Revolution Radio
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Revolution Radio
Revolution Radio is the twelfth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 7, 2016 through Reprise Records. It is the band's first album since 2009's 21st Century Breakdown not to include Jason White on rhythm guitar, as he went back to being a touring member earlier in the year. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, appeared on multiple year-end lists, and sold 95,000 first-week album-equivalent units in the U.S. to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Revolution Radio also debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Canada, and New Zealand. --Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Spin
Revolution Radio is pop-punk and is not pop-punk. Perhaps Armstrong needs to find a new word for it.
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Rolling Stone
Green Day Older, Wiser, Mad as Hell in ‘Revolution Radio’
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Pitchfork
Over the course of 26 years, Green Day have gone from pop punks to rock stars. Their latest, however, has little effect on their legacy and lapses into pandering, embarrassing lyrical misfires.
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The New York Times
‘Revolution Radio’ Finds Green Day Still Unsatisfied
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Consequence of Sound
Punk legends bungle their comeback with an album that's confused and average.
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Spill Magazine
Revolution Radio will definitely hold some fan favourites, and not just because they’re catchy numbers. But sticking with familiar melodies is dicey. It’ll either leave you feeling sentimental or like you’re having déja vu.
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The Atlantic
Green Day Finds Comfort in Protest - Revolution Radio is a short and catchy blend of political anger and personal wistfulness.
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The Guardian
Their most coherent album since 2004’s American Idiot.
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Entertainment Weekly
They’re dialing down the excess, and the result is a focused set that rocks as fearlessly as their Gilman Street glory days.
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Paste Magazine
Revolution Radio is a loud, energized power-pop album in moody punk clothing. It sounds pretty goddamn radiant when it’s playing and leaves little impression when it isn’t.
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NME
Billie, Tre and Mike put their 2012 meltdown behind them on an album as strong as anything they’ve done since ‘American Idiot’
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Slant Magazine
Revolution Radio manages to survey almost the entire bag of tricks Green Day has pulled from over the past 25 years.
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Atwood Magazine
Green Day revisit the penetrating themes of rebelliousness and protest on Revolution Radio with remarkable energy and freshness.
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All Music
Here, Green Day have nothing more in mind than righting their ship, and that's precisely what they do.
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Cleveland
Inspiration can be a weird thing for rock stars, especially as they get older. Revolution Radio is the most inspiring Green Day album in more than a decade.
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Dying Scene
It might not be the album to relaunch the band back into American Idiot-levels of success like it has been promoted as, but there’s nothing particularly offensive either and it’s still worth a listen or two for the morbidly curious.
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AV Music Club
The band is hitting its catchy but predictable musical marks harder than ever, a gesture of defiance against the increasing uncertainty of the lyrics.
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Music Feeds
This it the music of the streets Green Day long abandoned, filtered through the gated community cul-de-sac’s they now call home. Revolution Radio as whole just sounds like radio.
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Beat
Green Day are trying to get back on track after the letdown that was their triple album ... With Revolution Radio, they do a solid job of achieving this.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Equal parts inwardly reflective and outwardly contemplative, Revolution Radio is self-aware of its members’ middle aged crises and perspectives.
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Cryptic Rock
A job well done.
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All Campus Radio Network
It lacks the feeling of revolution, and flatlines when it comes to creating something new and exciting.
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Toronto Sun
Their sharpest and most vital work in over a decade, eschewing grandeur and concepts for tightly constructed songs that balance political and personal, topical and timeless.
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Newsday
It’s a testament to the artistic power of Green Day that its comeback album is so accomplished and anything but tentative.
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The Young Folks
Arguably, this is one of Green Day’s finest works to date.
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Sound of Pen
Despite the combination of a discouraging start and a powerless ending preventing Revolution Radio from living up to its namesake, it remains undeniable that Green Day haven’t lost sight of what it takes to create a forceful and tireless album.
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Music OMH
There is nothing groundbreaking among these 12 new tracks and it never reaches the heights of American Idiot – which remains the trio’s high-water mark – but there is much to be admired in the simplicity of Green Day’s return, as demonstrated by delightful acoustic closer Ordinary World.
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Black Squirrel Radio
It’s not punk, it’s not political and it’s not anything we haven’t heard a million times before from Green Day.
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Stuff
It has all the hallmarks of a Green Day album – packed with radio-friendly punk rock music and punchy lyrics, tapping into the psyche of a troubled Western World.
