Green Day Frontman Talks New Album

In a new interview, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong talked a little about their forthcoming full length:

"I'm pushing myself to be progressive in songwriting and being a songwriter.

"I come from a culture where I'm into great albums, and I still believe in that. I'm fiddling more with the arrangements and writing songs.

"I think the way we make records is just kind of a classic way of making records. Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

Check out the interview at this location, courtesy of Punknews.org.

As previously reported, Green Day posted a video of them working in the studio for their upcoming record which will be produced by Nirvana producer and Garbage drummer, Butch Vig.

The video briefly shows drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt recording their respective instruments.

The new album will be Green Day’s first since 2004’s massively successful "American Idiot". The band also recently performed and recorded under the name Foxboro Hot Tubs and released a garage-rock album titled "Stop Drop And Roll!!!" earlier this year.

The video can be seen here.

Comments

[nelsonscott]

I can't wait. This is gonna be an awesome album!

[AussieBassKid]

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

[Sandon8]

American Idiot is a good album.....I'm not saying that everyone has to like but it has great songs. It had a huge success and I don't believe that even if a song has good success and is commercial cannot be good... Not many bands do what Green Day has done...16 years with the same line-up for once and a ton of great songs...I'm not saying you have to like them but they have done great things

[getts182]

AussieBassKid wrote:
im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

Then why are you posting on here? If you dislike Green Day and are willing to declare an album you've not heard a single song from a disappointment, what does it matter to you? I'd really like to understand why people do this and post about an album or band they care nothing about.

As for Green Day, I can't wit for the new album. American Idiot is a modern classic. It's not for everyone, but what they did really turned the music scene around politically with as big of a statement as they made.

[vincent89]

Can't wait for the Album.

[parkerguitars24]

Straight up, I can't wait.

[Loffle Monster.]

I've loved everything Green Day's done so far, even American idiot. I personally liked every song on it.

I can't wait.

[Jett Diamond]

American Idiot was alright. Some of the song writing was a bit mediocre, but Foxboro Hot Tubs really restored my faith in them. I'm looking forward to the new album.

[BlinkyBoy20]

looking forward to this!

[soundgarden1986]

It's about time. I've been waiting for a new album for a while now.

[That-Funny-Guy]

Loffle Monster. wrote:

I've loved everything Green Day's done so far, even American idiot. I personally liked every song on it.

I can't wait.

+1

[hippyguitardude]

i'm not that big of a greenday fan but i really enjoyed stop drop and roll so i'll probably give this a try.

[guitarheroII]

Can't Wait, and ii hope they go back to their old sound...like that

[darthbuttchin]

Not a big fan of Green Day
i only have American Idiot and Dookie.
I think though that their songs are good from a musical view, just not for me is all.
I think American Idiot was a bit too long personally, sitting down to listen to the whole albumbecomes a bit of a task.
Im interested to see where they are going this time though.

[worton]

hes a perfectionist

[PaulieIommi]

They're in good hands with Butch Vig.

[guitartiger]

Green Day r my heroes! i own way too much green day merchandise, there is a green day sticker on my guitar! they have always been my favorite band and they r probably one of the first bands i listened to and have always inspired me. i love all their music and i no these guys wont disappoint with this next album, cant wait!

[BrianApocalypse]

I really hope they regress to where they were around warning.

American Idiot really was just dumb rock-against-bush bandwagoning.

Green Day were quintessential as a sort of Junior Ramones.

[Dead Ringer]

i used to LOVE green day, even american idiot, i'm hoping this album gets me liking them again

[David_Bowie=GOD]

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

same, i hope they suprise us and give us another great album like dookie, not thinking its gonna happen though

[rorywal]

If I'm honest International Superhits = amazing

American Idiot = terrible

im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

[alfonzo99]

Jett Diamond wrote:

American Idiot was alright. Some of the song writing was a bit mediocre, but Foxboro Hot Tubs really restored my faith in them. I'm looking forward to the new album.

+1. I think that they have done things that most bands would only dream of. People see them as people who write the same songs over and over again but FBHT proved that they are great songwriters in any genre.

[freshtunes]

I'm not going to be like everyone else and dismiss it as garbage. Who know's it could be a really good record, lets wait and see before we shit on them.

[GUNIT!]

i used to have a hard on for them. now i just find their music very vapid and weak.
but after all the american idiot success, this new album will either be the greatest thing the world has heard, or the biggest failure in the history of humanity.

[ratmblink123]

Jett Diamond wrote:

American Idiot was alright. Some of the song writing was a bit mediocre, but Foxboro Hot Tubs really restored my faith in them. I'm looking forward to the new album.

Same here. I love Stop Drop and Roll.

I hope this is gonna be good.

[Hobo279]

haha, i just love how there's a picture of slash on the front page

[the1]

Im looking foward to it!

[kaizerkhan13]

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

amen. but now im curious about foxboro hot tubs, maybe thats where their real music went.

[AbombO.S.]

I actually enjoyed American idiot quite a bit, once i figured out it was a concept album it became much more enjoyable, its one of those albums you can just listen to single songs off of, it has to just start on track one and play till the end

[sadSTATUE]

Loffle Monster. wrote:

I've loved everything Green Day's done so far, even American idiot. I personally liked every song on it.

