What do you guys think?

[HermesOfSuburbia]

For me, personally, its Tre. By far actually.

[Flashback]

I think every one of the three has its great moments, so it's really difficult to pick 😄 Tré was the first one I heard of them, so it's kinda special to me. But if I had to decide, I think it would be Dos

[suffoKate]

Quatro! I genuinely enjoy that documentary with all heart.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Probably Tré for me. I so overplayed Uno! 

[Insomniac1984]

¡DOS! is my favorite... ¡UNO! and ¡TRÉ! (in that order) are OK for me.

[Lenny]

At the time it was released I was most excited for Dos. It was more relevant to my life and lifestyle at the time.

Out of the 3 Uno is the best Green Day album and seems to be the album that makes the most sense of the 3 to follow 21cb.

With my group of friends at the time Uno was the most well received and I think from a commercial standpoint it also was well received until the iheart thing. It was getting steady airplay here until the iheart incident. 

[greendepent]

Uno is safer, but the fun one is Dos. Even if certain "demo" version of certain song is vastly superior to one that appears in the record.

What makes me kind of annoyed with Tre is Drama Queen. I loved the acoustic live version of 2009, but on the record is auto skip. The live version of Amanda is better as well. Love The Forgotten, truly a gem.

[Lenny]

1 minute ago, greendepent said:

Uno is safer, but the fun one is Dos. Even if certain "demo" version of certain song is vastly superior to one that appears in the record.

What makes me kind of annoyed with Tre is Drama Queen. I loved the acoustic live version of 2009, but on the record is auto skip. The live version of Amanda is better as well. Love The Forgotten, truly a gem.

Dos was the Green Day album that the band always wanted to make. The success of AI, as great as it was also limited some of their creative output plans. 
 

If AI wasnt as successful or didnt replace C&V you would have probably seen an extended version of the FBHT album released as the follow up. 21cb wouldnt have happened.

[The Grohl]

Hands down Uno. It's consistently good. The other one have their moments for sure, but I'm more likely to skip around Dos and Tre.

[Sanity Loan]

The first three songs of ¡Uno! is, outside of American Idiot, the best opening to any album in their catalog.

[Christian's Inferno!]

Uno is the weakest imo. The 2nd half (outside of Oh Love) just doesn't have any stand out tracks imo but those first 5 songs are all a high point for the whole trilogy

Dos is pretty great and definitely the most overhated GD album. Idk why people constantly say that Dos is the weakest trilogy album. The only downsides of this album imo is that See You Tonight is a boring intro track, Fuck Time is cringe lyrically but still sounds good and Lady Cobra's contribution to Nightlife. Otherwise, Nightlife is a fine track

Tré is pretty great too, although Drama Queen really bores me. Otherwise nothing on this album is any less than solid and there are some real highlights here too like Brutal Love, X-Kid, Dirty Rotten Bastards. I will say that the demo version of 99 Revolutions is way better than the album version but I can still get enjoyment out of the album version too

The trilogy is a definite step down from American Idiot and 21CB imo. It's far less consistent as expected from a 37 song project. However, there are still plenty of real highlights, including some of the very best Green Day songs imo. I feel there's a lot of good guitar solo work across the trilogy, even better than a lot of the guitar solos in AI/21CB and Mike has more standout basslines here than on AI/21CB

3 hours ago, Sanity Loan said:

The first three songs of ¡Uno! is, outside of American Idiot, the best opening to any album in their catalog.

That's quite the claim when you look at their other album openings. American Idiot, 21CB, Warning and Nimrod have great openings imo. Uno's is great too but I don't think it matches those

[dudley dawson]

14 hours ago, Sheenius said:

At the time it was released I was most excited for Dos. It was more relevant to my life and lifestyle at the time.

Out of the 3 Uno is the best Green Day album and seems to be the album that makes the most sense of the 3 to follow 21cb.

With my group of friends at the time Uno was the most well received and I think from a commercial standpoint it also was well received until the iheart thing. It was getting steady airplay here until the iheart incident. 

The iheart incident happened prior to UNO’s release.

3 hours ago, Sanity Loan said:

The first three songs of ¡Uno! is, outside of American Idiot, the best opening to any album in their catalog.

Ehh no. It’s good but not on the level of anything Dookie - Warning.

[pcj]

If this were a 3-horse race, Uno would win by a neck from Tre with Dos bringing up the rear.

I also love the demo versions in Demolicious. The lead guitar variations on Carpe Diem in particular are awesome.

If I was to choose one outstanding song it would have to be Kill The DJ. Again, GD producing a song that is out of the ordinary. The lead guitar sound is amazing. The lyrics aint bad either.

What aint part of my GD CD collection are promos. Clean edit songs as promotionals for radio airplay. So swear words are blanked out I understand. For me it spoils the sound and ruins the lyrics. Would you believe they did a clean edit for Kill The DJ, but it didn't get any airplay. Considering the lyrics contained, 'Shoot the Fuckin' DJ' 13 times, 'Shoot That Fucker Down' 4 times, and 'Till That Motherfucker Drowns' once. It's a wonder what the song would sound like. Shit most like.

