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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I wanna be a celebrity martyr/The leading man in my own private drama/the hero of the hour/Daddy's little psycho and mommy's little soldier!"'']]

->''Revolution Radio, the band’s solid but sometimes unfocused new album, can’t stop looking to the past, to the present, anywhere but the future.''
-->--'''[[https://music.avclub.com/green-day-are-punks-afraid-of-dying-on-the-uncertain-re-1798189020 Alex McLevy]]''', ''Website/AVClub''

In 2012, Green Day was on the verge of imploding. They were in the middle of an ambitious plan to release ''three'' albums in one year - the ''Uno! Dos! Tre!'' trilogy - which received mixed reviews and the lowest sales of the band's career.

In the middle of this, Billie Joe Armstrong had a [[NeverLiveItDown very-well publicized]] meltdown while performing on iHeartRadio, where he stopped in the middle of performing [[Music/{{Dookie}} "Basket Case"]] he went on a foul-mouthed rant, smashed his guitar, and flipped the audience off before walking away in anger. [[{{Understatement}} The performance wasn't received well.]]

After the failure of the trilogy, which Billie himself admitted was a mistake, the band decided to get back to basics. As such, ''Revolution Radio'' was Green Day's most straightforward album since ''Music/{{Warning}}'', lacking the RockOpera elements from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''/''Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown'' and the overambition from ''Uno! Dos! Tre!''.

The album was largely well received by critics and audiences, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. Two of the album's singles - "Bang Bang" and "Still Breathing" - reached #1 on both the Mainstream Rock charts and Alternative Charts.

In 2012, Green Day was on the verge of imploding. They were in the middle of an ambitious plan to release ''three'' albums in one year - the ''Uno! Dos! Tre!'' trilogy - which recieved mixed reviews and the lowest sales of the band's career.

In the middle of this, Billie Joe Armstrong had a [[NeverLiveItDown very-well publicized]] meltdown while performing on iHeartRadio, where he stopped in the middle of performing [[Music/{{Dookie}} "Basket Case"]] he went on a foul-mouthed rant, smashed his guitar, and flipped the audience off before walking away in anger. [[{{Understatement}} The performance wasn't recieved well.]]

The album was largely well recieved by critics and audiences, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. Two of the album's singles - "Bang Bang" and "Still Breathing" - reached #1 on both the Mainstream Rock charts and Alternative Charts.

* RecycledTheme: "Bang Bang" has a nearly identical riff to "St. Jimmy" from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Ranges from 1 ("Ordinary World") to 7 ("Bang Bang"). Most of the album is around a 5, however.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Forever Now".

* NonAppearingTitle: "Forever Now"
* RecycledTheme: "Bang Bang" has a nearly identical riff to "St. Jimmy" from {{Music/American Idiot}}

* VoiceOfTheResistance

-->'''[[https://music.avclub.com/green-day-are-punks-afraid-of-dying-on-the-uncertain-re-1798189020 Alex McLevy]]''', ''Website/AVClub''

Followed by 2020's ''Father of All Motherfuckers".

''Revolution Radio" is the twelfth studio album by Music/GreenDay, released in 2016.

* TitleTrack: "Revolution Radio," of course.

* Alliterative Title: "''R''evolution ''R''adio", both the song and the album.

* SanitySlippageSong: "Bang Bang" is this all the way.

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Do you have the time / to listen to me whine / about nothing and everything all aaaaat once?"'']]