Green Day Band • Page 95

The new Cold Years album is best thing Green Day forgot to put out after American Idiot.

 

I'll say after 21st Century Breakdown to be nitpicky, but it's a totally different type of album to be fair

 

The new Cold Years album is awesome but not at all the type of music I want Green Day to be making. We already have American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown and Revolution Radio.

 

Yeah I'm listening to it today, it sounds like Green Day left their shit set up in the studio after Idiot and Billie Joe produced it lol. I'll probably love it eventually, I think it would bother me more if Green Day was making stuff I liked haha. If another band wants to make a good Green Day album, I'm game I guess though

 

To me it sounds like the bridge between Nimrod and AI if Warning didn’t exist. I don’t get quite as much of the theatrical elements as I do from AI and 21st Century outside of the opener and closer

 

I've listened to a few tracks and I understand the comparison musically, but not vocally at all. Not that anyone was making the vocal comparison though.

 

Put me down as someone who wouldn’t mind another album like American Idiot or 21CB.

 

Yeah musically not vocally. The vocals have to grow on me a little but I'm not having any trouble getting through songs so far. I feel like there's at least a part of every song that I can picture Billie singing though haha.

 

I would mind another 21CB in that it would feel way too long and I wouldn't like about half the songs. I don't dislike it overall but getting through it start to finish is absolutely impossible for me lol

 

I'd love for the band to do something again in the American Idiot/large and ambitious pop-rock vein as long as Billie doesn't try and sound like whatever he was doing on FOAM.

 

In 18 years FOAM will become the bands next ‘Warning’ and people will be ranking it as their favorite haha.

And whatever album comes out next (1972?) will be the bands next ‘American Idiot’.

 

0% chance that happens. Warning was good on release.

 

Warning was immediately great though lol

 

Oh, I loved Warning since it came out. I remember a lot of people not being into it though.

 

Not a chance about FOAM.

I wouldn’t be opposed 1972 to be another massive album. But having two albums already that were insanely massive and career defining a decade apart was already pretty rare for most bands. For it to happen again almost 20 years later would be pretty cool, but I don’t see it happening.

 

I dunno. The internet was not what it is today, so the majority of reactions I saw came from my fellow punk rockers in school and we all loved it. They played a large chunk of the album live the next couple years that got filmed and put online and I spent probably weeks worth of time downloading those shows, generally one song at a time, and the crowd was always loving it. That’s all I could really base reactions off of back then as I wasn’t really into forums yet.

 

10 years*

 

I'll take any bet of that album having a collective turn where people start ranking it as their favorite.

Warning went platinum, was critically praised, and even in the moment people loved it. "Minority" and "Macy's Day Parade" was a hit.

I don't think FOAM has even sold 100k copies, was critically mediocre at best, people hate it. No hits.

Much more likely the band pretends it was never released than the group of people that still follow Green Day - us weird 30-40 year olds - start liking it when we're 50-60.

 

Most people have no idea FOAM exists and even less could name a single song off it.

 

I agree that no will ever rank it first and the band will pretend it never existed. But I think Green Day fans will eventually start coming around to it.

 

What 50 year old is gonna be like “now I like this”? I don’t see any world where it happens. It doesn’t sound like a Green Day album … which is a huge reason why all the fans hate it now. It’s so so bad.

 

I think Brad will when he’s 50. Then he’ll come back here to prove the point.

 

I remember when Minority came out as well as any music memory I have tbh

 

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