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Drowned In Sound
As they claw their way back towards a signature sound and creative direction, perhaps the trio should concentrate less on trying to sound relevant and take some advice from the millennials they seem intent on playing down to: just do you.
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KCSU-FM
In my opinion the album starts off a bit slow and ends a bit slow as well, but the songs in the middle are absolutely fantastic.
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The Trinity Tripod
It isn’t Green Day’s best effort. It contains some strong tracks, but in the end, lacks a message.
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Hot Press
The back to basics approach has yielded Green Day’s most consistently enjoyable album since ‘97’s Nimrod.
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Rock Nuts
It is a perfectly valid entry into the pop-punk canon by one of the genre’s eldest and most esteemed groups.
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The Daily Wildcat
Time catches up with all of us eventually, and that's why bands like Green Day, though through a filter of pessimism, show us how to take a step back and reflect.
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Immortal Reviews
Revolution Radio returns to the roots of what made Green Day great: songwriting, energy, and character.
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ABC News
This isn’t an album without highlights, but it lacks the depth and the stretch found on both “American Idiot” and parts of the trilogy. It is short on jaw-dropping moments.
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Australian Guitar
It’s not quite as revolutionary as it maybe would have been ten years ago, but it is a damn fine slab of modern rock music - and at this point, what more could we ask for?
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Noise 11
Revolution Radio is still predominately political, incorporating sensitive and controversial topics, open for equivocal debates, but is perhaps less provocative than the commercial success that was American Idiot.
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We Got This Covered
For a band whose career seemed like it was in its dying days, Revolution Radio showcases what it’s like to be alive once again.
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Get Some Magazine
This is a band that clearly knows their own style, and Revolution Radio exemplifies the high-quality product Green Day has been releasing with consistency for 30 years.
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Concrete
This album, whilst having some moments of social critique, is not the same; the songs are very safe lyrically, with Green Day seeming afraid to tread too far and offend someone. Regardless of this, the album is a strong one, a return to form for the band.
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The Heavy Press
While not a bad album in the slightest- in fact, at times it can be great- Green Day’s comeback falls short of the revolution their latest album promises by embracing norms and expectations rather than rejecting them in a coup de grace of punk .
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The Charlatan
Revolution Radio is nothing groundbreaking, but it’s their most solid and consistent work since 2009, and that’s an achievement in and of itself.
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Cult #MTL
As is the case with many punk bands, the evolution from raw youth to refined, radio friendly — in this case Broadway friendly — cleanliness has completely sucked the life out of Green Day, leaving them far from anything revolutionary.
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The Voice
Overall, Revolution Radio is a catchy album with a good structure and a new sound for the band.
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Rock Sins
Having listened through countless times, this is not only Green Day’s best album since ‘American Idiot’, but also the first Green Day album that I have truly given a shit about outside of the aforementioned.
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It's All Dead
Where the band may have stumbled on their triple disc experiment, Revolution Radio rights the ship and sets the course for the rest of their third comeback from the brink.
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The Arts Fuse
Not very radical - Green Day’s latest offering is a largely unoriginal, imitative hodgepodge.
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Rock Review Phil
They really go back to where a lot of their current success comes from – American Idiot – and the result is an album that’s magical for pretty much all the same reasons.
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The National
Three decades after the band were formed, Revolution Radio is about survival and taking the next step. It is Green Day sending out the message that they are still alive and kicking.
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Pop Dose
I hate to say that these songs might have really come into their own had they been performed by a different band — perhaps a younger band — but I suppose that’s exactly what I’m saying. Revolution Radio is ready to take the world apart with its bare hands…eventually.
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Red Brick
Overall, Revolution Radio is a promising entry by Green Day, suggesting that the band is trying to move in a coherent direction. The album has a number of catchy tracks and on the whole the guitar, drums and vocals are enjoyable.
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The Music
On the whole though, it's pretty paint-by-numbers. Anyone hoping for a late-career classic is bound to be disappointed.
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The Daily Gazette
It is no revolution—as much as it’d like to be—and changes nothing.
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ChorusFM
It is easily Green Day’s finest album since Idiot, and probably one of the most accomplished in their catalog. Highly Recommended
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Central Times
Overall, I don’t hate it but I expected more after four years of waiting. It is promising however to hear them doing some new stuff and changing up their sound a bit.
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B-Sides
Revolution Radio doesn’t pack the insane punch of Dookie, nor does it have the same message as American Idiot, but it feels like a “back to basics” rock record and a good return to form for a band that offers the same youthful energy as if it were 1994.
