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Rating: "We wanted something bold, halfway between Ac/Dc and the early Beatles." This is how Billie Joe Armstrong described the sound of Green Day's crazy new musical work, not just one album, but a trilogy titled "Uno! Dos! Tre!". Three albums, three different souls.
"Uno!", the first album to be released, has a power-pop style. It makes simplicity and immediacy its strong point, a bit like "Dookie" was 18 years ago. Abandoning the socio-political themes of "American Idiot" and "21st Century Breakdown," "Uno!" is a fun record, designed to be played live, and there are many songs that prove it.
The first five tracks of the album have an extremely high average quality, from the explosive opening of "Nuclear Family" to the stadium rock of "Stay The Night," from the memorable catchiness of "Carpe Diem" to the old-school punk of "Let Yourself Go," up to the censored single "Kill The DJ," with a melody in which it's not hard to see a bit of The Clash. The album then naturally tapers off until the last track "Oh Love," a classic Green Day-style stadium ballad but without the spark of a "21 Guns."
Mike Dirnt said: "This is our Exile On Main St." It captures the idea quite well, but the second of the ten commandments is clear.
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By pisquano94
The production penalizes the guitars, reduced to a bland and marginal role, almost as if Billie Joe forgot to plug in the distortion.
What also transpires from this album... is the abysmally low quality level of the lyrics.
By luigionio
Let Yourself Go is an explosion of that old fun punk that Green Day used to do.
Uno is not a Rock Opera, nor a masterpiece, but a simple album that sounds 'almost' like a bad Green Day album from the past.
By cicciopunkrock
"'Let Yourself Go' is the only true punk song in the entire trilogy, with a Nimrod/Dookie-style chorus."
"'Fell For You' is a song I find useless and filler, with a whiny and distressing chorus."
By RiseAgainst
"The real problem with Uno! lies with the listener’s ear."
"‘Let Yourself Go’ is the most punk rock song on the album, actually, the only one on the album, which I find somewhat sad."