 

[Christian's Inferno!]

45 minutes ago, pcj said:

If this were a 3-horse race, Uno would win by a neck from Tre with Dos bringing up the rear.

I also love the demo versions in Demolicious. The lead guitar variations on Carpe Diem in particular are awesome.

If I was to choose one outstanding song it would have to be Kill The DJ. Again, GD producing a song that is out of the ordinary. The lead guitar sound is amazing. The lyrics aint bad either.

What aint part of my GD CD collection are promos. Clean edit songs as promotionals for radio airplay. So swear words are blanked out I understand. For me it spoils the sound and ruins the lyrics. Would you believe they did a clean edit for Kill The DJ, but it didn't get any airplay. Considering the lyrics contained, 'Shoot the Fuckin' DJ' 13 times, 'Shoot That Fucker Down' 4 times, and 'Till That Motherfucker Drowns' once. It's a wonder what the song would sound like. Shit most like.

 

Basically the chorus is "Someone kill the DJ, someone shoot the DJ". Instead of "Shoot that fucker down", they say "Shoot the DJ down".

"Hold him underwater til that motherfucker drowns" is replaced by "Hold him underwater til he suffocates and drowns"

[Big Neil]

On 2/26/2023 at 11:44 AM, Radiation Fear said:

Quatro! I genuinely enjoy that documentary with all heart.

This! The documentary was great.

For the three albums Uno is the best except for Sweet Sixteen is the worst out of all the songs I don’t know how it made the cut out of the more than 30 plus songs written for the Trilogy.

5 hours ago, Sanity Loan said:

The first three songs of ¡Uno! is, outside of American Idiot, the best opening to any album in their catalog.

Agreed!

[pcj]

On 2/26/2023 at 4:44 PM, Radiation Fear said:

Quatro! I genuinely enjoy that documentary with all heart.

Yea, love that doc'. Remember the bit where there's a board in 3 sections, with the name of each song on individual cards stuck to each section on board. Billie Joe is holding a card trying to decide which of 3 to put it. Then just Chuck's it at board. Love it 

[suffoKate]

1 hour ago, pcj said:

Yea, love that doc'. Remember the bit where there's a board in 3 sections, with the name of each song on individual cards stuck to each section on board. Billie Joe is holding a card trying to decide which of 3 to put it. Then just Chuck's it at board. Love it 

*crashes straight into a wall* “oh noooo… first night in the new house! 😞 “

[That Dude]

This is tough, because I love the heck out of all three.   But I've counted how many top tier songs are on each one, and this is my ranking.  

Dos is the worst of the bunch, with 4 out of 13 songs that are perfect.   Lazy Bones, Ashley, Nightlife and Amy are my favorite ones.   Yes, you read that correctly.  

Tre has Brutal Love, Missing You, X-Kid and Walk Away, and even some of the lesser songs rock pretty hard.   I nearly chose this one over Uno, but while this one may win in most 'song against song' cases, Uno is just solid across the board.

Uno - I'd say Nuclear Family and Carpe Diem are the weaker songs, but everything else is perfect.  

[Lenny]

On 2/27/2023 at 2:27 PM, dudley dawson said:

The iheart incident happened prior to UNO’s release.

Ehh no. It’s good but not on the level of anything Dookie - Warning.

Yes but singles were released prior to the album’s release hence the radio airplay before the iheart incident

[pouty bitch]

My initial thought was Dos, and then to be sure I had to go and remind myself of the tracklists and yep, still Dos.

Despite being a GD fan for almost 7 years now, I've listened to Uno so rarely that I haven't even learned the lyrics to more than half of the songs on the album. Kill the DJ and Stay The Night are the only Uno songs that really matter to me, some others are enjoyable but most are forgettable. I find most of the songs pretty same-y and indistinguishable tbh.

With Tre, I'd say there are less songs that I really enjoy compared to Uno (and I've probably listened to the album as a whole even less than Uno), but the songs that I do enjoy I like better than my favourites from Uno. Tre also has a lot more ballads and slower/quieter songs than most GD albums, which generally aren't my favourite songs anyway.

Which brings us to Dos. When I look at the tracklist there's only a song or two that doesn't instantly get stuck in my head and get me grooving when I read the name. The songs aren't the best songs they've ever made, but honestly they're all just effortlessy catchy and easy to listen to. Way more upbeat than the rest of the trilogy, which I love, and I definitely approve of the FBHT vibes. Think this is the only trilogy album I wouldn't describe as weak or put near the bottom of my album ranking so yes, Dos is a clear winner for me.

[PleasedToMeetMe]

Uno for me. It’s short, sweet and to the point. A nice throwback to the Nimrod/Warning era that I love so much. Could definitely do without Troublemaker though, and Oh Love is a terrible choice for a single.