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Green Day – Saviours: Deluxe
Track List
The American Dream Is Killing Me
Look Ma, No Brains
Bobby Sox
One Eyed Bastard
Dilemma
1981
Goodnight Adeline
Coma City
Corvette Summer
Susie Chapstick
Strange Days Are Here To Stay
Living In The 20's
Father To A Son
Saviours
Fancy Sauce
Smash Like Belushi
Stay Young
Fuck Off
Ballyhoo
Susie Chapstick (Acoustic)
Father To A Son (Acoustic)
Underdog
Prominent band Green Day released Saviours last year, and it took listeners back to the days when the band had something about them, and it did okay, surpassing the damaging, cringy Father Of All. The Saviours Deluxe edition has just landed, and it contains 4 new songs for fans to enjoy or to curse. These songs aren't ready for the limelight in terms of boldness or ambition, balancing somewhere between feeling pop-orientated, and somewhat messy in parts.
Green Day is a band which have done their serious work. American Idiot is their last magnum opus, and since then they're played around, maxed out the power chord formula, and produced songs which are catchy. Sometimes that's all you need in the grand scheme of things.
Producing big hitters isn't in the band's formula anymore, and these 4 tracks are indicative of that. Stay Young is lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong's statement to all the people who feel like they've edged too far into giving up. The riff is soft and pleasing and the song carries enough energy to matter, although it isn't a masterclass in song writing.
Fuck Off barely works as an honest contribution though. It is so far off-key that it sounds cringy, like Armstrong has lost his head. Ballyhoo is decent and it carries a good state of rhythm, but again it doesn't satisfy. Armstrong's vocals are precise, and the sneer is golden.
Underdog boasts a rallying cry and good vocal performance from Armstrong. Drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt also combines to great effect.
Green Day will always be a colossal and cultural band, but on this evidence, they seem like they're not up for it as much as they were in the glory days.
