★★★★★
It's been almost exactly ten years since the industry that is "American Idiot" emerged. I have fond memories of this album, most notably purchasing the deluxe edition the day it came out and trying hard liquor for the first time in my life and listening to it on CD. Now that it's been ten years, I've had time to reflect on the impact this album has made on the world...
- www.punknews.org
2014-09-30
★★★★★
Bruce Springsteen famously said that the "snare shot" that begins Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" "sounded like somebody kicked the door open to your mind." For me--what kicked my mind-door open-was the two hi-hat chicks that start Green Day's "Burnout" and the album Dookie. Every time I hear those two seemingly-meaningless count off beats, I know to hit that snare fill on my legs and bust into the first words of one of the most game-changing albums in my musical life...
- www.punknews.org
2014-08-12
★★★★★
Green Day decided to join the Record Store Day 2014 fun by releasing an 18-track demo collection of songs from their last three albums called Demolicious. If the name of this album hasn't pushed you away from checking it out, then you probably have stronger will than a majority of music enthusiasts. And if you bought it on vinyl then you paid $29...
- www.punknews.org
2014-05-08
★★★★★
Everything leading up to Green Day's infamous trilogy - from the announcement of the albums titled as sequential Spanish numbers, each containing at least 12 tracks with their own separate music themes, to the faces of each band member shamelessly plastered on the album arts resulting in some of the most aesthetically unappealing cover arts in music history - pointed to it being the final nail(s) in Green Day's long-overdue coffin...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-04-18
★★★★★
On "Angel Blue," a typically breathless pop-punk offering from Green Day's latest album Uno!, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong sings that he's "Trying to find my better angels." Considering all of the high-concept, theatre-ready bombast the band has produced in the past decade, those angels might as well have been Roger Waters and Andrew Lloyd Webber...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
The comeback kids of pop-punk are back. The Bill Clintons of rock, they take the blows and the lows and always manage to rise up stronger, leaving their peers trailing in their wake. Blink 182's comeback stalled with uninspiring new material. The Offspring are a joke. But with ¡Uno!, Green Day march on via a heady combination of reinvention and straightforward, effective songwriting...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
With a trilogy of new studio albums ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! due for unveiling at bi-monthly intervals over the next six months, the time is surely ripe for a detailed peek at Green Day's career. This welcome self-explanatory box set features all eight (to date) studio sets from the Californian punk-pop titans and retails at around a competitive £20 mark. It's a timely reminder of the glut of astonishing music Green Day have already bequeathed to the world...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
In spite of the hoopla surrounding Billie Joe Armstrong's onstage meltdown and subsequent rehab treatment, Green Day's plan to release three albums in under a year continues unabated. ¡Dos!, the aptly named second part of the trilogy, is relieved of the weight of expectation and, though it was recorded at the same time as the first, sounds less strained...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
With Billie Joe Armstrong still in rehab, Green Day have completed their trilogy of albums quicker than expected: before the clock strikes 2013. Ironically, their ambitious plan masks their inability to carry it through. To be fair, making three solid albums in a year is a tough task for anyone, let alone a band as creatively tapped-out as Green Day. Where the first two albums adopted a more polished, hollow version of their formerly snotty, hooky pop-punk, ¡Tré...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
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