If you told me during the Warning or Idiot days that I'd eventually not purchase four Green Day albums in a row, I'd have literally died laughing Rev Rad was decent and I came close to buying it but that's it
Listened to this twice more in full today because a) it’s so short, and b) I try to give things a fair shake, but I’m disappointed to report this is still terrible.
Unrelated to this album but, over the summer I listened to Warning for the first time in well over a decade and I was blown away by how prescient the line, “is the cop or am I the one that’s really dangerous?” was and how eerily it fits in the 2016-2020 world and that dude wrote that in 1999 (not saying police weren’t dangerous in 1999 but i was in 6th grade so I knew shit back then) still think that’s the most genius lyric he’s ever written
Personally, I think every album they have released since 2004 has actually been really good. And yes, that includes the trilogy
It's a shame the album art and marketing are unbearable, because I actually think this record is pretty fun
true, but I mean 6 grade me didn’t know about it and didn’t understand what the line meant at the time. When I listened this pass summer I was like “oh damn that definitely applies to right now” but I would have said the same thing if I was 31 in 1999. Just sad how much that line still applies to today, if not more so, 21 years later.
I mean, “Killing in the name” was written in 92 and it still today, word for word. Probably more even.
Yeah, I like this album enough that I had to buy it on vinyl. Its incredibly fun. I dig the energy a lot. I also gave 21CB a spin. There's A LOT going on in that album, but for what it is, I like it way more now than I have over the past ten years. I also appreciate the effort put into it. Static Age was my favorite after listening to the whole thing.
Even if I liked this album, this whole era would pretty easily go down as their most embarrassing with their whole "lol pop is trash right guys? only ROCK is real music" attitude. I thought it might have been satire at first but they REALLY seem to be doubling down on it