Green Day Band • Page 167

I acquired all three of those albums at the time and listened to all of them like once and thought “pretty fun” and then never went back. Whatever that means.

 

I don't think it means anything, Moose.

 

Trilogy hurts as someone who hates on post-Warning Green Day. They did what I wanted and just released regular songs with straight-ahead guitars and little melodies but somehow it was not very good and kinda bland and it makes me personally look bad.

New single today is what I’ve been wanting for almost 20 years. Rev Road was sorta what I have been missing but I did not like the extra sound effects and little studio thingies they added on top of the basic elements of the songs. Hoping Saviors is a tight, straight-ahead rock/pop-punk album like the first two single suggest.

 

Whats funny about an American idiot anniversary tour is that....they play an average of 7 American idiot songs a show nyways.

Holiday, suburbia, idiot, boulevard, st Jimmy are played every single time...

We are the waiting, September get played a lot

And homecoming gets sprinkled in.

Definitely the only album I don't need any sort of anniversary or celebration tour for.

 

7 songs a shoe? The cost of a shine's gone up.

 

It’s the smallest stadium, but much larger than the amphitheater shows. Providence Park is where the Timbers play and is supposed to hold 30K for concerts.

 

I have a friend that had American Idiot shoes. Pretty neat!

 

Looks like they could have used some swedish songwritters for the trilogy.

 

In my quiet observation over the years, it generally seems to be:

- Oh Love
- Kill The DJ (there was a fan-edited version of this somewhere on youtube that addressed the over-repetitive choruses that helped the song a lot)
- Troublemaker
- Fuck Time
- Nightlife (this is the ONE from the entire trilogy)

not sure if there’s anything specific from Tre that gets universally dunked on. Also some vague recollections of Lady Cobra being another one but I haven’t seen it mentioned in a loooooong time.

I could not agree with this more. Everyone’s hypothetical “best of the trilogy” always seems to differ pretty significantly, it’s just that no-one agrees on their lists so a lot of folks think the leftover songs they don’t like = “trilogy bad”.

I made my own 12 song “Cinco” and it is tight as hell! In my opinion, hahaha.

 

I still sing “oh baby baby it’s FUCK TIME” with the der der duh der dah dah Dee dah guitar line in my head sometimes. The rest of the song mostly sucks (I don’t mind the riff opening the bridge, it sounds like MCR Teenagers!).

I am not ashamed.

The trilogy has great songs hiding behind thin production or half-finished songwriting choices. Most of Uno, Stay the Night and Carpe Diem in particular, would really work with 20% more effort, and Nuclear Family and Let Yourself Go rip as is.

 

Tre has some real jams and I won't hear otherwise. Brutal Love, Walk Away, and X-Kid for example.

 

I remember liking Uno when it came out. Hated Dos minus Stray Heart. Don’t remember much of Tre because I was completely burnt out on new GD songs by then. I never go back to any of those albums and almost always skip trilogy songs if they randomly come on.

There is probably a good album if they focused on 12ish songs but it just seems like they pumped out songs just to do a triple album because they felt like they needed to do something big after to rock operas.

 

a lot of those dates are just regular amphitheaters, bummer. was hoping it'd be the stadium here.

 

I actually wish mine was an amphitheater lol, baseball stadiums suck for shows

Excited to be the first date though!! And super excited that my show is two days after I see Blink too

 

This is exactly my experience with the trilogy too, and also think they were kind of "lost" after AI and 21CB.

 

Like this second song more than the first one, which was just okay imo

 

My "Cinco" looks like this:

1. Nuclear Family
2. Carpe Diem
3. X-Kid
4. Stay the Night (without the guitar intro - just straight into the full band intro)
5. Let Yourself Go
6. Drama Queen
7. Lazy Bones
8. Missing You
9. Stray Heart
10. 8th Avenue Serenade
11. Rusty James (I seem to be the only person who likes this song... lyrics aren't that interesting, though)
12. Walk Away

 

Nah Rusty James is one of my favorites as well wth

 

Sounds so much better than the last performance. Rad song.

 

Yeah, this one's a ripper! Excited to hear the studio version.

 

I was skimming through the Trilogy the other day and it occurred to me that Green Day always had a certain set of classic power pop and rock influences that they cribbed from but they’d translate those influences through their snotty pop punk sound to create Green Day songs. But often the Trilogy sounds like they’re doing by-the-numbers, faithful covers of songs that never existed by those influences and it comes off as genre exercises more than actual full-fledged new Green Day tracks. The three songs I’ve heard from this so far, if I include 1981, sound more like Green Day songs than fine-enough genre songs performed by the members of Green Day. That is my lecture for today. Goodnight!

 

This may be the fairest criticism of the trilogy I've ever heard! Totally get what you're saying here, even though I love them doing straight up power pop.

 

I like that one

 

Wow the two 1981 performances are like night and day. The debut performance of it had me kind of worried for the quality of the album but that new performance was fantastic, this song is sooo catchy