i love bobby sox. saviors rules. i think the only main gripe i have (other than the general limitations on bja as a lyricist overall which ive long come to terms with) is i dont think they need to be making 15 track albums anymore. would def prefer if it was a lean 12 but i get they were trying to prove a point with that album so its okay
woah those are like three of my top five, so definitely not hahaha off the top of my head probably would lose one eyed bastard + fancy sauce + living in the 20s
Man, Coma City and Living In the 20s are some of my fav tracks on the album. I also agree the album is bloated but the highs are SUPER high for me. I’d cut: Corvette Summer, Father to a Son, Fancy Sauce.
coma is my favorite green day song since letterbomb. corvette is such a glorious dumb banger too, as simple as it is that guitar riff is colossal i like living in the 20s more than i like the other two songs i singled out but ive also heard bja sing that exact melody over other gd songs in the past which places a ceiling on it for me
With you on that. Coma city is so fun and that minute long instrumental outro just keeps going further and further into overdrive. And Corvette is also so good, the song I was thinking of when I was referring to how good the album sounds.
I’d cut One Eye Bastard and Livin in the 20s entirely and move Coma City, Corvette, Saviors, and Fancy Sauce to an EP called Van Green Day as those songs feel to me like their Van Weezer style classic rock/power pop homage. What is left on the album proper would be tighter and feel more focused on non-genre-homage Green Day songs.
Missed a few days of discussion but the trilogy came out when I was 16 and for that reason alone I will forever have a lot of love for it. I would never argue that it's their best work but there are a ton of songs on there that I hold near and dear to my heart Rev Rad is just a solid ass Green Day album. Pretty much exactly what you would want from them and it was exactly the album that they needed to make at the time. Agree that Forever Now is one of their best songs I will not defend FOAM. I give them credit I guess for trying something new but that album just did not work for me outside of a small handful of songs (title track, Meet Me on the Roof, Graffitia). If they included Pollyanna and Holy Toledo those would have been by far the best songs on the album Saviors is incredible. It made me so happy that they still have something like that in them, and it also felt like their most successful album cycle as a whole in a really long time, I'm loving seeing them absolutely everywhere again This is just my favorite band in the world
OEB is still catchy as hell to me. Couldn't imagine the album without it (even though it sounds like that Pink song).
I was mostly tuned out around the time of the Trilogy, so I randomly got Dos (I think) on sale not long after it came out and played it like once in the car and at the time thought it was.. fine? That’s more or less my whole experience with the trilogy, haha. Rev Radio did more for me at the time but still I ended up barely listening to it. Saviors is the first time I was really invested again since TCBD.
That’s a lie, I just searched my FB history and apparently I watch the trilogy documentary and recommended it to a friend lol I guess I have vague memories of BJA on a surfboard
Man, I love Coma City!!! It and 1981 were my most listened to tracks the year that album came out haha
Dilemma is their best song since 21st IMO. It's so, so good. It also came out at a pretty apropos time for me personally so it really hits deep lol
I will say back when I was a Spotify user, the streaming numbers for the entire FOAM album always surprised me…they were much larger than I expected and it seems to me that album connected with more people outside of this site than we may realize.