Stefano Bras Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 It's just so beautiful... can't really explain myself any further. I could die hearing those last lines "Forever now... you'll roam". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqattack95 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Jaded in Chicago said: I'm not quite sure why this is one of the favourites on the forum so far, for me it's decent but there are far better on the album. agreed the popularity of this song is kind of tripping me out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PursuitOfEpicness Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I can see the parallel between this and wild one for sure but I think this one is executed much better. I like how it's led with bass. Don't know if i'd want to hear this one live though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disappearing_boy_39 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 9 hours ago, Scattered Wreck said: I don't agree with this at all. I hear Bowie, Bowie, Bowie and more Bowie. I love Billie using a Bowie influence, especially with him dying this year. What a tribute. I love this song, I think it is intoxicating I'm not getting a Bowie vibe but then again, Bowie was all over the map. So which Bowie period are you speaking about? Ziggy Stardust? Thin White Duke? Etc.21 Guns had a Bowie feel, probably because it sounded similar to Mott the Hoople's All the Young Dudes which he wrote. Outlaws is more similar to Wild One from ¡Dos!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PursuitOfEpicness Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Also does this song remind anyone else of Weezer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Dude Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Anyone else think this songs would sound awesome with Mike on lead vocals???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Good god this song is utterly fantastic. It might be the best ballad they've ever done. I kinda feel like this is what they were trying to do when they wrote Brutal Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwen Stacy Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Well in the vein of this song being polarizing, put me down in the thumbs down category. It's not bad per se; the slower parts have a elegiac tone that I think work and I really like Billie's crooning vocals. But it just drags on a minute too long and I think really slows down the momentum of the album. I was waiting for it to do more or go somewhere that it just never did. I couldn't stop wanting to sing "She, She's my Wild One" not because I like Wild One but because parts of Outlaws sound nearly exactly like it. Also I find the lyrics weak. "We're outlaws of redemption" what the hell does that even mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eslates31 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 I found this song verry reminiscent of Wild One, and like Wild One, found it very underwhelming at first but after a few listens it quickly became one of my favorites on the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met Fan Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 This song must be a grower for me, it's currently my least favorite on the album but all these people cannot be wrong haha I found it meh.. slow in a lame stale way, I'm thinking maybe people are attracted to the lyrics, which I'm yet to read. Too early to be decisive about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmoGreenDay Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Beautiful. I'm not getting any vibes other than Billie talking about his childhood. It's full of memories of a better time in the world. A world with much less hatred. Great nostalgic song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thatsername Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 "You took a train and you can't go back... Forever now Forever now You'll roam" This! I can't believe how Billie manages to capture that feeling of being lost in such a great way, over and over again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungBlood Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 The best song from the album lyrically - still prefer forever now though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeBird Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 LOVE it. This entire album is shaping up really well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Angel Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Just after hearing it: eh, decent enough, kinda dull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stories and songs Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 I thought this song was way too slow at first (at least for the first half of the song). Slowly becoming one of my favorites. Brutal Love will probably forever be my favorite ballad of theirs, but ugh. This is so great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spark in the night Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 If this isn't a nostalgic song, I don't know what is. It's really sweet and tender The music in the chorus sounds VERY FAMILIAR. Can someone help me out? I've definitely heard that melody before. I can't tell if it's another GD song or something else. It's on the tip of my brain and it's bugging me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Didn't really like this song the first time I heard it but it's growing on me and now I'm starting to love it and it will probably be one of my favourites from the album.. Listened to it for the first time in the car today and it's a perfect road trip song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thatsername Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Okay, after listening to the whole record several times, Outlaws has officially become one of my favourites. I'm not only listening to that song, I SEE it, it's like watching a movie about those three amazing guys and the unbelievable path they've walked in the past almost 30 years. It lead them from the American dream (rags to riches) to the American nightmare (the dark side of success: drugs, alcohol and the pressure to become even more successful) and back on track. Especially after that great Howard Stern interview where they told their story again about living in a warehouse together with nothing in their hands except their instruments. It's all in that song, how it all began, the whole story, the Green Day "movie". Plus, it makes me reflect my own youth, which was totally different from theirs, but I still feel connected. It really makes me feel nostalgic. I think I'm growing old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michi1 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 I really love this song in a strange way. Not the lyrics or even the musicality necessarily, but to me it feels like Green Day acknowledging their maturity and who they used to be, versus who they are now. Kind of like 86, maybe? Feels like they're all reminiscing on a place or a time they can't go back to. Could also easily be the kids from American Idiot grown up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bollocks Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 I'm sorry but how can you not like this? The solo and the "I plead my innocence" section is the best thing on this record. You can hear the room in the verses, and as an audio engineer, this makes my heart pound. I'm sure @Spike would agree for the feel of the room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodymurderbitch Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Really loving this song, the very opening part and the ending. That ending springs tears to my eyes almost every time. "forever now you'll roam..." is so ghostly haunting magic. It is so very personal and you can feel it. Someone else mentioned this, but it does make me reflect back on myself too. God damn I just can't get the ending of the song out of my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 1 hour ago, Dirty Liar said: I'm sorry but how can you not like this? The solo and the "I plead my innocence" section is the best thing on this record. You can hear the room in the verses, and as an audio engineer, this makes my heart pound. I'm sure @Spike would agree for the feel of the room Yep, it could so easily sound overblown or like an empty stadium, but they really nailed the space in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeldachick14 Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 This song reminds me of all the times I've shared with my best friend, I'm kinda reminiscing during this song. I think it is beautiful. It actually kinda sounds like it could be an Electric Light Orchestra song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bollocks Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Tracking the tempo in hopes of my band playing this live soon and theres a few changes. The intro and verses are 92 bpm, choruses are 93, the octavey (that a word?) section before the main solo is 97 bpm and it returns to 93 for the main solo and 'I got no supervison'. It remains at 93 until the outro which starts at 90bpm and slows down to about 70 by the end of the song... phew! That was a long 2 hours of working this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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