Green Day to release LP titled "Demolicious" to support Record Store Day

[Fuzz]

lol

Please add a little more thought to your comments. Really helps push conversation forward in some way.

[Sarcasm]

lol

Ok, so it's another song about Billie not having sex. I got enough of those from Kerplunk and Smooth.

[Skull_Throne]

Was talking to a friend of mine in Euroland,
He's got the clear one. I think U.S. got the red and Euro got the clear. It would make sense to split the 2,400 units right down the middle.

1,200 Red (U.S.)
1,200 Clear (Europe)

Don't quote me on that.

[Chris_Kr93s]

Was talking to a friend of mine in Euroland,

He's got the clear one. I think U.S. got the red and Euro got the clear. It would make sense to split the 2,400 units right down the middle.

1,200 Red (U.S.)

1,200 Clear (Europe)

Don't quote me on that.

sorry I need to quote u caus thats wrong.. I got one of each.. well I´m still waiting for some to arrive but ater on I have US (red and clear) nd EU (red and clear)

[Whatsinaname]

ebay has a cassette up for bids starting at $14.99

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Day-Demolicious-Black-Cassette-Record-Store-Day-2014-RSD-/141265890651?pt=Music_Cassettes&hash=item20e41a6d5b

This is the price I paid for my cassette, plus tax of course. It will be interesting to watch this on ebay!

[Annie, get your gun]

I'm losing hope about this album's sale here now...

BUT I already listened to it because of that reason (the day after it "leaked" ) and all I have to say is that they didn't disappoint me! (like that can even happen?)

State Of Shock is amazing! I love it; and Billie's totally right about the "We want to go to heaven but no one wants to die" *cough* And it has 2 lines from Angel Blue (I hope he moved them instead of saying it again!)

And the demos I liked the most are Stray Heart ♥ (the laugh at the end ), Baby Eyes especially at the beginning with that bass they didn't left and that it's great. And Rusty James it's much better than the actual version.

I was already kind of 'bored' of Stay The Night when it was official that there will be the demo and an acoustic version. I should have shut my mouth 'cause I immediately took that back when I heard the acoustic... I mean... in Billie's own personal and (perhaps homemade?) secret way that song is just flawless. I'm in love with it, it's probably my favorite out of this record!

They can't help it! That's why I'd love to have the original hard copy but, who knows.

[Insomniac1984]

After million of times listening to demolicious, the only one thing I could think about is: F**K Record Store Day Exclusive, I WANT THIS DAMNED CD TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE!!

I don't really care if they change the cover or change the order of the tracklist, I want a physical copy of this in CD. Demolicious is fantastic!!!!

[Spike]

and Billie's totally right about the "We want to go to heaven but no one wants to die" *cough*

Shame it's a Peter Tosh quote

[Annie, get your gun]

Shame it's a Peter Tosh quote

Didn't know!

Good to know now... I guess

[Cruise]

I went to JB HiFi again today and found they still had one copy left so I picked it up for anyone who wants it. It's $22 AUS plus postage. If not I will put it on ebay.

Also managed to find a record store just 10 minutes drive from me that I didn't even know existed and was lucky enough that they had one more copy of it left on vinyl. The guy was happy that his final copy went to someone who really wanted it rather then a vinyl collector or scalper.

[disappearing_boy_39]

Shame it's a Peter Tosh quote

Yep. Fast forward to 1m27s

[burnout_blast]

Camped out from 4 in the morning to get the vinyl lol now I know I'm crazy Its brilliant tho, liked the trilogy anyway so this is just an addition for me, but its fun to hear the band talking and hearin how the songs developed, gives it an intimate vibe. Loving State Of Shock and diff intro in Baby Eyes. STN acoustic is beautiful, its imperfect but thats why I like it, would be boring cleaned up.

[WhiteTim]

I don't get the State Of Shock love I mean it's alright but nowhere near a great song

[SaintJimmyvdBlom]

I gotta admit I had no clue what to expect, but I'm glad to here the results! I like State of Shock and 99 Revolutions like all others it's just a little more raw. Even Oh Love is pretty nice (unlike the original). One thing I have to admit though.. I really don't like Stay the Night acoustic.. Not that I don't love Billie's voice (ofcourse I do love it<3) but it the feeling got to me it's a little to much like Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).. It feels a little 'forced to be a beautiful ballad' to me. I dunno what's up with that, I'm not really a ballad fan anyway. Also I LOVE how some songs are just totally different in some parts (like Oh Love)!

