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Castaway demo coming Friday with a boxset announcement

 

Someone on Reddit shared the Castaway demo:
Edit: maybe just go look for the link…

 

Oh lame I know Green Day inc is a fan page but they do get insider info and was thinking the eye emoji was them saying they know

 

One of my favorite songs from Warning and the demo sounds so good! Bring on the box set!

 

Me: I've been pretty good about not spending money on vinyl lately.

Green Day: Fuck you.

 

I've kinda cooled it on vinyl lately but I will buy whatever this is

 

Hell fucking yeah. I was not expecting it.

 

End of the Saviors tour. Always been a top 3 band for me but this album and seeing Dookie performed in full last year made me realise they are likely no 1.

 

Also. Warning was the first album release since I had become a fan post-Nimrod. Takes me back to that sorta pre-internet promotion cycle. Setting up a VHS recorder to record them on a UK morning show "The Big Breakfast" before I went to school.

 

Was at the show in Milwaukee when they played there. Incredible performance.

 

I got to be in the audience for MTV's "Warning : First Listen", which is one of the cooler music things I've done.

I think I've mentioned this before - they did some Warning songs to be televised, and took requests in between. I was like 2 feet from BJ, so I said "Rotting!" BJ gives me a bamboozled look and says "I don't remember how the fuck to play that!"

Then in Penn Station on the way home, I met up with a kid who stole a CD-R from the Warning listening station. He ripped it and emailed it to me, so I had Warning a little earlier than other people.

 

That era of the band felt really fun for me because it was the first time I was "there" for a Green Day album release...

Before that point I had absolutely no idea what was happening in the world of music. I got Dookie about a year after it was released and had no idea Insomniac or Nimrod had come out until 1-2 months after the fact. Didn't listen to the radio, didn't watch MTV, and I hadn't yet figured out how to use the Internet effectively.

But around 1998 that all changed and I became very plugged into all that shit. So I remember being really excited about the Alternative Press cover story, that live version of "Warning" from the Bridge School Benefit being everywhere online before its release, etc. It felt like such a big deal.

I bought the album the day it came out and obsessively tracked down the import singles as they dropped. So I'll be curious to hear what winds up on this one given that there weren't a ton of b-sides. The demos would be really interesting to hear.

 

Love this. Which songs did they play? I feel like the band, if they wanted to, could dig really deep into things like these performances and pull out a nice collection of live Warning songs...including a few that are super rare/never played live.

 

Warning was my first full album cycle for the band, so it’s always been a special album to me.

 

When is Warning's bday, Greg?

 

12 hours and 6 minutes as of this post.

 

Thank you for your service, sir. See you tomorrow.

 

Warning was the first album that came out when I was a fan too

 

My expectations are sky high for what they include with this release. It would be pretty cool if they release a remixed version, along with the regular one, like Billie Joe has said he's wanted.

Edit: the track listing is out there. Not bad. Kinda weird to include songs from Shenanigans and the Greatest Hits comp though.

Edit 2: Suffocate? That's so obviously a Nimrod sessions song...oof.

 

They televised Minority, Blood Sex & Booze, and 86.

Unaired, they did Stuck With Me, and a couple others I forget.

 

Nice to see them loading this up with demos and really excited about those alternate mixes! The list of b-sides is what I had expected and it's really awesome that the Husker Du cover will finally be on streaming. There's also a few cuts here that aren't readily available in officially released live releases so... I'll take it!

As far as the Shenanigans and ISH tracks, though, I kinda get it. Those were all from that era technically... Though I'm with you on "Suffocate" and in hindsight it's a little odd that it wasn't on the Nimrod release (because it was on a "Good Riddance" single). Wonder what happened there.

 

They included the Shenanigans songs on the Dookie reissue, which kind of made sense to me until I realized that they didn’t do that for the Insomniac and Nimrod reissues

I really wish they included the OG Insomniac-era version of Good Riddance on the reissue. It’s out there, but still remains a somewhat rarity

 

I feel like the Insomniac reissue happened before they decided on this boxed set approach. I'm guessing they wind up doing a 30-year one that's a boxed set with all the b-sides, some demos, a live show, etc.

Though I'm guessing that era is pretty limited as far as demos go.

 

I just took at the tracklist and couldn’t help but notice that Maria is listed as “Maria (Early Version).” I didn’t realize a second version existed?