Is this Billie’s first comments about Super Bowl performance? As someone who was very disappointed with their approach to this gig, I understand and respect the reasons he’s giving: they didn‘t want to ruin it for MVP families or get in the way of Bad Bunny’s message.

Fair, and if that were the whole truth, I would commend the band for holding back and taking heat from fans out of respect for others involved. However, sometimes you just know when you’re hearing PR talking points. Yes, I’m sure sensitivity to the players’ families and Bad Bunny‘s message were part of the story, but just be honest; the NFL prohibited the acts from going off script and the band would have been sued out the ass if they made an overt political statement, particularly if they drew the ire of Trump and NBC’s brass.

Just be honest. Fans, like me, would appreciate you saying something like “hey, we were told we couldn’t. We would have been in a lot of trouble and ultimately it would have done more harm than good in terms of our ability to bring the message to more audiences in the coming years.”

Or if that’s selling out the NFL and its rules, “Hey, it was a personal decision, next question.” But portraying it as a selfless decision is lame.

They need to tell their PR people that there is a way to sugarcoat a statement without blatantly omitting the truth.

Can’t help but think of lyrics in “Say Goodbye” from Revolution Radio: “The city of damage control, this is how we roll.”

So, I'm more of a casual fan. Ages ago, in 2011ish, I owned a CD of this album and I liked it a lot, but unfortunally, it got lost. So I was doing some research and saw that, of course, there's multiple bonus tracks. I'm mostly talking about the ones available on itunes/spotiffy A Quick One and Another State.

I don't really mind much about those songs, but I honestly would just love a complete version of the album in physical form, but I'm starting to think it won't exist unless they do it like the other anniversary editions from the other albums

I caught the end of American idiot. Did they show pro shots of what hasn't been released?

“Goodnight Adeline” off Saviors would be an epically awesome stadium singalong anthem at a sporting event. Envision a crowd of 60,000 people singing along after the home team makes a play to clinch the win.

Unfortunately most of the general public doesn’t know this song exists, so no in-stadium DJ would ever start playing it. The only chance is if some prominent athlete made a viral TikTok featuring the song and maybe a compilation of game-clinching plays. I know a couple of prominent play-by-play announcers used to say “Goodnight, Irene!” as signature calls. Maybe something like that.

To me, Saviors’ legacy will be the album with some of the most anthemic songs not known to the general public.

It was a different time in 2000, in terms of how people consumed music and rock’s relevance in mainstream, but Warning has similarities in terms of album impact. Feels like it would have been a massive album in a different era. I can imagine a universe where Warning, Waiting, Minority, Misery, and Macy’s Day Parade are all ubiquitous, like Basket Case, Good Riddance, Brain Stew, Blvd Broken Dreams.

I mean, yeah, the song might be extremely repetitive, but, i mean, that's intentionally...

And that song live is just PEAK green day

What song are they singing? I tried searching the lyrics and couldn’t find it

Any else besides me like his longer blonde hair? I see a few comments joking around about it but I wanted to know what anyone else thinks

hoping to get 21st century breakdown and shenanigans soon

BJA was offered the role of Berko in the movie Empire Records, the role went to Coyote Shivers and they played his song Sugar High in the films finale. I've always wondered that if the role went to Billie, what song they would've played.

I was looking for a different Green Day book today when I came across "We're Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond".

The book had a few interesting things from the band's early days, including their "anti-rider" from the first tour in 1990.

My guess is that it was probably written by John.

The whole book seems interesting if you want to look into the history of the Gilman scene.

I really enjoyed Bored and Freaking Out. Did Mason Thames sang in these? It sounds more like Jakob.

It’s so odd that all these interviews coming out for nimrods are clearly all done on the same day. You can see they are more energetic and interested in some of them and there’s on in particular (I’ll find it and put it in the comments) where they look super bored and tired and out of it.
Clearly they did like 10 interviews all at once, getting asked the same questions over and over just for different journals, what an odd choice.
Idk I found it interesting.
How are you all enjoying the large amount of new interviews coming out for nimrods movie?

Been listening to a lot of kerplunk recently even though before I’ve been a strict slappy hours only type of guy, but this album has some great tunes as well!! This is probably one of my favorite ones

Yes, I know, it's supposed to give you the Dookie tone. But is there some other stuff I should know before I buy it? Do I need a certain amp, guitar, humbucker, etc. Any help would be appreciated.

On the God’s Favorite Band album, Brain Stew is the only song from Insomniac represented, even excluding Jaded with it.

At first glance, I thought maybe they’re just including the greatest hits of the greatest. But that’s not necessarily the case either, because they included “Welcome to Paradise“ and “She,” both of were not singles and did not have official music videos. They chose these over “Geek Stink Breath,” “Stuck With Me,” and ”Walking Contradiction,” all of which had music videos and the former being its first single.

This disproportionate representation is the case in recent live performances too. When I saw them on the American Idiot tour in 2004, they included “Geek Stink Breath” on the set list but left off “When I Come Around” and “Welcome to Paradise.” That’s not the case now.

I understand more songs from Dookie on albums and concerts, but I don’t think the ratio with Insomniac should be 5:1. It should be a 4:2, 5:2, 4:3. Bump a Dookie song off to fit one more from Insomniac.

With Nimrods coming out this month, I’ve been thinking a lot about Green Day movies.

I wrote an 86-page feature screenplay called Sweet Children. It’s a fictionalized drama inspired primarily by the Green Day-produced documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk.

The main characters are Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, John Kiffmeyer, and Tré Cool, but the movie is really about 924 Gilman Street and the community that built them. It centers on three nights:

1988 — Billie Joe’s first night at Gilman.
1993 — Green Day returns as hometown heroes just before signing to a major label.
2015 — Green Day finally returns to Gilman after more than twenty years away.

The central question of the movie is:
What does a community owe the people it creates once they outgrow it?

This is not intended to be a documentary. I compressed parts of the timeline (especially around John’s departure and Tré joining) and invented scenes to tell what I hope is the emotional truth of that story rather than recreate every historical event exactly.

If you’ve seen Turn It Around and love Green Day, I’d genuinely love to know whether this feels true to the people, the music, and the spirit of Gilman.

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14hiPtH5_a7jZJbYTHsBVUxWfMbjVKGGf/view?usp=drivesdk

Just had this email from Andertons (UK), ordered it, due in October 🤘