Anja Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Ratings are overrated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJedi Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 shut up with all your ratings, thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homero Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I'm finally rocking out to the album alone (that means jumping around and singing the songs I know). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Bras Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 ok here is my review. before i start i have to say again: if they would have recorded it differently with louder distorted guitars, louder bass and everything faster probably every song would get 1 point more. 1) Nuclear Family - 5/10- this track is ok and has potential. but please compare it to similiar riffs like stuck with me or safe european home from the clash. there is so much more energy. nuclear family feels just insignificant and boring like most of the song on this album. 2) Stay the Night - 7/10 - is one of their best on uno. its catchy and a bit more ambitious than most of the other tracks. but if you are honest and listen to older green day songs afterwards, this still would have been just an average good track on EVERY green day album. 3) Carpe Diem - 4/10 - the first i fought the law ripp off. and there are 3 of them which shows all the uncreativity. but i fought the law has some quality, so even the worst ripp off cant be that bad. perfect example btw for the lack of power and energy in the songs of uno. 4) Let yourself go - 8/10 best song! its just standard green day pop punk songwriting, but on a good level. love the 1039/smoothed out slappy hours solo style. it nothing new, but green are doing what they can do the best. live version is better. (like every live version of uno songs) 5) Kill the Dj - 7/10 - next clash "influenced" song. other words for copying the magnificients seven riff one to one. but as i love magnificient seven, this is still good. one of the better lyrics and the unusual green day song on uno. 6) Fell for You - 3/10 - ok first song were the lyrics get really terrible. music sounds a lot like a warning song, but even less energy. warning had its accoustic sound, which added a refreshing element to green days songs. but here again its just clean boring electric guitars... (next i fought the law reference) 7) Loss of controll - 5/10 - starts good, verse is ok, has a kind of insomniac/dookie theme and also musically similiaritys. chorus is terrible pseudo the who and if you compare it to some insomniac or dookie songs it loses so clearly... solo is good though. 8) Troublemaker - 0/10 - ??? lyrics which are emberassing terrible. music is the low point of the album aswell. 9) Angel Blue - 3/10 - starts good and is the third i fought the law reference. chorus sounds like a very weak 21st century bd track. 10) Sweet 16 - 4/10 - melody sounds a bit like a 1039/smoothed out slappy hours sounds. if they would have recorded it with the same energy as this album it could have been a good track. so its just another standard pop song. 11) Rusty James - 4/10 - copying scattered. if i compare both songs, this is just mh ok... everything on this album sounds like made for the radio. 12) Oh love - 3/10 its been said enough about this one... iUNO! - 4/10 -> in rolling stone terms i would give 2/5 worst green day album ever. if you care: 1) 1039/Smouthed out slappy hours - 9/10 2) Insomniac - 9/10 3) Dookie - 8/10 4) Nimrod - 7,5/10 5) Kerplunk -7,5/10 6) American Idiot - 6,5/10 7) Warning - 6,5/10 8) 21st century breakdown - 5/10 9) UNO - 4/10 A Human who doesnt like UNO......Fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in_your_face Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 too lazy to rate song-by-song! well, i'd say the album is great, there are bangers in the album. the first five are killer tracks and my favorite song would be Sweet 16 at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampy Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 How many times you guys have listened this album already? Just curious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Bras Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Like 12 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart&TheAve Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 NME have given it a 6. Shame :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Any one notice that Rusty James has a hint of Before the Lobotomy? Idk if anyone has said this. Mainly the verses and the solo. Still love the song! ...and Troublemaker's percussion bookends Fuck Time (the rhythm is identical); also its guitar riff has a touch of Horseshoes & Handgrenades -- appropriately so, methinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyDirnt Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 shut up with all your ratings, thank you *runs away crying* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJedi Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 *runs away crying* i just dont see the reason to be like "i give this song 7/10 and this 5/10 and this 9/10" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Is Rusty James about the death of punk or something like that? Its awesome. It bookends 86 from a perspective 17 years later and from a much happier place. Looking back, most of the critics who abandoned Green Day aren't relevant anymore -- they've disappeared, gone onto other things, or have otherwise left the scene....yet Green Day defied them all and is still there, still relevant, still cranking out great tunes -- "This broken scene is turning green" -- and our guys are doing what they want, right where they want to be, with nothing left to prove. "I wanna ride on the divided, Anything but the mainstream" -- punctuated with a sarcastic jab at the old Gilman Street guard: "Where the fuck is your old gang man?" As for the newcomers to the scene -- "the beginners don't even know what song they're singing" because some corporate pop-tart-producing monolith is writing marketing focus group tested shit for them, setting them to mindless