10 Huge Rock Albums That Didn't Deserve To Flop

Most of the sessions that came with Green Day's mammoth trilogy of albums seemed to be doomed from the start. After already going through Uno and getting a pretty mixed reception, fans were not all that down on the experimentation of Dos, whose tour cycle ended with Billie Joe Armstrong entering rehab for substance abuse. Tre deserves a much better fate than to just be dumped out at the end of the year, especially since this might be the best that this colossal album rollout gave us.

First of all, this is nowhere near the same level of something like American Idiot by any stretch. This is still pretty lackluster for Green Day on songs like A Little Boy Named Train, but some of the more epic sides of this album do come correct, like Dirty Rotten Bastards hearkening back to the rapid fire medleys from American Idiot and the opener Brutal Love taking the same swagger of Sam Cooke and putting it into a pop punk sort of context.

The punk rock spirit of the band that everyone got on board with was still in there somewhere, it was just being filtered though more classic influences this time around like The Who and The Beatles. And if the worst thing that you have to worry about for an album like this is a song that's featured on a Twilight soundtrack, you're still doing a damn good job.