Steven Seagull Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 9 hours ago, PurpleIron1039 said: I normally totally agree with this guy on most of his reviews (he mainly does metal reviews so he hasn't covered GD since Uno in 2012), but I think I'm gonna have to be at loggerheads with him on the subject of RevRad. Still an interesting look at the record, though. That's actually one of rare reviewers who told the truth about the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Steven Seagull said: That's actually one of rare reviewers who told the truth about the album. What? You hate the album, 0/10, remember? You can't agree with this mixed review. And he also likes American Idiot and 21CB. Be aware of what you call "the truth", people could misunderstand your position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
platypus136 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 awww finally got the CD *-* It is awesome, but I must say that the first song, somewhere now, was a bit underwhelming I guess my favourites are Revolution Radio and Bouncing off the Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian's Inferno! Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Can we take a moment to appreciate that this album has only 2 swear words (both in Youngblood) whereas the trilogy had the most explicit language ever. It's cool that BJ still knows how to write songs without constantly cussing. Not that I have a problem with it, it's just nice to hear him write without having to use those words. Also, I think it's cool how varied people's opinions are with certain songs. Like, certain songs are many people's favourites but other people's least favourite. There aren't really any songs that everyone would have in their favourites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh100_3 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 It's weird how Bouncing off the walls sounded super weak the first time I heard it but it's slowly creeping up as a favourite now. It's has that super fun foxboro hot tubs vibe and his yell is great. I still think Say Goodbye and Troubled Times are the highlights. Youngblood is just awful, I want to enjoy it but it just feels too trilogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrelandCalling Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I've been listening full week and a half and like my earlier thoughys, I really think this is a quality GD album. The album is on two halves really; the more socially concious and the personal/fun. Initially tracks like Youngblood and Too Dumb didnt feel half as worthy as the heavy hitters like Somewhere Now, Troubled Times, Forever Now, Say Goodbye, Bang Bang, Still Breathing, and RevRad, which are all fantastic. BOTW was a standout and still is, just love its energy and tempo. Youngblood and Too Dumb, while good enjoyable tracks, are not as good as something like Forever Now. Outlaws is the one I would tend to skip, its good, but it doesnt capture my attentiom as the others do. Overall a quality record, one of their best I think. Not as high a career watermark as AI which for me is their defining statement, but in the top 3 or 4 certainly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperXCsabre495 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Can't stop listening to Forever Now, the song just kicks so much ass in just under 7 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platypus2000 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 30 minutes ago, MysticManiac said: Can we take a moment to appreciate that this album has only 2 swear words (both in Youngblood) whereas the trilogy had the most explicit language ever. It's cool that BJ still knows how to write songs without constantly cussing. Not that I have a problem with it, it's just nice to hear him write without having to use those words. Also, I think it's cool how varied people's opinions are with certain songs. Like, certain songs are many people's favourites but other people's least favourite. There aren't really any songs that everyone would have in their favourites As long as the songs are good who cares about swearing? American Idiot had a tonne of it and that seemed to do ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian's Inferno! Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Just now, Platypus2000 said: As long as the songs are good who cares about swearing? American Idiot had a tonne of it and that seemed to do ok. I'm just saying the trilogy had excessive swearing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platypus2000 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 3 minutes ago, SuperXCsabre495 said: Can't stop listening to Forever Now, the song just kicks so much ass in just under 7 minutes. Best song since JOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Ale. Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Ordinary World is such an uplifting song. One of the best from this amazing album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Bras Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Really considerating getting a Revolution Radio tattoo at some point, I'll wait a couple years to be certain that I really want it. So far this album is just Green Day getting back to their best sound and I'll always associate this era with never being to late to do something remarkable with your life (and I'm seeing Green Day for the first time since 2010 when I was a little 13 year old kid and the first time seeing them being a fan so... it's a big deal for me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbybarebum Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I think when the only one objecting to the quality of the record is the resident contrarian, they might have done a good job with this one. Actually I'd say that's a pretty good marker of it being of a very high standard overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dimitris Gotsis Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Wikipedia says that forever now consists of 1)I'm freaking out. 2)Better way to die. 3) Somewhere Now (reprise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Gotsis Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 5 minutes ago, Jake69 said: Yup. It's in the lyric book. Oh..Didn't know that. Mine hasn't arrived yet. Also, I love your new picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stories and songs Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 4 hours ago, MysticManiac said: Can we take a moment to appreciate that this album has only 2 swear words (both in Youngblood) whereas the trilogy had the most explicit language ever. It's cool that BJ still knows how to write songs without constantly cussing. Not that I have a problem with it, it's just nice to hear him write without having to use those words. Totally agree. Cursing should be used to make a statement more powerful, rather than to be tossed in just because (American Idiot had cursing in all the right places, I think). Avoiding cursing can make a writer try to find more creative ways to phrase something, which is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jirachi Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Idk if we post reviews of the album weve seen here so if this ain't allowed delete it ;-; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Bras Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I can't contain myself, I just have to play these album several times per