Album review: ¡Uno! by Green Day

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Green Day's newest album, ¡Uno!, from their trilogy of albums ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tre!, came out today. I brought it as soon as I could, and here's my review.

I've listened to the complete album Thursday already, since there was a livestream where you could listen to the album four days before it came out. I'm actually listening to it for the second time right now!

Overall, I think ¡Uno! is a really nice album. The songs are catchy, and easy to remember and sing along. It's an album you want to listen to completely in one go, and play it again and again afterwards. I like to compare it to Dookie -my sister disagrees, but I mean it has sort of the same feel, or at least I think so- but you can hear the musical progress Green Day has made since Dookie, the songs are more complicated and there's more variety.

Did that even make sense? I'll try to explain it a bit better. The first Green Day album I brought was 21st Century Breakdown in 2009. I know lots of fans dislike the album, but I didn't know older Green Day songs and so I had nothing to compare it to and really liked it. Later on, I did hear the older albums. I'm not a really big fan of the first few albums, but Dookie, Warning, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown are fantastic. In my opinion, ¡Uno! is a combination of those four. Where Idiot and Breakdown are fantastic concept albums/rock operas, ¡Uno! is more like Dookie, an album with songs that aren't about the economy or a post-apocalyptic world, just really nice songs (Basket Case,When I Come Around, you know what I mean. Those songs just rock). But on ¡Uno! Green Day is more experimental with diffrent styles, styles beyond punk, without losing that punk rock feeling. Which is totally awesome. I do think the the themes the songs have could have been chosen a little better. Green Day has written masterpieces like Jesus Of Suburbia, and honestly, songs like Oh Love don't evenbegin to come close to that.

These are my ratings from each song (1/5 being really dissappointing and 5/5 being super awesome):

1. Nuclear Family: 4/5
2. Stay The Night: 3/5
3. Carpe Diem: 4/5
4. Let Yourself Go: 5/5
5. Kill The DJ: 4/5
6. Feel For You: 3/5
7. Loss Of Control: 3/5
8. Troublemaker: 3/5
9. Angel Blue: 3/5
10. Sweet 16: 4/5
11. Rusty James: 3/5
12. Oh Love: 1/5

My personal favourite song from the album is Let Yourself Go. I love the chorus, the song is great to sing along and to make your homework to! My least favourite song is Oh Love, but I just don't understand how THAT can come out of the same mind as American Idiot.
Overall, I give ¡Uno! a rating of 4 out of 5.

I am very curious about ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! now :3 What do you think about the new album?

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

Music video's for Kill The DJ and Madness

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Green Day released their video for Kill The DJ a few days ago, and today Muse released the video for Madness. From both songs are also Making Of video's.

I think the video for Kill The DJ is okay. After the huge dissapointment I got from the Oh Love video, I was glad to see this video wasn't just girls and only seconds of Green Day playing, but on the other hand, it's still not the same as the quality from video's such as Last of The American Grils, 21 Guns or American Idiot. I do like the close-ups of Billie Joe, Mike and Tré though. And the fact that the crowd goes insane with blood everywhere at the end of the video.

The video for Madness, however, I think is fantastic. I love how it's like a short movie that makes you want to watch and see how it'll end. And Madness is like my favourite song of the moment too. I just love it so much. Also, Chris' bass in this video is kickass. And the SWAT team jumping over everything is pretty awesome too. I love this video. A lot.



What do you think of the video's?

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond