Possible Trilogy Compilation Ideas

[PursuitOfEpicness]

I want everything to sound more raw and less produced and toned down. I hate the production on these albums, but so does everyone else so we're all in that same boat haha. I wanna hear those guitars and bass and especially the drums. I want the voice to be less edited for sure. 

1. Nuclear Family (Good intro)

2. Stray Heart (good overall song)

3. Kill The DJ (it's fun!)

4. Let Yourself Go (It's modern era dookie!)

5. Missing You (really catchy)

6. 8th Avenue Serenade (Catchy to me again)

7. SWTRLF (It's a fun song)

8. Sweet 16 (it's cute)

9. State of Shock (am i allowed to add this? I am)

10.  Dirty Rotten bastards (good overall song)

11. Walk Away (find it really emotional)

12. X-Kid (good overall song)

13. 99 Revolutions ( i wouldn't mind it edited a little bit, it's a little too long, and i don't like the production like half of these other songs)

14. Amy (beautiful)

15. Oh Love (good outro purely, would put it as the last track)

 

[WhiteTim]

4 minutes ago, XPursuitOfEpicnessX said:

I want everything to sound more raw and less produced and toned down. I hate the production on these albums,

 

if they were any more less produced they'd sound like 1039 Kerplunk...

[PursuitOfEpicness]

Just now, WhiteTim said:

if they were any more less produced they'd sound like 1039 Kerplunk...

that is ok with me haha

[Justin1]

99 Revolutions 

 

99 Revolutions (with the key change outro in demolicious) 

Sex Drugs and Violence 

Rusty James 

Missing You

Carpe Diam

Let Yourself Go

Nuclear Family

Stay The Night

X-Kid

Dirty Rotten Bastards

Oh Love

The Forgotten

 

Foxboro 2 (Recorded with Demolicious like mastering)

Fuck Time 

Kill the DJ

Troublemaker

Amanda

Fell For You

Little Boy Named Train

Wow, That's Loud

Stop When The Red Lights Flash

Stray Heart

Wild One

Makeout Party

Lady Cobra

Drama Queen

Brutal Love

[Semi-automatic lonely boy]

so while getting hyped for the new album i listened to the trilogy again after many months. well, not all songs. there are certain tracks, that i never listened to again after the first times, cause they are so bad (in my opinion). carpe diem, fell for you, troublemaker, kill the dj, oh love... just to name a few.

i came up with a list of 18 songs that i enjoy listening to. but are a bunch of  simple standard green day songs (99 revolutions, stay the night, lazy bones...) what i want to listen to over and over? not really. so i tried to figure out which of those songs are really good and have replay value. which songs aren't just catchy on the first listen and have something unique to them and decent lyrics? those are the songs i want on a green day album. so why not make a list of 12 songs, so it has the same length as the new record? while the 18 song list was pretty easy , now it got more difficult. i had a really hard time to kick some songs out. but that way i had to look deeper into songs that just get lost in the quantity of 36 songs, to decide what songs are really worth it.

listening to the final 12 songs i came up with and putting them in an album structured order was really fun. this would have been a solid green day album for me, that probably would have gained more favourable critics than the trilogy in total. who knows how a single album would have been perceived... like billie said in recent interviews: besides all the things that were wrong with the trilogy, there are some really good songs on there. and now to imgaine those songs would have been produced in a more green day typical way...

 

anyway, here is the list and in which order i'd put them on the album:

 

1) Rusty James (although in some places it sounds a bit too familiar to other green day songs, i really like this one. one of the better lyrics too. although a typical green day song, a really good one)

2) X-Kid (definetly the best lyrics of the trilogy! also quite an untypical guitar riff for green day... which is great.  really fun to play along on guitar as well)

3) Loss of Control (one of the most powerfull songs of the albums. it sounds fresh and different but also like green day. bang bang had the same effect on me. really underrated, give this song a chance!)

4) Stray Heart (billies favourite chord progressions in action. but played in a way you hardly notice it. good song, but the lyrics are forgetable, which is ok if it's that way just for a few songs)

5) Ashley (probably the closest thing to punk rock on the record. yet it sounds like nothing green day has done before. my favourite song)

6) Sex Drugs and Violence (the song structure reminds me of insomniac, which is always a plus. lyrics are not as meaningless as people think. the riff has been done before, but thats alright here. at least another faster songs! overall the trilogy just lacked a decent pace)

7) Wild One (kinda hypnotizing and really catchy. sounds new as well)

8) Lady Cobra (would be an awesome live song! one of the few songs that really sound like garage rock on dos)

9) Amy (beautiful sad song.  surprised it's not in many lists here... maybe cause it's so specific about amy whinehouse. people like to identify with lyrics i guess... i appreciate material like this though. has original sound with surprising elements. definetly deserves a live performance some time!)

