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I agree with Tre  that time will likely be kind to the trilogy and that maybe in 10 years people won't see it so negatively. I personally love all but maybe one or two tracks that I'm not so keen on.

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I personally think Tré! deserves redemption. It has the least filler (only Drama Queen, A Little Boy Named Train and Sex, Drugs and Violence) and has some pretty awesome and epic songs (Brutal Love, Walk Away, DRB). Dos!, however, is just a lyrical trainwreck globally. Yes, Lazy Bones and Stop When the Red Lights Flash are good, but the quality of some tracks is only a reflection of Billie derailing (Nightlife, Lady Cobra). Uno! has some catchy tracks (Nuclear Family, Stay the Night, Let Yourself Go), but in the end the lyrics are random and the record just incoherent (What the fuck is Nuclear Family even about?), whilst some songs are flatout cheesy, cringy and cliché (Troublemaker, Sweet 16, Oh Love). The band just tried to hard to channel their inner 16 year-old selves to appeal to a new generation in the spirit of the Clash's Sandinista and it bombed. It was their musical nadir and one they've drawn lessons from.

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8 minutes ago, Dakke said:

I know a thing or two about good music though.

But you said Sex, Drugs & Violence is a filler track.

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2 hours ago, Steven Seagull said:

But you said Sex, Drugs & Violence is a filler track.

It is 

however all this is just opinions 

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To each their own I guess, but it's one of my favorite songs. That Mike part in the middle is so awesome.

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Like I said in another thread, I thought Tre had the strongest songs on it out of the Trilogy. Many of those songs hit you right in the feels.

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1 hour ago, Steven Seagull said:

To each their own I guess, but it's one of my favorite songs. That Mike part in the middle is so awesome.

I liked the verses escp the "I took a wrong turn at growing up and it's freaking me out" part

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I'm probably in the minority here, but i think the trilogy is better than RevRad.  I like RevRad, but honestly it is probably their weakest album to date.

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3 hours ago, Steven Seagull said:

To each their own I guess, but it's one of my favorite songs. That Mike part in the middle is so awesome.

This is not really related to this particular song but I've wondered for some time that what is your favourite album of the trilogy?

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26 minutes ago, Joe K said:

This is not really related to this particular song but I've wondered for some time that what is your favourite album of the trilogy?

Uno. It was the first and I fell in love with it. I keep repeating this, but Uno doesn't have one bad song, it's perfect.

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19 minutes ago, Steven Seagull said:

Uno. It was the first and I fell in love with it. I keep repeating this, but Uno doesn't have one bad song, it's perfect.

Yeah Uno is cool definitely. I remember when Kill The Dj came out before the album dropped and I was jamming the fuck out to it! It was shockingly different but grooved like crazy.

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1 hour ago, dudley dawson said:

I'm probably in the minority here, but i think the trilogy is better than RevRad.  I like RevRad, but honestly it is probably their weakest album to date.

Totally agree. I think RevRad is a fine album, it has some good songs, but the trilogy is way better, for me. The trilogy has so many great songs, and feels so honest. I also like all the risks and experimentations Green Day took on those albuns.

On 04/10/2016 at 1:12 AM, PonyboyCurtis said:

The trilogy is massively underrated and seems to be very misunderstood. The three records were like one great record with all the cool b-sides included. Why in the eff wouldn't a Green Day fan be over the moon for these records is beyond me. 

I love the fun Green Day / Foxboro Hot Tubs kind of songs that were very present on Dos especially but really all throughout the records. I like the honestly of the lyrics and showcasing ideas of fun & love. Not everything has to be a massive political statement. A lot of us are miserable in our day to day lives. Fun is a good thing for us.

The songs are fun & different enough to be exciting & the lyrics seem honest & real in so many of the songs. The same people complaining about the cartoony caricature writing of American Idiot & 21CB also seem to be dumping on the trilogy. The trilogy has some of the most honest & raw writing I've seen in years of Green Day records. Sometimes a grown man has a hangover or a crush or a thought about a missing friend or all kinds of crazy stuff! I'm so happy Billie Joe wrote honestly as the character of himself & how he might feel lazy or nostalgic or what-have-you.  It happens. And sometimes an artist will write something funny, lazy, epic, spontaneous & strange. I like how the trilogy gives a fan the best of what makes Green Day Green Day plus a whole lot more. Growing up with Green Day has been a blast and the trilogy was a great gift for me.

