10 Albums That Were Hated Before They Even Came Out

For most of the '00s, Green Day always seemed to be going from strength with each passing record. After some pretty divisive albums like Warning, their return on American Idiot gave us a new and improved update on pop punk, bringing the rock opera into the genre that they more or less equaled on 21st Century Breakdown. The plan was to go even bigger for the next record, but the Uno Dos and Tre era was fated to fail from the very first track released.

From the minute that a song like Oh Love came on, most fans seemed more than a little underwhelmed after 21st Century Breakdown, settling for just a standard rock and roll song with a half decent solo to kick off this monumental project. While Uno was more or less just a decent power pop album from Green Day, Dos and Tre is where the fatigue really starts to set in, with the garage rock sounds of Dos getting more than a little bit ugly on songs like Nightlife and Lady Cobra and Tre's emphasis on theatrics just sounding hollow by the time it was finally released.

It wasn't like the band weren't aware either, with Billie Joe Armstrong checking himself into rehab before Tre even hit store shelves and later saying that the rollout for most of these records were pretty much pointless. The trilogy may occupy a decent chunk in the band's discography, but you know how little they care for it when their greatest hits album only includes one song from this era.