Green Day - Tre (Thank God It’s Over)
By: James Hagin
Did someone call these guys and tell them there was a shortage of corny slow songs to play at proms? Because there isn’t. That’s what One Republic and Oasis are for. I only ask because upon playing the first track on this new album Tre, I was hit in the face with a way to treble heavy guitar riff stolen straight from the Chordettes (So great job to whatever studio engineer let those nails on a chalk board slide). The second track “Missing You” sounds like and shares a chord progression with that song “No Pride” by who was it? I can’t remember. Oh that’s right! It was Green Day. Way to get lazy and forget your own back catalogue guys. So what’s next? Maybe track three will redeem this album and possibly the band’s now very tainted career. NOPE! Once again way to treble heavy the song rings in your ear like one of those bells you see at the front desk of hotels to let the reluctant staff know it’s time to take your very heavy bags to the last available room on the top floor, and then just looses all it’s energy and sighs like the bellhop of this hotel who has just read the sign saying to take the stairs because the elevator is broken and won’t be fixed with in the foreseeable future. Track four is equally awful due to the fact that it features another one of Billie Joe Armstrong’s dreadful falsettos that became so prominent after the album American Idiot.
I could easily go on and talk about every single track on the record, but that would be almost as tedious to read, as it would be to actually listen to all of those tracks consecutively. So I will in the shortest manner possible, try to find the most adequate words to describe this album as a whole. Keeping this in mind, will mention that the record is currently number 165 on the iTunes album chart.
I can’t imagine what prompted this album trio (other than the chance to pretend they are still relevant and thus feed their massive collective ego), and I do wonder if Green Day will continue to make records after this. They still sell out all their shows usually months in advance, and they have not lost much of their hardcore fan base. In the last installment of this two-part review I mentioned that I wished Green Day had left their courier on the high note that was the end of Dookie. I would like to reiterate that adding only that I hope that Green Day, if they do continue, take a look at their back catalogue and possibly think before they put out another thirty seven tracks at once.
I could easily go on and talk about every single track on the record, but that would be almost as tedious to read, as it would be to actually listen to all of those tracks consecutively. So I will in the shortest manner possible, try to find the most adequate words to describe this album as a whole. Keeping this in mind, will mention that the record is currently number 165 on the iTunes album chart.
I can’t imagine what prompted this album trio (other than the chance to pretend they are still relevant and thus feed their massive collective ego), and I do wonder if Green Day will continue to make records after this. They still sell out all their shows usually months in advance, and they have not lost much of their hardcore fan base. In the last installment of this two-part review I mentioned that I wished Green Day had left their courier on the high note that was the end of Dookie. I would like to reiterate that adding only that I hope that Green Day, if they do continue, take a look at their back catalogue and possibly think before they put out another thirty seven tracks at once.