I can't wait.

This.

[sashki]

Most of American Idiot was boring, and overplayed on the radio, which made it worse. I hope this one's better.

[rich420]

American Idiot wasn't too bad, it was just overplayed. People i knew who were into shitty chart music were suddenly talking about Green Day, that says it all. They hadn't heard of any of the old better stuff, just what made it to the radio.

Anyway, if he stopped wearing so much friggin make-up and ditched the stupid black shirt/red tie combo i might give them another chance. I don't expect a proper, good piece of music to come out of this album because bottom line is it's still pop-punk, but it might be alright for a bit of fun.

[pyritmann]

American Idiot was one of the most annoying albums of all time... hopefully this one will be good like all their other albums besides american idiot.

[peaceonearth52]

BrianApocalypse wrote:

I really hope they regress to where they were around warning.

American Idiot really was just dumb rock-against-bush bandwagoning.

Green Day were quintessential as a sort of Junior Ramones.

you described them perfectly
and yes i agree
it was getting a little mundane to hear all these anti-bush songs. i hope they revert back to their original punk roots

[minichibi]

OMG I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS!

[Ricky4635]

American Idoit was awesome. Why is everyone bad mouthing it?

[TJ1991]

Really can't wait for this. Hoping for an Insomniac/Warning type of thing. American Idiot is still a great album, people just love a backlash against the mainstream, forgetting that if it wasn't for them then it wouldn't be mainstream...

[g_tab_man]

american idiot doesn't deserve all the crap it gets. It was really well written and some of my favorite songs are on it. Jesus of Suburbia was incredible. They didn't sell out just because they got more famous. I am really looking forward to this, and i can't wait.

[g_tab_man]

Ricky4635 wrote:

American Idoit was awesome. Why is everyone bad mouthing it?

+1

[meganh37]

It's about time! I cannot wait!

[XxStrifeXx]

I can admit i loved AI just as much as everyone else when it came out, but over 4 years time i cant even listen to most of those songs anymore. It was a good but not great album. I thought foxboro hot tubs was fun for about 4 weeks, and like AI i cant even listen to it nemore either. I hope they do that crazy sandinista experimental album they talked about doing.

[jeremessmore]

I loved green day up till American Idiot, that juts ruined the band as a whole for me, it was all bush bashing, then green day went mainstream and every teenage girl had them as their ringtone, hope they go back to the basics

[ApeOfJustice]

American Idiot was the most ambitious album they ever did and easily their best album. The only people that say they don't like it say that because of how massively successful it was. I'm sick of this culture of hating anything that appeals to the mainstream. They didn't sell out on AI, the songwriting was superior to anything they had ever done before (people saying the songwriting was inferior on that album always make me laugh, because their other works were such masterpieces with their same few chords and whiny ballads, right guys?) and it's not only 'posers' that listen to a band's mainstream work. The idiots that give a shit about the fact that it's mainstream and let the fact that teenage girls like it ruin the music for them are the real posers. It's about the music not what your friends' think. GROW THE FUCK UP

[ApeOfJustice]

TL;DR angry man is angry

[renegadepancake]

I want to see them do something entirely new, not a Dookie III or an American Idiot II.

[take_it_t]

rorywal wrote:
im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

I find it interesting that you would give away something just to be able to make a statement like that.

[Necross]

What does he mean, "I come from a culture where I'm into great albums?" Aren't we all from the same culture with variations of style?

[CallMePathetic]

AI is a classical masterpiece. Full stop.
And I'm telling you not to expect anything similar to their previous records. They're never gonna go back to where they had already been. That's never been their style.

[firsttoknow]

i think american idiot was an amazing album, i hope this next one can at least be half as good

[Anjohl]

American Idiot was a masterpiece, I just wish it wasn't so commercial. Go listen to the bassline in Longview..what happened to THAT Mike Dirnt?!

[Powerchild]

I think that in terms of its time, American Idiot was probably the best album of that year. in terms of Green day though, I thought they kind of changed their inspiration in terms of the punk genre by going from general attitude to politics. I thought the songs were catchy, but I thought that they could definitely do better. I am looking forward to seeing what Billie Joe means, cause this article makes him sound awkward, like they cut certain parts out and molded it to what they wanted him to say.

[Necrotise]

No chance of a return to the good old Green Day then? Shame.

[musefanatic]

Took them long enough. I hope it's good.

[NemX162]

I hope it's just a more evolved sound from American Idiot. Honestly, I think most of the albums before that were pretty generic sounding, spare a handful of good songs.

[Metallidethium]

rich420 :
American Idiot wasn't too bad, it was just overplayed. People i knew who were into shitty chart music were suddenly talking about Green Day, that says it all. They hadn't heard of any of the old better stuff, just what made it to the radio.

Anyway, if he stopped wearing so much friggin make-up and ditched the stupid black shirt/red tie combo i might give them another chance. I don't expect a proper, good piece of music to come out of this album because bottom line is it's still pop-punk, but it might be alright for a bit of fun.