computer-generated beats and having the chutzpah to call it "music." Good song, one of the best on the album in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyDirnt Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 i just dont see the reason to be like "i give this song 7/10 and this 5/10 and this 9/10" So you understand better how much we like/dislike the song and it kinda makes possible to compare marks and see what songs we like more and what songs we like less. Some make full 12 pharagraph reviews and we post punctuations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyDirnt Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 OMG I've only done it like 3 times! I'm a bad fan D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21stcenturyidiot Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 3 times in full but Nuclear Family,Stay the Night, Carpe Diem, Rusty James, Sweet 16 and Loss of control all have 5 plays KTDJ,Oh Love and LYG have like 10+ cos i've had them longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anja Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 It bookends 86 from a perspective 17 years later and from a much happier place. Looking back, most of the critics who abandoned Green Day aren't relevant anymore -- they've disappeared, gone onto other things, or have otherwise left the scene....yet Green Day defied the critics and is still there, still relevant, still cranking out great tunes -- "This broken scene is turning green" and our guys are doing what they want, right where they want to be, with nothing left to prove. "I wanna ride on the divided, Anything but the mainstream" -- punctuated with a sarcastic jab at the old Gilman Street guard: "Where the fuck is your old gang man?" As for the newcomers to the scene -- "the beginners don't even know what song they're singing" because some corporate pop-tart-producing monolith is writing marketing focus group tested shit for them, setting them to mindless computer-generated beats and having the chutzpah to call it "music." Good song, one of the best on the album in my opinion. Good explaining, mister! It's been said a hundred times but you always give the best interpretations of songs and it really makes me look deeper into lyrics and think about words and sentences. I especially like this one on Rusty James! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 9 times fully. You? Probably 4 or 5 at this point. I've lost count -- 30-minute drive to work and a 42-minute album breaks up things a bit. It's been a LONG time since I last actually looked forward to a traffic jam on the way in! Good explaining, mister! It's been said a hundred times but you always give the best interpretations of songs and it really makes me look deeper into lyrics and think about words and sentences. I especially like this one on Rusty James! Thank you! It was good to have some guidance from BJ via interview snippets to help with this one, it gets you focused on the key theme right away. Angel Blue is another story, it's gonna take me awhile to figure that one out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Is Rusty James about the death of punk or something like that? Its awesome. Michael said it far better than I could have. It's a "fuck you" to the punk scene that turned on them when they signed with a label and released Dookie, only instead of way back in the day when those acts were still around and relevant, now they've mostly fallen by the wayside and split without ever really being all that successful ("where the fuck is your old gang?"). I caved and listened to it early. Welcome to the dark side. Favorite song so far would be Stay the Night, still don't understand why Oh Love was a single thought It ties the album together nicely but i don't see it as a strong lead single Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJedi Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I saw the album in a store here in sweden..and it's not supposed to be released here until the 24th xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixus Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I made a lyric video for Stay The Night. I hope you guys will like it. And, I'm afraid the copyright will take it down soon. http://youtu.be/XsNP_etvi2M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenOfSuburbia Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Just finished listening to it. (couldn't resist) and I love it. I mean, I really love it. I like "fell for you", "Troublemaker" sounds like foxboro hottubs and it's so awesome, I'm in love with "stay the night" since the first time I heard it (last year), "Carpe Diem" too, I love "Loss of control" and all the rest!!! Can't say wich is my favorite yet. But I love the album! But I have a feeling that ¡Dos! will be my favorite album off the trilogy! 2 months to go!!! hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potter. Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 i just dont see the reason to be like "i give this song 7/10 and this 5/10 and this 9/10" But isn't that what forums are for? Sharing each others opinions on a subject that we all, as a community, know and love? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anja Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I saw the album in a store here in sweden..and it's not supposed to be released here until the 24th xD That happened to me with Awesome as fuck. I found it in a store a day before release which made me go all "wtf" but how could I resist and not buy it?! Did you get the album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampy Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 9 times fully. You? Something like that too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homero Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I saw the album in a store here in sweden..and it's not supposed to be released here until the 24th xD Apparently here in Argentina will be available this thursday (nobody can wait to hear new Green Day music! haha). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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