Revolution Radio

Rating

Album: Revolution Radio (Vinyl Picture Disc)
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Somewhere Now	More Info...
2)	Bang Bang	More Info...
3)	Revolution Radio	More Info...
4)	Say Goodbye	More Info...
5)	Outlaws	More Info...
6)	Bouncing Off the Wall	More Info...
1)	Still Breathing	More Info...
2)	Youngblood	More Info...
3)	Too Dumb to Die	More Info...
4)	Troubled Times	More Info...
5)	Forever Now	More Info...
6)	Ordinary World	More Info...
3)	Revolution Radio	More Info...
4)	Say Goodbye	More Info...
5)	Outlaws	More Info...
6)	Bouncing Off the Wall	More Info...
7)	Still Breathing	More Info...
8)	Youngblood	More Info...
9)	Too Dumb to Die	More Info...
10)	Troubled Times	More Info...
11)	Forever Now	More Info...
12)	Ordinary World	More Info...

Album: Revolution Radio (Vinyl Picture Disc)
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Somewhere Now	More Info...
2)	Bang Bang	More Info...
3)	Revolution Radio	More Info...
4)	Say Goodbye	More Info...
5)	Outlaws	More Info...
6)	Bouncing Off the Wall	More Info...
1)	Still Breathing	More Info...
2)	Youngblood	More Info...
3)	Too Dumb to Die	More Info...
4)	Troubled Times	More Info...
5)	Forever Now	More Info...
6)	Ordinary World	More Info...
3)	Revolution Radio	More Info...
4)	Say Goodbye	More Info...
5)	Outlaws	More Info...
6)	Bouncing Off the Wall	More Info...
7)	Still Breathing	More Info...
8)	Youngblood	More Info...
9)	Too Dumb to Die	More Info...
10)	Troubled Times	More Info...
11)	Forever Now	More Info...
12)	Ordinary World	More Info...

Performer Notes

Green Day imploded after the December 2012 release of Tre, the final part of a triple-album project. The very unwieldiness of Uno, Dos, and Tre -- all released in rapid succession in the autumn of 2012 -- suggested that Green Day were perhaps suffering from a lack of focus, but the group wound up taking a forced hiatus once leader Billie Joe Armstrong entered rehab in the middle of the triple-album rollout. Given all this chaos, it's hard not to view 2016's Revolution Radio as a consolidation, a way for the band to shake off all distractions and get back to basics. Discarded alongside the mess and garage rock affectations that marked Uno, Dos, and Tre is any sense of concept at all -- a marked departure from their work of the past 15 years. Green Day may no longer be writing rock operas, but despite a title that seems swiped from the Clash, Revolution Radio retains a sense of righteous indignation reminiscent of prime Who that the trio channeled on American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Without a concept, the stabs at social significance sting a little harder -- granted, Armstrong makes it impossible to miss the meaning of the anti-mass shooting "Bang Bang" or the self-explanatory "Troubled Times" -- but this concentration on individual songs also shifts the focus back to how the band really can craft dynamic rock songs. Often, this means their best songs are the simplest -- the heavy-booted swing of "Say Goodbye" or the frothy, clap-along "Youngblood" -- but the mini-epic of "Forever Now" shows they've retained the flair for the dramatic that they developed on American Idiot. If Revolution Radio can seem a little too pat -- the concluding ballad "Ordinary World" is a conscious callback to both "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and "Wake Me When September Ends" -- such discipline was needed after the ungainly sprawl of 2012. Here, Green Day have nothing more in mind than righting their ship, and that's precisely what they do. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Green Day's first album in four years is vibrant punk rock, uncluttered by outsize grandiosity or conceptual overthink."

Entertainment Weekly - "[A] focused set that rocks as fearlessly as their Gilman Street glory days....'Still Breathing' isn't just one of their most rousing songs, it's also one of their best." -- Grade: B+

NME (Magazine) - "[I]t's as strong as anything they've come up with since 2004's AMERICAN IDIOT. Thematically, Billie Joe Armstrong has said the album is about making sense of our chaotic times..."

Paste (magazine) - "[With] plenty of sharp hooks. REVOLUTION RADIO, true to title, is full of unrest and sociopolitical despair."