Classic Rock

Green Day

Father Of All Motherfuckers REPRISE

All out of politics (for now), the Day party hard, 1950s style.

It might feel like a dereliction of duty ahead of the most desperate fight for its soul and future that America has ever faced at, a much-needed palate cleanser after the over-egged triple album project, curiously they’ve taken Trump’s reign off and instead knocked together a breezy pop-punk party record about, according to Billie Joe Armstrong, “not giving a fuck”. Which is strange, since now is perhaps the most important time in modern history to give a fuck, and this is a presidency that could have been designed specifically to inspire a righteous, youth-quake-inspiring Green Day double concept album.

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