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Edit: So it seems IN members received an additional download of the album... Had a redemption code sent from them.

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48 minutes ago, Paola17 said:

Edit: So it seems IN members received an additional download of the album... Had a redemption code sent from them.

So IN members got the album free?

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Just now, DookieLukie said:

So IN members got the album free?

I think it was part of the renewal of the membership.

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Just now, DookieLukie said:

So IN members got the album free?

I'm assuming? I'm not exactly sure, but I do see that some people on this forum did access the album through a code from IN0either because they renewed their membership or bought it for the first time. 
Said code appeared an hr and a half after midnight for me.

I guess we have to see what more people say,

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Went straight to JB Hi Fi straight after school today and bought Revolution Radio. There were posters up and stacks of the CD's and Vinyls, with apparently a lot bought today.
Fun times!

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I'm actually quite shocked that Still Breathing isn't a favourite of a lot of people here. Honestly, go and listen to Restless Heart Syndrome, Lazy Bones, and the Still Breathing. The emotion of Still Breathing hit me so strongly after listening to those two songs that I was nearly in tears. Such a great track, and it's so great that Billie has gotten his life back on track after the dark times he wrote about in Restless Heart Syndrome and Lazy Bones.

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I remember saying Outlaws is not one of my favorites.Or thinking..Anyway,i was wrong.It is one of my favorites. May be the second or smt.

You know that good feeling when you can't choose your favorite song of a great album.I feel that now.Bouncing off the wall is the coolest for how happy it makes me and how great it is .

Happy album release day GDC!

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I fucking love "I feel like a cello, lost somewhere over the rainbow"

Just have a fucking laugh about it oh my lord.

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Picked up the CD from JB today (dont even have a cd player anymore)

 

Surprised by the lack of advertising or hype. Not a single poster, not even on the featured racks at the end of the aisle.. just 2 copies sitting in the shelves

 

There was a blackboard at the register with upcoming releases and no mention of RR

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Shit, the album's already on my phone. It must have been automatically downloaded last night. Still waiting for my CD for the first listen though.. I pray to god it will arrive today and that it fits through the letter box/mailbox

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Superb album, very happy with it.

Only things I can complain about is the production and mixing, I really don't like how at several points at the album they use the volume drop gimmick, or suddenly burying the vocals in the mix. I realize they're probably intentional but I just don't like it and don't think they're good choices. I hope they don't fully self produce again in the future.

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1 hour ago, Doggins said:

Picked up the CD from JB today (dont even have a cd player anymore)

 

Surprised by the lack of advertising or hype. Not a single poster, not even on the featured racks at the end of the aisle.. just 2 copies sitting in the shelves

 

There was a blackboard at the register with upcoming releases and no mention of RR

& you expect more from Brisbane.

2 hours ago, StuckWithDom said:

Went straight to JB Hi Fi straight after school today and bought Revolution Radio. There were posters up and stacks of the CD's and Vinyls, with apparently a lot bought today.
Fun times!

The difference between Brisbane & Melbourne.

 

& I should stuck to me original plan of buying at JB.

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This album is awesome! I really have no idea why I despised it on my first listen. My favorite song is probably Somewhere Now

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Green Day Revolution Radio Review Slant Magazine 

Green Day's Revolution Radio is the band's most concise effort in years, as it's essentially their first standalone, concept-free album since 2000's Warning. In spite of this, it manages to survey almost the entire bag of tricks the group has pulled from over the past 25 years. The dynamic, Who-ish opener “Somewhere Now” favorably recalls American Idiot's distinctly puffed-up bombast, which was tempered by a personal, emotional core—and that album's narrative ambitions are echoed when “Somewhere Now” is reprised during the penultimate “Forever Now.” When that bombast crosses over into 21st Century Breakdown-style melodrama on “Outlaws,” however, it's less appealing, especially since the cheese factor belies frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's professed nostalgia for his rebellious youth.

Fortunately, “Outlaws” is an anomaly on the largely streamlined Revolution Radio. Lead single “Bang Bang” is hard, fast, and angry to a degree far more redolent of the angsty Green Day of the '90s than the elder statesmen they've become. The title track is melodically cheerier, but no less of a rager. Armstrong indulges his ever-present mid-'60s power-pop fetish on the energetic and infectious “Bouncing off the Walls” and the “She's a Rebel”-esque “Youngblood.” These songs are admittedly indebted not just to the band's influences, but previous incarnations of Green Day itself.

