02 - Bang Bang

[That Dude]

3 minutes ago, XPursuitOfEpicnessX said:

The only song I can think of at least in this decade that had to do with the perspective of a shooter was "Pumped Up Kicks" and although it sounded more light hearted and poppy, it did very well. Most people don't even pay attention to the subject matter. I think this song being a hit has absolutely nothing to do with the dark subject matter honestly. I think at least on modern rock/alternative stations it will be played a lot. People really appreciate this song. It's amazing.

The Offspring did Hammerhead, though it's nearly a decade old at this point.   BANG BANG is reminiscent of The Offspring sound, which is a good thing.      

[PursuitOfEpicness]

Just now, thatdude03 said:

The Offspring did Hammerhead, though it's nearly a decade old at this point.    

See I didn't even know that was about that same thing, never paid attention!

[Johnny Higher]

Here's my opinion about Bang Bang.

I'm a huge fan of Green Day since American Idiot (I'm 25) and it safe to say that I love each album of the band. So cleary I waw very excited to listen to the new record and Bang Bang.

With this first single, well, I have to say that I'm a little disapoited. I think the song is pretty cool, it reminds me St Jimmy or Dirty Rotten Bastards, but it wasn't what I excepted with the return of Green Day. To me, the song doesn't have a riff or a chorus that you can easly remember like past singles like Basket Case or American Idiot or even Know Your Enemy. In a way, the song is maybe too hardcore for a first single. It may sounds stupid but I love to share the songs that I'm listening with friends or relatives and Bang Bang is cleary too "violent" to fast to say "Hey that's the new Green Day"

The song is out since two days now and I cleary like more and more but with Revolution Radio I wish I will have songs to relate to. I'm a French, a Parisian and maybe it's still too soon today to want to sing about a mass murderer. Even if it's could be cathartic, I'm not in the mood with the recents events.

So, I hope Revolution Radio will bring songs that touch me and give me chills like the past records.

PS :Anyone noticed that the part : "I got my photo bomb, I got my Vietnam" sounds like "I am the atom bomb, I am the chosen one" of Christian's Inferno.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

1 minute ago, Rikimaru-sama said:

To me, the song doesn't have a riff or a chorus that you can easly remember like past singles like Basket Case or American Idiot or even Know Your Enemy. In a way, the song is maybe too hardcore for a first single. It may sounds stupid but I love to share the songs that I'm listening with friends or relatives and Bang Bang is cleary too "violent" to fast to say "Hey that's the new Green Day"

 

I don't know about anyone else but I think it is catchy as hell.

[mrduckygoosy]

9 minutes ago, Rikimaru-sama said:

PS :Anyone noticed that the part : "I got my photo bomb, I got my Vietnam" sounds like "I am the atom bomb, I am the chosen one" of Christian's Inferno.

Right ! But it sounds even more like "Light of a silhouette, He's insubordinate" from St. Jimmy to me.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

3 minutes ago, mrduckygoosy said:

St. Jimmy 

All I can think of its ripe for a Billie dance.

Can't wait.

[Red]

Just now, BillyjoelxkidXx said:

I don't know about anyone else but I think it is catchy as hell.

Oh trust me, you're not the only one. Sure, it's not exactly what I expected in terms of structure but who needs a chorus when there is just so much melodic craziness packed into such a short time... and fuck.. the drum solo, yet another thing I somehow haven't mentioned yet. Fucking awesome.

 

I hope that little solo is extended live.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

10 minutes ago, RisingRedWolf said:

Oh trust me, you're not the only one. Sure, it's not exactly what I expected in terms of structure but who needs a chorus when there is just so much melodic craziness packed into such a short time... and fuck.. the drum solo, yet another thing I somehow haven't mentioned yet. Fucking awesome.

 

I hope that little solo is extended live.

& we all shout Hoorah Hoorah

[21guns&novacaine]

I'm really digging the "I want to be a celebrity martyr" bit. 

