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¡Uno! (stylized as ¡UNO!) is the ninth studio album by American rock band Green Day, released on September 21, 2012, by Reprise Records. It is the first of three albums in the ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy, a series of studio album released from September 2012 to December 2012. Green Day recorded the album from February to June 2012 at Jingletown Studios in Oakland, California. This is the band's first album recorded as a quartet, as touring guitarist Jason White became an official member of the band prior to the recording sessions. White's tenure as an official member lasted until 2016. - Wikipedia
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Consequence of Sound
Just noise. Walk away.
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NME
Veteran punks complete their filler-filled trilogy, and stagger across the finish line looking badly in need of a lie-down
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Entertainment Weekly
There are odd ducks here ... but any band offering up a whole trilogy to the altar of no-bones rock & roll shouldn’t be taken for granted.
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AV Music Club
With their uneven trilogy finally put to bed, Armstrong and crew have clearly taxed, overextended, and deflated themselves. Time to take a bow. Or maybe a nap.
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Slant
It is simply not up to the task of proving why a third album in three months was necessary.
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Diffuser
It’s the back-to-basics rock album they promised.
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The Guardian
As the trilogy draws to a close, you feel Green Day have built nothing more than a folly.
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NZ Hearald
Part quality, part leftovers
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Spin
Sounds more like the Green Day of the ’90s, its sentiments are more American Idiot, but turned inward.
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Idolator
The whole package is overkill that could have easily been cut in half (or a third) for one really solid album that had fans and non-believers alike giving props and singing praises of Green Day’s return. Instead, now, even as ¡TRE! is released, it doesn’t stand alone, but rather as a confused part of some greater gimmick.
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Paste
Just like the first two offerings in the trilogy (but especially the very average Dos!), Tre! is exhausting.
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NY Daily News
The new material — a mix of garage rock, pomp pop and ballads — isn't rank, just rote. And no matter how many times I try to clarify the songs from each other, they blur.
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Soundblab
Possibly the strongest release in the trilogy and that's good enough for the average Green Day fan.
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Warrington Guardian
Most of the songs follow the same formula and are repetitive with the big choruses and catchy riffs of their earlier work feeling like a distant memory.
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Music Banter
Best album of the trilogy, for sure.
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All Music
On the whole, ¡Tré! winds up on the happier side of the scale: the rhythms are insistent, the hooks immediate, the veneer bright and cheerful, never once regretting the chaos that happened the night before. But underneath this good time is the slight, perhaps unconscious, admission that things cannot continue as they did before.
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Entertainment ie
It chugs along in a pleasingly back-to-basics manner. It's a less overblown piece from punk-pop survivors who have been around, it should be noted, for over a quarter of a century.
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Daily Star
As with the first two, there's a lot of punk-by-numbers stuff to wade through.
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Spectrum Pulse
This album, which I hold is the most consistent and generally the best of the lot, really isn’t anywhere near as good as their older work.
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Has It Leaked
While not terribly tedious like Uno, it lacks the energy of Dos ... Tre is both listless and bizarre simultaneously.
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Lehigh Valley Live
It is a bit more diverse than the others, with a slightly mellower and more mature sound that embraces a variety of styles.
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The Fire Note
Green Day of course bring back the more free spirited vibe that filled the first two installments but like ¡Dos! it seems to be missing some of the passion of why the band makes music in the first place.
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Music OMH
For Tre! they lay down on the couch and had a nap. These are the kind of tracks you skip to get the good stuff.
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Independent
This is Green Day doing what Green Day have always done.
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The Shields Gazette
The problem is that since 2004’s excellent American Idiot, they feel the need to outdo themselves in the grandeure stakes, and that’s not going to happen.
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WPGU 107.1 FM
Green Day redeems themselves with third album of trilogy (Well…kind of)
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Under the Gun Review
We were touch-and-go for a while, but with ¡Tré! it looks like we might be back on solid ground.
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Neon Tommy
Nevertheless, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, and Mike Dirnt have put together an album that reflects on their expansive twenty-five year career, giving fans of whichever Green Day era something to enjoy.
