Single for Oh Love single taken from the bands upcoming release Uno.

I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, wow are Green Day still around? And, well, unless you are a hardcore follower of the band, you’d be forgiven for thinking that, the last song we heard on the radio was 21 Guns back in 2009, although the last TV ad for the band we saw hasn’t been since 2005 for American Idiot, so promotion is probably hasn’t been their strongpoint right now.

First Impressions

The song kicks off with a guitar clutching way, reminiscent of the Beetlebum beginning, except without the guitar playing, the song then kicks in vocally, in a very cliche way, and kind of continues that mood throughout the song. Introducing some rather unimaginative lyrics and then an expected rhythm, the song doesn’t seem to ever build in to what your always expecting it to. The song vocally actually reminded us straight away, of a rocky version to Robbie Williams 2006 single ‘Make Me Pure‘. Links to all referenced song are available (provided by VEVO).

Review

Green Day have been rather invisible in the public eye since, whats still known as their best release, American Idiot, which was released way back in 2004, offering most of their still most recognisable singles.

Oh Love was a very important single for the band, and whilst heavily advertised on band forums and the band website, not really promoted again that well, in fact we had to be told by a fan that this was even coming out.

The song acts as an introduction to the first of the trio of albums to be released by the band, all of which are set in a rather short span of time (¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!).

As you’d expect, creating such a large quantity of music in such little time equals some rather average, and in some cases. poor songs, some more suited as b-sides to be unleashed upon them, and Oh Love is definitely one at that, and sadly, fits in to that category of songs.

The song is unimaginative and quite frankly boring, it makes what we’re known as a rock band seem like a cheap boyband, remember Busted?

Green Day have been subject to rather poor promotion for their singles, in fact over 24 hours of single availability, counting Amazon offered pre-order time, the single has yet to reach either the Amazon MP3 or iTunes Store, or any top 100, ugh.

This may seem like an over negative review of the band, and you’re probably thinking, are you their worst enemy or something, and we’d probably respond pun like and say, hey, what band know their enemy more than Green Day? But come on, the lyrics starts off “Oh Love, Oh love, Won’t you rain on me tonight”, then unimaginably followed by the second line “Oh life, Oh life, Please don’t pass me by”, thats a rather childish lyric.

Lyrics

Oh Love, Oh love, Won’t you rain on me tonight.
Oh life, Oh life, Please don’t pass me by

Don’t stop, Don’t stop, Don’t stop when the red lights flash

Oh ride, Free ride, Won’t you take me close to you

Far away far away, waste away tonight
I’m wearing my heart on a nose

Far away far away, waste away tonight
tonight my heart’s on the loose

Oh lights, and action
I just can’t be satisfied

Oh losers, and choosers
Won’t you please hold on my life

Oh hours, and hours
like the dog years of the day

Old story, Same old story
Won’t you see the light of day

Far away far away, waste away tonight
I’m wearing my heart on a noose
Far away far away, waste away tonight
tonight my heart’s on the loose

Talk myself out of feeling
Talk my way out of control
Talk myself out of falling in love
Falling in love with you

Oh Love, Oh Love, Won’t your rain on me tonight
Oh ride. Free ride, Won’t you take me close to you

Far away far away, waste away tonight
I’m wearing my heart on a noose
Far away, far away, waste away tonight
tonight my heart’s on the loose

Overview

Oh Love is a rather poor disappointing affair, don’t get me wrong, the song is catchy, and does get in to your head for a while, and we weren’t looking for lyrics to make your eyes water, or guitar rifts to send Slash to shame, Green Day just aren’t that type of band, but we were looking for something much better, and they have most definitely had better hits than this, you have to grant us that. For the fans sake lets hope the album is better, Oh Love is the last track after all, maybe its their to forget, you have to have hope suppose.

Available now on iTunes

 = A rather disappointing effort, that no one even knows exists.