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I decided to rank the songs in order of preference.  #'s 3 through 9 can change quickly, depending on my mood, but here there are as of this very second

1. Troubled Times

2. Still Breathing

3. Bouncing off the Walls

4. Forever Now

5. Bang Bang

6. Ordinary World

7. Outlaws

8. Somewhere NOw

9. SAy Goodbye

10. To Dumb to Die

11. Revolution RAdio

12. Youngblood 

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54 minutes ago, Steven Seagull said:

As a whole this album sounds like they had no goal and couldn't decide what they should go for.

You're talking about the trilogy, right?

"Those records have absolutely no direction to them.  It was about being prolific for the sake of it. So we were just going and going and going." - Billie Joe Armstrong

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I am kinda disappointed...I don't know if it's a popular opinion here, but I don't like the end result with the strength of the singles (Bang Bang and RevRad mostly). I only like half of the songs (I kinda like Somewhere Now, I like Bang Bang, RevRad, Say Goodbye, Still Breathing and Troubled Time) and I expected an album which is like Bang Bang and would enjoy all the songs. To be fair I do enjoy all the songs from Uno and Dos to a certain extent, something I don't see here. I can't stand some of the songs. :( Maybe I was just overhyped.

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31 minutes ago, dolce_amore93 said:

@Hermione I had some sort of meltdown within the first 30 seconds of hearing it the first time.

Hahah this was me! It came on and I actually gasped and said "holy shit" and then started to tear up a bit. My boyfriend was concerned for me.

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"What good is love and peace on earth
When it’s exclusive
Where’s the truth in the written word
If no one reads it"

These lyrics are blowing my mind. 

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10 minutes ago, Jax Teller said:

You're talking about the trilogy, right?

"Those records have absolutely no direction to them.  It was about being prolific for the sake of it. So we were just going and going and going." - Billie Joe Armstrong

No Trilogy has a party theme. They are fun albums for every mood.

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Just now, Steven Seagull said:

No Trilogy has a party theme. They are fun albums for every mood.

GTFO of 2012 for fuck's sake. NO, its a triple album made for the fans and we got just that.

UNO, DOS, TRE are great in their own rights but Revolution Radio is light-years better. No lackluster guitar tracks, much better vocals, and a lot of punchy, lyrics (better songwriting) on top.

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1 minute ago, Steven Seagull said:

No Trilogy has a party theme. They are fun albums for every mood.

I actually agree with that opinion, there's the party topic among all 3 record...while RevRad just kinda doesn't have a vibe - there are political/rebel songs, there are Trilogy songs, there are love songs, there are some other songs too. I feel that this album is the most in-coherent one out of the last 5 ones at least (AI and 21CB being the best at cohesion, which is understandable since they're concept albums).

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8 minutes ago, veidar45 said:

I am kinda disappointed...I don't know if it's a popular opinion here, but I don't like the end result with the strength of the singles (Bang Bang and RevRad mostly). I only like half of the songs (I kinda like Somewhere Now, I like Bang Bang, RevRad, Say Goodbye, Still Breathing and Troubled Time) and I expected an album which is like Bang Bang and would enjoy all the songs. To be fair I do enjoy all the songs from Uno and Dos to a certain extent, something I don't see here. I can't stand some of the songs. :( Maybe I was just overhyped.

Exactly how I feel. I was super excited when Uno was released. Maybe because I wasn't that hyped about the album. I expected they will make something like the trilogy this time as well but the end result is a huge dissapointment for me. Only half of the songs are good.

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Just now, veidar45 said:

I actually agree with that opinion, there's the party topic among all 3 record...while RevRad just kinda doesn't have a vibe - there are political/rebel songs, there are Trilogy songs, there are love songs, there are some other songs too. I feel that this album is the most in-coherent one out of the last 5 ones at least (AI and 21CB being the best at cohesion, which is understandable since they're concept albums).

I feel the chaos vibe they described so...

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Only here would you see someone so devoted to arguing that when the person who created those albums says THERE WAS NO DIRECTION, said someone would still argue otherwise.

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4 minutes ago, Steven Seagull said:

No Trilogy has a party theme. They are fun albums for every mood.