Anyone any toughts about how the sales would have been if Demolicious would have been released 2 years ago instead of the trilogy?

Personally I think Demolicious wouldn't have been a major selling album, but I guess the would have came closer to 500.000 sales or maybe a million.. It sounds just more Green Day (like the old days).

[BCap]

I don't get the State Of Shock love I mean it's alright but nowhere near a great song

I really love the song, probably because it sounds like something the Ramones would do. I do sometimes get... interesting ideas about songs and what they sound like (for instance, I've always thought "Buddy Holly" by Weazer sounds rather Beatles-esque, enough so that I could imagine the band performing it - the music video doesn't help matters; in addition, "Your Mother Loves You Son" by Beulah almost sounds like the theme song to a Bond film [some of the lyrics don't fit, but some actually work quite well]).

I know I might get some hate, but the Ramones weren't the most complex band out there musically - Green Day, Rancid, The Offspring, blink-182, and The Clash definitely experimented more. The Ramones are still one of the absolute best punk/pop-punk bands ever, though, just because their music is so goddamned catchy and relatable. I'd say they are the Beatles of punk (kind of helps that their songs are incredibly clean - especially "Censorshit").

[lhutton93]

My Demolicious cassette just arrived! Also ended up buying International Superhits on cassette at the same time as it was fairly cheap... Can see myself starting to collect Green Day tapes now!

[green day is]

I know I might get some hate, but the Ramones weren't the most complex band out there musically

Nobody in the history of ever has claimed the Ramones were complex. Why would you get hate.

[BCap]

Nobody in the history of ever has claimed the Ramones were complex. Why would you get hate.

I was thinking of the phrase "haters gonna hate." Some people are just very anal/overly defensive.

[Mykee Mexx]

I don't get the State Of Shock love I mean it's alright but nowhere near a great song

Funny, ´cause for me it´s one of - if not - the best on Demolicious. But I don´t know anything about great music. Only like or don´t like or don´t know. I´m ignorant, but it´s okay, because it can make life more joyful to not know.

Today I got the vinyl and the CD. The seller said they even ordered more, and again had only one more vinyl left (don´t know how many vinyls they got on the whole). So I have the vinyl as a collector´s item, ´cause I have no record player. I like the versions on Demolitious, a fine summary of the Trilogy.

[desertrose]

Album Review: Green Day – Demolicious

A few weeks ago, I was having a music conversation with the teenage son of a friend of mine. This teenager is at that wonderful time of his life when his concrete music tastes are just beginning to harden, but with plenty of time left to manipulate and leave all sorts of impressions in the still smushy concrete of his aesthetic tastes. His dad does a good job of steering him away from the Nicklebacks of the musical world, but there’s a point where a dad is still a dad and a son needs to begin to assert his own manhood distinct from the old man. This is where my bad influence comes in. I’ve introduced him (to be honest, the kid does a great job of finding great bands on his own) to the early 90’s Seattle grunge bands; much to his dad’s chagrin, who, being a couple of years older than me, loves early, first-wave hair metal – think Quiet Riot and Ratt (the “good” stuff?). Anyway, during this most recent conversation, the teenage son asked me about Green Day. I replied, “That’s great, as long as you go the right direction from there.” For the record, the right direction is back towards the Ramones and The Sex Pistols, through bands like Hüsker Dü and the Dead Kennedys. The “right direction” also implies a bad direction. The “bad direction” would be any direction that leads to Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, and (please help us!) Avril Lavigne.

My warning about Green Day being a gateway to a very bad direction was not without warrant. Over the years, I have met way too many people who, while recounting their favorite bands, will rattle off a list of late ‘90s and early ‘00s punk-pop bands with Green Day shoehorned in at some point. To be fair, that’s not necessarily Green Day’s fault, although their old comrades from Gilman Street would disagree. On the flip side, it’s true that many other people have also discovered bands like Black Flag and NOFX because of Kerplunk and Dookie. I know that I did. During 1994, when I first heard Green Day, my love affair with Seattle grunge was still being dictated by whatever Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden songs the local top-forty station deigned to play. Thankfully, one of my older co-workers began to introduce me to bands like Mudhoney and the Meat Puppets (the Meat Puppets get a shit-ton of mentions in my reviews; the band should put me on their payroll). This co-worker, when I first began to listen to Green Day, also helped steer me in the right direction. So, Green Day, besides the fact that I like much of the band’s music, has a seminal place in the formation of my musical preferences.

