Green Day Band • Page 99

I've always loved Misery. It was the perfect amount of experimentation for me at 12 years old

 

Don’t get me wrong, I like it. But it’s on the low end of Warning for me so I’d throw in something else from that album instead.

 

21CB and Revolution Radio are both great for pretty different reasons, IMO. Love the sprawl and bombast of the former, love the tight concision of the latter. Both are pretty undervalued in the fanbase, I think.

 

Man, 21CB is waaaaay better than RR to me, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

 

I like RevRadio much more. 21CB is fine, but it feels like a much less memorable AI to me

 

I love 21CB but I'm also an impatient punk fan that prefers albums 30-40 minutes long. Anything over an hour just genuinely makes me feel tired (ironically, one of my favorite albums of all time is the very lengthy doom metal album Monotheist by Celtic Frost)

 

Idk but the 25th anniversary release of Insomniac sounds so much better than the original lol.

 

On a Warning kick this week. Really could be my favorite album

 

The context around RevRad also helps people like it more I think. It’s the first Green Day album since Warning that wasn’t tied into a concept or gimmick of some kind. 21CBD and AI were the concept albums of course to varying degrees of success. Then there’s the trilogy… the less I say the better there. This left RevRad as the first fun solid rock album since Warning.

 

I think if Warning came out before Nimrod it would be my favorite from them. But Nimrod came first and I adore it because that was my official intro to the band. Of course I knew Dookie, but I didn’t click with it until later on.

 

Yeah same to really all of this haha.

 

RevRad is more consistent, but the highs on 21CB are way higher

 

I'm probably going to regret doing this, but I feel like sharing that when the trilogy came out, I decided to combine songs from all three of them into one album in an attempt to make it a similar product to American Idiot and 21st Century.

I ended up with what I felt, and still feel, is a logical albeit rough narrative and is still a sequence that I'm pretty happy with. I tried to go for both what I felt were the most memorable songs to me and just the ones that added variety to the sequence.

My thought was that Songs 1-6 encompass one act, setting a backdrop, and then Songs 7-14 encompass Act 2 with the main conflict, and then the third 15-20 being the resolution. I imagined it being about a young love couple, the guy falls for a more rebellious girl and ends up cheating, the original relationship falls apart, and bad things happen.

Anyway, this was that sequence.

01. See You Tonight
02. Nuclear Family
03. Carpe Diem
04. Kill The DJ
05. Fell For You
06. 99 Revolutions
07. Wild One
08. Let Yourself Go
09. Fuck Time
10. Ashley
11. Nightlife
12. Drama Queen
13. Walk Away
14. Brutal Love
15. Lady Cobra
16. X-Kid
17. Stray Heart
18. Oh Love
19. Dirty Rotten Bastards
20. The Forgotten

 

I appreciate and respect the effort, but it’s hampered by the fact that a few of those songs are really bad

 

nah. I’d at least take Bang Bang, Somewhere Now, Forever Now, Still Breathing, and the title track over anything from that album.

I don’t fuck with changing albums, personally. But any resequencing or cutting down of the trilogy that still includes fucking Nightlife alone is an instant hard pass. There are other bad songs but that’s the king of bad.

like REALLY bad

 

That's fine, I didn't really expect to get approval. I just thought I would share.

 

I approve. Thank you for sharing.

 

I like the idea, I might try doing something similar later and see where I end up. Would be a good opportunity to cut the trilogy down to a single album of songs I actually like, since I literally never return to it as-is

 

Love the thought here. No Stay The Night? Probably the standout from the entire Trilogy for me.

 

Well, without remembering how "Stay The Night" goes, my logic at the time was like this.

I wanted to have an even number of songs from each album, and I wanted to keep with a relatively coherent narrative. Those were my ground rules.

I think I did choose between "Fell For You" and another song, and that might have been it, but it's been so long ago now, I don't remember.

My logic at the time in even doing it is because the whole project felt to me like Green Day wanted to make another album like AI and 21stCB, wrote the songs, and then gave up trying to pare down the material. So in my hubris, I decided I would do it based on the narrative I was feeling.

I actually listened back to it today, and I still feel like it makes sense.

Like, "Fell For You" to me is him talking about the young love, and then "Wild One" is where he meets the other girl. And then each song after that alternates between the fracturing and dissolution of his first relationship, and him getting deeper intwined with this other girl.

Until finally, in my mind, "Drama Queen" is where the first love commits suicide, "Walk Away" is where, separately, he realizes he was wrong for what he's been doing, but "Brutal Love" is about it being too late. And then the rest of the songs fall into place from there.

I'm probably getting interpretations of the actual songs incorrect and I probably thought about this way more than necessary, but I dunno. It was fun. Would do again.

 

As long as you had fun that's all that matters. I think you may have put more thought into the Trilogy than the band did hahaha.

 

Potential differing opinions aside, I appreciate the effort put into being creative!

 

Rev >>> 21CB

 

Weird seeing all the Revolution Radio love. I think that album is totally fine as it's a well-rounded representation of Green Day as a glob-conquering rock-band but NOT a retreat to their pop-punk beginnings as many initially billed it as.

 

Fool. The Globs can never be conquered. We'll rise again! Mark my words!