I think people neeed to stop worrying about a bands image and just take the music for what it is. I'm pretty pumped for new green day..love everything they've ever done back to 39/Smooth.

[m1chael w0rkman]

I will be buying this. For sure. I love Green Day, even American Idiot. If you listen to their albums without the assumption that it's going to sound exactly the same as their old ones, you'll be disappointed. Music is about advancement and breaking new ground, not releasing the same record over and over for 15 years.

[greenkitty]

Anjohl wrote:

American Idiot was a masterpiece, I just wish it wasn't so commercial. Go listen to the bassline in Longview..what happened to THAT Mike Dirnt?!

oh **** yeah thats what im talking about. we need mike dirnt back on acid! longview was a masterpiece. hopefully mike can write some kick ass riffs for the new album and get a part of a song wheres he not drowned out by billie joe's guitar riffs.

[Amy_Lee]

As long as they actually RELEASE the album. It's starting to annoy now, all this delay.

[Gibson_SG_uzr55]

cant wait

[mnhockey99]

I hope they go back to some Punk roots.

[flea878]

If they make another album of immature slander of Bush, lacking any real political knowledge and done for the sake of harnessing the anti-war, anti-Bush feeling in America, just to sell records to 'rebellious' teens, i'll be pissed off. When Billy Joe said in the interview he's trying to be more progressive, hopefully that doesn't mean half-baked and predictable commentary on American politics. Stick to what you know mate, sing about girls or cars.

[G0dzilla]

Cant wait for the new album, green day used to be my favorite band, maybe this will get me back into them.

[Tapping_Ninja]

mnhockey99 wrote:

I hope they go back to some Punk roots.

... They never really changed their style at all... I mean they tried some new things on american idiot, but for the most part it was green day.

[starcaster13]

Green day always will be one of my favorite bands and i think everything they write is awesome, even if its commercially succesful. I hope the new album kicks major ass!

[guitargodgary13]

Green day kicks ass
hopefully this album will kick ass
ROCK ON GREEN DAY!!!!!

[StereoFlare]

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

Smartest man I've seen.

[thExcomunicated]

yeh Geenday were one of the very few bands that got me into music/guitar. I've kind of moved on to other styles but i still like greenday.
this album will hopefully be good!!!!

[acid eaters]

g_tab_man wrote:

american idiot doesn't deserve all the crap it gets. It was really well written and some of my favorite songs are on it. Jesus of Suburbia was incredible. They didn't sell out just because they got more famous. I am really looking forward to this, and i can't wait.

i like green day don't get me wrong i enjoyed american idiot even though it was overplayed for that album was well written musically lirically it was okay but it was immature bush bashing. i couldn't bare to listen to another song of it because it's a pop punk album there good catchy songs but not songs that u can listen to over and over again. well sry to say they did sell out when u find ur face on posters being sold at walmart u know u sold out they've admitted it themselves that there a sell out band in bullet in the bible.

[White_Fly_U2]

Sandon8 wrote:

American Idiot is a good album.....I'm not saying that everyone has to like but it has great songs. It had a huge success and I don't believe that even if a song has good success and is commercial cannot be good...
Not many bands do what Green Day has done...16 years with the same line-up for once and a ton of great songs...I'm not saying you have to like them but they have done great things

Ummmmm u2 has been around for almost 29 years and they poop out better music than Green Day. Still GD isnt ThAT bad. Their old stuff is good

[fenderlover99]

say what you will about american idiot, it took ober the world for a while, and they made a fortune. theyre not musical failures by any means

[Hamburger89]

Somehow I think american idiot is still one of their best albums, even though overall I prefer punk more raw like their previous albums were. However I didn't like their song with U2 and I hated the working class hero cover.
American Idiot told a real story, all the songs fit perfectly together and it has it's own sound and that I really liked.

[playinbass1432]

I liked the Foxboro Hot Tubs stuff.

I hope that this album doesn't suck like AI. What happened to the Green Day that just rocked?

[con job]

I only ever liked American Idiot, their older stuff never impressed me bar one or two songs, and I seem to be going totally against the norm thinking this. I liked American Idiot enough to be looking forward to a new album though

[RUSTDOGG666]

I've enjoyed everything green day has released. I know how to play almost all of their songs on guitar. cant wait for the new album but damn it takes them a long time to write a new album. had a 3 year wait between nimrod and warning. then a 4 year wait between warning and american idiot. now a five year wait between american idiot and this new album. I guess after this album we're going to wait six years? oh well it takes time to make awesome songs so take all the time you need green day. I'm sure this new album will kick ass like all your other ones have.

[Unforgiven87]

american idiot was good, till they played it on the radio 24/7. but i hope that they pump out an album that is kinda like their older stuff, simple, yet not easy, and right to the point.

[Micardo]

Ricky4635 wrote:

American Idoit was awesome. Why is everyone bad mouthing it?

Cos obviously some people didnt think it was awesome. It may have done really well commercially but that doesnt mean everyone should think its awesome.

[RockGuitar92]

Should be good. I kinda get the feeling Billie Joe will play more than power chords and barre chords this time. I don't know why though.

