The current finding first: For the fact that Billie Joe Armstrong had at least four working years under his belt when he met him in 1994 when he mixed up the school playground with the teenage fear and fun punk hit “Basket Case” – and quite apart from that one or two of the escapades that have been performed in three decades of band careers – the man still looks amazingly youthful.
In addition to the early entry into working life (with only 47 years of age, early retirement is still a long way off), the fact that the Green Day singer and songwriter is still so committed to fun punk that he – current Press photos prove it – even in the stage beyond the average midlife crisis, still professionally faxing through the area. A suitable new song, which is suitable for the current generation of young people today as a possible party cracker to roar with, comes along with lines that haven’t broken down due to age, such as “I was a teenage teenager / full of piss and vinegar”.
Triple pack in the stadium
Why grow up, grow old, grow into vegetating vegetables, adapt or even become sensible? After all, the band’s 13th album now being released revolves around “not giving a fuck”. Pardon his French: Billie Joe Armstrong is of the opinion that “the rock ‘n’ roll has lost its balls” and is now strategically blowing at least strategically to counterattack. After all, with the ten songs of “Father Of All Motherfuckers”, which are rather unambitiously played in just under 26 minutes of play, husch-husch escapes from the existing record contract.
In addition, there is also a reason for going back on a world tour that is more reliable to the lucky catch anyway. As part of this, the hits are also included for a good entrance fee after a side effect that has just been streamed for a few Netsch anyway, with laboriously wrested new “ideas”. In Vienna you will be able to see for yourself when Green Day will be performing in a triple pack with colleagues Weezer and Fall Out Boy (!) At the Ernst Happel Stadium on June 21.
Oh yes: After the punk reinterpretation of hits such as the “Basket Case”, which was commercialized for MTV in its heyday, the band discovered back in 1997 with the song “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” that they were using stringed strings instead of electric guitars can also write actual songs on a three-chord basis – and that it sometimes pays off, is thoughtful and reflective, and then it is a bit adapted and reasonable. With songs like “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” or “Wake Me Up When September Ends” Green Day and two long-running favorites have entered the history of global format radio.
Flight from the world through party
We are talking about music that also rotates on the hit radio Ö3, which is not exactly known for punk rock in the conventional sense or the fight against the system or the class enemy. On the other hand, Green Day, with the ambitious accompanying album “American Idiot”, inspired in 2004 by the US invasion of Iraq, have also fed more serious content into their shows, which otherwise follow the popular entertainment concept of flight from the world in parties in multipurpose halls and festival areas.
On “Father Of All Motherfuckers”, politics only leaves its mark in the final song. “Graffitia” deals with the factory closures in the Rust Belt in the 1980s and police violence against young African Americans in Chicago. The rest are barely three-minute punk rock boards in the germ-free studio sound, which combine a little garage with a little more glam rock, now drop by Motown and with hymnal passages in between will definitely be suitable for the stadium tour, the record label – oh no! – but no longer leave a last gift in hit form.
Music as a fulfillment of contract, for which the great Little Richard is needed to at least be reminded of the historical possibilities of rock ‘n’ roll. The preparatory work (“Tutti Frutti”, “Lucille”…) Behind a song called “Stab You In The Heart” says that everything could be so simple – if it weren’t so complicated: “Womp-bomp-a- loom-op-a-womp-bam-boom. “
Green day
Father Of All Motherfuckers
(Warner Music)
Live at the Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium, together with Fall Out Boy and Weezer, on June 21. www.oeticket.com
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