Why does the trilogy get so much crap

[green day is]

The trilogy sucks as individual albums, because they were "cleaning out the closet" of unused songs and there's quite a few meh ones on each, but if you take the best songs from all three and put them together you get one amazing album.

Also you made the poll weird and I voted for all of them. Yolo.

[Sappy]

I'm not a big fan of AI and 21st CBD, so personally I love the trilogy, although my all time favs will be the 90s albums, and Shenanigans

[Guest Trotsky]

They're great albums. The only thing that is left is to finally play songs like Dirty Rotten Bastards, Drama Queen, The Forgotten, Kill The DJ, Wild One, Fell For You, Wow! That's Loud etc.

[theMinority22]

I think it's because the sound is just WAYY out there. I like the trilogy, I don't love it and throw myself into it like I did Insomniac or the others, but it has good points.I think it's because it's a sound we're not used to. It's kind of dark and confusing at points, too, another thing we're not used to from them. Not punchy and angry like AI, but dark. Then again, Billie went through some dark times leading up to his rehab. I think it needs some more of Mike's voice, too. Another thing is, I think I would've liked one album with their most powerful songs best.

At the same time, I can't bring myself to hate ANY of Green Day's music, because I love them with all my heart, and if they're proud of what they did, I'm proud too. I know they worked really hard on this, so. I just hate it when people say their new music SUCKS. I hate that word, because Green Day don't "Suck", they've been around for 25 years, have one of the biggest and best fanbase, and are the perfect example of every rock and roll band's dream, starting out small and making it huge from their own hard work.

[Sarcasm]

it gets crap?

[JOE THE X-KID]

I think it's because the sound is just WAYY out there. I like the trilogy, I don't love it and throw myself into it like I did Insomniac or the others, but it has good points.I think it's because it's a sound we're not used to. It's kind of dark and confusing at points, too, another thing we're not used to from them. Not punchy and angry like AI, but dark. Then again, Billie went through some dark times leading up to his rehab. I think it needs some more of Mike's voice, too. Another thing is, I think I would've liked one album with their most powerful songs best.

At the same time, I can't bring myself to hate ANY of Green Day's music, because I love them with all my heart, and if they're proud of what they did, I'm proud too. I know they worked really hard on this, so. I just hate it when people say their new music SUCKS. I hate that word, because Green Day don't "Suck", they've been around for 25 years, have one of the biggest and best fanbase, and are the perfect example of every rock and roll band's dream, starting out small and making it huge from their own hard work.

9 times out of 10 the people who say Green days new music sucks have only heard American Idiot

[green day is]

They're great albums. The only thing that is left is to finally play songs like Dirty Rotten Bastards, Drama Queen, The Forgotten, Kill The DJ, Wild One, Fell For You, Wow! That's Loud etc.

Drama Queen was played live! Before the trilogy was even an idea.

[Guest Trotsky]

Drama Queen was played live! Before the trilogy was even an idea.

Yeah, I know it. I mean to play it again as they haven't played at all since the release of Tre.

[michidookie]

As I said so much times, I absolutely love the trilogy. I really think I have a different point of view, because when I listened Oh love for the first time I freaked out, I liked it so much, when I bought Uno and Dos I really enjoyed them.. When I bougth Trè I immediately judged it as the best Green Day album. I am totally in love with it...
So I don't know what to think, am I going crazy? I have had the same reaction I had while listening AI for the first time.. Am I going crazy? I think yes, because no one have my opinion.. People expecting a lot of things from green day's new albums, I expected only that they play what the f** the want..

[Guest Trotsky]

As I said so much times, I absolutely love the trilogy. I really think I have a different point of view, because when I listened Oh love for the first time I freaked out, I liked it so much, when I bought Uno and Dos I really enjoyed them.. When I bougth Trè I immediately judged it as the best Green Day album. I am totally in love with it...

So I don't know what to think, am I going crazy? I have had the same reaction I had while listening AI for the first time.. Am I going crazy? I think yes, because no one have my opinion.. People expecting a lot of things from green day's new albums, I expected only that they play what the f** the want..

I absolutely love the trilogy too.

[moonflower93]

A lot of the trilogy was fillers. Most of the best of the trilogy came from Uno!. They are obviously not masterpieces, and they are not really comparable to AI or 21CB at all. While they (mostly Dos) have the FBHT sound, it would of been better for one GD CD, a rarities cd and a FBHT Cd.

[jordanguitar10]

They were looking into a cool, new direction with 21st Century Breakdown. I was excited to see what kind of sound they went for next. I was expecting something along the lines of the "lights out" b-side
But they return with A LOT of songs that are the very opposite of that... Billie tried to write "dirty" lyrics (Troublemaker) that just didn't work. They returned to a style, that back in the 90's, was new, but is now too overdone. None of the songs sounded unique. And unlike Dookie to Warning, they were way over produced.
and I'm pretty sure this is exactly how Cigarettes and Valentines sounded...

