Green Day - Saviors (January 19th, 2024) • Page 77

Dilemma mid? Living in the ‘20s bad? Blasphemy!

 

All I’ve retained from the last page of replies is Bobby Sax. Bobby Sax Bobby Sax Bobby Sax

 

I only said something because you were not the only one who has called it that (look two posts up from yours).

 

I saw it three times. It stuck out, for sure.

 

It’s fine, it’s not a skip for me

 

I was hoping Father To A Son would wreck me as someone who lost their father at age 12. But it’s kind of the other direction, from the dad’s perspective and it just doesn’t click much with me. The title makes more sense from that perspective, but I made an assumption based off the title and was wrong. I think it’s fine, but I don’t know if it’ll ever really hit me.

 

I absolutely love the arrangement, especially the wall of sound ending

 

I never actually got more than halfway through Father lol. I don't hate it like trilogy or FOAM but it was about as instant a skip as it gets for me

 

Thankful for this album not only reminding me how great Green Day is, but it brought me back to 21CB after probably 10 years of not listening to it and god damn do I love this album. My pops took me and my brother to the show for that tour when we were still young teenagers and man, lots of core memories wrapped up in this album.

Title track, Lobotomy, American Girls, Horshoes and Handgrenades (BANGER!!!), Static Age… these songs are fantastic and the album as a whole is so damn cohesive. Way too long of an album but they nailed so much of it. Anyways that’s my 21CB love fest.

 

I think the entirety of 21stCB is great but it is a pretty long album. I love all of the songs but it fatigues me as a listener. I was lucky enough to see them on that tour & I had an absolute blast! I feel like they were at their peak as a live band on that tour.

 

“I’m a hater, a traitor, in a pair of chuck taylors” is legit one of my favorite GD lyrics.

 

Just dropped by to say Corvette Summer is awesome.

 

Suzie Chapstick is definitely sticking out as my favorite still

Rounding out the top three are probably Strange Days and Fancy Sauce right now

 

I remember trying to listen to the 21CB release on some site before school the year it came out and only getting like 7 songs in because it was so long. Was itching all day to get home and play it along with some Modern Warfare 2. Good times, man.

 

I disagreed with almost everything the both said except the (slight) praise for Warning. But the part that I can't shake is when Hyden said Billie sings in a "fake British accent". I've never noticed this once and they are my favourite band... but then again I am Australian so maybe I just can't tell? (I can definitely tell with, say, Ramones.)

 

I've heard people say that before. I don't hear it either. People said that about Brandon Flowers on the first Killers record, too. I think it might be a thing where listeners hear British influences in the music overall, and then their brains hear an accent because their reference points were bands whose singers had accents. But I don't really think either of those guys sound like they're singing with British accents.

 

I am glad someone else said this! When I first heard Dookie I thought Green Day was British! (I was also 10 years old but still that thought didn't leave my mind until I was in like high school)

 

Flowers is straight up doing a Robert Smith impression on Jenny tbf. I don't really hear it in Billie at all but one of my older co-workers thought they were a British band until I told him otherwise last week so

 

I think it was that BJA’s vocal affect sounded like other British punk singers’ quasi-British/quasi-American vocal affect, not so much that he sounded like he was doing a full British talking accent.

 

I always thought he was doing like an exaggerated socal California surfer dude type accent

 

Kind of ironic given how most British artists fake a semi-American accent when singing

 

I always just said he was doing the "pop punk voice" which I guess can sound a little british-y if you really listen hard and squint your ears haha.

I remember when I first heard the Killers when they first came out, I thought they were a british band.

 

I thought the Killers were a British band forever because, as a child, I heard about Flowers saying it was cheap for BJA to play songs like American Idiot in Britain or w/e that whole deal was and just assumed one would only think that if they were British

Kinda embarrassed at how long it took me to realize they weren't

 

On the contrary, having an opinion on behalf of another country is a very American thing to do.