[tresexy101]

1 hour ago, BillyjoelxkidXx said:

All I can think of its ripe for a Billie dance.

Can't wait.

and I'M perverted?  Walking Contraction was a great video, btw.  

48 minutes ago, RisingRedWolf said:

Oh trust me, you're not the only one. Sure, it's not exactly what I expected in terms of structure but who needs a chorus when there is just so much melodic craziness packed into such a short time... and fuck.. the drum solo, yet another thing I somehow haven't mentioned yet. Fucking awesome.

 

I hope that little solo is extended live.

If that solo is extended live, especially at a concert, and the rest of the album is this fast and powerful,  may my god bless tre cools endurance.

I personally like the 'I'm well fed' lyric...speaks volumes if ya can get the meaning.

 

[Billie Hoe]

Bang Bang , give me fame 

Shoot me up to entertain 

I am the son of a bitch 

And Edgar Allan Poe

[UNICORN VOMIT]

Just now, Billie Hoe said:

Bang Bang , give me fame 

Shoot me up to entertain 

I am the son of a bitch 

 

That's exactly where the song was up to when I read your post.

[falconsroach7]

Hello all! I used to be around GDC a bit during the trilogy, but forgot my account info by 2015, made this one, and I guess never really posted anything :/ but bang bang has gotten me so pumped up that I had to come back to these threads. I personally think it's exactly what Green Day needed in a comeback effort. It has the energy of earlier efforts like insomniac, but it definitely feels more modern and like a continued evolution of their sound off of 21CB and even better parts of the trilogy (the harmonies and just general structure of the song feel pretty unique to me, as far as a green day song goes). The lyrics are excellent, the guitars sound powerful and tre absolutely kicks ass on this track. Needless to say, I'm hyped for Revolution Radio, and I believe the bunch are ready to put out one hell of an album

Edited August 13, 2016 by falconsroach7

[Bastard of 1967]

21 hours ago, jengd said:

Loving the video, anyone else getting a Monty Python vibe from it?

Yeah, the animations are the kind of thing that Terry Gilliam used to love doing.  Especially that bear.  Still trying to figure out what the hell it's doing in there. 

21 hours ago, Tiffx said:

I really want the song to be a commercial success but can't see it happening. Bored to Death and Dark Necessities are radio friendly compared to this.
 

 

 

If you're into the folk artist Passenger (yeah, my tastes are pretty eclectic!) he's got this great lyric in his song "27" that goes "I write songs that come from the heart, I don't give a fuck if they get to the chart or not".  At this point Green Day doesn't have anything to prove.  They finally shipped an aggressive, potent leadoff single that's perfectly mic'd, perfectly performed, and perfectly produced, without all the fucking studio makeup they overused on Breakdown and the Trilogy.  They're like "you newcomers watch and learn what a bunch of raw fucking guitars and a kick-ass rhythm section will do for a song" and they're entitled to that this time. It'll play reasonably well on alternative rock stations I think, but is it in the same class of catchy pop-punk that sent Dookie through the stratosphere? Probably not, and I couldn't care less. 

[Josh100_3]

6 hours ago, Private Ale. said:

" i wanna be a celebrity martyr" part is insane.Best part of song IMO. and i don't even know what it particularly means.

I know exactly what you mean! Something about the delivery of that line threw me back to holiday or something!

[Dai.]

On 11/8/2016 at 0:06 PM, Andres said:

Seriously this song is so fucking good. It reminds me of American Idiot in the recording sound of it. Just the guitars and vocals sound so good. Love the speed, love the change up, love the guitars right at the start. 

At 1:28 I actually think it sounds a lot like a part from St. Jimmy for about 4 seconds, don't you think?

2 hours ago, mrduckygoosy said:

Right ! But it sounds even more like "Light of a silhouette, He's insubordinate" from St. Jimmy to me.

Just read this! I agree!

