The Green Day album that showcases Tré's drumming the best

[bouncingoffthewallbja]

I'm sorry if there's anything like this already. I ran a couple of searches to check but found nothing exactly like this on the forum!

Out of the 11 studio albums that Tré has played drums on with GD, which one do you think best showcases his skills and abilities as a drummer? For me, I'd have to go with Nimrod. Tré uses so many different types of techniques, rhythms and tempos on this album, and I personally think his drumming on Nimrod is up there with his best! My favourites off Nimrod in terms of drumming are Hitchin' a Ride, Scattered, Platypus, Haushinka, Reject and NGFL (for the sake of Shenanigans, I'm just counting songs such as Desensitized as being on Nimrod etc)!

It'll be interesting to see what the general consensus will be (although there's a couple of things that might be slightly predictable) 

[Spike]

American Idiot, by a long way. Give Me Novacaine is his best drum performance ever, easily. Then obviously there are all the fills in Jesus Of Suburbia, not to mention the time and tempo changes. Dookie is up there too but it's a lot more loose and was edited quite a lot, but in the years between the two albums he became a very precise drummer.

[FallingFromTheStars]

American Idiot hands down. Frequently his drumming is a centerpiece in the songs.

[That Dude]

I love all these polls!   We need more of these.  

Best album cover?

Best lyrics?

Best clothing style of the band.....

[unextraordinarygirl]

American Idiot. His drumming on that album is just incredible! Revolution Radio is a close second for me. 

[Z J]

I think Dookie is the knee-jerk choice, definitely an impressive rhythmic display by Mike and Tre. But I have to vote for Revolution Radio, there's so many different moments where Tre is highlighted in ways that he hasn't been in years. Similar to AI with all of the switch ups, but more flashy

[St. Jonny]

Make them up Too Dumb to Die(s)!!

Dookie definitely! Tre's drumming like on most the albums, makes it as good as it is. Love the drumming on all the albums a lot but Dookie has the Burnout solo of course, Basket Case is a legendary display of drumming. Also...oh fuck, let me just say think about every single track from front to back on Dookie! Far and away Dookie. Favorite drum intro Sassafras Roots.

[DookieLukie]

1 hour ago, Spike said:

 Dookie is up there too but it's a lot more loose and was edited quite a lot, 

was it? How so?

[Spike]

59 minutes ago, DookieLukie said:

was it? How so?

Apparently during recording he was so wild that a lot of his fills, particularly in Basket Case, were out of time and had to be patched up afterwards. There's a fairly in-depth article about it on Sound On Sound.

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"It's not that Tré wasn't a good drummer, but in terms of his performances we wanted the best of the best. In line with the Who directive, we wanted to let him sound exciting, but back in the early‑'90s you couldn't get a record played on the radio if it wasn't in time, even a rock & roll record. So, although we wanted him to do all of his wild fills and crazy drumming, we couldn't just let him go. He'd drift in and out of time, which is terrific live, but which was unacceptable on radio at that time. We were still under the tyranny of the click track. We'd therefore let him play, but we would take a fantastic tom fill that he did and insert that into one of his better bed tracks.

 

[Maddie86]

4 minutes ago, Spike said:

Apparently during recording he was so wild that a lot of his fills, particularly in Basket Case, were out of time and had to be patched up afterwards. There's a fairly in-depth article about it on Sound On Sound.

 

yeah, I've seen that before, and even if I didn't know about the timing thing I don't think I'd put dookie at the top, I feel like all the touring tightened them up and tre's drumming was a lot tighter on Insomniac, and even though Insomniac is my favorite album, it's not a showcase album haha.

I voted Revolution Radio because I didn't overthink it and because the drum solo for bang bang always makes me smile, but also because Tre's drums really add a lot to the songs on that album and spiced things up, where as in American Idiot the songs already had a lot going on. I do agree with the original poster's thought on nimrod's drumming though

[FallingFromTheStars]

1 hour ago, Kyle Serlington said:

even though Insomniac is my favorite album, it's not a showcase album haha.

