Cob Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 The song is great, that's very true, but then why make a video . So people can listen to the song? I don't know. It's X-Kid though, at least it got something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doris The Spider Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Overall I'm not very impressed. I mean in my opinion the second half of the album was better than the first. But I think out of all the albums Uno! is my favorite. People say that Dos! had more energy than the rest of the albums but I disagree. I really feel Uno! does. Or maybe it's just that I think a lot of the songs are more old Green Day. idk But they say Dos! was like a second Foxboro Hot Tub album and I can see that. But Tre! felt to me to be more Foxboro Hot Tubs. I don't know, there was something about Billie's singing that made me think of 60's music. But maybe that's just me. But yeah I'm kind of disappointed. I'm not asking Green Day to back to the Dookie-era I just thought these songs were poppier than ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¡Zach! Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 This album, to me, is their best since American Idiot. I really don't think there is a weak song on it and I just loved every second of this album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cob Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 This album, to me, is their best since American Idiot. I really don't think there is a weak song on it and I just loved every second of this album I agree with you wholeheartedly. Welcome to GDC by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme Gauche Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Overall I'm not very impressed. I mean in my opinion the second half of the album was better than the first. But I think out of all the albums Uno! is my favorite. People say that Dos! had more energy than the rest of the albums but I disagree. I really feel Uno! does. Or maybe it's just that I think a lot of the songs are more old Green Day. idk But they say Dos! was like a second Foxboro Hot Tub album and I can see that. But Tre! felt to me to be more Foxboro Hot Tubs. I don't know, there was something about Billie's singing that made me think of 60's music. But maybe that's just me. But yeah I'm kind of disappointed. I'm not asking Green Day to back to the Dookie-era I just thought these songs were poppier than ever. Tre sounds 60s to me, but completely different from the dirty garage-y feel about the Foxboro Hot Tubs and Dos. These songs are super poppy, particularly Uno and Tre. I too appreciate the sound of Dookie and all, and it would be nice to see some more songs in the same vein, but it is also fun to watch them grow and change .So people can listen to the song? I don't know. It's X-Kid though, at least it got something. Yeah, kind of pointless to have an "exclusive" video for it, though. Nothing special to see, and Green Day fans already listen to the song. Ah well, not complaining. Just think it's a little funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¡Zach! Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Brutal Love felt like such a 50's song... and you could tell it was influenced by Elivs, which is never a bad thing. Every time I hear Billie's vocal solo near the middle, when he really lets his voice go, I just get goosebumps. I honestly thought Dos! was the weakest of the trilogy, but that's just my personal opinion. Tre! > Uno! > Dos! imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cob Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I still can't choose between all three albums. They all have great aspects and some flaws, but I absolutely love all 3. Especially together, these albums are meant to be mixed up and shuffled to really hear the different sounds going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¡Zach! Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Amy is probably one of my favorite songs of all-time now. Something about it really choked me up when I heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme Gauche Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Amy is probably one of my favorite songs of all-time now. Something about it really choked me up when I heard it. It's his vocals. He sounds like he's on the verge of tears himself. IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Panda Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 missing you is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Existing Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 A slightly mixed review here: http://spydistrict.com/2012/12/tre-by-green-day/ However, they have erred in going for an album trilogy, a format that really only works for bands with expansive soundscapes and multiple avatars. The Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails, U2… these are some of the outfits that can pull off a project like this. With Green Day, you get occasionally unedited (read: bad) songwriting with unavoidable repetition and redundancy. For instance, 99 Revolutions deals with the Occupy Wall Street movement – a theme we already touched on ¡Uno! – except that this time Billie identifies with the proverbial 99 percent instead of musing as an outsider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castr0 Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 this? Yes :D:D it's so funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubbie Head Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Heeeyyy I'm quite late but My 1st listen to iTré! It's completely amazing, I am so blown away by it! Dirty Rotten Bastards Oh my, that song is just too good! I can't really make a list for my favorites yet, I will when I listen to it more times. But love the album so much, I love this trilogy, I'm so happy and thankful that it exists. THANK YOU GREEN DAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather. Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 However, they have erred in going for an album trilogy, a format that really only works for bands with expansive soundscapes and multiple avatars. The Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails, U2… these are some of the outfits that can pull off a project like this. With Green Day, you get occasionally unedited (read: bad) songwriting with unavoidable repetition and redundancy. For instance, 99 Revolutions deals with the Occupy Wall Street movement – a theme we already touched on ¡Uno! – except that this time Billie identifies with the proverbial 99 percent instead of musing as an outsider. I was totally with them until the whole Occupy bit. If you can't talk about the 99% and have it be considered a different topic of songwriting than "musing" then I don't know what you can do. But that review is right in crticizing "unedited, bad songwriting with unavoidable repetition and redundancy." Which is a shame because I honestly believe this band IS capable of "expansive soundscapes with multiple avatars," they came pretty close to showing that, sonically. In the end I think the lyrics were the pitfall, which is ironic considering the lyrics are what carried the otherwise repetitive sounds of albums like Insomniac and Warning which have songs which sound very similar but with such interesting prose you don't notice or care. I feel like that was what Uno really needed since that was the album with songs that sounded most similar to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cob Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 A slightly mixed review