Green Day - Saviors (January 19th, 2024) • Page 35

There are plenty of good songs on the trilogy and I still think it's weird when people don't see that. I'd interested to hear a revamped version, tightened up into a single disc. I think people's opinions would soften if the songs were more focused and they weeded out the weaker cuts.

 

I don’t think the trilogy is necessarily terrible music or anything, I just think it’s right near the very bottom of this band’s otherwise mostly very good discography, and that there’s no reason to revisit it when they could just keep releasing new (and mostly likely, better) music instead.

 

If he released the trilogy as Billy Joe Armstrong and the Uno Dos Tres Band and FOAMF as Bad Billy Joe Armstrong and the Motherfuckers, it would have made conceptualizing the career of a good band much more easier and simpler.

 

Mike and Tre are in the band too...

 

They are the Uno Dos Tres Band and they are also the Motherfuckers. It says their name in the liner notes for both albums.

 

I've warmed considerably on the trilogy since it came out. There are some real stinkers, and Dos is mostly pretty bad, but I think the hate the project gets is hyperbolic, honestly to the point of being silly. It's mostly solid power-pop songs. I love my single-disc version of it.

Meanwhile, I've cooled a bit on Revolution Radio, which I loved at the time, but which seems like a tonally confused mixed bag looking back.

 

So far, this new one seems to be a better execution at what Rev Radio was maybe attempting (quasi-return to energetic, straight ahead Green Day).

 

I definitely relate to this. I still enjoy RevRad, but if I am being totally honest, I find myself returning to my “best-of-trilogy” playlist more. Not trying to be edgy with my trilogy take haha, there’s just genuinely a solid amount of songs that I really enjoy (mostly on Tré).

 

I threw on the trilogy a couple years back and liked it even less than I remember liking it when it came out. I don’t even think I could make one full album out of the three that I still wouldn’t rank near the bottom of their catalog. I don’t think improved production would change my mind in any way.

Anyway, getting really excited about this one.

 

Bazinga song is sounding a little bit better every day.

 

Congrats this actually just ruined it more

 

Dilemma is the successor to Still Breathing that I’ve been waiting for

 

I still think there are 6-8 really excellent songs on RevRad, it's just got some stuff that really feels like it belongs on a different album. Particularly "Bouncing Off the Walls" and "Youngblood."

 

I am on a Springsteen deep dive which has caused me to realise that the trilogy is Green Day's Lucky Town/Human Touch.

Come to think of it...
39 Smooth/Kerplunk : Greetings/Wild Innocent (some amazing songs but best yet to come)
Dookie : Born To Run (the major breakthrough)
Insomniac : Darkness (the more aggressive follow up)
Nimrod : The River (sprawling, more styles, major hit single)
Warning : Nebraska (more acoustic and storytelling focused)
American Idiot : Born In The USA (biggest band in the world blockbuster)
21CBD : Tunnel of Love (great album signalling end of their peak)

Then Trilogy : Lucky Town/Human Touch (quantity over quality, huge letdown, listening back years later without the disappointment it's not awful just okay and a few keepers)

That's it that's all I have

 

At the end of the first sentence I was bemused. By the end of the list i was wowed.

 

This works surprisingly well, haha. I've even come around on Lucky Town and Human Touch being underrated, and made a single-disc playlist of those albums that is straight fire.

 

Holy shit yeah lol

 

I also feel like a lot of artists (and particularly the pop punk genre) can suffer from saturation of their sound especially later in their careers...sometimes less is more....looking at the newest TBS, Gaslight, FOB they just put out 30-45 minutes of jams...for Green Day putting out that much music at once I think does a disservice to the albums as a listening experience and perhaps even rushes the songwriting process

 

This really does line up incredibly well. Here’s hoping Saviors is their “The Rising” comeback. It’s blowing my mind that the band is around the same age as Springsteen was when that record was released!

 

Springsteen never really had a Father of All Motherfuckers though...

 

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Clip of 1981 sounds good

 

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