Toùche. In this day and age I couldn't ask for better music. Thank you Green Day 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjluva Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Fancy Sauce has been the sneak attack one for me. At first listen, I liked it alright, of course. Nothing about it stood out as being or becoming a favorite of mine. But mannnnnn..........with each listen I am falling deeper and deeper in love with it! It's fucking beautiful.....every aspect of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PursuitOfEpicness Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 I really enjoy this song. I like the nirvana callback 😂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Dude Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 One of the tearjerkers - along with Suzie and Adeline. Sometimes American Dream, but I don't listen to any of the singles anymore, this second half of the record is too good to go back to any of those, haha. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thatsername Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I can only agree with all of your beautiful interpretations of this song. What an album closer! So many great lyrics. The line "We all die young some day" leaves so much room for interpretation, I personally think it is (amongst many other meanings) also a nod to The Who's famous lyric "I hope I die before I get old", which is almost 60 years old. It feels like a continuation of this statement, like: Decades have passed and everything has changed, but at the same time nothing has really changed at all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie1039 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Today, I had this one and Coma City stuck in my head. This song might be my favorite off the album right now though! Such a great melody and the closing instrumental is a great way to cap off the album. I also got it stuck in my girlfriend’s head so SUCCESS! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Boy Named Booze Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I woke up to this song in my head. Never in a million years I would have thought a song named FANCY SAUCE would be stuck in my head. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilskind92 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Anyone got any idea why this is called "fancy sauce"? Is it just to be quirky and match the chaotic tone of the lyrics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grohl Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 5 minutes ago, devilskind92 said: Anyone got any idea why this is called "fancy sauce"? Is it just to be quirky and match the chaotic tone of the lyrics? I assume it was a throwaway working title they decided to keep. It subverts your expectations of the song also. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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