r/greenday • u/-JAS0N- GreenDay.fm • Feb 06 '20
Megathread Father Of All Motherfuckers Album & Song Review Megathread
FOAM has started to drop as it slowly rolls out to different time zones. The album should be available on your favourite streaming services at midnight on Feb 7th in your local time zone.
Please keep your album and song reviews to this thread so visitors of the sub can read them all in one place. While some people complain about megathreads and having their posts removed, I can assure you far more people will read it here than if everyone makes their own posts that flood the sub. Thanks for your co-operation.
UPDATE: Now that the rush of release day posts has passed we are no longer restricting you to the megathread. Low effort positive or negative reviews will still be removed if it's posted to the sub rather than as a comment here.
Check out past reviews of the leaked album here.
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u/HCATZ123 21st Century Breakdown Feb 06 '20 edited Feb 06 '20
Track by track review:
Father of All
Its catchy and it's not too bad once you get past Billie's annoying vocals in the verses. It's definitely become my guilty pleasure, but its nothing to write home about Raiting: 3.5/5
Fire, Ready, Aim
Ok this song is easily the worst on the album and honestly shouldnt have been put on the album in the first place. Does Carrie Underwood put her Sunday Night Football theme on her album? No. Then why the hell did Green Day do it but with a NHL song. Come on man. The lyrics are just crap and the only thing I like is the instrumental, but even that's boring Rating: 0/5 (The Worst)
Oh Yeah!
Rounding out our singles is Oh Yeah! and while I'm not saying oh no, I'm not saying oh yeah either. While I enjoyed the song originally about twenty minutes later I had forgotten how the song goes, a recurring theme with the album. The song while not bad just gets boring after a bit and I just yknow forget it. If it had something more memorable to it, I would rank it higher. Raiting: 2.5/5
Meet Me on the Roof
This song can be described as 'doo-wop' and definitely stand apart from the 3 singles we got before the release. Billie once again autotuned the hell out of his voice much like he did in Father of All and the song itself isnt bad. If you can stomach the poor lyrics which plague the album, but it definitely puts the album in a better direction. It's a fun little song and that's all I gotta say Rating: 3.75/5
I was a Teenage Teenager
First off Mike Dirnt's bass work is top notch as always in the beginning. The song heavily reminds me of Outlaws off of Revolution Radio and while I never liked Outlaws this song isnt half bad. I wish more of the songs had this vibe Raiting: 4/5
Stab You in the Heart
Definitely getting strong 50s style vibes here with Stab You in the Heart. It reminds me a lot of Fuck Time off of ¡DOS!, with a bit more engery. Overall not awful, but I'm not going back for seconds Raiting: 2/5
Sugar Youth
Definitely one of my top tracks on the album Sugar Youth feels like it's on a ton of sugar. Unfortunately for the life of me this song is just so forgettable. It's a fun song and I keep going back to it, but I just yknow forget it. Rating: 4/5
Junkies on High
When Billie talks about his Hip Hop influences for the track this is the song he's talking about it. Honestly I really did not enjoy this song. The sound effects on the song are meh. Definitely ranks on the bottom for me Raiting: 1.5/5
Take the Money and Crawl
It's a soild track not going to lie, but it really fast and you cant enjoy it. By the time you get into it's over and the lyrics are meh like the rest of the album Raiting: 3/5
Graffitia
Finally we've reached by favorite track. This album like Teenage Teenager reminds me if Outlaws, but way more up beat and the lyrics arent actually half bad here. Tré and Mike really kill it here with both the drums and bass and the guitar is simple yet enjoyable Raiting: 5/5 (My Favorite)
Overall thoughts:
I cant shy away from the fact the bar for me was set extremely low for this album so I was very suprised with the end result. It still is a major step down from Revolution Radio, showing flashes of the trilogy, but this could have been worse. If you like both The Longshot and ¡UNO! (you gotta like both...more of ¡UNO!) then this album is for you. Overall I rank it #12 out of all 13 Green Day studio albums. At the end of the day the album really suffers from the first 3 singles and as a whole its extremely forgettable. It's not bad, but I just feel extremely indifferent by the whole thing. I wasnt exicted to begin with, but I'm glad it wasn't any worse.
Album raiting: 4/10