yuan Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Bad review is bad and yes i do feel shame I love Tre the most Brutal Love - love the first line.. Missing You - love 8th Ave. Serenade - like Drama Queen - better live X-Kid - love love deep heavy meanings and sounds good, everything a song you can ask for Sex, Drugs & Violence - love love mike the line, the way he sings.. Little Boy Named Train - okay..funny lyrics, wake up before the last line.. Amanda - ??respect Walk Away - walk away, walk away.....like it Dirty Rotten Bastards - love love, make me so happy, feel hopeful again.. what drug is this? no way.. 99 Revolutions - 99 Revolutions, 99 Revolutions....i like the sounds though.. The Forgotten - can't think without the v... but okay..not bad, nice close song..but idk, i think they can done better ballade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St_Jimmy_10 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 My copy of Tre came! Now my fan box is full. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Teller Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 My copy of Tre came! Now my fan box is full. xD I'm happy for you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorik Van de Ven Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Does anyone know what the difference is between the regular cd & the deluxe edition on the dutch EMP? The difference is only 1 euro. (I know there is another one with the t-shirt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooooooooooooom Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I think they should have used Cigarretes and Valentines rather than Little Boy Named Train or Sex, Drugs & Violence as the uptempo songs in the middle. Either that or it SHOULD have been on Uno, would've worked perfectly. And I also think Dreamcatcher had a place on the trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarPunk94 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 gonna have my first-listen of tré in a few min *__* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestboundSign! Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Well, now I can officially say that iTré! hasn't arrived today - as it should have. Boxset, what are you doing to me, huh? I wanted my first listen to be today - with the booklet, on the CD - but right now, I'm not quite sure if I should just put the boxset download on a flash drive and then listen to it on my stereo system.. This after all was the record I was most looking forward to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJedi Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 For me, this is their worst album since American Idiot. It's just...boring. None of the songs are memorable except for Brutal Love and Dirty Rotten Bastards. I'm trying desperately to hear where all this praise for X-Kid is coming from but I can't. Little Boy Named Train is the worst song of the trilogy. The rest of the songs are interchangeable, droning radio-rock. Oh well, two great albums out of three isn't anything to complain about. ¡Dos! > ¡Uno! >> ¡Tré! you think AI is a bad album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Well, my 4 year old cousin loves Tré. So fuck all of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!ngForADay Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 It's out Monday, I'm pretty sure. You're the second person to mention this. There might be some substance to it I would have thought so, but I bought Dos! 3 days early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelfuck. Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 you think AI is a bad album? I can't stand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace Peterson Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 For me, this is their worst album since American Idiot. It's just...boring. None of the songs are memorable except for Brutal Love and Dirty Rotten Bastards. I'm trying desperately to hear where all this praise for X-Kid is coming from but I can't. Little Boy Named Train is the worst song of the trilogy. The rest of the songs are interchangeable, droning radio-rock. Oh well, two great albums out of three isn't anything to complain about. ¡Dos! > ¡Uno! >> ¡Tré! youre meaning to tell me that American Idiot was a terrible album? Are you deaf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthehallwaynow Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I can't stand it. oh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!ngForADay Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I've been holding out listening to this so far but my mum won't give me the money and I am not waiting 'till my birthday. Haha, guess tonight's the night. ''Maybe I'll see you tonight...'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampy Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Does anyone know what the difference is between the regular cd & the deluxe edition on the dutch EMP? The difference is only 1 euro. (I know there is another one with the t-shirt) I think the deluxe edition comes with a slipcase for the albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of 1967 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Ok, after spending the week with the leak, here's my recap: 1. Brutal Love - 8.5/10. Love where they took a classic Sam Cook rhythm and melody. Hard-hitting, very emotional punch. I understand why the notes go sour toward the end of the song, but unfortunately I think it disturbs what otherwise would have been a fantastic melody from start to finish. 2. Missing You - 8/10. Our narrator's relationship is in the shitter and he knows it. Pleasant song to listen to, well-produced, with a fantastic bass solo. Could be a single. 3. 