10 Artists Who HATE Their Own Albums
5. Trilogy - Green Day
After the turn of the century, Green Day started to get much more grandiose than people expected. While the rootsy sounds of Warning was definitely a departure, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown felt like historical events in the rock canon, with both becoming some of the most celebrated albums of the band's career. It looked like they could keep going up from here, but there is such a thing as too much too soon.
When coming together for their next project, the band really over-extended themselves on Uno Dos and Tre, each of which presented some of the blandest Green Day cuts they have ever made. Each record may have had its own agenda, but aside from a few songs, none of them stood out as anything too spectacular. It could have just been a fluke, but when the documentary of the album shows fans who are annoyed that the band is playing new material, that's a really bad omen.
After the disastrous tour and Billie Joe Armstrong's trip to rehab, it seemed that the lead singer had come to terms with the trilogy, saying that it was overblown just for the sake of being grandiose. There are a few shining moments across these records, but they become a little harder to justify when the man himself has washed his hands of it.