Random Green Day Thoughts

[jengd]

Thanks Hermione, I 'll need to go digging!

[UNICORN VOMIT]

I really like UNO.

[herewegoagain]

5 hours ago, Tinkle said:

I really like UNO.

Same! Dos and Tré are a bit hit and miss but most days I can get really into every single song on Uno. The only trouble I have with it is that they tend to feel about 30 seconds too long.

[pouty bitch]

2 hours ago, herewegoagain said:

Same! Dos and Tré are a bit hit and miss but most days I can get really into every single song on Uno. The only trouble I have with it is that they tend to feel about 30 seconds too long.

Uno is my least favourite Green Day album. I just can't get into the songs, but I've only listened to it all the way through twice. Does it get better the more you listen to it?

[Christian's Inferno!]

37 minutes ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

Uno is my least favourite Green Day album. I just can't get into the songs, but I've only listened to it all the way through twice. Does it get better the more you listen to it?

Well for some people, it might get better after a few listens. I recommend you listen to it a few more times before deciding whether you like it or not. Some songs are a bit generic but there are some good songs on the album

[herewegoagain]

43 minutes ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

Uno is my least favourite Green Day album. I just can't get into the songs, but I've only listened to it all the way through twice. Does it get better the more you listen to it?

Well I'm a firm believer in giving new music a decent chance, I couldn't judge it fairly on two listens  I think I got into it fairly quickly, but I also had quite low expectations. Having listened to and fallen in love with everything up until the Trilogy over two months's time, whilst picking up on the general negativity here and elsewhere, it didn't take much to be pleasantly surprised. But I listened to it A LOT for a while after that, and still enjoy it so I guess it's a stayer. Also Dos+Tré paled in comparison for me (bar a few songs) even with the open mind that came with liking Uno. Not sure if that answers your question

[Jesus of Seneca]

In the pop choir at my school, we're going to do Good Riddance!!!!!!! 

We've been trying to decide on a more modern song that we could add instrumentation to for about a week now,

and it literally came down to a coin toss between that and sound of silence. The GD gods looked favorably upon me today i guess.

And now i've got about a month to learn it on guitar 

[St. Jonny]

It's pretty easy! Harder to get the singing down, but it's not hard in the end.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

8 hours ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

but I've only listened to it all the way through twice. 

Does that go for dos & tre as well? 

[Ritz]

Today was the day when the press release about the Trilogy came out. Man, that was an awesome time.

[Spoopy Doo]

14 hours ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

Does it get better the more you listen to it?

No it actually gets worse tbh. The second half (Loss of Control-Oh Love) is better than the first half (Nuclear Family-Fell for You) though

[pouty bitch]

14 hours ago, Tinkle said:

Does that go for dos & tre as well? 

I haven't listened to Tre very much, but I listen to most songs on Dos pretty regularly. It's my favourite out of the three.

[Christian's Inferno!]

10 hours ago, Spoopy Doo said:

No it actually gets worse tbh. The second half (Loss of Control-Oh Love) is better than the first half (Nuclear Family-Fell for You) though

Most people actually think the first half is better than the second half.

Imo, I don't really think one half is better than the other. I have favourites from both sides of the album

2 hours ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

I haven't listened to Tre very much, but I listen to most songs on Dos pretty regularly. It's my favourite out of the three.

I really would recommend giving the trilogy a proper chance though. A lot of people don't and actually miss out on some music that they might really enjoy if they did actually give it a chance

[pouty bitch]

5 minutes ago, MysticManiac said:

Most people actually think the first half is better than the second half.

Imo, I don't really think one half is better than the other. I have favourites from both sides of the album

I really would recommend giving the trilogy a proper chance though. A lot of people don't and actually miss out on some music that they might really enjoy if they did actually give it a chance

I really have tried to listen to Uno and Tre, but I just can't get into most of the songs, especially Uno.

[WhatsHerNameGeorgia]

On 4/9/2017 at 9:22 AM, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

I notice that a lot of people on this thread are saying that they had known about Green Day for a long time, but didn't really become a fan until last year. It was the same with me, but I thought I was the only one. Thank God I'm not.  I became a casual fan around about July last year, but since then, I've listened to more and more of their music and now I own all of their albums and I consider myself fully part of the fandom.

So, more people are becoming proper Green Day fans, and I have also noticed that a lot of young kids are going to see shows on the Rev Rad tour. Why is Green Day gaining so many fans now?

