Green Day - Saviors (January 19th, 2024) • Page 88

Really liked the album, the bonus tracks aren't doing much for me. That's fine!

 

I think all of these are pretty fun in their own way. Always happy to have more Green Day

 

You weren’t kidding. It’s like a really long blink-182 joke song that isn’t funny and should have ended at the 30 second mark.

 

Very much b-sides here.

 

Yeah the two songs they released leading up to this are very much the strongest of the batch.

 

BADA BING BADA BING BADA BOOM

 

Dont care what anyone says. It’s still one of my favorites from the album.

 

At the risk of being over-simplistic and maybe oddly-timed since I do think Saviors is probably their best and most creative album in forever, it feels like they’re comfortably out of their “something to prove” days and there’s not really any burning artistic vision that’s still kicking around. So we are getting proficiently made little experiments in genre or curious attempts at nailing a particular sound with varying results.

Occasionally, the songs are fun and good with sequences where they tap into the creative place they used to access and live in for full albums in the past. But it really is a 30+ year old band kinda having fun with a degree of investment that is probably very healthy for their personal lives. A lot of people probably internalize this instantly without having to type it out loud and they’ve been able to enjoy the music for what it is but as someone who enjoys thinking about stuff I think that’s how I sort of view the Saviors and expanded version. I wish it was more inspired but I give it credit for being fun and probably the most appropriate and best way for Green Day to exist at this point.

 

The new songs are mostly good. Fuck Off isn’t… really good but I like the others. Just happy for more GD

 

Without Fuck Off, I would have taken any of these tracks on the record and not batted an eye. The two pre-released are the best but I dig the bridge of Stay Young and I like Underdog for the pep.

 

ran through the main album again and ill still die on the hill that its their best album since warning. the whole run from dilemma through chapstick is absolutely top notch

 

Yeah this album is still in rotation for me, even though the highs aren’t that high. It’s hard to ask for more from band with as large as a catalog as they have at this point.

think Ballyhoo is awesome, fuck off is pretty bad. The other ones are okay

 

Plus, why would I listen to fuck off when we have FOD?

 

With different lyrics and vocal delivery and with a little louder/sloppier sound, Fuck Off *could* have been cool. I don’t hate some of the music hidden behind the really unfortunate choices. Honestly, I just wish they’d release one more snotty album with the faux-angry/faux-raw sound of Insomniac. Loud bass, pls.

 

You have summed up this up excellently. Saviours has been on pretty high rotation for me since release even though there isn't anything amazing about it for me but the simplicity is refreshing and really works in its favour.

 

idk i think saviors hits a pretty high ceiling, coma city is one of my favorite green day songs ever. hearing tre murder the kit at the listening party had me grinning so stupidly

goodnight adeline is incredible too, green days not really a band id expect to land a double key change but they sell it goddamn amazingly

 

The extended instrumental outro of Coma City is in my top 3 moments on the album.

 

I enjoyed Saviors a lot more before the Pinhead Gunpowder album came out. I think the latter sounds way more like what I would want a Green Day album to sound like today. I haven’t really listened to Saviors since.

 

real talk what i want a green day album to sound like today is a modern maybe more acoustic take on their sound like warning

 

kinda surprised at the talk about the ceiling on Saviors not being that high when Dilemma was their best song in 20 years

the b-sides are fine, Smash It Like Belushi is the only one I'll have in rotation for awhile probably. the rest are just okay

 

I really love this album still, and most of these b-sides are fun, but I dislike "Fuck Off" more than anything off FOAM and more than all but like 3 songs on the trilogy.

 

"Stay Young" is great, though.

 

I like Stay Young but my only minor quibble with it is the first chorus…feels like two less measures of “stay young”s would’ve been perfect.

 

Yeah the repetition of it in every chorus does make the song drag a little. Even if only dropped two measures of it in the first chorus, would’ve went a long way!