10 Biggest Album Flops In Rock History
3. Tre - Green Day
At the start of the 2010's, there was no reason not to think that the next album trilogy from Green Day was going to be anything but spectacular. The band had scored a massive career resurgence off of American Idiot and even managed to create another blockbuster rock opera with 21st Century Breakdown just a few years later. However, this stretch of albums turned into a chore for pop punk fans really quick.
By the time Uno came out, fans were already a little bit bored, but when Dos embarrassed itself right out of the gate, Tre didn't really have a prayer to be anything but mediocre. Despite trying to go in a more epic direction on their final installment, all of these brats' goodwill had been firmly drained from their soul, with songs that were supposed to sound sweeping and grandiose feeling like carbon copies of other Green Day songs or just tired in general.
It also didn't really help matters that Billie Joe Armstrong started to spiral at this stage, which ended up coming to a head at the massive iHeartRadio meltdown a months before the album's release. After four long months of anticipation for the new pop rock vision, Tre feels like the sad final chapter that was sent kicking and screaming out the door just for the band to say that they were done.