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There Goes the Fear
Perhaps this is Green Day’s way of stoking the fire just enough to stay relevant while their years of service continue to serve them so well.
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Maroon Weekly
The music still portrays the rebel teenage attitude, as it did in the popular 2004 album, “American Idiot” and exemplifies the punk rock genre that has been disappearing slowly amidst contemporary artists.
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Highlight Magazine
Revolution Radio is more than just pleasant background noise, it’s an experience. Once you’ve let this album into your ears, it’ll be hard to not let it play one more time.
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The Valley Forge
Their ability to stay together and consistently release music for 30 years is admirable, but I think they need a break.
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Marist Media Hub
Make no mistake, while Revolution Radio may offer brief flashes of the Green Day from their glory years, it is by and large indistinguishable from old school Green Day. After over twenty five years of making music, the band has grown up, and the effect that time has had on their music certainly shows.
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The courier
Even though every track might not completely hit the mark Revolution Radio is a fierce return for the Californian trio vanquishing any claims that they may be past their best.
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God Is In The TV
Like the flaming ghettoblaster on the iconic front cover, Green Day are well and truly on fire.
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Rock N Roll Damnation
Unlike previous Green Day albums, it just lacks any real energy. There are moment that do make me smile, but nothing that sucks me in and spits me out again like I am used to with Green Day.
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Pop Dust
The fun punk-kid antics that made Green Day who they are have returned in full-blast, but balanced out by a newfound maturity that pervades the sonic and the lyric.
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Strathclyde Telegraph
What it is is a bloated facsimile of a once vibrant, important band, who, at this point, are just churning out albums to give them a reason to tour.
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DIY Magazine
If punk’s 50th anniversary has shown us anything, it’s that many old rockers grow old, go soft and give in. But Green Day are still intent on causing shockwaves.
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Louder
Its style remains glammy punk pop, now with occasional nods to Muse and 5 Seconds Of Summer, and its issues remain pertinent but predictable.
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The Linc
The album wants to be what Green Day once was. As a fan I wish it was, but I was so disappointed by the album as a whole that it made me angry.
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Flippen Music
It’s as good as Green Day has ever been outside of the anthemic American Idiot, which is to say solid, but by no means ‘revolutionary’ or innovative.
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Spectrum Pulse
Right now I just hope this album is the transition back to a more mature and innovative Green Day that I've missed for some time - a good first step, but I want to hear the next one.
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Stack
The old adage ‘less is more’ certainly applies to Revolutionary Radio, the 12th studio album from the veteran Cali punks.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
'Revolution Radio' is Green Day back on straight and narrow
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IL 360 News
Green Day is a great band that has consistently put albums out for years, and it does not appear that they are letting up any time soon.
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Renowned For Sound
Despite its numerous shortcomings, is far from a bad album – it’s just not a great album.
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Bear Facts
While the other eleven albums appeal to listeners simply because they are fundamentally immature, Green Day presents a newfound maturity in Revolution Radio.
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Indientry
At a time when pure passion in America is too often stifled, Green Day has released a record that highlights that passion, and the reason they continue to make music.
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Silver Tiger Media
Keeping things true to the Green Day way, the album is packed with banging drums, protruding bass lines, hooky solos and of course, Armstrong’s clever song-writing backed by his ever-improving vocals.
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Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life
This is a bad album which even the biggest of fans should be able to recognise.
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Amped Sound
Revolution Radio is a return to form for them but it still is rough around the edges, where American Idiot succeeded in the aspect of clever lyrics and musically, Revelation Radio barely manages to break ever.
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RTE
For both band and audience Revolution Radio is a don't-touch-that-dial reminder of why all this stuff mattered so much to us in the first place.
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Contact Music
or many bands a record of this standard would be a career peak; Green Day have done better, but this stands as a fine release.
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Words for Reveries
Bottom line – There is no Revolution and it’ll be over-played on the Radio but simply put Revolution Radio is just an ordinary album… Disappointing.
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Alt Press
It’s the first time in years Green Day haven’t had all the answers. But as a statement on how it really feels to fight, it’s the closest to the truth they’ve ever gotten.
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The Daily Tar Heel
In “American Idiot,” Green Day talks about not wanting to be a part of an age of hyper-consumerism, war and reality television, and “Revolution Radio” tries to galvanize listeners into doing something about it.
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