#Green day uno dos tre album covers series#

It was also characterized as pop punk by Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald and Robert Cooke of The Fly, while Scott Heisel of the Alternative Press said that ВЎUno! is a punk rock album. ДЄccording to music critic David Fricke, ВЎUno! is a power pop album less polemic and conceptual than American Idiot or 21st Century Breakdown, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that its music is exclusively power pop and three-chord rock songs. According to Armstrong, the song 'Kill the DJ' was 'straight-up dance music' and 'four-on-the-floor rhythm', which the band has never done before. He also stated that a few songs on the album would also sound like garage rock and dance music. He added that music on the record would be 'punchier, more power popВ вЂ“ somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles' than the band's previous albums. In an interview to Rolling Stone, Armstrong stated that the theme of ВЎUno! would be different from that of 21st Century Breakdown and American Idiot, and would not be a third rock opera. And one day, I sprung it on the others: 'Instead of Van Halen I, II and III, what if it's Green Day I, II and III and we all have our faces on each cover?'' I'd go, Maybe a double album? No, that's too much nowadays. He stated in an interview, 'The songs just kept coming, kept coming. Armstrong suggested making a trilogy of albums like Van Halen's Van Halen I, Van Halen II and Van Halen III. The band recorded 37 songs and initially thought of making a double album. They recorded the album at Jingletown Studios in Oakland, California. The band started work by rehearsing every other day and making songs. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels. Instead of making one album, we are making a three album trilogy. This is the best music we've ever written, and the songs just keep coming. In the statement, he said, 'We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives. In February 2012, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that the band was in the studio, recording material for a new album. Lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong wrote all of the album's lyrics. The album also reached the top 10 of charts in numerous other countries. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 139,000 copies. ВЎUno! received generally positive reviews from music critics. The song 'Rusty James' is based on the character Rusty-James from the novel Rumble Fish. A music video for 'Stay the Night' was released on Rolling Stone and their YouTube channel on September 24, 2012. The third single ' Let Yourself Go' was released on the US iTunes Store on September 5, 2012, and a promotional single 'Nuclear Family' was released on their YouTube channel on September 12, 2012. The second single ' Kill the DJ' was released on European iTunes Stores on August 14, 2012. The first single from the album, titled ' Oh Love', was released on July 16, 2012. White's tenure as an official member lasted until 2016.ДЄrtwork of the album was revealed in a video uploaded to YouTube and the track list of the album, which consist of 12 songs was announced on June 26, 2012. 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. Green Day recorded the album from February to June 2012 at Jingletown Studios in Oakland, California.

#Green day uno dos tre album covers series#

It is the first of three albums in the ВЎUno!, ВЎDos!, ВЎTrГ©! trilogy, a series of studio albums released from September 2012 to December 2012. ВЎUno! (stylized in all caps) is the ninth studio album by American rock band Green Day, released on September 21, 2012, by Reprise Records.