Revolution Radio
by Green Day
  • Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: Oct 7, 2016
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 239 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 191 out of 239
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 239
  3. Negative: 24 out of 239
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  1. Wellbag
    Oct 7, 2016
    5
    I can't understand that everyone seems to like this album.. There is no stand out song and the mix is plain and boring all the way through. I wanted to hear a album where green day went back to the punk rock roots and skipped the ballads but this seems more like a "Arena punk" attempt.
  2. triple_co
    Apr 5, 2017
    5
    This will be an unpopular opinion, but Green Day's 'Revolution Radio' feels very much like a diluted, directionless imitation of already-explored ideas. The 2004 chart-topper 'American Idiot' provided a disjointed, self-aware, bloated theatrical opera of pop-punk protest, but this new LP feels very much like the aftermath of a band that doesn't know exactly what to say about the era theyThis will be an unpopular opinion, but Green Day's 'Revolution Radio' feels very much like a diluted, directionless imitation of already-explored ideas. The 2004 chart-topper 'American Idiot' provided a disjointed, self-aware, bloated theatrical opera of pop-punk protest, but this new LP feels very much like the aftermath of a band that doesn't know exactly what to say about the era they find themselves in.

    There is a clear disjointed opposite here between the band's commercial, controlled sound, and the anti-corporatism with which they concerns themselves. Amongst vague lyrics such as 'legalise the truth' on 'Revolution Radio', and personal anecdotes on 'Still Breathing', there are limited attempts at conveying frustration and claustrophobia within the post-truth, social media obsessed modern America. But the gloss and over production sucks any life and punch out of the overall sound, leaving things feeling short of the mark and hollow by design. Perhaps with the exception of 'Bang Bang', nothing here really seems to have a meaningful impact in a way that the band has managed to do consistently throughout its long past.

    This is an improvement over 'Uno!', 'Dos!' and 'Tre!', yet I can't help but feel there is an aimlessness to the concepts on 'Revolution Radio', and a sense of commercialism within its songs that claim to be anti-establishment. It'll please some long-time fans, but personally it feels too polished, too cluttered, and too ambiguous to really offer any lasting effect, and has an air of disingenuous marketing to it.    … Expand
  3. DogOfWars
    Jun 7, 2017
    6
    Revolution Radio is certainly an improovement over "UNO, DOS, TRE", but continues to fail in bringing the legendary group back to it´s former glory or taking it in any new directions.
  4. GoodReviewerTV
    Mar 9, 2018
    6
    This album sounds.... Meh. Expected so much more out of it, but instead we got Wild One PT. 2 only it's titled Youngblood. You have Bang Bang which tries to hard to be St. Jimmy/Christian's Inferno. And the only kind of original song is Still Breathing. Which is hardly even innovative. For a Green Day album this is pretty bad..

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Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Magnet
    Nov 16, 2016
    70
    Perhaps both the best and worst you can say about Revolution Radio is that it sounds exactly like Green Day. [No. 137, p.55]
  2. No Ripcord
    Nov 14, 2016
    50
    Aside from Billie Joe’s willingness to open up on more troubling personal issues, of which he only hints, the majority of Revolution Radio is all sheen and no spark.
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  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Oct 25, 2016
    70
    The engrossing full-album reprise Forever Now gives an insight into frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s booze and pills-induced 2012 meltdown, but otherwise Revolution Radio is more melodic air-punching about guns, gas and the American nightmare. File under: Ain’t Broke.
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