10 Rock Albums That Are Way Too Bloated

After coming out of the '00s, there was no other rock band who could claim to have the career Green Day was having. Since the days of Dookie, the band had completely reinvented themselves as one of the most adventurous punk bands ever, giving the Who a run for their money on albums like American Idiot. While 21st Century Breakdown might not have been as good as the album before, no one really expected the horrors that went on on the Trilogy when it was announced.

If anything, Green Day seemed to be just the band to take on 3 albums at once, each having its own unique character spread out across a few months. Though the songs themselves have decent enough melodies behind them, you can definitely hear the band sounding tired throughout this project, with not nearly enough passion to sell the rest of the record. Going through the theme of every album, you can only slightly connect the dots of what they're trying to say, like the garage rock songs on Dos or the bombastic side of Tre.

Then again, probably the biggest red flag is what was happening behind the scenes, culminating in Billie Joe Armstrong losing his cool at the iHeartRadio festival and checking himself into rehab for drug abuse before Tre had even come out. If you stitched some of these records together, there'd be a decent set of songs, but there's no real reason why anyone should come back to a song like Nightlife or Kill the DJ again.