Green Day

[mrlee]

New album is very, very good.

Ill actually purchase this.

The Green Day guys have got the Axl Rose syndrome. They have gone EPIC!!!!

Green Days meets the Beatles and Queen. This album is BIG, and very good.

although...there is a song called 21 guns. The chorus tune, and chords. IS blatantly riped off from ALL THE YOUNG DUDES

[Doc Emmett Brown]

^ I remember you didnt like the last article I posted (flyover rock...), so I got another one for ya:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/arts/music/03pare.html

Jon Pareles talks to the band members.

[Doc Emmett Brown]

The Green Day guys have got the Axl Rose syndrome. They have gone EPIC!!!!

You got me thinking about this line from the NYT article:
"The music is more expansive in every way, encompassing more styles and arriving in a newly spacious, three-dimensional production."

Sounds like another record we know and love right?  Except with GD's new album, it is praised for being so, instead of lambasted.

[mrlee]

The Green Day guys have got the Axl Rose syndrome. They have gone EPIC!!!!

You got me thinking about this line from the NYT article:
"The music is more expansive in every way, encompassing more styles and arriving in a newly spacious, three-dimensional production."

Sounds like another record we know and love right?  Except with GD's new album, it is praised for being so, instead of lambasted.

I think, what Green Day did right with this album, they still had a good mix of tracks that had alot of energy and rocked, aswell as the epic songs, and sections.

I think while CD had alot of great elements, it missed alot of the raw power often associated with previous GNR albums. To the average fan this probably wouldnt of been easy to accept. So i think thats where CD failed to garner the critical acclaim, that by what you are saying, 21st Century breakdown has achieved.

I guess we will see. I wondered how theyd follow up American Idiot, because lets face it, that was one of the biggest albums of this decade. I think they have made a great follow up, lets just see how the public takes it.

[Bodhi]

havent heard the album yet, but I have high expectations for it...going to the album signing in NYC this Friday, and possibly one of the secret shows next week if im lucky...I wont listen to the album till the day it comes out though...old school...

[The Catcher]

This album is, simply put, a masterpiece. Nothing less. I have been following Green Day since Dookie came out and American Idiot was great but this stuff is unbelievable. It's nothing less than a future rock classic. It's just too good to even describe right now that I'm through with my second listen. It's a very complex and intelligently crafted album with one song being better than the other. More mature than American idiot, and the subject matter is very pleasing here. Most young people who are not sheep and think for themselves can relate to this album. Highly recommended! 10/10.

[14 Yrs Of Silence]

21st Century Breakdown is excellent.  In fact, the hooks are so good that they sound like I've heard them somewhere before, if you know what I mean. 

[LunsJail]

21st Century Breakdown is excellent.  In fact, the hooks are so good that they sound like I've heard them somewhere before, if you know what I mean. 

You have, in other Green Day songs   

[14 Yrs Of Silence]

21st Century Breakdown is excellent.  In fact, the hooks are so good that they sound like I've heard them somewhere before, if you know what I mean. 

You have, in other Green Day songs   

No, I definitely agree that a number of the songs sound similar to American Idiot tracks, but there is something even more familiar about some of these songs to other songs I've heard before.  I just can't think of which songs they sound like!  Its like Jesus of Suburbia which had elements of Motley Crue's On With the Show and Bryan Adam's Summer of 69.  This album too has elements of other songs I just can't figure it out.  Who's good at "Name That Tune"??

[mrlee]

Damn. This new album is so bloody good. a few tracks in the later middle area that i can skip.

But the majority of the tracks are so bloody strong.

i dont know if they will do aswell commercially as American Idiot.

But personally i like this album alot more than AI.

I think the new single "21 Guns" is great also! Great arena rock anthem!


^and at the last part. Yes in some parts of songs, i hear the odd guitar riff or lead that i think "hey...now where have i heard that before". But hey, theres only so many frets on a guitar and only so many chord combinations you can use before it sounds like someone elses song.

[Bodhi]

here are a few of the pics I took the other night at the show at Madison Square Garden.  I had a great spot in the front row against the ramp in the front of the stage.

[mrlee]

wish i could play venues the size Green Day do.

[Bodhi]

Green Day confirmed for the VMA's.

[Koskenkorvasieni]

I personally was one of those who became interested in Green Day after Dookie came out. I bought their entire back catalogue at the time and saw them live at The Helsinki Ice Hall on august 31st 1995, it was one of the most energetic shows I'd ever been to at that time. Insomniac was a great album too, but then my interest in Green Day slowly faded away to give room for other bands. When American idiot came out however, I became interested in them again and after hearing many praises from their show in Helsinki last tuesday, I'm now kinda bummed that I missed it. Personally I think that bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters represent some of the best music that the post 80's rock scene has to offer and it's kinda funny to have watched them rise from playing clubs to becoming stadium-size bands..

[LunsJail]

Ok, since we were encouraged to talk about Green Day in the correct thread here goes. It's been almost 2 years since anyone posted in this thread so maybe I can see why GD were not the most popular choice around here for the Guns HOF induction.

Who else here was a bigger Green Day fan before American Idiot came out? I thought they kinda became the PC media darlings after that. Not really their fault but it started to annoy me.

[AxlReznor]

I think they've improved as a band as time went on. Saw them play the O2 Arena on their last shows in the UK and they're definitely at the top of their (and everyone else's) game as a live band now. When it comes to bands that are still active and touring nowadays, I think great arena shows are limited to Guns, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Muse and Green Day. That's all there is left for large scale rock acts. Unfortunately, certain tracks on American Idiot got played to death on TV and radio, and that kind of killed the charm those songs had.

I really like how they've managed to grow since their early days, and not just release a bunch of identical albums, but were still able to keep the key ingredients that make it unmistakably Green Day. Evidently there are some people who don't wish bands to ever grow in any way and have accused them of selling out, but that always happens.

[Bodhi]

Ok, since we were encouraged to talk about Green Day in the correct thread here goes. It's been almost 2 years since anyone posted in this thread so maybe I can see why GD were not the most popular choice around here for the Guns HOF induction.

Who else here was a bigger Green Day fan before American Idiot came out? I thought they kinda became the PC media darlings after that. Not really their fault but it started to annoy me.

I actually was a fan in the 90's but they became a Top 5 band of mine after "American Idiot", that record is great from start to finish, even the broadway play was good, saw it twice.  I hold "American Idiot" up there as a top 10 album of all time for me.

[AxlReznor]

With all the chaos of yesterday, it was pretty easy to miss the news that Green Day will be releasing three albums between September and January. Can't wait.

[Bodhi]

youtube video of Green Day making their 3 album announcement...Not 1, Not 2, but 3!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYTmNrBHUhE&feature=player_embedded

[Bodhi]

Green Day confirmed for 2012 VMA's.  Here is a promo with Kevin Hart.

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/awards/green-day-rehearsal-crashed-exclusive-vma-promo-104646590.html