New Green Day album

[Sarc]

Has anyone heard the leak? I have it on now and i have to say those people who think this is the most anticipated album this year will be sorely disappointed, its a huge let down, the songs are there admittedly but they're just not grabbing me, ive listend to it twice and couldnt tell you which song is which as it just passes me by.

Sorry guys, close but no biscuit this time.

Of course it's still going to win shit loads of awards as all the tweens will go out and buy it won't they.

[blackdeathcrew]

I'm with you Sarc....it just doesnt excite me at all so far

[Chris Davies]

I've only listened to it twice and yeah it's ok but nothing spectacular. Kinda drags on and on. Prehaps it will be more of a grower.

The first two songs are my favourites so far, and I do mean the 50 second intro, theres something about it that makes the hairs on my kneck stand up.

[my3dtvtan]

As already said above I like it but its nothing special.

Im suspecting a grower as I have wanted to go back for another listen I just cant quite figure out why yet

Christian's Inferno and East Jesus Nowhere are standing out on first listen. Both really good tracks but, again, nothing perticually special on offer.

All in all its good. Easly good enough to become digestable fodder for 14 year olds the world over.

Btw I was trying to figure out which Gogol Bordello song 'Pacemaker' was a cover of My GOD what a way to completely rip off one bands formula. Seriously its like theyve compacted the entire Gypsy Punks album in to a 3 minuite song. Im not saying I dont like it but shurely someone else has noticed the rip off factor.

[Damian]

All in all its good. Easly good enough to become digestable fodder for 14 year olds the world over.

Why is "14 year old" (and more commonly, "15 year old") a term of putdown abuse these days? I never quite understand.

[my3dtvtan]

All in all its good. Easly good enough to become digestable fodder for 14 year olds the world over.

Why is "14 year old" (and more commonly, "15 year old") a term of putdown abuse these days? I never quite understand.

Had no idea it was "putdown abuse" or at least I wasnt using it to referance that. I was saying that for kids of that age who are usally beginning to discover their own tastes in music this album is an easily digestable one that will thrive on that audience. In other words if your old enough to remember Insomniac comming out youl know this dosent even compair but if your arround 14 you may be aware of Green Day but this album will be your first segway in to the band and youl love it. This is a large portion of the target audience after all and 14 year olds the world over will be the reason this album sells millions.

Perhaps fodder was the wrong word.

I need a lie down....

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i heard half of "know your enemy" and it didn't make me particular enthused about hearing the rest of the album. i'd go as far as to say it was dogshit.

[markE]

listened to a bit last night - best track so far is the intro.
hope it grows on me, i was never a massive fan but i really like the american idiot album.

[DangerousBeans]

Not impressed with it at all.

When i heard Know Your Enemy i thought it was quite bland and now having heard the album i think it's one of the better tracks.

Boring album.

[Mattie]

Made some mp3's of the album stream on The Sun website (honestly, I didn't click any other links!)

Listened maybe 4 times overall, maybe just the sound quality (with it being a stream) lead to any loud songs sounding shit as you couldn't make out all the frequencies and complexities

My initial opinion was 'some songs are pretty good, but some just so bland and forgettable'. It has far too many shorter tracks that just aren't particularly creative and even the single '2 part' song on it was repetetive and shit whereas American Idiot nailed it with it's longer 3-4 part songs

Possibly not helped by the fact that my ears were still ringing from the Ginger gig, but I found parts of it quite irritating.

[Jason_scorching_past]

I noticed on Itunes that they have two bonus tracks on the album then a deluxe version with 4 bonus tracks. The thing is they say 'pre-order only' on the bonus tracks yet they don't tell you what the tracks are, they could just be live versions of other songs.

Kerrang has given it 5ks, they gave American Idiot 4ks.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Kerrang has given it 5ks, they gave American Idiot 4ks.

yeah, but the earlier they start sloppily felating the album, the more cover-features they'll get with the band. and is it me, or are adverts slowly overtaking that magazine? i find i can read it from cover to cover in a matter of minutes when i pop into tesco, and not even get thrown out for doing so!

[Benny Hiroshima]

I heard the single and wanted to douse my ear-drums in bleach. Awful stuff.

To be honest I'm more looking forward to the new Manics album. Tracks I've heard so far are brilliant and it feels great to hear the words of Mr Richard James Edwards.

[Jason_scorching_past]

Kerrang has given it 5ks, they gave American Idiot 4ks.

yeah, but the earlier they start sloppily felating the album, the more cover-features they'll get with the band. !

I suspect their score may be due to the fact they gave American Idiot 4ks, that album goes supernova, so they think shit we didn''t see that coming, give the latest effort 5.

Then again maybe they think it is worthy, I haven't heard any songs yet. I thought American Idiot was a great album though.

[Damian]

I'm halfway in (on Spotify, although a copy's in the post) and absolutely loving it. They said before it came out that it would be a "power pop" album. Listening, they aren't kidding. And power pop is my favourite type of music.