Hard pass on that song. It's generic rock music with a capital "R." When I saw the song title in the context of the movie soundtrack, I foolishly thought it was going to be a deliberate "early years" throwback pop-punk song with lyrics akin to 7 Seconds' "Young Til I Die" or something. Foolish of me, really.
I’m guessing the song plays while the heroes are chased out of a dangerous roadhouse bar by stereotypical bikers and hillbillies.
Their later career output has been such a wild range between "love this" and "this is something I don't want to ever listen to again."
Why did they do this? Billie Joe’s vocals and the production sound great. They should just make songs that are good though. Like instead of writing songs that aren’t good, they should write songs that are good.
This sounds just like BJ interpolated the chorus of Red Hot by Billy Lee Riley and added beefier generic rockabilly instrumentation. I wonder if Green Day will release a covers albums of rockabilly and rhythm and blues hits and fully embrace the career path of aging rockers.
I actually really do feel like Nimrod was the last core record for me. Warning was their “we are mature now” epilogue and I didn’t like it at all when it came out but I respect it in hindsight as the post-credit scene at the end of the classic Green Day era. AI is a beast and one of the most successful pop punk records ever and it gets served to me on my Apple Music constantly no matter what music I am listening to. But, to me, it’s when they took a hammer to their previous shell and became a band that could follow any sound or trend they wanted to go in, for better (at times) and for worse (most of the time, IMO). I know in reality that they’d have faded from the public consciousness if they hadn’t re-invented themselves and kept down the “mature” mid-tempo folk-punk direction they started on Warning but you can’t have the lows of Uno, Dos, Tres and FOAM if they had never broke the seal they broke with their AI re-invention.
But it’s… THEIR movie. You’d think they’d want to set a higher bar than just writing a throwaway song. (And let’s not forget that “J.A.R.” was also “just” a movie soundtrack song.)
Looks like besides the new song their will be 4 unreleased live songs on the soundtrack. Nimrods Original Soundtrack 2CD