Uno, Dos, Tre was a very ambitious project & am super grateful they did it. I hope they'll play a lot more songs from those albums live. Seems to be missing from the current set lists. Please for the love of all that is good bring back some trilogy songs to the set lists and realize these songs are appreciated & fans would love to hear them again!

Thank you for resuming what I think about the trilogy, great post. 

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I revisited the trilogy after so fucking long and actually really enjoyed it. No one is claiming them to be great albums but they are quintessential Green Day. Especially Uno. If they had put out Uno by itself and marketed it properly people would've been all over it.

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4 hours ago, Steven Seagull said:

To each their own I guess, but it's one of my favorite songs. That Mike part in the middle is so awesome.

Mike's bit is really awesome, the verses, like @WhiteTim said, are good too.  The chorus lets it down for me.  If they'd changed that I might have liked it a lot more than I do.

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There's a lot of good stuff on the Trilogy, but three albums was overkill.

There are probably four or five songs on each album I go back to regularly, but also a lot I never listen to which I can't say of other GD albums.

Like many others, I have my "ideal album", a playlist of about 16 songs from all three. Honestly I feel double/triple albums just don't work, I can't think of any where every song is essential.

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2 minutes ago, One For Colin Never Will said:

There's a lot of good stuff on the Trilogy, but three albums was overkill.

There are probably four or five songs on each album I go back to regularly, but also a lot I never listen to which I can't say of other GD albums.

Like many others, I have my "ideal album", a playlist of about 16 songs from all three. Honestly I feel double/triple albums just don't work, I can't think of any where every song is essential.

The Clash got close with Sandinista, but even 28 songs are overkill. 12 to 14 songs remains the sweet spot.

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48 minutes ago, Platypus2000 said:

I revisited the trilogy after so fucking long and actually really enjoyed it. No one is claiming them to be great albums but they are quintessential Green Day. Especially Uno. If they had put out Uno by itself and marketed it properly people would've been all over it.

I couldn't agree more, and maybe trade Loss of control, Troublemaker and Angel Blue for Stray Heart, X-Kid and 8th Avenue Serenade :)

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33 minutes ago, One For Colin Never Will said:

There's a lot of good stuff on the Trilogy, but three albums was overkill.

There are probably four or five songs on each album I go back to regularly, but also a lot I never listen to which I can't say of other GD albums.

Like many others, I have my "ideal album", a playlist of about 16 songs from all three. Honestly I feel double/triple albums just don't work, I can't think of any where every song is essential.

Stone Sour's HOGAB part 1 and 2 is a good shout. 

The 2nd part took absolutley fucking ages to grow on me but if you really sit down and listen to it as a whole every song is a part of the bigger picture.

Just now, 1039Revolutions said:

I couldn't agree more, and maybe trade Loss of control, Troublemaker and Angel Blue for Stray Heart, X-Kid and 8th Avenue Serenade :)

Loss Of Control and Angel Blue are the two best songs on Uno though! Not a big fan of Stray Heart to be honest but X-kid and 8th Ave. are tunes in their own right.

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17 hours ago, 1039Revolutions said:

I couldn't agree more, and maybe trade Loss of control, Troublemaker and Angel Blue for Stray Heart, X-Kid and 8th Avenue Serenade :)

I love Angel Blue.

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Am I the only one who thinks The Devil's Kind sounds like a Trilogy song. I think it would fit really good on ¡Dos! It sounds so similar to Stray Heart.

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1 hour ago, Steven Seagull said:

Am I the only one who thinks The Devil's Kind sounds like a Trilogy song. I think it would fit really good on ¡Dos! It sounds so similar to Stray Heart.

it doesn't have as overtly a 50s rock n roll vibe as stray heart does for me, just my opinion. I'm assuming you are referring to the bouncy rhythm of the main riff that reminds you of stray heart. it kind of reminds me more of castaway, in the sense that it has that same bouncy rhythm, but his vocal melody feels more 90s (like castaway does) than 50s (stray heart) imo, but i totally agree it could easily fit on the trilogy.

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