[gerardsangel4977]

Okay. Initial reactions to all of this are A) th DJ that said this sounds like Dookie is definitely on crack. Insomniac maybe, but Dookie?! O.o B) This track is amazeballs, and I can't get enough of it; C) that lyric video is mindblowingly awesome and should be the official one. They don't need anything else.

Now to respon to some other stuff....

On 8/11/2016 at 11:39 AM, DookieLukie said:

Can't say I like the filters on the vocals. Fits the song maybe, but hopefully not used in the whole album.

I agree. I found them far less noticeable on the digital copy, but the FB version makes it sound way too distorted for my taste, and I had the same fear as you that the whole album might sound that way haha.

 

On 8/11/2016 at 11:51 AM, PurpleIron1039 said:

It's really disheartening to see that most of the comments in the comment sections of articles reporting on Bang Bang are negative. And the negative ones have the most likes. I honestly feel that some people dislike Green Day simply because it's "cool" to do so, and it'll score you points with the classic rock, hardcore punk, and metal communities. Anyway, I'm not going to let it affect my opinion of the song. I think that that bridge especially kicks ass! 

Welcome to Green Day fandom  It's been that way forever (though, really, just about any comment section is going to be dominated by haters than fans, no matter what it is). What's even better is when you start to get the biased journos attempting to write articles and reviews 

 

On 8/11/2016 at 0:35 PM, PurpleIron1039 said:

The song has certainly sparked some strange feelings in some people, haha. I just saw a girl comment on Billie's latest Instagram post that she lost her virginity to "Bang Bang" and glimpsed another comment addressing Billie as "Abaddon" (my first thought was "the Venom drummer?" but I'm assuming that that's not what she meant).

lolwut

 

On 8/11/2016 at 11:44 AM, DookieLukie said:

iTunes only has one song marked with explicit. I guess Green Day is cutting back on the curse words.

On 8/11/2016 at 3:21 PM, thatdude03 said:

I heard it on my local station the one time I drove my car today.   I'm surprised they didn't bleep "head".   When they bleep words like "shoplift" and "gun" in every other song I hear.    

The funny thing about this is that Green Day's albums really aren't that explicit to begin with. American Idiot, for instance, really has very few actual swear words on it, if you go back and comb through it. Most of the content that does get flagged has less to do with actual swearing and more to do with other aspects of content like sexual references/innuendos, drugs, and violence, which are all frequently censored on the radio these days, as thatdude03 said (the clip of St. Jimmy from BIAB that used to circulate on MTV, for instance, always had "zipgun" and "dope" and "gun" bleeped out of it, for instance). On that note, I actually am surprised they were able to release this song to radio at all without it being heavily censored, though perhaps that's why Billie took the approach he did in writing it, rather than approaching the subject of gun violence directly. "B**g B**g" 

That being said, unlike video game, movie, and TV ratings, which are all determined by a review board, the parental advisory labels on music--and whether a "clean" version is made available as an alternative--are determined solely by the artist and their management. As a result, there are plenty of songs with PALs that are otherwise fairly clean, in terms of swearing, and plenty of songs with no PALs that do contain explicit content. In point of fact, none of Green Day's (physical) albums prior to American Idiot had PALs on them. Not even Nimrod. And I'm quite sure that Platypus has more swearing in it than all of AI combined 

17 hours ago, Harry Potter. said:

every single opinion i've read was positive... except for people on the blink forums. they don't like it at all. 

What a big surprise

 

1 hour ago, JJ1964 said:

Wanting anyone but Billie to sing is just plain silly.

I am teasing, but in all seriousness, I think Billie is one of the best front men in rock and specifically one of the best singers.  He has worked very hard on his vocal abilities.  He has clearly taken lessons and is one of the few singers who's vocal ability has increased as he has gotten older.  He puts so much emotion into his singing that you can really feel the song.  To me, having anyone else sing a GD song is a waste.   I think Mike and Jason, Mike particularly are fantastic back up singers, but just my opinion, I dont' feel the need to hear them sing lead.