8th Avenue Serenade - 8/10. The last embers of the forbidden love finally die, and our narrator is hoping for that one last goodbye roll in the hay -- "Meet me at the bathroom stall, meet me at the whispering wall, before all the flames burn out". Just as fun a listen as Missing You, with a potent rhythm and melody. 4. Drama Queen - 8/10. Our narrator now sees his former love for what she really is; standing alone, the song lambasts the pop culture that elevates and then burns out pubescent girls long before they're old enough to successfully handle the curse of celebrity. Would have been better as an acoustic solo with perhaps just a tap of percussion in the background. Still a good listen with some deep and disturbing lyrics. 5. X-Kid - 9.5/10. One of iTre!'s outstanding tracks, and easily single material. The message hits deep and hard -- "Hey X-kid, bombs away": I wasn't ready for adult life, but I got thrown out of the plane anyway just to explode on impact. 6. Sex, Drugs & Violence - 9/10. Took me awhile to figure this one out and what the seemingly-misplaced "English, Math, and Science" lyric added within the context of the song and the trilogy. "Sometimes I must regress to sex, drugs, and violence, English, math, and science. Safety in numbers, gimme gimme danger." Our narrator becomes even more self-aware here: when the shit hits the fan, he reverts to the survival behaviors he used in high school. But there's a silver lining: not only was his schooling the setup for his destructive behaviors, but it's become the School of Adulthood. And now, it's teaching him the shit he's needed to learn for a long, long time -- that it's not all about one big party, that responsibility is important: the "hardest lessons of my life." Mike and Tre are at their best here with their lock-step rhythm, and Jason lays down a great guitar bridge. The song's a fucking earworm and it's growing rapidly on me. 7. Little Boy Named Train - 8.5/10. Another earworm of a pounding guitar riff with classic 60's rock'n'roll roots, that keeps repeating itself over and over in my head. The song is another hard-hitting one, having been written about a hermaphroditic child of two very fucked-up homosexual parents who couldn't even keep the poor kid's name consistent from day to day. The identity crisis this created for the guy is something that Billie Joe both empathizes and, ironically, identifies with, and the message is threefold: Look at how fucked-up I am; I know what I've done but I don't know why I've done it; and, finally, I don't even know who the fuck I am. Good, solid track. 8. Amanda - 9/10. Our narrator is starting to pick himself out of the dirt now, and starts apologizing for his behavior. It's a sad and sweet farewell to his failed relationship. He realizes how different the two of them really are and admits "I couldn't be your man." Musically, this track has a catchy, fantastic melody, and Tre's percussion is excellent. I could easily see this one taking off as a single. 9. Walk Away - 9.5/10. This time our narrator lets himself feel the pain instead of running away from it, and realizes that the more orgasmic the thrill, the harder the hurt and the bigger the mess that's left to clean up afterwards. The track plays out over The Who's classic riff from Baba O'Riley -- fittingly, the song where Roger Daltry sings about the journey through his "teenage wasteland". 10. Dirty Rotten Bastards - 10/10. THE best track of the trilogy ties up numerous different thematic and conceptual threads in an epic, 6+ minute track that serves the same purpose here as Homecoming did on American Idiot. The track features a back-to-back blend of musical styles -- from march, to hardcore punk, to pop, and finally back to Boston/Skynrd-esque classic rock, combined with deep lyrics, and guitar, rhythm, and vocals at the top Green Day's game. The song could have easily fit with the best of Warning! -- only with crisper production. DRB opens satirically, borrowing a snippet of the familiar Toreador's Song from Bizet's opera Carmen but laying a snarky "nyaah nyaah" lyric out over it where Billie sets loose his inner brat. It has this "I'm thumbing my nose at you, look at all the hell I raised!!" quality to it. The march beat that Tre lays down evokes the same kind of "we're coming home again" flavor that the last section of Homecoming gave that song, but DRB takes it in a different direction: "Calling all demons, this is the season, next stop is therapy." It's as if over six months before Billie melted down on stage at iHeart, he saw himself going off the rails, felt powerless at the time to stop it, and predicted how it was all going to end up. "OK, that does it, out with all of you, let's see what we've done here and figure out how to fix it." That's the call to arms here (also appropriately laid out over a slice of the U.S. Marine Corps anthem!), yet the message here is unmistakeable: CLEANUP ON AISLE 12!!! Looking back at the damage our narrator caused, he references "Juliana Homicide" as a metaphor, which I believe refers to the Juliana Cox character from the TV show "Homicide: Life on the Street". That troubled character often turned to booze to escape sadness, and had several brief, torrid affairs with colleagues. It's as if Billie is using that character reference as means of finally finding his lost identity: "Yep, that's me!". Fabulous, fabulous track -- quite possibly one of the best that Green Day has ever recorded. 11. 