The album opens with a run of songs from 21st Century Breakdown. Of course, it can’t be entirely fresh, so “American Idiot”, “Holiday”, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, and “Good Riddance” all make their second live appearances here. Since the focus here is largely on songs that didn’t show up on Bullet in a Bible, we get “When I Come Around”, “She”, and “Geek Stink Breath”. Among the expected songs from 21st Century Breakdown and American Idiot are some of the band’s lesser singles and even some deep album tracks. The first thing that jumps out about Awesome as F**k is the track listing. But since Reprise didn’t see fit to send out the DVD for review, the rest of this write-up will focus on the CD portion of the release. While 11 of the songs are common to both discs, only “Geek Stink Breath” is the same performance on both the CD and DVD. The album features 17 tracks, each taken from a different concert, while the DVD contains a single show filmed in Saitama, Japan. This new album is also a CD/DVD combo pack, but the two discs are significantly different. 2005’s Bullet in a Bible was a CD/DVD affair that captured 14 songs drawn from a 2-night stand in a huge amphitheater setting in England. To Green Day’s credit, they are at least trying to do something different for this, their second live release. So here comes Awesome as F**k in the interim. Considering the five-year break between American Idiot and Breakdown, this isn’t really surprising. It’s been about two years since 21st Century Breakdown came out, with no news that the band has even thought about heading back into the studio or started writing material for a new album yet. But Green Day’s Awesome as F**k has a bit of the odor of a record-company stopgap about it. And plenty of good reasons to put out live albums that don’t fall under the “it’s gonna be a while until our next real album comes out, so we’re throwing you a bone” mentality. There are plenty of good-to-great live performance documents out there. Which isn’t to say all live albums are cynical releases intended as money-grabs. As the major-label record industry continues to wither, the idea of the live album as a stopgap commercial product to tide over fans between studio albums still lingers. While I'm young and while I'm able, all I want to do is.Ah, the live album. Got to make a plan, got to do what's rightĬan't run around in circles if you wanna build a lifeīut I don't want to make a plan for a day far away at a performance at the NHL All-Star Game. In January 2020, Billie Joe Armstrong teased J.A.R. The song featured at most of the shows in October 2016, as well as a few other shows later in the Revolution Radio tour. was played three times on the 99 Revolutions Tour. An audio version featured on the Awesome as Fuck CD. The song appeared several times in 2009, followed by a few more the next year, on the 21st Century Breakdown tour. The song appeared three times in two weeks at the end of the American Idiot tour. was performed more frequently on the Warning tour, making ten appearances in 20. The song made three appearances in 1998 on the Nimrod tour. appeared live once on the Insomniactour, in Baltimore in November 1995. It made one live appearance in 1992, at 924 Gilman Street in November. This song was considered for Dookie, and demoed during the sessions for the album. The narrator is saying that he's living life just like his friend did, but now his friend is gone and maybe he didn't give all that he could, but it's too late now. He's saying that this death made him face the fact that he's mortal and his life could end any second. In the song, the narrator is talking about his friend who's now gone and about what it makes him feel. ("He was going 95, I think he committed suicide." -Dirnt) This song is written about Mike Dirnt's close friend Jason Andrew Relva, who died in a car crash at the age of 19.
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