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I'm not giving any song on the trilogy "classic status" no way lol. I already mentioned I love Stay The Night, I like Nuclear Family and Let Yourself Go too but it still feels like they wrote those songs in their sleep.

 

It’s just bizarre to me that those albums take so few chances and are mostly so samey. Usually, you think of double (or triple) albums being these big exercises in excess and hubris and ambition and trying new things. The Green Day trilogy is none of those things. It’s just long.

 

Nightlife really is fucking terrible.

 

I beg to dream and differ.

 

“Lady Cobra” contends though.

 

Brutal Love is probably my favourite too, although I subconsciously dock it points for basically being a Sam Cooke song with new lyrics.
Do we think it was a deliberate rewrite of the SC track? Or did they accidentally create a song with very similar music/melody and then acknowledge SC after the fact when somebody pointed it out because a) that is the right thing to do and b) don't get sued

 

It had to have been deliberate, right? It’s so obvious!

 

Dos probably has better highlights, but outside of 2-3 songs it’s absolutely terrible. Uno is more consistent throughout, albeit still kind of boring

 

21st Century is way more of a textbook double album moment than the trilogy. It has all the usual hallmarks. Big, ambitious swing from a band at the peak of their powers. Outsized and overwrought. Flawed but endearing.

 

This is more or less what I’m saying. I’m more likely to listen to the good songs on Dos than anything on Uno. I don’t think I’ve listened to Dos in full since I gave it a 4 out of 10 in my AbsolutePunk review, though.

 

Revolution Radio is miles ahead of any trilogy record.

 

I've always assumed so. It's silly but I do knock the song down a peg for being like 50% a cover. An amazing one though.
Of all the trilogy songs Stay the Night never floored me but it's the first I think of when considering the "best" tracks. It has some staying power for me. Whereas at the time of have said X Kid was probably the best of the bunch, and now I don't love that one as much.

 

Four points too high Craig.

 

Everyone’s knows the trilogy stinks and time is a flat circle

 

Dos is two great songs and the rest is just bad. I have no idea how I'd score that.

 

This thread is giving me big diarrhea.

 

Yeah, "X-Kid" isn't as good as I thought it was back in the day, but those two songs still pair amazingly well together.

I think I'd give it about a 3 in retrospect. I had to preserve the bottom of the rating scale for when Maroon 5's V came out a couple years later and I gave it a 0.5. Still the worst record I've heard in the past 10 years, with the possible exception of Say Anything's Hebrews.

 

honestly I'd take the prequels over the Green Day trilogy

 

Honestly, I would too. I've rewatched those and I can't make it through the GD one.

 

That's a b-side on Dos actually.

 

Fuck Time, Makeout Party, Lady Cobra, and Nightlife are all on Dos so, yeah, it's definitely the worst of the trilogy. The only really offensively bad song on Uno is Kill The DJ, and Tre doesn't have anything anywhere near the level of those songs, so yeah.

I'd say overall Tre is probably the best of the three. But there is a pretty decent 13-15 song record in there between the three albums.

 

I unapologetically love all of the Trilogy and disagree hard with the idea of a decent 13-15 song album between them. I'm much happier with the release of the trilogy than had we not gotten all of those songs. Nightlife would have been better if they collaborated with an actual rapper, though. The lyrics to that song in particular are undeniably garbag .

 

Kill the DJ is not good at all.

 

I'm tempted to listen to Dos on my way home from work now. I don't think I have since 2012.

 

That was my best shot at condensing the trilogy into a 12-track album from back in April