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• 5.0 out of 5 stars Uno!, Dos! and Tre! Go Together Like The Original Star Wars Trilogy

  Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2013

  I recently purchased Uno!, Dos! and Tre! at the same time. I opted for the clean versions for a couple of reasons. The first is because I have young kids and I want to share this with them. The second reason is because I like the creative way they replaced all of the F-bombs Billie Joe likes to drop using sounds like an electric guitar fill or other sound effect. I originally bought the regular version of Uno! and I actually prefer the clean, edited version. Go figure.

  I've read a lot of the reviews online about these 3 albums and it seems most people are missing the point. Sure, the timing of the releases in relation to what the band was going through at the time, the amount of songs to digest in a short period of time and the seemingly lack of marketing on these CD's seems to have hurt the sales but good music or good art is not about sales.

  I believe the point Green Day is trying to make is they can make an epic trilogy of music the same way George Lucas made an epic trilogy of movies. Each album stands on its own just like each Star Wars movie stands on its own but when taken as a trilogy they really fit together and are even better than the sum of their parts, just like Green Day themselves.

  These 3 albums will grow on you if you let them. It took about 3 times of listening to Uno! front to back to finally sink in where they are going with this trilogy. After that the other two albums fell into place and it all made sense.

  Uno! opens the trilogy with a Green Day sound that falls somewhere between Nimrod and American Idiot. It's the most punk rock power pop CD of the set. I compare it to Star Wars Episode IV because it sounds more like Green Day when they were young and hungry much the same way it felt to watch the young and hungry Luke Skywalker when he was realizing that he is a Jedi. I really love every song on this CD but if I had to pick the weakest song it is ironically the single Kill the DJ. I really like the guitars in Kill the DJ but to me the lyrics and melody are not very creative. It's surrounded by two killer songs though, Let Yourself Go and the awesome Fell For You which should have been a single.

  Dos! is the darkest and rawest album just like Empire Strikes Back is the darkest of the Star Wars movies. It sounds more like a follow up album for Foxboro Hot Tubs than a typical Green Day album. If they weren't making a trilogy this album may not exist as a Green Day album even though it stands on its own. The guitars sound more like Gretsch guitars rather than Gibson or Fender guitars on most of the songs on this album. They have a kerrang quality to their sound although they still rock hard. They have one filler on this album though, Nightlife. I do give them credit for stretching their boundaries though since this is the least sounding Green Day song I've ever heard from them.

  Tre! brings Green Day back up to date. It is the most adventurous of the trilogy and is a satisfying climax. It feels like the most natural progression of Green Day coming from 21st Century Breakdown but without most of the politics. I think if Green Day made only one CD instead of 3 they most likely would have chosen the songs and direction on Tre! I'm really glad they decided to make a trilogy instead of one CD though because I really like 35 of the 37 songs and the two fillers are still good! It would be great to see Green Day one day be publically recognized for what they accomplished here. It would also be great to see Green Day perform the whole trilogy from start to finish in concert. Idiot Epic!

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• 5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Green Day albums so far...

  Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2017

  Uno, Dos, and Tre have become my favorite Green Day albums so far. For various reasons I lost track of them after 21st Century Breakdown and only recently finally got these three CDs a few months ago (2017). I've been listening to them pretty much non-stop whenever I'm in my car. There's so much variety of musical styles in them that there's not much reason to listen to anything else :) There doesn't seem to be a theme underlying them like in American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, but it's a nice change to be able to switch around to different songs without messing up the story.

  These CDs have an awesome loose, live feel to them, and yet the the music is extremely clean, punchy, and tight... Sort of like that Led Zeppelin 'light and shade' thing. They really come alive when you turn up the volume. It seems almost like Green Day took an 'anything goes' mindset into these songs and let themselves go in all sorts of different directions (they've always done this to some extent, but took it further with these). In addition to punchy punk, there's funk, 50s-60s pop, rockabilly, psychedelic... There are even some guitar solos! I like the dirty one in Amanda, for example. But even though they incorporate all these far-flung elements into the songs, they are still very clearly Green Day songs with that super-tight punchy rock core.

  If I were to roughly summarize them, I'd say Uno is classic Green Day-- fast, fun, hard rocking. Great songs like Nuclear Family, Carpe Diem, Let Yourself Go, Stay the Night, etc. This is a great CD to turn up loud while driving. Dos is complex, with all sorts of interesting and awesome songs like Night Life, Lady Cobra, Stray Heart (rockabilly?), Wow That's Loud (psychedelic?). Some of my favorite songs of the 3 CDs are on Dos: Lazy Bones and Baby Eyes. Hard to say 'favorite' though when there are so many songs I like this much on all 3. Tre is awesome, I guess it's more rock-oriented. Brutal Love is big, dramatic, amazing. I love that song. Also X-kid, A Little Boy Named Train, Walk Away... Dirty Rotten Bastards......! I love that one (though the first line seems like asking for trouble :)

  Anyway, I think I will always be listening to these 3 albums. They're just that good. Definitely all three would be on my 'stranded on an island' list. I wish I could have seen Green Day play these live, but hopefully they are keeping a lot of these songs in their current setlists.

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