here: http://spydistrict.com/2012/12/tre-by-green-day/ No song on Uno is about the occupy movement. Misinformed review is misinformed. But that review is right in crticizing "unedited, bad songwriting with unavoidable repetition and redundancy." Which is a shame because I honestly believe this band IS capable of "expansive soundscapes with multiple avatars," they came pretty close to showing that, sonically. In the end I think the lyrics were the pitfall, which is ironic considering the lyrics are what carried the otherwise repetitive sounds of albums like Insomniac and Warning which have songs which sound very similar but with such interesting prose you don't notice or care. I feel like that was what Uno really needed since that was the album with songs that sounded most similar to each other. We already know Green Day is capable of "soundscapes." They did it on American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, and they definitely touched on it in Nimrod and expanded on Warning. They just decided that they wanted to take a step back, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. This review is essentially saying that Green Day made the mistake of putting out 3 albums of Green Day instead of trying to make a large, convoluted concept or something that is musically grandiose in sound. But they didn't, I still cannot see, for the life of me, what's wrong with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Boston Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Tre! debuted at number 31 in england and 13 in USA, I think it's their worst charting album ever (with the exception of 1039 SH and Kerplunk. This is fucking ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 No song on Uno is about the occupy movement. Misinformed review is misinformed. We already know Green Day is capable of "soundscapes." They did it on American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, and they definitely touched on it in Nimrod and expanded on Warning. They just decided that they wanted to take a step back, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. This review is essentially saying that Green Day made the mistake of putting out 3 albums of Green Day instead of trying to make a large, convoluted concept or something that is musically grandiose in sound. But they didn't, I still cannot see, for the life of me, what's wrong with that. Seems more to me like they are suggesting that to pull off a trilogy you need to bring more to the table, and the fact is that 20-25 of the songs from the three albums don't stray from the classic but over-used formula. I immediately agreed with that point, it was the first thought I had after listening to Tre, why didn't they experiment with their sound a bit more if they were going to bring out three albums? No two songs on The White Album sound alike, for example, but none of it could be described as large, convoluted or grandiose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwise Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Seems more to me like they are suggesting that to pull off a trilogy you need to bring more to the table, and the fact is that 20-25 of the songs from the three albums don't stray from the classic but over-used formula. I immediately agreed with that point, it was the first thought I had after listening to Tre, why didn't they experiment with their sound a bit more if they were going to bring out three albums? No two songs on The White Album sound alike, for example, but none of it could be described as large, convoluted or grandiose. I think the trilogy is more consistent than The White Album, haha. I wonder why the reviewer had the idea that the Occupy Movement was touched upon on UNO, weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumb shiny bitch Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I had written off the trilogy after Uno & Dos to be honest. They were both okay. And after both records had come out and I listened to them both I felt pretty ''meh'' about them and the band. I was like oh well, that's it, end of an era. Not interested in Green Day anymore after 6 years of listening to (and obsessing about!) them.. Then... THEN I LISTEN TO TRÉ AND OH MY FUCK I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE MY FEELS. First track - Brutal Love - and I get THAT VOCAL. Truly brilliant stuff. Drama Queen is so beautiful with the tinkling of the piano in through it. Dirty Rotten Bastards is just feckin awesome! Definately the saving grace of the trilogy for me!!! I love this album!! My band surpassed my expectations with this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I think the trilogy is more consistent than The White Album, haha. I dunno I think the only bad songs on it are Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9. I know that Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Piggies aren't for everyone, but I love them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwise Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I dunno I think the only bad songs on it are Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9. I know that Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Piggies aren't for everyone, but I love them! I like Revolution 9, because I love sound collages and weird shit. Ob-La-Di is fucking amazing, there are some really incredible songs on it, but listening to it a while back I felt like there was a lot of 'filler', although I really hate the term. I really should give it another listen, though. I also think it's funny, because some of the most universally disliked songs on the trilogy are the experiments- Kill The DJ, Nightlife, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I feel like you discover something new every time you listen to the White Album. With the trilogy, most of the songs just follow the intro verse chorus verse chorus solo chorus model to the extent that you can predict the rest of the song. There's only a handful of "different" songs and only the experimental ones from Tre seem to be favourites with the fanbase. They can clearly pull off the "several songs within a song" trick that the Beatles did so well on Abbey Road, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Day In The Life etc. Dirty Rotten Bastards has that kind of inspiration running through it. But maybe we shouldn't be comparing Green Day with the best band of all time, maybe my expectations of what they're capable of were too high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather. Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I think the trilogy is more consistent than The White Album, haha. I wonder why the reviewer had the idea that the Occupy Movement was touched upon on UNO, weird. I think they meant the whole 'feeling alienated' theme was touched upon in different ways on Uno, and to sing about Occupy is just the same emotion. Yeah, kinda dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwise Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 I think they meant the whole 'feeling alienated' theme was touched upon in different ways on Uno, and to sing about Occupy is just the same emotion. Yeah, kinda dumb. Haha if that is what they meant, it's a weird way to say it. I'm thinking they're just uninformed or confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Haha if that is what they meant, it's a weird way to say it. I'm thinking they're just uninformed or confused. When in doubt, assume that everyone else is an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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