[Guitar1039]

this album is gonna rock

Can't wait for the tour

[theotherguy7145]

Micardo wrote:

Ricky4635 wrote:

American Idoit was awesome. Why is everyone bad mouthing it?

Cos obviously some people didnt think it was awesome. It may have done really well commercially but that doesnt mean everyone should think its awesome.

Usually "commercially" means that they've changed the style to a more mainstream approach. So oldtime fans are really disappointed, and all the people into mainstream stuff will think, great! and the album will go up in the charts etc.
whatever! i know what i mean!

[Greendaypunkit]

YYEEEEESS!

I can't wait!
another legendary album on it's way :P

[pezcore333]

rorywal wrote:

If I'm honest International Superhits = amazing

American Idiot = terrible

im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

you now international superhits is a greatest hits album right?
that's like saying i love NOW! volume 99

personally i'm super stoked for this
green day makes me randy

[ihavenoname93]

Hobo279 wrote:

haha, i just love how there's a picture of slash on the front page

im suprised people havnt realized that the person on the cover is who yesterdays article was about, because they dont change it at the same time. i think yesterday somebody pointed out that there was a pic of someone else on a slash article. and its also dumb to put these comments up because by the time a lot of people read it, UG will have changed it already

[mitchrushton182]

im looking foward to this album. i really hope mike and tre stop wearing eye makeup though.

[aig91]

Checked

[Jau_Peacecraft]

I'm not going to listen to this new album, sadly. I say sadly since I thought the first 4 tracks of American Idiot, specifically Jesus of Suburbia, would've made a more than compentant EP, instead of the bloated, mediocre album it turned out to be.

Their stuff as the Hot Tubs was a bit more old school, which I appreciated, but I still found it to be a bit boring. I'd love to be proven wrong, but Green Day, imo, is past their prime. Give me Kerplunk or Warning any day over whatever this new album will most likely sound like.

[masterohumans]

Sandon8 wrote:

American Idiot is a good album.....I'm not saying that everyone has to like but it has great songs. It had a huge success and I don't believe that even if a song has good success and is commercial cannot be good... Not many bands do what Green Day has done...16 years with the same line-up for once and a ton of great songs...I'm not saying you have to like them but they have done great things

yup 3 chord songs are great and i for one am impressed by their ability to write those amazing songs that all sounnd alike. Everyone should think they're great, and think that they've done great things even if they dont like them. Thats how great they are.

[bfmv640]

Trivium doesn't use Pro Tools.

[wahappenISSEXY<3]

Sandon8 wrote:

American Idiot is a good album.....I'm not saying that everyone has to like but it has great songs. It had a huge success and I don't believe that even if a song has good success and is commercial cannot be good... Not many bands do what Green Day has done...16 years with the same line-up for once and a ton of great songs...I'm not saying you have to like them but they have done great things

+1.

[BMTH666]

I realy never liked Green Day i mean liked like 3 songs from them but i dont think they're that good. But maybe i will like this album i dont know yet but i will give them a chance

[Mr. Skull]

masterohumans wrote:

Sandon8 wrote:

American Idiot is a good album.....I'm not saying that everyone has to like but it has great songs. It had a huge success and I don't believe that even if a song has good success and is commercial cannot be good... Not many bands do what Green Day has done...16 years with the same line-up for once and a ton of great songs...I'm not saying you have to like them but they have done great things

yup 3 chord songs are great and i for one am impressed by their ability to write those amazing songs that all sounnd alike. Everyone should think they're great, and think that they've done great things even if they dont like them. Thats how great they are.

+1

[Kilimacory]

okay december...3rd i believe...they will have the full out interview in AP mag

[masterchief44]

Green Day is where it's at.
Definitely one of my favorite bands. :]

[GoldSoundzUKNZ]

taken long enough? but still, i can't wait. american idiot was a solid album.

[IbanezRGS]

american idiot wasn't a sell out, the jonas brothers were disney sellouts.
green day is real rock and i can't wait for this next album!

[Ironpriest]

God how i love this band. Of course ive moved onto judas Priest and Iron Maiden, However these guys are hands down my favorite band. American Idiot is my all time favorite album no matter what people say and im really pumped for this album to drop and rid us of this hip hop stuff on the radio

[Ironpriest]

They didn't sell out on AI, the songwriting was superior to anything they had ever done before

THIS! people is the truth!

[TDAJGuitarist]

Oh god, not another greenday album. :-(

[XxStrifeXx]

I can admit that when AI first came out i loved it. However after constant radioplay and 4 years of time, i cant even listen to most of those songs anymore. There are a few that are still great songs, but most are just okay(and a few just bad tracks) Id say AI is a good, but not great album. I mean the biggest single (AI) isnt a very good song to begin with.

I thought foxboro hot tubs was fun for about a month, but just like AI i grew tired of it i can no longer listen to it, only much sooner this time. I hope they come out with that experimental Sandinista stle album they said they had enough tracks for.

[QueenQH]

I can't wait!!! Green Day are amazing!
And to anyone here that doesn't like Green Day, just don't post a comment.
Simple as. No-one wants to hear from you.

