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Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

I liked Saviours & will try to play it again.

There's clear development in the 30+ years of Green Day. I liked them in the early 90's. I like them now. I've carried them with me through a lot of change and will continue to do so.

Now, can watch a video of their Super Bowl performance?

So far, pretty good. I think I could very well get into this album in a big way. Bobby Sox stood out. We'll see what the rest of the album has.

Sorry all. I didn't finish my Green Day AlbumParty last week. Father of All Motherfuckers deserves another listen, but my headache prevented me from really giving it my full attention.

Nevertheless, I am skipping a few re-releases, live albums, etc. and starting Saviours (from 2024) this morning.

So, nothing called out to me on Revolution Radio. It was fine. Now onto Father of All Motherfuckers from 2020.

Forgot to say that I really enjoyed ¡Tre! and will need to give it more attention in the future. "Missing You", "Dirty Rotten Bastards" and "99 Revolutions" all stood out as good songs.

OK. I'm skipping Demolicious (from 2014) as it's mostly alternative versions ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tre! songs.

Now on to Revolution Radio from 2016. I don't think I know this album at all. I had just made an international move and was a bit dazzled by all the change. Hooray for learning new things!

Finished ¡Dos!. Again, nice enough. Probably some songs I could get really into if I set out to listen to it a bunch. But nothing really moved me in the moment.

Now, ¡Tre!. Still from 2012. That is a big output for one year.

Can only recall* Kill the DJ today.

I finished ¡Uno! yesterday and it was fine. A few songs stood out, but I can only Kill the DJ today.

Today, I start with ¡Dos!, also from 2012. I think I can finish this today.

I think I may need to specifically listen to 21st Century Breakdown again. But for now, on to ¡Uno! from 2012.

Now is time for 21st Century Breakdown from 2009. Not an album I ever purchased or listened to all the way through. I know some of the songs though, so let's have a listen to the whole thing.

"Homecoming" is another operatic long track that switches between styles but retains recurring themes. Amazing. Love it.

Normally, I do these listening sessions on days with a lot of grind to do at my desk. But today I have sole custody of the doggo.
So I dressed the dog up as Billy Joe and posed her in front of our local Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

"Jesus of Suburbia" is an absolute opera. I listened to it on a whole lot of walking commutes while I lived in the Netherlands. It felt so disconnected from the quaint row houses and canals that I was passing but it absolutely sounded right to me.

I don't have a huge amount of time before my first meeting today, but I can at least start American Idiot from 2004.

I was living in Spain at this time, so the release kind of flew over my head. But I got this album a bit later and LOVED it. A real oeuvre.

Normally, I don't include live or compilation albums in my #AlbumParty listening sessions. But I am making an exception for Shennanigans from 2002 because
1) I like the name
2) I had no idea it existed
3) it seems to be mostly original music.

Not sure why it is not counted as a regular album?

"Minority" is a catchy little song that seems to be the first clear political song. I like it. I think it is good.

Well, the livestream on YouTube (unrelated to this AlbumParty) is done, so now I'm listening to Warning, from 2000.

The sound is more acoustic, accessible, even ... folksy? But punk is about defying expectations and externally imposed boundaries so who says an acoustic guitar can't be punk?

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They played "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" at my high school graduation.

I kind of get it. The song is originally about a relationship breakup, so not the usual view of graduations as an achievement.

But a graduation is also an ending, a beginning, a big change.

Nimrod, from 1997. This one was more familiar to me. I don't think I owned the album when it came out but these songs got a lot more radio play than Insomniac did.

"Brain Stem" and "Jaded" are pretty familiar. I can see the logic of putting them together as a single for promotion because they are both pretty short (typical of punk songs) with Jaded just 1 minute 30 seconds.

But it is a real stylistic change within a "single song" which I see on later albums.

Now, Insomniac from 1995. I don't remember it much which was probably a result of the media blackout. The songs all contain swear words, the music videos and album art hit pretty hard and the themes are much darker.

I think it might need more of my attention.

I love this album. Not just because I played it on repeat in my formative years. Clearly, a lot of people love it because it went double diamond (20 x platinum ... apparently. Sold 20 million+ copies worldwide.

Some silly lyrics, sure. But others are actually interesting takes on difficult topics.

I can't think of another example of a band releasing a song on one album and then re-releasing it on the next album.

"Welcome to Paradise" is a pretty good song, so I can see why they want more people to hear it.

Back at it! Dookie, from 1994.

Right out of the gates with "Burnout". Amazing. I feel it. I am, in fact, not growing up. I'm just burning out and stepping in line to walk amongst the dead.

As are well all.

I don't think I have heard Kerplunk! as much as I have heard other Green Day albums. Hearing the songs doesn't remind me of places and times the way their first album did.

That said, it will only be two albums for me today because I have some work to finish up and then a gig to get to tonight.

Only the 2nd album (excluding EP's), 1st with Tré Cool. But sounds distinctively Green Day.
Also "Dominated Love Slave" is mockingly country. But "Knowledge" from 1030/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours is less obviously mockingly country.
I remember Nor Cal as more country than people might expect.

I forgot to say that 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was from 1991. But now I move on to Kerplunk, from 1992!