There is a new GD album out. It's called Transmissions.
VH mentioned it to me earlier today. The official site had nothing on it, surprisingly. Maybe I need to check multiple sites hereon, to get complete information.
So it's got these 22 (old) songs put on the CD in - live versions, radio snippets and the studio recordings too. There are a handful of videos too if I'm not mistaken.
Weird. I can't figure out why they did this. Probably to capitalise on the fan base built up from the American Idiot success. In fact, I think that's probably it. These days the Planet M stores have been stocking the "Oldies Goldies" records of the band - 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy hours and even Kerplunk!. Aggressive selling.All of a sudden. Around 3 years back, the band was nowhere on the scene (in India that is) apart from some long time followers (ahem!).
I wonder what results would come through if a market research was done on the visibility of the band 4 years back and then compared it with the present. The cause for the surge in the demand for the band is obvious though. Attribute it all to Idiot(s) !
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www.amazon.com says Transmissions will be released on August 7.
some more:
2007 enhanced CD featuring 13 tracks from a 1992 WFMU radio broadcast plus five bonus tracks recorded live at Woodstock '94. This CD also includes enhanced footage of the band performing 'When I Come Around, 'Geek Stink Breath', '2,000 Light Years Away' and 'Welcome To Paradise', The CD comes housed in a hardback book style sleeve complete with in-depth track-by-track analysis of every Green Day studio album).
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