[arcticradiohead]

ApeOfJustice wrote:

American Idiot was the most ambitious album they ever did and easily their best album. The only people that say they don't like it say that because of how massively successful it was. I'm sick of this culture of hating anything that appeals to the mainstream. They didn't sell out on AI, the songwriting was superior to anything they had ever done before (people saying the songwriting was inferior on that album always make me laugh, because their other works were such masterpieces with their same few chords and whiny ballads, right guys?) and it's not only 'posers' that listen to a band's mainstream work. The idiots that give a shit about the fact that it's mainstream and let the fact that teenage girls like it ruin the music for them are the real posers. It's about the music not what your friends' think. GROW THE FUCK UP

i liked american idiot a lot when it came out. after a few months, i had heard it SO MANY GODDAMN TIMES that i dont want to hear it again. at least not for another couple years. it was a solid album, but not the masterpiece everyone made it out to be. its not that i hate anything mainstream, its that you couldnt get away from that album no matter how hard you tried. you could get sick of any album hearing it that often.

that being said, i want to see where they go with this. and not listen to the radio for the 6 months after it comes out.

[whitebluesboy]

AI came out when I was in 7th grade and didn't die until the end of my freshman year. Although I didn't like the songs on American Idiot, if this new album has anything close to the monumental commericial power that AI had, then I will be VERY impressed. But I mean that from a business prodcut stand point, not a musical. Green Day are the apex of selling out.

[scarfacesuit]

I found American Idiot to be kind of cheap and boring to be honest. I hope by "progressing" in the songwriting the next album will be better. I just hate when I can guess every word before he says it, you know?

[Ironpriest]

I just hate when I can guess every word before he says it, you know?

that album had some really clever lyrics in my opinion... and even though it had political themes, it was done tastefully and not as bad as ,say, penny wise "F*** authority' which to me comes off as very cheap.

[AwesomeDrummer]

i was sorta 1/2 and 1/2 with AI, i thought it had some good tracks, and some bad ones. But still people who bag greenday about selling out are just people who only like a band because their small, but once they actually start making money, they're "ideals" have changed, are clearly just douchebags. As long as a band keeps using their music to get their views across (instead of their label's) im totally cool with bands that can actually pay for a cheersburger or two.

[duncang]

Checked.

I think it's absolutely hilarious how times have changed, an article like this 3 years ago would have been an absolute battlefield.

[TJ1991]

Amy_Lee wrote:

As long as they actually RELEASE the album. It's starting to annoy now, all this delay.

You do know it just took Guns n Roses 17 years to release an album? Patience.

[AidanTDR]

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

i, along with many other people, certainly didn't think that american idiot was a disappointment. apart from the actual song american idiot, st.jimmy and wake me up when september ends (which have been extremely overplayed thanks to Kerrap!) i still give the album a listen every now and again, and still enjoy it. but each to his own i suppose.

[Zell182]

I'm skeptical as to how great this new album is gonna be but I'll wait til it comes out to judge it.

[Luke200420]

I was greenday fan back in the days of kerpunk and dookie. I had dookie on cassette and listened to it so many times the tape stopped working. It was the soundtrack of 3rd grade. Both those albums put american idiot to shame.

[enginehead]

Aye, big fan of these guys 5 years ago or so. I liked both they're old and new stuff. My only problem with them is how they look nowadays, very hard for me to look a billy joe picture lol. And from what i remember when seeing they're bullet in a bible concert on tv, he never really played the guitar himself too much, they just got additional mucicians to fill in for them. I don't get that, i mean, for one or 2 songs wud have been ok, but its like they altered there show for a "mainstream" audience who like to see the stars move about a bit if u know what i mean.

[daytripper75]

i hope this is at least decent. i honestly think American Idiot was ok. still, i hope this is better than that.

[K-U-R-e]

I can't wait
American Idiot was good...
but I hope this one will be better =P

[roland_96]

darthbuttchin wrote:
Not a big fan of Green Day
i only have American Idiot and Dookie.
I think though that their songs are good from a musical view, just not for me is all.
I think American Idiot was a bit too long personally, sitting down to listen to the whole albumbecomes a bit of a task.
Im interested to see where they are going this time though.

It is supposed to be long, it's a funking ROCK OPERA! It was an amazing achievement for not only punk rock but for rock music itself. And (DUR) obviously you eithter bought your copy of American Idiot of iTunes, or you're an moron if you're worried about listening to the whole album everytime you want to listen to it. It's better to listen to it in all but if you put all your tracks into one it's going to be a little tedious if you don't like them.
Any way, enough hate-bashing, i've been listening to everything i could get my hands on of news of the new album and it should arrive this spring! That puts the za in amazzazing. Yes, it's supposed to be spelled like that.
PS: Enginehead: good point, but alot of punk front men do that because by definition punk singers are supposed to act crazy and shitte and you can't do that it you have a $2,000, 20 pound guitar on you chest. Watch the VH1 thing on Nevermind the Bullocks, Here's The Sex Pistols.

