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I'm sure we all know Green Day's best work wasn't the trilogy. I enjoyed quite a bit of it, but there was alot I didn't. To start this topic off I'd say Green Day should have taken their best songs out of the three albums which includes, in my opinion...

Nuclear Family

Carpe Diem
Let Yourself Go

Rusty James

Stop When The Red Lights Flash

Makeout Party

Drama Queen

Wow! That's Loud

8th Avenue Serenade

X-Kid (Best Off The Album IMO)

Dirty Rotten Bastards

99 Revolutions

and put them all into a single album instead of doing a three volume set.

This post is just for any trilogy opinions but I have a starter question.

If these were the songs, what do you think would be the track list order?

Happy ranting.

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I'll start this off with the

HOW DARE YOU LOLE THE TRILOGY WHAT ARE YOU ATUPID ONLY A PERSON WITHOUT A BRAIN WOULD LIKE THE TRILOGY SHAME ON YOU FOR STARTING A THREAD FOR THE TRILOGY

Ok that out of the way

I like the trilogy actually yes not the greatest work but I enjoyed most of the tracks and aside from 2-3 tracks the others grew on me if it comes on iTunes not something I fly to skip over

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It's all very well saying they should've made one album with the best songs but the thing is everyone has a different opinion about what the best songs are, so if they'd done that a lot of people would've missed out on hearing their favourites. As it is all the songs are there to listen to and everyone is free to make their own playlist of their favourites and leave out the ones they don't like if they want, I don't really get why so many people aren't happy with that and would rather only the small number of people who happen to have the same selection of 12 favourites as the band would pick were able to hear their favourite songs instead of everyone.

Also there's actually already a thread for posting your ideal Trilogy tracklist so if anyone just wants to do that rather than discuss the albums in general they should do it there:

http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/91505-how-would-you-rearrange-the-trilogy/?hl=%2Btrilogy

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I'm of the opinion, I'm glad they did three albums; if they'd only done one, some of the lesser-liked tracks from the trilogy (some of which I really like, such as Lady Cobra, 8th Avenue Serenade, etc), might never have been included. This way, everyone has their favourites, and I think all types of Green Day fans got catered to on the trilogy.

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Actually my problem with the trilogy isn't that they didn't just pick the best 12 or 15 songs. Is that they didn't pick their best ideas (because there are some great ideas thrown through the trilogy) and work on them to perfect them. The best 12 songs of the trilogy still would suck as an album cause it would still be good ideas executed poorly.

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Actually my problem with the trilogy isn't that they didn't just pick the best 12 or 15 songs. Is that they didn't pick their best ideas (because there are some great ideas thrown through the trilogy) and work on them to perfect them. The best 12 songs of the trilogy still would suck as an album cause it would still be good ideas executed poorly.

I agree with this so much. Maybe it's cause I'm starting to expand my music taste a lot, but I didn't like anything on the trilogy. The songs had potential, and I listened to them maybe once each. They just had this overwhelming vibe of simplicity and a lack of effort put in to them. Like you said, none of them were fully developed - it felt like the trilogy was the bare bones of an album (or 3); a first draft, not a final product.

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I repped you out of tradition.

Change for the sake of change must be discouraged. In God we trust.

:unsure:

Traditions aren't so nice anymore :mellow:

But keep on repping me :)

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The way I see it is that Green Day most likely won't be making any more hit albums. I love Green Day music, so I'll take as much of it as they want to give.

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Okay, everyone on here should know that I don't really like the trilogy at all (not even a few songs), but if I was gonna make a single album of songs (for various reasons) it'd be this.

01. Nuclear Family (okay song)

02. Stay the Night (okay song, but they should've recorded it like they played it live when it first came out)

03. Carpe Diem (not really one I like, but a friend said this is one of the only trilogy songs he likes)

04. Let Yourself Go (okay song)

05. It's Fuck Time (okay song)

06. Stray Heart (okay song)

07. X-Kid (actually kind of a good song, probably the best trilogy song)

08. Lazy Bones (okay, but they should come up with a different guitar part that doesn't sound like "Give Me Novacaine")

09. Fell for You (the sound's okay, but the lyrics suck ass, so they should change those)

10. Rusty James (same story as "Carpe Diem")

11. 99 Revolutions (I don't like this one, but it should be on there so the name of the tour would stay the same)

12. The Forgotten (sucks ass, but it'd be sad if this wasn't here to play for shits and giggles and if it wasn't in Twilight, we'd have nothing to bitch about now wouldn't we?)

So, if it was like this I still would probably consider it Green Day's worst album but it'd feel less like just tons of filler to me. If I honestly had my way, the trilogy wouldn't have even been made. :P

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i like the trilogy it may not be as relateable like, (dookie, ex girlfriends and growing up) and (american idiot, the government is fucked and real life is hard) but its deep and its somewhere they have never been before, but i think they should have spent more time on it and the whole radio one thing kinda fucked the promotion but anyway...

top 5

Xkid

wow thats loud

let urself gew

kill the disk jockey

and capet denim

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The only songs that will stand the test of time are Missing You, Stay The Night and Brutal Love. A few other tracks are decent but disposable, and the rest of them will barely even register in another year or so.

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We've got work to do on this one folks

I've heard it all before, so don't knock down my door.

(Get it?)

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Time for a repost of your PowerPoint presentation?

No, this is going to require a different approach entirely. Maybe even a Prezi, if that's what it takes.

I've heard it all before, so don't knock down my door.

(Get it?)

I'd say it's lack of (sense) that's bringin you down.

(get it?)

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