Green Day - Father of all Motherfuckers (February 7, 2020) Album • Page 24

Agreed. I feel bad for the band when fans go on with that shit. It's clear they're really enjoying themselves this time around and are really happy with the album. Some people just can't let go of their vision of what they think Green Day should be.

 

I expected the worst with this record and was pleqsantly surprised by it. Its not really my thing and I probably wont come back to it much but it was fun and not the abomination I was expecting.

 

It's not the record I was hoping Butch and Green Day would make together, but I don't hate it.

 

I wonder if that's the main issue. It seems like people are listening to this wanting GREEN DAY™ but since it doesn't sound like every other standard Green Day album, it automatically makes it trash. The same people probably would have shit on it if it sounded like their last 5 or so albums too though.

 

The way Billie says "and it's dangerous" in Sugar Youth sounds exactly like the way he says "she's dangerous" in She's A Rebel. Wonder if that was intentional.

On my first listen now. I have...no idea how to feel. Part of me thinks it's mindless fun, part of me hates it. Guess I'll figure it out on subsequent listens.

If not, I'll always have American Idiot and everything before it. I actually love 21CB too.

 

Or people can just not like an album without an agenda.

 

"oh yeah" improved for me in sequence so i can already tell i'm gonna like this record

rev rad was dull, an exhausted, surface-level "comeback" record in every way

 

"meet me on the roof" is heavy with motown vibes. it rules

 

"teenage teenager" also rules, what the hell do people want out of this band. this has none of the coke bloat emptiness of the trilogy

 

Meet me on the roof is good

 

Most of the lyrics read like they wrote them in 5 minutes. I don't need them to get political or deep but this album feels rushed and lazy.

 

"sugar youth" wow

 

Some real bad takes in here, lol.

 

I'm not sure if I've been listening to the same record as a lot of you guys. I mean, I'm not in love with it by any stretch, but I don't think it's as offensively bad as some of you are making out.

It's alright. It's an okay record. My biggest complaints are the artwork and the fact I struggled to make out the vocals at points (but that's probably my car speakers more than anything).

 

I do find it funny that these guys pumped out a 26 minute rocker and Butch Walker is putting out a Rock Opera.

 

this album is the exact shot in the arm i think they needed. it's a little inconsequential-feeling but they actually sound... excited to be making this music

 

I’m of the age that Green Day was a formative band, and I’ve argued quite forcefully that Dookie/Insomniac/Nimrod May be the finest three album stretch of pop-punk/punk-rock ever (probably just because of being an 8th grader who had those CDs, but still). And then, as life happens, I lost track of them after Warning (I knew American Idiot was massive obviously. I just didn’t listen or keep up).

Which is to say this: after a two decade hiatus from the band for no real reason other than my own apathy, ‘Father Of All’ has me back. I absolutely love this record, and while it doesn’t sound stylistically like when I was a teenager, the urgency and excitement does. What they’re doing and how they’re doing it made me think I should check them out again after all this time, and I’m really glad I did.

 

Agreed

this is one of those rare instances I’m gonna be defending an album that I don’t even really care about haha

 

It's probably weird but lyrics are the last thing I care about when it comes to music, haha. I don't even know all of the lyrics to some of my favorite bands songs.

 

Giving this a first listen right now, fully expecting to hate it. Through the singles, the title track is still great and Oh Yeah is still horrendous. Can't say I'm not curious about the rest though

 

Lmfao at any take saying this is unlistenable

 

Yeah, I'm not even sure I like this all that much but some of the hyperbole surrounding it is nuts.

 

Just finished my first listen. I thought it was good. I'll listen to it a handful more times at least and the songs will be fun to see on Hella Mega. I'm satisfied.

 

This is... surprisingly not horrible. I think RevRad is the better album, but I think I'd actually prefer to listen to this because it has a really good energy and the production is very good. I do agree with what someone said that this isn't even as a far a departure from their previous music; a lot of this style has long been subtly in their stuff here and there

 

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