I have a lot of problems with the trilogy, and I'm too lazy to type them.
Let's just say, after 21CB was released, I got into more stuff, and so when the Trilogy came out, I was already sick of power-pop type songs.

[Cath]

because it's different

[Blond-O-Sonic Shimmer Trap]

There are glimmers of creativity here and there but most of it is just rehashes, and only 4 or 5 songs where they are genuinely pushing their sound in new directions. But there's enough to suggest that they've still got "it" and could have made a great album had they pushed themselves further. But they didn't for the most part. For 37 songs there's not enough. And as has been said, the lyrics mostly aren't up to par.

One 15 song album to sweep up all the best songs would have been as good as Dookie or American Idiot. I still think even then it wouldn't have sold as much or made as much of an impact as those records, but it would have been an equally strong record.

[theviridiansea]

Musically, they're just as amazing as any other album. Lyrically, they're not strong at all. I think the Trilogy could have made a great single album, with the weaker songs released seperately as b-sides, like a Shenanigans 2.0

[armatage]

I think initially the band got crap for the trilogy because people expected another brain-blowing piece like American Idiot was. Or any of other audience's expectations weren't fulfilled, whatever ridiculous ideas they were.

Personally, at first I was disappointed as I expected crunchier and heavier guitars. That would have made the trilogy grow on me way faster. But I have to say I am quite content with the albums now. Surely, they could have made one strong album, but if the band chose to go with three discs, that suits me as well. More music that is still relatively good.

[peppermint butler]

The trilogy sucks as individual albums, because they were "cleaning out the closet" of unused songs and there's quite a few meh ones on each, but if you take the best songs from all three and put them together you get one amazing album.

Also you made the poll weird and I voted for all of them. Yolo.

Lol

I think initially the band got crap for the trilogy because people expected another brain-blowing piece like American Idiot was. Or any of other audience's expectations weren't fulfilled, whatever ridiculous ideas they were.

Personally, at first I was disappointed as I expected crunchier and heavier guitars. That would have made the trilogy grow on me way faster. But I have to say I am quite content with the albums now. Surely, they could have made one strong album, but if the band chose to go with three discs, that suits me as well. More music that is still relatively good.

Great opinion

[The Disappearing Boy]

Definitely somewhere between average and great. Like 'really good'. Out of the 37 songs there are some which aren't so fantastic, some which are, but you kinda expect that.

[Bastard of 1969]

I don't know, I would say that trilogy are average albums!

[peppermint butler]

I am loving reading this thread. Great to hear some opinions

[Khris]

I just thought a good 85 percent of the trilogy seemed like b-sides or just filler songs. I dunno, I thought they sounded rushed and some songs felt like they could have put a lot more creativity in them but hey that's just me, I do think there are a few gems in the trilogy though. For me, Tre was personally more in line with that I expected out of post 21st Century Breakdown Green Day and I did like that album the most of the three. If you guys enjoy it, then that's awesome. I always thought the trilogy was just a bump in their repertoire but i'm sure that they can make music that I would really enjoy in the future. Bring on the next record, guys.

[Westside Highway]

I think that the trilogy are average as far as GD albums go. Now that's a really high bar and these records are better than most modern musicians, especially in the pop scene. I think they would have been better off with a double album because there are a lot of solid songs, but not all seem LP material. They could have done maybe a double album called "Green Day" or "Nuclear Family" or something and put the best on, or the best that flowed together and then maybe released a butt-load of singles, each with a couple b-sides thus using the rest of the tracks, maybe even using some for comps and things

[Idlewild.]

In my opinion, the trilogy has some of the most boring songs Green Day has ever written. There were maybe 2 or 3 songs per album that I enjoyed. The other songs are so poorly written that it makes me wonder if Billie just got drunk and said "Lets write 37 songs in the shortest amount of time possible guise! and let's pretend we're the Jonas Brothers while we're doing it! " instead of the band having this huge creative epiphany they claimed to have. Seriously, Danny and the Dannies puts more effort into their music than that.

[LudeBoy]

After my joke thread aka the trilogy and american idiot connections it got my thinking. Why does the trilogy get so much crap. I love all three albums. I think it's a solid 37 track adventure. Leave your opinions why people hate it. I love it

[Mykee Mexx]

To me it´s two things: average music, and the worst music by GD. Not my favourite albums, especially Uno. Hardly ever play it/them. Maybe I would like the trilogy more if the songs were played live. I want more live-albums, because that´s when GD are at their best, I think.