Green Day - ¡Tré! (2012)
FINALLY we get an album with their drummer (Ted Cruz) on the album cover! OKAY OKAY OKAY I KNOW I'M COMING THROUGH WITH A HOT TAKE BUT THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM. Don't get me wrong: I thought the previous two albums in the trilogy were -good- but I could 110% understand why people hated on them. In the case of this album, I think they really saved the best for last, and that it's a fucking great album that grabs a bunch of shit that made Green Day great and throws it all onto one album, which really surprised me since this was pretty much advertised as being the "ballad" album. You've got your pop-punk tunes that you've come to expect from Green Day, your softer material, and some overall great tunes that have a lot of heart in their composition, guitar-playing, and Billie Joe Armstrong's vocals have -never- sounded better than they do on this fucking album, along with his vocal range being explored a bit more: I think this album just -MIGHT- have his lowest and highest notes recorded, at least since 2000 or so, and dammit, I could listen to this guy play for a long while. Good solos, good guitar licks, etc, all help make these some fuckin' great songs, even if the beginning of "Dirty Rotten Bastards" reminds me of that shitty P!nk song "So What" that your aunt likes.
But really, this album sounds a lot like what Green Day had probably been wanting to make for years: An album that embraces the fun of the music they made during their youth, theatrics without needing to abide by a "concept" storyline that doesn't mean absolutely fucking anything other than "AMERICA BAD, LOVE GOOD", and I'm sure this album would've been greatly received if it weren't put at the tail-end of the trilogy, or were put out under a different band name in general. Maybe "Billie Joe Armstrong and the Armstrong Joe Billies"! Or even "Blue Night"!! Or "The Version of Green Day That Your Dad Would Probably Like For a Few Songs Before Turning on That One Fucking Bruce Springsteen Album Again"!!!
PLUS if you REALLY think about it, the song "99 Revolutions" is GOAT because of the lyric "THERE'S 99 REVOLUTIONS TONIGHT" and they even went on a tour called "The 99 Revolutions Tour" in 2013 that went on for 46 dates, which, if we are to believe that song, achieved 4,554 revolutions in total, and since there were 6 people on stage in total every night, that's a total of 759 revolutions attributed to everyone on stage!! OH AND YOU BET YOUR FUCKING ASS THAT IT DOESN'T END THERE: Given their typical nightly setlist, as given by Wikipedia, their typical setlist lasted a little over an hour and a half, at 1:35:30 studio running time. that's 5,730 seconds in total, averaging 0.01727748691 revolutions a FUCKING SECOND. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? IT MEANS THAT ROUGHLY EVERY 58 SECONDS, THEY ACHIEVE A FUCKING REVOLUTION. YOU THINK DEAD KENNEDYS OR ANY OF THAT SHIT EVER ACCOMPLISHED THAT? NO. YOU AND THE DEAD MOTHERFUCKING KENNEDYS ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO THESE REVOLUTIONARIES.
8/10
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