Demolicious, the band’s latest release, is a collection of demos from 2012’s “trilogy” albums. If you’re not familiar with the “trilogy” albums, in late 2012, Green Day released three albums titled, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!. The first album ¡Uno! (obviously the first album) was released in September of 2012 with the other two albums released in November and December of that year. Regardless of Billie Joe Armstrong’s posturing that the trilogy would contain a rougher garage-rock sound with some dance vibe tracks mixed in, the albums were a welcome and somewhat surprising return to the straight up power-pop/punk that had earned Green Day legions of fans prior to the bloated attempts at rock-operas of American Idiot and 21^st Century Breakdown;two albums that hard-core Green Day fans long-sufferingly rolled their eyes at as their Girl Scout cookie hookup embraced the now popular top-40 radio band. So, although the trilogy was bloated in a different direction (way too many filler songs), many of the band’s fans who actually remember the fall of the Berlin Wall and that Green Day played Lollapalooza in 1994 breathed a hesitant sigh of relief(?) that, regardless of the middle-aged hubris of the trilogy, maybe Green Day was signaling a return to what they do best. And this is where Demolicious arrives and sweeps the deck clean. Demolicious is the album that Green Day should have released in 2012.

Although billed as demo tracks, I have had an incredibly hard time discerning any musical difference. The tracks aren’t as mastered as their squeaky, radio-ready clones on the trilogy albums, but that’s a plus – a nod to Green Day’s original DIY ethos; a possibly unwitting nod, but I’m choosing to give the band the benefit of the doubt and shelve the CD next to my CDs from This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb. The occasional “Fuck yeah!” from Armstrong along with the exuberant declamations from the band at many of the track’s conclusions tip the listener off that this is an album of demos, I guess. I don’t mean “I guess” in a bad way, I simply believe that this album is recorded the way all Green Day albums should be – high energy, slightly rough in the mastering, and the band vocally expressing their glee at kicking ass.

Demolicious contains one new song among the eighteen tracks – “State of Shock.” Now, “State of Shock” is probably not going to be played at Green Day’s sadly inevitable Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction alongside Nine Inch Nails and, if there is any justice in the world, Deep Purple (I don’t even like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so I’m not entirely sure what possessed me to write any of that), but the song is a solid addition to Green Day’s oeuvre. With catchy guitar hooks, slightly over the top cheap poetry, and Armstrong at his whiney, California punk vocalist best, the song fits nicely in most people’s image of Green Day.

I’m not going to deconstruct Demolicious track by track, it is a Green Day album for fucks sake, but “Oh Love” is a good demonstration of the strength of the album over its predecessors ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!, although, since Demolicious is an album of demos for the trilogy, “predecessor” may not be the correct term. If “predecessor” bothers you, substitute the word “progeny.” Regardless, for those who have an affinity for the power-pop/punk of Green Day from the band’s Dookie days, the somewhat roughly mastered version of “Oh Love” trumps the slick single iteration of itself from ¡Uno!.

Demolicious is a good album for Green Day fans. What makes it a good album for Green Day fans is that it contains eighteen tracks that are the direct descendants of the band’s songs that created the fans in the first place. And, as a much needed bonus, Green Day fans who resisted buying ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! now have no need to. Demolicious makes a fine substitute for those three albums. And, for those who are feeling the unfortunate and evil pull by bands like Simple Plan, Panic! At the Disco, and (please help us!) Paramore, Demolicious offers an excellent opportunity to turn those youngsters in the right direction. Get them on the right path with Demolicious now, and, in no time, those young punks will be arguing with their classmates about which one of the two self-titled Rancid albums is the best.

Rating: 3/5

http://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2014/04/23/green-day-demolicious/

[Backyard Skulls]

I ordered the CD on Amazon, £18 plus postage!

[AngelBlue_]

just opened mine and it is the clear one..... and it is cool!!

There is NOT any booklet/lyrics thing right???

[green day is]

There is NOT any booklet/lyrics thing right???

There are five booklet/lyrics things.

[converse_punk14]

Ordered the CD on Record Store Day and it finally arrived in the mail today!! I love how raw and just loud the guitars are. I'm so happy I was able to find a copy! Currently listening to "Baby Eyes", I absolutely love how the guitar sounds! Just blown away by how amazing this whole album sounds!

[Todd]

"Buddy Holly" by Weezer, Ramones , Green Day, Rancid, The Offspring, blink-182, and The Clash, the Beatles

What are you, my musical twin?