I keep missing all the fun Green Day action here in OC, LOL. Didn’t go to the Bass Magazine Awards. I worked NAMM and was too late for Tre’s meet-and-greet at the Ludwig booth on Friday. Mike did a meet-and-greet on Friday too and didn’t even know about until I got home… The odds weren’t in my favor
i listened to everything up through American Idiot, but really fell off the band after that. I wouldn’t say I’m much of a fan of anything really until FOAM, where they finally switched things up. Not a band I visit often, but I do check out new stuff they put out. I used to call them my favorite live band. I saw them at the Pop Disaster Tour and it blew my mind. But then I saw them at WWWY a couple years ago and I was just annoyed at how they do their crowd work shit in the middle of every fucking song haha.
It’s a weird relationship because their earlier music was huuuuuge for me and I am still a really big fan of all of that. But the last 20 years of their music has been hard for me to really get into because so much of it just sounds the same to me.
This is not the year it clicks. So, so bad. After a week of bingeing the hell out of their catalog, in the most "Green Day rules!" mindset I could be. Dos is virtually unlistenable.
I enjoy the trilogy as I like doube/triple album attempts in general. Dos DOES seem to have the most misses/meh tracks though.
Oh, drop your laundry and slam the door I want your love, so gimme more I'm a beggar, but I don't want a dime Oh, baby, baby, it's fuck time You know I really wanna make you mine Oh, baby, baby, it's fuck time Truly an atrocious album.
Yeah, I need to force myself through the third one later ... but then it may get cut out completely from even an attempt again. FOAM has like two songs I can at least go, "eh, this is kinda ok" (before over the top clapping comes in again). But trying to get through these is just painful. I hate skipping songs when I listen to albums, but I feel myself needing to skip some of these to even make it through. I can't think of any other band with that big of a swing in quality - from albums I could argue are on my mount rushmore - to FOUR albums that are just bad. Wild to me. But, thank god for the great ones.