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After plenty of teasing, Green Day's new single "Oh Love" is finally here.
"We wanted to get back to the simplicity of Dookie," says ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tres! Producer Rob Cavallo, who, it's worth noting, also helmed the band's 1994 commercial breakthrough. "We also wanted to go pre-Dookie, back to our love of Fifties and Sixties music, close-to-the-bone rock & roll. You don't hear a gazillion parts. The majority of this is drums, bass, two guitars and vocals."
The group's embrace (or re-embrace, I guess you could say) of throwback rock is more than a little evident on "Oh Love," our first real taste of ¡Uno! (out September 25), an album that Billie Joe Armstrong tells Rolling Stone will be the "power pop" opening third of the new trilogy. "With the first album you're getting in the mood to party. On the second one, you're at the party. And the third album you're cleaning up the mess," he explains.
I know you've all been dying to use those spiffy 3D glasses you smuggled out of The Amazing Spider-Man, so stop stalling and check out the "Oh Love" lyrics video below.
Thoughts?
The "power pop" tag is certainly accurate, though to my ears, it sounds like a leaner, more intimate version of something that might have landed towards the end of 21st Century Breakdown. The emotions are typically huge, with an appropriately carpe diem set of lyrics ("I'm wearing my heart on a noose") and Billie Joe's now-trademark vocal doubling. The chunking, rhythmic guitar riffing is a great touch, as is the seemingly off-the-cuff production (Hear him taking a breath between each line? You normally wouldn't.) and the almost Buddy Holly-style earnestness of that chorus melody. It's definitely not my favorite side of the Green Day aesthetic spectrum, but they've gotten rather good at writing soaring fare like this.
Verdict? Doesn't too much for 95% of my internal organs, but it's certainly enough to tide us over until the rest of ¡Uno! hits the proverbial doorstep. (p.s. My predictions? Totally spot-on.)
What are you guys thinking of "Oh Love"? Another Green Day classic, or aimless power pop creative mush? Hit up our comments section below.
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