Rita Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Just listened to the preview and I liked it. I don't think it was all that amazing but that was pretty cool, very catchy.And this post is probably going to piss some people off heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katarina. Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 The song's been stuck in my head all day long, and I love it I can't wait to hear the full album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rymenocerous Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 play nice guys, Unity, Unity, Unity...Stop This...WAR!nicceee. damn it now that song is in my head. not that its a bad thing. i love Operation Ivy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welshy Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Each time I listen to it I just wish it would keep going instead of having to fade out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandypants19 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 play nice guys, Unity, Unity, Unity...Stop This...WAR!love opIV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katarina. Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Each time I listen to it I just wish it would keep going instead of having to fade out.Ha, you're not alone with that Only one week, and we'll be able to listen to the FULL song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 what'll happen when you see them live?I'll jizz a river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I'll jizz a river.proof that my secretions philosophy is correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Holly Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Ha, you're not alone with that Only one week, and we'll be able to listen to the FULL song! I can't wait any longer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marie1986 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 its been stuck in my head all day. i do like it and everything....but i was hoping for just a TAD more. maybe the whole song will blow my mindjust the whole repeating the chorus and everything gets a little old.its verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse....not complicated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warding_off_regrets Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I love this band so much. I want to hear the full song. Five years guys. Five years. I'm so excited. I feel like hugging random people I think I'll be singing "Know Your Enemy" in my sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marie1986 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 i noticed billie wasn't wearing eyeliner. so i guess that was just an AI phase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubbie Head Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I don't know why.. but I can't watch the video on my computer.. when I download it, it doesn't play! And I guess the quality is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farley drexel hatcher Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 ^ You need to have Quicktime installed. Although it's MP4 and some MP4 files don't play correctly on my computer, they jump. VLC will play it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai. Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 ^ You need to have Quicktime installed. Although it's MP4 and some MP4 files don't play correctly on my computer, they jump. VLC will play it tooAnd BSplayer aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrie44 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I think I'm starting to understand the angle of this song now. It sounds like it's supposed to be something that would be played at a large protest or riot. Something like that would be very simple, like a chant a whole crowd could scream in unison. I read in a lot of articles that this was tone Billie was trying to set with this album, and I think the artwork for the single reflects that.So I guess my point is let's not be to concerned about the simplistic song writing, it 's not a lack of ability rather done very much on purpose. Now was it a great choice for a leading single.......????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Now I've warmed to the song, its let me reflect on how some fans just may not 'get' this album. It is a departure. The way I can relate to this is Insomniac. I like that record the least. I just don't find the singles listenable to at all, and despite knowing the album is of their characteritic high standard, I just don't 'get' it. I like everything before and everything since. I can see how people may be like that with this coming album. Luckily I'm feeling the vibe, but for alot of people, only time will tell.That is funny, Insomniac is one of my fav albums from Green Day and was a great departure from Dookie. It was fast, spit in your face and get the fuck out of my way music from them.I'm not a huge fan of what I've heard so far from this single however Green Day has yet to put out a bad album. I also refuse to judge a song by 90 seconds of it. Do I think this album will sell like American Idiot did? No and honestly I don't want it to. I never enjoyed Green Day being liked by the masses. I definitely didn't enjoy the radio burning me out on Green Day songs like Holiday and Blvd of Broken Dreams. I'm concerned with how much Butch Vig might overproduce this album because Green Day is at their best just jamming out songs like Letterbomb. Either way, I've been a fan for 15 years and I will continue to enjoy and support the trio as my fav band of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'net Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I think I'm starting to understand the angle of this song now. It sounds like it's supposed to be something that would be played at a large protest or riot. Something like that would be very simple, like a chant a whole crowd could scream in unison. I read in a lot of articles that this was tone Billie was trying to set with this album, and I think the artwork for the single reflects that.So I guess my point is let's not be to concerned about the simplistic song writing, it 's not a lack of ability rather done very much on purpose. Now was it a great choice for a leading