ABC/Image Group LABillie Joe Armstrong has declared Green Day‘s new song “Father of All…” to be the father of all the band’s lead singles.
In an interview with Kerrang!, Armstrong says he feels that “Father of All…,” the lead-off single and title track from the punk trio’s forthcoming album, is “probably the best first single Green Day ever wrote.” In fact, he likens it to the Green Day classic “Longview,” the lead single off their 1994 breakout album, Dookie.
“It represents Green Day in a new way, but in a familiar way where the playing is on fire,” Armstrong says of “Father of All…” “It reminds me a lot of ‘Longview’ in a strange way, just because it’s all of the elements of Green Day just blasting out in a two-and-a-half-minute song.”
While “Father of All…” may remind Armstrong of a past tune, he says that Green Day experimented with new sounds on both the song and the album. During the making of the record, the band was listening to more Motown, soul and hip-hop music — though Armstrong assures that “no one’s going to start rapping anytime soon.”
“We don’t want to do what everyone would expect us to do, so it was just kinda mischief and making it fun,” says drummer Tré Cool. “That was the bottom line of it.”
Father of All… the album, which follows 2016’s Revolution Radio, arrives February 7. Green Day will hit the road in support of the record next summer on the Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer.
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