[whitebluesboy]

AwesomeDrummer wrote:

i was sorta 1/2 and 1/2 with AI, i thought it had some good tracks, and some bad ones. But still people who bag greenday about selling out are just people who only like a band because their small, but once they actually start making money, they're "ideals" have changed, are clearly just douchebags. As long as a band keeps using their music to get their views across (instead of their label's) im totally cool with bands that can actually pay for a cheersburger or two.

Some of it is just respect for the scene where you grew up. But I mean dude they had their own doriots billboards. Theres a limit between buying yourself a cheeseburger and buying yourself a bentley.

[Dale_By_Blimp]

Mmm, insightful :P

Still, looking forward to the next album.

[IRONMAIDENTLICA]

Green Day Frontman talks about his eye make up bill being over 32473249072790 dollars a year.

that should be the title

[zombiekangaroo]

i dont see why everybody says greenday "sold out" i mean, yea, they picked up the mcr type look. so wat, they just came out with an album that "everybody" liked, isnt that what a band is suppose to try to do?

i say anybody that hates a band for that reason should be shunned from music, period

i cant wait for this album, gonna be teh sex

[Blagworth08]

If this is any thing lyk their more recent stuff its ganna b totaly pointless
Lets hope its more lyk american idiot

[Deadrocker93]

It is supposed to be long, it's a funking ROCK OPERA!

Dude, my conscious tells me Opera and Rock shouldn't even be in the same frieken sentence...

Besides, Green Day is decent but American Idiot was just drawn out to the max... I mean, Jesus of Suburbia, a single song, felt like an hour...

[Hergiswi]

I haven't heard an album by these guys I haven't liked. I hope I feel the same after this one.

[Rockstar729]

An album I will actually buy as opposed to just downloading it from Limewire...

[Rockstar729]

Damn it. Double post, but Jesus of Suburbia was the best song on the album.

[Harvey_Danger]

Sweet. Something to look forward to.

[3dd_bggst_fan]

YES! Finally, a new Green Day album! After American Idiot they were huge stars, then they just dissappeared. I'll buy this on the release date.

[kalel182]

at last!!!
all these years waiting....
GD FOREVER!!!

[SiC08klok]

awesome!!!

they used to be my favorite band, cant wait for new music

[fingersofflame]

Hm...well American Idiot was a pretty good album, but I was still pretty disappointed with it, I mean the only ****ing reason it was such a hit was because of shitty songs like Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Holiday, yknow? It's the reason that the album was a success that made me dislike it so much, I mean there are so many good songs on there, like Whatsername, St. Jimmy, Give Me Novacaine, and Letterbomb, that are all overlooked by most of the people who sit there going "American Idiot rocks!" I avoid discussing that album at all costs simply because I don't want some ****ing idiot sitting there telling me how Boulevard relates to them and how Wake Me Up When September Ends is about 9/11, and thus is a great song. If this new album is anything like American Idiot, I don't have high hopes for it...

[fingersofflame]

visiofx wrote:

greenday is boring, led zeppelin rules.

Rofl...cuz they are definitely in the same category xD

Still, of course Zep rule more than Green Day, but that's more because Zep were doing something new for the time...doesn't necessarily make Green Day less of a band >.

[fingersofflame]

visiofx wrote:

yea jimmy page is better than greenday guitarist

Well of course, but it's a different kind of guitar playing too..."punk" stuff like green day isn't really meant to have riffs like Zep and other bands of that time were.

[touji-za-nai]

greenday? progressive? HAHAHaaaa

[*Loooza_LotZ!*]

come on!!! can't bloody wait for the new green day shizz. its gonna be good and we all know it.

[uhh_me?]

checked.

[Micardo]

theotherguy7145 wrote:

Micardo wrote:

Ricky4635 wrote:

American Idoit was awesome. Why is everyone bad mouthing it?

Cos obviously some people didnt think it was awesome. It may have done really well commercially but that doesnt mean everyone should think its awesome.

Usually "commercially" means that they've changed the style to a more mainstream approach. So oldtime fans are really disappointed, and all the people into mainstream stuff will think, great! and the album will go up in the charts etc.
whatever! i know what i mean!

Ok i was referring to the word 'commercially' in the sense that American Idiot sold a lot of albums, thus it was a 'commerical' success. Nothing to do with peoples views on the album, just the basic fact that lots of copies were sold.

[ML28Dude]

everyfin greenday do is awsum so i cnt w8 4 ther new album since we not heard much of real greenday since american idiot wich was also awsum

[fearthellamas]

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

if u dont care about what greenday does or says, why are u reading this article?

[Emo Cookie]

nelsonscott wrote:

I can't wait. This is gonna be an awesome album!

umm...that's pretty retarded. American Idiot sucked balls, I highly doubt that this new album is gonna be any good at all. I'm anxious to hear what they've got, but I'm pretty much expecting to be disappointed

[Dazz1234]

BrianApocalypse wrote:

I really hope they regress to where they were around warning.

American Idiot really was just dumb rock-against-bush bandwagoning.

Green Day were quintessential as a sort of Junior Ramones.