You said that Revolution Radio has no goal and that the Trilogy is better while Billie himself admitted that the trilogy hadn't any direction or goal. Do you see the contradiction?
As for that they are "fun" albums, knowing that he wrote these songs in the worst state of his life I can't feel happy when I hear songs like Makeout Party and Troublemaker, let alone Lazy Bones.

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33 minutes ago, Jaded in Chicago said:

I agree. I mean, my car only has a CD player so I need to buy it anyway to blast it out with the roof down :D

But I'd have bought it anyway, otherwise it's like stealing from Green Day. And I fucking love Green Day so I couldn't do that!

Yeah I couldn't leave my collection of Green Day CDs incomplete! Plus I want the lyric booklet.

 

We already have a topic for discussing the Trilogy, please use it if you want to talk about it:

 

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37 minutes ago, Whatsername_123 said:

I wonder what effect the leak will have on the sales of the album? (I'm not listening to the leak)

Unlikely to have a huge effect on sales, but it may well have a big effect on streaming numbers.  And that in turn may affect how the songs/album chart.  

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anxiously anticipating the release of this album.  I am reading good things about the songs.  I don't want to listen until the release date. I don't download music, just listen on vinyl and Cd in my car. My daughter says I should get with everyone else.  Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts on the songs. 

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The last minute of Somewhere Now sounds so American Idiot-ish, it has this Homecoming vibe and I love it.

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They kind of have to do a live medley now of Somewhere now/forever now/won't get fooled again and maybe jesus of suburbia thrown in there somewhere too

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2 minutes ago, manuelps said:
Is this to stream the album or? I'm outside the UK so can't check out

It's a radio station, and by record of the week they just mean revolution radio (the song) I think.  Definitely all I've heard them playing so far.  Still exciting, they're a big, popular radio station.

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It's so powerful. It's dark, it's funny, it's serious, but it's also uplifting and inspiring. I feel like it's a bit of a roller coaster ride emotionally. Sonically I'm finding it far more uplifting than anything else. The sounds are just so rich. It's honestly way better than anything I was hoping for.

I'm always a big fan of Green Day's long, multi-part songs, and Forever Now is no different. It makes you want to put your fist in the air and go out and do something with your life. Also loving the fact that it reminds me of their cover of the Who's "A Quick One". 

I am so so satisfied with this album. They have delivered. 

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7 hours ago, Semi-automatic lonely boy said:

the biggest problem with this album ist, that you can clearly hear them coppying other styles more than ever. the who writes the best the who songs, queen writes the best queen songs. just listen to the who if you "love the who influence". somewhere now sounds just like a copy and the who did it better.

but no one writes better green day songs than green day. they should have stuck with that. bang bang is prove of that.

a thousand times this!!!

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What about when that guy posted a picture of him recording trumpet for the album? I don't remember hearing any trumpet on it

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11 minutes ago, .Holly said:

It's so powerful. It's dark, it's funny, it's serious, but it's also uplifting and inspiring. I feel like it's a bit of a roller coaster ride emotionally. Sonically I'm finding it far more uplifting than anything else. The sounds are just so rich. It's honestly way better than anything I was hoping for.

I'm always a big fan of Green Day's long, multi-part songs, and Forever Now is no different. It makes you want to put your fist in the air and go out and do something with your life. Also loving the fact that it reminds me of their cover of the Who's "A Quick One". 

I am so so satisfied with this album. They have delivered. 

I know there are aspects of it that are sad and nostalgic, but I find it mostly a pretty happy album, honestly. Glad someone agrees and I'm not just projecting, lol. Green Day's albums are never super uplifting, but this one definitely is. I think it's reflected in the music that when they first went back to making music they found themselves in the position of rediscovering themselves, but as time went on things became happier and healthier and perhaps more honest than they've previously been with themselves. It's good stuff.

Billie said the entire album was about dealing with the gloom in your life and in the world and trying to rise above it. I think that was awfully accurately conveyed in these songs.

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1 minute ago, Dan3siko said:

What about when that guy posted a picture of him recording trumpet for the album? I don't remember hearing any trumpet on it

stuff gets cut, mostly for the best. 

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Say Goodbye is my least favorite track on the album, yet I've had it stuck in my head all day. So that's saying something. :lol: 

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