Thirty-seven songs should be about twenty-five with some 'mashed' together as the chaos and ambition of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown has not been translated here. But the trilogy is bloated, self-indulgent and narrow.
¡Uno! is a spirited start to the 'project' and ¡Tré! is the best of the three in terms of individual songs, and a great album to add to the Green Day catalogue - a solid mix of formulae, ideas and musical consistency. The debate about the nature of these albums rumbles on but they work as a trilogy in spite of some dodgy lyrical moments and ¡Dos! running about twenty minutes too long. The making of these albums turned the band paradoxically from a trio to a foursome as long-time touring guitarist Jason White joined the band. ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! are three separate albums, a trilogy of new songs to celebrate how Green Day got to where they are. After the tour of American Idiot, Green Day repeated this process to make 21st Century Breakdown. So began the new era of Green Day - the album they went on to make, American Idiot, remains the most ambitious and musically accomplished collection of songs the band has made a furious mix of fast energy and honest reflection. No official versions of the album exist and it is now lost to the mists of time. The band describe this as a 'blessing in disguise'. So they decided to start again, with new ideas and a new philosophy. It was supposed to be the antidote to the disappointing Warning but never saw the light of day - someone stole the master album from the studio. Green Day made the album Cigarettes and Valentines which was never released. Since then, before the band discovered the concept of prog-punk, only Nimrod is consistently impressive. I have been a Green Day fan since I discovered Dookie in 1994 and the songs Welcome To Paradise and Basket Case.
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