10 Massive Drops In Quality Between Albums

As America started to enter some of its darkest days in the '00s, Green Day were one of the few bands that were managing to have a second act. Amid all of the other pop punk bands that had come and gone since they released Dookie in 1994, American Idiot is where Billie Joe Armstrong got more serious about his songwriting, weaving together a narrative of what it's like for a teenager in the Bush era. Right when it looked like we were reaching the operatic years of Green Day, Uno is where things start to hit a brick wall.

Coming off of American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown was a decent way to double down, as the band got more refined with their taste for classic rock. Once they announced their next project would be a three album set though, fans were concerned when Uno dropped, being just your standard Green Day affair with songs that didn't really have the same punch that came from American Idiot.

Since the first one had filler though, fans were getting bored to tears for the rest of the album rollouts, featuring songs that were either too generic to be considered classic or in the worst cases too offensive to be called good. For the opera years, every song felt like a new creative risk that the band wanted to try out. The only thing that this album managed to give us was a lot of anxiety for what the next years of Green Day had in store.