99 Revolutions - 7/10. Inspired by last year's Occupy Wall Street movement, the only politically-charged song of the trilogy serves up a set of bright, brilliant, explosive guitar riffs that we already know play out fabulously live. How the song fits within the context of a forbidden-love/self-destructive addiction story is something I'm still trying to figure out. Edit: Something hit me over the weekend -- listen where the backing vocals add emphasis in the chorus and try to volume-down the rest of the vocals in your mind. What repeats over, and over, and over again is: "Revolution's tonight." "Revolution's tonight." "Revolution's tonight." Now let's look at the last time Billie wrote about something happening "tonight" and what pops up? Oh Love. "Tonight my heart's on the loose." In this lyrical contrast you discover the transformation our nameless narrator has undergone. I call bookends. /edit 12. The Forgotten - 9/10. Potent piano ballad with Tom Kitt's handiwork all over it and several gripping messages: We've all walked this road in one form or another, and sometimes you have to crash and burn in order to grow. "Don't run away from the arms of a bad dream...sometimes you're better lost than to be seen." When you do go through your own trial, remember that you still have a future and that there are still people who care about you who you can lean for support. "Don't look away from the arms of tomorrow...Don't look away from the arms of love." Good closer for a good trio of albums. Overall: 8.5/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcasm Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 After a few days I have to say it's an awesome album, and I'm really glad the band went all the way with 3 albums. If they didn't, it would be so much "mystery" around the 20 songs that would have been left out. We got so much music, and in a years time, the people who have this overkill attitude will appreciate it more. At least that's what I hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perfectpitchrob Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I purposely have been avoiding overplaying this until its official release and today was the first time I played it since the day it leaked. Just as I suspected, tracks I didn't consider in my top 5 have grown even more on me and I'm finding even more great parts (such as Amanda's amazing guitar solo section!) Dirty Rotten Bastards and X-Kid are not only my top 2 favorites off the album, but I think that they are among the best songs from Green Day's whole career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I can't stand it. I think you might be the only person on this entire forum with that opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potter. Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 People don't like the trilogy because of the overdose of awesomeness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieces of Truth Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Came home from buying it an hour ago. Listening to it for the second time right now. Pretty good - For now not a single track I'd skip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelfuck. Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 youre meaning to tell me that American Idiot was a terrible album? Are you deaf? I mean, musically there are some great gems scattered about but the lyrics are embarassing (whining about nothing in particular). Have you ever seen an annoying, vague attention-seeking Facebook status like "I can't handle these things anymore...someone txt me for more info"? That's what this entire album feels like. Also, on that record BJ seems to think he's bigger and more powerful than he really is, that's why a better title for the album would've been "Delusions of Grandeur". This is my opinion, please don't get too angry. I do accept that a lot of people love this album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJedi Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I've really changed my mind about this album from when i first heard it. All songs have grown on me and now I think it may be my favorite out of those three albums. All songs are good, some are amazing! DRB, X-Kid, Missing You, Little Boy Named Train, Drama Queen, Amanda and Sex drugs and Violence are soooo awesome. I love the lyrics and music in those songs I mean, musically there are some great gems scattered about but the lyrics are embarassing (whining about nothing in particular). Have you ever seen an annoying, vague attention-seeking Facebook status like "I can't handle these things anymore...someone txt me for more info"? That's what this entire album feels like. Also, on that record BJ seems to think he's bigger and more powerful than he really is, that's why a better title for the album would've been "Delusions of Grandeur". This is my opinion, please don't get too angry. I do accept that a lot of people love this album. bigger and more powerful than he really is?! not really dude. more the opposite.. i'm really happy that American Idiot exists, it's my favorite album (the lyrics are fucking amazing in my opinion). It changed people's views on many things too, in a good way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTH Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I mean, musically there are some great gems scattered about but the lyrics are embarassing (whining about nothing in particular). Have you ever seen an annoying, vague attention-seeking Facebook status like "I can't handle these things anymore...someone txt me for more info"? That's what this entire album feels like. Also, on that record BJ seems to think he's bigger and more powerful than he really is, that's why a better title for the album would've been "Delusions of Grandeur". This is my opinion, please don't get too angry. I do accept that a lot of people love this album. i like to look critically at things green day does. but that is just the biggest bullshit i ever read on this forum. my guess: you don't have a clue what the lyrics are about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcasm Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Take it on a PM, this is the Tre thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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