Are they three albums, or one really long one? On first listen, I think I enjoyed as many moments as any one Green Day album, except, that enjoyment was diluted over three albums. So in my lists, I just have them bunched together.
My question is, has anyone listened to these albums a lot, to the point where they can identify a difference between them, other than the assortment of tracks on each?
I've been going year by year, listening to a bunch of albums within each year, and tomorrow I'll be starting on 2012. This is one (three?) of the 2012 albums I'm going give a re-listen. If I had something different to listen for in each album, I might have a better shot at differentiating them. Any advice?
Billy Joe Armstrong has no ability to censor himself, he just unloads all of his songs and is like "Everyone will LOVE a triple album!" and then more than half the songs suck. _________________ Progressive Rock
It doesn't really matter that they were released on different days...they are separate albums regardless. Bruce Springsteen released Lucky Town and Human Touch on the same day, as did Guns 'N' Roses with Use Your Illusion I & II. Both duos are regarded as separate albums. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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Of dying history
I know that they are *technically* separate albums. Wikipedia doesn't even have a page for the trilogy. My question is, is there any thing in the music or lyrics that makes the separate albums separate?
Just listened to !Uno! I significantly underrated this the first time I heard it. I think I was expecting another American Idiot. (which they'd already tried with 21st Century Breakdown), and was disappointed when there didn't seem to be any kind of concept.
But what we have instead is Rock And Roll at a level of awesome seen very rarely in the last 25 years. Eight out of the twelve songs were 8 out of 10 or better (the rest were 7 or 6), which is 'Loved It' territory. So, that's the baseline. We'll see how !Dos! and !Tre! compare to it.
There is a difference. Dos! maintains (almost) the same level of Rock And Roll from Uno! but adds a layer of harmony to almost every song. A lot of Green Day songs have Billy Joe singing on the versus and go for harmony on the choruses and/or bridges. On Dos! the harmonies are there for the whole song, most of the time.
Put another way, Uno! is Eddie Cochran; Dos! is the Beach Boys. Uno! is Please Please Me, Dos! is Beatles For Sale. Uno! is American Idiot; Dos! is Holiday. Uno! is the beginning and air-guitar parts of Know Your Enemy; Dos! is the chorus of Know Your Enemy, and the way-o-way bits.
Uno! is Billy Joe Armstrong. Dos! is Billy Joe Armstrong *and* Mike Dirnt.
After lunch I'll listen to Tre! We'll see how that completes the picture of Green Day as a band.
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