The first installment, Uno, was released in September, and contains the same basic format you would expect of a Green Day album: power pop hooks and infectious, repetitive choruses. Then again, who would have thought a Broadway musical based on American Idiot would turn out to be a successful venture? Clearly, Green Day are entrepreneurs, so who am I to question their business decisions – especially when they claimed they are going “epic as fuck”? Unfortunately, Uno, Dos, and Tre are anything but grand. The band’s latest efforts, a trilogy of records called Uno, Dos, and Tre respectively, is an interesting, albeit unwarranted, concept given the declining sale of records, the lack of diversity in Green Day’s music, and the short attention spans of youth in general. Throughout their twenty five years, Green Day has managed to consistently recycle their sound to appeal to new generations as the previous ones grew up and moved on.ĭespite Green Day’s punk influences, I never considered them much of an actual punk band – the closest they have come to a raw, unhinged sound was in their debut, 39/Smooth. Green Day had already hit the mainstream by then of course, thanks to the heavy rotation of “Longview” and “Basket Case” on MTV, making punk rock accessible to impressionable kids such as myself.
Before I hit that wonderful adolescent age where all I wanted to listen to was punk, god awful nu-metal, and the industrial gothic bands made popular in the late 90’s, I was just a regular 11-year-old kid jamming to Dookie.