This past Tuesday NCAA fans Green Day took the stage as a six piece at San Francisco’s Independent, playing their new Butch Vig-produced album to a capacity hometown crowd. Billy Joe & friends opened with Dookie‘s “Welcome to Paradise” then moved into a complete start to finish of 21st Century Breakdown, which they divided into three acts. (They also did oldies like “Longview” and “American Idiot” after they’d finished 21st, of course). Spin, who have a photo of the set list, adopt a tween tone and note:
While the night was clearly OMFG! photo-op-tastic, Armstrong kept the shutterbugs restrained: After inviting concertgoers to give it their best “shot” with their cellphone cameras at the show’s outset, he then asked everyone to “put the fucking things away.”
The person holding this video camera and capturing “Desperate” clearly didn’t listen to the half-pint. Thanks, rebel, now there’s more to argue about than “21st Century Breakdown.”
Tré Cool (ha ha, even after all these years) has very solid hair.
21st Century Breakdown is out 5/15 via Reprise
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The best thing about this show is that they played “Going to Pasalacqua”, and some other really old stuff.
I’m not normally one to say, “Stick with indie bands!”, but Green Day? Everyone has probably jammed to a Green Day track here and there, but they haven’t really dropped anything worth noticing since the mid nineties.
It doesnt seem most people agree with that since they sold so many copies of American Idiot and thats what made them so famous
green day has a lot of talent. but they’re going in the wrong direction. nice guitar riff around 1:10 though.
It is good to see these bays back in action. Finally new stuff! Yopee.
Green Day’s music is kinda like Bubbalicious…tasty for a minute or two then you want to spit it out…
shit band.
Get over yourselves indie kids commenters. Sorry, but the American Idiot album was brilliant. Let’s wait and see how this one sounds.
see its not about “indie”.
American Idiot was a really really lame satire with really boring music, and annoying vocals as always. It was pop punk pretending they weren’t just trying to sell records. It wasn’t brilliant its been done a hundred times. The lyrics are like a high school journal, the music is simple and uninteresting, its just fucking lame.
we don’t have to wait and see how it sounds, b/c this band has proved time and time again they can’t make good music but they sure know how to sell records.
While you can’t really call the album musical genius, I think you take it a step too far and call it fucking lame. American Idiot was one of the first albums I loved, back when I was into pop rock, and back then it was awesome.
I find this highly ironic, that my first comment on this site is on this article, and I’m wearing my Green Day shirt for the first time since like 2 years ago, and that my username is unintentionally a Green Day album.
you were probably 7 when dookie blew up
“I think you take it a step too far and call it fucking lame. American Idiot was one of the first albums I loved, back when I was into pop rock, and back then it was awesome.”
biff. fail.
different people have different taste in music. ur probably not into pop punk/punk rock, but that doesnt mean green day make crappy music.
wow. you sound like the elitist, cooler-than-you, jaded twats that live in austin. what a miserable little sod you sound like.
I think it’s lame that they are a three piece when it’s time for photo ops, album covers, etc but tour with a second guitarist. The guitarist used to play off to the side and to be not seen but heard. Now they have him stage left. He should be “officially” in the band.
It’s hard to dislike them , despite the recent years. I listen to my Dookie album from time to time still.