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Blasphemy & Genocide: Unpopular Green Day Opinions, Part 2


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39 minutes ago, BUBBYBUB said:

I have not heard this song yet. Now I want to. 

 

Here ya go,

 

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Not a fan of this one. Im not really crazy about the trilogy except for a few songs. The guitars good on this song though 

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On 7/16/2018 at 1:27 AM, WhiteTim said:

I’m a Trilogy Middle Grounder? Like I don’t hate the trilogy but don’t love it like others  

Yeah me too, it's definitely not the best thing they have ever done but I still enjoy it. It's like when parents love the shitty drawings of their kids, they might not be the next Monet but they're still cool.

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3 hours ago, WhiteTim said:

I am curious to hear the 21st Century Breakdown version of Drama Queen since Murder City replaced it at the last moment 

Same, especially if it wasn't acoustic

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11 hours ago, SHART said:

It all  comes back to the period😌

You are a sick individual.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Possible unpopular opinion: I actually like this mashup from Acoustic for a Cure.

 

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Joe Satriani is coming to Oz & Metallica is due - I'm up for a Metallica GD tour.  Now for sure that's unpopular😏🙃

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7 minutes ago, greendepent said:

I don't want Dookie tour. Even if it's just a plain rumor.

Agreed. Don't want them to be a nostalgia act.

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22 minutes ago, Jane Lannister said:

Agreed. Don't want them to be a nostalgia act.

Me too. But it's 100% not going to happen.

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1 hour ago, Jane Lannister said:

Agreed. Don't want them to be a nostalgia act.

I don't really have that concern, but I had the thought that if they went for a Dookie tour in the following month that might delay their next album and I can't wait for that one. First GD album I'm actually waiting for. Anyways, Green Day, if you do tour for Dookie's 25th anniversary, please don't stick only in the US, come to Europe (that wish must be as redundant as the speculations about them touring :P)

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Aren't they already risking being a nostalgia act by not changing the setlist? They add new songs from their latest album but everything else surrounding it is about the same at least for their stadium shows. I'm not opposed to a Dookie tour. I think it would be cool and it surprises me how many people are against it. But that's just me. 

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33 minutes ago, kaylubd said:

Aren't they already risking being a nostalgia act by not changing the setlist? They add new songs from their latest album but everything else surrounding it is about the same at least for their stadium shows. I'm not opposed to a Dookie tour. I think it would be cool and it surprises me how many people are against it. But that's just me. 

I think there's a difference between mixing new songs with classics and making a tour based solely on 25 year old songs. You can appreciate and acknowledge old songs without trying to cash in on old material. They COULD play the Dookie record front to back on regular shows once they released a new album or decided they want to tour again without advertising it as a "Dookie Tour". Personally I would love it if they played more old songs at their shows along with new material.

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44 minutes ago, Billie Hoe said:

I think there's a difference between mixing new songs with classics and making a tour based solely on 25 year old songs. You can appreciate and acknowledge old songs without trying to cash in on old material. They COULD play the Dookie record front to back on regular shows once they released a new album or decided they want to tour again without advertising it as a "Dookie Tour". Personally I would love it if they played more old songs at their shows along with new material.

That makes sense but I don't think if they did a Dookie tour it would run risk of them being a nostalgia act. That would be if they didn't constantly release stuff. And it's probably not gonna happen anyway. We can just hope they rehearsed all the songs to see how one's they don't play sound. So maybe they'll replace "She" on the upcoming tour with "Sassafras Roots" 😂 

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I don't know how many songs from Dookie will be on the next tour (whenever that may be), but I don't want all the focus to be purely on Dookie's anniversary as AI and 21st CB have important anniversaries next year, too. A mixture of songs from those 3 albums (hopefully a few of the lesser-played songs) and the classics and new songs would be the best option. 

 

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They should just change up the setlist period. I understand their concerns but they're a huge band with a deep catalog. And we live in a world where anyone can find all their songs fast and easy. Maybe some people would miss songs like AI but it would the shows more fun especially for those who see multiple shows in one run. 