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Heavy and Wierd
It is hard to pick a favourite album in this trilogy because they all offer so much enjoyment. Tre certainly has the epic feel that I loved on “American Idiot” and “21st Century Breakdown” with Uno giving me the same great feelings that “Nimrod” did while Dos is very Foxboro Hot Tubs. Mix it all together and you get some of the strongest rock n roll I’ve heard.
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The Pop Break
It’s splendidly different, hypnotic, and beautiful and a fitting end to one hell of a ride.
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Rambolic Rambler
All in all its a good album, but let down by some truly lack-lustre songs.
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Anuragtag
it’s nearly impossible to look at ¡Tre! on its own. It’s a mostly-unremarkable, play-it-safe way to end the trilogy.
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Guitar Planet
Closure is the word, and while the album is essentially composed of throwaway filler, it still serves as a fascinating piece of psychoanalysis on a band, and a genre, that thrives on teenage rebellion.
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Cafe Dingo
This album brings nothing new to the table ... In fact the record doesn’t even sound much like punk rock at all.
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Jersey Beat
On !Tre! (which is a play on words for Tre Cool), Green Day once again does not disappoint.
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Retcon Nation
It is more sparring with worthwhile songs but does have the odd number sprinkled throughout.
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Abolish Confusion
This is a journey I'd rather not make again, it isn't bad but it isn't good either.
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Loudwire
For those looking for the hard-edged snarl of some of Green Day's mid-2000s music, this album is not likely the place for you, but '¡Dos!' does work extremely well as an infectious pop record with touches of early rock influences.
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Rolling Stone
Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool harness the sound of immolating, teenage-wasteland lust for an album with a distinct sense of life coming off the rails.
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BBC
Middling-to-fair central act of seminal pop-punks’ 2012 album trilogy.
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Dying Scene
It's a decent album to throw on at a big party (or a great album at a Green Day-fan gathering), but it’s best to hide it when the punks come over to play.
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Drowned In Sound
It will be interesting to see how the whole fits together. In the meantime ¡Dos! is a reliably fun, garagey treat - and should be viewed as no more than that.
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Qmunicate
Give this one a miss, punk rockers.
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Antiquiet
Where ¡UNO! had the feeling of adolescent energy and carelessness, ¡DOS! is lacking any sort of energy, only two or three songs even getting me to tap my foot.
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B Sides
While Green Day does get back to their garage-rock roots, you can’t help but wonder what is going on in the heads of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool with this album.
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Red Brick
Billie Joe belts ‘I’m too tired to be bored, I’m too bored to be tired’, in a confession that he should perhaps take note of.
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Portsmouth Point
It is entirely fair to say that, like “¡Uno!” before it, “¡Dos!” is a good album, with the difference of “¡Dos!” being less ruined by the subtle techniques (e.g. high pitched wailing) from their rock operas. There is however too much filler in the songs, with less of the songs standing out as truly great.
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Pop Matters
It’s nice being able to listen to a new Green Day CD once again that’s a consistently good listen from top to bottom, much less one that doesn’t require to me slog my way through it to get to the end.
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Los Angeles Times
Green Day's 'Dos!' a jolt of fun and surprises
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92.9 Jack FM
Green Day has apparently solved that late-aughts identity crisis ... and channeled all of that retro rock sound into ¡Dos!.
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Louder Than War
The second of Green Day’s trilogy of releases for 2012 hears the band regressing to their slightly purile version of punk pop.
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Buzz
The vocals and lyrics throughout the album remain flat and tiresome, leaving me to give the album a less than positive review.
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BG News
Green Day’s new album is carefree and catchy.
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Backdrop Magazine
Overall, ¡Dos! is a fun, upbeat record meant to make you shake your hips and tap your toe, and it’s unafraid to not take itself too seriously.
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Highlight Magazine
Whether you hate it or love it, you have to respect Green Day for putting out a record that experiments with new sounds and doesn’t hold to expectations placed on them.
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Pinpoint Music
¡Dos! comes a little too close to its own heat source accidentally allowing the feathers to melt. What was once a beautiful ageless bird has revealed an ugly creature that is ineffective at creation and is scared to death with becoming irrelevant.
