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¡Tré! by Green Day

The most obvious distinction for this part of the trilogy is that the tempo seems slower, more relaxed, more mellow. This is the balladeer side of Green Day, the Green Day of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." The harmonies are still there, but not as much, and there occasional moments when it rocks, but not as often.

Unlike the first two, there's a definite progression to this album. The songs get more complicated as the album goes along. "Dirty Rotten Bastards" (my favorite from Tre!) is a song suite along the lines of 'Jesus of Suburbia'.

Instead of thinking that Uno! was Billy's album, I now believe that it's really Tre's album. Rock and Roll needs a good drummer, and Tre's at his best on Uno, in spite of the names and faces on the cover. Tre! is actually Billy's album, showcasing his songwriting. All the songs on all three albums were written by Armstrong, but I think on this one he was trying a little harder. Dos! is still Mike's album.

Green Day came out of the Alternative music scene in the 1990's, a genre I never cared for even when it was popular. I didn't get into Green Day until American Idiot, which is when they took a level in Awesome. Going back and listening to their catalog, their old 90's stuff sounds better than their contemporaries, but it's still angsty and whiny. They got better, much better.

I say all that to explain why I didn't like the third album nearly as much as the first two. I enjoyed Uno! the most. Like I said, it's one of the best Rock and Roll albums of the last 25 years, and here the band was *concentrating* on the Rock and Roll aspect of their collective personality.

So there you have it. I have enough information now to rank them properly in the context of 2012 and the 2010's decade.

p.s. As far as I can tell, Cuatro! is a documentary, and I could not find any references to it as an album. But I will definitely try to find Cuatro! and watch it. Thanks for mentioning it, LoneStarRebel

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