10) Brutal Love (great songwriting here. although borrowed from sam cooke it adds many original elements that interact with the good lyrics of this song)

11) Walk Away (has a nimrod/warning feel. one of the songs i listenend to the most. it doesn't get boring)

12) Sweet 16 (definetly has the most popish  sound of all songs on the trilogy. but it's a great pop song. it took me a while to get used to billies high pitched voice here and the very clean sound. but one of the best melodies of all songs. nice closer with kitschy lyrics, but it sounds heartfelt. i like heartfelt kitsch stuff once in a while. not every love song has to be of high artistic value)

 

[Red]

Whenever I listen to the Trilogy, I just skip the songs I don't feel like listening to. Yes the songs could have been far more exciting than they were by keeping the old guitar and certain parts of the demos (Key change at the end of "99 Revolutions", intro to "Baby Eyes", etc.)

I just don't understand why less Green Day would be better. Everyone has certain favorites from each of the albums that other people may heavily dislike. IF Green Day decided just before releasing Uno to delay the albums and remove half of the songs in them for quality control, only to later release it as one album, can you imagine how disappointed this community would be?

To answer the question though, if I absolutely couldn't have all three albums, I would just have an almost entire Uno and a few songs from Dos and Tre, all remastered with AI/21CB Guitars and extended solos. Also "Oh Love" and "Trouble Maker" can be can be replaced with "Baby Eyes" and "X-kid".

1."Nuclear Family"

2."Stay the Night" (With the drum rolling intro heard in live performances, key change during last chorus) 

3."Carpe Diem"

4."Let Yourself Go"

5."Kill the DJ"

6."Fell for You"

7."Loss of Control"

8."X-Kid"

9."Angel Blue"

10."Sweet 16"

11."Rusty James"

12."Baby Eyes" (Demolicious intro)

13."Lazy Bones"

14."Wow, That's Loud"

15."Missing You"

16."Amanda" (With the guitar intro heard in live performances)

17."Dirty Rotten Bastards"

18."99 Revolutions" (With key change heard in Demolicious)

 

 

[xLumian]

Here's a fun idea. Let's try and condense the Trilogy into a single album.

The one catch, you must limit it to a traditional 12 track album. Bonus points for interesting track transitions and general album flow.

Here is my version:

What do you got?

[iScottie]

Needs more Nuclear Family and SWtRLF.

[1039Revolutions]

99 Revolutions:

99 Revolutions 

Missing You

Sex Drugs and Violence 

X-Kid

Carpe Diem

Oh Love 

Nuclear Family 

Stay The Night 

Stray Heart

Let Yourself Go

Dirty Rotten Bastards

The Forgotten

 

Amanda EP:

8th Avenue Serenade

Sweet 16

Amanda

Rusty James

 

[tdlyon]

The one I've always used is:

 

1. See You Tonight

2. 99 Revolutions

3. Stay the Night

4. Nuclear Family

5. Stray Heart

6. Kill the DJ

7. Let Yourself Go

8. Lazy Bones

9. X-Kid

10. Rusty James

11. Wow! That's Loud

12. Oh Love

13. Missing You

14. Dirty Rotten Bastards

15. Brutal Love

The album would be called 99 Revolutions. I tried to make it like a normal Green Day album, which is why I didn't really use many of the FBHT-sounding songs from Dos, and kept all of the singles that they actually used. Flows really well too

[Grinch]

 I think this setlist would have been really good and it might become my new playlist.

1. See You Tonight

2. Stop When The Red Lights Flash

3. Let Yourself Go

4. Lazy Bones

5. Baby Eyes

6. Amanda

7. Nuclear Family

8. Stray Heart

9. Loss of Control

10. Missing You

11. Kill the DJ

12. Angel Blue

13. Wow! That's Loud

14. Fell For You

15. 99 Revolutions

16. Brutal Love 

 

 

Singles: Stray Heart, Lazy Bones, Let Yourself Go (OR Stop When the Red Lights Flash ), and Brutal Love

I recommend that you guys try this setlist out. I think you'd really like the flow.

Making this list, I realized that there's a LOT of good songs on the three albums. More than I remembered, and if these songs weren't all released at once, then I think they would have been loved more. I left out a lot of songs I really like and put in a few I don't care about as much (for example I LOVE Wild One but couldn't find a spot for it), but I feel that these mix together in order very well. I just came up with this list, but I feel like if this was the final setlist for their album then it would have been another big hit (at least larger than the 3 albums were). Some of the rest of the songs could be B-Sides or EP use. 

[Guest]

Lazy Bones x 12.