day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenXIdiot Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 It gets better every time I listen. The songs and arrangements have so much depth...this is their most 'artistic' album so far. I love it so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermione Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 8 hours ago, Jirachi said: Idk if we post reviews of the album weve seen here so if this ain't allowed delete it ;-; You can! Haven't stopped listening to the album since I got it, it's just wonderful from start to finish. Feels like a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero_Of_The_Hour Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Green Day Revolution Radio Album Review Over the course of 26 years, Green Day have gone from pop punks to rock stars. Their latest, however, has little effect on their legacy and lapses into pandering, embarrassing lyrical misfires. Green Day are victims of accidental evolution. Between Dookie and American Idiot, they shifted just enough in texture and composition that the modest, Bay Area-pop-punk trio eventually generated the aura of an imperial rock band. They managed this without ever directly shedding their pop or punk sensibilities, even as their ambitions slipped into the hysterical space of musical theater.Revolution Radio, their first album in four years, following up the miscalculated trilogy ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, ¡TRÉ!, seems a deliberate reduction in scale. ¡UNO!,¡DOS!, ¡TRÉ! documented a band without any ideas; it’s an oddly empty, back-to-basics rock album unreasonably contorted over three records. Revolution Radiodocuments a band with one idea, which is, as far as one can tell, to make a Green Day record, one with fewer indulgences and overarching concepts and more capital-R Rock. The opener, “Somewhere Now,” has brief flashes of invention; it’s their first opener on any album to evolve from gentle acoustic filigrees into stomping dinosaur rock. It’s designed to resemble the Who’s unhinged compression of styles, but it’s oddly weighted, so that the classic rock schematic is undermined in its execution. “I shop online so I can vote/At the speed of life,” Billie Joe Armstrong sings. His voice has lost some of its body and occupies an insecure, nasal frequency throughout the record, and it’s in this hollow timbre that he delivers most of the album’s lyrical misfires, which are mostly unrelated ideas juxtaposed to sound important or dangerous. “We all die in threes,” he sings, less like a natural end to the song’s chorus and more of a dead end that the melody struggles to recover from. The clichés fail to resolve into a song, and what’s left is a plastic tray littered with “important” rock gestures. In “Bang Bang,” the first single, Armstrong tries to assume the perspective of a mass shooter who is eager to see their image preserved and multiplied on social media. For the most part, this approach produces incoherent combinations of social media jargon and historical violence. “I got my photobomb,” Armstrong sings. “I got my Vietnam.” The character study, a hypercompressed and retrofitted Natural Born Killers, is neither interesting nor illuminating. The title track is inspired by a Black Lives Matter protest in New York that Armstrong abandoned his car to join. None of the details or the specificities of the protest or its parent movement enter the song; the lyrics instead are generic kodachromes of activism (“Give me cherry bombs and gasoline,” and, “Legalize the truth!”) There are some signs of animation and ambition: “Outlaws” embeds nostalgia in more nostalgia, shifting between major and minor chords as Armstrong recalls his youth as a “criminal in bloom.” It also moves through its chord changes so inevitably it almost sounds generated by a Green Day ballad algorithm. “Still Breathing” is the most successful melody on the record; the shift from verse to chorus is thrilling, though restricted to the traditional designs of pop-punk, and, as a kind of vague description of survival, it’s Armstrong’s most convincing lyrics on the record. But Revolution Radio otherwise rarely escapes the Green Day archetype, an established language that, here, feels inelastic and calcified. It misses the living superstructures on American Idiot, the craft-based, Kinks-esque storytelling approach of Warning:, or even the accelerating entropy of ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, and¡TRÉ!, which at least tried to shape a collective shrug into something unusual.Revolution Radio feels like the product of three people committed to making the idea of a Green Day record in 2016, but with reduced abilities and without direction. The album cover depicts a portable stereo on fire, which feels like an unintended analogy for the form the band takes on record: burned out, crumbled, warped into an inanimate husk of itself. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22474-green-day-revolution-radio/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixtrix Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Hero_Of_The_Hour said: Green Day Revolution Radio Album Review Over the course of 26 years, Green Day have gone from pop punks to rock stars. Their latest, however, has little effect on their legacy and lapses into pandering, embarrassing lyrical misfires. Green Day are victims of accidental evolution. Between Dookie and American Idiot, they shifted just enough in texture and composition that the modest, Bay Area-pop-punk trio eventually generated the aura of an imperial rock band. They managed this without ever directly shedding their pop or punk sensibilities, even as their ambitions slipped into the hysterical space of musical theater... http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22474-green-day-revolution-radio/ As much as I can appreciate negative reviews as well, this one sounds more like a personal dislike towards the band instead of an objective review on the album. By saying things like "on this song Armstrong tries to.." or "unrelated ideas juxtaposed to sound important or dangerous", those statements are not much of an objective observation but a personal review. There's no way to say those things as a fact when you can get more out of a song when you put the effort to understand the lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jirachi Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 2 minutes ago, Sixtrix said: As much as I can appreciate negative reviews as well, this one sounds more like a personal dislike towards the band instead of an objective review on the album. By saying things like "on this song Armstrong tries to.." or "unrelated ideas juxtaposed to sound important or dangerous", those statements are not much of an objective observation but a personal review. There's no way to say those things as a fact when you can get more out of a song when you put the effort to understand the lyrics. I agree. I dont mind bad review, hell...when i watch critic type channels i prefer watching negative reviews since they can seem funner but this is mostly just a personal dislike and not objective much at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thatsername Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I've decided that "Hallelujah I found my soul under the sofa pillows" is officially my favourite line from the whole record. It's so hilarious and sophisticated at the same time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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