44 minutes ago, JJ1964 said:

Ugh, bringing that up again.  Mike came up with that, but Billie did everything else.  You cannot say that without Mike there would not be AI.  

I liked the first post because I agree with you about Billie's abilties as a frontman and a vocalist, much less as a guitarist and songwriter. But I disagree with you vehemently on everything else. Obviously, Billie is a more versatile singer than the other guys, and replacing him permanently as the vocalist for the group would be unthinkable, but I don't see the problem with having Mike, Tre, and/or Jason sing the occasional song or parts of songs, as they have in the past. Shit, Freddie Mercury is one of the best rock vocalists  and frontmen of all time, and even he didn't sing lead on ALL of Queen's songs. Yet i don't see anyone claiming that Brian, John, and Roger's songs were "wastes of time". That's just freakin' ludicrous. Not to mention insulting. And if Mr. Bulsara can afford to yield the floor to his bandmates, Mr. Armstrong (who is nowhere near in the same league) most certainly can too.

And as for your assertion that American Idiot could've been written without Mike: that is just patently false. Without Mike, there is no Green Day, period. Much less any particular album. 

[Dai.]

1 minute ago, gerardsangel4977 said:

Okay. Initial reactions to all of this are A) th DJ that said this sounds like Dookie is definitely on crack. Insomniac maybe, but Dookie?! O.o B

Are you serious?! I don't think it has an Insomniac sound at all. Only Insomniac sounds like Insomniac. Unfortunately they have never gone back to that sound.

[gerardsangel4977]

5 minutes ago, Dai. said:

Are you serious?! I don't think it has an Insomniac sound at all. Only Insomniac sounds like Insomniac. Unfortunately they have never gone back to that sound.

yeah, I don't really think it sounds like Insomniac either, but if trying to make a comparison to older Green Day, it definitely shares more in common with that than it does with Dookie, which doesn't have anything approaching this heavy on it.

[PursuitOfEpicness]

It's definitely (in my opinion) a punker 21st Century Breakdown sound.

[PurpleIron1039]

Yeah, as I've said before on this forum, I get a faint Offspring vibe off parts of "Bang Bang", mainly the opening riffs and the Middle-Eastern-sounding bridge.

[belinda jane]

i've had it on repeat since it was released. not even kidding, i listen to it at every opportunity i get.

[Westside Highway]

Bang is a great lead single. On a surface level, it works the same way American idiot and know your enemy did which signals good things for the commerical viability of this record vs the trilogy. I think I actually prefer oh love as a song but oh love was a terrible lead single. Mid tempo nonballad songs aren't exactly what casual music consumers look for in green day. The most successful singles that people love are fast punky vaguely political songs (idiot, holiday, enemy, bang bang) or cathartic ballads (boulevard, 21 guns). Certainly putting the smartest foot forward. 

[21guns&novacaine]

48 minutes ago, falconsroach7 said:

Hello all! I used to be around GDC a bit during the trilogy, but forgot my account info by 2015, made this one, and I guess never really posted anything :/ but bang bang has gotten me so pumped up that I had to come back to these threads. I personally think it's exactly what Green Day needed in a comeback effort. It has the energy of earlier efforts like insomniac, but it definitely feels more modern and like a continued evolution of their sound off of 21CB and even better parts of the trilogy (the harmonies and just general structure of the song feel pretty unique to me, as far as a green day song goes). The lyrics are excellent, the guitars sound powerful and tre absolutely kicks ass on this track. Needless to say, I'm hyped for Revolution Radio, and I believe the bunch are ready to put out one hell of an album

Welcome back!

[tdlyon]

This needs to be the opening song on the tour. I can just picture the radio part as the lights are off, and Mike and Tre and Jason start playing the intro, and when it kicks in Billie runs out with a mic and sings the song without his guitar on (which he usually does for songs this fast). Could be a big explosion and stuff too