Warning is a good album, but Green Day is much better than the Ramones, even though they are pretty cool, they're no Green Day

[anarchy_riot09]

im pretty stoked for this album, i just hope its better than the american idiot album, i liked that album, but it was overrated and overplayed a bit, and wasnt old greenday. and greenday, in my opinion, is no Ramones, different styles i think, greenday is more...entertaining in a way...they sing about the same kind of things, but their sounds arent alike, i love the Ramones tho =D

[Izzy_Bryce]

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

i suggest u rephrase wat u said or else the true green day fans will come attack u in ur sleep. im one of them, but i dont wish to fight, i'll just watch ^_^

[stumaster18]

woo!

[delta_3mo]

Izzy_Bryce wrote:

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

i suggest u rephrase wat u said or else the true green day fans will come attack u in ur sleep. im one of them, but i dont wish to fight, i'll just watch ^_^

Amen. Who cares what they use as long as it sounds good. If a song is good, its good. If the band is good live, then they are good live.

I dont care what they use as long as their music sounds good.

[element4433]

Checked.

[nickrawkz1]

Cool. American idiot was one of the best albums i've ever heard, so I hope this is gonna be a another good one.

[Timothy O.]

Personally I'm looking forward to this. I like Green Day's stuff, even American Idiot (it's a good album, and the rock opera element to it was nice). I'm interested to hear if this is gonna be any different than their past work. If the Foxboro Hottubs are any indication, it probably will.

[Gh057]

delta_3mo wrote:

Izzy_Bryce wrote:

AussieBassKid wrote:

"Everybody uses Pro Tools now, you know--we use Pro Tools, and we use tape."

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

i suggest u rephrase wat u said or else the true green day fans will come attack u in ur sleep. im one of them, but i dont wish to fight, i'll just watch ^_^

Amen. Who cares what they use as long as it sounds good. If a song is good, its good. If the band is good live, then they are good live.

I dont care what they use as long as their music sounds good.

@Izzy_Bryce : you are lame
@Delta_3mo: personally, I go by the staight up thought that a band isnt worth listening to if they suck live. that doesn't mean just getting the sound of the band live, i mean, realy connecting to the audience on a deep level
and finally, @meltingwaxface: lulz

[gr33nd4y22]

american idiot is a lethal album but i think warning and 1039 smoothed out slappy hours are much better personaly

[A8039077]

American Idiot was a decent album, but that cash-cow was milked to death! I'm not surprised people got sick of it (i know i did). Nevertheless they come out with good songs consistently. I look forward to their new material.

I will also add to the applause for meltingwaxface! I needed a laugh!

[K!!LsWiTcH]

Sandon8 wrote:

American Idiot is a good album.....I'm not saying that everyone has to like but it has great songs. It had a huge success and I don't believe that even if a song has good success and is commercial cannot be good... Not many bands do what Green Day has done...16 years with the same line-up for once and a ton of great songs...I'm not saying you have to like them but they have done great things

they changed drummers once they didnt always have tre cool so the lineup has changed

[murdoc66]

This should be epic... though if its any thing like foxboro then , which it might be, then it'll be shit. American idiot was amazing even if you don't like green day you can't deny that some of the songs on that album required a lot of talent to write, such as Wake me up when september ends and holiday.

[SideshowRaven24]

the reason green day got more famous is because they got BETTER. period. american idiot was more "epic" and out-of-the-box than their other stuff, so calling it "selling out" wouldn't be the term because no other mainstream band was doing what they did. They just threw the fans a curveball. I personally love it to this day, from 7th grade to now haha. New album should be cool too.

[SERIALTRENDKILL]

i'm still not convinced they are able to play their instruments..

[SaiNt adEL #13]

don't get me wrong, i LOVE green day to death and i loved all their albums, but they're just no ready for another one yet. they need to get their act together and write some good kickass material, THEN put out a new album.

[aig91]

Check'd

[wildchild6660]

I hope none of you are expecting them to go back to their old, dookie-type stuff. Cause I highly doubt that would happen. They are past that period in their career now. However his will probably be a great album, as good as any other they have put out.

[sidvicious_91]

"Selling out" is what people accused Green Day of when they finally got the recognition they deserve and the "cool guys'" death metal bands didn't. So, if you were a band, and you recorded an album that sold millions of copies, and the company gives you your multimillion dollar check, you have to turn it down and drive a shitty car and live off of ramen so the "cool kids" don't call you a sellout? Fuck that. Fuck the "cool kids", if I make money I'm going to buy a load of cool shit with it. ANd if you don't like it too bad, cuz I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to EVERY DAMN WORD I HAVE TO SAY!

[jay3213]

WOOOOO YAAAAA FINALLY!!!
Iv been waiting soo long.. Every day is an eternity.
Ok one thing i saw is some1 compared GD with zepplin
WTF??!?! who compares Green day with zeppelin???
They said green day is boring compared to zeppelin?
All zeppelin is, is "And where buying the stairway. To heaven....."
Green day is rebel stuff. First band in ages to stand up the the freakin government!
SCREW ZEPPELIN. Green day is now.

