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Father of All Motherfuckers (2020)

Where the lyrics of Father of All Motherfuckers take you, and where it was really made.

At 26 minutes 12 seconds, this is Green Day's shortest album to date, yet it debuted atop the UK Albums Chart.

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Album story

Overview

• Father of All Motherfuckers: thirteenth studio album by Green Day
• Released 7 February 2020 through Reprise Records
• Produced by Butch Walker, the band, and Chris Dugan
• Marks a complete departure from the band's traditional punk rock sound
• Incorporates garage rock elements, similar to the tenth studio album ¡Dos! (2012)
• Running time 26 minutes 12 seconds, the shortest album of Green Day to date
• Known in censored form as Father of All...

Background

• On 9 December 2018, Billie Joe Armstrong revealed he was writing new songs for an upcoming album
• During recording the band had sixteen songs, which were narrowed down to ten final tracks
• The band found it difficult to string together all sixteen tracks
• Armstrong said the band wanted an old-timey rock 'n' roll record that traces the history of rock 'n' roll
• Armstrong cited glam rock acts such as T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, and Martha and the Vandellas, plus some garage rock
• Armstrong said the album feels somewhere between Prince and MC5

Cover

• The cover reuses a repurposed version of the cover art from the 2004 album American Idiot
• Armstrong wrote the full album title on the arm and obscured one word with a drawing of a unicorn
• The limited-edition version uses an uncensored version that lacks the unicorn

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt.
• Drummer Tré Cool joined in 1990, and the band has mostly been a power trio since.
• Before taking the name Green Day in 1989, the band was called Sweet Children.
• The band emerged from the late 1980s and early 1990s Bay Area punk scene centered on 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley.
• Early releases came through Lookout! Records, including the debut album 39/Smooth (1990).

Career

• Dookie (1994, Reprise Records) became a breakout success and sold over 20 million copies in the United States.
• Green Day is credited with reigniting mainstream interest in punk rock.
• Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) reached double platinum; Warning (2000) was certified gold.
• American Idiot (2004), a rock opera, found popularity with a younger generation and sold six million copies in the US.
• The trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! was released in 2012; it did not match earlier commercial success.
• Later albums include Revolution Radio (2016), Father of All Motherfuckers (2020), and Saviors (2024).
• A stage adaptation of American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010 and received three Tony nominations.
• The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, its first year of eligibility.
• The band has sold roughly 75 million records worldwide as of 2024 and won five Grammy Awards.

Reception

At release

• Received polarizing but mostly positive reviews from music critics
• Metacritic average 68 out of 100 from 25 reviews
• Kerrang! magazine rated the album four out of five stars
• Rolling Stone critic Jon Dolan also gave four out of five, naming it one of Green Day's most fun albums
• Q magazine said it is slight next to 21st Century Breakdown but hard to finish without a smile
• Entertainment Weekly gave a middling grade of C−

Reappraisal

• Several critics described it as among the worst Green Day has produced
• Sputnikmusic gave 1.5 out of 5, calling it a hot mess
• Ross Horton of musicOMH gave one out of five, calling it a disaster and criticizing the Glitter sample
• Loudwire reported in 2022 that it was the highest-ranked rock album on a list of the worst albums of the 21st century, based on a Metacritic user score of 4.8 out of 10

Records

• Debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 with 48,000 album-equivalent units, including 42,000 pure album sales
• Green Day's 11th US top-10 album
• Debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and the Australian ARIA Albums Chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title track's single was released on 10 September 2019, and the band announced a surprise Whisky a Go Go show that same night during the Kevin and Bean show at KROQ.
• The song Oh Yeah! takes its title and samples the chorus from Joan Jett's cover of Do You Wanna Touch Me, originally sung by Gary Glitter.
• The band said it would donate royalties from Oh Yeah! to International Justice Mission and Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, acknowledging Glitter's history of sexual abuse and convictions.
• Oh Yeah! was used as one of the official theme songs for the 2020 edition of the WWE PPV Backlash.
• The video for Meet Me on the Roof was released alongside the digital album release and features Gaten Matarazzo as a guest star.
• The Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer was first planned for March 2020 and began on 24 July 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the schedule.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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