single.......?????????From the January AP Mag article:"Know Your Enemy"Deceptively simple with its Clash-like guitars and shout-along verses of "Do you know the enemy/Well gotta know the enemy," this huge rocker is a fierce call to arms against apathy. "The theme is a good example of the double meanings I'm playing with on this record," says Armstrong. "It could be a call to educate yourself on the world and what's going on, or it could also be a thing where you need to step back and look at yourself. That's something I think you'll get when you hear the second half of the record - but I'm not gonna spoil it for you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooldude256 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I think I'm starting to understand the angle of this song now. It sounds like it's supposed to be something that would be played at a large protest or riot. Something like that would be very simple, like a chant a whole crowd could scream in unison. I read in a lot of articles that this was tone Billie was trying to set with this album, and I think the artwork for the single reflects that.So I guess my point is let's not be to concerned about the simplistic song writing, it 's not a lack of ability rather done very much on purpose. Now was it a great choice for a leading single.......?????????I think you're right for the most part. A "fierce call to arms" is exactly what KYE is. Telling you to tear through everything that doesn't seem right and fight what you stand. That was the tone they were trying to set, and KYE throws it in your face right away as the lead single. It is a great choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenday_Aussie Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Doesn't sound anything like AI to me in anyway whatsoever. LOL. If anything it reminds me more of "Too Much Too Soon".Thats what I thought! Untrue.True.Thats just your opinion..Not really. I'm so far up my arse I can see out of my eyes....twice. I'm just thinking Green Day are possibly getting to that stage.Wow...thats honesty! Ditto. I agree with a lot of the comments I've seen so far that there's more repetition in the KYE preview than we 're accustomed to hearing from the band. But when I think about it, isn't this really just an observation rather than a complaint? There have been plenty of other great songs in the past that have used repetition as a strength. The Kinks "You Really Got Me" is just one of them... think also of Bowie and Suffragette City and Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" also comes to mind. So does The Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated". Does anyone ever get tired of listening to these? Methinks not.Remember, one of the concepts behind 21CB is supposed to be making out with your BF/GF/SO while the city's on fire and burning to the ground around you...which in turn reflects this angst about how things are in contrast with the hope for the future that so many of us feel right now (I mean, look at me -- I'm a 41-year-old IT systems engineer with wife and an 18-month-old daughter, and I'm scared shitless about the state of the world and what it means for all of us right now!) So maybe KYE is what's supposed to fit in this gap between the real and the ideal -- and the explosive release of energy and emotion that comes from finally realizing what has to be done to close that gap. "The enemy" is keeping your mouth shut: "silence is the enemy."So -- take those lyrics (which I think are easily on par with the best that Billie Joe has written), add Tre's furious BAM BAM BAM-BAM BAM-BAM drum rhythm, Mike's incessant, powerful, driving bass riff, and some fancy fingering from Armstrong's Stratocaster, and look what you get -- repetition that drives home a point and sends a chill up your spine. Again, and again, and again....in the powerful, egdy, and yet still eminently listenable way that we've come to expect from Green Day.Counting down the days til next Thursday when we can finally hear the whole song -- the snippets from last night's video suggest there's a few more surprises waiting for us in there.-MichaelIt was a LP Junior, not a Strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkaVicous88 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Honestly, the song sounded badass; though i'm concerned about how commercial this is. Honestly, this song will always be asociated with baskeball now, ya know?It just bugs me that this new album is supposed to be about finding and identifying who and/or what your enemy is... this is just bordering on too safe. Where's the fuckin punk ethic in this? Green day's my favorite band and I'll stick by them regardless...I just pray they don't make a habit out of such commercialism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenday_Aussie Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i feel like a teenie!!!! all day today i went around sayng " do you know your enemy" to randome peopleNah your not, remember, your only 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renjini Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Honestly, the song sounded badass; though i'm concerned about how commercial this is. Honestly, this song will always be asociated with baskeball now, ya know?It just bugs me that this new album is supposed to be about finding and identifying who and/or what your enemy is... this is just bordering on too safe. Where's the fuckin punk ethic in this? Green day's my favorite band and I'll stick by them regardless...I just pray they don't make a habit out of such commercialism.thats true, people, when they hear it on radios will be like, "ooh, i heard that on the NCAA(or whatever it was) championships!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 It was a LP Junior, not a Strat Thought Marc Spitz's book said "Blue" is a "Fernandez Stratocaster"...basically a copycat of the Fender Stratocaster that Hendrix used. Can anyone with good knowledge of this set the record straight?-M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 I think Marc Spitz is about the best source we could use considering he actually spent time with a lot of people who actually know Green Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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