[Eric]

I feel like this thread has been made a million times already lol  

[tresexy101]

How about Billie walking on stage and saying 'I'm on so much ativan and klonopin mixed with alcohol and this is what I came up with'  and then having them play Trilogy songs live.  That would be my choice of album.  A fucked up Billie on stage is my viagra.  

[Hermione]

5 hours ago, xLumian said:

Here's a fun idea. Let's try and condense the Trilogy into a single album.

The one catch, you must limit it to a traditional 12 track album. Bonus points for interesting track transitions and general album flow.

Here is my version:

What do you got?

Hi, we already have a thread for this (people have been obsessed with doing it since the albums came out ), so I've merged yours with it. Carry on here.

[That Dude]

Even the bad songs are pretty darn good, so I have a tough time narrowing down.   But I think maybe two albums with different titles and artwork could possibly worked better.  Released further apart.    But then it wouldn't have been.....ah nevermind.  I gotta go to work.  

 

Where can I find the city of shining light? 

in an ordinary world 

I'll guarantee we'll have the road

 

[legendary]

a Facebook page make this in 2013 by followers votes

[Christian's Inferno!]

I think if we got one green day album and one FBHT album around that time, people wouldn't complain so much even though we still would've got 2/3 of the content from the trilogy.

If you think about it, we probably got around 2 hours of material during the 21CB era from 2008-2009 with 21CB, Stop Drop and Roll and all the bonus tracks/B-sides from 21CB. If GD did that again with all the songs from the trilogy with 1 album worth of GD songs, 1 album worth of FBHT songs (mainly from Dos) and some other B-sides or Bonus tracks, we would've got almost the full trilogy but people wouldn't be complaining about the filler and lack of quality control

[Leni.]

3 hours ago, MysticManiac said:

I think if we got one green day album and one FBHT album around that time, people wouldn't complain so much even though we still would've got 2/3 of the content from the trilogy.

If you think about it, we probably got around 2 hours of material during the 21CB era from 2008-2009 with 21CB, Stop Drop and Roll and all the bonus tracks/B-sides from 21CB. If GD did that again with all the songs from the trilogy with 1 album worth of GD songs, 1 album worth of FBHT songs (mainly from Dos) and some other B-sides or Bonus tracks, we would've got almost the full trilogy but people wouldn't be complaining about the filler and lack of quality control

Actually I was thinking about this when the trilogy came out. I agree with you. I still take those 3 albums like having b-sides among songs that could make a proper album. The question is, of course, if those song don't lack some quality, but that has been discussed a million times before so I'm not going to talk about it now again. But if GD would have put an album let's say about 50 minutes long back in 2012, I would still like to hear the rest. The problem is that it is debatable if every one of those songs deserved to be promoted as three albums no matter what. But I think it had to happen, if it brought better or worse things to the band now is a matter of everybody's opinion I guess. 

[End Of The World]

I don't know if you remember, but in 2012 BJ said that the Trilogy could be explained with the metaphor of the party (Uno before, Dos during and Trè after the party). Now I was thinking... A 12 songs compilation called "Makeout Party" (like the song contained in it) and 4 tracks from each album? How would it be?

[xLumian]

15 hours ago, Hermione said:

Hi, we already have a thread for this (people have been obsessed with doing it since the albums came out ), so I've merged yours with it. Carry on here.

Ha, my b. I made a couple of searches and couldn't find anything on it. I knew there had to be something like this somewhere  

[Spike]

1. Nuclear Family
2. 99 Revolutions
3. Kill The DJ
4. Rusty James
5. Fell For You
6. Fuck Time
7. Sex, Drugs & Violence
8. X-Kid
9. Missing You
10. Stay The Night
11. Dirty Rotten Bastards
12. Brutal Love

[AmyxLongview]

1. Brutal Love

2. Missing You

3. 8th Ave. Serenade

4. Drama Queen

5. X-Kid

6. Stay The Night

7. Amanda

8. Let Yourself Go

9. Walk Away

10. Lazy Bones

11. Dirty Rotten Bastards

12. 99 Revolutions

 

Tre is by far my favorite so my list is basically Tre with a few tweaks The first 5 tracks of Tre are pure perfection to me

[The Peacemaker567]

1. See you tonight

2. Fuck Time

3. Stay the night

4. Lazy Bones

5.Stop when the red lights flash

6. Let yourself go 

7. Kill the DJ

8. Sweet 16

9.X-Kid

10. Sex,drugs, and, violence 

11. Wild One

12.Dirty Rotten Bastards 

[bjafan129]

Here is the album I made, Stay the Night, Missing You, and Baby Eyes are the Demolicious versions I edited so they didnt have studio banter and sound more finished. I made the album cover myself with the image taken off of Tumblr (I believe), blue background came from an Instagram filter and the splatter effect came from Photoshop.