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Teen Zone Magazine
Overall, this is a nice complement to part one of the trilogy and Green Day enthusiasts won’t be disappointed.
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Montreal Gazette
¡Dos! is a straight-up rock n’ roll album. We had been warned. What we didn’t expect was a great one.
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One Take Kate
There are some cool tracks and all the variety isn't necessarily a bad thing, but is it a mid-life genre crisis?
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Culture Fly
Unfortunately ¡Dos! comes with the realisation that Green Day’s best might just be behind them.
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Billboard
Green Day's latest should be regarded as a disposable but thoroughly enjoyable return to the band's long-deserted roots.
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Chicago Tribune
Armstrong sounds detached, despite a stream of curse words, and the band plays with a machine-like efficiency.
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Digital Spy
The band recall their heyday on the first of three new albums.
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The Highlander
The album, in reflection, stands only partially well as a whole, lacking some edge Green Day is known for—though it’s refreshing in its lack of blatant political agenda and has some of the most “fun” Green Day songs since the 90s.
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The Musical Hype
Overall, ‘!Uno!‘ Is a solid and sound effort from Green Day. It accomplishes its purposes to resurrect the band’s punk roots.
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Edmondton Journal
Could be the NoCal trio’s worst album — a rehashed spew of pop melodies, punk riffery, and lyrics about self-destruction.
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Pure Grain Audio
Vibrant, youthful, an easy listen and oh so much fun! It’s effortless and not in a bad way; it's not overly-produced and remains really rich-sounding.
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Live for Live Music
This is quite possibly Green Day’s greatest album they have ever released!
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Evolution of a Fan
On a high note, Uno makes a good run at reproducing some of that old Green Day sound that 30-somethings are longing to hear again.
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Jersey Beat
Is a back-to-basics, meat-and-potatoes 13 song set of major thrill to any fan who’s been chomping at the bit for the old days when you could stomp, jump, and act like a Whirling Dervish listening to a new Green Day album!
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RTE
The start of a Green Day reboot and it’s a glorious one (two, three) fingered salute.
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Seren
Average at best, and an exercise in growing old disgracefully.
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CU Independent
Seems to be the last gasps of a band whose popularity is now fading into the sunset.
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Media Mikes
Does a great job showcasing the bands progression while still containing that classic Green Day sound and style.
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Dylan Oregan
This is definitely one of my favourite albums by Green Day, it just demonstrates the band on all different levels that they have achieved.
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The College View
It is well worth a listen as it is exactly how one would expect a Green Day album to sound.
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The Mercury News
Green Day goes back to basics on `Uno’
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Music Perk
This album showcases the strong aspects of Green Day and experimentation with the music is one aspect which is admirable.
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So Cal Music Today
Overall, ¡Uno! is another transition in the evolution of Green Day’s sound. Fans that prefer old punk will shake their heads, and fans of their political songs will grumble.
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Read Junk
The most punk rock album that Green Day has released since “Nimrod”. Old fans will rejoice while some newer fans may be turned off by the faster songs. 4/5
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The Music
Uno is Green Day moving forward and challenging both themselves and their audience.
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U Wire
One of those rare moments where something inoffensive makes you furious. The music may not be horrifying, but the complacency is.
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The Poly Spotlight
¡Uno! may not rank among Green Day’s best works, but it’s still an enjoyable listen.
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Rocksucker
It manages to come as something of a relief without ever really coming close to excelling or being in any way necessary.
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USA Today
'Dookie' fans, welcome back to paradise. After fashioning two heady rock operas, Green Day leaps into the mosh pit on 'Uno!,' a thrilling throwback to the trio's 1994 major label debut.
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The Star
The only outright crapper on Uno! is “Kill the DJ,” ... the rest just gives you a nice warm glow at knowing Green Day is still perfectly all right.
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The Gizzle Review
We have a set of songs with little variation and lacking the hooks of their best tracks.
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Punk Rock Theory
Sounds like Green Day with a great mix of singalong choruses, tons of energy and a whole lot of fun.
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Property of Zack
¡Uno!, sounds like a safer, less evolved version of their ‘97 full-length, Nimrod.
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