Also, some people on this thread have said that they stopped coming on GDC around trilogy era, but now they have started coming back on regularly. Why is that? Is it because there was a lack of wow in the trilogy, or is it because you have gained a lot of love for Rev Rad?

Same here. I knew of them and listened to them casually throughout high school and college in the 1990's. But seeing them live for the first time on March 10 just blew me away. I've listened to little else besides GD since the show. I'm glad it's not just me, too. I'm all in.

[pouty bitch]

3 minutes ago, WhatsHerNameGeorgia said:

Same here. I knew of them and listened to them casually throughout high school and college in the 1990's. But seeing them live for the first time on March 10 just blew me away. I've listened to little else besides GD since the show. I'm glad it's not just me, too. I'm all in.

I've known about them for about 10 years, but I only started listening to them about a year ago. I've yet to see them live, but hopefully, I won't have to wait much longer. 

GD is the only thing I've listened to for about 10 months now. I'm just addicted.  

I've noticed a lot of people on GDC who say they only became a fan within the last year, so we're not the only ones.  

[bouncingoffthewallbja]

Revolution Radio followed East Jesus Nowhere on my GD playlist earlier and I thought they went so well together 

[Marki.]

2 minutes ago, bouncingoffthewallbja said:

Revolution Radio followed East Jesus Nowhere on my GD playlist earlier and I thought they went so well together 

Another reason to add EJN to the setlist... 

[bouncingoffthewallbja]

18 minutes ago, Marki. said:

Another reason to add EJN to the setlist... 

And Welcome to Paradise!!

[UNICORN VOMIT]

7 hours ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

 Dos pretty regularly. It's my favourite out of the three.

Same

[Boulevard of Brexit Dreams]

17 hours ago, G-L-O-R-I-A said:

I've known about them for about 10 years, but I only started listening to them about a year ago. I've yet to see them live, but hopefully, I won't have to wait much longer. 

GD is the only thing I've listened to for about 10 months now. I'm just addicted.  

I've noticed a lot of people on GDC who say they only became a fan within the last year, so we're not the only ones.  

I'm another new fan, I only really got into them in January! I listened to AI a year and a half ago but until recently the only GD songs I really liked were the first 4 songs on AI

As for the trilogy, I like UNO but not Dos or Tre, save for a few songs like Lazy Bones and 99Rev

I like the more x rated songs on Uno- troublemaker cracked me up with 'I like your BM excellent tits' 😂

Edited April 13, 2017 by Boulevard of Brexit Dreams

[pouty bitch]

2 hours ago, Boulevard of Brexit Dreams said:

I'm another new fan, I only really got into them in January! I listened to AI a year and a half ago but until recently the only GD songs I really liked were the first 4 songs on AI

As for the trilogy, I like UNO but not Dos or Tre, save for a few songs like Lazy Bones and 99Rev

I like the more x rated songs on Uno- troublemaker cracked me up with 'I like your BM excellent tits' 😂

There's not many songs I like on Uno, but I do love Troublemaker too. 

[Spoopy Doo]

22 hours ago, MysticManiac said:

Most people actually think the first half is better than the second half.

I've noticed, haha. I kinda like Stay the Night and Kill the DJ isn't as horrible as I initially thought it was but as a whole I still prefer the second half 

[RedundantIdiot]

I have a question: have GD ever/never sold programmes at gigs? Or is selling programmes at concerts something bands don't really do nowadays?? I was really surprised to see that GD weren't selling programmes at my gig, and they don't seem to have done it at all during the tour.

I'm sure that if they'd produced programmes it would have been an interesting read- interviews, pictures, factoids about the tour, posters, etc. I don't know how much it would cost to produce a load of programmes... but at the gig I went to there were massive queues at the merchandise stands, and people were spending a lot of money. I'm pretty sure that if programmes were available people would have bought them- I know I would've, and I'm sure a lot of people here would've.

[jengd]

Yes, they did on 21 CB tour, they were nice, large format, glossy, colour, mainly pics but I like my one, I think they were £5.00.  I was at  Donnie Osmond in January (yes, I know, I'm a very good friend, but it was awful) and programmes were £25.00 so even my mad obsessed friend didn't buy one!  Don't know if they have just got expensive to produce or Donnie was just milking it, that was the impression I got from the rest of the evening, total antithesis of a GD show haha.