I can understand that as depressing as it is. I know a lot of people who don't like that album. I myself was really turned off by it save for a few songs for the first year I was into Green Day. But now I just love it. It's hardcore as hell, the most hardcore of their albums. The sound reaches deep beneath the skin, it's awesome. I guess there's not a lot of variety in it though.

[Ian1234]

As a Drummer, I would have to go with American Idiot. Jesus of Suburbia is one of his best songs in my opinion. 

[Montclare]

For a second, I wondered why 39/Smooth wasn't an option.  Then I smacked myself in the forehead.

[End Of The World]

Revolution Radio. Happy to see it getting a lot of votes, because drumming is fantastic and it deserves the 1st place here.

Forever Now flows so naturally and it's because of Trè's great work there.

American Idiot close second, then Dookie.

8 hours ago, Ian1234 said:

As a Drummer, I would have to go with American Idiot. Jesus of Suburbia is one of his best songs in my opinion. 

Once I read that JOS is Trè's favourite song. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Christian's Inferno!]

Billie did say that RevRad was Tré's best drumming. He was not wrong

[greendepent]

Nimrod. Most diverse album musically, so most diverse drumming indeed. Is not about only good fills (in that case, the middle of WTP and the break on Panic Songs owns the rest by miles), if not about how his drumming goes along with and for the song. And in Nimrod, there is no song that you think "this could be different, or this song lacks something".

 

[Steven Seagull]

His drumming was never anything special, John beats him by a lot. Now if I have to choose I'll go with one of the Trilogy albums.

[End Of The World]

49 minutes ago, Steven Seagull said:

His drumming was never anything special, John beats him by a lot. Now if I have to choose I'll go with one of the Trilogy albums.

If I were you I'd choose Trè. Dirty Rotten Bastards is awesome. 

[Steven Seagull]

28 minutes ago, End Of The World said:

If I were you I'd choose Trè. Dirty Rotten Bastards is awesome. 

I did choose Tre, such a good album.

[Bastard of 1967]

RevRad by a mile, Tre in second place.  Honorable mention to Haushinka which I think is another one of his (way too underrated) signature tracks.

 

[bouncingoffthewallbja]

17 hours ago, Montclare said:

For a second, I wondered why 39/Smooth wasn't an option.  Then I smacked myself in the forehead.

[SamJam98]

Despite Tré's drumming generally not being anything amazing in pure drumming terms, I've always found his drum parts fit the song perfectly. He knows what to play, and when to play it. American Idiot was the best album for that

[tresexy101]

I am not a drummer.  My brother in law was a drummer in his salad days and I play a little guitar and when drunk enough, I think I can sing...and do.  However, just by looking at Tre Cools drum set during the American Idiot tour, I get flabbergasted.  Damn, I actually spelled 'flabbergasted' correctly on the first try...  any who, I would have to say A.I. just because of how big his kit is.  And his drum setup.

[21guns&novacaine]

The first album that comes to mind when I think of Tre's sweet drumming skills, is Dookie. It's so prominent on those tracks, and on the other albums, I don't notice it as much. 

[tresexy101]

50 minutes ago, 21guns&novacaine said:

The first album that comes to mind when I think of Tre's sweet drumming skills, is Dookie. It's so prominent on those tracks, and on the other albums, I don't notice it as much. 

You have to get high and you'll notice it as much.  Even Tre said that when you're on shrooms ya notice the fuck out of the tambourines.  I don't condone drugs but I lie a lot.  So get high, listen to the drumming, and you'll notice more.  Or hear more.  Also, to get a little technical, which is hard right now cuz I'm fucked up, the engineers, producers, mixers, etc... have a lot to do with it too.  But just look at Tre Cools drum kit on the A.I. tour.  Tre admitted in an interview on youtube that hasn't been taken down yet, and I'm paraphrasing, 'this is maximum Tre Cool', when it comes to drums.  I like the word paraphrasing cuz I spelled it correctly on my first try!!  I'm drunk.  I mean, I'm nasally.