Don’t get me wrong, I like it. But it’s on the low end of Warning for me so I’d throw in something else from that album instead.
21CB and Revolution Radio are both great for pretty different reasons, IMO. Love the sprawl and bombast of the former, love the tight concision of the latter. Both are pretty undervalued in the fanbase, I think.
I love 21CB but I'm also an impatient punk fan that prefers albums 30-40 minutes long. Anything over an hour just genuinely makes me feel tired (ironically, one of my favorite albums of all time is the very lengthy doom metal album Monotheist by Celtic Frost)
The context around RevRad also helps people like it more I think. It’s the first Green Day album since Warning that wasn’t tied into a concept or gimmick of some kind. 21CBD and AI were the concept albums of course to varying degrees of success. Then there’s the trilogy… the less I say the better there. This left RevRad as the first fun solid rock album since Warning.
I think if Warning came out before Nimrod it would be my favorite from them. But Nimrod came first and I adore it because that was my official intro to the band. Of course I knew Dookie, but I didn’t click with it until later on.
I'm probably going to regret doing this, but I feel like sharing that when the trilogy came out, I decided to combine songs from all three of them into one album in an attempt to make it a similar product to American Idiot and 21st Century. I ended up with what I felt, and still feel, is a logical albeit rough narrative and is still a sequence that I'm pretty happy with. I tried to go for both what I felt were the most memorable songs to me and just the ones that added variety to the sequence. My thought was that Songs 1-6 encompass one act, setting a backdrop, and then Songs 7-14 encompass Act 2 with the main conflict, and then the third 15-20 being the resolution. I imagined it being about a young love couple, the guy falls for a more rebellious girl and ends up cheating, the original relationship falls apart, and bad things happen. Anyway, this was that sequence. 01. See You Tonight 02. Nuclear Family 03. Carpe Diem 04. Kill The DJ 05. Fell For You 06. 99 Revolutions 07. Wild One 08. Let Yourself Go 09. Fuck Time 10. Ashley 11. Nightlife 12. Drama Queen 13. Walk Away 14. Brutal Love 15. Lady Cobra 16. X-Kid 17. Stray Heart 18. Oh Love 19. Dirty Rotten Bastards 20. The Forgotten
I appreciate and respect the effort, but it’s hampered by the fact that a few of those songs are really bad
nah. I’d at least take Bang Bang, Somewhere Now, Forever Now, Still Breathing, and the title track over anything from that album. I don’t fuck with changing albums, personally. But any resequencing or cutting down of the trilogy that still includes fucking Nightlife alone is an instant hard pass. There are other bad songs but that’s the king of bad. like REALLY bad
I like the idea, I might try doing something similar later and see where I end up. Would be a good opportunity to cut the trilogy down to a single album of songs I actually like, since I literally never return to it as-is
Well, without remembering how "Stay The Night" goes, my logic at the time was like this. I wanted to have an even number of songs from each album, and I wanted to keep with a relatively coherent narrative. Those were my ground rules. I think I did choose between "Fell For You" and another song, and that might have been it, but it's been so long ago now, I don't remember. My logic at the time in even doing it is because the whole project felt to me like Green Day wanted to make another album like AI and 21stCB, wrote the songs, and then gave up trying to pare down the material. So in my hubris, I decided I would do it based on the narrative I was feeling. I actually listened back to it today, and I still feel like it makes sense. Like, "Fell For You" to me is him talking about the young love, and then "Wild One" is where he meets the other girl. And then each song after that alternates between the fracturing and dissolution of his first relationship, and him getting deeper intwined with this other girl. Until finally, in my mind, "Drama Queen" is where the first love commits suicide, "Walk Away" is where, separately, he realizes he was wrong for what he's been doing, but "Brutal Love" is about it being too late. And then the rest of the songs fall into place from there. I'm probably getting interpretations of the actual songs incorrect and I probably thought about this way more than necessary, but I dunno. It was fun. Would do again.
As long as you had fun that's all that matters. I think you may have put more thought into the Trilogy than the band did hahaha.
Weird seeing all the Revolution Radio love. I think that album is totally fine as it's a well-rounded representation of Green Day as a glob-conquering rock-band but NOT a retreat to their pop-punk beginnings as many initially billed it as.