[jay3213]

rorywal wrote:

If I'm honest International Superhits = amazing

American Idiot = terrible

im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

Either way they are still an Amazing punk band...
They already got categorized as one of the original punks like Sex pisols, Ramones, The misfits.....

[Carn1vorE]

rorywal wrote:

If I'm honest International Superhits = amazing

American Idiot = terrible

im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

Either way they are still an Amazing punk band...
They already got categorized as one of the original punks like Sex pisols, Ramones, The misfits.....

whoever categorized them as that is an idiot. Greenday is pop punk and is nothing, nothing.....nothing like sex pistols and especialllly not like the misfits at all. They're the originals of taking a perfectly badass genre and making it popy and about fame and man-makeup

[jairic]

No one notices that every single band needs to back to "the old stuff". I don't quite know how so many people fall in line with that. I dislike Green Day, but appreciate their contributions, and even given that stand point I recognize AI as a brilliant album.

[XxStrifeXx]

Carn1vorE wrote:

rorywal wrote:

If I'm honest International Superhits = amazing

American Idiot = terrible

im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

Either way they are still an Amazing punk band...
They already got categorized as one of the original punks like Sex pisols, Ramones, The misfits.....

whoever categorized them as that is an idiot. Greenday is pop punk and is nothing, nothing.....nothing like sex pistols and especialllly not like the misfits at all. They're the originals of taking a perfectly badass genre and making it popy and about fame and man-makeup

dude no, those bands ( sex pistols, ramones, etc) were on big labels too, and wore man-liner as well so your not saying much with that statement there.

[jamesbon90]

I have been a fan of Green Day since American Idiot came out when I was in 6th grade. Since then, I've gotten more and more into their music and listened to some of their other albums and I think they were fantastic!!!! Can't wait till they come out with the new one!

[^^A7X^^]

i think tons of bands nowadays just want to always sound different with every album, but they take it to the extreme and divide their fans in half. i think Green Day is smart enough to not make the next album any more different than american idiot was. anyone can sound like american idiot, people want the old sound!

[j_666_r]

ñ_ñ'

[MeltingWaxFace]

Green Day has sucked since Nimrod. Unfortunately.

[poona]

^^A7X^^ wrote:

i think tons of bands nowadays just want to always sound different with every album, but they take it to the extreme and divide their fans in half. i think Green Day is smart enough to not make the next album any more different than american idiot was. anyone can sound like american idiot, people want the old sound!

Indeed, I agree with that. 'Diversity' in a band is overrated anyway. It isn't that difficult make every album sound completely different from one another, whats really hard is cultivating a defined sound and keeping it interesting.

I've always been quite fond of Green Day I guess, not a particularly big fan, but its good to rock out to. I expect this new album will be alright, I don't think they'd piss around with that American Idiot formula that did so well for them.

[CallMePathetic]

Have you seen the snapshots of the AP article discussing some of the new songs? This album's gonna huge. Really-really huge, whatever people say. I love them to death.

[omanox]

American Idiot was a great album....they really reached out to fans they didn't have and it worked....
wake me up when september ends is one of the best video clips ever shot...and it makes sense!!

[.N30C0N.]

Oh boy... I can't wait to hear more overplayed music in the near future! *Rolls eyes* I am sorry folks, its not because of green day, far from it. I just ****in hate the radios playing songs over and over and over again!

[petrina_678]

im too excited for words!!!!

[Max7Days]

American Idiot was no doubt a success and had some very catchy songs but after CONSTANT radio play it reallllly got to me and I hate listening to them now, even older green day makes me change to the next track.

-_-

[Alienepidemic25]

AussieBassKid wrote:

...what?

im sure this will be just as big a disappointment as american idiot was, so im really beyond caring about anything green day says or does anymore.

Screw you!! Green Day is awesome regardless of American Idiot...if you didn't like it then why the hell did you say anything? Jack ass.....

[werty22]

rich420 wrote:

American Idiot wasn't too bad, it was just overplayed. People i knew who were into shitty chart music were suddenly talking about Green Day, that says it all. They hadn't heard of any of the old better stuff, just what made it to the radio.

Anyway, if he stopped wearing so much friggin make-up and ditched the stupid black shirt/red tie combo i might give them another chance. I don't expect a proper, good piece of music to come out of this album because bottom line is it's still pop-punk, but it might be alright for a bit of fun.

They stopped dressing like that quite a while ago.

[werty22]

XxStrifeXx wrote:

Carn1vorE wrote:

rorywal wrote:

If I'm honest International Superhits = amazing

American Idiot = terrible

im pretty grounded in old green day but i found AI a huge disappointment...so much so that I gave it away

Either way they are still an Amazing punk band...
They already got categorized as one of the original punks like Sex pisols, Ramones, The misfits.....

whoever categorized them as that is an idiot. Greenday is pop punk and is nothing, nothing.....nothing like sex pistols and especialllly not like the misfits at all. They're the originals of taking a perfectly badass genre and making it popy and about fame and man-makeup

dude no, those bands ( sex pistols, ramones, etc) were on big labels too, and wore man-liner as well so your not saying much with that statement there.

The Sex Pistols and the Ramones didn't wear makeup.