For some reason it consistently seems to affect certain people

Pft colton I went to bar for you recently and this is how you do me?!?

top 7 anime betrayal

Album Rating: 3.3

wow what a great thread anyway album is ok

lovely rev too, just feels good to have a new green day record that doesn't suck lol

I’m prob gonna hate this but I’m seeing them soon with Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid, so I hope I can find some stuff to enjoy

Album Rating: 4.0

“just feels good to have a new green day record that doesn't suck lol”



Part of me wonders if I’m overrating the album because of that lmao



We’ll see how I feel in a couple months I guess

wow cant believe the last lp was four years ago


did they write some actual songs in those four years or na

Album Rating: 3.0

They did a new The Network album and Billie did a solo album of covers and a Pinhead Gunpowder EP

*edit* Oh I see, I thought you were asking if they wrote anything else in that time lol Yes! I think they actually wrote some good material in that time. I’m gonna ride the hype train bc this was my first favorite band when I was like 8 y/o and im so happy to hear new music from them I enjoy, because I haven’t since ‘09

yes i was being a wanker and asking if theyd learnt how to write more songs than the same ones theyve been reiterating in pop punk mediocrity

Album Rating: 3.0

this isnt a fully formed opinion yet, but this is giving the same vibes as that lp that All Time Low shat out last year. definitely less generic tho, and with some actual bangers like Dilemma.

gyro you didn’t have to bring up black people but thanks for reminding us all how you feel about them

Album Rating: 4.0

Trying to decide if this is their best since AI or just their best since 21CB, but either way, it's their best in a long time.







---To me, Green Day in and of themselves are almost a cringe proposition in and of themselves, so there's something kinda quaint to them throwing caution to the wind in the same exact way that Rivers does---



I honestly really kinda agree with this. I don't even expect GD albums to be technically or instrumentally proficient, it's basically just the catchier & noisier the better with them. And this sure is at least catchy.



Lone exception might be AI because it was a cultural zeitgeist and they were the lucky recipients of lightning in a bottle there.

i certainly dont expect technical or instrumental proficiency

but i think it would help them expand their songwriting. theyve been going so long youd think they might want to push themselves at some point

but perhaps once youve been going this long if it was going to happen it would have already

Album Rating: 3.0

Totally agree Sowing.



I feel like American Idiot was the band being uniquely inspired, while also happening to have that inspiration come at the absolute perfect time to launch that album from being merely great to all-time legendary status. Like it or not, you simply can't have a conversation about music from the 00's without talking at length about American Idiot. No better album better encapsulates the pendulum swinging the other direction in the Bush era.



I think 21CB show that the band was still talented and in their bag, but the ambitious scope was already starting to wear thin and they were not the ones to shepherd the discontent of the Obama years like they were with the previous administration.



I think I'm landing on this being better than 21CB, but also more forgettable. We'll see

Album Rating: 4.0

@Mort: I'd say AI was the point for them, at least in terms of shaking up their songwriting to the tune a punk-rock opera with 9 minute tracks.

Album Rating: 1.5

"“just feels good to have a new green day record that doesn't suck lol”







Part of me wonders if I’m overrating the album because of that lmao"



It's still early for me to make a full assessment, but my initial impression is that this is a snooze and is probably just being propped up by the fact that it isn't complete shit. In comparison to the Blink-182 album last year, at least that release had some genuine emotion woven into the audience pandering. This is just a collection of mid tempo, vapid Madlibs anthems.

Album Rating: 4.0

this is way way better than 21cb



also warning was a shakeup in the context of their discog, and people didnt really like it lol (they were wrong its their best)

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah it's definitely their best since American Idiot but I still can't say I was too wow'd by it.



Look Ma No Brains is an absolute banger tho

'@Mort: I'd say AI was the point for them, at least in terms of shaking up their songwriting to the tune a punk-rock opera with 9 minute tracks.'

yah that is a fair point

“I’m prob gonna hate this but I’m seeing them soon with Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid, so I hope I can find some stuff to enjoy”

Hope they’re calling it The Laundry Tour with a bill that washed up