The best songs on Revolution Radio, however, transcend their derivative nature thanks to their undeniable melodicism, and are tied together, despite their ostensibly disparate styles, by Tré Cool's grenade-like tom fills and Armstrong's guitar tone. The latter continues to sound like it was painstakingly created in a lab somewhere, compressed and processed enough to please general audiences unaccustomed to too many rough edges in their music, but retaining just enough gnarly crunch to not completely alienate punk purists who continue to linger among Green Day's fanbase.

Armstrong's tendency toward the big, loud, and obvious is less convincing when manifested lyrically as opposed to musically, at least compared to American Idiot's compelling political-is-personal sketches. His politically minded writing has gotten increasingly ham-fisted, which is saying a lot given that one of his most famous lines is “Sieg Heil to the President Gasman!” He's fine when tackling low-hanging fruit (portraying a deranged mass shooter on “Bang Bang”), but without a character to play, his statements range from muddled to groan-worthy. “Give me cherry bombs and gasoline/Debutantes in surgery,” he rails on “Revolution Radio,” seemingly contradicting the nonviolent ethos of the Black Lives Matter movement that the song purports to support. “Where's the truth in the written word if no one reads it?” he asks on “Troubled Times.” It doesn't help that the album's most overtly political songs, like “Troubled Times” and “Say Goodbye,” are also its most dour.

There's something to be said about a white guy of Armstrong's profile speaking out so virulently against America's culture of violence, racially motivated or otherwise. But on Revolution Radio, his more personal songs are far more endearing. On “Too Dumb to Die” and “Youngblood,” he delivers snarky one-liners about his lifetime of fuckups and his apparently equally snarky wife (“Are you broken/Like I'm broken/Are you restless/She said, 'Fuck you, I'm from Oakland'”) that suit his snotty, stuffed-nose sneer better than stone-faced political proclamations ever have.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/green-day-revolution-radio

 

 

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Got up at 7:30am and drove all the way to my nearest HMV which is about 30 minutes away from me and got it the minute the store opened lol

drove all the way home listening to it in my car with the volume up really high ^_^

 

 extremely love this album after taking a while to come round to it but honestly this is their best work since American Idiot imo 

 

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Bought the CD! I was going in to buy it a bit pissed off knowing it's not a proper case, because I was thinking it would have a thin spine without "Green Day Revolution Radio" on it and wouldn't look good in a rack with all my other Green Day CDs. But it doesn't! It has a normal spine with the writing. Still would've preferred a proper case rather than a cardboard one where the CD can just fall out (like, are they trying to make sure even less people keep buying CDs?), but it's OK.

Anyway the cover actually looks quite cool, with just the burning radio on a black background and no text it's quite striking. Artwork in the booklet is pretty cool too, and I'm really going to enjoy being able to read the lyric booklet :happy: 

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29 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Still would've preferred a proper case rather than a cardboard one where the CD can just fall out (like, are they trying to make sure even less people keep buying CDs?), but it's OK

Agree. Not sure why its not in a jewel case when every other one of their releases is (not including FHT)

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My first thought after listening to RevRad twice: I love you's not enough, I'm lost for words.

I have to digest this, I'm still shaking. Say Goodbye is stuck in my head, it's so great :dance:

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WHOO release day! I won't be able to go pick the album up myself but my sister will bring it home after school. Problem is she only comes back after 8.30 pm D: But I will wait because I want the first listen to be my traditional GD album release ritual <3

Can't wait to join you all later! :runaround:

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my thoughts on Revolution Radio:
"I love you is not enough, I'm lost for words"

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36 minutes ago, Jake69 said:

I got the download link for the album but the link isn't working. Anyone having this problem?

Think that happened for a lot of people (everyone?) in the US.  The below seemed to work.

5 hours ago, Paola17 said:

Apparently you have to remove the beginning of the link, the part before "secure download"

Bless magnav0x on the subreddit (and his wife) for letting us know.

 

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