They have been around for a really long time, put out tuns of albums but nobody really talks about them as one of the great bands of all time. Just curious.
I got sick of them when their music turned into complete and utter emo shit. The political rants were annoying, but they were really hollow. They'd make big statements without substance. What lost me was when they started writing songs targeted towards 13-year old girls with wrist cutting issues. But yeah, the old Green Day was aite.
Yeah a lot of bands have views I disagree with but I try not to get caught up in that. I try to focus on the music. I only care if they are especially wrong or rude.
One thing I will say is that I think Dookie is a really good album, but that's back when they didn't take themselves so seriously. They played a psuedo-punk style with a lot of just catchy powerchord driven rock, but at the end of the day, they weren't good musicians. The Chilis, for example, started out as a band that didn't take themselves seriously, but at the end of the day, they could evolve into something more because they were all very talented musicians. You can't really say the same for Green Day. I guess that's why when they "came back" they started writing songs that would appeal to a certain tween demographic.
I don't think that it's them "not growing up" though. I think it's more like, they tried to grow up instead of fading into the abyss, but they didn't have the chops to be real musicians, so they got repackaged by their record label to be presented a younger demographic.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ¡Tré! received an average score of 64, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 18 reviews.[27] Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album "lets their tightly wound hooks decompress, delivering stadium-worthy three-chord nods to various ghosts of rock past".[20] Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that the album is "hookier and not as ponderous as ¡Uno! but not quite as breakneck as ¡Dos!", writing that it "feels like ... a collection of songs capturing the band at its loosest and poppiest, throwing away tunes without much care."[18] Kerrang! cited it as "the best of the bunch".[28] Although he found it to be "littered with head-scratching filler and awkward sonic diversions", Ryan Reed of Paste called ¡Tré! "more raw, pointed and hard-hitting than anything they've released in years".[29] Michael Hann of The Guardian felt that "it's got some pretty good songs – but they never get better than pretty good."[21] Alternative Press commented that the album "feels scattershot and slapped together, making it difficult to enjoy on its own merits."[30] Jason Heller of The A.V. Club observed a lack of "inspiration" and wrote that the album "succeeds most as an exercise in influence-dropping and self-recycling".[19] Barry Nicolson of NME viewed its songs as formulaic and found "little to distinguish them" from songs in the trilogy's first two albums.[22] AJ Ramirez of PopMatters criticized its instrumentation as "functional and characterless", while critiquing the trilogy in general, "The wide spread afforded by the ¡Uno!/¡Dos!/¡Tré! trilogy does not suit a band whose aptitudes include simplicity, energy, and irreverence."[23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/¡Tré!
So you just posted a very mixed, leaning towards negative review, but what are your thoughts about the band?
I haven't listened to anything since American Idiot. I really enjoy their early stuff, especially before Dookie (Kerplunk and 1,000 Hours/39 Smooth), which I only discovered after Dookie American Idiot was super-catchy, but the politics were juvenile and, if sincere, laughable. Still some catchy stuff. Ed O.
American Idiot I got sick of them and their mascara wearing, political ways. Hearing their old stuff now saddens me.
They made money off a controversial time when we were invading Iraq. Pretty simple. Write a few lyrics about how bad the government is: profit.
I disagree. I think Green Day is a great band... from Kerplunk to Uno Dos Tres . As they've gotten older their lives change, their music has changed and evolved with it. I appreciate & respect that. Are you the same at 40 as you where at 20? Other favorites of bands of mine who have also evolved over time are Social Distortion, Rancid, Bad Religion, Supersuckers, etc. etc. They kicked ass 15+ years ago and they still kick ass now.
