Green Day - ¡Tré!

On this week’s Broken Records the boys are divided, as we look at ¡Tré!, the 11th studio album from pop-punk megastars Green Day, released on the 7th of December 2012. On one hand Remfry is a self-confessed fan of the band, enjoying their jaunty, pop punk, stadium rock hits like a happy little fella and then on the other hand we have Steve, miserable, agitated, elitist punk rock snob, who hates their ascent into the mainstream.

But can they agree on Tre? They certainly have plenty to talk about, with it being the worst rated Green Day album on Metacritic (bar odds and sods b-sides collection Shenanigans) and it seemingly being the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of the public's appetite for new Green Day material as the final part of their three part trilogy of albums released in 2012. It remains the bands lowest charting effort and one of only two post-Dookie albums to sell less than 100,000 copies in the US on the first week of release. All of this is made all the more galling by the fact that Billie Joe Armstrong declared that the band would be going ‘epic’ on the record but instead just released yet another album of toe-tappingly fine pop punk songs. The delusions of grandeur, the lack of creativity, despite claims to the contrary, and the total disregard of any type of quality control makes ¡Tré! a very difficult album to love, but after Mr. Blobby and Crazy Frog, at least it’s a ‘proper’ band right?

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