Song · Green Day
“Father of All..” by Green Day
From the album Father of All Motherfuckers (2020)
“Father of All..” by Green Day appears on 10 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2019 and 2020. It was first released in 2020 on the album Father of All Motherfuckers. Its best result is #5 on the X96 Top 50 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #14 alternative song of 2019 and #360 of the '10s.
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"Father of All..." fired the opening shot for Green Day's Father of All Motherfuckers, a lead single out in September 2019 that sounded almost nothing like the band that made Revolution Radio in 2016. Dirty guitars, a grooving Mike Dirnt bass line, rolling Tré Cool drums and filtered, falsetto vocals from Billie Joe Armstrong push it somewhere between garage punk and dance-punk, closer in spirit to ¡Dos! and the Foxboro Hot Tubs side project, with a riff borrowed from the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Fire".
Armstrong said the idea was to make people feel bad, a swipe at rock bands chasing the feel-good hit, though it comes out bright and bouncy anyway. Butch Walker co-produced with Chris Dugan and the band and mixed it, and the video tips its hat to the "Guitar Man" routine from Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback special.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 17 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2019 | 91 |
| 2019 | 43 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 50 Songs of 2019 | 50 |
| 2019 | 17 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
| 2019 | 51 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
| 2019 | 20 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2019 | 25 |
| 2019 | 36 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2019 | 51 |
| 2019 | 5 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2019 | 50 |
| 2019 | 47 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
| 2020 | 61 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2020 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 49 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 of the 2010s | 102 |
Also listed as: Father of All...; Father Of All…; Father of All; Father Of All.
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