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5 hours ago, kaylubd said:

Aren't they already risking being a nostalgia act by not changing the setlist? They add new songs from their latest album but everything else surrounding it is about the same at least for their stadium shows. I'm not opposed to a Dookie tour. I think it would be cool and it surprises me how many people are against it. But that's just me. 

They've always mostly stuck to a set setlist when touring and just switched out a few songs with each new album since literally before Dookie so not really.  Even when they only had Dookie and two underground albums out they still always played the same Dookie songs and never played the others lol. And you can compare setlists from any tour of their career and it's the same, virtually the same setlist each night with only minor changes since the previous tour.

I do think they could be a bit more daring with the changes and they need to be more ruthless with cutting some AI and Dookie songs. But it's nothing new for them to play shows this way. It's not like they used to be a band who did a different setlist every night and then changed to a nostalgia act in their old age :P, it's just their style of touring/playing shows.

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12 hours ago, Jane Lannister said:

Agreed. Don't want them to be a nostalgia act.

Actually, my fear comes more for how media has reacted to those pics in instagram and certain rumors around me that leads to they making a worldwide tour with this. And I'm not prepared to that, financially speaking :lol:

The nostalgia act is something that they already are. For us doesn't feel that so, because this band is still around and we are still giving attention, as always. But for most casual listeners, they are a nostalgia act to remind "youth days"

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7 hours ago, greendepent said:

Actually, my fear comes more for how media has reacted to those pics in instagram and certain rumors around me that leads to they making a worldwide tour with this. And I'm not prepared to that, financially speaking :lol:

The nostalgia act is something that they already are. For us doesn't feel that so, because this band is still around and we are still giving attention, as always. But for most casual listeners, they are a nostalgia act to remind "youth days"

Yeah, but there's a difference between being viewed as a nostalgia act because of being slightly less in the spotlight and accepting the role so fully that all you do is cashing in on stuff you did 25 years ago.

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I wouldn't say they'd be heading into becoming a nostalgia act just because they would do a Dookie tour, I don't even get how someone can see them like this being aware of the long, amazing RevRad tour followed by Billie doing a Longshot tour with a bunch of new songs... all this in 2 tight years. And we know that anniversary tour or not we're getting a new Green Day album when they're ready to launch it. So I'm not exactly against a Dookie tour and I especially wouldn't see them as a nostalgia act because of that (and if they did such a tour, I totally figure they'd be able to break that scheme that a band doing a 25 years album anniversary is a nostalgia act, by releasing a new album a few months afterwards :happy:) but I see them more playing more Dookie songs in the middle of the setlist for their next album, or play Dookie in full at some shows of their following tour, more than doing an entire tour based on this, thing they've never done in their 30-year long career.

I would love them to do a tour based on multiple anniversaries (Dookie, AI, 21CB) with lots of songs that we've almost never heard live but I don't really know how much work that would ask them and if I wouldn't prefer to get the new album sooner. Though I think they could manage to make a single- or multiple- anniversary tour short enough that we get the new album in 2020. I don't really care in advance what they will do but as long as we see that they're back together, I don't worry, whatever they'll do I trust them to please us. As for Tre posting their rehearsal setlist, we had multiple evidence in the past that they do rehearse songs they don't end up playing (from all the songs they keep playing through the years even though rarely, I'm thinking of some they played during their 30 minutes live gig last summer to help collecting funds after the hurricanes in the US, they do play these songs here and there) and songs they only play at soundcheck even during the RevRad tour (I remember to have seen a video of Homecoming during soundcheck and it must one example among many others). So yeah perhaps Tré posted that setlist as a thought of the upcoming anniversary but I don't know if we can jump from that to Dookie tour. 

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You Americans are spoilt with your spontaneous club shows.

The last four Green Day tours in Australia have been arena shows and I would absolutely kill to see them play dookie in full at a small venue. (Ideally with my own band as support act 😅 )

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The only thing that could justify an anniversary tour would be if they did it in small venues and as a trio."Authentic Dookie experience" would still mean they'd be milking an old album but it would deffo have some added value.

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