Green Day Band • Page 172

This is mine, for the record!

 

Nice! Catorce!

I'll go through the songs myself and create a list of the songs that I DISLIKE haha

 

Usually when I'm in the mood for this kind of power pop Green Day, I just put on my single-disc playlist, which I think has softened my view on the trilogy. But I listened to Uno and Tre all the way through in the past week, and man, there really are a lot of clunkers. And Dos...I didn't even try to get through that one.

 

I think I actually like a lot of Uno...but what I dislike:

Kill the DJ
Troublemaker (Looks like I actually deleted this from my Apple Music at one point....still agree with that act and that person putting this on their best of kind of voids the whole list haha)

Don't really hate anything else (Oh Love is meh but I don't hate it)...on to Dos.

 

DOS Dislikes

Fuck Time
Wild One
Make Out Party
Lady Cobra
Nightlife (Their worst song ever?)

Yeah I'm deleting that post now haha

 

Turns out I don't hate anything on Tre....better than I remember.

OK so worst songs of the Trilogy:

Kill the DJ
Troublemaker
Fuck Time
Wild One
Make Out Party
Lady Cobra
Nightlife

Summary: Didn't hate as much of the trilogy as I remember. Tre is definitely the best disc even though I thought I liked Uno best when it first came out.

 

You hit upon all the ones I think suck, save one: “Drama Queen” from Tre is bad. Otherwise, I like that album a lot, but that song is a skip.

 

Apparently I deleted Troublemaker from my library right away in 2012 because I just listened to it for what felt like the first time.

 

I actually like Kill the DJ and Nightlife haha

 

I think the last time I listened to any trilogy songs was high school. I may have to relisten and share my own take on a single album. Haha

 

Hard to remember now, but most of us went into Uno with good faith and solid expectations.

Dos was the one that pissed me off. Pretty sure I gave it a 4/10 on AbsolutePunk.

 

Yeah that’s how I was. I recall enjoying Uno, thinking Dos was alright, and then I think I checked out on Tre. I truly do not remember the majority of the album lol

 

There was a lot of hype and positive vibes heading into the release of Uno. I remember watching the 3 part Irving Plaza performance on Youtube a bunch of times.

I think the mixture of Billie’s breakdown at the I Heart performance/heading to rehab and Dos being shit really hurt Tre (and the release date being moved up as there was just Green Day overload).

 

Yeah, I recall the reception to Uno was muted but not terrible. It was "Oh, this is lightweight and enjoyable enough, let's see what else they've got in store." Then Dos was awful and the iHeart thing happened and Tre basically got dumped -- death by association for what is easily the best album of the three.

 

Tre's release date was also pushed up if I remember correctly. No time to breathe between any of the Trilogy releases.

 

Yep. It was supposed to be released Jan of 2013, but got bumped to Dec 2012, if memory serves

 

This makes the most sense. If Tre came out second then I believe the entire trilogy would be viewed in a better light.

 

If it's a duology and you release Uno first, but with the bad songs swapped out for stuff like "Stray Heart" and "Lazy Bones," and then you release Tre second, yeah, I think those albums have at least a 50 percent better reputation.

 

Do they have different songs on them? Otherwise, think they still suck and get the same reaction.

 

I know they cared and did their best with Trilogy but, on the outside, it sounds like someone told them “I’d like to commission you to make three power pop albums with at least one song about straight up fucking” and the band said “what is this for?” and the guy said “you don’t need to know. just make it!” So, Green Day made the three records and turned them in and said “this is I think what you asked us for.” And then the guy was like “you want these to be your next Green Day release?” And the band was like “what? You said you wanted us to make these for you.” And the guy was like “I don’t like this kind of music. This is what you like.” And Green Day was like “If we wanted to make 3 power pop Green Day records with at least one song about straight up fucking, we’d have done it a bit differently and fleshed some things out more into our sound. We made these thinking you wanted us to write these for you for some other project/reason you wouldn’t tell us about” and the guy looks to his assistant and makes the twirly ‘these guys are nuts’ motion by his head and says “ok ok. Sure. Whatever you say, Green Day. But these are gonna be your next 3 albums and we’re releasing them now as is.” That is what they sound like.

 

Did a discog play through in the lead up to Saviors & I found myself actually enjoying quite a bit of Tre. I think Dos is worse than FOAM.

 

I finally figured out what the chorus of "Goodnight Adeline" reminds me of, and it's "Entropy" by Beach Bunny.

 

There’s no doubt in my mind that if the iHeart Radio incident and tour cancellation didn’t happen, people would be a lot more normal about the trilogy. I’m not saying people would love it as much as I do (that almost never happens) but it wouldn’t be seen as this stain on their discography like it’s become.

 

I really just think it’s cause people think the songs suck.

 

I was out to sea on Green Day during the entire roll out of the trilogy and didn’t listen to them until Demolicious was being pressed for Record Store Day in 2014 and it got me curious.

A majority of the songs just aren’t fleshed out or worked into proper Green Day songs IMO and sound like they could be part of a “write a song a week” project, like when David Bazan did the 7 inch songwriting challenge thing or Ted Leo’s random BandCamp drops or when some musicians would pen new songs every week to play on Twitch during the pandemic. Kinda cool alternate reality demo songs but they don’t match their proper studio output.

It feels like, in a normal scenario, they’d pick their 7-8 favorite songs from the U/D/T batch, make them more Green Day and then write 6-7 more songs specifically to round out the album with more conventional Green Day tracks. Instead they released all the songs as official entries into their canon and it doesn’t help that the production feels sterile and predictable and flat.